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What are you listening to?
Gyrre:
Some live recordings of Gary Clarke Jr.
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=9riFu5CQnBw
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=uj9QfvDxHFs
Theta9:
Still Wendy Carlos. My public library has some of her CDs so now I've got Switched-On Brandenburgs, and her complete Clockwork Orange score (distinct from the official soundtrack release in that it contains her original composition "Timesteps" in its entirety, a longer version of Beethoven's scherzo movement from the 9th symphony, and a few more tracks that weren't even in the film's final cut.)
Gyrre:
Pomplamoose arranged Beautiful People into a musical style.
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypRmbJdJsm4
EDIT: This is more in line with their usual stuff.
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOq3yAK5Zrk
Skewbrow:
From Norwich (UK) with intensity...
Chaser
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhjO6ih7jhM
by Mammal Hands.
While this piece is one of the highlights, the rest of the album is good also.
Morituri:
Way back in the wayback, the two who became the Eurythmics were in a little-known band called the Tourists.
Lennox is already a good pop-singer at the time (1977) and Stewart's guitar seems flawless although with the muddy sound-mixing it doesn't come out clearly. But both she and Dave Stewart are so. very. young. in these clips. I hadn't experienced these as videos until I went looking in order to make this post, so I'm seeing it for the first time, but holy carp they are just kids!
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsTIuNikq4wCritique: they needed better audio post-production mixing - whoever did the sound on the 'Tourist' albums blew it and made it sound 'muddy' or 'blurry' - as though mixing low-fidelity tracks made on cheap cassette recorders - which, to be fair, might be exactly what happened at first, but the fact that they went on to make videos means they had production capabilities that made the sound mixing inexcusable, and it didn't get better.
I'm a fan of Annie Lennox. While she's doing generic-pop-singer early in her career here, and she and Dave went on to a 'synth-pop/new-wave' as the Eurythmics that took a lot more composition and post-production skill, and continued to be high-energy and a lot of fun.
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-Q3cp3cp88
And then she herself went on to do 'Experimental' genre-less music that is emotionally intimate and just worlds removed from these origins.
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1ZnF8JJxqk//www.youtube.com/watch?v=N63RB2gQu-0
Anyway, artists I truly admire tend to change and develop during their careers. And she's a good example.
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