Tag Archives: Music

Jose Releases a New Single!

February 6, 2012 – 5:52 PM

Our time has finally come! Here at the Worldwide Headquarters of Jose el Retardo, Inc., we’ve been burning the midnight oil for days putting the finishing touches on our latest brilliant, musical creation: New Girl Smell. And for the first time ever, we are offering a high-quality download to all of our faithful followers, for [...]

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From the Depths of the Soul of Jose el Retardo

August 3, 2010 – 12:25 AM

Film scores can be inspiring and insipid in a single movie, and many times all within the space of ten minutes. But still, what a freaking life, you know? To sit in dark room for hours on end, basically deciding how a movie is going to make everybody feel. I’d drop everything to do it. [...]

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GarageBand: Who Knew Making Dance Music Could Be So Fun?

July 28, 2010 – 5:30 PM

Must all media creation software be such a cumbersome burden?  Actually, no.  Recently,  I began farting around with something that makes creating music on the computer fun again. Before I go any further,  I need to prepare those who know me for a bit of a shock: I now have an Apple iMac at home, and an iPhone 4 [...]

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Scandinavian Black Metal/Seasonal Affective Disorder

February 5, 2009 – 3:36 PM

Not a lot of people realize this, but Norway and the surrounding area is widely considered the birthplace of true black metal, a sub genre of heavy metal which focuses on exploding double bass drums, highly distorted tremolo guitar picking, odd rhythm changes, and chilling vocal screams and growls venerating the many charms of satan. [...]

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