The Daily Dose of Sound, because this world is full of music.
Across popular and less popular styles & genres, ranging from known to unknown artists, old or new, find a new song-link here everyday.
Open your ears and mind and enjoy.
"Flight of the Bumblebee" is an Orchestral Sweet originally written by Russian composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov for his opera 'The Tale of Tsar Saltan' (circa 1900). As the name suggests, the piece, with its frantic pace, brings to mind a flying bumblebee.
A jazz adaptation to the manic piece was made by Wynton Marsalis, a renown modern American trumpeter.
"Big beat tends to feature distorted, compressed breakbeats at moderate tempos (usually between 90 to 140 beats per minute), acid house style synthesizer lines and heavy loops from jazz, rock or 60s pop."
While the style's name might not ring a bell with most people, some artists within the style do. One of these artists is London's Groove Armada. (Additionally, Chemical Brothers, Fatboy Slim and The Prodigy.)
Their music has been featured in several media such as movies, advertising campaigns and computer games.
This song is somewhat more mellow than most of the work by the artists named.
Wait for the piano kicking in taking the track to heaven.
"You step out of a time traveling device, realizing that due to a machine-failure you have traveled both 50 years backwards, and 50 years forward at the same time," Waldeck explains.
Enjoy acid Jazz and the best of dirty french feel jazz sounds combined. This is Waldeck
This grammatically dubious question posed by the Killers frontman Brandon Flowers over "Human"'s atypical dance beat sparked a surge of debate over the internet after the late 2008 release of the song as the band's first single to their new album "Day & Age".
Around the date of its release, the Killers performed "Human" at the 2008 EMAs, putting on a pretty cool show.
Manzanita means little apple (manzana = apple) Most of it is based on a song called Quimbara that has been performed by several different artists, notably famous Celia Cruz.
Jacques Loussier, a gifted composer, became famous for his jazz interpretations of many of Bach's pieces. After the break up of his Play Bach Trio he worked together with the likes of Pink Floyd, Elton John and Sting. Three hundred years after Bach's birth the trio reunited with two additional artists.
Halfway through, this track swings around to become a funky jazz tune to speed up and add significant speed and spice in the last minute.
On the first single of his new album, Flo Rida 'borrows' the chorus of Dead Or Alive's 1984 hit-song "You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)". The uncredited female vocals are provided by Kesha, who can easily be confused with Katy Perry.
In late 1935, a baker and a cigar factory worker had a child in the outskirts of Modena, Italy. As the boy grew up, he became passionate about football and developed his dream of becoming a professional goalkeeper. As he faced the dilemma of a career choice, his mother persuaded him into become an elementary school teacher. After several years, however, at the age of 19, he decided to switch career paths once again, starting a study in music. It was not until at this moment that he realized his voice had the perfect pitch. From that point onwards, the young singer started his rise to fame. Throughout his life, he toured the world, singing in innumerable renowned pieces, starring in TV shows and selling over a hundred million records. Eventually, he became one of the legendary 'Three Tenors' and the most famous and popular operatic tenor of all time.
For anyone left unconvinced:
Luciano Pavarotti - 'Nessun Dorma' (Aria from Puccini's 'Turandot')
English singer-songwriter David Gray re-released his single "This Years Love". In the newer version, an emphasis was placed on the strings and a gentle drum was added, giving it a bit more of a romantic touch.
Enjoy your Valentine's.
For all those sitting at home alone, don't feel bad. This is for you.
De Phazz is an ensemble led by a German producer who mixes up his crew for every album. This creates unique tracks and albums. Still, the sound is very distinct throughout his work.
Note the metropolitan vibe of the song, as well as some 60s associations.
At Sunday's 51st Grammy Awards, the unexpected collaboration between Robert Plant (former lead vocalist of Led Zeppelin) and Alison Krauss (26 Grammy-award winning Bluegrass-soprano) turned out the big winner.
The two were both awarded 'Record of the Year' with their duet "Please Read the Letter" as well as 'Album of the Year'.
'Record of the Year' or boring folk-rock that should have won the Granny Awards instead?
You be the judge:
Alison Krauss & Robert Plant - "Please Read the Letter"
Starting her singing activities in a speakeasy (underground bar in the USA during the non-alcohol period), getting rejected by Broadway to eventually get accepted by Broadway shows, Betty Hutton made a career for herself.
John Mayer consistently delivers quality music. His most well known song 'Your Body is a Wonderland' got him a grammy award and several of his albums went multi-platinum.
He has released three studio albums as a solo artist. Additionally, he has released live DVDs/albums as well as engaged in collaborative projects such as the John Mayer Trio.
His earlier work had more of a pop sound but increasingly his style shows a blues vibe, especially his bluesy guitar stretches put his signature on his songs.
Next to music John Mayer busies himself with design (guitars), writing (Esquire Magazine) and stand-up comedy (VH1).
From his latest album, Continuum, one of his slower songs
John Mayer - Slow Dancing in a Burning Room
Check out some more live footage to see the man in action.
Folk singer Brett Dennen, with his distinct feminine style of singing, when heard, is often confused as being a female singer.
His introspective lyrics and organic-style of singing is strongly influenced by that of Tracy Chapman, who, ironically is often mistaken for a white male singer...
The music genre Acid Jazz, combines elements of Jazz, Funk and Hip-Hop, and to a lesser extent shows influences of soul music, house and disco.
A main feature of the genre is the usage of looping (repeating a certain part of a song or a sound sample), as opposed to classical jazz where fifteen minute songs can contain several solo's without repeating much.
In Acid Jazz, the jazz sound combined with a beat and a warm jazzy bass works really well, granting Jazz access to a more electronic range of music.
Jazzhole is a band from New York regarded as one of the key members in the Acid Jazz movement.
Quantic is the stage name of the Colombian-based producer Will Holland (which agreeably sounds a bit less exotic). Nickodemus is a New York DJ with a wide-ranging style of music.
This is all not very exciting, unlike their collaborative song "Mi Swing Es Tropical". Latin flavor.
Josh Rouse is an American singer/songwriter. His music is mostly laid back rock/pop, it listens easy, but still, his lyrics can go quite deep.
He opened for John Mayer during one of his tours. Their style is comparable to some extent. Complementary might be the better word.
In 2006 he moved to Spain. He recorded a record together with his girlfriend. The duo called She's Spanish, I'm American released the record (EP) on his personal label Bedroom Classics.
Their style is said to be 'folk/roots pop'. It's just chilled out.
Beirut is an American-based rock band that uses Eastern European and folk influences in their music.
A great example of this is their critically acclaimed song "Elephant Gun". Note the band's use of trumpet, accordion and ukelele, among other unusual instruments.
Bodyrox is a DJ duo comprised of Jon Pearn and Nick Bridges, two English DJs. Their second single was released early 2008. For an electro song, this tune has quite substantive lyrics (performed by Luciana Caporaso).
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