kjpepper | Wesley Willis school of Composition

The late, great Wesley Willis composed all of his music on one Casio keyboard, using Country Rock 8 (tempos vary) for his rhythm and interesting sound effects. Basically, all of the songs sound the same - it's just a matter of whether Wesley felt like ranting atonally about vampire bats, whupping various superheroes asses, performing lewd sex acts on exotic animals, your mullet needing a trim, or how robbing liquor stores elsewhere was against the law.

Benny Benassi seems to compose using the same three settings on his own keyboard (and I suspect the same three notes, varied for syncopation and tempo, plus random bits of dialog recorded using a couple of the standard voices packaged with Macintosh computers for their highly amusing speech functions (one of which, incidentally, sounds a lot like

harinezumi when his accent was thicker). Coincidence, or cosmic significance? You decide.

I make this observation as I listen to his "No Matter What You Do", which really just sound like the lost second verse to "Satisfaction"... which of course I can't listen to without thinking of scantily clad women operating construction equipment thanks to one of those viral videos

timarok sent me a while's back.

yesterday

morlock turned me on to www.pandora.com. If you have a broadband connection and are bored shitfaced of all your music, it's a godsend. basically you tell it a few songs/bands you like and it creates a radio station for you, and you can rate the songs playing to further influence how your station comes out. Pretty neat, specially since I'd been hurting for some fresh electronica for some time now.