worship the glitch
This is Eric Mortensen's blog. He works @ Blip and lives in Brooklyn.
Rebecca Black - Friday [Cough Syrup Remix] (by DrSuperSparkle)
Aphex vibes.
If you put something on the Internet, it can eventually turn into something awesome. The worse it is, the more potential it has. The most awful work will live longest because it has the most room to grow.
If you make something awesome, the Internet might take up your cause, but only if you’re extremely well known and benefit from a broad audience that inevitably includes a subsection of traditionally talented people. If you’re releasing your product into obscurity, it better be a steaming pile of shit or nobody’s going to notice. But if it is a truly epic turd, you can expect the Internet to pounce on it immediately. Then evolution, or God, or whatever you want to call it, kicks in.
Nine Inch Nails - Capital G (AllyPitty Classical Mix)
Khameleon808’s killer video for The Glitch Mob’s remix of Daft Punk’s Derezzed from Tron: Legacy Reconfigured.
Daft Punk - Fall (Remixed By M83 Vs. Big Black Delta)
from Tron: Legacy Reconfigured
The Tron: Legacy score, while successful in the film, made for a lackluster listening experience on its own. Daft Punk, like most good contemporary electronic musicians, spend their time spinning simple ideas into expansive, shifting masterpieces. Yet, they somehow failed to do what they do best with the original release of the score. Most tracks are one or two minutes long. They missed an opportunity to take something from the film and turn it into a stellar listening experience.
Tron: Legacy Reconfigured seizes on the missed opportunity by challenging a stable of talented remixers to do the good work that should have been included on the original release. Nearly every remix is a success. This is a strong record that, at its best, radically reconfigures the original music while staying true to the spirit of the film.
This particular remix of Fall transforms what was originally a 90 second snippit into a delightfully noisy pop song that has been stuck in my head since the moment I first heard it. I don’t want it to leave.
Mike Ladd - Mause
form Re: Bird — The Electronicat Remixes
This whole record is bonkers. It’s the best thing I ever found in the used section at Kim’s back when it was still on St. Marks Place.
See also: The HMZA Chrome Robot by Original Hamster.
The next time you’re trying to explain how fair use, mashups, participatory media etc. add value to a culture, you can bring up Hark The Herald Angels Sing.
“The music by Felix Mendelssohn was composed for male chorus in 1840 to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Gutenberg’s printing press,” Brunelle says. “After the ceremony was done, people said, ‘Oh, that’s just a wonderful tune, and it could be something sacred’ and Mendelssohn said, ‘It will never work with a sacred text.’ Well, how wrong he was, because 20 years later, the combination of Wesley’s words and his music came together, and we got ‘Hark The Herald.’”
Elysian Fields - Jack In The Box (DJ Cam Remix)
If you dream of Elysian Fields and Portishead joining forces and spilling themselves into a swirling wash of loopy, airy abstraction…this is sorta like that.
Remixing is a folk art but the techniques involved — collecting material, combining it, transforming it — are the same ones used at any level of creation. You could even say that… Everything is a Remix.
This is part one of a four part documentary series.
Great stuff Kirby! This made my day.
(via fashioninfullswing)
Beastie Boys - Root Down (Free Zone Mix by the Prunes)
from Root Down EP (1995)
Lords of Acid - Let’s Get High (Rob Swift’s “Reach Out And Touch The Sky Mix”)
from Expand Your Head
This mix has almost nothing to do with the original track, aside from the “let’s get high and have fun” sample.
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Nine Inch Nails - All The Love In The World (Grip Mix by anothermisty)
Nine Inch Nails - Vessel (Creep Mix)
from remix.nin.com: Highest Rated Overall
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Lessig’s March 6th TEDx Talk: A bit about what conservatives can teach the free culture movement.
(via a-small-lab)
Throbbing Gristle - United (Two Lone Swordsmen Remix)
from Mutant TG
