I feel like posting a random assortment of music. I will probably update/change this player around from time to time to reflect what I am currently into.
I feel like posting a random assortment of music. I will probably update/change this player around from time to time to reflect what I am currently into.
Ohh btw I have that song about guys hairy asses you wanted.
BT, one of my favorite musicians, is releasing a new album on February 2nd. His music is often groundbreaking and always unique, so I cannot wait to hear what he has for us this time.
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Internationally renowned artist, visionary producer, film composer and technologist BT is back with These Hopeful Machines, a double-disc opus that carries listeners through 2 hours of sweeping orchestral arrangements, pulsating electronic beats, heartfelt vocal melodies and even simple acoustic guitar. Out February 2 (Nettwerk), These Hopeful Machines embodies BT’s ability to weave both his technical prowess and compositional mastery that reminds listeners why he is the composer that all other composers and producers study.
These Hopeful Machines is the follow up to 2006’s This Binary Universe, an album that created an entirely new genre of evocative electro-acoustic music. Keyboard Magazine wrote in a review, “In a hundred years, it could well be studied as the first major work of the new millennium. It's that good.” These Hopeful Machines continues to evolve BT’s distinct technical, lyrical and compositional vision and execution, but his usual melodic complexity and bleeding-edge electronic techniques permeate the album from start to finish.
Album opener and first official single “Suddenly” (out January 12) opens to a minute's worth of glitchy breakbeats made using BT's own software, Breaktweaker, before morphing into a powerful, guitar-driven anthem that is among the album's most memorable songs. The track “The Emergency,” is instantly a classic BT dance hit designed to linger long after the song ends. The album even features BT's first cover, a reinterpretation of “The Ghost in You” by The Psychedelic Furs. The song was recorded on tape, giving it a familiar and sentimental feeling while maintaining BT's distinctive style. There are also multiple collaborators on These Hopeful Machines, like Rob Dickinson vocals on “Always” and “The Unbreakable,” Jes, (formerly of Motorcyle) on “Every Other Way” and “The Light In Things,” and The Police’s Stewart Copeland who lends a drum breakdown to “Every Other Way.”
From an early age, BT, born Brian Transeau, demonstrated a remarkable aptitude for playing and understanding classical music. He was heavily influenced by avant-garde and romantic composers such as Stravinsky, Bartok, Debussy and Rachmaninov. His biggest influences, however, were from everyday sounds that most would take for granted, from noticing the meter of the grandfather clock in the foyer to the micro-rhythms of crickets and cicadas to the ambience of passing trains at night.
“When examining my creation process, it makes perfect sense why I am a forced technologist,” he explains. ”I frequently face the fact that the tools I need to compose music simply don't exist. It is like being an architect without bricks or mortar. I routinely create my own bricks and connective tissue as the diving off point to the compositional process.”
The drive to actualize the tools BT envisions has led to his evolution as one of the most cutting-edge programmers and technologists in music today. He has expanded this reach into a visionary software venture, Sonik Architects which launched its critically- and commercially-acclaimed iPhone application, Sonifi™, last fall.
Says BT, “My ultimate goal is to keep the emotional counterpoint and the integrity of the song intact, even when pushing the envelope with style and technique. The faster things get, the less people are willing to take in a body of creative work. There are so few things now that will engage us. The intent of consuming music is usually to have an awareness or a feeling, to have a truly, empathic connection to others. My hope is to create something that makes people feel that they have consumed something that completes a void. I want to create something lasting.”
These Hopeful Machines track listing:
Disc 1
Suddenly
The Emergency
Every Other Way
The Light Of Things
Rose Of Jericho
Forget Me
Disc 2
A Million Stars
Love Can Kill You
Always
Le Nocturne De Lumiere
The Unbreakable
The Ghost In You
Hear one minute of Suddenly, the first single off BT’s new album These Hopeful Machines here.
I just got home from watching Avatar a few hours ago and I have to say that was one of the most impressive movies that I have ever seen. Everything about it was top notch, from the acting, plot, visuals, ect. This is one of those movies that you will watch with your mouth wide open in awe of what you are seeing on screen during every second of the film. It is really incredible that a film like this is even possible. The attention to detail in every little aspect of the world, and the state of the art CG is so mind-blowing that I fully expect Avatar to be the benchmark for quality CG in movies for years to come. I don’t think anyone has ever pulled off such extensive CG and live action in such a seamless way before. Also, it’s not overdone and never gets in the way or takes the place of solid storytelling. It is simply a tool to make this incredible world that James Cameron had in his head come to life for all to see. You really get sucked into this world, and become completely unaware that what you are seeing isn’t real. If you can, you absolutely must see the film on 3D, preferably in IMAX if possible. This is one of those movies that you must see in theaters. Everyone should go out and see it while they still can.
Bt's new album These Hopeful Machines is absolutely fantastic. I have had it for a week now and I have listened to nothing. Best album I have heard in years. Plus, at $12.99 for 2 hours of great music its a steal.
Its amazing how far computer graphics have come since the last film (1982). Tron was a landmark film for special effects. The movie didn't win the academy award for best special effects because the academy said that using computers was "cheating". Tron is still a great movie worth watching today if you never got the chance. It doesn't even look old, just stylized.
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