Entries from seikatsu tagged with 'music'
Happy Birthday, Mutant Disco!
Last night the Von Krahl theater in Tallinn hosted crowds from all over the past ten years to cheer for the tenth birthday of Mutant Disco. As for many other good things in this category, we have to thank again late John Peel. By becoming a fan of Röövel Ööbik and giving them a lot of BBC One airtime in early nineties, he inevitably helped to build a strong network between the Estonian and UK music circles, with the...
Cash Hurts
NIN's Downward Spiral was probably the favorite album of mine in 1994. So when Priidu forwarded me the Johnny Cash' version of Hurt above I had a little emotional shock wave. On one hand I can't believe I've missed something this powerful made of a song that left a mark as it was originally. And on the other hand, if you see the video for the first time only today, post the passing of Cash a few years ago,...
Solving the Home Storage Problem
As any next person these days I've been suffering for years with the issue of storage. I mean the digital photos & music & file backups, not golf clubs and bicycles this time. We have three notebooks in our household, one of them employer-owned e.g. both policy-wise and philosophically not personal content friendly. All running close to hard drive capacity. Plus I have a few external hard drives that are a burden enough to find and attach at the right...
PlinkPlonk 2007
Seekordne PlinkPlonk festival oli parim senisest kolmest. Roheline muru, soe päike, juba päevaseid avaesinejaid vaatama kogunenud sajad ja õhtused tunde järgi tuhat+ inimest, ja väga ühtlaselt hea bändide rida. Päeva eriti-indie-distantside esikoht, kui seda mingil segasel ebaplinkplonkilikul põhjusel peaks kellelegi jagama, läheks arvatult loomingulisele kollektiivile Eliit ("kõik jalad olid sissepooooole reas", eksole). Aga juba järgmised viis-kuus kohta kardetavasti jagamisele. Ka järgmine PlinkPlonk läheb mu tihkesse kalendrisse broneerituks kirja niipea kui kuupäev paigas. Aitäh, Lauri ja teised suure vaeva nägijad!...
Plaadiarvustuste metatasand
Keeruliste harmooniate ja loostruktuuride kiuste mõjub Andrewsi muusika lihtsa ja õdusana, justkui oleks mees muusikasse üle kandnud ühe õppejõu soovituse noortele juristidele – “mõelda kui filosoof, rääkida kui talupoeg”. Jah, just nii hea see ongi – sõnu valides või mitte. Ajatu temaatika. Samas näiteks “Going To a Town” kõlab vägagi ajatult – nagu lahutuse läbi elanud Burt Bacharach. Isegi Scorpionsi “Still Loving You” bossanovastamine ei tundu tema poolt liiga totaka teona... Igatahes on see plaat järjekordselt huvitav sooritus eklektilise lähenemisega...
How to get 7% of a nation on a single picture?
The way Estonians do this: have a Song Festival (aka Laulupidu) every few years. There were 20,000 people on stage and about 100,000 present on the festival grounds alltogether - not bad for a nation of 1.4 million. Really quite powerful feeling this time, for moments there was the vibe of the good ol' Singing Revolution in the air. More pictures here....
Wii + Finetune: Living Room Jukebox
Got a tip from our unofficial Wiitards of Skype multichat that accidentally solved a problem I've pondered about for years but never have really come around to solving: an online digital music library played on where it should - the proper hifi / home theatre setup in the living room. There is a myriad of options. MediaCenter PC-s. Sonos. Airport Express and Apple TV. XBox360 streaming from a PC. And probably hundreds of niche solutions more. I just couldn't choose...
Vinyl logos
A display of logos I noticed passing the Universal building this morning on my way to work. The last time I ever saw some of these true classics (like Island & Polydor) was browsing my dad's vinyl collection... maybe fifteen years ago, was it? I can understand it in the virtual world of music downloads, but I wonder why do the music industry logos on the CD-s you buy stick in the eye so much less than the (as...
iPod revisited
I have owned an iPod for a couple of years now and rarely use it. First, there are not that many moments in the daily life in Tallinn when I could encapsulate myself from the world with headphones. Secondly, I have been too busy/lazy to get a proper iPod connector installed to my car. Being a bit on the hifi enthusiast side, I'd prefer proper cabling + charger dock to entry level FM transmitter. iPodding hasn't even really worked for...
EsTraadiTopi pleilist
Kuna juba õige mitmes inimene on minult seda listi palunud, siis allpool ongi ära toodud üks ülimalt subjektiivne eesti lugude Top 10, mis sai Tõnis Mäega maha mängitud 30. detsembril 2006 EsTraadiTopi saates Kuku raadios: 1. Bizarre - Any Day 2. Kalm - Run 3. Chalice - Siuhh 4. Köök - Loskutovi tippmark 5. Oluline feat. MC Kampsun - Emake loodus 6. Von Suck - Vajuv vesi 7. Jäääär - Õhk kõnnib tänaval 8. Lu:k - La:v 9. Röövel Ööbik...
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