Some of the music that was found on this blog can now be found on the “Off-Topic” section of my other blog:
The Closet Entrepreneur - Off Topic.

Farewell, and thank you for visiting the Cozy Rocket Blog.

My goal was to design a song or a piece of sound that people could listen to all day that would be constantly in their mind, constantly evolving, but it’s essentially the same sound over and over.

The device is quite simple; it features a volume control and a toggle switch that chooses between 9 endlessly looping FM3 songs. I’m really interested in buying one for myself since Virant really poured a lot of heart and passion into the tracks; at one point in the interview he talks about how he listened to the first track for about 2 straight weeks in an effort to get the tracks just right. If you’re interested in buying one for yourself, you can get one HERE.

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So what’s so special about the song? Well the song itself is a Winstons production that didn’t really garner much attention. The drum solo on the other hand has pretty much left its mark on the world of music in ways that you would never expect. The drum solo has been cut, remixed, sampled, and incorporated into so many songs that there’s a chance you’ve listened to it in a modified form at least once this year; if not in an actual song, then in a track created for a commercial or TV show. There’s a good video about the “Amen Break” (as it has come to be called) on YouTube, it’s a bit long yet the first few minutes offer some good insight into the Amen Break. The link for the video is: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SaFTm2bcac.

I actually went to watch Ibrahim Ferrer when he performed at ASU’s Gammage Auditorium in 2002; I consider myself fortunate to have seen the great artist in action before he passed away (August 2005). For those of you who don’t know who the Buena Vista Social Club is, I would recommend renting the DVD as it shows the amazing ensemble of Cuban artists that were reunited to produce these amazing albums. For now, I’ll leave you with Eliades Ochoa’s El Carretero which also serves as the perfect closing song for Coffee Shop Week - which I hope you’ve enjoyed.

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Here’s some Wikipedia info about the song that you might enjoy while listening to the great track:

“(Get Your Kicks On) Route 66″ is an American popular song, composed in 1946 by Bobby Troup and first recorded that same year by Nat King Cole.

Troup conceived the idea for the song while driving west from Pennsylvania to Los Angeles, California, and the lyrics — which include references to the U.S. highway of the title and many of the cities it passes through — celebrate the romance and freedom of automobile travel.

The lyrics read as a sort of mini-travelogue about the major stops along the route, listing several cities and towns that Route 66 passes through. Specifically mentioned, in order, are St. Louis, Missouri; Joplin, Missouri; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; Amarillo, Texas; Gallup, New Mexico; Flagstaff, Arizona; Winona, Arizona; Kingman, Arizona; Barstow, California; and San Bernardino, California. Winona is the only town out of sequence in the list. It was a very small settlement east of Flagstaff, and might have been forgotten if not for the song’s lyric, “Don’t forget Winona” intended to rhyme with “Flagstaff, Arizona.”