Web review: Jamstudio

Jamstudio is a cool web to create music tracks. Although you must pay for use it, ie, it costs $4/month, you can use a 10 minutes trial where you can explore a really big instruments online library and a usefull loop generator.

When you login with your email and your choosen password, you see something like this:

You have a pentagram with empty bars that you fill with the chord you want. You can create different loops, like:

G D Em C

G Em C D

Em Am Em Am

…

And then you can choose up to 8 different instruments. I think it’s a pretty good web.

 

R.I.P Lou Reed

Last Sunday a legend from the birth of the rock & roll music left our mortal’s world to go to the musician’s heaven. But he hasn’t taken with him all his contributions, actually, we can keep listening and enjoying his pioneer masterpieces such as Walking on the Wild Side, I love you Suzanne or My red joystick.

Before decades of soloist career, Lou Reed was the vocalist and guitarist of the group The Velvet Underground, a band who, with its experimental music began developing what we know nowadays as Rock and Roll music. The visual artist Andy Warhol (yeah, the author of the Campbell’s Can of Soup artwork) helped them being known integrating they on his multimedia events called Exploding Plastic Inevitable.

And I want to finish this short post with his most-known piece: Walking on the Wild Side, remembering him for its big contribution to the Rock’n’Roll music.

App Review: Discovr Music

I don’t know how I founded this copasetic aplication: Discovr Music. A minimalist and friendly theme that helps you to found exactly the simillar bands to which one you enter in the Search box. The most awesome thing about it is that this aplication recognizes millions of underground bands, such like Miike Snow or Friendly Fires. Here’s a screenshot of Tame Impala’s search:

Awesome, isn’t it? It has been developed by Filter Squad Pty Ltd (at least this corporation distributes it) which other apps are also so cool: Discovr Apps, Discovr Movies, Discovr Music and Discovr People. You can download it from here: https://itunes.apple.com/app/discovr-music-discover-new/id412768094?mt=8

Experimental Awesomeness

Having a look around the Internet I’ve found this deckly suitcase-chirp creation, attributable to Arca and FKA twigs for the music and production and to Jesse Kanda for this amazing videoclip. This UK artist, FKA twigs (Formerly Known As twigs (Her name used to be Twigs, before another musician with the same moniker lodged a complaint)) stands by its roiling beats, floating vowels and a subtile jazz/R&B background. What is amazing is that she can remember the implicit sensuality on the R & B genre without excess, dealing with a sublime aesthetic sensibility and an evocative melody and lyrics. Belonging to the UKG (United Kingdom Garage) musicians crowd, Twigs antecedents are, irrevocably, genious of the 1990′s trip-hop music such as Massive Attack, with its two albums Tricky’s Maxinquaye and Mezzanine, which merge slinky jazz-derived grooves with cloudy atmospherics that can switch from dreamy to sinister.