An unlikely mash-up inspires Finnish disco dancing! Free mp3.
Original sheet music from Webern's Variations for Piano, Op. 27, II (1936) below. I used the first movement a couple months ago for this Black Flag mash-up. Love these little atonal German piano pieces!
For this week, I've had the pleasure of working with The Hood Internet's ABX (otherwise known as my friend and one of my oldest collaborators, Aaron) He's one of my best bro's from college, and we've played in a few bands together, but this is our first collaboration in about 6 years, so fire up!
Aaron came to me with the idea to do a sortof chillwave version of Operation Ivy's instrumental classic, Bankshot. He sent me an awesome first draft with a bunch of great omnichord samples, and I started adding layers of synthchoir and other fun sounds. We tossed it back and forth until we got it just right, and then paired it up with a bunch of awesome basketball footage.
I'm more and more realizing that this was a good project for Aaron and I to tackle together. Not only did we both play in high school ska bands with funny names (me: The Beauty School Dropouts, him: Skavation Army (where's your web presence at, dudes?)), but both of our high school ska bands did Op Ivy covers! (us: Bad Town and Unity, them: Knowledge) Also we are both totes awesome at basketball.
Watch/listen above, download the free mp3 here, and please enjoy!
Back to the tunes! I'm about 2/3 the way through Moby Dick, which I've been lovingly devouring, and I've been particularly taken by all of the Harpooneers, especially Queequeg, who is the loose inspiration for this music/video pairing. Three more harpooneers with awesome names (Tashtego, Daggoo, and Fedallah), I smell a song cycle! I'm pretty happy with how this one turned out, rough trombone chops and all. Watch/listen above, free mp3 here!
ps: I started blogging over at Crazytown yesterday, and I'll be posting there on Wednesdays going forward. Check out my first post!
