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Metal Mashup 2: Al Son del Bodom Beach Boom (Children of Bodom vs. Daddy Yankee)

This is an interesting mix of some classic melodic thrashy death metal with rrrreggaeton!
Children of Bodom – Bodom Beach Terror
Daddy Yankee feat. Miguelito – Al Son Del Boom (El Heredero)

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Al Son del Bodom Beach Boom by Alex Yule is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License.

Note that this is still a work in progress, just created it and looking for feedback on how it fits together, but most importantly how to mix/eq to bring out the parts better (so far my only real edits besides slicing have been a volume envelope that changes throughout the song). But its definitely 90% there — a ‘rough cut’, since most of the actual mashing is done.

Another thought would be to redo the mashup using the acapella of Al Son Del Boom, but I think the drums are already minimal enough to work, and in certain parts they add a lot to the song. And it would be a huge pain in the arse.

Please let me know what you think! Can’t get better otherwise…Al Son del Bodom Beach Boom

Posted 09 April 2009 † Yuletide § Music ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , ,

Foucault is METAL

A  hilarious bit from a conversation with a friend about Foucault being a badass and post-modernism (whatever that is):

Jack: I like postmodernism, but I usually take the radical end out and think it terms of history

me: history?
Jack: Yeah
9:03 PM Postmodernism thinks it has found the tr00 chaos underlying all things
It’s REALITY!
REALITY MOTHAFUCKAS
me: haha sounds like Nietsche

have you read the birth of tragedy?
Jack: I don’t do that
…me: the nietzche thing is all about using dionysus as a metaphor for tr00 chaos
Jack: Hahah
Yeah, sounds like the Neech
me: and he claims the greeks weren’t really peaceful or stoic attall
but actually kinda fucked up
9:05 PM Jack: Hahah
me: but we looove our Appolonian boxes
after all, anything that touches the Dionysic void is destroyed
pretty fucking metal


And the real gem:
Jack channeling Foucault pwning someone in a conversation. Any conversation.
9:13 PM “Actually, as we discuss what we’re seeing is that we can only travel back and forth between mediational abstractions created by discourses of power that conflict with one another and make your reality FUCKED!”
Yes Foxy, but
FUCKED I SAY
But
DISCOURSE OF POWER

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Posted 28 January 2009 † Yuletide § Commentary § Incoherence ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: , ,

Faulkner on the “Spirit”

“Ah write when the spirit moves me, and the spirit moves me every day.” –William Faulkner #

Posted 28 December 2008 † Yuletide § Meta § Tweets § Writing ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

62-year old Friar Cesare Bonizzi is no ordinary heavy metal rocker.

62-year old Friar Cesare Bonizzi is no ordinary heavy metal rocker.

Posted 21 December 2008 † Yuletide § Aside § Links § Tweets ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2008-12-14

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Posted 14 December 2008 † Yuletide § Tweets ‡ Comments (0) °

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2008-12-07 (Mumbai Attacks)

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Posted 07 December 2008 † Yuletide § Tweets ‡ Comments (0) °

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2008-11-30

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Posted 30 November 2008 † Yuletide § Tweets ‡ Comments (0) °

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2008-11-23

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Posted 23 November 2008 † Yuletide § Tweets ‡ Comments (1) °

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2008-11-16

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Posted 16 November 2008 † Yuletide § Tweets ‡ Comments (0) °

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2008-11-09

Posted 09 November 2008 † Yuletide § Tweets ‡ Comments (1) °