Kutiman’s Thru You project will probably remain the YouTube mash-up thingy to beat, but koradan’s syncing together of four different people playing the constituent parts of Metallica’s “Enter Sandman” is pretty impressive. Apparently the virtual band have never met, which at least means they can never break up.
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These ladies are called The Mentalists. Their mentalism manifests itself through their willingness to spend Lord knows how many hours learning how to play an MGMT song together on their iThings.
I can’t believe they got through this without at least one device’s battery failing, or someone receiving a text.
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A punk band playing alongside a hacked 80s Nintendo Entertainment System doesn’t, on paper, sound like the most rewarding listening experience for anyone other than Nintendo fanboy nerdlingers.
However, Anamanaguchi’s Dawn Metropolis may prove that instrumental punk/video game mash-ups can be worth listening to even once the novelty has worn off.
From what I’ve listened to, Anamanaguchi sound a bit like a speeded-up, Guitar Hero version of NYC guitar synthstrumentalists Ratatat. But you probably won’t know if it’s really your kind of thing until you’ve actually listened to a bit of it - which you can do over the page.
Gaaah, tourists! Rucksacks! Walking down the middle of the station platform at 2 metres an hour! Cagoules! Gaaah! Etcetera!
Blame Ringo are a band who have, for their new single “Garble Arch”, created a clever time-lapse video of tourists re-enacting The Beatles’ famous Abbey Road album cover zillions of times over the course of a day.
Ahhh, tourists. You know you’d do it too.
The number of child musical genius videos on the internet is fast approaching the number of cats falling asleep videos on the internet. If there are loads of them does that mean they’re not geniuses after all? Does it just mean all the other kids are really stupid?
I was one of the stupid kids, as evidenced by the fact that I can be impressed this Argentinian kid can play so well without looking at the strings.
This version of that song used in the “this is M&S food” Marks And Spencer ads is a year and a half old now, so I suppose I can always hope that having reached almost double figures little Lucciano Pizzichini is now a smacked-out wreck.
In the first season there were too many motha uckers ucking with their shih, and now Flight Of The Conchords duo Brett and Jermaine are complaining about “the dancefloor bro/ho ratio”.
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This rejig of Jay-Z’s “Big Pimpin’” comes from Funny Or Die but had me wanting to replace the “Die” with “Icky”. Although, admittedly, if you don’t “awww” at lyrics like the bit where she goes “sleep in bed with one eye open as long as I am snug”, then you’re dead inside.
However, I think you’re legitimately allowed to feel a leetle uneasy at the fact wee Madeline doesn’t look like she’s having all that much fun. Er, and I hate to bring up Minipops, but that bit where she goes “cute behindy”…?
This came via the Twitter feed of comedian Robert Popper. It is a high school band attempting to play “Greensleeves”, and, coupled with the laughter of the people filming it, is quite high-larioos.
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The Langley Schools Music Project was a chorus of sixty kids from a school in Canada who, under the guidance of their teacher Hans Fenger, recorded an album of covers of pop tunes in the late seventies. The children played the instruments as well, despite having no sheet music and only a basic ability to play.
The most famous recording to emerge from the ensuing album Innocence & Despair is their version of David Bowie’s “Space Oddity”, to which the man himself gave the thumbs-up. It was recorded on a two-track tape deck in a school gym, so the result is quite a shock to ears used to listening to slickly-produced material.
What is undeniable is that the result is somehow simultaneously haunting and charming… But mostly haunting. Click over for a listen.
One of the things that helps me get out of bed of a grey, wet Monday morn is the prospect of listening to Adam and Joe’s podcast on the bus. They discuss the minutiae of popular culture in a way you might in the pub with your friends, but they’re much, much funnier.
From their most recent Song Wars battle, here’s Adam Buxton’s delightful ode to Baz Luhrmann’s Australia, which owes more than a little to Rolf Harris’s “Sun Arise”:
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