Since I was listening to the music on XBMC running on my Apple TV I wanted to get a nice background (fanart) picture to go with the album and music. I did a quick search on the internet and found one picture made by Graham English which stood out from the rest.

Here are the top 100 words used throughout the album “Modern Times” and set to the same colors as the album cover.

“I regularly analyze Bob Dylan’s lyrics and thought it would be a cool exercise to see what words he uses most often. It helps to get in the mind of the writer.” Graham English

To see more word clouds made from Bob Dylan albums please visit Graham English website.

Here is another old mixtape I found. This one is also from 1997… didn’t I have anything better to do that year?

Here it is 14 years later…

As you can tell by the track listing below it is once again a very “mixed mix”… or perhaps schizophrenic mix might be a more fitting word? We are jumping far between genres here as always.

When I wrote my previous post on mixtapes I had completely forgot that the old CD player in the kitchen also had a cassette player. The old Pioneer DS20 is still working like the day I bought it… in 1990… they do not make them like this anymore?

Now, I will enjoy this old mix tape like an aged fine wine.

SIDE A

1. Lou Donaldson – Sassy Soul Strut
2. Counting Crows – Rain King
3. B.B.E – Flash
4. The Black Crowes – A Conspiracy
5. Ron Ayers – Stranded in the Jungle
6. Yazoo – Goodbye 70′s
7. The Rolling Stones – Brown Sugar
8. Everything But The Girl – Walking Wounded
9. Black Sabbath – Symptom of the Universe

SIDE B

1. The Crystal Method – There is Hope
2. Oasis – Live Forever
3. Helmet – Ironhead
4. Jamiroquai – If I like It, I do It
5. The Police – Omegaman
6. Jonathan Richman – Dignified and Old
7. Spectral – Moonstone
8. Lamb – Cotton Wool
9. Corduroy – The Diceman
10. Tool – Forty Six & 2
11. The Beatles – While My Guitar Gently Weeps (Demo)

I do post on Twitter regularly and I find it perfect for me at the moment to keep it short and sweet. If you have enjoyed my posts here on this Blog I am sure you will enjoy to follow me on Twitter where I post about the important things in life; music, tv, movies and pop-culture. And let’s not forget the finer cultures like Lego and my own little “Photodiary”, thanks to the Instagram app and my iPhone.

But do “stay tuned” to this Blog since it is by no mean over and plenty of supra dupra cool posts and nonsense will be added once in a while.

Hope To See You!

- Step Away From The Christmas Gifts.

Studio Tan Vinyl

Once again a Frank Zappa cover. I took the easy route on this one, once again I simply used the back of the album and removed some stuff and added some other.

Feel free to use it with your XBMC, Boxee, iTunes or whatever software you use to play your digitalized needle drops…

My music will be up again during the End of Year podcast @ spacemusic.

The track “Almost Done” has made it to the ambient part of the show again.

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Here is another album cover I made today. This one is for the vinyl version of the 1972 album Waka Jawaka by Frank Zappa.

The cover is once more based on the back side of the album. I took the photo of Frank and placed it on the front with the title and artist at the top. I also changed the “title” of the album to “Waka Javinyl”… which sounded kind of funny. Now there is no doubt we are talking about the vinyl version.

Original Front & Back

Sleep Dirt Vinyl

Yesterday I made this custom cover art for the vinyl rip of the album Sleep Dirt by Frank Zappa.

I started with the back of the vinyl album cover and removed some text-scribbles at the bottom. Then I copied the artist and title from the front side, scaled them a bit a placed them at the top. I also added the word “Vinyl” to be clear on what it is.

The Norwegian electronic music duo Röyksopp decided in the beginning of 2010 to share some unreleased tracks from their archive. While cleaning the studio they discovered some unreleased tracks and were kind enough to make them available on their website. They are completely free and available as mp3 or wav.

Visit their Track Of The Month Archive to listen and download the tracks.

I actually came across these songs via a torrent-site, nice they can be used for legit and “good purposes” too. Included with the music was one particular little image which can be used as an album cover. I included it at the top of this post since I could not find it anywhere else.

Below is a clip where Pat Metheny talks about his latest album Orchestrion. If I have understood it correctly the entire album was performed by Pat Metheny and all these “almost-self-playing” custom-made instruments, played via solenoid switches and pneumatics. In other words, not a computer in sight.

It is quite hard to explain and understand what it really is about but this video might give you an idea.

I do not really care who, what or how this music was performed and from what I have heard so far it can be described with one simple word:

Beautiful!

Take a look at this clip and whether you like this kind of music or not, you have to agree this is impressive!