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Tonal Tuesday: Ronald Jenkees – Stay Crunchy

Patrick Hurst — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 02:55:05 +0000

So Ronald Jenkees is this… rather odd guy who has a couple keyboards and a copy of Fruity Loops to make… really, really good music. Despite having no actual record label, he’s managed to make a name for himself, with tens of millions of views on YouTube, and interviews in various publications and Fox Business Network. He also has two CDs available for download on his website, which I both highly recommend if you like techno/rock. This video is both a good representative sample of his music and his personality; he’s very… quirky, but in a very enthusiastic way.

Tonal Tuesday: Autechre – Gantz Graf

Patrick Hurst — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 18:16:26 +0000

This is another one of those songs where it’s the only song I really listen to from the artist. The imagery here is pretty impressive, especially considering it was released in 2002 and (according to Wikipedia, the font of all knowledge) the synchronization between the music and the video was achieved entirely by hand, with no procedural generation aspects. This is one video I especially recommend you watch in HD on Youtube itself.

Tonal Tuesday: Mika – Lollipop

Patrick Hurst — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 04:34:07 +0000

I swear I’m going to have some actual content up by the end of this week, please don’t shoot me.

Tonal Tuesday: Anberlin – Reclusion

Patrick Hurst — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 04:28:47 +0000

This is another song by Anberlin; it’s not as upbeat as the first one, and the lyrics are even downright emo if you pay attention to them. But I really like the beat of the chorus here, as well as some of the effects on the verses.

Tonal Tuesday: Tickle Me Pink – Typical

Patrick Hurst — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 01:29:06 +0000

This was totally posted Tuesday I don’t know what you’re talking about.

This is another artist where I only listen to the one song; I should probably pick up the entire album sometime to see if I like it. Oh well.

Tonal Tuesday: Chaostar – Exaudi

Patrick Hurst — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 23:11:25 +0000

Chaostar does a bunch of weird opera-like, neoclassical stuff. This song is pretty representative of their work.

Tonal Tuesday: David Bowie – Ashes to Ashes

Patrick Hurst — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 19:18:13 +0000

I’ve never been much of a big Bowie fan (I don’t listen to a lot of old music), but the more I listen to this song, the more I like it, especially with the music video. No embedded video cause fuck EMI.

Ashes to Ashes.

Tonal Tuesday: Owl City – Of June

Patrick Hurst — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 23:13:40 +0000

The best description I heard of this song was from some review I read a while ago, and it went along the lines of: “If you went on a vacation and your appliances wrote electronic love songs while you were gone, this is what they would sound like.”

PS: expect actual content over the next few days!

Tonal Tuesday: Pet Shop Boys – Opportunities

Patrick Hurst — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:05:46 +0000

Sorry, no video this time; all the good ones on Youtube have disabled embedding. Pet Shop Boys are a British electronic dance duo that’ve been making music for the past 18 years; I haven’t listened to a lot of their stuff, but I really, really likeOpportunities.

Tonal Tuesday: Innerpartysystem – Don't Stop

Patrick Hurst — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 04:27:00 +0000

Innerpartysystem is an American electronica group; currently, they only have one (self-titled) album, but they’re working on another. Sadly, my favorite song from them, “Don’t Stop”, isn’t on Youtube as an embeddable version, but the video is so good it’s worth clicking a link for.