Tunes!

There’s some very excellent music out there on the internets. Yesterday, I stumbled onto a song called Hana, which is very much unlike anything I’ve ever heard. It starts out annoying, two monotonous voices disharmonizing over a string section, but it’s just intriguing enough to keep you listening. And then, after it ends, about six minutes later, you come out of your daze, shellshocked and slightly unsettled and not sure what the fuck just happened, but fairly sure you want it to happen again. Check it out here.

And then there’s a Sri Lankan woman named MIA, who’s Galang is a sort of beat-heavy pop thing that fuses so many different styles that it’s hard to pick any of them out; which is, I think, the point of fusion, piecing old stuff together to make something new. Unfortunately, the song is accompanied by a video, in which MIA dances in various outfits on a shifting background of military ordnance. Her dancing skills are … well, worse than nonexistent, they’re Elaine-ish in their abject horribility. Still, you can close your eyes and listen.

And, best of all … someone came up with the bright idea of mashing Galang up with the theme from Super Mario Brothers! Cool does not begin to describe the coolness of the result. Check it out.