It's time for another Sunday tunage selection to help you ease off any hangovers or provide some much needed warmth while you're hiding from the snow. First up we've got a tune from our very own Kieran Basepair - it's a lovely piece of downtempo beats with a trumpet line you'll be humming for days and days after. This track is from an EP of his own material so I recommend grabbing the others. Basepair - Another Day (Beginning of) Next up is some modern classical [...]
I'll start with this. I had never listened to Brian Eno before, I guess that with new music being released constantly, you forget to look back at some of the original artists who defined what we have today. It was today I received Brian Eno's new LP "Small Craft On a Milk Sea" , and it seriously blew my mind. Firstly, this is on Warp Records , and from what I have heard about Brian Eno's past work, it seems like a perfect label to release this album on. [...]
With Chicagoan producer Lambox , real name Chris Lambrecht, responsible for some of my recent favorite tracks, I decided I'd see if I could have a quick chat with him, too see what gets him ticking and also to see what he's got lined up for the future. He kindly agreed, and without further ado I'll let him introduce himself. Feral Party Kids: Tell us a bit about yourself... Chris Lambrecht: I'm a [...]
I know my last post was discouraging to some of you, and I would just like to say that we have been really touched by the kind things some of you have said and even done. Thank you all for that - it means a great deal. In case you were wondering, all is not lost. Today, for example, was a great day. No tantrums, meltdowns, flung toys or insults. In fact, it was quite nice. I could really go for more days like this one. Perhaps it was the weather - [...]
MUSIC NEWS - Peter Gabriel has decided to pull out of a scheduled performance at the upcoming Academy Awards ceremony, on February 22, over of a time limit imposed on him by the show's producers. Initially, Gabriel agreed to perform the Oscar-nominated song Down To Earth ( buy cd here ) (which he co-wrote with Thomas Newman), from the Disney/Pixar film, Wall-E ( buy dvd here ) under the impression that he would be singing the entire song. When he was [...]
I was a weird kid. There is evidence to suggest that I am becoming a weird adult, certainly. But I often look back on my childhood and wonder if the friends I had were actual or if I dreamt them up, because a kid that strange probably had a hard time in the lunch room and on the playground. Truth is, I was at my best and my happiest on my own, with my bedroom door shut, keeping my family and any other meddling eyes far away from the mysterious workings of my imagination. But then [...]
A little over two years ago we published a feature called Sound Tracks that aimed to highlight some of the most memorable and musical scenes in modern cinematic history with the intention of demonstrating just how important musical scores and soundtracks are to any given film and scene-- some of the most revered scenes wouldn't be as powerful without the music that accompanied the action. We've been planning a follow-up to that feature, a sort of sequel (which will come in due time), but for this feature we took the general idea of Sound Tracks and applied [...]
It seems that Pixar gets better with every film, and WALL-E is no exception. Directed by Andrew Stanton , the film mixes brings back the essence of silent film (though it is not) with romance, comedy and an underlying environmental message. A majority of the credit for WALL-E's stardom goes to Ben Burtt , the film's character voice designer and sound designer who also played the voice of WALL-E himself. Today at the Smith Rafael Film Center in San Rafael, CA, Burtt will present a special screening of the film and also take us into [...]
Ed. note: It's time for another installment of "VHS Or Beta?", where Andy Beta looks at the music behind the movies—from preserved-by-Criterion classics to completely inane summer blockbusters. In this installment, he looks at the music that serves as the backdrop to Wall-E 's scorched earth: Not that my eyes are the most discerning sensory organs, but after watching the computer animated sequences of Walt Disney's uneven Fantasia 2000 , I found myself wholly unable to sit through more than ten minutes of a Pixar [...]
So I'm on a roll. Another spontaneous post. It's been raining outside all day, and that's how the idea for this post was conceived. As a little playlist for a rainy day. So here you go - famous themes, remixed by cool people. Good background music for a summer night. Paul Oakenfold - James Bond Theme Mark Snow - X-Files Theme (UNKLE Remix) Another '90s phenomenon that I didn't get to know. By the I was old enough to care for it, it had [...]
Thomas Newman - Bubble Wrap If you could interview any modern film composer who would it be? Hans Zimmer for Gladiator ? Elliot Goldenthal for Titus ? James Newton Howard ? For the past five years my attempts at answering this question have yielded unsatisfactory results. Until now. Thomas Newman is 52. Can you believe it? I can't. His scores consistently possess such youthful vigor, such unfaltering appreciation for exploration of the unknown. If I could define Thomas Newman's style with one word [...]
Its instru-mental! As the thunder, lightning, hail, monsoon, typhoon, hurricaine and rain continue to belt this tiny island into oblivion its time to get on with the instrumental. Thomas Newman is top of my people list today, not simply because we watched Little Children, which features his work, but because my iTunes shuffle still surprises me to this day. Thomas Newman is one of the finest soundtrack composers out there, cousin to Randy (I never knew that till now) he has put in music what sometimes cannot be expressed in visual terms. [...]
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