Tag: mp3

This is how I unwind

Posted: May 14, 2009
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The Flight of the Conchords theme song
    plus
“Only” by Nine Inch Nails
    equals
one of those “mashed up” songs that the kids seem to like

I was working this out in my Mind the whole walk home. Tonight I walked home at 126 beats per minute. The whole process was made infinitely easier thanks to nin.com’s remix section, which is a cool idea.

I heard that

Posted: December 15, 2008
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Yesterday I was walking downtown, and I heard three sets of church bells go off at once. It sounded a little like this:

church fight!

I only got the last third of it, because of all the fumbling to grab my camera and set it to movie-mode. Lightning reflexes here.

WHY

Posted: June 17, 2008
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COMPUTER (not a summer jam)

This was something I kept forgetting to do.

Better than “Kick it”

Posted: June 14, 2008
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I made some effed up sounds to put at the end of one of my songs. I had most of it in place already, but it wasn’t quite right, and I solved that today:

OUCH, MAN (New #1 Summer Jam)

The main bit was this weird “birds” preset off my sequencer (done a couple octaves lower than recommended), and the rest was just single organ notes with mega distortion and chorus added (that’s the part I was talking about earlier in this post, with the solving).

I think you should do what he says

Posted: March 12, 2008
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#1 SUMMER JAM (KICK IT)

Hello, I am the last person on earth who still thinks the Apple speech generator is awesome. OutKast used it to start off Stankonia (O-U-T-K-A-S-T, with the “Bells” voice), but that was back in, like, 2000.

See also: Senor Mortgage (the robot uses “Fred” I think), Everybody to the Limit (the robot uses “Zarvox”).