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Category: music

What Unicode sounds like

lame -r -m m -s 16 –bitwidth 8 ~/Downloads/UnicodeData-5.2.0d2.txt unicodedata-520d2txt

Music you didn’t expect to hear in places you didn’t expect to hear it

The M.I.A./Diplo mixtape Piracy Funds Terrorism includes samples from the game Emperor: Rise of the Middle Kingdom in tracks 10 & 11 (“You’re Good [Diplo mix]” and “Pop [Diplo mix]”). Neato! Big props to Diplo

Compare and Contrast

Coldplay’s ‘42’ from Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends (starting about 1:45), Nine Inch Nails ‘Complication’ from The Fragile.

Music Post #1

Is it just me, or does “Race: In” from Battles’ album Mirrored reference Mike Oldfield’s Tubular Bells heavily? Update: Fleet Foxes ‘Quiet Houses’ does this even more.