Today is dreich - one of those great Scottish words I will never truly be able to use properly because of my accent. I can write it down though, and you can all imagine I said it right, if you wouldn't mind. It's really hard not to pick up the slang when you've lived somewhere as long as I have, even if you know you'll never really be able to pronounce it correctly. Anyhow, it's the usual Friday drill: I link to five weird or interesting things I found on the internet this week, and you either contribute [...]
Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger is probably the best known track by French dance-duo Daft Punk. That's because it was sampled, covered and Youtube'd (if that's a word) the most. A few weeks back, I heard the new, very good album by Philippe Uminski . I had heard of him before, as a songwriter (for La Grande Sophie, Calogero and more), I didn't know that he made an album as Uminski with a garage rockin' cover of HBFS. Which triggered me to search for more covers. I didn't find any as good and radical as Uminski's, but [...]
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New Zealand vocal wizard Matt Mullholland swaps the audio from The Matrix's killer shoot-out scene, replacing it with his own capella version.
It reminds me of that Dido hook in the Eminem song at first, before the 'Love Lockdown' drumming drops.