04:02 am :: Crank those speakers up...
location: Kowloon, Hong Kong
Current Mood:
awake
All those posts on house music will now give way to something that can tickle your aural senses, at last.
A lot of time and effort has gone into finding house playlists, and in trying to glean the best out of them. Many of my friends have also liked the numbers that I've been listening to, and that leads me to believe that house music can be liked by a wide variety of people.
Presenting the playlist that rocks my socks. Will try to keep it up-to-date with the most awesome tracks out there. Give it a listen, and if you start shaking a leg, let me know.
Current Mood:
impressed
Current Music: Pryda - Muranyi
HotMix (Radio Indigo 91.9 FM, Saturday nights, 1900-2200 hours) is awesome. Big respect to DJ Ivan and DJ Rohit Barker.
Singapore Airlines has an audio channel dedicated to house music, sourced from the Ministry of Sound.
Without further ado, here are some numbers gleaned from the above sources and some more, leading to pure aural pleasure.
Current Mood:
calm
Current Music: Everything But The Girl - Missing (Oakenfold 2008 Remix)
Been hooked to house music for a couple of months now, particularly the electro strain. Here's a dump of some of the best dance-floor stuff of 2007, mixed with a progressive number or two.
From the January 2008 lot, check out these numbers.
location: Secunderabad, India
Current Mood:
crazy
Current Music: Gnarls Barkley - Crazy
My heroes had the heart to lose their lives out on a limb
And all I remember is thinking, I want to be like them
Ever since I was little, ever since I was little it looked like fun
And it's no coincidence I've come
And I can die when I'm done
Maybe I'm crazy
Maybe you're crazy
Maybe we're crazy
Probably...
- Gnarls Barkley, Crazy.
That makes it three songs titled "Crazy", that I am crazy about. Seal's "Crazy", Alanis Morissette's cover of the same, and Gnarls Barkley's number.
What are you crazy about?
location: Secunderabad, India
Current Mood: happy
After living The Californian Life for 83 days, I'm back in India. Landed early this morning at HYD, instead of that airplane garage called BLR. Lufthansa is not as enjoyable as Cathay Pacific due to the lack of per-seat-LCD-screens, but I discovered some excellent house numbers on radio channel #6, ClubMix.
Should be headed to Bangalore in a week or slightly more than that.
I've now flown in seven major passenger aircraft - the A320 family, A330 and A340 from Airbus, and the 737, 747, 757 and 777 from Boeing. The A300, A310, A380 and the Boeing 767 remain...
Current Mood:
contemplative
Current Music: Timbaland - Way I Are
The following numbers have been prominent on my playlist, of late. Top 50 stuff, mostly.
For the last two months, I've been thinking of visiting a shrink, having asked a bunch of people about recommending one. Then, sometime last month, I managed to take lessons in golf, and learnt how to drive. There's nothing more therapeutic than whacking the smithereens out of a golf ball, making it fly 120+ yards if you get it right. So far, I have been doing 100+ yards with a 7-iron and 120+ yards with a 6-iron, over the course of the last two weekends. A lot of room for improvement, of course. There's something inside, a mixture of anger, frustration and depression, that just starts melting away at the driving range. Yay, I do not need to visit a psychologist!
location: Sunnyvale, CA
Two of my favourite bands from college-days are back on top of the charts. "Makes Me Wonder" by Maroon 5 and Linkin Park's "What I've Done" are such amazing numbers, and the lyrics of the latter song seem so totally-written-for-me types.
Meanwhile, Jay Z and Rihanna kick ass in "Umbrella".
Still geographically in Sunnyvale. Totally in love with the great city of San Francisco. Sorry NYC, for the phrase "The City" refers to SF now, at least for me.
California is so different from the rest of this country. It's like a different nation in itself. (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif)
anomalizer, you were right!)
Check out my Yahoo! Local profile if you are really interested in what I've been upto out here. ;)
location: Chennai, TN
Current Mood:
excited
Batman began, and Superman returned, yet they couldn't change themselves and remained wussies.
You deserve to be forgotten, fools, as the real super-hero hits the screens tomorrow. I'm going to watch Spidey-3 first day, first show! All the clips and trailers thus far look very promising.
Can't wait to get my hands on the soundtrack. (Take some link love, Amazonians. Hee hee.) Hope it lives up to the offerings in the earlier two albums.
Spideeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeey!
Current Music: Paul Oakenfold - Ready, Steady, Go
Uploaded some of my photos from Malaysia. You must check outcode_martial's photos from the Malaysian Grand Prix weekend as well - high quality stuff.
Been listening to Bebot (Black Eyed Peas), Ready Steady Go (Paul Oakenfold) and Sweet Escape (Gwen Stefani) quite a bit. Love 'em.
Am I the only hardcore LOST fan, or are there some of you out there too? Has anybody been following season 3? Till the very latest episode, #16?
As you can see, my time online these days is spent more on Flickr, than LiveJournal.
The Good Thing about Hollywood flicks is that songs aren't part of the movie, yet the tracks they choose for sequences add so much value to the story. I do agree that of late, Bollywood has been churning out some impressive remixes of the songs used in the movies, but then again, when a track jumps in slap-bang in the middle of the story, it's irritating.
Back to the theme.hitesh, premshree, spo0nman and I went to watch The Departed on Friday evening. Great movie, even from a soundtrack perspective. One can easily recognize Pink Floyd's Comfortably Numb playing in one scene, but there's this amazing track going on during one of the car chases: Dropkick Murphys - I'm Shipping Up To Boston. Very Irish!
Another case, with a TV show at that. There's this French rap song playing in the final episode of Sex and the City (Season 6, Episode 20). Good stuff. Upon a little bit of searching, learnt that it's peformed by MC Solaar, and the track's named La Belle et Le Bad Boy. Why choose a French rap song? That's because the finale is in Paris!
There are some movies which have mindblowing soundtracks: Spider-Man (1 and 2), Godzilla, M:I-2, to name a few.
One more before I conclude this post. Seen Hitch, right? Remember the scene in the bar when Will Smith approaches Eva Mendes? Really funky number playing in the background - Todd Terry's remix of Five Fathoms, the original rendered by Everything But the Girl. Todd Terry is from New York, and the movie's based in NYC, so there.
Any not-so-popular-but-awesome tracks you have stumbled upon through Hollywood? Let me know!
Current Mood:
determined
Current Music: Audioslave - Gasoline
House is haunted
I just want to go for a ride
Out an on
Before I set this room a light
Left alone forever and for crimes unclear
With my patience gone
Someone take me far from here
Burning that gasoline...
- Audioslave, Gasoline.
Current Mood: impressed
Been listening to Raeth's Bhula Do. Good stuff from the Paki kids.
The pain expressed in the lead singer's voice is in the same league as Jal's Woh Lamhe (two different versions of this song are in the soundtrack of Zeher) and Zubeen Garg's Ya Ali (soundtrack of Gangster).
Current Mood:
curious
Alright folks, help me out. I'm sure all of you have heard some foot-tapping English/Hindi/Punjabi number.
Can you comment on this post, giving me details [artist and title of song(s)] of the dance number(s) you like?
Let me kick-start the list.
English: 50 Cent - In Da Club
Hindi: Bluffmaster - Right Here, Right Now (The Hip-Hop Mix)
Punjabi: Shamur - Let the Music Play
TIA.
Current Mood: happy
Current Music: Janet Jackson - All Nite (Don't Stop)
VH1. One hour. Thrice a week. Must see.
Current Mood: anxious
Current Music: DJ Aqueel - Fanaa for You (Remix)
It's a earworm now. I'm sure some of you have heard it play in clubs. A very peppy beat.
Badly recorded pieces of this song (the tune/beat can be distinguished) are here: 1, 2. (Keep the volume low.) Please help!
Update, 2006-05-24, 03:55 - I GOT THE SONG! I GOT THE SONG! It's All Nite (Don't Stop) by Janet Jackson! Did real crazy things - Searched for Indian DJs online, found a certain DJ Nyk, IMed him (he was online!) and he was very helpful. Told me the name of the song in an instant! Thank you so much, dude. I was beginning to go crazy!
Current Mood:
high
Current Music: Bluffmaster - Right Here, Right Now (Original version)
Now to see the video of this mindblowingly addictive song.
Ek mein aur ek tu hai, aur hawa mein jadoo hai;
Arzoo bekabu hai, samjo saare baat baaki;
Waqt ka kya bharosa, ban ke paani beh jaaye;
Kal agar na mil paaye, reh na jaaye baat baaki.
Courtesy:vipul's post, and ashster's post.
Download the song.
Current Mood:
amused
Current Music: Crazy Frog (Bass Bumpers) - Axel F
Long long ago, in the year 1999, I got hold of this file, which was disguised under the description How a Formula 1 V8 engine sounds like. Around about the same time (by my guess), this insanity test was also floating around in the form of email forwards. Notice the similarity, don't ya? :>
*booming voice* Six years later, in 2005 AD, this song releases, and I was surprised to see this little audio clip as a part of this remix. Apparently, this song has become a very popular mobile-phone ringtone amongst teeny-boppers.
A little bit of searching, and we get to know that the famous kid's name is Daniel Malmedahl. There's an impressive Wikipedia entry on Crazy Frog.
If a picture speaks a thousand words, how much does a video convey? Don't ask me, but check out the animated music video of the Crazy Frog phenomenon. 03:33 am :: Now the world is gone, I'm just One...
Current Music: Metallica - One (S&M)
One is not just a song. It's not an anthem, no. It's a goddamn prayer. Yes, that's what it is.
location: Kowloon, Hong Kong
Current Mood:
awakeAll those posts on house music will now give way to something that can tickle your aural senses, at last.
A lot of time and effort has gone into finding house playlists, and in trying to glean the best out of them. Many of my friends have also liked the numbers that I've been listening to, and that leads me to believe that house music can be liked by a wide variety of people.
Presenting the playlist that rocks my socks. Will try to keep it up-to-date with the most awesome tracks out there. Give it a listen, and if you start shaking a leg, let me know.
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11:37 pm :: var_dump($house_february_2008);Current Mood:
impressedCurrent Music: Pryda - Muranyi
HotMix (Radio Indigo 91.9 FM, Saturday nights, 1900-2200 hours) is awesome. Big respect to DJ Ivan and DJ Rohit Barker.
Singapore Airlines has an audio channel dedicated to house music, sourced from the Ministry of Sound.
Without further ado, here are some numbers gleaned from the above sources and some more, leading to pure aural pleasure.
- Dirty South feat. MYNC Project - Everybody Freakin'
- Dubfire - Roadkill
- Global Deejays feat Technotronic - Get Up (General Electric Version)
- Pryda - Muranyi
- Samim - Heater (Claude Van Stroke Remix)
- Underworld - Crocodile
- Underworld - Crocodile (Pete Heller Remix)
- SE:SA - Like This Like That
Current Mood:
calmCurrent Music: Everything But The Girl - Missing (Oakenfold 2008 Remix)
Been hooked to house music for a couple of months now, particularly the electro strain. Here's a dump of some of the best dance-floor stuff of 2007, mixed with a progressive number or two.
- Evermore - It's Too Late (Dirty South Remix) - This one got my interest going.
- Armand Ven Helden - NYC Beat - Superbly-paced number.
- David Guetta - Love Is Gone (Fred Rister & Joachim Garraud Remix) - Mindblowing track!
- Red Hot Chili Peppers - Waiting For (Rene Amesz & Peter Gelderblom's Remix)
- Misja vs Jasper - Project Project (Sied Van Riel Remix)
- Yves Larock - Rise Up (Vandalism Remix)
- Eric Laville & J.M. Sicky - Unknown (Original Remix) - Awesome, awesome!
- Agoria - Les Violins Ivres (Super Remix)
- Bob Sinclair feat. Steve Edwards - World Hold On (Axwell Remix)
- Federico Franchi - Cream - Nice tune!
- David Tort and DJ Ruff meets DJ Disciple - Changes (NY Sexy Mix)
- Lorraine - Transatlantic Flight (Axwell Remix)
- Paul Oakenfold feat. Brittany Murphy - Faster Kill Pussycat
- Wonderland Avenue - White Horse (Original Remix)
- Chemical Brothers - Do It Again
From the January 2008 lot, check out these numbers.
- Dirty South - Let It Go (Axwell Remix) - Amazing!
- Groove Zone - Eisbaer (Oakenfold 2008 Remix)
- Dirty Vegas - Days Go By (Oakenfold Vocal Mix)
- Everything But The Girl - Missing (Oakenfold 2008 Remix)
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02:21 pm :: We're never gonna survive, unless...location: Secunderabad, India
Current Mood:
crazyCurrent Music: Gnarls Barkley - Crazy
My heroes had the heart to lose their lives out on a limb
And all I remember is thinking, I want to be like them
Ever since I was little, ever since I was little it looked like fun
And it's no coincidence I've come
And I can die when I'm done
Maybe I'm crazy
Maybe you're crazy
Maybe we're crazy
Probably...
- Gnarls Barkley, Crazy.
That makes it three songs titled "Crazy", that I am crazy about. Seal's "Crazy", Alanis Morissette's cover of the same, and Gnarls Barkley's number.
What are you crazy about?
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08:42 pm :: HYD, AP. IN!location: Secunderabad, India
Current Mood:
happyAfter living The Californian Life for 83 days, I'm back in India. Landed early this morning at HYD, instead of that airplane garage called BLR. Lufthansa is not as enjoyable as Cathay Pacific due to the lack of per-seat-LCD-screens, but I discovered some excellent house numbers on radio channel #6, ClubMix.
Should be headed to Bangalore in a week or slightly more than that.
I've now flown in seven major passenger aircraft - the A320 family, A330 and A340 from Airbus, and the 737, 747, 757 and 777 from Boeing. The A300, A310, A380 and the Boeing 767 remain...
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01:39 am :: Now playing...Current Mood:
contemplativeCurrent Music: Timbaland - Way I Are
The following numbers have been prominent on my playlist, of late. Top 50 stuff, mostly.
- Justin Timberlake - What Goes Around Comes Around, LoveStoned, Summer Love
- Gwen Stefani - 4 in the Morning
- Wonderland Avenue - White Horse
- Timbaland - Way I Are
- Ne-Yo - Because of You
- Timbaland feat. JT and Nelly Furtado - Give It To Me
- Rihanna - Umbrella
- Maroon 5 - Makes Me Wonder
- Linkin Park - What I've Done
- Alannah Myles - Black Velvet
- Nelly Furtado - Say It Right
For the last two months, I've been thinking of visiting a shrink, having asked a bunch of people about recommending one. Then, sometime last month, I managed to take lessons in golf, and learnt how to drive. There's nothing more therapeutic than whacking the smithereens out of a golf ball, making it fly 120+ yards if you get it right. So far, I have been doing 100+ yards with a 7-iron and 120+ yards with a 6-iron, over the course of the last two weekends. A lot of room for improvement, of course. There's something inside, a mixture of anger, frustration and depression, that just starts melting away at the driving range. Yay, I do not need to visit a psychologist!
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11:24 am :: Welcome back, boys.location: Sunnyvale, CA
Two of my favourite bands from college-days are back on top of the charts. "Makes Me Wonder" by Maroon 5 and Linkin Park's "What I've Done" are such amazing numbers, and the lyrics of the latter song seem so totally-written-for-me types.
In this farewell,
There's no blood,
There's no alibi.
Cause I've drawn regret,
From the truth,
Of a thousand lies.
So let mercy come,
And wash away...
What I've done,
I'll face myself,
To cross out
What I've become,
Erase myself,
And let go of
What I've done.
Meanwhile, Jay Z and Rihanna kick ass in "Umbrella".
Still geographically in Sunnyvale. Totally in love with the great city of San Francisco. Sorry NYC, for the phrase "The City" refers to SF now, at least for me.
California is so different from the rest of this country. It's like a different nation in itself. (
anomalizer, you were right!)Check out my Yahoo! Local profile if you are really interested in what I've been upto out here. ;)
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01:27 pm :: Three years to 3...location: Chennai, TN
Current Mood:
excitedBatman began, and Superman returned, yet they couldn't change themselves and remained wussies.
You deserve to be forgotten, fools, as the real super-hero hits the screens tomorrow. I'm going to watch Spidey-3 first day, first show! All the clips and trailers thus far look very promising.
Can't wait to get my hands on the soundtrack. (Take some link love, Amazonians. Hee hee.) Hope it lives up to the offerings in the earlier two albums.
Spideeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeey!
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01:23 am :: Random scribbling...Current Music: Paul Oakenfold - Ready, Steady, Go
Uploaded some of my photos from Malaysia. You must check out
code_martial's photos from the Malaysian Grand Prix weekend as well - high quality stuff.Been listening to Bebot (Black Eyed Peas), Ready Steady Go (Paul Oakenfold) and Sweet Escape (Gwen Stefani) quite a bit. Love 'em.
Am I the only hardcore LOST fan, or are there some of you out there too? Has anybody been following season 3? Till the very latest episode, #16?
As you can see, my time online these days is spent more on Flickr, than LiveJournal.
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07:37 pm :: On soundtracks...The Good Thing about Hollywood flicks is that songs aren't part of the movie, yet the tracks they choose for sequences add so much value to the story. I do agree that of late, Bollywood has been churning out some impressive remixes of the songs used in the movies, but then again, when a track jumps in slap-bang in the middle of the story, it's irritating.
Back to the theme.
hitesh, premshree, spo0nman and I went to watch The Departed on Friday evening. Great movie, even from a soundtrack perspective. One can easily recognize Pink Floyd's Comfortably Numb playing in one scene, but there's this amazing track going on during one of the car chases: Dropkick Murphys - I'm Shipping Up To Boston. Very Irish!Another case, with a TV show at that. There's this French rap song playing in the final episode of Sex and the City (Season 6, Episode 20). Good stuff. Upon a little bit of searching, learnt that it's peformed by MC Solaar, and the track's named La Belle et Le Bad Boy. Why choose a French rap song? That's because the finale is in Paris!
There are some movies which have mindblowing soundtracks: Spider-Man (1 and 2), Godzilla, M:I-2, to name a few.
One more before I conclude this post. Seen Hitch, right? Remember the scene in the bar when Will Smith approaches Eva Mendes? Really funky number playing in the background - Todd Terry's remix of Five Fathoms, the original rendered by Everything But the Girl. Todd Terry is from New York, and the movie's based in NYC, so there.
Any not-so-popular-but-awesome tracks you have stumbled upon through Hollywood? Let me know!
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02:30 am :: Burning that teemuS...Current Mood:
determinedCurrent Music: Audioslave - Gasoline
House is haunted
I just want to go for a ride
Out an on
Before I set this room a light
Left alone forever and for crimes unclear
With my patience gone
Someone take me far from here
Burning that gasoline...
- Audioslave, Gasoline.
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08:41 am :: New Paki band on the block...Current Mood:
impressedBeen listening to Raeth's Bhula Do. Good stuff from the Paki kids.
The pain expressed in the lead singer's voice is in the same league as Jal's Woh Lamhe (two different versions of this song are in the soundtrack of Zeher) and Zubeen Garg's Ya Ali (soundtrack of Gangster).
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10:41 pm :: Kindly help DJ Slipstream...Current Mood:
curiousAlright folks, help me out. I'm sure all of you have heard some foot-tapping English/Hindi/Punjabi number.
Can you comment on this post, giving me details [artist and title of song(s)] of the dance number(s) you like?
Let me kick-start the list.
English: 50 Cent - In Da Club
Hindi: Bluffmaster - Right Here, Right Now (The Hip-Hop Mix)
Punjabi: Shamur - Let the Music Play
TIA.
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04:23 am :: Remember, remember...Current Mood:
happyCurrent Music: Janet Jackson - All Nite (Don't Stop)
VH1. One hour. Thrice a week. Must see.
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12:06 pm :: Which track/album/artist is this?Current Mood:
anxiousCurrent Music: DJ Aqueel - Fanaa for You (Remix)
It's a earworm now. I'm sure some of you have heard it play in clubs. A very peppy beat.
Badly recorded pieces of this song (the tune/beat can be distinguished) are here: 1, 2. (Keep the volume low.) Please help!
Update, 2006-05-24, 03:55 - I GOT THE SONG! I GOT THE SONG! It's All Nite (Don't Stop) by Janet Jackson! Did real crazy things - Searched for Indian DJs online, found a certain DJ Nyk, IMed him (he was online!) and he was very helpful. Told me the name of the song in an instant! Thank you so much, dude. I was beginning to go crazy!
(5 comments | Leave a comment)
07:35 pm :: Alright, hooked.Current Mood:
highCurrent Music: Bluffmaster - Right Here, Right Now (Original version)
Now to see the video of this mindblowingly addictive song.
Ek mein aur ek tu hai, aur hawa mein jadoo hai;
Arzoo bekabu hai, samjo saare baat baaki;
Waqt ka kya bharosa, ban ke paani beh jaaye;
Kal agar na mil paaye, reh na jaaye baat baaki.
Courtesy:
vipul's post, and ashster's post.Download the song.
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05:08 am :: Crazy Frog -> Axel F -> F1 engine imitation -> Insanity...Current Mood:
amusedCurrent Music: Crazy Frog (Bass Bumpers) - Axel F
Long long ago, in the year 1999, I got hold of this file, which was disguised under the description How a Formula 1 V8 engine sounds like. Around about the same time (by my guess), this insanity test was also floating around in the form of email forwards. Notice the similarity, don't ya? :>
*booming voice* Six years later, in 2005 AD, this song releases, and I was surprised to see this little audio clip as a part of this remix. Apparently, this song has become a very popular mobile-phone ringtone amongst teeny-boppers.
A little bit of searching, and we get to know that the famous kid's name is Daniel Malmedahl. There's an impressive Wikipedia entry on Crazy Frog.
If a picture speaks a thousand words, how much does a video convey? Don't ask me, but check out the animated music video of the Crazy Frog phenomenon. 03:33 am :: Now the world is gone, I'm just One...
Current Music: Metallica - One (S&M)
One is not just a song. It's not an anthem, no. It's a goddamn prayer. Yes, that's what it is.