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Mixtape No. 23: Overtone Singing
Overtone singing is a method of producing sound with the throat that utilizes harmonics. This allows the musician to produce two tones at once. The spectrum of sounds a skilled practitioner can produce are awe-inspiring and mind-boggling. Apparently anyone can learn but the knack escapes me so far.
The Tuva culture is responsible for a sizable fraction of the songs in this podcast. The Tuvans “are a Turkic ethnic group living in southern Siberia.” (Wikipedia) Other examples in this episode come from Buddhism and the so-called western world.
Tracklist
Various Artists
- Mongolian Overtone Singer
- “Deep Voice” Overtone Singing
- Ken Ueno: Why Sing Overtones?
- Vocal & Overtone Singing Improvisation
- Tuvan Throat Singing
- Rollin Rachele “Overtone Singing”
- Harmonic Bamboo for Shakuhachi and Overtone Singing
- Leise rieselt der Oberton – Polyphonic Overtone Singing – Miroslav Grosser
- Tibet with deep (overtone, throat) singing
- Tuvan Throat Singing
Runtime 40:58
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ONGELEGEN — Rain, Thunder and Airplanes Ambience (Binaural)
ONGELEGEN — Rain, Thunder and Airplanes Ambience (Binaural)
posted in Ogg Vorbis format in order to preserve the sample rate
MP3 tops out at a sample rate of 48000Hz. I’m a little disappointed.
Ogg’s downfall is poor hardware support — which always puzzled me since it is open source and would take literally a single workday to implement in popular hardware such as the one made by that fruit company. Even then, the likelihood of this one working on hardware is almost zero. My Sansa supports Ogg Vorbis, but not apparently at 96kHz.
The WAV version of this track is available from SoundCloud.
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Mixtape No. 22: Vidyagaymes Episode 2
When I was in fourth or fifth grade, the powers that be were bringing our school into the 20th century (20th) using computers. As such, every student had the added responsibility of showing up with a 3.5inch floppy disk in addition to the requisite colored pencils and spiral notebooks and such. I showed up with an 8 inch floppy disk.
YouTube user MrSolidSnake745 has rigged up eight floppy drives to make beautiful music. It makes a great subject for this, the second video game music episode. I know the Ghostbuster’s theme isn’t exactly a videogame tune but this version reminds me of the Sega Master System version.
Tracklist
MrSolidSnake745
YouTube playlist
- Ghostbuster’s Theme on eight floppy drives
- Doom – E1M1 on eight floppy drives
- Sons of Skyrim Remake on eight floppy drives
- Zelda Collection on eight floppy drives
- Zelda – Dragon Roost Island on eight floppy drives
- Yoshi’s Island – Athletic Theme on eight floppy drives
- Коробейники on eight floppy drives
Runtime 21:36
picture source: http://noirlac.tumblr.com/post/1533458378
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Meri von Kleinsmid — metropolis [ubeboet re-model]
Mixtape No. 21: Doom (ZX Spectrum)
There is an unofficial Russian port of Doom for the ZX Spectrum that was never finished. Actually, since none of the code is based on the original Doom game, its not really a port. But it had awesome music. Here it is.
Tracklist
- Sauron — DOOM HARD TECHNO
- Sauron — DOOM_2
- Sauron — DOOM-1
- Joe — DOO-O-O-O-OOOM!!!
Runtime 6:40
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DJ Mayhem & MC Mouthmaster Murf — Amazing Robocop Rap (Instrumental)
I’m going to blame Diablo 3 on not posting new episodes in awhile. Nevertheless, here’s a fucking great Robocop beat that goes with the Amazing Robocop Rap. Fuckin’ A.
https://twitter.com/drbrontosaurus/status/233064247549112321
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