porges » music http://porg.es/blog Sun, 06 May 2012 22:13:57 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 What Unicode sounds like http://porg.es/blog/what-unicode-sounds-like http://porg.es/blog/what-unicode-sounds-like#comments Mon, 03 Nov 2008 05:21:01 +0000 Porges http://porg.es/blog/?p=233 lame -r -m m -s 16 --bitwidth 8 ~/Downloads/UnicodeData-5.2.0d2.txt

unicodedata-520d2txt

]]> http://porg.es/blog/what-unicode-sounds-like/feed 0 Music you didn’t expect to hear in places you didn’t expect to hear it http://porg.es/blog/music-you-didnt-expect-to-hear-in-places-you-didnt-expect-to-hear-it http://porg.es/blog/music-you-didnt-expect-to-hear-in-places-you-didnt-expect-to-hear-it#comments Tue, 07 Oct 2008 10:22:07 +0000 Porges http://porg.es/blog/?p=207 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

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

]]> http://porg.es/blog/compare-and-contrast/feed 0 Music Post #1 http://porg.es/blog/music-post-1 http://porg.es/blog/music-post-1#comments Mon, 01 Sep 2008 11:45:51 +0000 Porges http://porg.es/blog/?p=160 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.

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