MP3s

ECC's "Pwn Monkey" on Old Nerdy Bastard compilation (from Hipster Please)

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Saturday, 14 June 2008 21:57

Hipster, Please! invited The ECC to participate in their Old Nerdy Bastard compilation project, where the vocal tracks from various geeky songs are remixed and reworked by other geeky music types.  The ECC chose Jonathon Coulton's "Code Monkey", and got to try a new mashup concept.  The final result mixes Coulton's vocals over samples from 30 other songs and bands (in only 2 minutes and 40 seconds!), and the samples were meticulously picked to match the chord progressions of the original track.  The result is a choppy yet in-tune track that almost makes the listener dizzy with its fast pace.  We're pretty proud of this one!  Listen for yourself:

Listen Now:      
Download Song: Pwn Monkey (right-click or ctrl-click)
Download Album: Old Nerdy Bastard (RAR archive... link fixed)
...or visit the Album Page

Survive-All Fallout Shelter Radio Ads

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Friday, 28 March 2008 17:55

As you might expect, The ECC holds a mighty, massive archive of strange recordings for use as source materials.  Occasional nuggets from the archive can be downloaded and enjoyed in posts over at Dinosaur Gardens.  The latest:

Survive-All Fallout Shelter Radio Ads

The international struggles of our world may lead to… (ka-boom) NUCLEAR HOLOCAUST!

Nothing lends itself better to a fear-based advertising campaign than your family’s radioactive death. So when the Mort Kridel Advertising Agency was asked to create a radio ad campaign for Survive-All Fallout Shelters, they did their PR-darnedest to scare the Wonder Bread crap out of nuclear families everywhere.  [...]

Visit Dinosaur Gardens for the rest!

Torture Music - MP3 from ECC's Shouting Fire radio show

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Monday, 24 March 2008 21:05

Have you tuned into Shouting Fire yet?  Our spunky li'l internet radio station (a spin-off from our BMIR 94.5 FM at Burning Man) is growing quickly, sprouting about 3 new weekly shows EVERY week.  The ECC's TradeMark G. hosts The Sound Of Plaid every Thursday (see the schedule for airtimes), where you can hear strange audio gems from the ECC archives.

During Show #003 last week there was a segment called Torture Music.  In a recorded interview, Justine Sharrock tells about the musical tastes of American's torturers (aka interrogators, at Guantanamo as well as Iraqi prisons).  It seems that cruel streak involves playing music for the detainees, loudly and repeatedly (some repeat times are measured in days).  Our Torture Music segment blends her interview with the songs she names, mashed up into an increasingly aggravating (and repetetive) 17-minute mix.

les - ome to ether

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Saturday, 09 February 2008 09:49

One night I had a dream which gave me the idea to take the music of the Beatles and edit out all the beats.  Naturally, the resulting music -- Beatles, minus beat -- would be credited to "les".

The next day I followed up, and took on "Come Together", editing out each and every beat.  Here's the result.