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Shitty Microsoft program becomes unintentionally awesome – Music | thevine.com.au.

Microsoft’s terrible new Songsmith program – in which it chooses the backing track to put behind your vocals – is turning up some unexpectedly awesome gems.

From the so bad it’s good department comes this hijacking of the Songsmith software. By now you’ve seen the gag-inducing ad. Intended for people to record their vocals into and then turn into a shitty song, canny audiologists are instead taking vocals from famous songs and letting the software see what monsters it can come up with.

Techno versions of Oasis! Lounge music from Van Halen!! Eurotrash from Metallica!!! But I’ll be damned if this mariachi version of The Police’s ‘Roxanne’ isn’t the best song so far this year. I’m not even joking.

I feel a meme coming on.

Van Halen (example)

k-punk: Home is where the haunt is: The Shining‘s hauntology.

1. The sound of hauntology

Conjecture: hauntology has an intrinsically sonic dimension.

The pun – hauntology, ontology – works in spoken French, after all. In terms of sound, hauntology is a question of hearing what is not here, the recorded voice, the voice no longer the guarantor of presence (Ian P: ‘Where does the Singer’s voice GO, when it is erased from the dub track?’) Not phonocentrism but phonography, sound coming to occupy the dis-place of writing.

Nothing here but us recordings…

Kinky Afro

Trae feat. Bun B. & Lil Keke: ”Grey cassette”

Benzi & Diplo present … PRGz: ”Fear and loathing in Hunts Vegas” (rar-mapp, 187 MB)

Jay Rock feat. Lil Wayne & Will.i.am: ”All my life (ghetto)”

Alla 15 låtarna ligger i en rar:ad mapp här (95 MB).

De nio nya låtarna (rar, 62MB)