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DefectiV
"DefectiV" (a CWF/BertycoX collaboration) starts out gently, then hits the gas and never lets up.
"Experience" has a deeply hypnotic effect to it--I found myself wanting to drink the KoolAid.
Lebeth
VS4!
To celebrate, Jack is letting us feature 3 of the news songs on Audiosurf Radio this week: Long Long Time Ago, Only Dreams, and Make the Grade. Get in there and grab some high scores before the really good players show up :)
If you're not a fan yet, that will quickly be fixed by spending a little time with his videosongs on Youtube.
A videosong has 2 rules:
1. What you see is what you hear (no lip-syncing for instruments or voice).
2. If you hear it, at some point you see it (no hidden sounds).
Here's a recent one, the Super Mario Bros Theme - Enjoy!
Dylan
This week on Radio: Sekshun 8!
One reviewer had this to say, "Sekshun 8 released Black Winged Butterfly in 2009, but its sound is authentic early Nineties. In short, it rocks. Rocks like there's no tomorrow. Rocks at a volume that simply asks for more volume. It is the reason for the 11 on your volume control. Don't have an 11? Then twist it to 10 and attach the headphones to your ears with duct tape. You will hear licks and beats which pay honor to Soundgarden, Mother Love Bone, early Pearl Jam, Stone Temple Pilots, and Alice In Chains. My suspicion is that - at 15 - these guys were much like me."
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Dylan
April 29, 2011
Bella Ciao! Bella Ciao! Bella Ciao Ciao Ciao!
"A what?" you say. That's right--a Bella Ciao Battle. This was one of our very favorite songs when Audiosurf Radio started up. It's an Italian ska masterpiece by those masters of Italian ska, Talco .
Welcome to the song you won't be able to get out of your head all week! We've served it up three different ways with three different crazy custom song tags, so you can battle it out to your heart's content.
Lebeth
Killing Thursby: Analog Powered Post-Pop
The first ride is "Hole in the World". Killing Thursby wrote a blog detailing how they created this one (you can listen to demo versions of the song to hear their progession to the final). Then there's Run, Little Kingdom, and Crooked Fingers (a favorite of mine). The last track is a Little Kingdom remix with over 650 traffic!
Good Luck.
Dylan
Under the Pyramid of Cheope
"Next exit" is a light piece that delivers a huge punch with its 399 traffic count. "Under the Pyramid of Cheope" is a longer Moby-style soundscape.
Lebeth
80s Introspection
"Mission 1" sounds like a really really bouncy happy Cure song (I know, blasphemy). "Vertigo" is a purely happy summer-on-the-beach song, and "Calma" is a dreamy tune for those rare moments in the 80s when introspection was required.
Lebeth
Clark the Refined Gable
"Clark the refined Gable" (great title) is abstract breakbeat with a suave swagger. Then "Massive Gun" (again, I like it) is a shorter barrage of heavy beats interspersed with various clicky, whirly, grindy things.
Lebeth
Materializing Cats in Space
"Neurotransmitter Decay" felt to me like I actually was surfing through some type of seizure or synaptic hiccup. Extremely cool. Then "Materializing cats in space" starts out with a scritchy scratchy groove and blossoms into full-blown red tunnel awesomeness and searing guitars at 1:54.
We end things with "Murder Taxi", a funky ride that for some reason reminded me of the soundscape of the ancient awesome French game Omicron .
Thanks hamst3r for a really entertaining week of tunes.
Lebeth
Fast Food Fantasy
"Fast Food Fantasy" contains the awesome crush-on-a-girl-at McDonalds lines "you're like the sweetest tea/you fill my heart with glee/come on and rescue me". "She's on my mind" invents a new genre: the creepy stalker acoustic ballad. "Brown boxes" is an upbeat tune about moving. "Up Kilkenny" may be my favorite ride of the week--he really brings the Irish guitars on this one.
Lebeth