My Mixpod.

Task...
To created a tape/cd/playlist with matching artwork which best describes you.

Album name: The Construction.

Songs.

1 Lets dance to joy devision - The Wombats
2 Stepping stone - Duffy
3 This is an emergency - The pigeon detectives
4 Single ladies - Beyonce
5 Hardest of hearts - Florence and the machine
6 Be somebody - Kings of Leon

7 Without love - Hairspray cast
8 Cry - Rhianna
9 Mama - Spice girls
10 Mardy bum - Arctic monkeys

11 I just don't know what to do with myself - The white stripes

12 Take her back - The pigeon detectives

13 Take over the world - The Courteeners

14 I bet you look good on the dance floor - Arctic monkeys

15 Pass out - Tinie Tempah

16 Wont go quietly - Example

17 Best Friend - The drums

18 Purple rain - Prince

Why.

1. Have a Positive Attitude.

2. Don't let people walk all over you.

3. Always be a drama queen.

4. Single is fun.

5. Learn to love.

6. Never be nobody, always ...

7. The best musical.

8. Try not to cry. Its hard

9. My hero.

10. Don't listen to this song

11. Decisions in life are hard, take things as they come.

12. Give second chances.

13. Make a difference to the world.

14. DANCE DANCE DANCE.

15. Live for Life

16. Always be noticed

17. To be one to everyone, everyday.

18. The best song ever made.

ONE OF THE HARDEST THING I HAVE EVER DONE.

Postmodern music. Mr. Ford

TAKEN FROM FORDS BLOG.

Brian Eno — 25th November 2009

Musician, Artist, Producer, Theorist.

Has worked with (amongst others) – Roxy music, Talking Heads, Devo, Ultravox, Bryan Ferry, U2, Coldplay.

He ‘Invented’ ambient music which in turn let to chillout genre which in the last 18 months has linked into chill wave music (a mainly American endeavor)

"It’s odd to think back on the time—not so long ago—when there were distinct stylistic trends, such as “this season’s colour” or “abstract expressionism” or “psychedelic music.” It seems we don’t think like that any more. There are just too many styles around, and they keep mutating too fast to assume that kind of dominance.

As an example, go into a record shop and look at the dividers used to separate music into different categories. There used to be about a dozen: rock, jazz, ethnic, and so on. Now there are almost as many dividers as there are records, and they keep proliferating. The category I had a hand in starting—ambient music—has split into a host of subcategories called things like “black ambient,” “ambient dub,” “ambient industrial,” “organic ambient” and 20 others last time I looked. A similar bifurcation has been happening in every other living musical genre (except for “classical” which remains, so far, simply “classical”), and it’s going on in painting, sculpture, cinema and dance.

We’re living in a stylistic tropics. There’s a whole generation of people able to access almost anything from almost anywhere, and they don’t have the same localised stylistic sense that my generation grew up with. It’s all alive, all “now,” in an ever-expanding present, be it Hildegard of Bingen or a Bollywood soundtrack. The idea that something is uncool because it’s old or foreign has left the collective consciousness.

I think this is good news. As people become increasingly comfortable with drawing their culture from a rich range of sources—cherry-picking whatever makes sense to them—it becomes more natural to do the same thing with their social, political and other cultural ideas. The sharing of art is a precursor to the sharing of other human experiences, for what is pleasurable in art becomes thinkable in life."

Death of Uncool. MrFord

Boulivard of broken dreams - Green day

She wolf - Shakira

Jumper- Third eye blind

Ego - Beyonce

Diva - Beyonce

Say it right- Bloc Party

Lying is the most fun a girl can have without taking her clothes off -Panic at the disco

Last time lover - Spice girls

I carn't control myself - The pigeon detectives

Don't ever think - The zutons

Postmodern music. THEXX

RE-MIXX.

X. Pull My Heart Away.

X.Closer.

X.You've Got The Love.

X.Hot Like Fire.

X.Rolling In The Deep.

X.Money Box.

X. New York Is Killing Me

Music Video's :

X.Basic Space.

X.Crystalised.

X.VCR.

X.Islands.

THEXX.

English.

Indie POP.

Formed 2005.

XX.Romy Madley Croft Oliver Sim Jamie Smith

Jamie smith..

Corroborated with Gil Scott-Heron original.

The XX also take popular music by big names such as Florence Welch and Adele.

If You look at Kraftwrek a German band you can see certain similarities to THEXX and their creation of music. You can hear that they have taken the abstract sounds and applied them to lyrics to create the XX sound. If you listen to the majority of THEXX remix's you can hear sounds layered over the top. Bellow is a clip of Kraftwrek showing how they create there music. This is similar to THEXX music video of crystalised.

XXInfluences.

What are your musical influences? We all have very different influences. Personally, I started listening to soul music, and then I got really into hip-hop, because of the samples, and the UK bass music that's coming out of London. Who are some of the UK bass artists you like? What are the other band members into? This one guy James Blake, who is really releasing some really good stuff this year, and last year. For Romy, she was, when we met, listening to a lot of rock music, like the Distillers and Queens of the Stone Age. And we now listen to each other's stuff as well. But we went through phases with disco and all of it. I think Oliver started out listening to R&B.

The Clothes.

Exam boards advise on how to answer question 1a.

Question 1a is always about how your skills developed. Here's how the chief examiner recommends you tackle the question.


This was requested from the e-community; there are other versions elsewhere, but this is probably the simplest!

paragraph 1 should be an introduction which explains which projects you did. It can be quite short.

paragraph 2 should pick up the skill area and perhaps suggest something about your starting point with it- what skills did you have already and how were these illustrated. use an example.

paragraph 3 should talk through your use of that skill in early projects and what you learned and developed through these. Again there should be examples to support all that you say.

paragraph 4 should go on to demonstrate how the skill developed in later projects, again backed by examples, and reflecting back on how this represents moves forward for you from your early position.

paragraph 5 short conclusion