The Signal Music Weblog

Here you go.

A sample of some of the new French hip-hop I picked up.

The sticker on the CD said this guy is the #1 rapper in France. I don't think you can lie on those things, so... there's your guarantee of quality.

So I spent quite a bit of time adding to the ol' Favorites list over at YouTube.

I found videos for Jellyfish, the Emergency Broadcast Network, some classic J. Glazer and Chris Cunningham work, Aesop Rock performing with that guy from The Mountain Goats, John Stewart punking Chris Matthews during an interview segment, Naomi Wolf charting terrifying parallels between the current US administration and fascist governments of the last 100 years, plus Tenacious D beating up a time-traveling goblin to make sure that Lincoln dies like he's supposed to.

If any of that sounds appealing, bimble over to my YouTube favorites page in your own sweet time.

Do you know Girltalk? Sound pirate-y plunderphonic music maker?

Some animation students took some footage of him, rocking his laptop, and rotoscoped it like Waking Life. Check it out... many of them hadn't used Flash before, and watching the march of different styles from different students while the music keeps hopping genres is fantastic.

It's great living in the future. 2008! Sure, we were supposed to be on Jupiter seven years ago, but we're making progress on other fronts, Giant Space Baby at the Edge of Experience!

There's some debate among music heads about how current production standards are ruining music. Well, something has to be ruining music... something always is.

While hi-fidelity advocates decry producers making music that sounds good when compressed to mp3, there's a very real argument to be made about the dangers of making sound too "flat."

Check out this video that demonstrates what can be lost in production if the volume for all instruments is turned up too loud.