Statistically Optimal Music

ShinyPlasticBag writes "'Eigenradio makes its optimal music by analyzing in real time dozens of radio stations at once. When our bank of computers has heard enough music, it will go to work on making more just like it. Since we listen to so much music all the time, Eigenradio is always on and always live. What you hear on Eigenradio is the best of the New Music, distilled and de-correlated. One song on Eigenradio is worth at least twenty songs on old radio.' Listen up here or here (SHOUTcast)."

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Beezare page

[John Jorsett]

Let me just go on record as saying that that's the weirdest web page layout I've encountered in a long time.

Re:Where are the details?

[sbillard]

...but then I could say the same thing about rap

I'm OT but...
Be careful there. You are generalizing - perhaps based on what the RIAA, ClearChannel, et al have "allowed" you to hear.

Rap started out as one of the purest forms of music. It was all about self expression and making the most of the "instruments" you had available to you (aka turntables).
Some of the common criticisms about rap "bands" are very similar to the criticisms the baby-boomer's parents had about rock-and-roll bands.
"It all sounds the same"
"Who's killing the cat"
"Turn it down"
"An electric guitar (or turntable) is not an instrument"
"That isn't music - its just noise"

The point i'm trying to make is: like blues, rap is pure. The turntable, while ripping off other artist's tracks, isn't always balant and sometimes is a very creative use of teh medium. When done properly it is more of a compliment to the original artist, than a "copyright infringement" (echoes from the past - as I like to think of good scratching).

I'll conceed that "popular" rap is a load of crap, but so is "modern" rock radio. So, you just go ahead a piss all over rap - you've been conditioned to think that way.

For those that care, check out:
early Public Enemy
Boogie Down Productions
Cool Herc
Eric B and Rakim
Spoonie Gee
and the Treacherous Three


There is also a pretty active turntablist movement underway right now
Mix Master Mike
Q Bert
DJ Shadow
DJ Spooky

may I also suggest?

[Ayanami Rei]

Blackalicious and KRS One.

Also, the older Busta Rhymes (before he got to full of himself)