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Kim has me hooked on some Chillin' Acid Jazz House

I can't find any mp3 store with their music, so this is their list of CD's

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At SXSW I listened to a fair number of bands that I had never heard before and this year my top pick is The Asteroids Galaxy Tour from Copenhagen, Denmark. I saw them twice, once at Emo's Annex on Thursday night and once in the early evening at Maggie Mae's. Both performances were high energy with infectious melodies. The songs are danceable with a hint of Motown and Soul sampled into them. This is a clip from the performance at Maggie Mae's, the sound doesn't do justice to the live performance.

The band appears to have two core members: Mette Lindberg and Lars Iversen, with others added for live gigs, but I found the horn and rhythm sections particularly strong and essential for their sound. Here is a better live recording:

What the band is most know for it seems is that a clip from their song "Around the Bend" was used for an ipod touch commercial. The song is one of their stronger numbers and demonstrates how infectious their tunes are. Here is their official music video.

They have an album named Fruit that will be released in May of this year. Until then we'll have to do with the EP they released earlier which you can get from Amazon:

The new album will also include the Sun Ain't Shining No More:

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After Beardyman's performance at the DLD Dinner Hillary Hahn joined him for a unique duet. This part 1 of that. Unfortunately the camera isn't good at capturing the deep base that Beardyman produces.

You can find part two here and an HD quality one on Vimeo

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After Beardyman's performance at the DLD dinner Hillary Hahn join him. This is part 2 of that performance. Unfortunately the camera isn't very good at capturing the low base sounds that Beardyman produces.

You can view a HD version of this video on Vimeo.

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I have always been intrigued by the theme song from the television series Cold Case; it has a deep quality, an eerie sound yet at the same time has this deep orchestra backing. It is way more serious music than you otherwise encounter on US network television.

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cold-case-theme.mp3 (205 KB)

It wasn't until earlier this week that I actually found that it is based on a cut out of a piece called Nara by E.S. Posthumus. This is a two man group from L.A. that make cinematic style electronic music backed by an orchestra, in their case the Northwest Sinfonia. According to their website:

the compositions are inspired by the Pythagorean Philosophy which states that "music is the harmonization of opposites; the conciliation of warring elements" They find beauty in contrasts and apply this principle to melody, harmony, rhythm and orchestration

E.S. stands for "Experimental Sounds" while Posthumus is a word that represents "all things past"
 
Their album Unearthed is full of majestical pieces of cinematic quality. The piece used for Cold Case is titled Nara and is also on this album. This youtube video plays the whole song and about 55 seconds in you will find the section that was used for the theme song of the television series.

It turns out however that this is not the only piece that is used as a theme song. For example Posthumus Zone is the theme for NFL on CBS

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zone.mp3 (861 KB)

And it seems that Hollywood is especially in love with the album for use with movie trailers. Pieces from Unearthed have been used for movies such as Boondock Saints, Planet of the Apes, Affair of the Neckless, Minority Report, Spider-Man, Lord of the Rings, Unfaithful, Lara Croft, Pirates of the Caribean, and many more.

This is the trailer of Boondock Saints that uses Pompeii from Unearthed.

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In episode 10 there is a band playing that I hadn’t seen or heard before, but its guitarist, C.C. Adcock seems to have a long history of merging Southern Rock, Blues with Zydeco to make a pretty unique sound. His last album, The Lafayette Marquis, is contains some really interesting tunes.  This song, All 4 the Betta, is from that album.

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C.C._Adcock-All_4_The_Betta.mp3 (6181 KB)

This mp3 was originally downloaded from download.com

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