Recommendations

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MUSIC

Here are some songs and groups i’ve recently discovered that i like:

Iceland
jonsi – icicle sleeve

France
andre duracell – space harrier
Breakbot – Sneaky Sound System – When We Were Young (Breakbot remix)
claude debussy – Clair De Lune, Arabesque No. 1, 3 Gymnopedies: Gymnopedie No. 1, Prelude a L’Apres-midi d’un Faune, Rêverie L 68, VIII La Fille Aux Cheveux De Lin, The Girl With The Flaxen Hair

Sweden
fever ray – if i had a heart, when i grow up, keep the streets empty for me
anna ternheim – quiet night (music by fläskkvartetten/fleshquartet), my heart still beats for you
peter, bjørn and john – young folks, nothing to worry about, up against the wall, amsterdam, lay it down, second chance
the knife – silent shout, we share our mother’s health, you make me like charity, the captain

Denmark

Veto – you say yes i say yes

Norway

Pilemil – If You Make a Lot of Ceramics: Ceramics Will Make a Lot of You as Well (you can listen to all of these songs right now, 20090917, on pilemil’s myspace page). i really like all of these songs, but mostly Woke up inside a drum
jenny hval – i really like Grizzly Man. Barrie For Billy MacKenzie is also cool.
donkeyboy – ambitions
lasse gjertsen – amateur, jeg går en tur, hyperactive

England
kasabian – check out Club Foot. my favorite song of theirs (so far) not on the myspace page is I.D.
radiohead – Go To Sleep. i just love this song (but also many other of their songs).
oasis – falling down is such a great song (like many other oasis songs)
fuck buttons – surf solar, and pretty much everything i heard at their concert in oslo (@ blå) last night (20091205) was awesome.
nick nicely – hilly fields, 49 cigars, on the beach

Australia
the presets – kicking and screaming, talk like that, this boy’s in love
empire of the sun – Standing On The Shore, we are the people, walking on a dream

USA
the doors – tell all the people (i had never heard this one until just recently. it is addicting for some reason.)
grizzly bear – ready, able (a video you want to see many times)
prefuse 73 – the end of biters, One Word Extinguisher
ken wallace – GT Radio Session (year 2000, parts 1 and 2)
andrew coleman – Never In Never Out (Dosage I-V Soundtrack Compilation, year 2008)
the lonely island – jizz in my pants, i’m on a boat, like a boss, boombox, dick in a box, lazy sunday, bing bong brothers

Japan
yoshida brothers – passion

Hungary
bela bartok – romanian folk dances no. 1 Bot tanc – Jocul cu bata, no. 2 braul and no. 3 topogo – pe loc

Poland
krzysztof penderecki – all of his tracks on the shining

Germany
karlheinz stockhausen – gesang der junglinge

Italy
vivaldi (performed by lara st. john) – “the four seasons: concerto in g minor, op. 8/2, rv 315 – summer: I. allegro non molto – allegro”, “the four seasons: concerto in e major, op. 8/1, rv 269 – spring: I. allegro”, “the four seasons: concerto in f major, op. 8/3, rv 293 – autumn: I. allegro – allegro assai”

Scotland
boards of canada – roygbiv

ALL TIME FAVORITES
(…ongoing…)

alice in chains – rooster
filter – hey man nice shot
nine inch nails – closer
nirvana – you know you’re right
the doors – riders on the storm, the end
hole – doll parts, violet
soundgarden – like suicide, pretty noose
smashing pumpkins – cherub rock, soma
white zombie – more human than human
korn – shoots and ladders, freak on a leash, falling away from me
oasis – falling down
urban hymns – the verve (i like every song on the album)
rob dougan – clubbed to death
nikkfurie – Thé à la Menthe
bela bartok – No. 1. Rubato
portishead – sour times, wandering star
boards of canada – dayvan cowboy
coldplay – the scientist
jim croce – time in a bottle
tim christensen – right next to the right one
bjørn eidsvåg – eg ser
sting – shape of my heart
ac/dc – for those about to rock we salute you, thunderstruck
bill withers – aint no sunshine, grandmas hands
johnny cash – hurt, God’s Gonna Cut You Down
queen – bohemian rhapsody
krzysztof penderecki – lots of his stuff
vivaldi (performed by lara st. john) – “the four seasons: concerto in g minor, op. 8/2, rv 315 – summer: III. presto”
guess i’m doing fine – beck (i like every song on the album)
long gone before daylight – the cardigans (i like every song on the album)
gran turismo – the cardigans (i like every song on the album)
jeans for onassis – briskeby (i like every song on the album)
Eum/Om Se-na/Sena – gayageum sanjo
fever ray – if i had a heart
jonsi – icicle sleeve

SAMPLES

freesound.org
ccmixter.org

SOFTWARE

free software is great. i do all my producing on ubuntu linux. here is what i use:
seq24 (sequencer)
hydrogen (drum machine)
zynaddsubfx (effects)
ams (alsa modular synth)
audacity (simple advanced recording and audio editor)
ardour (daw)
patchage (audio/midi connector)
jack (real-time, low/no latency audio/midi rerouting)
vkeybd (virtual keyboard) (when i don’t have my midi keyboard/controller with me)
lmms