What are you listening to? (CLOSED) (CLOSED)

Just some light hearted fun.  Put your tunes here if you want to share.

I have a very diverse musical taste after working many years in the music / live event and music video business.  Pretty much the only band I've not worked for is The Prodigy.   I would have loved to do that gig while  Keith was around.  

Here's my choice for today.   Gus Till legendary producer engineer and generally nice bloke.   

https://gustill.bandcamp.com/           https://gustill.bandcamp.com/album/bus-past-present-future-tense

If your not into the electronic music scene  I offer something  else you may like.  I discovered him while doing lighting down under. I had no idea how good he was until they started playing.  Basically Australian dub  very chilled and very folk in a good way.  How many instruments can one man play.   Xavier is a real nice guy and it was a pleasure working for him while on my holiday in 2007   

https://xavierrudd.com/        https://www.youtube.com/@XavierRudd/videos


Finally a bit of Grace Jones  dub style  (If I remember correctly Gus Till produced an album or more with her in 2014ish.

Nice idea for a topic. Since I am writing on the side, this is one of those songs I listen for it.

Xavier Rudd is a blast! I used him as a music suggestion for one of my last pictures:

https://www.renderhub.com/pushee-ri/storyteller-3d-wallpaper

And when I read the title of your thread (and the posts), this came to mind (don't ask me why - but I dig it

The sounds of Brizzle

Bristol UK

dub mafia bd records

Slightly off topic but I know some people are interested. 

Art is varied,   Maybe I will dig out some of my tunes.

 Here's a rare gem, Gringo Ska (The UK band going strong for 30 years).  

Just a short clip, I used to build this stage and work for Glade / Glastonbury.  The drummer  (Gringo is my climbing buddy and boss for the build).
We built on average 14 events a year. 

2014 was my last Glastonbury I retired gracefully  after Pranking the BBC and Metallica doing the live TV link.  They still haven't noticed I wrote metal licker .

Performance art   by me in 2014.  yes it's a wig lol
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p021tyrr


Back story for this is we were allowed our own venue as a theater performance.  We were a fake rock bar to celebrate metal lickers appearance at Glastonbury. 
I played the inhouse tattoo artist and drew silly tattoos on people in sharpie pen for the event as well as acting as a drunk guitarist in the rubbish band. It was one hell of a laugh.

Ok so Bonj should not draw on you.....under no circumstances allow him to do this  
Thanks man for starting this- it is one of my favorite topics and I love what everyone's posted so far! 
Here's what's on my playlist right now:
Pixel Grip - indie electronic band from Chicago

IDLES

Look Mum No Computer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=27&v=uPKfmHiLSGs

No doubt I must come from another planet...
To work I like the calm and silence that I find more conducive to concentration. Maybe also due to my professional past, I worked in a noisy universe, there were 8 of us in the same room and often one of us was on the phone and sometimes there were 3 phone conversations simultaneously in addition to the chatter between colleagues...
Today I sometimes put on background music when I drive, almost never when I do 3D

I listen classic rock mostly. It must have confused my parents when I was a teenager in  the 80s and I preferred the music of
their generation. I still do.

Ha - how good it is that I have two accounts ... so I can still post something here without being considered a thread spammer

@guy91600:
I'm right there with you. I don't listen to music while I'm modeling/sculpting either - it would distract me. But while I'm building scenes, sometimes sounds or songs come to mind, which I then like to serve as a music suggestion for the picture.

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I have something very special for you all. I've been carrying around the idea for a promo/teaser image where I'll present the music for a while ... now I just have to start working on the project so that I can finally render it

This is one of the creepiest end credits scores I've ever heard. I think even if you don't know the movie, the scary comes across very well. So maybe it's good for your next Halloween inspiration / pictures

Enjoy ... or not

I don't like to categorize my music choices, as I have a very wide range of musical tastes. Last night I was listening to the 1979 Alien film score, and last week I was listening to Roy Orbison. A month ago I went on a Megadeth bender.

But this is what I am listening to this very moment:

This is an opportunity for me to introduce you to a Cameroonian musical instrument, the balafon

For me electronic music is what suits me best when I'm in a creative mood. Besides graphic work I also like to produce and mix my music tracks with visuals. I love it!

Hi Bonj,
I just wanted to thank you for this wonderful thread. It's great to hear what kind of music some 3D artists listen to while working. And with some of them - like Hyp-St or GMArtworks - I find the featured music in the artwork. Great!

I want to post a feel-good song here. It's more than familiar from the charts - but I personally can't get enough of it at the moment.

Have a nice, joyfull and creative Sunday everyone

for us writers who like to write emotional scenes

hi im listening to the Von Hertzen Brothers.   Its called Prospect for escape .
This is my favourite song of theirs, it gives me goosebumps.
Ive only seen them twice in concert as they are from Finland an have to wait for them to come  to the uk.
They always meet their fans after the concert and chat to you sign anything you want , they dont just wisk you away like some bands.
They have such energy on stage, they are just awesome. 

Devin Towndsend & Ché Aimee Dorval
Pure

They really were one of the best things to happen to music

As important, correct and topical today as it was then:

Ok this is something else, different pace.  discovered them in the 90s in a field somewhere. 
https://asiandubfoundation.bandcamp.com/album/access-denied-deluxe

This is something you have to hear once in your life

Daft Punk - Around the World / Harder Better Faster Stronger (Official Live Video 2007)
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x84m3YyO2oU)

WARNING: flashing lights warning

Audio only version
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fllyJTBsRU)

I avoid listening to music while working otherwise I do anything lol.
I listen rather in the evening to relax.

I more or less listen to music 24/7, too many songs to list in a single post so I'll just leave you with a few of my all time favorites.

Neutral Milk Hotel - Oh Comely (1998)

The Cure - Disintegration (1989)

MGMT - Kids (2007)

I like the sound of the Japanese Shamisen. But ... have you ever heard a Shamisen going funky? And when there's Juna Serita on the bass, it's really kicking off:

It's not often, that I listen to music while working with 3d, but if, then I like something that will take me away, let my thoughts run free, like this

This always makes me smile however bad the day

I have some catching up to do 

Earworming Shonen Knife's Butterfly Boy and considering makin' a 3D picture of a woman chasing a flying butterfly man, with a butterfly catchin' net.

Something to get the blood pumping, Nice Topic @Bonj

Heres a cool shuffle vid, also like this track

These Guys have a neat style which you used to see at the local hardstyle clubs

Something personal.  This is a good friend, I co produced 2 of the tracks on this album and others with him under different names. 

He  was winner of the Future Music magazine remix competition of Eat Static. with track 7.
 way back when magazines were still relevant.    The style is electronic, some very chilled some banging. 


https://soundcloud.com/user-367381562/sets/white-rabbit_fieldworks-album

Trente  Moller     track 4

https://trentemoller.bandcamp.com/album/the-last-resort



I use bandcamp so you don't get yt adverts interrupting your listening. He is on yt the videos are good.

Beardyman @ BBC Comedy Proms 2011, Royal Albert Hall

The legendary beat boxer jamming with an orchestra.  Must see   

Half of my day I spent driving so I listen to this on Youtube

 Davy Jones

 Medieval Total War 2 Game Menu Music

 This made me cry idk. Chinese beauty singing Aria of Diva Plavalaguna from 5th Element movie

 Shubert

 

I am a big afro fan (jazz / funk / fusion) and discovered this band while searching for great Fela Kuti ( the band has decided to continue Fela Kuti's work). Fascinatingly, the band comes from Chile. It was a big surprise for me.

Besides the music, I personally find the video very inspiring: great landscapes and scenes, costumes, body painting, pictures etc. etc. etc.

Maybe you all will like it too.

Happy inspiring

Not on YouTube, but from my laptop. But here's one of the songs on YouTube:

I don't know why, but I can't listen to music and concentrate on whatever else I'm doing at the same time.  It actually really annoys me to be honest - lol
Even if it's music I like. to listen to, I can only enjoy it when I'm specifically wanting to listen to it and not doing anything else.

I'll listen to anything that takes my fancy really, but I suppose the good old 80s were my favourite decade for music.
I switch stuff around quite a lot, but here's some that have that glorious 80s energy, punch and vibe about them!

If the mess the world is now in ever gets fixed, I reckon they should make this the official anthem of the world.

Written and produced by the dudes from ABBA no less (both seen in the video), it's musically stunning by default and is by far the best anthem I've ever heard.  There's no prize for guessing why they chose Tommy Körberg to perform the vocals, and the lyrics themselves are very clever if you follow their true meaning.  And that look on Benny's face at the end, LMFAO, talk about satisfaction brought about by achievement!

There's clearly a lot of Tim Rice's input on this track too (also seen in the video knelt down at the desk).

"Let man's petty nations tear themselves apart
My land's only borders lie around my heart"

Yes indeed.

And now for something completely different ...

I know, I know - I just posted this video in the gallery ... but for me the band was and is one of the weirdest of the last 4 decades .... or at least of the 80s / 90s.

BTW - WHERE IS BONJ?????

I haven't heard, seen or read anything from him for far too long. Does anyone have some info?

It's rare I come across a song that I know right away is going be among my favourites, but this in definitely one of them!

Been playing it on loop.  I love the vibe of it but I can't find out much about the artist or the song, other than it's a soundtrack to some stylish 80s erotic movie.  It's as if the artist is not well known but I find that very hard to believe to be honest.  I really hope he has an album out there somewhere with this sort of stuff on it.  I'm not kidding, I'll be majorly saddened if it turns out there isn't!

It's a shame about the sound quality but I can't find a better one, and I'm not entirely sure which genre of music this would fall under either.

The album "CHESS" is such an incredible piece of work, so here's another track from it:

This song has become my personal anthem, it's helping me a lot. Even if I have to stop working for that moment, get from my chair and stomp with my feet.

RATATATA

Exactly NOW!

I wonder if no one hasn't posted this yet or if I just haven't seen it here, but this is so missing, special for me now in this moment, doing the happy dance

Great to see this thread going strong., Thank you all 

I'm not a fan of modern Delta Goodrem (at all), but I thought her debut album (from which this one is taken) was pretty damn good!

Back to the 1960s

I found this rather by chance ... but I love the way Jarl Flamar performs his music. Wonderfully calm and - for me - meditative. This would be music I could work to ... if I could listen to music at work

For the Experimental Ambient & Triphop lovers
https://hearthis.at/gmlabsounds/gmlab-endless-canopy/

In 1999 I made a CD Rom to celebrate the eclipse music festivals in the south of England.  It was a free disc ( paid for by my sponsors) and mounted on the cover of DJ Magazine.  

During production a friend interviewed Karl Hyde from Underworld and it was intercut with the Album  Beaucoup Fish.  Broadcast live from the festivals on cable radio eclipse 106fm.   We were granted rights to use the interview and include a small portion on our CD Rom.  He gave me a copy of his master disc. 

 The master disc is 30 years old. To my knowledge only one still exists.  It was flaking, falling apart. The foil had detreated so much the disc was ruined. 
I played it and captured it all, not entirely complete but close enough. The whole album intercut with Karl being rather funny and relaxed in one of the best interviews ever. Ian had cut the interview into the music with lots of experimental glitchyness.   Preserved forever now in digital format.  Maybe I can try get it released or at least gift it back to my friend or  Underworld.     I still need to re stich it all back together as I had to capture it in small chunks. 


Here is the classic itself but unfortunately without the interview due to copyright . 

https://www.discogs.com/master/43531-Underworld-Beaucoup-Fish?srsltid=AfmBOorik74i-RQAcWQtRBctBkF0M_mS0iACqzIjlFRg9Q37lOEI9y_D

https://open.spotify.com/album/1rKNYZkyhXK1WbmPwPfXYk

excerpt from a ballet, dancing with wooden clogs

Another ballet with a touch of humor

Ouch ... my ears just fell off!

They say: De gustibus non est disputandum. Hmm, well ...
They say: A gulyás finom. Nope - I'm vegetarian!

And while I was looking for my ears under the table, I remembered a gig I saw a long time ago in Bochum / Ruhrpott / Germany - and it was great, inspiring and just awesome. 

Ted Milton - saxophonist, poet and puppeteer (sic!) - put on an impressive performance that one critic described as Dada-Avantgarde-Jazz or Paranoid Jazz-Mutant Funk. Unique!

Well .... so that you have to search for your own fallen ears too - here comes BLURT

I was just watching some James Bond opening title sequences and enjoying the fantastic music that always accompanied them back in the 80s.

The James Bond title sequences back then were on par with Giallo in terms of style, beauty and music.  But one thing that particulaly struck me about this one is the camera featured in the video.  I couldn't help but think to myself that since Olympus are now officially the bad-boys of Japan due to pulling-off the biggest and most complex, decades-long fraud in Japanese history, one going all the way back to the 80s (see attached documentary), then this must surely mean that the Olympus OM-4 Ti (which was Olympus' finest film camera) must officially be the most badass of all film cameras ever made.  And when you consider that 007 movies ALWAYS involve some form of SERIOUS bad-assery, you kinda have to wonder whether it's just coincidence they used that camera, or whether they knew all along that OIympus were a corporation up to some seriously naughty business:

Like many, I don't have music on when I'm doin' 3D stuff. But most recent 2 songs:

Propaganda - Ignorance
Almann Brothers - Midnight Rider

Some more nice tunes to stylish and sexy visuals:

Two slightly later ones this time, both of these being from the analogue and digital hybrid era where they would allow digital elements by converting them to analogue first by recording them to real film, then allowing it to be layered with the main analogue film elements to create the final result:

HEY MATTHEW

I was sitting with Matthew
We were watching TV, I said
Hey Matthew, what do you see?
Do you see the guns? Do you see the bombs?
See those people throwing all of those stones?
Do you see the cars going up in flames?
See their faces, do you know their names?
Hey Matthew, when you're watching TV
Hey, hey Matthew, what do you see?

Do you see the tension in a rich man's house?
Do you see the cat? Do you see the mouse?
Do you see the beauty or the big bad beast?
Do you see the famine? Do you see the feast?
In this world of villains do you see the crime?
Is a superhero waiting at the edge of time?
Hey Matthew, when you're watching TV
I said, hey, hey Matthew, what do you see?

I see Dallas, Dynasty, Terrahawks
He-Man, Tom and Jerry, Dukes of Hazzard
Airwolf, Blue Thunder, Rambo, Road Runner
Daffy Duck, The A-Team, The A-Team, I see the A-Team

I was sitting with Matthew
We were watching TV, I said
Hey Matthew what'll you be?
Will you walk like a lion in the danger zone?
Will you pass unnoticed in the great unknown?
When you see the press out on a witch hunt
When you see a political publicity stunt
Will you fight for the right? Will you be a man?
Will you step aside? Will you give a damn?

Will you ride that tide with the starry eyed?
Will you give and take?
Will you laugh 'til you ache?
Will you learn to live?
Will you take? Will you give?
As the bridges burn, will you live and learn?
Will you be numbered with the brave and true?
Well, good luck kid, here's lookin' at you

In the future, Matthew, so bright and free
Hey Matthew, what'll you be?
Hey, hey Matthew, what'll you be?

I want to be a soldier, street fighter, be a policeman
A captain of a boat, big boat
I want to be a magic man, a cowboy
A train driver, high jump champion
A fireman, a pilot, I want to be your friend

It's all a game, I hope

Hey Matthew
Hey, hey Matthew

I hope
I hope
I hope
I hope

Something dark and very unusual from a-Ha:

In my opinion this is the best song ever performed, but then I love massive attack. 
Liz is 57 in this video and you can see is anxious. Just over half way she seems to relax and realize she has it all under control. A smile appears and She really enjoys the moment.

Typewriter - Brandenburger Symphoniker

Fun Question:  What do the 80s, Texas Instruments and this song have in common?

Do you know Harp Guitar?

Full set at Bestival

The Gift
Right now, I'm listening to one of my own pieces! Since I want to compose more music again, I need this as inspiration!

Always had a soft spot for the Russian stuff, and you have to admit, the music's not bad either!

You know you really need to up your game, when a mannequin has better luck with the ladies than you do!

Brings back memories of being able to afford a car.  I used to love the motorway at night, especially when it was deserted, the radio playing, and the only thing visible were the lights on the dashboard, and the cat's eyes that outlined the motorway directly ahead!

This thread struggles to load for me now XD  

"A picture says a thousand words, now hear me and let's render!" - MrTaured.

Avi did it again, flashback into the 70s

Do you remember or know Yves Montand (singer and actor)?
In the plains of the Far West, a song from 1945!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-elxJRFVKr4&t=14s

I wanted to include some interesting information behind the equipment used to shoot this video, because it was shot with some super-rare camera specialised in high frame rates for creating genuine, non-intepolated slow motion.

Unfotunately, I can't remember the name of it now or even find any info on it.

As with my previous two posts, the music is Schiller, so expect a weird and arty chilled vibe (and I love those Cellos):

this is a fun thread, thank you for this! i love to listen to gothic trip hop & psychedelic rock such as massive attack & portishead, i also love aphex twin <3