http://burlveneer.vox.com/library/posts/page/1/ Songs I Like en Vox Sat, 07 Nov 2009 16:40:28 -0800 Copyright 2009 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://burlveneer.vox.com/library/post/my-cop-show-theme.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Burl Veneer) http://burlveneer.vox.com/library/post/my-cop-show-theme.html?_c=feed-rss http://burlveneer.vox.com/library/post/my-cop-show-theme.html?_c=feed-rss Sat, 07 Nov 2009 16:40:28 -0800 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://burlveneer.vox.com/library/audio/6a00d4144aef1d3c7f0123dde307a1860d.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a1.vox.com/6a00d4144aef1d3c7f0123dde307a1860d-50si" alt="Theme from Gunnerman" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> In 1993 a left-hand keyboard exercise I came up with evolved into a full-fledged cop show theme, which I called "Theme from Gunnerman" because that sounded suitably unsubtle for a 70s cop show. I got to play it with the band (Cafe de los Muertos),... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://burlveneer.vox.com/library/post/my-cop-show-theme.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d4144aef1d3c7f0123f17924de860f?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> 90s 00s original music cop show themes http://burlveneer.vox.com/library/post/a-deep-funk-travelogue-from-breakestra.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Burl Veneer) http://burlveneer.vox.com/library/post/a-deep-funk-travelogue-from-breakestra.html?_c=feed-rss http://burlveneer.vox.com/library/post/a-deep-funk-travelogue-from-breakestra.html?_c=feed-rss Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:32:05 -0800 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://burlveneer.vox.com/library/audio/6a00d4144aef1d3c7f0123ddb90d7b860b.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a3.vox.com/6a00d4144aef1d3c7f0123ddb90d7b860b-50si" alt="09 - No matter where you go" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> Getting back to this year's bumper crop of deep funk releases, I found that L.A.'s Breakestra has done in one song what I attempted to do in blog posts two years ago: give a worldwide overview of the deep funk scene. Many of the acts name-checked ... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://burlveneer.vox.com/library/post/a-deep-funk-travelogue-from-breakestra.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d4144aef1d3c7f0123ddce02e5860c?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> california 00s breakestra deep funk http://burlveneer.vox.com/library/post/bernard-sumner-still-has-it.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Burl Veneer) http://burlveneer.vox.com/library/post/bernard-sumner-still-has-it.html?_c=feed-rss http://burlveneer.vox.com/library/post/bernard-sumner-still-has-it.html?_c=feed-rss Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:47:33 -0800 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://burlveneer.vox.com/library/video/6a00d4144aef1d3c7f01240b7456e2860e.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a2.vox.com/6a00d4144aef1d3c7f01240b7456e2860e-50si" alt="Bad Lieutenant - Sink Or Swim (Official Music Video)" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> Bernard Sumner is not looking so great lately, but his musical talents are undiminished, possibly even better than ever. "Sink Or Swim" by his new band Bad Lieutenant has been lodged in my brain for a week now: That is ten different kinds of ... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://burlveneer.vox.com/library/post/bernard-sumner-still-has-it.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d4144aef1d3c7f0123f177c3f5860f?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> 80s 00s new order uk bernard sumner bad lieutenant http://burlveneer.vox.com/library/post/scandinavian-short-takes.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Burl Veneer) http://burlveneer.vox.com/library/post/scandinavian-short-takes.html?_c=feed-rss http://burlveneer.vox.com/library/post/scandinavian-short-takes.html?_c=feed-rss Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:23:04 -0800 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://burlveneer.vox.com/library/audio/6a00d4144aef1d3c7f0123ddccfa2c860c.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a4.vox.com/6a00d4144aef1d3c7f0123ddccfa2c860c-50si" alt="02 Shining - Grindstone - Winterreise" /></a> <a href="http://burlveneer.vox.com/library/audio/6a00d4144aef1d3c7f0123ddccfa26860c.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a6.vox.com/6a00d4144aef1d3c7f0123ddccfa26860c-50si" alt="01-skyphone--cloudpanic" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> My search for bands similar to high-energy Norwegian jazz-prog-rockers Elephant9 paid off again with the discovery of Shining, another Norwegian jazz-prog-rock band with whom, not coincidentally, Elephant9 share a drummer (Torstein Lofthus). Shin... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://burlveneer.vox.com/library/post/scandinavian-short-takes.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d4144aef1d3c7f0123ddccfbef860c?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> 00s glitch norway denmark shining norwegian jazz skyphone torsten lofthus http://burlveneer.vox.com/library/post/steampunk-music.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Burl Veneer) http://burlveneer.vox.com/library/post/steampunk-music.html?_c=feed-rss http://burlveneer.vox.com/library/post/steampunk-music.html?_c=feed-rss Thu, 29 Oct 2009 18:15:12 -0700 Steampunk as a literary subgenre seems to have garnered more adherents, and thus achieved more staying power, than cyberpunk ever did. There is even a sizable body of both animated and live-action films to go along with it (not to mention that se... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://burlveneer.vox.com/library/post/steampunk-music.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d4144aef1d3c7f0123f174fd81860f?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> 00s steampunk big band abney park calliope darcy james argue http://burlveneer.vox.com/library/post/naikaku-or-lastfm-to-the-rescue.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Burl Veneer) http://burlveneer.vox.com/library/post/naikaku-or-lastfm-to-the-rescue.html?_c=feed-rss http://burlveneer.vox.com/library/post/naikaku-or-lastfm-to-the-rescue.html?_c=feed-rss Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:26:06 -0700 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://burlveneer.vox.com/library/audio/6a00d4144aef1d3c7f0123ddb35191860b.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a1.vox.com/6a00d4144aef1d3c7f0123ddb35191860b-50si" alt="03 - I found a deep dark hole and i am going to jump in!" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> Elephant9's DodoVoodoo is such an exciting slab of jazz-rock fusion that I wish they had more than just the one album. So I thought I'd try out some of those Web 2.0 music visualization and discovery tools to find similar music. Back in 2007 I b... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://burlveneer.vox.com/library/post/naikaku-or-lastfm-to-the-rescue.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d4144aef1d3c7f0123ddb351b8860b?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> rock jazz japan 00s fusion flute prog naikaku http://burlveneer.vox.com/library/post/norwegian-jazz-revisited-again-maria-kannegaard.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Burl Veneer) http://burlveneer.vox.com/library/post/norwegian-jazz-revisited-again-maria-kannegaard.html?_c=feed-rss http://burlveneer.vox.com/library/post/norwegian-jazz-revisited-again-maria-kannegaard.html?_c=feed-rss Wed, 21 Oct 2009 19:52:47 -0700 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://burlveneer.vox.com/library/audio/6a00d4144aef1d3c7f0123dddaea84860d.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a4.vox.com/6a00d4144aef1d3c7f0123dddaea84860d-50si" alt="01. Drifting Down The Nile" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> It's time for another Norwegian jazz jag: from the meditative lyricism of trumpeters Mathias Eick and Nils Petter Molvaer, to the dusky vocals of Sidsel Edresen, to the energetic power fusion of Elephant9, Norway is at the forefront of (my percept... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://burlveneer.vox.com/library/post/norwegian-jazz-revisited-again-maria-kannegaard.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d4144aef1d3c7f0123dddaec78860d?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> jazz 00s norway maria kannegaard norwegian jazz thomas strønen http://burlveneer.vox.com/library/post/cocteau-twins-secret-influence-styx.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Burl Veneer) http://burlveneer.vox.com/library/post/cocteau-twins-secret-influence-styx.html?_c=feed-rss http://burlveneer.vox.com/library/post/cocteau-twins-secret-influence-styx.html?_c=feed-rss Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:09:34 -0700 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://burlveneer.vox.com/library/audio/6a00d4144aef1d3c7f0123f16c6e67860f.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a7.vox.com/6a00d4144aef1d3c7f0123f16c6e67860f-50si" alt="10 Styx - Aku Aku" /></a> <a href="http://burlveneer.vox.com/library/audio/6a00d4144aef1d3c7f0123f16c6e5f860f.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a7.vox.com/6a00d4144aef1d3c7f0123f16c6e5f860f-50si" alt="Cocteau Twins_Blue Bell Knoll_08_Spooning Good Singing Gum" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> Perhaps you remember listening to Styx's Pieces Of Eight album, scratching your head at "Aku-Aku", the mellow instrumental at the end of the album, and writing it off as filler. But I posit that young Robin Guthrie took it as divine inspiration, ... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://burlveneer.vox.com/library/post/cocteau-twins-secret-influence-styx.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d4144aef1d3c7f0123f16c7019860f?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> rock 70s 80s us styx aor uk gothic cocteau twins http://burlveneer.vox.com/library/post/videorama-addendum.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Burl Veneer) http://burlveneer.vox.com/library/post/videorama-addendum.html?_c=feed-rss http://burlveneer.vox.com/library/post/videorama-addendum.html?_c=feed-rss Wed, 07 Oct 2009 19:14:16 -0700 The cool animated videos just keep on coming! Here is "The Sunlamp Show" by The Aliens, a band formed by ex-members of the Beta Band (who I really only know from High Fidelity): <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://burlveneer.vox.com/library/post/videorama-addendum.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d4144aef1d3c7f0123f16956e4860f?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> scotland aliens 00s beta band http://burlveneer.vox.com/library/post/air-love-2.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Burl Veneer) http://burlveneer.vox.com/library/post/air-love-2.html?_c=feed-rss http://burlveneer.vox.com/library/post/air-love-2.html?_c=feed-rss Tue, 06 Oct 2009 19:52:17 -0700 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://burlveneer.vox.com/library/audio/6a00d4144aef1d3c7f0123f168ea62860f.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a2.vox.com/6a00d4144aef1d3c7f0123f168ea62860f-50si" alt="Love 2" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> The "Sing Sang Sung" video is gorgeous, but a single track is not enough to appreciate how good the new Air album is. So why not listen to the whole thing right here? Air brings the music of 70s soft-porn soundtracks into the 21st century for pu... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://burlveneer.vox.com/library/post/air-love-2.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d4144aef1d3c7f0123ddd2d09a860d?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> france retro air downtempo 00s synths chillout love 2