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GarageBand

Music and Lifestyle

9.3 (3 Ratings) Rate It

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GarageBand turns your iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch into a collection of Touch Instruments and a...

Midiflow Keyboard (Audiobus)

Music and Entertainment

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This keyboard for Audiobus 3 allows you to perform music with multiple synth apps at the same time....

Awix (3310 KP) rated Nomads (1986) in Movies

Aug 11, 2019

Nomads (1986)

1986 | Fantasy, Horror

6.0

(4 Ratings)

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Excitable LA-set horror-fantasy. A French anthropologist (Brosnan) becomes obsessed with his discovery that Los Angeles is infested with evil Eskimo spirits, apparently disguised as bikers and punks, one of whom is played by Adam Ant. (Yes, this really is the plot.)

Starts off showing signs of promise but becomes thoroughly unravelled well before the end; the presence of a frame story about a doctor (Down) investigating the French guy's death clutters rather than deepens the story. Stylish in a very mid-80s way: lots of drum machines, synth music, and indiscriminate use of slow motion. Brosnan's allo-ah-ahm-Fronsh performance is, well, interesting; he does the accent about as well as he sings. It just about stays watchable but isn't quite bad enough to be fun. Apparently Arnie saw it and was impressed enough to hire McTiernan to do Predator, which probably justifies its existence.

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Ross (3284 KP) rated Aquemini by Outkast in Music

Apr 30, 2020

Aquemini by Outkast

1998 | Rock

8.0

(1 Ratings)

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Rolling Stone's 500th greatest album of all time

Return of the G was a little more hip hop than I was expecting but decent.
Rosa Parks is a little better, more foot-tappy with an odd little country breakdown. The song, not the historical figure.
Annoying little skits in between songs.
Skew it on the Bar-B has a great beat and a better tempo.
Aquemini is a soulful little groove, with an interesting subtle change in mood halfway through.
Synthesizer starts as a basic hi-hat and snare tune and builds up with many layers of vocals and synth and piano.
I'm going to have to stop track by track reviews now, need to get some work done.
Except: Liberation (feat CeeLo Green) is an absolute treat.
Great album, a few tracks a little more gangsta than I like but some excellent soulful songs.

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Andy Gill recommended The Music of Erik Satie: The Velvet Gentlemen by The Camarta Contemporary Chamber Group in Music (curated)

"Erik Satie is something that, when I was at school, an English teacher who probably had a hangover, just said: "I'm gonna put on some music and you write something what comes into your mind." He put on the Erik Satie record - first time I heard it - and I thought, "Fuck, this is amazing." I really, clearly remember that day getting hold of some money and going to the record shop in town, and this is all they had, an interpretation of Satie involving Moog synthesisers. The synth sounds work so well with it. It gives a different angle, a different perspective. All the Satie records I've bought since are piano. All those amazing orchestrations by Debussy or Satie, orchestral interpretations. Satie is intrinsically very ascetic and plain. Really weird guy. I've lost the record now. I've got to find it! I think it's really, exceptionally brilliant."

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Sean Lennon recommended An Electric Storm by The White Noise in Music (curated)

An Electric Storm by The White Noise

1969 | Rock

(0 Ratings)

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"It's how I found out about Delia Derbyshire, and then through this I got into Unit Delta Plus. I've always been amazed to find out how much music from that time period I haven't heard. When I first heard this I couldn't believe that something that creative and ground breaking would be so under the radar, but I guess there was a lot of competition in 1969... I think this is one of my favourite albums now, once I'd heard it once I listened to it back to back about 50 times. It's one of the most experimental albums I've heard, even to this day. It took about five years to make, and they had some kind of sponsorship from EMS synthesisers and they use the EMS Synthi VCS3. It's the most collectible synth, the one I don't have. I know Mike Diamond from the Beastie Boys has one…"

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