Join us for Floydian Slip show #731: We’ll be featuring Pink Floyd’s contribution to the 1970 Zabriskie Point Soundtrack on that album’s 40th anniversary.
Contest: Win “Echoes: The Complete History of Pink Floyd”
Posted April 5, 2010 by Floydian Slip
Register online now to win a copy of Glenn Povey’s “Echoes: The Complete History of Pink Floyd.”
Just published for the first time in the U.S., this 368-page softcover book details the history of the band, and includes an exhaustive compendium of Floyd’s performance history.
We’ll ship copies postage-free to the winners, courtesy of Independent Publishers Group.
Register now. Deadline is 6 p.m. EDT Monday, April 12.
Winner: Vibravoid EP
Posted April 5, 2010 by Floydian Slip
Congratulations to Cyrus Ghahari of Theran, Iran … winner of Vibravoid’s new EP “What Colour Is Pink?”
The record, from Fruits de Mer Records, contains three Pink Floyd songs originally from “A Saucerful of Secrets.”
Pressed onto pink vinyl, the record’s a limited edition of 500.
Floydian Slip songlist #730
Posted April 5, 2010 by Floydian Slip
- Cymbaline
More (1969) - Give Birth to a Smile
Music from The Body (1970) (Roger Waters) - Summer ’68
Atom Heart Mother (1970) - Pigs on the Wing Pts 1 & 2
Animals (1977) - Let There Be More Light
What Colour is Pink? (2010) (Vibravoid) - A Saucerful of Secrets
What Colour is Pink? (2010) (Vibravoid) - Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun
What Colour is Pink? (2010) (Vibravoid) - Coming Back to Life
David Gilmour in Concert DVD (2002) (David Gilmour) - Nobody Home
The Wall (1979) - Welcome to the Machine
Wish You Were Here (1975)
Glenn Povey’s “Echoes” published in the U.S.
Posted April 4, 2010 by Floydian Slip
Chicago Review Press has published Glenn Povey‘s “Echoes: The Complete History of Pink Floyd” for the first time in the United States.
The title has been available overseas since 2006, but this is the first American edition. It was published April 1.
The 368-page softcover book details the history of the band, and includes an exhaustive compendium of Floyd’s performance history.
Povey is the co-author of “Pink Floyd: In the Flesh: The Complete Performance History” and a contributor to MOJO, Record Collector, and other music magazines.
He’s a founder and a former editor of the now-defunct Pink Floyd ‘zine Brain Damage, and was a booking agent and promoter for a variety of artists, including the Electric Prunes, Gong, Hawkwind, Magma, Ozric Tentacles, the Pretty Things, and the Seeds.
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The 8-bit “Dark Side”
Posted April 1, 2010 by Floydian Slip
Brad Smith is enjoying his 15 minutes of fame within two disparate groups of fanatics: retro video game fans and Pink Floyd connoisseurs.
He’s recreated Floyd’s 1973 “Dark Side of the Moon” album — with surprising accuracy — using nothing but ’80s-era video game system beeps and bloops.
Smith, a 27-year-old game programmer from Ontario, Canada, tells us he spent about 190 hours working on his creation, which he’s named “Moon8,” for a friend’s birthday.
“I thought I’d put this together, partly as a joke, and play it at the party,” he says. “I say it was partly as a joke, but I really do mean only partly. I spend a lot of time listening to old game soundtracks, and I do find them fully aesthetically satisfying.
“I’ve always been interested in transcription/arrangement, taking a piece of music from one instrument/ensemble to another. I also like the challenge of making something big fit small space.
“‘Dark Side of the Moon’ as an album has been around me all my life, and it’s one I’ve listened to with friends again and again.”
Smith used Famitracker, an application that takes user input and feeds it to an emulation of the Nintendo Entertainment System sound software.
The result sounds something like … well, it’s almost like a cross between … Well, listen for yourself: Download the entire work for free.
Floydian Slip preview #730
Posted April 1, 2010 by Floydian Slip
Join us for Floydian Slip show #730:
- Floyd from “The Wall” and the “More” soundtrack
- An outtake, of sorts, from the “Animals” album
- 1968 Floyd covered by German prog-rockers Vibravoid
- And much more!
Floyd designer interviewed in Independent
Posted March 31, 2010 by Floydian Slip
Long-time Pink Floyd sleeve designer Storm Thorgerson is interviewed in today’s “Independent.”
In a piece titled “Storming in: From Ummagumma to Elegy,” Thorgerson says he’s “currently working for Pink Floyd.”
Did he simply misspeak? Or is there a new Floyd project forthcoming?
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