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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 [...]

Smart Playlist Idea: My Favorite Nostalgia

tunequest — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 22:21:29 +0000

This is an iTunes Smart Playlist idea that I came up with last month and I am having so much fun with it I’ve just got to share it. The basic premise is to relive my entire musical history in rough chronological segments. The goal is to slowly drift and gradually segue through the highlights [...]

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.