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Fatboy Slim and David Byrne are releasing an album about Philippine First Lady Imelda Marcos and Estella Cumpas, the servant who raised her.
The story is told through the voices of 22 incredible guest singers including Florence Welch, Santigold, Cyndi Lauper, Tori Amos, Sia, Camille, My Brightest Diamond, Róisín Murphy and Martha Wainwright.
You can stream the 22-track double album at NPR and David Byrne's official website, where you can also download Santigold's track for free and learn a thing or two about Imelda Marcos.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=125322183
http://www.davidbyrne.com/here_lies_love/
http://www.davidbyrne.com/here_lies_love/video.php
I genuinely thought this was an April Fools' gag but it isn't. In fact, this project is awesome on so many levels I can't even begin to count them.Fatboy Slim and David Byrne are releasing an album about Philippine First Lady Imelda... more
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Download a DM Stith remix track from the new My Brightest Diamond remix album
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My Brightest Diamond provides music to cruise to in a new video game called Tasty Static, a remake of the 1993 Bluemoon Interactive game Skyroads, that's available as a free download for Mac OS X, Windows and Linux. According to Leo Alterman, the college student behind the game, "Tasty Static is a video game where you go really fast and jump a lot. You'll probably get really annoyed along the way too." Alterman samples the tracks "Ice and the Storm" and "Apples," to which players drive a spacecraft and skip between colorful geometric panels.
The whimsical, feminine and often classical sound of singer/multi-instrumentalist Shara Worden seems an unlikely fit for a driving adventure game, but as Alterman tells Paste, "The two tracks I sampled had the kind of mystical-yet-digital feel that I wanted to evoke in the game. When I listen to them, at least, they make me feel like I’m going on a journey. That’s exactly what you want in a game soundtrack."
Alterman originally heard My Brightest Diamond during her April performance with The Decemberists on The Colbert Report and was struck by her voice. "A few months later, I was play-testing Tasty Static when 'Apples' came up on my iTunes playlist. It fit perfectly with the game," he says. He e-mailed My Brightest Diamond and her label, Asthmatic Kitty, asking permission to use the track. "A few hours later Shara personally replied to the e-mail with some very kind words about the game. I was pretty surprised."
This isn't a first for Asthmatic Kitty. According to John Beeler, who a colleague calls the label's "resident futurist and IT guy," the folks at AK love working with video-game developers. Asthmatic Kitty artist Chris Schlarb composed the soundtrack to the forthcoming action-puzzle game Night Game. And last year, the label released Music For Videogames v. 1, a compilation intended to be played alongside the game Audiosurf which smartly adapts its pace to match the tempo of the gamer's playlist.My Brightest Diamond provides music to cruise to in a new video game called Tasty... more
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