OSCON Interstitial Music
I don't know why I was so impressed by it, but Apple had great music playing before the keynotes and between sessions at WWDC. Naturally, the company behind the iPod and the iTunes Music Store would have good music. At O'Reilly, we're all over the musical spectrum (Sara Winge, architect of Foo Camp, is a swing/bluegrass singer; Andrew Calvo, our conferences sales manager, is a jazz pianist; I'm a banjo player). So I'd like you to help build the playlist for interstitial music at OSCON.
I'm aiming for music with drive, mostly alternative but with a little electronica thrown in there for good measure. Boy and girl singers equally welcome. Please add your suggestions as comments to this blog post. I'll listen to them all and build a CD for OSCON (we already have someone who handles the rights management for us, so don't worry about that side of it). Links to iTunes Music Store welcome, but I'll take straight artist/title information too. Thanks for helping us make this fun!
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I've been really enjoying the Berlin label Morr music lately - mildly glitchy electronic ambient/pop, often with female singers.
There's an iTunes collection here:
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPublishedPlaylist?id=211670
As far as I'm concerned, for cool mood music you can't go wrong with Miles Davis:
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?playlistId=1014260
You also should consider Vince Guaraldi. He did a lot more than Charlie Brown:
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?playlistId=3079259
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?playListId=3019963
Music with drive? How can you beat Stevie Ray Vaughan:
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?playlistId=909755
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?playlistId=875127
If you want a Latin flavor, the Buena Vista Social Club sountrack is good mood music:
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?playlistId=5620178
For your electronica side:
Basic Pleasure Model:
http://www.basicpleasuremodel.com
also available on iTunes.
Their earlier stuff was released under the name of Psykosonik. Definitely worth checking out. Not available on iTunes, but are on Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/stores/artist/glance/-/41638/ref=m_art_dp/102-5673711-4174560
The whole CD of Unlearn is great stuff, and totally appropriate for a geek convention.
The band Electronic is always a classic. Unfortunately their original album is not on iTunes but is on Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000002LN0
The latest New Order album is excellent, their best in years:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0007WFYD4
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?playlistId=51951924
All the stuff from the Om Lounge compilation is really good, especially the track from King Kooba:
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?playlistId=3695545
Anything from Delerium is great, but I like this album especially:
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?playlistId=2602640
Underworld's dubnobasswithmyheadman is probably the coolest album of the 90s. And of course it's not available on iTunes, but it is on Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000003RGL
William Orbit is one of the best ambient composers out there. You can get a "best of" on iTunes:
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?playlistId=767180
Roger
i don't know how you could do it without including Mr. 43 Folders favorite, The Wrens.
Funny, after attending ETech I commented to some of the staff how they overlooked the transitional music in keeping with the conference theme. Afterall it was about "remix" and what better defined that concept then the many electronic forms of music -- not classic rock. I almost covered my ears everytime that stuff came on.
There is lots of great music out there, but these are the first few that leap to mind as great transitional music as you've described.
Thievery Corporation - Warning Shot
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewVideo?b=a&videoId=61522037 (full-length quicktime video)
http://amazon.com/o/ASIN/B0006ZXJ3E
Propellerheads - On Her Majesty's Secret Service
Propellerheads - Spybreak (Matrix Soundtrack)
http://amazon.com/o/ASIN/B000006BZ5
Kill Bill Soundtrack - Battle Without Honor or Humanity
http://amazon.com/o/ASIN/B0000C9V3T
I also found this while pulling out that Theivery Corp video links. Seems to have some promise.
Daft Phunk - Robot Rock
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewVideo?b=a&videoId=61518460
One suggestion: Y.A.C.H.T.'s blissful electro-pop paen, I love a computer: http://teamyacht.com/mp3s/I%20Love%20a%20Computer.mp3
Here's an idea: poll attendeed, sponsers and exhiters (like us) and see if any of them have staff coming who are djs or electronic musicians (like me) or otherwise musically inclined. collect dj mixes or original material. =)
Why not Young Lions
or
Never Enough: nice, rocking songs by Adrian Belew (King Crimson singer/guitarist) ?
Different option: Motorpsycho. A powerful rock trio from Norway. "Phanerothyme" is their 2003 album, a tight pop album with a distinct 70's flavor. Try "For free" or "Go To California". No iTMS links, sorry.
Or maybe some Jazz.
Esbjörn Svennson Trio. Or Bugge Wesseltoft, slightly more on the electronic-side : Eve Nin.
But one of the most interesting mix of electro and jazz idioms is imho Jaga Jazzist, on Ninja Tunes:
Try Animal Chin on "Livingroom Hush", Day from "The Stix" or All I know is tonight on their latest release "What we must"
Can we have interstitial music in ALL the rooms, not just the Keynote room?
Roger
Plug for a friend's excellent music:
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?playListId=14660529
Extropy - dark, ambient, groovy. Definitely cool!
I think if you put the sound track from Numa Numa, you'd end up with a bouncing room pretty quick.
Ned Goold's crazy post-bebop?
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?selectedItemId=16749656&playListId=16749678
i think it would be cool to showcase portland sounds.
in no particular order:
a good list of pop-centric bands,
another list of bands in a comp from the DIYinPDX book
For a most wonderful piece of uplifting music, I can thoroughly recommend fredo viola's lovely piece the sad song. It's not. believe me
as heard on Adult Swim, the Wagi Brothers Bamboo Band. excellent.
as heard on Adult Swim, the Wagi Brothers Bamboo Band. excellent.
My list is pretty heavy on the Self-Starter Foundation...I'm not associated with SSF, just like the bands. Many of the songs appear to be available through iTunes, the rest can be downloaded from http://www.selfstarterfoundation.com
The 101: 6/8
The Red And The Black: Plans For Next Year, Three Degrees
We: Diablos
Sea Ray: Lalaland
Lifter Puller: Let's Get Incredible
Cherubino: Mercury Retrograde
Actionslacks: I Hope This Makes It Easier For You
Propellerheads: Take California
Because I'm obssessed with obscure (but good) bands:
Just about anything by Grey Eye Glances
The music sets at WWDC also were themed. The woman running the room I presented in (at 5 pm on Friday afternoon) pointed this out and sure enough it was a sequence of music all themed around "goodbye".
With the caveat that nearly everything by the Eagles is vile beyond words, their instrumental Journey of the Sorcerer (link is to iTMS) is well-known as the theme song of the various "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" series, which might be very recognizable to certain of the attendees...
fiery furnaces: particularly the track "birdie brain"
driving, catchy, yet very original and surprising and smart. and positive. and innovative.. perfect for O'Reilly session interstitials
(then again.. it sure would be cool for OSCON to use exclusively free and creative-commons licensed music)
An option for the smaller rooms is to have audio support available. Geoff Young and I requested audio support for our ApacheCon talk last year, and we had music playing while we were setting up as well as a few funny sound effects during the talk. I'm sure every speaker can come up with something to play.
As for requests, I'll buy you a beer if I hear anything by the Indigo Girls (favorites include Devotion, Yield, Become You, and The Wood Song). :-)
Oh yes. "Journey of the Sourcerer". Definitely the Eagles. Bernie Leadon's quite a good banjo player. He was also part of "Run C and W", a mock C&W band that did covers of motown soul music in bluegrass style. Terrifying.
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