Secret Newsletter #1

2 April '17



Winamp

Winamp creator:

Rolling Stone interview circa 2004

Wired interview 2006


Music Various

Space age pop

Out There: The Strangest Albums of 1962

The Futuristic Sounds of Sun Ra
Esquivel - Exploring New Sounds
Attilio Mineo - Man in Space With Sounds
Frank Comstock - Project: Comstock Music From Outer Space
Babatunde Olatunji - Flaming Drums

The War on Silence: 100 Albums/100 Songs

Jane Siberry: The Speckless Sky
Forty-four minutes inside the glittering, surreal, meticulous dreamworld of a living angel. The greatest attention-to-detail record ever made.


Siberian Breaks

MGMT Interview: Andrew VanWyngarden 2010

What's the story behind "Siberian Breaks"? At 12-minutes long, there's a lot going on…

Similar to the other songs on the album, we were writing it, and it started growing and taking shape as a longer song. It wasn't something where we set out from the beginning to write a really long song. It started with a simple chord progression for the first verse, and it kept developing after that. It never felt too long. I think some people are somehow offended by its length, but we wanted it to be a sweep of a song at this walking pace. A lot of the lyrics are about surfing and more cosmic stuff. That's my favorite track on the album. It's fun! I think the more concerts we play where people are coming with knowledge of our new album, the better "Siberian Breaks" will go down live. We've been playing it, but sometimes the crowd is obviously waiting for us to get through it [Laughs].


Empire of the Sun

The tale of Nick's vanishing


Mr Bungle

I looked up the lyrics to "None of Them Knew They Were Robots", apparently a complex exploration of the history of science and religion, and the latin in the song is:
Deus absconditus
Deus nullus deus nisi deus

The translation:











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