Tuesday
(1)I have this unusual mp3 file (mp3 file now removed to save on bandwidth) on my hard drive and I have no frikking idea where the hell I downloaded it from, what it is called or who the artist is. Does anyone out there have an idea? Please let me know if you have any clues.
It has quite a low bit-rate so I would guess it is a sampler track dumped on-line to promote a CD (so you would think the information tags would be filled in but nooooo).
Update: I have removed the mp3 file to save on bandwidth now that the question has been answered by the commentariat.
I have no idea :P
But while I have your attention, does anyone know where I can get vinyl of the French electro group "IT & My Computer"?
It isn't available anywhere online, that I can find.
Funny that I found the group on a P2P service searching for electro. I've wanted to actually pay for it since, but counldn't find it...
Posted by Ivan Kirigin at December 6, 2005 03:46 AM
The song is from the opening credits to Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex. It's an anime that appears on Cartoon Network late at night in the states.
Posted by Nickler at December 6, 2005 04:00 AM
Interesting! I was just listening to the (very different) soundtrack from Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence, so that is spooky.
Any idea who the artist is and what the track is called (maybe "opening credits")?
Posted by Perry de Havilland at December 6, 2005 04:16 AM
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00020VZVQ/103-0512061-6069424?v=glance&n=5174
Yoko Kanno. I think the title is "Inner Universe".
Posted by davetheweatherman at December 6, 2005 04:30 AM
The song is indeed (a TV edit of) the "Inner Universe" theme from the Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex anime series, as davetheweatherman pointed out, composed by Yoko Kanno and sung by Origa.
Congratulations on your good taste in music.
Here are the lyrics, which I had not realized were a combination of Russian, Latin, and English. (Although I'm loathe to cite Wiki on anything controversial or political, I've found their gaming/anime/geek entries are usually pretty accurate and informative.)
Inner Universe
Ангелы и демоны кружили надо мной
Рассекали тернии и млечные пути
Не знает счастья только тот,
Кто его зова понять не смог
Налюбуйтесь, налюбуйтесь
Aeria gloris, Aeria gloris
Налюбуйтесь, налюбуйтесь
Aeria gloris, aeria gloris
I am calling, calling now
Spirits rise and falling
Собой остаться дольше
Calling, calling, in the depth of longing
Собой остаться дольше...
Налюбуйтесь, налюбуйтесь
Aeria gloris, aeria gloris
Налюбуйтесь, налюбуйтесь
Aeria gloris, aeria gloris
Stand alone... Where was life when it had a meaning . . .
Stand alone... Nothing's real anymore and . . .
Бесконечный бег...
Пока жива, я могу стараться на лету не упасть,
Не разучиться мечтать...любить...
Бесконечный бег...
Calling, calling, for the place of knowing
There's more than what can be linked
Calling, calling now, never will I look away
For what life has left for me
Yearning, yearning, for what's left of loving
Собой остаться дольше...
Calling, calling now, spirits rise and falling
Собой остаться дольше...
Calling, calling, in the depth of longing
Собой остаться дольше...
Налюбуйтесь, налюбуйтесь
Aeria gloris, Aeria gloris
Налюбуйтесь, налюбуйтесь
Aeria gloris, aeria gloris
Posted by Shad at December 6, 2005 06:13 AM
The best generic answer to this question is to use the tools at http://musicbrainz.org which will analyse the audio in the file and compare it to ones already indexed.
Posted by Kevin Marks at December 6, 2005 07:07 AM
Some advice: if you don't know title of song, take 3-5 words from it and google.com will help you :)
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Posted by John Fishman at December 6, 2005 10:06 AM
Good advice John but that might have been a bit hard in this case as the lyrics were kinda hard to 'extract'.
Posted by asus phreak at December 6, 2005 11:38 AM
Is there any kind of search engine where you can shove in a snatch of sound and get the whole thing, plus chapter and verse? Will there ever be?
Is there/Will there ever be a similar facility for pictures? Here's the picture but what is it?
Meanwhile, I am very impressed by the speed and completeness with which Perry's question was answered, by humans.
Posted by Brian Micklethwait at December 6, 2005 01:26 PM
I am looking forward to Ghost in the Shell II coming out on DVD. I rather liked the first one and also have Stand Alone Complex as well.
Posted by Andrew Ian Dodge at December 6, 2005 01:44 PM
I picked it up when I was in the States last week: DVD & Soundtrack :-)
Posted by Perry de Havilland at December 6, 2005 01:46 PM
Brian: There is a phone-up-able service called Shazam. No idea if it's any good.
Posted by Rob Fisher at December 6, 2005 03:38 PM
Phewww! Yoko Kanno eh?
Thank god it wasn't Yoko Ono.
Whose music one critic wag described as:-
"perminently before it's time"
Posted by RAB at December 6, 2005 04:25 PM
Rob,
Shazam is very good. I have quite an odd taste in music and it has recognised some non mainstream tunes. It also works surprisingly well when in a noisy bar.
Posted by David Shaw at December 6, 2005 08:10 PM
While we have the Music Geeks in attendance... can anyone identify the classical music piece which was ripped for Verve's Bittersweet Symphony?
Posted by Kim du Toit at December 6, 2005 09:12 PM
Kim,
The sample is actually from an orchestral scored version of the Rolling Stones 'The Last Time.' The Verve got sued over it and had to sign away all their royalties in order to release it. No idea where you could find the original though...
Posted by SundogUK at December 6, 2005 09:55 PM
What? I grew up with the Stones' Last Time, and I can detect absolutely no similarity between the two riffs.
Wow. Now I have to go and listen to the two side-by-side...
Thankee for the help.
Posted by Kim du Toit at December 7, 2005 02:56 PM
