I have mentioned this very useful extension to iTunes before.
Reposting now around two fronts. New friend, music aficionado and DJ Mat Dryhurst provided me with some sample music around the genres of metal, black metal, doom, modern composition, techno, electronic, dubstep – I mean I didn’t even know the genres – much less the bands.
Anyway – took the samples, dropped them into iTunes and tried using Gracenote to identify the tracks …. FAIL.
BUT – then I switch into TuneUp – and this track listing is identified.
Two were not identified – Mat – if you can help – I will manually enter them – and also would be interested if the rest have been correctly identified.
However – to my mind a pretty amazing identifier – IF the cataloguing is right. More to come – post confirmation.
The one I can confirm is right is ‘Farmer in The City’ by Scott Walker.
Scott – being a personal favorite – I checked out, seemed an odd one in the middle of all this doom, metal and thrash.
The track comes from an early 1990s album called Tilt. It could have been lifted from the Jacques Brel cover album he did 10 years before in terms of voice meets art meets meets dark. This one is even more depressing than the Brel covers – so now I get the inclusion.
BobbyG – point of note – Mat knows Mikael Åkerfeldt.
I am working through the music to see what’s what. So far – interesting.
