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The Velocity Girl Mystery Show Bootleg Cassette

tunequest — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 06:40:12 +0000

I was digging through a box of cassette tapes here at the tunequest compound and happened upon a handful of bootlegs from my tape trading days back in the 90s. Shows by “alternative” artists like Beck and Weezer early in their careers. Somewhat surprisingly, most of the shows have informative tape jackets, complete with show [...]

In Which Spotify Leads Me to iTunes Home Sharing

tunequest — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 09:28:44 +0000

The story of how iTunes and Spotify co-exist as a near-perfect music listening environment.

The Bad Plus – Everybody Wants To Rule The World

tunequest — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 03:08:00 +0000

A pensive, meandering avant-garde jazz interpretation of the Tears for Fears classic. It diverges and explores noodling tangents before reassembling into a recognizable structure. This trio, The Bad Plus, doesn’t specialize in covers, but does include them on their albums. And they’re fantastic. This post is by tunequest. Don't scrape me bro. ©2006-2012Plugin by Taragana

MacBook Air 11.6″. Some real world usage notes

tunequest — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 15:28:00 +0000

Hey folks. So I picked up one of Apple’s new MacBook Air notebooks. I had been wanting a more portable computer than my trusty tote-able 2008 MacBook Pro and the new 11.6″ form factor was mighty tempting. I did spring for the BTO 4GB RAM upgrade, but I opted to stick with the stock 64GB [...]

Youth, Aging, and the Making of Music History

tunequest — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 04:41:32 +0000

Hi folks! I bet many of you were thinking you’d never here from the ol’ tunequester ever again. I can’t say I blame you; it’s been months since I’ve written anything for this site. And it’s been a busy handful of months. But lately I’ve been pondering something and I’ve decided to share. I recently finished [...]

App: TonePad- Tenori-On for the rest of us

tunequest — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 04:49:02 +0000

Allow me to share with you one of my favorite apps in all of Apple’s App Store: TonePad. You see, I’ve been intrigued by the elusive (and expensive) “visual music composition device” known as Tenori-on since I first heard about it a couple years. And since I don’t really have the time to make the [...]

Star Trek 2009 and temporal paradoxes: The Beastie Boys Paradox

tunequest — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 17:20:10 +0000

Are the Beastie Boys from the future?

Star Trek 2009 and temporal paradoxes: The First Contact Paradox

tunequest — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 12:10:29 +0000

Given the new timeline created in Star Trek (2009), can First Contact, the seed of the Federation, still occur?

Star Trek 2009 and temporal paradoxes: The Permanency of the New Timeline

tunequest — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 04:48:43 +0000

The new Trek alt-verse is destined to collapse.

Stereolab: Neon Beanbag [del.icio.us]

tunequest — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 08:36:16 PDT

stereolab has a new album out in the very near future. i'm terribly excited about that.

Radiohead: Reckoner [del.icio.us]

tunequest — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 01:36:07 PDT

from disc 1 of in rainbows. thom is especially piercing on this one.

nine inch nails: The Limitless Potential [del.icio.us]

tunequest — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 01:36:07 PDT

21 of the best user/listener generated nine inch nails remixes, all created from Apple Garaband files that Trent Reznor provides at nin.com

Freddy Kruger and Link meet The Polish Ambassador [del.icio.us]

tunequest — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 01:36:07 PDT

This is what happens when Freddy accidentally attacks a video game character in the presences of The Polish Ambassador.

Ratatat: Ferraro 11/18 [del.icio.us]

tunequest — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 01:36:06 PDT

A somewhat rare non-album track from Ratatat's early days.

Prefuse 73: Megachopped Suite [del.icio.us]

tunequest — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 01:36:06 PDT

Hey feed folk. I haven't forgotten about you. Here's a track from Prefuse 73. It's an eleven minute pastiche of cut-and-paste beats and smooth head-bobbing rhythms. Enjoy

Asylum Street Spankers: Closer [del.icio.us]

tunequest — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 01:36:06 PDT

Asylum Street Spankers goes back to roots of New Orleans with this banjo-pickin' cover of nine inch nails' "closer." Break out the moonshine jug and have yourself a hootenanny.

Re-mix ::: [Cornelius] x [Merce Death] x [polo-Really] x [Google Map] x [YouTube] [del.icio.us]

tunequest — Thu, 01 May 2008 17:17:57 PDT

Not so much a download as it is a cornelius-based mash up of a bunch of open web technologies.

The Breeders: Bang On [del.icio.us]

tunequest — Thu, 01 May 2008 17:17:57 PDT

The Breeders have a new album coming out in about a month. It's the first one in about 5 years. Here's a song from it.

Radiohead: Live at Bonnaroo Music Festival. June 17, 2007 [del.icio.us]

tunequest — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 01:28:51 PST

Torrent file of the entire show (29 songs/2.5 hours) in lossless FLAC format. The files are sampled at mind-bogglingly high 96kHz, so you'll have to downsample if converting to an iPod-compatible format.