![]() So there is relaxing music for the left brain. We want you to go in the direction of going to sleep, but not go to sleep. Just relaxing your mind, not your brain, see? You stay awake listening to music, you don't go to sleep. That's physical, left brain, not slowing down the frequency of the brain. Relaxing music Some want to play soft music in the background, and that's supposed to relax you. That's why we call it the alpha sound, even though alpha has no sound. If we detect the energy in space, that was done, but is detected into micro volts, this magnetic field fluctuating at 10 times per second, 2 or 3 micro volts, can be amplified to volts, same thing: So then, the way the energy in space sounds, the way the brain frequency sounds, we duplicated this with this audio generator, interrupted 10 sounds per second. For instance, if we detect the alpha sound in micro volts, and convert it into volts, and convert it into sound, this is the sound. It is very comparable to the output of the brain, when converted to sound, to this sound, the alpha sound. How do we hear alpha, if we should call it the alpha sound? Well, to get the same results, we took an audio generator, 600 cycles audio generator, and interrupted the sound 10 times per second and recorded that. So alpha is below the threshold of the human being. Alpha is 10 cps, and the hearing range of human beings is no lower than 20 and no higher than 20,000. It’s a triumph to behold.Benefits of the Alpha Sound by Jose Silva The alpha frequency has no sound. ![]() Outside gloats at its critics and maturely turns its head away from the calypso pop acts that stole the limelight. As though anticipating the sad hiatus of resident boundary pushers Wolf Parade, Tapes ‘n Tapes have produced the kind of album an aspiring musician would walk through walls to achieve. Even during the record’s weaker moments the band shines through in an extraordinary demonstration of skill. In all honesty criticising this album is no easy task. Likewise ‘Hidee Ho’ uses an intro unnervingly akin to any standard track by The Libertines and the instrumentals on ‘SWM’ are a bit Last of the Summer Wine. If it weren’t for the booming chug of bass, the song could have been lifted from Dead Man’s Bones’ self-titled – never a bad thing. The odd guitar solo and some heavy handed production unfortunately blemishes tracks like ‘The Saddest of All Keys’. Outside may mimic the travelling, ramshackle sound of The Loon on ‘Freak Out’, but it doesn’t eradicate all traces of Tapes ‘n Tapes’ disappointing sophomore album Walk It Off. It’s more Death of the Pixies than Surfa Rosa, but a grim abstract and lo-fi aesthetic are definitely underlying features. ![]() Summoning early comparisons to Pixies and Pavement, ‘Nightfall’ relates the end of a relationship to the mounting hysteria of a nearing apocalypse. Tapes ‘n Tapes have never been tied to the dance floor perhaps that’s why they transcend the hype that’s swallowed other acts whole. ‘One in the World’ uses brass instruments without invoking the need to thump your neighbour in the face, and although the title of opener ‘Badaboom’ doesn’t inspire the greatest of reactions, the song itself has a determined momentum sincerely lacking from The Drums. On Outside, their third album to date, the band prove accessible pop music doesn’t have to kick at the heels of credibility. How then do they compare to the genre’s fresh faced children? Tapes ‘n Tapes are – for want of a more attractive metaphor – the unassuming, unanticipated grandparents of calypso pop. Interestingly enough the release landed on British shores (via XL Recordings) in the same year that bore the foundations of what is mentioned above. Awash with the kind of finger tapping, hip slapping instruments we now take for granted… they even dubbed one of their songs ‘Cowbell’. If you remember them at all, you’ll remember them for their debut full length The Loon. Minneapolis band Tapes ‘n Tapes have been rocking everything but the look since they signed to Ibid Records in 2004. But they weren’t the first to test the chlorine blue waters, oh no. The scene began to rumble back in 2006, and to this day bands like Vampire Weekend and The Drums thrive on a pot of sunshine otherwise known as calypso pop. Guitars, thick framed (non subscription) glasses, brooding glares, a falsetto voiced front man and an arrogant drummer. Men in checkered shirts and cardigans on style haircuts skinny jeans.
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