May
21
My music, other people's music, software
Apr
12
exfm blog: Using Amazon Cloudsearch with Python and Boto
exfm:
This morning Amazon announced their latest addition to the toolkit, Cloudsearch. Here at ex.fm, we were lucky enough to be part of the private beta for Cloudsearch, so we’ve been running it in production for the past few months.
In terms of performance, Cloudsearch is much faster and…
Jan
31
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Keep Rockin It Featuring Sondu by ShinSight Trio
shared from exfm
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Can I Sleep In Your Arms by Willie Nelson
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All I Have To Do Is Dream by Everly Brothers
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Country Roads (John Denver Remix) by Pretty Lights
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Take Me Home, Country Roads by John Denver
shared from exfm
Jan
5
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The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia by Reba McEntire
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The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia by Vicki Lawrence
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Theme Time Blog Hour: Post-9/11 Country Pop Favorites Edition, Part 2
It’s a Great Day to Be Alive
Travis Tritt
Down The Road I Go
source: nosnivelling.tumblr.com
Riding With Private Malone
David Ball
source: southernfriedangel.tumblr.com
Theme Time Blog Hour: Post-9/11 Country Pop Favorites Edition
Cool To Be A Fool
Joe Nichols
Man With a Memory
source: red-verse.tumblr.com
19 Somethin’
Mark Wills
Live at Billy Bob’s Texas
source: photoboothenthusiast.tumblr.com
Drive (For Daddy Gene)
Alan Jackson
Grestest Hits Volume II
source: musparade.com
The Good Stuff
Kenny Chesney
No Shoes, No Shirt, No Problems
source: raincornandwhiskey.tumblr.com
Living And Living Well
by George Strait
50 Number Ones
source: countryisascountrydoes.tumblr.com
Living And Living
by Jonathan Marmor
Fantastic Discharge
source: ballbearingspinatas.com
Down in It
by Nine Inch Nails
Pretty Hate Machine
source: -hd.tumblr.com
-Jonathan Marmor
Dec
24
Favorite music that was new to me in 2011
This is an unordered list of my favorite music that I discovered this year using exfm. Please forgive my tendency to be dozens or hundreds of years behind on the latest releases.
Show Biz Kids by Rickie Lee Jones
The original Steely Dan for reference:
source: sixsongs.blogspot.com
All The Things You Are by Adam Benjamin
http://ex.fm/song/1aa
source: adambenjamin.net
Hands On The Wheel by Willie Nelson
http://ex.fm/song/2cs4m
source: suncircle.org
I’m not sure how I missed ever hearing this song until it was played at my friend Nigel’s wedding while he was dancing with his new wife. Here’s an incredible remix of Ry Cooder by Nigel:
Theme From Southern Comfort by Donut
http://ex.fm/song/v2
source: soundcloud.com
Aayega Aanewaala by Lata Mangeshkar
http://ex.fm/song/q01k
source: ohdrat.tumblr.com
I Am Sitting In A Room by Alvin Lucier
http://ex.fm/song/bbsc
source: hotsugar.tumblr.com
This and the next one are unfamiliar recordings of familiar pieces. Incredible just intonation buzzing and geometric rhythmic patterns in the Tenney:
Spectral Variations No. 1 by James Tenney
http://ex.fm/song/1zg
source: en.wikipedia.org
Black Hole Sun by D’Angelo
http://ex.fm/song/1icog
source: furthermucker.tumblr.com
Is this actually D’Angelo covering Soundgarden’s Black Hole Sun? If not, who cares, it’s great.
Wet by Snoop Dogg
http://ex.fm/song/a38
source: stereogum.com
My friend Katie said Wet is from the future… a time when filthy songs are written for the Las Vegas bachelor parties of English princes. Dude is another dirty song from the future. The sounds are so crisp:
Dude (The Remix) by Beenie Man, Ms. Thing and Shaw
http://ex.fm/song/1457u
source: talluminati.tumblr.com
Chug-A-Lug by Roger Miller
http://ex.fm/song/3jqer
http://ex.fm/song/3jqsi
http://ex.fm/song/dktz
source: hookersorcake.com
Three versions of this rowdy and honest coming of age country pop song. #9 on the U.S. charts in 1964, according to Wikipedia.
The Waters Of March by Sergio Mendes
http://ex.fm/song/1yv
source: nikhilbanerjee.tumblr.com
In English!
Color Him Father by Linda Martell
http://ex.fm/song/1xr
source: soundcloud.com
This might be my favorite music I found this year. This country version really makes the sentimentality of the song as clear as possible. It was originally recorded by The Winstons on the same single as “Amen, Brother” which is one of the most sampled songs of all time.
Sixteen Hollywood Silence: Hollywood and Vine by G. Douglass Barrett
http://ex.fm/song/1xp
source: gdouglasbarrett.com
A recording of the sounds at the corner of Hollywood and Vine in LA, automatically analysed and arranged for orchestra. Just gorgeous. Please start a Kickstarter campaign to pay an orchestra to record the other 15 movements, from other major intersections in LA.
Sida by Ibro Diabate
http://ex.fm/song/1wz
source: awesometapesfromafrica.blogspot.com
Manemi Gnoul by Thione Ballago Seck
http://ex.fm/song/2m9m
source: awesometapes.com
Awesome Tapes from Africa might be the best music website of all time.
Hoquetus David by Guillaume de Machaut
http://ex.fm/song/1v1
source: nuttymp3.com
This is just an excerpt, but it’s worth it! It’s late breaking music with interlocking parts from fourteenth century France. While we’re in France and the past, here are a few of my favorites found this year from 17th century French composer and theorist Jean-Philippe Rameau:
Jean-Philippe Rameau Suite in A minor - II. Courante by Angela Hewitt
http://ex.fm/song/4hxgq
source: music-ex-machina.tumblr.com
Les Palatins - Acte II, Scène 2: Sarabande by Christophe Rousset; Les Talens Lyriques
http://ex.fm/song/a0x5
source: nikhilbanerjee.tumblr.com
Love Is Like A Bottle Of Gin by Magnetic Fields
http://ex.fm/song/2u348
source: fuckyeahthemagneticfields.tumblr.com
All The Things You Are by Adam Benjamin
http://ex.fm/song/1aa
source: adambenjamin.net
Hands On The Wheel by Willie Nelson
http://ex.fm/song/2cs4m
source: suncircle.org
I’m not sure how I missed ever hearing this song until it was played at my friend Nigel’s wedding while he was dancing with his new wife. Here’s an incredible remix of Ry Cooder by Nigel:
Theme From Southern Comfort by Donut
http://ex.fm/song/v2
source: soundcloud.com
Aayega Aanewaala by Lata Mangeshkar
http://ex.fm/song/q01k
source: ohdrat.tumblr.com
I Am Sitting In A Room by Alvin Lucier
http://ex.fm/song/bbsc
source: hotsugar.tumblr.com
This and the next one are unfamiliar recordings of familiar pieces. Incredible just intonation buzzing and geometric rhythmic patterns in the Tenney:
Spectral Variations No. 1 by James Tenney
http://ex.fm/song/1zg
source: en.wikipedia.org
Black Hole Sun by D’Angelo
http://ex.fm/song/1icog
source: furthermucker.tumblr.com
Is this actually D’Angelo covering Soundgarden’s Black Hole Sun? If not, who cares, it’s great.
Wet by Snoop Dogg
http://ex.fm/song/a38
source: stereogum.com
My friend Katie said Wet is from the future… a time when filthy songs are written for the Las Vegas bachelor parties of English princes. Dude is another dirty song from the future. The sounds are so crisp:
Dude (The Remix) by Beenie Man, Ms. Thing and Shaw
http://ex.fm/song/1457u
source: talluminati.tumblr.com
Chug-A-Lug by Roger Miller
http://ex.fm/song/3jqer
http://ex.fm/song/3jqsi
http://ex.fm/song/dktz
source: hookersorcake.com
Three versions of this rowdy and honest coming of age country pop song. #9 on the U.S. charts in 1964, according to Wikipedia.
The Waters Of March by Sergio Mendes
http://ex.fm/song/1yv
source: nikhilbanerjee.tumblr.com
In English!
Color Him Father by Linda Martell
http://ex.fm/song/1xr
source: soundcloud.com
This might be my favorite music I found this year. This country version really makes the sentimentality of the song as clear as possible. It was originally recorded by The Winstons on the same single as “Amen, Brother” which is one of the most sampled songs of all time.
Sixteen Hollywood Silence: Hollywood and Vine by G. Douglass Barrett
http://ex.fm/song/1xp
source: gdouglasbarrett.com
A recording of the sounds at the corner of Hollywood and Vine in LA, automatically analysed and arranged for orchestra. Just gorgeous. Please start a Kickstarter campaign to pay an orchestra to record the other 15 movements, from other major intersections in LA.
Sida by Ibro Diabate
http://ex.fm/song/1wz
source: awesometapesfromafrica.blogspot.com
Manemi Gnoul by Thione Ballago Seck
http://ex.fm/song/2m9m
source: awesometapes.com
Awesome Tapes from Africa might be the best music website of all time.
Hoquetus David by Guillaume de Machaut
http://ex.fm/song/1v1
source: nuttymp3.com
This is just an excerpt, but it’s worth it! It’s late breaking music with interlocking parts from fourteenth century France. While we’re in France and the past, here are a few of my favorites found this year from 17th century French composer and theorist Jean-Philippe Rameau:
Jean-Philippe Rameau Suite in A minor - II. Courante by Angela Hewitt
http://ex.fm/song/4hxgq
source: music-ex-machina.tumblr.com
Les Palatins - Acte II, Scène 2: Sarabande by Christophe Rousset; Les Talens Lyriques
http://ex.fm/song/a0x5
source: nikhilbanerjee.tumblr.com
Love Is Like A Bottle Of Gin by Magnetic Fields
http://ex.fm/song/2u348
source: fuckyeahthemagneticfields.tumblr.com
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