AIT Music Club

Vela Music update...

2008-04-30T14:36:00.005+05:30

...Just in case you cared :)
Recommended Songs -
Powerful songs -
Just Like You Imagined - Nine Inch Nails (theme song from 300)
Requiem For A Dream - Music from the movie of the same name
This song is very classical music influenced. Has choir type chorus singing as well. Very heavy on the violin for those who like.
NEXT:
For anybody who likes the occasional punky / poppish sound - (Although if the sound you'r elooking for is Britney Spears / Aguilera et al, go somewhere else)
All these songs house some very depressing lyrics by the way:
Down Boy - Yeah Yeah Yeahs (Album: Is Is)
Who by Fire - Leonard Cohen (very very good, and recommended for those who like their lyrics!)
Dream Awake - The Frames (ditto)

Definitely random songs -
These are the kind of songs you want to listen to when you want to bop about in your seat -
Werewolves of London - Warren Zevon. Ancient song. Has a band named after the song. Also awarded most creative opening line. The opening line -
I saw a werewolf with a chinese menu in his hand :D
The smiley was not part of the song. That one was all me.
I'm A Player - KGB - verrrry nice. But very hard to find a version that plays in WMPlayer. Plays ok in VLC though. How does / Can one even organize a VLC playlist?
I leave for now, and I promise to return :D
Meanwhile enjai!

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2007-10-24T14:35:00.000+05:30

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Help!!!!

2007-09-17T12:43:00.000+05:30

Anybody know a good software for ripping out music from youTube flvs? Besides VLC?
Right now I rip out via VLC, get a weird mp3 format, have to cobvert to correct n readable mp3 via Xilisoft.
Anybody know a better(!!!!!) way to do so?

Background Music

2007-07-22T22:47:00.000+05:30

Maybe it's because I've been watching too many movies, but I keep expecting and wising for some sort of background score to accompany my doings throughout the day.

Wouldn't it be great though? Imagine striding into a boardroom meeting to the Imperial March! That would certainly make people more accepting of your ideas!

Or consider the possibility of being aware of your boss lurking around because you can hear the 'dum-dum dum-dum' from Jaws!

The music would also be a great way for people to know how you're feeling at the moment; happy, sad, filled with great expectations. This does have actual possibilities though. Maybe with time, we'd have progressed far enough with AI algorithms for music to have personal devices that can be set to randomly generate music based on a particular mood, soundtrack-style.

Of course, the problem with brilliant ideas, like this one, is that they're short-sighted and never factor in all the other people. With everyone playing out their own theme, it'd just lead to cacophony.

Vela Music

2007-07-14T12:34:00.000+05:30

Vela Music.

Let me introduce you to this term. I have a penchant for downloading music that I happen to hear (& like) on the tv. Obscure serials. Bits from movies here and there. Usually unknown songs by anonymous artists.

One of my friends' sisters happened to look at my play list, and commented that she had never even heard of these artists before. What did i listen to? Vela music?

And thus the term was born.

Now, one thing I have to tell you, the music is really good. Really good. I thought I'd share some of my vela music with the world.

If you like instrumental music, especially if it's heavy on the violin and guitar (clean guitar though) have a listen to Yoko Kanno. Songs like Tsume Na Suna, Escape and Face On are really good. She's japanese, as you might have guessed going by the names of the tracks.

Another good piece of music I came across was while watching the 2006 film Stranger Than Fiction. It is by a greek composer, Vangelis. If you like slow, haunting instrumentals listen to his Apocalypse des Animaux (Apocalypse of the Animals) . Very like a piece I heard from Swan Lake on some CD somewhere.

I'm currently trying to find another song from Stranger Than Fiction called The Book I Write by some indie band called Spoon. It's a really nice song. They have this really cool song very heavy on the 50s Great balls of Fire (forgive the date if I'm wrong)

piano-ey and beautiful dum-da-ba-dum beat (withs lots of hi hat). Feet tapping and can't stop. I'm listening and typing to the beat, with the hands clapping Ala Beatles' Hey Jude. Spoon ain't have bad a band. In fact the only thing bad about the song is that it's length is 2:40.

Also listen to the Brit band the Clash. London Calling is be them. The song that plays when the FRIENDS cast goes to London? Also in Die Another Day, when Gustav Graves' jet is landing.

Okay, now I'm kinda sleepy, seeing as how I gotta go work tomorrow, be seeing all of you musical folk later.
PS Any fan on the Rolling Stones should really listen to Laugh, I Nearly Died from A Bigger Bang. Very VERY Good!