Usually Yanni is exactly that. "Live at the Acropolis" is an exception because New Age Crap becomes something really cool once you take out the synthesizer and the whale song* and replace it with a full orchestra. I'd recommend tracking down the concert first (it aired on PBS long ago), and then if you like it, feel free to borrow my CD for iphone-y purposes.
Really it's an exercise in... hmm, contextual transposition I guess. One of the things I've actually been enjoying about youtube lately is you can find a lot of people performing acoustic covers of popular, overproduced autotuned dreck that's on the radio now and the stripping out of the wall of sound element and ESPECIALLY the goddamn autotune improves the music a lot. (prime examples - check out Pomplamoose and Carolina Chocolate Drops.)
Same thing going the other way. I've been surprised to find that once you eliminate the electric keyboard and saxaphone and replace it with, say, a metal band and a trumpet, "lite" jazz actually becomes listenable rather than the loathesome Weather Channel and cocktail party background noise it currently is.
And then of course, there's the crazy world of mashups. I don't think you're quite the type to enjoy Girl Talk (you have to have at least a basic appreciation for hip-hop), but you might enjoy THRU YOU
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Date: 2011-02-19 05:21 pm (UTC)Usually Yanni is exactly that. "Live at the Acropolis" is an exception because New Age Crap becomes something really cool once you take out the synthesizer and the whale song* and replace it with a full orchestra. I'd recommend tracking down the concert first (it aired on PBS long ago), and then if you like it, feel free to borrow my CD for iphone-y purposes.
Really it's an exercise in... hmm, contextual transposition I guess. One of the things I've actually been enjoying about youtube lately is you can find a lot of people performing acoustic covers of popular, overproduced autotuned dreck that's on the radio now and the stripping out of the wall of sound element and ESPECIALLY the goddamn autotune improves the music a lot. (prime examples - check out Pomplamoose and Carolina Chocolate Drops.)
Same thing going the other way. I've been surprised to find that once you eliminate the electric keyboard and saxaphone and replace it with, say, a metal band and a trumpet, "lite" jazz actually becomes listenable rather than the loathesome Weather Channel and cocktail party background noise it currently is.
And then of course, there's the crazy world of mashups. I don't think you're quite the type to enjoy Girl Talk (you have to have at least a basic appreciation for hip-hop), but you might enjoy THRU YOU
/musicgeek
*mostly kidding about this, but only in this case