Christmas Rhapsody is an ambitious, hilarious, and pretty amazing holiday-related parody of Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody.”
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Flesh & Bone by saulgoodman
Posted by Pronoiac
on 2012-09-03
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Flesh & Bone is jangly electropop – atmospheric, and very 80’s, in a fun and dancy way.
Divergence by csimpkins
Posted by Pronoiac
on 2012-08-31
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Divergence is a downtempo electronica song, with layered synths. It putters along nicely.
In the discussion, csimpkins offered suggestions on how to start making music like this.
Floating by csimpkins
Posted by Pronoiac
on 2012-08-30
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Floating is a lovely, contemplative and downtempo song.
Little Red Corvette by chococat
Posted by Pronoiac
on 2012-08-29
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Little Red Corvette is a fun rockabilly cover of the Prince song.
dreamsleepwake by Cat Pie Hurts
Posted by Pronoiac
on 2012-08-28
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dreamsleepwake is spacy, sorta-noodly sorta-minimalist electronica. It’s like a night of sleep – cycling between calm and spacy, and more exciting dreams.
Teens In Love In Space by CarrotAdventure
Posted by Pronoiac
on 2012-08-27
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Teens In Love In Space is a happy electropop tune – lots of synths.
Watching the Detectives by chococat
Posted by Pronoiac
on 2012-08-24
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Watching the Detectives is a lovely take on the Elvis Costello classic – acoustic, but with a touch of reggae in the background.
Sorry for the delay! I lost track of the queue of songs I’d posted, and Metric’s new “Synthetica” album has grabbed me and won’t let go. I highly recommend it!
DanceDanceDanceDanceDance (Part I) by CarrotAdventure
Posted by Pronoiac
on 2012-08-23
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DanceDanceDanceDanceDance (Part I) is happy bouncy synthpop, just impossibly quick-moving synths and there’s something about it that makes using punctuation like commas difficult because like I would have to mentally pause a beat and that just doesn’t fit this song like at all.
Go Gadget, Go! by csimpkins
Posted by Pronoiac
on 2012-08-22
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Go Gadget, Go! is an instrumental, upbeat, and jazzy cover of the Inspector Gadget theme song, which is in turn inspired by Edvard Grieg’s “In the Hall of the Mountain King.”
Spin Dash by CarrotAdventure
Posted by Pronoiac
on 2012-08-21
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Spin Dash sounds like the soundtrack to a Sonic the Hedgehog game: funky synths, instrumental, the samples from gathering rings. It’s a happy and bouncy song.
Junior by azarbayejani
Posted by Pronoiac
on 2012-08-20
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Junior is a noodly electronica piece, centered on a vocal sample which becomes this haunting wobbly instrument.
Here comes your man by ORthey
Posted by Pronoiac
on 2012-08-16
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Here comes your man is ORthey’s cover of the classic Pixies tune, as an acoustic folky tune with some adroit guitar fingerpicking.
Edit: Oops, I didn’t include the MP3. I’ll say this is the post for today and tomorrow.
Cancao de amor by micayetoca
Posted by Pronoiac
on 2012-08-15
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Canção de amor is micayetoca’s cover of The Cure’s “Lovesong,” in Portuguese. It’s a gothic love ballad, and this is a bit stripped-down and lovely.
There were a lot of covers in November 2008, thanks to threads that spawned a sorta-unofficial Music Challenge. More of those will be coming up!
Love Me Tender by BrnP84
Posted by Pronoiac
on 2012-08-13
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Love Me Tender is a short, sweet, cute, and twee cover of the Elvis song, with a ukelele.
Create (original mix) by dunkadunc
Posted by Pronoiac
on 2012-08-10
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Create (original mix) is a dancy, spacy, and droney bit of instrumental electronica.
JMC (Election Remix) by Aquaman
Posted by Pronoiac
on 2012-08-09
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JMC (Election Remix) tells a short story, in an experimental way, by a 7-piece band. It’s told after the 2008 election, but it was posted the week before.
It’s the second of two tracks that Aquaman has posted to Mefi Music, and the first one I’ve posted here.
Criminal (TTP Remix) by god particle
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on 2012-08-08
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Criminal (TTP Remix) is an industrial remix of the original song by The Roots. The original is jazzy hip-hop; this is a much more aggressive techno version, which matches the lyrics better.
Saltines Assemble! by doubtfulpalace
Posted by Pronoiac
on 2012-08-07
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Saltines Assemble! is a glitchy bit of intelligent dance music – it’s lovely and dancy electronica.
It’s doubtfulpalace’s second song on Mefi Music, & their first song here!
Shut Up, Throw Up (Your Hands) by god particle
Posted by Pronoiac
on 2012-08-06
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Shut Up, Throw Up (Your Hands) is just this catchy and fun techno/electro song, fuzzy synth, danciness and all.
You Do by azarbayejani
Posted by Pronoiac
on 2012-08-03
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You Do is a sad chiptune song – an instrumental, deliberately paced, and pretty electronica song.
Creature From the Deep by uncleozzy
Posted by Pronoiac
on 2012-08-02
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Creature from the Deep is a head-bobbing retro pop song, like the Monster Mash and the flexi discs off of cereal boxes.
vicodin casio by sleepy pete
Posted by Pronoiac
on 2012-08-01
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vicodin casio is a meaty and eclectic smorgasbord of a song, experimental, dancy, and poppy. It’s mellow and noodly, with atmosphere and intricate layering of more instruments than the two-person cast of the Harvey Girls (previously) have any rights to just casually throw around like this, man.
Where We Live by azarbayejani
Posted by Pronoiac
on 2012-07-31
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Where We Live is some very chill electronica, very mellow and minimalistic, pretty and ambient. It’s the second track azarbayejani posted to Mefi Music, and the first one I’ve posted here, but it won’t be the last!
You, The Automaton by god particle
Posted by Pronoiac
on 2012-07-30
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You, The Automaton starts out mild-mannered and head-nodding electronica, but abruptly drops into fierce techno mode, with sounds like old-school science fiction rayguns.
Systems by god particle
Posted by Pronoiac
on 2012-07-27
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Systems is an upbeat synthpop dance song for kicking off the weekend!
The Kingdom Must Come Down by bingwah
Posted by Pronoiac
on 2012-07-26
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The Kingdom Must Come Down starts as folk-country, and shifts to something more layered, poppy, and sweeping.
Apfel Augen by Corduroy
Posted by Pronoiac
on 2012-07-24
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Apfel Augen isn’t instrumental, but it is wordless, and I don’t understand how an acoustic guitar and a banjolele can sound this epic and majestic, it really makes no sense at all.
Seriously. A banjolele.
The Shape of Water by allaboutgeorge
Posted by Pronoiac
on 2012-07-23
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The Shape of Water is a really minimal song – for the most part, singing and an acoustic guitar. It’s mellow and pretty.
last night a werewolf fell in love with me (silver lipstick remix) by February28
Posted by Pronoiac
on 2012-07-20
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last night a werewolf fell in love with me (silver lipstick remix) is a slightly livelier remix of a power pop song about supernatural romance.
Edit: Whoops. I published this, but I didn’t attach the song. Fixed!
Trust (v2) by tmcw
Posted by Pronoiac
on 2012-07-19
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Trust (v2) makes me just space out in a wonderful way. It’s delicate and pensive, and I love its slow build and all its layers.
Purepechazz by micayetoca
Posted by Pronoiac
on 2012-07-18
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Purepechazz is a mellow jazz piece, revolving around an acoustic guitar, mostly wordless and then not in English.
In Your Name by TheWaves
Posted by Pronoiac
on 2012-07-16
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In Your Name is melancholy, slow-paced indie rock.
[Oops! I previewed but didn’t hit publish. Let’s call this the song for Monday & Tuesday.]
Chain Link Leather by DWRoelands
Posted by Pronoiac
on 2012-07-13
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Chain Link Leather is very mellow, mostly ambient, and instrumental but for a couple of spoken samples.
This is the only song DWRoelands has posted on Metafilter Music to date.
Orbital Eccentricities by Sir Mildred Pierce
Posted by Pronoiac
on 2012-07-12
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Orbital Eccentricities is a mellow instrumental song from recent guest Sir Mildred Pierce.
Fortune’s Lament by tehloki
Posted by Pronoiac
on 2012-07-11
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Fortune’s Lament is some low-key electronica, instrumental background music.
Wow. It’s been a few months since I last posted music from then-frequent-guest (maybe too frequent) tehloki. We’re nearing the end of his Mefi Music output to date. And the time delay on this podcast – a bit under four years, right now – makes for some interesting verb tenses. Perhaps he’ll release more music by the time the podcast catches up? I hope so.
Reckoner (Sparkletone Bmore Slow Dance Remix) by sparkletone
Posted by Pronoiac
on 2012-07-10
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Reckoner (Sparkletone Bmore Slow Dance Remix) is a simpler, slower, and prettier remix of a Radiohead song.
1988 by god particle
Posted by Pronoiac
on 2012-07-09
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1988 is very 80’s synthpop, sort of contemplative and determined, I think. It’s named after the era it evokes, and the year god particle was born (!) .