But this app still lack of numerical data. From the picture above, I can say that I’m really a night owl. Most of my library is rock (pink), I like post-rock.

The other music analyzer is iTunes genius. It’s pretty neat. Picture below show us Genius Mixes, that categorize music library based on genre. You can make playlist based on one song too.

Music Listening Histories Analyzer originally appeared on margjakob.net on April 10, 2010.

Korine Conception – Glow In Transparancy Aurora. Genre: Shoegaze.

Not bad. The first reason I post this is because they are founded in Medan, 3 hours from my hometown. Not bad. But I expect cleaner audio and more tense.

A wonderful emotive album. Both delicate and powerful. Hints of Slowdive and Sigur Ros – which can’t be a bad thing. More fantastic shoegaze influenced music from Indonesia.

You can download it for free from BFW recordings.

Free Album: Korine Conception originally appeared on margjakob.net on March 2, 2010.

Wayang is an Indonesian word for theatre (literally “shadow”). Wayang Kulit is the indonesian shadow puppet theatre, in which finely carved and painted leather puppets move behind a screen making the audiance see their shadows only.

In Reverse Shadow Theatre (vimeo) the situation is reversed. The role of the elaborate puppets is emphasized, while the visitor is a mere shadow trying to control the puppets by her movements.

Reverse Shadow Theatre is created with the Animata real-time animation editor. Animata is developed by Peter Nemeth, Gabor Papp and Bence Samu whose peculiarity consists in giving movement to figures and backgrounds in real-time: Code Dreams are Made of This. If you want to try playing around with the software yourself, the Animata software can be downloaded for free.

This is a 2 years old video. I already looking around, find one post in Kaskus too, but can’t find out their history, why use wayang (EyesWeb got real-time puppet animation too), or maybe one of the team studied in Indonesia once. And I found their lab, Kitchen Budapest, is interesting, they have many great project.

Reverse Shadow Theatre with Animata originally appeared on margjakob.net on February 7, 2010.

Compilation of unreleased music by, presented by Music For Relief.

Linkin Park, Dave Matthews Band, Peter Gabriel, Alanis Morissette, Slash, The All-American Rejects, Hoobastank, Kenna, Enrique Iglesias and Lupe Fiasco team up with Music For Relief to aid earthquake victims.

Download to Donate for Haiti originally appeared on margjakob.net on January 24, 2010.

If I am lost for a day

Try to find me

But if I don’t come back

Then I won’t look behind me

All of the things that I thought were so easy

Just got harder and harder each day

And I can’t live forever

I can’t always be

One day I’ll be sand on the beach by the sea

The pages keep turning

I’ll mark off each day with a cross

and I’ll laugh about all that we’ve lost

January, February, March, April, May, I’m alive.
June, July, August, September, October, I’m alive.
November, December, yeah all through the winter.
I’m alive.
I’m alive.

♫♪ [Stars: Calendar Girl, from Set Yourself On Fire]

I’m Alive originally appeared on margjakob.net on January 1, 2010.

music gives a smile

music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything

my life my music

music in colors

music in silence

music is my language

music to my sleep

music day by day

music is love

you are the music while the music lasts

music is possibilities

music for a getaway

music anywhere

music has no breaks

the music is you

music is everything, don’t forget it

all we need is music.

Music. originally appeared on margjakob.net on November 8, 2009.

One wounded wing

Circling the edge

Of the neverending

The best of the vanished marvels

have gathered inside your door

More than begin

But less than forget

But spirits born

From the not happened yet

Gathering there

To pay off a debt

brought back from the wars

We thought we lost you

We thought we lost you

We thought we lost you

Welcome back

♫♪ [The New Pornographer: Adventures in Solitude, from Challengers]

Adventures In Solitude (Part 1) originally appeared on margjakob.net on October 26, 2009.

Glass America began in 2008 with a vision of rejecting the formulaic structures and textures that typify much of Post-rock. Members John Mirisola, Micah Wilson, Michael Foye, and Jared Deame wanted to create an original sound that encapsulated the best of ambient, instrumental music without succumbing to its clichés or being limited by what has come to be expected. (MySpace)

Their debut album Redivivus, are out now.

In If I forget you, O Jerusalem, the shorter track that follows, Glass America celebrate that they might be 2009′s best newcomers with impressive guitar playing, ending in an awesome crescendo, so that the subsequent piano can sound even more fragile. But once these dreamy vocals reappear in the sixth song [A Voice From Behind, my fav track!], no piano can convey feelings more beautifully. (postrockcommunity)

And it’s free! Yay! You can download it at gimmesound, track by track.

Some info about gimmesound: It’s real simple. Artists upload their music. Fans download it for free (register needed). We pay artists for every download out of ad revenue, with a percentage going to a cause of your choice.

Great Abum!

gimmesound: Glass America – Redivivus originally appeared on margjakob.net on September 20, 2009.

[beware: 20 images total]

Relations (Apollo had to break ‘em)

Creation (It’s a gift, it’s a blessing)

Incarceration (What keeps you down)

Determination (What gets you out)

Equation (When they said you couldn’t make it)

Humiliation (What you feel when they say it)

Reincarnation (Say N-A-V)

Situation (Why we’ve got to sing)

Elation (So many in need)

Identification (Gives you the right to shoot)

Retaliation (What would it do)

Education (Gives you the right to do)

Inspiration (What pulls you through)

No substitution (Try to substitute)

Non-inclusion (Just got to bust through)

Drug infusion (For the chosen few)

Mass confusion (When they say that they died for you)

Delusion (Say that the dreams don’t come true)

Solution (Taking a hold of you)

Conclusion

Time comes and I hope something change.

[Citizen Cope: Let The Drummer Kick]

Let The Drummer Kick originally appeared on margjakob.net on September 15, 2009.

So if someone says I don’t care, is he/she actually doesn’t care or just a liar, you know, Everybody Lies?

Hmmm… Whatever. I don’t care! And I don’t like being told what to do!

I Don’t Care… or I Actually Care? originally appeared on margjakob.net on September 11, 2009.

[update 120909] Picture below is Norah Jones at iTunes Store, she’s already featured in iTunes LP so you can dive into animated lyrics and liner notes, watch performance videos, view her photos, and enjoy other bonus materials. She performed at Apple Special Event, Rock and Roll (I just watch it), with two song Come Away With Me and new song Young Blood from her new album which will be released at November.

Many New Interface – Everything Bigger originally appeared on margjakob.net on September 10, 2009.

Here another free release from In A Cabin With. Actually, I got the email from IACW about 2 weeks ago. The Black Atlantic with their album Reverence for Fallen Trees. Recorded in Saranac lake, Upstate New York with Geert van der Velde, Kim Janssen, Marcel Wolthof and a bunch of additional musicians like Peter Silberman of The Antlers [I like this], Brandan Stephens and Adam Labutka.

Musically the new songs showcase a much wider variety of instrumentation and willingness to experiment with sounds and soundscapes, and the use of multi-layered vocal harmonies; inspired by such acts as Bon Iver [I like this], Fleet Foxes and the Beach Boys. Rhytmically the group has chosen for a much more minimal, percussive approach touring with only a snare drum, floor tom and cymbal. (IP)

Genre : Indie, Rock, Pop, Acoustic, Experimental.

[MySpace. Download (email needed)]

Free Album: The Black Atlantic originally appeared on margjakob.net on September 6, 2009.

Six day ago, first day of this month, Opera unveiled the final version of Opera 10. It came with new application interface, it’s nice, not like an old time software in v.9. It also came with new icon (on the right). New red color, brighter, I like the new color! And now the light come from above, so the shadow is under the icon, no more floating shadow. But it kinda look fat. I’m not saying brighter but fatter. Brighter and fatter. It’s not like big is not beautiful. Maybe it’s just because it’s different from the previous.

Back to the color. Here’s some screenshot from Romance (1999). The dress color look like the same with the new icon. The most interesting about this scene is the contrast between the dress and the room, red and white. Really great setting for this scene. In my dock this Opera icon is right beside Adium icon which is white too. It make the icon shining just like this girl shining (unfortunately I don’t have HD version to state this).

[update 180909] Here’s another shoot from Frequently Asked Questions About Time Travel (2009). Kinda similar.

Opera New Icon: Brighter and Fatter originally appeared on margjakob.net on September 6, 2009.

So, humanthesizer is synthesizer made from human, in this case made of, er, pretty ladies! Take 15 bikini-clad lovelies, paint them in special ink and put them in a dance studio with special conductive pads on the floor and, hey presto, you have the Humanthesizer. (But this is not about the ladies.)

Basically, the ladies stand on conductive pads on the floor, and paint their (and Harris’s) hands with the conductive skin-safe ink called Bare Conductive. When Harris slaps his hands against those of the ladies, a small current travels through their bodies and onto the pads on the floor, which triggers a sound, all without the girls feeling a thing (Giz).

This is made to promote Calvin Harris’s single, Ready for the Weekend. And the album already out now! If you need a preview of this new album take a look at his MySpace, genre: Electro, Electroclash, Pop, Disco, Dance.

Cool Humanthesizer! originally appeared on margjakob.net on August 21, 2009.

First prize: Jakarta Bersih!

Here’s one special mention: Ojek City

And here’s the comparison of Busway Route and Ojek Route LOL

Ojek, take you anywhere you wanna go.

[gotongroyongcity via ArchDaily]

Gotong Royong City, IABR 2009 originally appeared on margjakob.net on July 16, 2009.

They got similar nice voice, similar kind of music, and similar ‘future robotic doll’ face (at least in this album cover), which is great.

First cover from Sarah Blasko “As Day Follows Night”, second one from Ingrid Michaelson “Be OK”. By the way Ingrid just release her new single called “Maybe”. You can get it at iTunes.

I like Ingrid better than Sarah and I like to live like Ingrid says in her song “Far Away” from “Girls and Boys” album:

Far away far away, I want to go far away.
To a new life on a new shore line.
Where the water is blue and the people are new.
To another island, in another life.

Sarah and Ingrid originally appeared on margjakob.net on July 15, 2009.

Beyond the Sky is a compilation album from Invasi Records that consist of 15 bands from Indonesia and 1 from Singapore.

Ansaphone (Bandung), Korine Conception (Medan), Individual Life (Jogja), Autumn Ode (Bandung), Marche La Void (Jakarta), Retrieval (Bandung), Under The Big Bright Yellow Sun (Bandung), Stellarium (Singapore), Midnight Ark (Jakarta), Mataharibisu (Jakarta), Slylab (Bandung), Channelpain (Jakarta), Amanda oh Amanda (Jakarta), Little Space Donkey (Jakarta), Summer in Berlin (Jakarta), dan Folkaholic (Jakarta).

dl: First Part: shoegaze, post-rock, experimental

dl: Second Part: electronic, electroacoustic, ambient, and down-tempo

Great indie local compilation album. First part is my fav music genre, post rock. I already got one of the song, Scientific Despair from Marché La Void. Nice cover picture by the way. It’s one picture, separated into two part, for part one and two.

[Beyond The Sky: big thing from us!]

Free Album: Beyond The Sky originally appeared on margjakob.net on July 13, 2009.

We’ll Make It Right. Genre: jazz, pop, ballad

1. Stop Trying So Hard
2. My Best Friend
3. It Ain’t All Good
4. Just Like A Man
5. For The Sleeping
6. Peace And Happiness
7. Some Say
8. Some Day
9. We’ll make It Bright

The 9 songs that make up this album were recorded in a fancy hotel, The Lloyd Hotel in Amsterdam, The Netherlands between the 1st and 7th of January 2009. Probably the most famous of these musicians is Benny Sings, so it comes as no surprise that the whole album sounds a lot like his personal works.

Nice album. I like track 7 most! It’s difficult to find the lyrics.

dl: IN A CABIN WITH

Free Album: we’ll make it right originally appeared on margjakob.net on July 13, 2009.

They are students, not professional, but their work is professional. Nice ads!

Response to D&AD Student Awards (design and advertising) brief set by Hewlett Packard.
“Present an idea which promotes HP Workstations ability to bring to life anything the creative mind can conceive.”

HP User Made Ads – D&AD Student Awards 09 originally appeared on margjakob.net on July 9, 2009.

They asked us to make a new icon that really represents iTunes, not that old, busted CD. I circled mine in the picture, The PiraTunes. It’s not in the big three, but still have a place in the top of the page.

Gizmodo Photoshop Contest – iTunes Icons Apple Would Never Dream of Using originally appeared on margjakob.net on July 8, 2009.