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I found this so charming, both the story behind the last minute collaboration and the feedback loop where the music makes the audience happy, which makes the organist happy, which makes me happy to watch:

"I often do middle-of-the-night practice sessions at the Royal Albert Hall , and have grown rather fond of hall staff calling up to the organ with requests. At 1am on Friday 20th, someone called up asking me to play Bach's Toccata in D minor. It turned out it was Bonobo's band. 12 hours later they had written me an organ part, and 18 hours later I was helping them close their show to an audience of 5000. This was, undoubtedly, the best moment of my life so far...!"

(warning for strobe lights and general light FX)

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This is pretty neat if you're looking for some new music: Downplayer is a website where you can download 10 songs in mp3 format every weekday, from different well-known and lesser known artists.

Right now they have songs by Beck, Duffy, the Black Keys, the Magnetic Fields and others. As far as I can tell, these are all links to legal downloads that have been posted on music blogs. 

One such blog is Kick Kick Snare, which has Janelle Monae's new song Tightrope + her new video, yay! The new video is fun to watch, with lots of taplike dancing, though not quite as mesmerizing as the science fiction video for Many Moons which I have watched approximately 30 times so far. I'm really curious about the rest of her new album.

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