I’m betting that even the people who feel crushed by the volume of all the xx remixes out there are going to like this one Matthew Dear came up with for “VCR.” Now, all you have to do is hit play and/or the download button below and you have another good one for your Ipod.

melophobe | Matthew Dear Remix of The xx’s VCR mp3.

Just a question. Is the modern electronic pop production that Ellie Goulding is being given right for her voice, or would she be better suited to simple less populist folk arrangements that we first heard on her Myspace a year ago and can be seen by clicking here ?

via Breaking More Waves: Ellie Goulding – Starry Eyed.

1.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PULdPep_xfs&feature=player_embedded#

2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iasph5zaDT4

So I searched for the blog on HypeM and found the blog in question and started playing the tracks from it – click play button on this page > http://hypem.com/#/list/10732. It has lots of things that are similar Jenn and that you might like.

Anyway as I listened to that, I was browsing ask.metafilter and there was a question about a ‘great’ song by a young artist. Which is just completely subjective. In any case, one of the suggestions was IAMX – This will make me love you again. Which I watched on Youtube and have fallen for, the piano and vocal. Which I read about on Wikipedia and which I searched for iTunes (no luck) and Spotify (no luck there either).

When the joys of living just leave you cold
Frozen from the failing mess you’ve made your own
And if you want an ending to your screenplay life
Well here’s the consolation
That will change your heart and mind

That is how I got to this point with that song stuck in my head.

Anyway,

1) Placebo – Placebo (Spotify – it’s a rereleased version, so differs slightly to the orginal) – The first album that really affected me, I can still remember the first time I heard Teenage Angst on the radio. I still associate a large part of my teenage years to the opening guitars of Come Home.

2) Brand New – Deja Entendu (Spotify) – It’s one of those, this just-seems-to-be-the-background-to-how-I-feel-right-now albums.

3) Kate Havnevik – Melankton (Spotify) I have no idea how I started listening to this. It’s just found a place where I’m just happy to listen to it regularly. It’s almost but not quite background music, is soft but not. I don’t know. All I know is I’ll listen to it all the way through and that when the strings rise at 3:08 in Sleepless is up there with one of my favourite single parts of a song ever.

4) A Perfect Circle – Mer De Noms. (Spotify) Passed over to me over 10 years ago and containing 3 Libras which is perhaps my favourite song of all time. It’s that song and the sound that runs across the whole album.

5) DJ Tiesto – Magik 5 Still, still have trance as the music that I will forever bob my head to. This is just awesome from start to finish.

(Also Blood Red Shoes – Box of Secrets, Longview – Mercury (for shame I know), Billy Talent – Billy Talent)

Diamonds On A Boat from Nicholas Audsley on Vimeo.

Wow.
Found via http://breakingmorewaves.blogspot.com/

I’ve been meaning to write about my impressions of using Spotify for the last week or so and this seems like the perfect opportunity. Except now isn’t a good time because I’m thinking of making cookies and I really need my cold to be gone and I’m itching to watch episode 3 of Dexter.

Some things:
1. Well I’ve taken to using Spotify for the last month or so instead of iTunes.
2. It’s been my default music player on my Android phone.
3. I don’t stream things from my phone; at all. I ‘offline’ playlists and listen to those.

I’ve used Spotify a whole lot this last month, I’ve felt no urge to go back to iTunes. Right now as I write this is the first time really that in a month that I’ve browsed my library on iTunes. I haven’t missed it really, but then I have been listening to a whole lot of the same thing (Bon Iver, The Temper Trap, Mumford and Sons). Which suits me perfectly. I mean it’d be good if they had more Kate Bush but most of thing I’ve listened to are on there.

It’s only a matter of time before I renew my premium account, it works nicely and after you get used to clicking the album/artist name to go through to more music by that person iTunes just doesn’t seem as nice. I just need a bigger memory card now.

Also, my cold (or whatever) it is is passing and I should be ok to work tomorrow. I’m glad I had the extra day off today.

Edit: I could put the new Brand New, Editors, Mew, Manchester Orchestra albums on an offline playlist and listen to them whever I want on my phone or computer for £10 a month.

Ha. I like it actually.

I should go to bed.

Then here’s a video of a computer playing Mario – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlkMs4ZHHr8

And here’s a link to the song Radio Head released in memory of Harry Patch – to buy/lyrics/listen

I am the only one that got through
The others died where ever they fell
It was an ambush
They came up from all sides
Give your leaders each a gun and then let them fight it out themselves
I’ve seen devils coming up from the ground
I’ve seen hell upon this earth
The next will be chemical but they will never learn

World Science Festival 2009: Bobby McFerrin Demonstrates the Power of the Pentatonic Scale from World Science Festival on Vimeo.

An awesome video, even if the explanation of what is happening goes over my head a little.

Explanation > http://www.intellectualpornography.com/2009/07/one-oclock-daily-bobby-mcferrin-and-the-pentatonic-scale.html