Gold Panda: Quitter’s Raga
Posted by Aman Fahimullah in Music, UncategorizedAug 30th, 2009 | No Comments
There’s something awesome about the way chopped-up vocals have come back around in the last couple of years. They were all over the place in the early part of the decade, when IDM was being taken seriously and rapidly accelerating CPU clockspeeds meant that a new way to process sounds lurked around every corner. Back then, you took a CD of a voice and made it skip and that was enough to give a track an extra twist of poignancy. Now it’s in the realm of dubstep and all of its offshoots where the most interesting vocal processing is taking place, often as a way to add tension to mean, heavy, bass-heavy beats. Terrific recent examples of the form have come from Blue Daisy and Pariah, but this powerful track from Gold Panda, recently released on a 7″ single via Make Mine, ups the ante for affecting vocal processing considerably. An undercurrent of bass flecked with vinyl crackles pushes the track along, but it’s the voices, bits of guitar and sitar, all given the sonic Cuisinart treatment, that take things to another, more achingly beautiful realm. The fragmentation gets more intense as it goes, and you start to wonder if the track is going to shake itself apart, and then it ends suddenly, less than two minutes in, so short it breaks your heart.
]Via [Pitchfork Media]
Think Apple is Secretive? Wait Until you learn about Netflix
Posted by Aman Fahimullah in Entertainment, Interesting, MoviesAug 8th, 2009 | No Comments
So we recently subscribed to Netflix’s rental service, and I was wondering how it works, how they get there shipments out the door so fast, how they get such a big library.
In the tech world, we usually see Apple as the most secretive company around. But it turns out Netflix might be just as paranoid, and just as fascinating. This expose will make you see DVD-rental-by-mail in a totally new light. (more…)
500 Days of Summer
Posted by Jimmy Bean in Entertainment, Indie, MoviesAug 2nd, 2009 | No Comments
The best part of 500 Days of Summer is that it doesn’t attempt to be a fantastic movie, it doesn’t suck up to the viewers, and it doesn’t flaunt itself in front of viewers saying “look how insightful I am”. It could have easily done any of these things, and newcoming director Marc Webb expertly weaved his way through the story and its obstacles to create an amazing, visually stunning, and incredibly original piece of art. (more…)
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