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The Beat Kangz have introduced PlayaThang (App Store link) – a beat playback application for the iPhone.
Description:
PlayaThang offers simple playback of high quality pre-loaded content – 20 professional beats (3 in the FREE version) created by The Beat Kangz; including mixes by Grammy award winning engineer Commissioner Gordon (Lauren Hill, Damien Marley, KRS-One, Amy Winehouse).
PlayaThang lets you mute, solo and change volume for each of the 8 stereo tracks that make up each beat. You can create your own arrangements of the beats on the fly, write or freestyle until you work it out.
It’s designed for mixtapes, albums, and demos; and all the content comes with a free license. Just give the Kangz a shout on the production credits. The Beat Kangz say that you’ll soon be able to download all beats as hi resolution multitracked files from BeatKangz.com, too.
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Filed under: Music Videos, Software Effects & Audio ProcessorsAntares’ Auto-Tune is hated by many, but it’s, arguably, the most influential audio effect of our time.
With D.O.A., Jay-Z writes the obituary for Auto-Tune, saying “you rappers singing too much, get back to rap, you T-Paining too much.”
When Jay-Z’s rapping about an audio effect plug-in, you know it’s gone mainstream.
D.O.A. is free of the usual trappings of modern hip-hop – drum machine beats, samples and Auto-Tuned vocals – and it sounds pretty fresh, as a result.
What do you think? Is Auto-Tune D.O.A? Read more…
Obama Girl Stimulus Song Features Auto-Tuned Barack Obama, A Keytar Geek & Gratuitious Booty
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Filed under: Music Videos, Software Effects & Audio Processors
Obama Girl Stimulates, the latest from Obama Girl, Barack Obama, and Mike Gregory, features some heavily Auto-Tuned Barack Obama.
And, if you ever doubted that Auto-Tune can make anyone sing, here’s the proof. The video also offers more proof that Herbie Hancock is the only guy ever to look badass playing the keytar.
The Brian Eno Rap
All about Brian Eno, rap style.
David Soldier’s American Most Unwanted Song is a horribly good piece of work that brings together everything that Americans hate musically, and combines them into one long song, frequently to hysterical effect.
By using market research with hundreds of people, Soldier determined that:
The most unwanted music is over 25 minutes long, veers wildly between loud and quiet sections, between fast and slow tempos, and features timbres of extremely high and low pitch, with each dichotomy presented in abrupt transition.
The most unwanted orchestra was determined to be large, and features the accordion and bagpipe (which tie at 13% as the most unwanted instrument), banjo, flute, tuba, harp, organ, synthesizer (the only instrument that appears in both the most wanted and most unwanted ensembles).
An operatic soprano raps and sings atonal music, advertising jingles, political slogans, and “elevator” music, and a children’s choir sings jingles and holiday songs.
The most unwanted subjects for lyrics are cowboys and holidays, and the most unwanted listening circumstances are involuntary exposure to commercials and elevator music.
Therefore, it can be shown that if there is no covariance—someone who dislikes bagpipes is as likely to hate elevator music as someone who despises the organ, for example—fewer than 200 individuals of the world’s total population would enjoy this piece.
Sprechstimme & kids rapping about Wal-Mart? What’s not to like?
Are you one of the 200?
Give it a listen, below, and let me know what you think!
via Dial “M” for Musicology; Image: miketheactuary
