tunequest

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.

Star Trek (2009): Good Movie, so-so Trek

tunequest — Wed, 20 May 2009 14:44:06 +0000

Some words about the newest Star Trek film. ***SPOILERS BELOW*** ***this post assumes you've seen the movie*** ***SPOILERS BELOW***

Smart Playlist Idea: The Anniversary Playlist

tunequest — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 19:40:40 +0000

Ever wonder what you were listening to three, four, five or even ten years ago? Or maybe you want to look back and wonder “have I really been listening to this album for that long?”. Enter The Anniversary Playlist. By setting two simple Date Added parameters in a Smart Playlist, you can make a self-updating playlist [...]

Wrongsmith collects the “best” of Songsmith

tunequest — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 15:53:06 +0000

Total hat-tip to Webomatica for this. The web is slowly filling up Songsmith “remixes” of popular songs. It’s a program recently released by Microsoft Research that purports to make anyone and everyone a songwriter. Just select a musical style and sing into a microphone and the app will automatically generate accompanying music. Arrangements and chords can all [...]

Tunequest Year in Review 2008

tunequest — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 03:31:02 +0000

This year’s end summary is going to be a little shorter than in the past, for two principle reasons: 1) 2008 was a lot busier for me than recent years, so my opportunities to explore and listen to new music were more limited, and B) I spent a lot of the free time I did [...]

Stereolab: Neon Beanbag [del.icio.us]

tunequest — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 17:57:04 PDT

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

Ratatat: Shiller [del.icio.us]

tunequest — Mon, 19 May 2008 18:14:36 PDT

more ratatat for you folks. new lp drops in july. here's the first single. if the x-files were baroque, this could be its soundtrack. mellow.

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

tunequest — Fri, 02 May 2008 08:59:51 PDT

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

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

tunequest — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 17:14:23 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 — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 12:37:43 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.

Ratatat vs. Rob Base and DJ EZ Rock [del.icio.us]

tunequest — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 06:39:13 PST

A peculiar mashup of Ratatat's 'Germany to Germany' and Rob Base and DJ EZ Rock's 'It Takes Two.' Points for novelty if not artistry.

Radiohead: Reckoner [del.icio.us]

tunequest — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 14:09:53 PST

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

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

tunequest — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 13:56:04 PST

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

Smashing Pumpkins - Pensacola Florida 1997.02.04 [del.icio.us]

tunequest — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 20:03:34 PST

The ever-cool archive.org hosts this complete concert in FLAC, OGG and MP3. I went to this show nearly eleven years ago. Had decent seats too.

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

tunequest — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 12:14:46 PST

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.

Ratatat: Mix Tape Volume 2 [del.icio.us]

tunequest — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 10:01:39 PDT

It's been makin the bootleg circuit since around march, but now it's officially a free download. "14 new remixes featuring: Bun B, Biggie Smalls, Jay-Z, Slim Thug, Devin the Dude, Young Jeezy, T.I., Beanie Sigel, Pimp C, Ludacris, Young Buck, Saigon, Juve

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

tunequest — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 22:39:03 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

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

tunequest — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 06:55:09 PDT

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.

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

tunequest — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 08:37:15 PDT

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

Rilo Kiley: Spectacular Views / Purple Rain (live) [del.icio.us]

tunequest — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 20:07:09 PDT

A low key version of Spectacular views with Blake on vocals. Features a bit of a Prince outro.