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...latest, the White Stripes’ “The Hardest Button to Button,” shows each individual drumbeat visually manifested by a rapidly replicating Meg White. The Psycho shower scene be damned, no filmmaker has better realized the potential coalescence of the visual with the aural in such an innovative manner...
...music explosion. Phillips didn't sing or play an instrument, he didn't always produce the music that came out of his studio, and in 1955 he shortsightedly sold Presley's contract to RCA for $35,000. But his ear was infallible. He had the aural version of precognition. He retired a rich man--not because of Sun but because he was an early shareholder in another midcentury Memphis business, Holiday Inn. --By Richard Corliss...
...been a life and music fashioned from the movable aural and narcotic feast of the circuit, and Tsuyoshi, taking a break from remixing Joujouka's upcoming third album at his Nishi Azabu studio, says he's finally getting burned out, insisting that the beautiful madness that turned him on is now long gone. "The whole genre's gotten so conservative these last six years," says the DJ, sporting his new gold-streaked Mohawk. "It's reached the point where everything trance meant for me in India feels like this totally separate thing...
...they always belonged together, they add up to more than the sum of their parts. Missing Linx’s mundane battle rhymes sound positively apocalyptic over an ominous Mentol Nomad track, while Roberta Flack’s “Killing Me Softly” is like an aural sedative after a string of abrasive breakcore vitriol. When /rupture blends a slowed-down instrumental of Aaliyah’s “Are You That Somebody?” into that song, it’s a small revelation as Flack’s vocal exorcisms and Timbaland?...
...harmony to the world," he says. "Where words fail, music still communicates. It's a blessing." For this reason, he wants his music to have universal appeal. "The chance to reach London is a dream come true." An advance listen to five tracks from the show reveals an intoxicating aural world. Agile melodies twist and turn to patently Indian rhythms, while mostly retaining the formulaic structure of Western musicals. "I've tried not to write West End," laughs Rahman, "but it's got to be accessible...