Found today while wandering around the net. A funky video for a song by the japanese group Rip Slyme. It reminds me a lot of what videos over here used to be like. Really creative and fun.

Link to video at YouTube HERE

SFGate.com has an article about the 25th anniversary of Journey’s ESC4P3 (early promoters of leet speak?).

Fantastic Journey

What do critics know? The people have spoken, and the verdict is the same as it was 25 years ago: Journey so rocks! A quarter-century after “ESC4P3” — “Escape” to the straights — took over the airwaves, it’s high time to reconsider just who made the best music ever to come out of the Bay Area.

There have been hundreds of albums over the past few decades that were hated on by critics, only to sell millions of copies. That sentence pretty much describes the entire careers of Meat Loaf, Kansas and Jimmy Buffett.

And yet, what if there was a band, or even a single album, that was falsely persecuted — the musical version of a Death Row inmate who didn’t commit the crime? What if every 1980s critic was completely wrong about that album’s alleged failings, a fact that becomes instantly apparent just by playing it again?

It’s time to re-evaluate Journey’s “Escape,” or “ESC4P3” for those who prefer the prog-rock spelling of the era… [SFGate.com] [via waxy links]

I can proudly say I never owned a copy of the album and have no real thoughts on it. But I do remember the popularity of a number of the tracks on it. Still it’s an interesting read about a much abused album.

This morning I stumbled upon a neat looking program called MusicIP. It’s a tool for analyzing your music library. Once analyzed you can select a song and make a playlist based on that song. You can also do things make a new playlist based on a current playlist (though that seems to require some form of registration that I haven’t figured out yet).

The only thing that is a pain about it is that I have a fairly large library in iTunes (around 6,500 songs) and so the analysis phase will be going on for ages (fingerprinting the tracks will take about 20 hours and analyzing the tracks 42 hours!). But so far with just a fraction of my music processed it gave some good results. When I’ve gotten more of my library processed I’ll post an example one

Delta Heavy is a new documentary covering the 2002 tour of DJs Sasha and Jon Digweed. Newsweek online has an interview with Sasha that I thought was pretty decent. I haven’t seen either of them spin in ages. I still remember the first time I saw Sasha spin was back in around ’95/’96. That night at Metropolis in Irvine, CA is still one of my top five nights out clubbing. I wasn’t tainted by labels on genres as much at that point so I was able to just really kick back and enjoy. It was pure magic.

Maybe I’ll be able to go out clubbing again sometime soon. That would be a good thing.

I feel a mix coming on. Hopefully I’ll have something to post within a day or two. It’s been much too long. Yesterday i started throwing some records together to play around and before I knew it an hour and a half had passed. I love when that happens.