Happy 311 Day!!! 3-11-08
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
In celebration of 311 day, here are some of my favorite 311 songs via youtube. I would really like to have a good version of 8:16 AM but was unable to find one :(
Beautiful Disaster
first song I ever learned on bass ever - Applied Science
Use of Time
All 311 is pretty much my favorite up through the Transistor album, after that their shit gets a little less awesome, but still solid music.
- Bret
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posted by Conqueror @ 8:20 AM,
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RHYMESKI!
Saturday, March 1, 2008
The video below is "Mutescreamer" by Beans, an emcee formerly of the underground rap group Antipop Consortium. The track is featured in DJ Shadow's BBC Radio 1 Essential Mix, released via his website in limited edition as Diminishing Returns.
I saw Beans perform live a few years back when he opened for post-rock gods Tortoise. His performance was raw-- he rapped over DAT beats or a cappella-- but it was memorable. The video only hints at Beans' prowess as an emcee; he is one who is blessed with both wit and flow, a welcome change to the formulaic rhyme-sayers flooding popular radio, which needs more artists like him and less like Soulja Boy.
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posted by MICHAEL aka MIKEY aka THE O @ 10:28 AM,
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Song of the Week v.2.4.08
Monday, February 4, 2008
Smashing Pumpkins - Porcelina of the Vast Oceans
Back when Smashing Pumpkins were dominating and Billy Corgan wasn't being annoying and was totally focused on outputting mass amounts of good music, Porcelina of the Vast Oceans was dropped upon us. This song is a 9 minute summery of everything good about Smashing Pumpkins back when Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness was recorded. With this song we get to hear smooth rhythms go to crushing, overly distorted guitars, then back to Corgan softly singing, then right back to a wall of alternative rock guitar goodness. There are too many layers to note in this song just like in this album, and with great time spent sometimes come great output, and we clearly get that via Porcelina.
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posted by Conqueror @ 7:03 AM,
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Song of the Week v.1.28.08
Monday, January 28, 2008
The Mars Volta - Goliath
From their album being released tomorrow, The Bedlam in Goliath, is this weeks song of the week. The semi title track Goliath is about as good as it gets from The Mars Volta as far as I am concerned. Its a traditional TMV track heavy with spaced out guitar solos, Cedric preaching, latin ryhthms, lots of percussion and horns and keys. The 3:50 mark is when shit really starts to pick up and get my internal clock pumping. I really have enjoyed the last two TMV albums but I do not feel they had stepped it back up to the level of awesomeness that was De-loused in the Comatorium until now. I am STOKED for the album release and I am sure it will be on repeat for many a day.
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posted by Conqueror @ 2:34 AM,
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Song of the Week v.1.21.08
Monday, January 21, 2008
Sound the Surrender - Returning
This past weekend some friends of mine decided to write and record some new music, which I can understand, sometimes you just get that itch. They posted up a rough mix of the song on the O Team Press forums and it blew people away. This song is filled with guitar shredding goodness and machine gun double bass but not from your average kiddie metal band. Though these guys are all 18 years old as of this blog, the caliber of music they are playing is many many years ahead of them.
Definitely looking forward to an album from Sound the Surrender here in '08.
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posted by Conqueror @ 4:38 AM,
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Song of the Week v.1.14.08
Monday, January 14, 2008
Brazilian Girls - Talk to the Bomb
The title track of their second album, Talk to the Bomb, is one of my favorites. It begins with some moody bass, drums, keys improv. The bass lines are always funky, the drum over this track are tight and jazzy, and the keys come and go with some crazy effects coming at you from all angles. It is also one of the only songs on the album where Sabina Sciubba uses more power in her voice later in the song belting out "talk to the bomb, it has never been easy".
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posted by Conqueror @ 4:01 AM,
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Song of the Week v.CHRISTMAS!
Monday, December 24, 2007
Vince Guaraldi Trio - Christmas Time is Here (with Vocals)
Vince Guaraldi is an amazing pianist and his jazz is so smooth and on point. The entire album that this song comes from is really incredible, but as this one stands out due to the vocals I decided to use it over the others. The choir is soft along with the music, hearing it definitely makes me think about the Peanuts christmas movie and puts a smile on my face.
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posted by Conqueror @ 6:04 AM,
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Song of the Week v.8
Monday, December 17, 2007
Protest the Hero - Blindfolds Aside - Kezia
I've only recently started listening to Protest the Hero, I am not sure why I passed over it when I heard about them earlier in the year, but regardless, I am on the bandwagon now. This song is the first one that stuck out to me from their album Kezia. The first few minutes is intense, technical metal covered with high octav, emotional vocals that really gets me going. Towards the end of the song the metal stops, some female vocals acompany the band who is now jamming on acoustic gutiars come in, and this feeling of resolution passes through me.
- Bret Phillips
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posted by O Team Press @ 6:18 AM,
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Song of the Week v.7
Monday, December 10, 2007
Denali - Relief - 2002 self titled
The track starts off with some electronic drums and soft vocals. I really get blown away though as soon as the background 'ooo ooo oooo oooo ooooo's come in, followed by the words "I stayed". Maura Davis voice is so powerful and consuming, it floats right over the top of the music and engulfs the listener with a beautiful tone. I recommend this to anyone that enjoys smooth, soulful singing over not so standard rock music.
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posted by Conqueror @ 5:35 AM,
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Song(s) of the Week v.6
Monday, December 3, 2007
Dave Brubeck Quartet - Blue Rhonda a la Turk
This happens to be one of my favorite Dave Brubeck Quartet tracks. The tracks starts with piano and drums setting the pace for the entire piece. Once the bass and horns join in on the song everyone in the band is in full swing. The piano riff is very easy to listen to even though it is not in a normal time signature, and the drummer has no problem holding the beat throughout the song. In the middle of the song the quartet mellows it out a bit, but then comes right back to the driving beat of the song, only to switch directly back to the slow melodic groove for a few mesaures. This type of versaility, as well as the excitment and power, in these musicians is very impressive. Hearing something technically difficult being accomplished with such ease is the reason I will continue to listen to this music over and over
- Steven Mosley
Aesop Rock - None Shall Pass
I just recently heard this song on a free album released by the Adult Swim crew that you can download here. Aesop has always been a master of words and delivery, and I have always enjoyed what I have heard of his work, but this song blew me away. The beat gets my head rocking imediately. Then Aesop breaks in riding the beat extra hard with so much charisma its almost as if he climbs into my head to deliver his message. The video is pretty clever as well, check it below.
- Bret Phillips
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posted by O Team Press @ 6:04 AM,
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Song of the Week v.5
Monday, November 26, 2007
Tool Live 1996 Pomona, CA
Tool has been one of my favortie bands the moment I listened to one of their albums all the way through, it was Anema. One of my favorite songs on the album is Thrid-Eye. The scream Maynard unleashes at 3:06 is 15 seconds long and invokes many feelings in the listener. Danny Carey's skills behind is drum set are sick and deserves more credit for his drumming than he gets. The guitar playing of Adam West is always superb and the bass that sets the mood for almost all Tool songs is ever present. Seeing this band at an early stage of their career such is this is always good to give the lisetner a sense of how bands do or do not change over the years. One thing that has never changed for this band is the ability to work together to produce a moving sound to keep the listener interested in what is going to happen next.
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posted by O Team Press @ 6:27 AM,
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Song of the Week v.4
Monday, November 19, 2007
Darkest Hour - Doomsayer
http://myspace.com/darkesthour
I have listened to Darkest Hour a couple times before, they were not done with this album yet. But upon returning I found some most excellent music. Doomsayer is the first song of their newest album Deliver Us and is a solid example of what you get to hear over the next 40 minutes. Very proficient technical guitars, percussion using a wide range of rhythms, topped off with engaging vocals make up not only this track but the entire album.
- Bret Phillips
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posted by O Team Press @ 5:29 AM,
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Song of the Week v.3
Monday, November 12, 2007
Steven:
Don Caballero - Don Caballero 2 - please tokio, please THIS IS TOKIO
http://www.myspace.com/doncaballero
As soon as the song begins you can tell these are not your normal musicians. The mix between Damon Che's groovy rock beat and Ian Williams alien sounding guitar riffs never fail to blow my mind. The first transition at the :53s mark is one of the smoothest I have ever heard from a math rock band, going from a choppy in your face rock to something you would almost certainly hear while in the deepest serenity. At the 2:53 mark Damon Che again shows us his versatility as a drummer, and one of the best around in my opinion. This song is good from start to finish although it is not meant for the mainstream ears of radio listeners, I enjoy hearing this jam again and again.
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posted by O Team Press @ 4:43 AM,
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Song of the Week v.2
Monday, November 5, 2007
McCoy Tyner Trio - Passion Dance
from Monterey Jazz Festival 2006
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCoy_Tyner
This is the second song of their set. Special guests Bobby Hutcherson and Roy Hargrove play the entire show with them and this is by far one of the best live jazz sets I have ever heard. Every member rips it up the whole time and McCoy Tyners skill level blows me away, he takes it so far out there.
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posted by O Team Press @ 12:01 AM,
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Song(s) of the Week v.1
Thursday, November 1, 2007
Bret:
30 Seconds to Mars - Oblivion
A long time favorite of mine. I really enjoy 30STM and this song is a staple of their sound in my opinion. The rhythm guitars are huge while the lead guitar is ringing in my ears, Leto belts it out effortlessly over the music, and the drums are a mix of electronic and acoustic but blended together so that neither is distracting from the other.
Michael:
Kid Koala - Shanky Panky
Created with nothing but two turntables, this song is KK's most shining example of his ability to create something entirely new out things entirely old. Though a pair of tables and a stack of records is not entirely inhibiting, one can hear KK stretch what's possible with them in this hip little tune on the acid jazz tip. Off the Some of My Best Friends Are DJ's album.
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posted by O Team Press @ 6:01 AM,
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Song(s) of the Week
Monday, October 15, 2007
Coming soon...
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posted by O Team Press @ 11:56 AM,
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