(rain.) 雨性-- 眼流星...

Thursday, February 28, 2013

An interesting find on YouTube.有趣 Future Sound of London

Some mysterious thing I've found on YouTube. It's by the Future Sound of London. You can hear the sounds that go into, "Papua New Guinea" as part of this great soundscape. Big thanks to clothmonkeybag for recording and uploading this. Enjoy.

I'm not exactly sure how I bumped into this, but I'm glad I did. I need to go trekking in the, "things related to Gorillaz and nanotechnology" part of the internet more often.

--Kai.

Rain Vlog Volumen Yon. 4: A New demo from The Rain! ^_^

Here's some new music that was made today. It's just me twiddling some knobs, but It's been a lot of fun.

This was an ambient thing that I did at 2. I don't have much to say about it other than I learned a lot about the wonderful world of mixolydia and black keys on the piano from running through it.

The second was made just a few minutes ago. It's just sort of a prototypical pop song run through a guitar speaker at a loud volume. I've been influenced heavily lately by Electronic and A.R. Kane.

The picute is from a guitar store in Las Vegas. It's me on a Rickenbacker 12 String. ^_^

"I don't terribly have any clever quotes. I just think that it's good to add a little extra sugar to Kool-Aid. I mean, you're already drinking Kool-Aid. You should make it fantastic."

--Kai.

New muzik to (not) take drugs to! 毒品

This is something I recorded around 1:00. There are some interesting harmonies inside.

The nice thing with playing this way is you don't have to think linearlily about chords. You can stack progressions on top of each other at the same time and make interesting things happen. I tried to have a little counter-melody on top of everything, but when one plays keyboards in this fashion, one has little control ultimately.

I learned an new change while playing through this. It's basically like... You take a key and you lower the 7th to create a Mixolydian thing and then you go one black key down and you find this mysterious harmony that sounds like it's out of one of those hokey Jesus movies. It sounds good though. I guess it would technically be a Aug5->Min7->I->ect, but I could be wrong.

"I just want to make love to her. That's the only reason I do anything."

-Kai.

Johnny Marr does Reddit AMA.

Hey internet. Kai here. I just thought I'd do a post about the recent Johnny Marr reddit feature. It can be found here:

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/19ee4i/hello_reddit_my_name_is_johnny_marr_guitar_player/

I haven't had time to go through of it yet, but it looks quite interesting. I'd love to sit and pick and Johnny's brain for a few hours. Anywho. The new music is fantastic. The haircut is great as always. I'm a little disappointed about the Jaguar thing, but that's ok. I'll forgive you. You're awesome manifest Johnny Six-string!

I've actually been learning a lot by imitating the way John attacks his Jazzmaster. It's the new sort of paradigm with Fenders that I'm really excited about. A rumbly mid-rage thump accentuating the already chimy zing of the Fender sound. It's a lot of fun observing my boy evolve and grow and develop new methods and ideas. Run on sentences are also pretty neat.

All in all. Keep at it Mr. Marr. We need you now more than ever. :3

Get the new album on Amazon.

"Yeah, it's beauty and Love and everything, but you don't have to make such a big deal out of it."

-Kai.

New song by David Bowie, "The Stars (Are Out Tonight)"

Hey yall. :3 So, David Bowie really is releasing a new album. It's really magical. Here's a thing from, "The Next Day."

An interesting piece. It's interesting the see Ziggy Stardust as a reflective older gentleman. David has a real knack for combining video and audio in tasteful ways. I'll have to have a listen to this and the new Johnny Marr album today.

Get it on Amazon.

-Kai.

Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Neu Disco musik for The rain! ^_^ 迪斯科舞廳

New Disco muzik from The Rain. Salt Lake City's first choice in Ambient/Soul/Electronic/Hip Hop/Uzbekistaki/Trip Hop/Musique Concrete/RIN/Rock and Roll music!

It's fun playing the sampler. I'm ready to start making mi'own loops nao though. I have some ideas for overlapping 5 and 4 patterns that should be pretty cool. I'd like to get some things going with some really fast paced Jungle patterns. I've been able to do this cool thing with the controller where you turn the samples off and on really quickly and you get this cool Aphex Twin thing to happen if you do it right. It'll be neat to be able to randomize my own playing. ^_^ I have weird thoughts about Alphaville when I consider the possiblities.

"She's made up her mind. You might be able to change it, but we're working in the highest possible domain of possibility to say that. Still, I have faith in you kid."

--Kai.

どうぶつの森

This is some music I made influenced strongly by my favorite game ever Animal Forest. (^_^) Check it out if you're a fan of K.K. Slider and the like.

"The whole time, despite the anguish, she was inside of me. No one can rob me of her because she's inside of me. She's like my liver or something. Whatever it is she does, I hope she keeps working."

--Kai.

アイン sending telecommunetik using pressure differences.

Hey. This is my dog barking at some mysterious thing that all the dogs freak out about this time of day every day.

"The mountain was telling me something. It cried, save, those moments I didn't percieve its limits and mysteries to be a warning."

--Kai.

Nintendo Tiem. 任天堂株式会社 ft. 戸高一生

Hai. Here's some music from the lovely Kazumi Totaka. He's my favorite composer I think. Yes, that is including Koji Kondo. I like Kazumi more.

"I have come to find that you are quite imaginary. I've also come to find that most things are quite imaginary. I'm in a bind as to what to actually do here. Nothing meaningful can come out of of two phantoms coming together-- Our one reassurance is the possibility that meaning never existed anyway. We're just meaningless blobs of nothing, engaged passionately with ourselves at some macro capacity. I find that kind of thinking quite romantic."

--Kai.