{"id":464,"date":"2004-03-29T13:04:00","date_gmt":"2004-03-29T13:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/2004\/03\/music-update-sort-of\/"},"modified":"2004-03-29T13:04:00","modified_gmt":"2004-03-29T13:04:00","slug":"music-update-sort-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/2004\/03\/music-update-sort-of\/","title":{"rendered":"Music update, sort of"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nRob Zombie – Hellbilly Deluxe<\/i><\/p>\n

Rob Zombie pumps me up. I believe I actually swept the floor faster because of listening to Living Dead Girl<\/i> and my spindly arms felt like supersteel when cleaning up the piles of grit, newspapers and assorted unused clothing that had littered the Big Room. ( The Big Room is my term for what you would call your drawing-cum-dining room in your house. We don’t draw, and we don’t have dinner in anyplace other than our own rooms, so the Big Room largely remains unused. ) I associate Dragula<\/i> with the Matrix<\/i>, because that was the first Rob Zombie song I heard on the Matrix soundtrack, and also with Ninja Scroll – I have this neat reworked clip of scenes from NS with this song playing in the background.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Runner up: Bappi Lahiri – Disco Dancer<\/i><\/p>\n

Disco Dancer<\/i> is music from my childhood, music I needed to gulp down my milk every morning ( That’s what my mother tells me ) Apart from remembering every line and every musical note, I was also a fan of Mithun’s “moves” in the movie, and there was a time when I used to “move” in front of the mirror. *shudder* Heaven bless songs that teach impressionable four-year olds phases like these:
\nD se hota hai Dance,
\nI se hota hai Item
\nS se hota hai Singer,
\nC se hota hai Chorus
\nO se Orchestra. para-para-pa-para-etc<\/i><\/p>\n

This, you will agree, is a very good alternative to your usual “A for Apple, B for Boy” stuff one learns in school.<\/p>\n

Now, after buying a cd from Planet M, Bappida<\/i>‘s music makes me wanna MOVE, bay-bee. It makes me wanna shake my booty when I clean out my books and …er….shake the dust off the cds. You can’t believe how catchy the songs are, the bass riffs, the trumpet, the drums and congas, everything eighties.<\/p>\n

Vijay Benedict ( the guy who sings “I am a Disco Dancer” ) pronounces Hindi atrociously<\/i>!!! He can give Hemant Birje a complex when he does crowd-talking ( “Meri Yeh zindagi geeton ki amaanat hai, main isiliye paida hua hoon” sounds like Marvin the paranoid android on one of his good days )<\/p>\n

Did anyone realise it was Suresh Wadekar singing Goro ki na kaalo ki<\/i>? Usha Uthup singing the Video Killed The Radio Star copy Koi Yahaan Aaha Naache Naache<\/i> ?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Shpongle – Are You Shpongled?<\/i><\/p>\n

Has to be one of the weirdest electronica albums I have listened to. This was the third time I listened to this album, and to get a proper “feel” I arranged my speakers and sound settings very properly, sat in the centre of the room and put it on. It was something like 1 AM, so I was periodically falling asleep and waking right up whenever the temp changed. The music invoked some fantastic dreams, very colourful and floaty stuff. Funny, because the last time I listened to this album, my sleep just vanished.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Don Davis\/Juno Reactor\/Various – The Matrix Reloaded<\/i>
\nInteresting factoid – Don Davis assisted James Horner on the Titanic<\/i> soundtrack. Listening to the brass ensemble and the percussion hits on the second half of Titanic<\/i>, the sinking of the ship part, that is, and comparing it to the Matrix<\/i> OST, the similarities become very obvious. Tense orchestral passages, mixed with Juno Reactor’s beats and a mind-numbingly beautiful chorus makes Davis’s works worthy of repeat listens. “Monalisa Overdrive”, the extended freeway chase scene is scored by Juno Reactor, and it gets very repetitive, even by electronica standards. Does not help when Juno Reactor uses the same driving beat everywhere – this might be something like a musical cue, but it just devolves into a routine chase scene music. Overdrive, indeed. The songs in the album ( Deftones, Marilyn Manson, Dave Matthews (????), RATM, Linkin Park, Rob D ) are just fluff. I don’t remember hearing them anywhere in the movie, except for the Rage song Calm Like a Bomb<\/i> which comes at the end credits. And that has none of the emotional impact of Wake Up<\/i> from the first movie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}