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Noisey Tidbits Roundup

JT's back, 50 Cent has an iPhone game, Summer Camp are making a documentary and Morrissey is beautiful.
Ryan Bassil
London, GB

A weekly roundup of anything music-related that’s made us excited about being able to hear things.

Justin Timberlake Made Us Countdown To A Countdown

Someone asked Justin the other day, so urgh, are you just done with music? Apparently music means more to him than ANYONE else in the world. Music means so much to JT that on Thursday he announced a countdown to…. another countdown!!! It's been six years since FutureSex/ LoveSounds and a decade since Justified, leaving ample time to prepare a bombastic return. But, instead of releasing a new song like everyone hoped, JT took on Brad Pitt in the international male sex symbol monolague championships, prompting the crescendo of a thousand bloggers shelving their half-written Timberlake post into the trash.

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Last year we implored Timberlake to return and I'm happy that he is. New music will stop us "physically torturing ourself year in and year out" with his films. But, hold up. JUSTIN. Why didn't you announce your comeback on MySpace? WTF!

Summer Camp To Release Documentary

I love late 90s early 00s teen films. I mean, sure, the Brat Pack-era was alright. St Elmos Fire was great (It made me want to plunge a nostalgic soaked knife into my heart). But what the films of the 90s lacked in skinny trousers they made up for with great racks and even better soundtracks. Anyway, sugar-sweet duo Summer Camp are making a documentary film based upon the best teen films ever.

They’re working with Guardian journalist Charlie Lyne who explains the whole concept in the video above. The trailer made me throw up Helvetica typeface spaghetti. But, it also taught me that the film is going to answer the eternal question – How did Chris Klein aka. super joc, Oz, manage to get through all of high school without losing his virginity in American Pie?

Moosify’s Spotify App Lets You Meet Potential Fuck-Buddies Through A Shared Taste In Music

If you only want to fuck people who like good music then you need Moosify. Built for anyone who loves dating within a Web 2.0 atmosphere, the app uses location software to pair you up with like-minded people in your vicinity based upon common interests. Sure, it sounds boring on paper but it’s good news for Belle and Sebastian fans. Gone will be the days of penning a memoir in Starbucks, pondering over the hue of overpriced coffee whilst waiting patiently for a Belle De Jour. Instead, install this app on your iPhone, link it to Spotify and get matchmaking.

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Morrissey Played A Beautiful Song On Letterman

Morrissey's voice just reminds me of Christmas. Imagine spending Christmas with Moz. Do you reckon he’d watch the Queen's speech? What would we have for lunch? Turkey is certainly out of the question. What if I was black or Chinese? Would we even give out gifts? Or would we sit glumly progressing through a game of Monopoly moaning about the recession? What playing piece do you reckon Morrissey would be? ANYWAY, I wish that he’d invite me to his house next Christmas so I can find out. What I'm trying to get to is last week in the soft glow of a disappearing festive season he played a song on Letterman. It’s beautiful.

These Guys Record Music On To Paper

Basically, these guys have created some sort of software that can read doodles. It’s called DYSKOGRAF and works as a graphic disk reader, translating Sharpie penned squiggles into delightful house tracks. I really want to get one so that I can draw a picture of a dinosaur on it and see how it turns out. It’s also kind of scary because as DYSKOGRAF’s creators state:

“This installation leads to the rediscovery of a perceptible contact with recorded music and by this means, to the deduction of how it works. The numeric world is a world of binary choice. The object of DYSKOGRAF is to give room again for accidents in numeric creation, accidents that favour creativity.”

Essentially, they’re unraveling the truth behind electronic music – it’s all just lines and squiggles.

50 Cent Has Released an iPhone Game

50 Cent welcomes you to his private club. I’d love to go the club with 50. We’d crack champagne and pour it into stripper’s belly buttons, creating little wells of Dom Perignon. Fiddy doesn’t know who I am, though, so this will never happen. In the meantime, you can hang out with 50 “I’m so rich I don’t take the bins out at my grandmothers” Cent on his really shitty iPhone game, like, you can play blackjack for virtual chips. Because real ballers know that the true value of being rich is in the mind and soul and not in the pocket. Someone out there somewhere will probably download this though. Somewhere. Maybe.

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