Last month, Passion Pit announced a remix contest for the track “Little Secrets” from their recently released (5/19/2009) album Manners. The interesting — but also irritating — thing about the remix contest is that they don’t actually give you all the parts. In fact, when you sign up for the contest, you are given one single random sample. You are then supposed to go and swap samples with other remixers. I don’t mean to sound like a jerk, but really, who has time for a freakin’ scavenger hunt?
My friends over at Nettwerk tell me that Felix da Housecat’s new album “He Was King’ is due out 7/28/09. Here’s a sneak peak of the first single, “Kick Drum.” It’s dope electro-goodness — I’m definitely dropping it into my set tonight.
Come get your dance party on this weekend at Bootie! I’m playing in the upstairs Electro-Bootie lounge and would love to see your dancing, smiling self out there on the floor.
“I realized that as an industry we’d kind of been smoking crack,” said Universal exec Barney Wragg, after leaving the label in 2005. (Wragg took a job as head of digital music at EMI the next year.)
And James Mercer, the lead singer of indie band the Shins, was even more blunt. “You see these articles about the disaster in the music business,” he said. “When you think about how unhealthy the business has been, this is like lancing the fucking boil and cleaning it out. It’s not a fucking disaster to regular bands out there.”
I get email on a regular basis from readers wanting me to mashup song xyz with zyx. Thomas Irvin doesn’t bother to write me, however. Instead, he catalogs his ideas on his web site.
Ever notice a song whose melody sounds remarkably similar to some other song? I seem to be afflicted by a birth defect that makes me notice these songs all the time. So I’ve compiled this list of songs that sound like other songs. In compiling this list, my goal is to present excerpts of the songs in question and leave any other determinations up to you, the listener.
Lots of great observations in his list. If this doesn’t convince you that almost all art and music is pretty much derivative, I don’t know what will.
Imagine all the girls,
Ah ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah.
And the boys,
Ah ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah.
And the strings,
Eee, eee, eee, eee, eee, eee, eee, eee.
And the drums, the drums, the drums, the drums, the drums, the drums
