| Salad Fingers 2 |
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This was the second cartoon I got featured on
newgrounds.com back in 2004. At the time,
many fans of the first one told me this was
too dark and spoilt the innocence of the
original, whilst others said that it was a
100% improvement. To explain why I'm
uploading these old cartoons despite them
already being on here: I have come to accept
that Salad Fingers is always going to get
uploaded to Youtube by someone so it might as
well be me and it might as well be in decent
quality. I've seen too many out of sync, bad
sound quality, jerky uploads and it ruins it.
Music by Boards Of Canada
To watch the entire series go here:
http://newgrounds.com/collection/saladfingers
Tags : Salad fingers fingre saland sallad two episode finger cartoon newgrounds flash creepy sick fatpie david firth II |
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Durée : 242 s |
| Mr Fingers - Can You Feel It |
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1987 Old School Chicago House .
Born on Chicago's south side in 1960, Heard
began buying records from an early age, and
was influenced by his parents' jazz and
gospel collection. Though he practiced on
guitar and bass as a youth, he joined a
friend's band playing drums after bluffing
his way through an audition at the age of 17.
Heard began practicing with fervor and became
quite good, though he took a civil-service
job as well to pay the bills. While playing
with a variety of local bands during the late
'70s and early '80s (including one with
future house star Adonis on bass), Heard was
introduced to many different types of
synthesizers, and he gradually became more
interested in playing keyboards than drums.
Heard finally opted out of the band setup in
1984, bought a synthesizer/drum machine combo
and began producing music. After a few days
with the gear, he had recorded three tracks
later recognized as serious pinnacles of
Chicago house, among them "Mystery of Love,"
"Washing Machine" and "Can You Feel It." His
lack of connections in the club scene made it
difficult to get the tracks listened to,
though Heard finally debuted on wax with a
1985 single for DJ International named
"Donnie." Instead of being credited to Larry
Heard however, the single appeared as the It,
and was co-written by street poet Harry
Dennis. Later, on one of his infrequent trips
into the club/party scene, Heard met up with
Robert Owens. Owens was then working as a DJ
though he was (more importantly) an
incredibly talented gospel-styled vocalist.
Heard and Owens decided to form Fingers Inc.,
with the addition of Ron Wilson.
The nascent Chicago house scene was just
about to explode with recording activity, and
Heard released nearly a dozen singles during
1986-87, for both Trax and DJ International.
Fingers Inc. contributed Chicago classics
like "Mystery of Love," "You're Mine,"
"Distant Planet" and "Bring Down the Walls"
while Mr. Fingers dropped quite possibly the
most sublime house single ever released, "Can
You Feel It." (Though by no means a hard and
fast rule, Fingers Inc. releases were usually
vocal tracks, while Heard used the tag Mr.
Fingers as his solo outlet.)
By the end of the '80s, Heard's name was
being dropped by many in the new wave of
British producers influenced by American
house music. He continued recording in
earnest, and released one of the first house
full-lengths with the 1988 Fingers Inc. LP
Another Side for Jack Trax Records. The
following year, Jack Trax released Heard's
original 1984 instrumental demos as the Mr.
Fingers album Amnesia, even though he had
never given consent to the album's issue.
Despite its barely legal status, the LP
showcased the first flowering of Heard's
genius with several impeccable tracks. His
large production role on the 1989 debut album
by Lil' Louis (of "French Kiss" fame) was
noticed by the major labels and by the
beginning of the 1990s, Heard was being
offered contracts by several labels. He
recorded additional material with Harry
Dennis, though Dennis' continuing drug
problems gave Heard a desire to strike out on
his own.
After finally signing to MCA as a solo act in
1991, Heard issued his first major-label
album one year later. Mr. Fingers'
Introduction charted an intriguing balance
between floor-filling garage house and
several tracks of polished jazz-fusion;
Heard's undying influence among DJs and
producers alike made the album quite an
international success. Though it graced the
American dance charts as well, MCA attempted
to interfere with the production of its
follow-up Back to Love, and later refused to
release the album at all. It finally appeared
in 1995 on Black Market Records, the label
formed by Heard's friend and former manager
Ren Galston.
By the time Back to Love was released
however, Heard had already recorded and
released another album, his first as simply
Larry Heard. The album Sceneries Not Songs,
Vol. 1 (and its follow-up) both expanded on
Heard's commitment to inner space rather than
the dancefloor. He returned to a style more
tied to traditional house with 1996's Alien
and the following year's Dance 2000. In late
1997, Heard suddenly declared that he had
quit recording to take a computer-programming
job in Memphis. Despite his seeming
retirement from music, two more albums of new
tracks filtered out in 1998. Yet another,
Genesis, followed in 1999. For the 2001 album
Love's Arrival, Heard signed to the respected
house label Trackmode, and its follow-up,
2003's Where Life Begins, also appeared on
the label. ~ John Bush, All Music Guide
Tags : wbmx old school chicago house dj deejay hot mix bad boy bill |
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Affichage : 189559
Durée : 329 s |
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