Pink Floyd drummer and auto enthusiast Nick Mason is featured in the April issue of GQ magazine.
He’s pictured in the Ferrari 458 Italia on the front of the magazine’s “Cars” section.
(Another) 8-bit version of “Dark Side”
Posted March 24, 2011 by Floydian Slip
From the Didn’t See That One Coming Department, we got a heads up yesterday about another 8-bit redo of Pink Floyd’s “Dark Side of the Moon.”
Joe Allen who runs Pterodactyl Squad, an online record label that freely distributes its music, all inspired by video games, tells us, “Each track has been handled by a different artist, forming an all-star cast from the chiptune scene, and the whole album flows together just like the original.”
You might remember last April we told you about Brad Smith, a then-27-year-old game programmer from Ontario, Canada, who had re-recorded “Dark Side” using nothing but ’80s-era video game sounds.
“We believe our version blows that one out of the water,” Allen boasts.
Calling Mr. Smith: Have you received the challenge? And might we suggest “Animals” next?
You can download Pterodactyl Squad’s version of “Dark Side of the Moon” from the label’s Web site.
Floyd cover on Homefront game soundtrack
Posted March 22, 2011 by Floydian Slip
Wisconsin post-hardcore group Misery Signals covers Pink Floyd’s “Us and Them” on the soundtrack to the new video game “Homefront.”
The 11-song soundtrack — all cover songs with the theme of warfare — is available as a free download for a limited time. The first 25,000 visitors to the game’s soundtrack site can download the music. The offer went live earlier today.
Here’s the track listing:
- War Ensemble — As I Lay Dying
- Fight the Power – The Dillinger Escape Plan feat. Chuck D
- Uprising — iwrestledabearonce
- War Pigs — The Acacia Strain
- One — Periphery
- Fortunate Son — The Ghost Inside
- For What It’s Worth — Winds of Plague
- Us and Them — Misery Signals
- Masters of War — Arsonists Get All the Girls
- War — Oceano
- Sunday Bloody Sunday — Veil of Maya
“Us and Them,” written by Roger Waters and Rick Wright, originally appeared on Floyd’s “Dark Side of the Moon” (1973).
“Homefront” was released by THQ Inc. March 15 for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and Windows. It’s a first-person shooter that takes place in a fictional future America that’s been economically devastated and occupied by a foreign power.
Roger Waters box set coming to U.K.
Posted March 19, 2011 by Floydian Slip
Sony Music will release in the U.K. a box set of Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters‘s solo material.
“The Album Collection” will be available for £31.99 on April 4. It’ll be available the following day in the U.S. as an import for $46.43.
The 8-CD set includes: “The Pros & Cons of Hitch Hiking” (1984), “Radio K.A.O.S.” (1987), “Amused to Death” (1992), “In the Flesh” (2000) as a 2-CD/1-DVD set, and Waters’s 2-CD opera “Ca Ira” (2005).
This is supposedly a limited edition, which will be available only during the balance of Waters’s tour of “The Wall.”
Buy “The Album Collection” online now. Your purchase helps support “Floydian Slip.”
Foo Fighters re-release Floyd cover
Posted March 14, 2011 by Floydian Slip
Foo Fighters will include a cover of Pink Floyd’s “Have a Cigar” in its compilation “Medium Rare.”
The all-covers album will be issued on vinyl on April 16, “Record Store Day.”
It’s unclear whether this version of “Cigar” will be the one from the 2000 “Mission Impossible II” collection that features Queen’s Brian May; or the Foos-only recording that appeared on the band’s “Learn to Fly” EP the previous year.
Record Store Day is a celebration of the unique culture surrounding more than 700 independently owned record stores in the US, and hundreds of similar stores internationally. Learn more at the Record Store Day Web site.
New Ron Geesin album out
Posted March 11, 2011 by Floydian Slip
Avant garde recording artist Ron Geesin has released his latest album, “RonCycle 1: The Journey of a Melody.”
Geesin has worked on the suite, composed of 16 movements, since 1986. “The reason that it has all taken so long is that, as it grew, it frightened me so much that I had to walk away for long periods,” Geesin explains.
He credits Mark Ayres, known for his work on the BBC’s “Dr. Who,” with helping complete the project by transferring parts of the project from analog tape to hard drive. “The whole digi-structure was becoming overwhelmingly complicated,” Geesin explains.
Geesin is best known to Pink Floyd fans for his work on Floyd’s “Atom Heart Mother” (1970) and his collaboration with Floyd’s Roger Waters on “Music from ‘The Body'” (1970).
He was a guest on Floydian Slip in November 2010. You can hear that interview and read a transcript online.
“RonCycle 1: The Journey of a Melody” is available on CD and 180-gram LP, which includes a bonus CD. Buy it online at tonefloat.
“The Wall Live in Berlin” to be re-released
Posted March 9, 2011 by Floydian Slip
In case you haven’t had your fill of talk about live performances of Pink Floyd’s “The Wall,” this month will see a re-release of Roger Waters‘ Berlin, Germany, performance from 1990.
“The Wall Live in Berlin” will be re-issued with bonus material as 2-DVD and 2-CD sets on March 29 in the U.S.
Some of the extras promised are:
- An extended cut of the “Behind The Wall” documentary, expanding it from 30 to 70 minutes.
- The original, unedited “warts and all” broadcast of the event. It includes an introduction by Leonard Cheshire, the then-72-year-old British war hero-turned-activist who founded the Memorial Fund for Disaster Relief, the beneficiary of Waters’ concert. (Cheshire died the summer following the concert.)
- Footage shot by Floyd animator Ian Emes of Rupert Everett (Pink), Marianne Faithful and Ute Lemper for stage projections, edited here as theatrical promotional clips.
- Original, full-screen Gerald Scarfe animations
- New liner notes by Record Collector editor Daryl Easlea
The concert took place at Berlin’s Potzdamer Platz on July 21, 1990, and was originally released by Mercury Records in September ’90.
It received its first re-release in 2003, with new packaging, artwork and liner notes.
David Gilmour vinyl to be “Deal of the Day”
Posted March 1, 2011 by Floydian Slip
Here’s a more affordable way to pick up David Gilmour’s “Live in Gdansk” (2008) on vinyl: The 5-LP boxset will be the featured buy at online retailer Pop Market this Friday, March 4.
The set will be more than 50% off its suggested retail price of $134.98 with free shipping in the U.S. That’s at least as low as $67.49.
This limited edition features the full concert including the bonus track “Wot’s… Uh The Deal?,” plus two of the private recording sessions known as the “Barn Jams.”
- Complete concert on 4 LPs
- Extra LP with unreleased tracks from the 2006 tour
- Webpass to enable digital download of all tracks
- Double-sided poster and 20-page booklet
Pop Market is Sony Music’s members-only shopping club for music fans, which offers limited-time sales on selected titles each day. Membership is free.
Storm Thorgerson documentary premieres next month
Posted February 15, 2011 by Floydian Slip
“Taken by Storm,” a new feature-length documentary film about prolific Pink Floyd sleeve designer Storm Thorgerson (pictured), will premiere at the South by Southwest (SxSW) festival next month.
The film will be shown three or four times during the festival, which runs March 11-20 in Austin, Texas.
According to the film’s director, Roddy Bogawa, Thorgerson is expected to attend most of the festival.
Bogawa reports Pink Floyd and EMI have been very supportive in the making of the film. “They’ve given me permission to use a one-minute clip from a helicopter shot over the beach at Devon where Storm shot ‘A Momentary Lapse of Reason’,” he says. “No one has ever seen this footage, I think, and it’s really amazing.
“Storm and Pink Floyd have done so much together it’s a big chunk of the film,” he adds. “There are sequences about ‘Atom Heart Mother,’ ‘Wish You Were Here,’ of course, ‘Dark Side of the Moon’ and ‘A Momentary Lapse of Reason,’ with footage from my interviews with David Gilmour and Nick Mason.”
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