New Pink Plasma

Hi guys. I've been working on some music and I have a few tracks to show you.

My name is Pink Plasma.

Pink Plasma - Maybe Be Mine

Pink Plasma - Faltermeyer in Genesis Valley

Pink Plasma - Baby


Just to give credit where credit is due, Maybe Be Mine is a remash of Michael Jackson's classic song Baby Be Mine. And Faltermeyer in Genesis Valley is a mashup using Justice, Soyo Oka (composer of the Super Mario Kart soundtrack) and Harold Faltermeyer songs.

Weird video - Wale

So according to this Wired interview there's this rapper named Wale who thinks he's gonna be the next big thing - he's making an album with Pharrell, Just Blaze, and DJ Premier, executive produced by Amy Winehouse's producer. He's also been making a mixtape for free download called The Mixtape About Nothing -- inspired by Seinfeld. Apparently inspired by the dialog and characters in the show. And Julia Louis-Dreyfus is a guest. He also says he owns 325 pairs of shoes, mostly "Jordan 3s, all three colors. Jordan 4s, Jordan 5s and Jordan 11s." And he thinks he's friends with Lindsay Lohan. So this guy's pretty detestable, right? Or at least trying a little too hard? But then here's a video he made - him rapping over Justice's 2007 hit D.A.N.C.E. It's a really weird video.



First, there's good things here - the moving through legs opening reminiscent of this classic vid. There's a Star Wars reference and a Seinfeld reference, and a fucking Harold and the Purple Crayon reference. The effects are generally cool but really strange, like having a some kid jump over a 1 foot tall Wale on a skateboard. Also, some of the lyrics are so nonsensical they're funny, and he makes fun of rappers at the end.

There's a lot of bad things - mostly, the song sucks. His voice is way louder than the rest of the music, which gets painful when he tries to sing along to the Justice song. And he doesn't use the good parts of the Justice song, only the backing beat during one section and one of the bridges. Again, the lyrics are pretty nonsensical (it may help to listen to the uncensored version). So pretty underwhelming as a rapper.

I really do like this genre of video, though, where it's just a guy standing in front of a green screen and they don't try to put him somewhere boring, they put him inside a constantly changing cheesy computer paradise. Another one like this was the Get Silly video, and of course the Fat Boys made an early prototype.

Gettin' silly

So here's actually a good video, very reminiscent in some ways of one of the best from the 80s.
My favorite part about the song is those orchestra hits. Real fuckin' sharp. These guys know what's good.

Music Licensing

This is mostly a note to myself to remember this article on music licensing and how to make money off it by a very nice member (zircon) of my favorite IRC channel, #vgmix on irc.vgmix.com.
http://soundtempest.net/how-to-make-money-from-music-licensing/
Thanks zircon!

Update:
And a short but sweet vid.

Funny Shit

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds have a new album (their fourteenth) entitled Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!. Yeah, I know, who cares, right? Well, I thought this video was pretty funny. Recommended especially if you're Shane. High quality version here.

More Super Mario World

There's this insane Super Mario World hack called Kaizo Super Mario World that's like Syoban Action in that it's a fiendishly difficult take on the conventional Mario paradigm. There's a lot of videos of it on YouTube, which are very entertaining. Then there's another take entirely, by a guy who hacked Snes9x to record all the times you reload a save state and play them all on top of one another. The whole thing takes on a quantum-mechanics "multiple-world" kind of thing where there are many copies of Mario doing slightly different things. Very cool.



But while he was testing out this wonderful hacked Snes9x he ran into some problems, resulting in this gem:



Reminds me aesthetically of another very cool (intentionally glitchy) creation, Crystal Castles.

స్మాల్ Update

Sitting on a new track from a Supergun sideproject by one of the Madison band's members, multi-instrumentalist Nick Turco. Until we get permission from somebody, we can't release it, but get ready, cuz it's HOT.

Fake or Real?

http://www.celemony.com/cms/index.php?id=dna

Who knows? Looks impossible to me, I say fake. Either that or it doesn't work very well.

Supaa Mario World

While trying to relocate my recordings of Sadao Watanabe's amazing smooth jazz-fusion arrangements of Super Mario World (and earlier Mario) songs, I found this interesting cover of the entire SMW soundtrack by what was initially described by some stupid website as a one-man band, getting my hopes up for a Dick van Dyke-in-Mary Poppins interpretation, but what turns out to be just a young man like myself making what turns out to be remarkably competent versions of pretty much every song in the soundtrack. It's actually really good, well, recorded, and almost entirely accurate. They've all got kind of a Jon Brion-I Heart Huckabees vibe going on, if Jon Brion slammed some Howling Monkeys and could get over himself. There are SOME notes that are wrong, but he gets a lot of stuff right that I'm sure I wouldn't be able to do. And it's all free. I am impressed.

You can also download the Goldinum edition from his site, which includes about ten more songs that he didn't include in the original.

Here's the guy's website, just for fun. He's also got an album called CINEMA 80'S, in which he covers 30 songs from video games based on 80s movies.

Not only that, this mysterious Jason Cox fellow outlines this spooky and scary tale of Videogame: The Movie: The Game, a bootleg game that began appearing around 1988 and including "mashups" like Mario during a historical circus fire. He's provided the original soundtrack for us to download, along with cover versions. This guy gets busy.

Here's some tracks for you:

XOC - SMW - Title Screen
XOC - SMW - Donut Plains
XOC - SMW - Underwater Theme
XOC - SMW - Vanilla Ice Dome
XOC - CINEMA 80'S - Indiana Jones & The Temple of Doom Mine Cars
XOC - CINEMA 80'S - Roger Rabbit Theme
And this one's really good:
XOC - Sonic 1 - Green Hill Zone

P.S.

Supergun Leaks

An anonymous source has leaked these Supergun demos!
Rumor has it these three tracks are demos for Supergun's upcoming yet-to-be-announced album.
You may remember Supergun from their amazing live shows last fall, and they've also worked with and share at least one member with Artic Foxes.
Here are the tracks!

Chariots on Fire
Barack Attack
Rick's Just Blowing Off Steam

Thanks to Nick Turco for hosting the files!

Nedry's Neon History

Let's bring you up to speed.

I released an ALBUM back in summer 2005 which revealed my very poppy side of music. Since then, I have created a string of independent singles (link coming shortly) which, it has been suggested, might as well constitute a new album. Some of these can be found on my Myspace.
I recorded a record with one of my current bands, Artic Foxes, last year September and another in May this year. The most recent one is soon to be released. Artic Foxes applies the spirit of jazz onto ancient and modern rock and movie soundtrack paradigms.
My other band, Supergun, is currently going strong and we are working on an album after cutting hours of preliminary session recordings (the Higgins acetates). We've been receiving lots of requests for these recordings. Don't worry. You'll hear them soon enough. (we're in talks with former OiNK mod Paine for his new, ah, filesharing venture.)
Currently, I work at WSUM, Madison's student radio station. I've received requests to put up some of my productions I've made there. Well, I can't contractually put up all of them, but here are some of the old ones I'm allowed to release.
Last but not least, I have created a radio drama series, Neon Tiger, on WSUM, which currently has 11 episodes and may have a sequel series in its future (don't give up hope!) The more feedback we receive on these the greater the chance of more being produced.
Edit: Not to leave you all too blue-balls, I decided to give you guys one of the new WSUM promos. Here you go.