 The inspiration for Ludovico Einaudi's Giorni was a 12th-century folk song from Mali about a hippopotamus who was cherished by the residents of a nearby village but killed by a hunter. "The song," writes Einaudi in his succinct liner note, "is sung as a lament for the death of a king or a great person or for the loss of a loved one." The result is a tender and introspective set of 14 piano pieces, performed on this recording by the composer himself.
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Very Rare Collection of Daft Punk Releases 1994-2008 years, Listen and Downloads. If you want to understand Bear Hands and their sound, ask singer and guitarist Dylan Rau with whom he'd like to share the stage. "Lil Wayne and Bob Dylan and Daft Punk," the Burlington, Conn. native says. That mishmash of hip-hop, songwriting and dance beats has made Bear Hands a fave on the indie rock scene. But though labels are courting the unsigned band and fans are equally passionate, Rau doesn't have delusions of grandeur. "We did a whole tour in England where we were the first of five bands on a package bill. We played at 6:30 p.m. every night, and there would be five people in the room. No one cared at all — they had never heard of us," says Rau. "But that's just something that happens. I wasn't expecting anything different when I went over there. What do you expect? To start off and headline Madison Square Garden?" In fact, Rau, says, those poorly attended shows bring their own merit. "I actually kind of dig it. Those kinds of room tend to loosen me up and make me more conscious of the freedom that you actually have on stage. There's not some formula for what you have to do up there — you just be yourself," he says. "Or do something weird to freak people out," he adds with a laugh. Though Rau and the rest of the band have moved to Brooklyn, N.Y., (except for guitarist and percussionist Ted Feldman, who's still a student at Wesleyan University), Rau says his upbringing can be found in the band's music. " Connecticut is a very wealthy state and there's a really big gap between the rich and the poor there. It definitely made me an early leftist or some kind of young radical," he explains. "There's also a punk rock scene that's been there for a long time, so those two things kind of merged together. I'm sure that had some influence on making our songs sound punk." Punk, and a handful of other genres. Their tunes range from subtly catchy slow ballads to head-banging and dance-inducing anthems. But all share the common bond of melody and creativity — with some heavy reverb, drum beats and lo-fi leanings. Rau says the band has even more changes in store. "We're using keyboards and other sounds to try to get away from the rock and roll cliches that people have. We've begun to play around with the computer and use it as a drum machine or a sampler, but we don't perform any songs using that yet. But it will happen," he says with a laugh. Best Articles: http://streem.us/ligamusic http://eminem-live.blogspot.com/
See, Virginia? Sometimes Christmas wishes do come true. As you may recall, Weezer front-bro Rivers Cuomo suggested earlier this week that the band had recorded new renditions of yuletide classics for iPhone gaming app Tap Tap Revenge. Turns out he wasn't just elfing around: today Tap Tap producers Tapulous unveiled Christmas With Weezer, a new app all set to stuff e-stockings this holiday season. Rejoice in hearing Rivers and the gang rollick through perennial favorites "We Wish You a Merry Christmas", "Silent Night", "O Holy Night", "The First Noel", "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing", and "O Come, All Ye Faithful" as you compete to see how fast you can come down with carpal tunnel syndrome while pecking away at your iPhone screen. All six carols were recorded specifically for this game, though Weezer fans in a non-festive mood will be pleased to know Christmas With Weezer also includes Red Album singles "Pork and Beans" and "The Greatest Man That Ever Lived (Variations on a Shaker Hymn)" as bonus tap-alongs. Or, for the more discotheque-oriented iPhone user in your life, it's Tap Tap Dance, another new app from Tapulous that beefs up the bpms. Jams from Daft Punk, Basement Jaxx, Moby, the Chemical Brothers, and Digitalism help make up the tracklist, along with an epic Soulwax remix of Justice that serves as a final level, complete with custom visuals inspired by the ending of Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey. Ahhh, so that's what the creepy black monolith thing was supposed to be: an iPhone prototype. Tap Tap Dance tracklist: Basement Jaxx: "Where's Your Head At"
The Chemical Brothers: "Midnight Madness (Edit)"
Daft Punk: "Technologic"
Digitalism: "Zdarlight"
Junkie XL: "Stratosphere"
Justice: "Phantom Pt. II (Soulwax Remix)"
Sunny D. Levine: "Daylight (Morgan Page Remix)"
Moby: "Disco Lies (The Dusty Kid's Fears Remix)"
Soul Magic Orchestra: "Compressor"
Tiesto: "Goldrush"
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We've seen various people try and create their own versions of Daft Punk's famous helmets, but Casey Pugh looks to have done a better job than most. He's now posted a time-lapse video of him building the helmet on the internet (he wore it as a Halloween costume this year), and this shows just how much work went into it. "It's a 16x5 LED matrix installed inside a cheap motorcycle helmet I found on Amazon," explains Casey. "I used the Arduino [open-source electronics prototyping platform] to program all the animations. "The LEDs are on cardboard, so I punched holes between every single LED and some larger slits around the sides in order to see out." Take a look at the video here. Read More: http://acid-funk-jazz.blogspot.com/ http://naked-funk.blogspot.com/
 Activision or Electronic Arts plan on bringing out Guitar Hero pr Rock Band on the iPhone, they really should accelerate their respective schedules before Tapulous absolutely owns the rhythm genre with their series of Tap Tap music games. Tap Tap Dance is the firm's latest and it's the best rhythm game on the App Store. Featuring music from dance and techno artists like Junkie XL, Moby, Daft Punk, and the Chemical Brothers, Tap Tap Dance is the perfect solution for rhythm game fans that really just aren't that into Kansas or Boston. Daft Punk Popular Albums.While Tap Tap Dance does not deviate from the formula of the previous games, such as the wildly successful freebie Tap Tap Revenge, it does feature a refreshed engine that allows for tapping two notes at the same time as if you were hitting a chord or holding a note down. Otherwise, Tapulous doesn't fix what isn't broken. You just need to tap the notes as they stream down the screen on three bars. When arrows appear on the bars, you swing the device that direction. (Fortunately, you can turn this off in the options screen. I have never liked this mechanic.) After hitting a 50-note streak, you shake the iPhone to start your "revenge," which enters an 8x bonus mode that lasts as you as you keep hitting those notes. Successfully deploying revenge is the difference between 90,000 points and 400,000. Dance music is a perfect fit for the formula -- although I must confess up front that I am a monster fan of the genre. The selection of artists and their 10 songs here are fantastic, such as "Midnight Madness" by the Chemical Brothers and "Goldrush" by Tiesto. My only wish is that Tapulous had included some older techno or dance. Rhythm games have the unintended success of introducing new music to gamers (Guitar Hero stirred interest in classic rock within a lot of teenagers). To couch something like I Start Counting's "Lose Him" or Cabaret Voltaire's "I Want You" between the new stuff would be seven kinds of awesome. The music sounds great through headphones, although if you are playing on an iPhone, the onboard speaker isn't too shabby. But what matters more here is the sensitivity of the controls and whether or not the notes line up well with the tracks. This isn't like Guitar Hero where the note placement is obvious. Whoever laid out the notes deserves a holiday bonus because you really do get into a groove with the music, tagging and holding notes along with the melody, rhythm, and sometimes both. The difficulty ramps up exceptionally well and with practice, you'll put up big scores. My advice: Don't stab your screen with your thumbs. It only takes a gentle tap (like in the title) to hit a note. Stomping on a note takes extra time that will trip you up in rapid note sequences. At the end of each difficulty tier, you unlock a new song that's accompanied by art specific to the track. Daft Punk's "Technologic," for example, has an old-school TV screen that flashes images and the band's name as notes stream down bars that are much shorter and shaped differently than the main game screen. Moby's "Disco Lies" also uses short bars that unfurl from what looks like the mouth of an alien designed by a nine-year-old using MS Paint. (And that's not a slam to the artist -- I think it's very cool.) Once you finish a boss track, that song become parts of the track list on the next tier. Exciting visuals are an essential for rhythm games, despite the fact that 90-percent of your attention is focused on listening to the music and tapping the notes at the bottom of the screen at the right times. Techno in particular has a visual element to it that is inseparable from the music. Since the early days of Kraftwerk, electronic music has been accompanied by vanguard digital art. Can you imagine "Electric Cafe" without those wire-frame heads? And so the barebones look of Tap Tap Revenge needed the refresh. The backdrop for most songs is a rave scene that vibrates as you nail note streaks. A disco ball splashes the screen with sparkling lights until the whole game looks like it's about to go nuclear. Tap Tap Dance also includes a two-player mode where each players holds opposite ends of the iPhone. It's a clever addition, but I really don't see myself playing it much more than testing it for this review.
 Electroma Shows Friday on Pitchfork.tv!" title="Daft Punk's Electroma Shows Friday on Pitchfork.tv!"> Daft Punk's Gold Albums Collection, Recommend Visit Easily the best "odyssey of two robots who journey across a mythic American landscape of haunting, surreal beauty on a quest to become human" to grace silver screens and television monitors since The Brown Bunny, Electroma finds your favorite Daft Punk cyborgs (played by two dudes who are, it bears mentioning, not Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo and Thomas Bangalter) in some pretty unfamiliar territory. Namely: daylight, America, and utter silence(!).
Well, if your curiosity is piqued, you'll be thrilled to know that Pitchfork's own Pitchfork.tv has convinced the robot powers that be to let us screen Electroma for one night and one night only this very weekend. It's just like our usual "One Week Only" feature, except, you know, for a night. The "odyssey" begins tomorrow (Friday) at 8 p.m. EST and concludes precisely 24 hours later, at 8 p.m. on Saturday, which should provide ample time for approximately 19 successive viewings of the 74-minute film.
If you still haven't had your fill by then-- or if you can't make it to a computer this weekend-- Electroma is available now on DVD and Blu-ray from Vice. UPDATE: Not available on Blu-ray.
 In 1998 I had a crush on a girl named Ellie. On a rainy day we decided on an awkward quasi-date to Rasputin's Records and Blondie's Pizza. I sat down in the passenger seat of her beat-up Accord, she started the engine, and her tape player introduced me to a twinkling piano and hypnotizingly slow breakbeats. The notes fell like raindrops on her windshield, and forever in my mind, that moment, Ellie's perfume, my nervous tension, and DJ Shadow's "Building Steam With A Grain of Salt" were locked inseparably together. Whenever the rain starts to fall -- not a hard rain and not a sprinkle, but a steady, plodding, relentless patter of water on earth -- I think of this song. Josh Davis, also known as DJ Shadow, makes that kind of impact with the arcane record samples he artfully merges into cohesive, thoughtful, revelatory aural collages. He is obsessed. He digs up sounds you and I have never heard before, and maybe a thing or two we have heard before, and fuses them into some brilliant new heterogeneous dream with the power to stir the subconscious and induce sheer awe. Once I bought his CD and broke free of the hold that "Building..." had on me, I got accustomed to the other twelve tracks of the album. There were many pleasant surprises. I found "Midnight in a Perfect World" just as addicting as the song that got me hooked in the first place, a loping, seductive, scratch-heavy, impossibly beautiful five minutes and two seconds. "Changeling" was another fast favorite, like a lush sunset after a long summer day. "Stem/Long Stem" creeped me out with pernicious string samples surrounding a single lonely chime. And although it took some time, "Mutual Slump" eventually won me over with its dual personality: crashing percussion and ugly guitar riffs on the one hand, and a mournful, echoing backdrop offset by a shy girl's spoken diary on the other. Many have already mentioned what an impact this album had on a number of prominent artists such as Moby and Radiohead. DJ shadow's influence has reverberated for several years now in the music industry. But for me, I can only attest to what it did for me when seated next to an unreachable girl, in the midst of my quixotic quest, on a gray and rainwashed early spring afternoon. It was nothing short of an epiphany. DJ Shadow, a.k.a. Josh Davis, could be credited with bringing newfound introspection to the gloating sounds of hip-hop. Condensed with urban oscillations and scatological beats, Endtroducing shutters with eclectic samples and aural montages that reach beyond the constraints of hip-hop style. Enhancing the mix with fundamentals of rock, soul, funk, ambient, and jazz, the modern fusions fail to go unnoticed, even by the casual listener. While most of the tracks are compiled by layering samples from vinyl treasures found in used-record bins, the production quality of the mosaic is unmatched. Darkened melodies carry throughout the album with its eye on the end of the tunnel. The narration samples come from numerous sources and keep the listener involved and waiting for resolution. With a message as fragmentary as an overheard conversation, Endtroducing conveys no apparent conclusion, but begs the mind, body, and soul for some rewind.
 Daft Punk Mp3 downloadTechno-pioneers Daft Punk have announced their first-ever high-def release "Electroma" will hit Blu-ray in the States this summer. The story of the journey of two robots on a quest to become human, the geek cult hit has been "specifically mastered for optimal visual and audio fidelity on Blu-ray". Even more excitement for fans - there are also plans to package "Electroma" as a special edition in a collectible metal case with a 40-page booklet. Pricing and exact availability, including that outside America, is yet to be confirmed. http://toplala.com/duft-punk
  This is a great DVD that utilizes almost every special feature that DVDs have over all other media formats. You get the videos for "Da Funk," "Around the World," "Burnin'," "Revolution 909" and "Fresh" including audio commentary, storyboards, and making-of segments. Here's what i thought was the best part of the package - "Rollin' & Scratchin'" Live in LA (Dec '97) where you can use the angle function to choose between 8 different camera positions! All in all, a great package at a fantastic price. Hopefully other electronic artists - Aphex Twin, Kraftwerk, Chemical Brothers - will see the path that this compilation has laid down, hurry up, and put out their own disc. Why only 4 stars? 5.1 sound would have been nice, and c'mon - let's be objective, they're music videos, it's not _Citizen Kane_ or _2001_... One more good note - unlike the other French-duo with a DVD, there's no pretentious and boring 40-minute documentary! http://acid-funk-jazz.blogspot.com
 14 track compilation of rare tracks & remixes, including one previously unreleased track, only available from the Daft Club online. Featuring remixes by Basement Jaxx, Cosmo Vitelli, The Neptunes, & many more. Includes link to website. Digipak. Virgin. 2003. http://dj-bikini.blogspot.com/
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