32 posts tagged “mathangi”
MUXTAPE.com is fun site where you can upload songs to make a "mixtape". I decided to make a Kylie Minogue mixtape since I have been listening to her a lot lately. Here is the link ...
Humyo.com is a place where you can upload 30 GB of media and share it with others. I decided to upload the majority of my M.I.A. songs to it ...
http://www.humyo.com/3451015-151695021 (there is a media player that lets you listen to the songs in each folder)
I stumbled upon an article about an architect named Norman Foster who has designed the "Green Tower", a building to be built in Siberia. It looks really cool. Here is the link to what it is supposed to look like ...
http://www.inhabitat.com/2007/07/18/norman-fosters-green-tower-in-siberia
Annie has a new song out called "I Know Ur Girlfried Hates Me". It's not as catchy as "Chewing Gum" and "Heartbeat", but it's not bad. I really love how Annie isn't afraid to put out a very electronic sound with her music.
If you are wanting to watch a movie with the Netflix movie viewer, and you are using the Firefox 3 browser, the movie viewer will not work in the browser since it only works with Internet Explorer. However, you can install the IE tab add-on into Firefox 3, right-click on the movie's link, and choose the option, "open with IE tab", or something like that. Then, it will work perfectly and you will still be using Firefox 3 instead of Internet Explorer (the worst browser ever!).
Here is a link to the IE tab add-on for Firefox 3 ...
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1419
Here are two funny YouTube videos that feature Joan Rivers . . .
Cliff Richard is also in the above video.
Here is a video of Joan Rivers on the British version of "The View". She talks some smack about Russell Crowe, and she doesn't realize that they don't have a 5-second delay for the purpose of censorship on the show ...
I hate censorship and love the Freedom of Speech so I think it is great that Joan Rivers did this. Russell Crowe probably is an asshole. I hate his movies.
Here are two new (to me) M.I.A. remixes by Instinct (MySpace for Instinct) ...
The two photos of M.I.A. were taken by Mike Schreiber (and altered by me, of course).
There is a remix of M.I.A.'s "XR2" by Blaqstarr that I was able to download from the M.I.A. Fans message board. The picture that I put with the song is from a party at the Museum of Modern Art in New York called the "Party in the Garden", I think. There is a better picture of M.I.A. at the same party at People's website. I got the picture for the song from Bonafide-Hustler.com.
Here is the photo from People's website that I like, but I wish it was really large ...
You can download the song here if you like.
Mozilla wants 1 million downloads or more on June 17th when the official version of Firefox 3 will be released. I have been using the "release candidate" of Firefox 3 (I don't know what "release candidate" means, but I think that is the right phrase ... kind of like "beta" or "testing version"), and I really love it. It is definitely the fastest browser I have ever used. I hate, hate, hate Internet Explorer, but I have always loved the Firefox browsers. I try to tell all of my friends, co-workers, relatives, and even members at my credit union to use Firefox because it is safer (especially when combined with Google Toolbar), and it is faster and more customizable (I don't think that's a word).
Here is a video about the release of Mozilla's Firefox 3 on Tuesday, June 17th ...
In case you don't know where to go to download Firefox, the website is right here!
You can also download the latest "release candidate" of Firefox 3 before the real, official version comes out on Tuesday.
Madonna has a song on her new album, Hard Candy, called "She's Not Me", that is pretty cool. Wendy Melvoin from Wendy & Lisa and Prince's band, The Revolution, is credited with playing the guitar on the song, and her name is even mentioned in the song. Like other songs on the album, the sound of the song changes at certain points, which keeps it pretty interesting. The song reminds me of Garbage's "Cherry Lips (Go Baby Go!)". Listen to both songs and maybe you'll hear the similarity ... maybe not.
Madonna - She's Not Me (produced by Pharrell Williams)
Here is the video for Prince's song, "1999", which I have always really liked. I don't know if Wendy is in this video, but it's still topical for this blog post ...
Prince is very picky about where his music and videos can be shown/streamed so I could not find the "1999" video on YouTube, but I did find it on imeem.com.
Here is "Cherry Lips (Go Baby Go!)" by Garbage ...
Here is another song from Portishead's new album, Third. It is the first song on the album, and I love the phrase, "did you know what I lost, do you know what I wanted", that is repeated in the song.
Here are some songs from the new Santogold album. Most of the songs on the album have been shared on the internet for years, but it's nice to hear high-quality versions of the songs. Santi White of Santogold is friends with M.I.A., and they seem to travel in the same social circles, but Santogold is a group that definitely stand on their own talent-wise.
Santogold - Shove It
Santogold - Unstoppable
Santogold - Anne
In other news, I guess I am not M.I.A.'s #1 fan anymore because I did not go to her concert at La Zona Rosa in Austin on May 1st. I had to work the next day, and there was no way I could go to that concert and make it to work the next day. Also, by the time I even considered risking it and going to the concert, the tickets were sold out. I am sure the show was awesome, though, because her last show there a couple of years ago was full of energy and the sound was perfect.
Here is a picture from the Austin concert ...
I think all of the photos were taken by David Reagan for the Austin American-Statesman's blog aka Austin360.com.
You can vote for M.I.A. to be one of TIME magazine's 100 most influential people, and I definitely think she deserves it.
You can go to this link, change M.I.A.'s rating to 100, and click on SUBMIT. Do it now!
http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1725112_1723512_1724687,00.html
Here are some related images ...
Also, this "4 Minutes To Save The World" song has invaded my mind, and I am liking it. The video is pretty cool, too.
or you can just listen here ...
We have Muzak at work (the instrumental music that beams into our branch through a satellite connection or something like that), except we started having words a matter of months ago so now we can hear the songs in all of their glory. Anyway, there is a song that plays at least once a day, and I call it the "ghost trapped in a box" song. It is not the best song, but it has made its way deeply into my head so I am blogging about it today.
We could never hear enough lyrics or remember enough lyrics to do a Google search on it, in order to find out the name of the song and the artist who sang it. However, I heard the lyrics "again and again ... do it again" today, and a search later led me to the correct song ...
The Bird and the Bee - Again and Again
There is a remix by Peaches of their song "Fucking Boyfriend". It sounds pretty cool ...
The Bird and the Bee - Fucking Boyfriend (Peaches Remix)
A remix of M.I.A.'s "20 Dollar" was posted on the M.I.A. Fans message board today. It sounds kinf of amateurish, but it is not awful. I wish more people would remix that song. It is my favorite song on Kala.
M.I.A. - 20 Dollar (Ignacious' Mindless Warp Mix)
Daft Punk - Da Funk
Santogold (aka Santi White) is a really cool group that has ties to Spank Rock, M.I.A., Switch, and lots of other cool artists/DJs, etc. I do not believe they have an official album you can buy so I can going to do some music spreading here.
Anyway, they put out a video for their song, L.E.S. Artistes ...
I don't know what message the video is trying to convey (probably something about expressing yourself even if it gets you in trouble), but it's very colorful.
My favorite pop culture moment of Santogold is when one of my favorite songs of theirs, "Creator", was used in the beginning of the second part of a two-part episode of "Grey's Anatomy". It's the scene where Sandra Oh and Ellen Pompeo are dancing around in the bedroom to some music. I knew about Santogold long before this episode aired so it was cool to see that the music director of Grey's Anatomy had good taste. I think the show, "Entourage", has played Santogold, and M.I.A. has also been featured in episodes of that show so that is tres cool.
Here is a clip of "Creator" playing in the background of Grey's Anatomy (season 4, episode 10, part 2 of "Crash Into Me") ...
Here it is again just in case the above one gets deleted ...
and here is the song in its entirety (I have actually uploaded this song before) ...
Santogold - Creator
Here are some remixes of M.I.A. songs that I recently added to my iTunes library ...
M.I.A. vs. Beatie Boys and Nas ... Funny Bizniz (M.I.A.'s song in this mash-up is "Paper Planes") ... this song was made by Abrahammer, I think.
I got the above remix from the M.I.A. Fans Message Board (where I get almost all of my M.I.A. remixes nowadays).
M.I.A. vs. Dan Deacon - "Jimmy ... Jimmy Joe Rochoe" ( a remix by DJ STV SLV that came from The Hood Internet)
Actually, I think a lot of these remixes came from The Hood Internet.
M.I.A. vs. New Order - Blue M.I.A. Day (remixed by ABX)
I think the background sound of M.I.A.'s "20 Dollar" (which this is a remix of) is actually a distorted sample taken from New Order's "Blue Monday" (which this is also a remix of).
M.I.A. - Paper Planes (Holy Fuck Remix)
Buraka Son Sistema featuring M.I.A. - Sound of Kuduro
M.I.A. doesn't have too many lines in the song above, but the ones she has are cool. Here is more information on Buraka Son Sistema (who did the fast remix of Bird Flu, I think, and works a lot with Diplo and the Mad Decent blog).
Here is the video that goes with this song ...
This "Sound of Kuduro" song makes me think of a lot of the Baile Funk sound on "Piracy Funds Terrorism, volume one" bootleg album that Diplo and M.I.A. worked on.
I love how all of these artists kind of know each other and work together, or they work with friends of friends. It all seems very casual, but they manage to put out really cool stuff together.
I saw Simian Mobile Disco at Waterloo Park in Austin last night. They performed on a tiny stage, but they had a really cool light show and the crowd seemed to really like them. I went to see them because I have a friend who loves them and their songs, "Hustler" and "I Believe". I don't know too much about them, but they played one song with the lyrics "Fantastic into romantic, romantic into fantastic" (which I thought was saying, "fantastic is the romantic, romantic is the fantastic"). I discovered by using the power of the internet that the song is a remix of The Go! Team's "Ladyflash" by Simian Mobile Disco. Here is the song ...
The Go! Team - Ladyflash (Simian Mobile Disco Remix)
Thanks to the M.I.A. Fans message board for these. One is by DJ Eli, and one is by DFA.
M.I.A. - Bamboo Babger (DJ Eli Remix) ... meh!
M.I.A. - Paper Planes (DFA Remix) ... yay!
Set to a looping video of a running octopus ...
Download it here ... and here is the Pitchfork article on it.
Here is M.I.A.'s video for Paper Planes ...
Edit ... OK, I had another version of the video above before that did not sound like the album version of the song, Paper Planes. However, I found the official version of the video on YouTube, and that is what you see above now. It's good.
Here is just the song, Paper Planes ...