| 1. Mike Ganzeveld, “Weird
Bells.” There’s an honorable tradition of starting out mixes
with something jarring: this one’s by a trance DJ friend of mine
who’s getting tired of DJ’ing and is starting to write stuff.
So far the results are fairly stellar. He describes these nineteen
seconds better than I could: “It's something I whipped up on
a soft-synth. It's an inaudible tone that was about one second long.
I added some conflicting LFO settings and time-stretched it out to
over a minute and that was the result. With some amplification it
came out sounding incredibly unique. The computer can't ‘hear’
anything so if you give the computer a long time to render ‘nothing’
it comes up with some pretty wacky shit.” I would substitute
“completely freaking awesome” for “wacky”
but otherwise Mike is on point. 2. Super Furry Animals, “Juxtaposed With U.” I have a lurking suspicion that the reason I’m so keen to hear the new Super Furry Animals (who, as I live and breathe, are getting referred to by their initials -- SFA -- I love it when this happens) has something to do with the extremely powerful kung fu of whoever it is they’ve hired to work their new album to the press stateside. You can’t turn around without reading a favorable review of it. The webmonster says she’s heard some of it and is fairly ambivalent about it, and points me hesitantly toward this song. One trip to Audiogalaxy later, I’ve got it, and I like it rather better than she does, although anybody who thinks that that Cher vocoder is clever or cool or interesting or post-ironic or anything other than irritating: well, it’s not. There’s some disagreement around here about whether the lyrics are any good (I’m saying they are, thought I reserve the right to reverse myself). But the strings are pretty sweet, and the big beat is a nice sign-posty way to start things off, mix-wise, and as you’ll see it’ll give a sense of cohesion to everything when we get done. |
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