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  • The Glitch Mob

    I’m a big fan of the soundtrack to the new Tron movie Tron: Legacy. The soundtrack is written and recorded by Daft Punk, a genius musical due and features a huge sound including a full orchestra. If you haven’t heard it yet, I highly recommend checking it out. Amazon has it for $6.99 right now including a bonus track.

    Recently I also purchased the Tron: Legacy Reconfigured ($7.99 at Amazon). Remixed tracks from the soundtrack done by various artist. Again, if you haven’t heard it, you simply must. The first remix on the album is done by The Glitch Mob, a Los Angeles group specializing in electronic music. And thus began my persuit of the Mob known as Glitch.

    If you like Daft Punk, the Tron: Legacy soundtrack or good electronic in general, you’ll love The Glitch Mob.

      

    Here’s a little sample from youtube.com:

  • Hype Machine – Weekly Top 5 – Mau5 Hau5

     

     

    Here is the long awaited Hype Tracks. This is actually about 2 weeks old as I have been really busy, but I still wanted to give you a heads up on some of the sick stuff from Hype Machine. You’ll notice there’s a lot of Deadmau5 this time around. That’s cuz Deadmau5 rule5.

    3min in to this track it gets AMAZING
    Deadmau5 – Deer Bus

    Flight Facilities – Crave You (Adventure Club Dubstep Remix)

    Deadmau5 – Where Are My Keys

    Deadmau5 – Raise Your Weapon (Madeon Extended Remix)

    City And Colour Fragile Bird The SoniXx Dubstep Remix

    And to make up for the delay….

    THE BONUS TRACK!!!!

    Britney Spears – I Wanna Go (Easy Does It Remix)

  • Spotty Spotify

    Well, the wonderus Spotify service is rolling out in the U.S. The U.K. has had it for a while now and has recieved a lot of hype from major news outlets and a heck of a lot of users. While I think the model is interesting (I’m for any supposed ” iTunes killers”) the service still has a ways to go. Just my quick thoughts on the service…

    Spotify seems to have a really good library. I searched for a few of my favorite bands (Gomez, The Devil Wears Prada and Tool just to name a very few) and found most of their stuff on the service. Cool! Tool was missing, but I’ve never seen a more strict license than on all of Tools music. It would be disappointing, except that I own all their stuff anyway. Sound quality seems good while listening. I’m currently using the Free service and works pretty well. My first album checkout was the new Limp Bizkit album Gold Cobra, which absolutely sucked, but I can’t really blame Spotify for that now can I. The ads are pretty reasonable except when they play music at the begining of the ad and I start thinking to myself “Wow, this album just took a turn for the worst…. oh, it’s an ad!”

    My main complaints are that the Spotify app looks an awful lot like iTunes, and I hate iTunes. Sorry, that’s just me.

    Other than that it’s pretty sweet for free. I’m not entirely sure I’m sold enough to buy the service. I’m really not a fan of rental based music services. I buy my music from Amazon because it’s DRM free (first I might add) and I own it. Granted, ownership of music is a pretty touchy issue in the U.S., but you understand what I mean. I do like the idea of checking out an album before I go buy it from Amazon. I think I’ll get used to that.

    I don’t have any invites to Spotify (yet) but head over to their site to queue up and check it out for yourself. Let me know what you think in the comments below. Spotify comes in Free, $4.99/mo and $9.99/mo.