Preface: I wrote this post immediately after publishing “Tortoise; How to “SVN UPDATE” using Windows batch files”. Coincidently, Tortoise was queued up in Winamp, and began playing immediately after clicking the “Publish” button. In summation, this post was born.
Tortoise is an interesting breed… they several different genres they play… probably because they’re all friends that specialize in different types of music; one dude is an American jazz guy, and rock guitarist, another is an engineer and drummer who also plays a whole slue of other instruments, another is a dedicated bassist. Just a crazy combo in my opinion… but it works.
Aside from me [kidding, somewhat] I’m going to give credit to the Showtime’s television show, Weeds, for bringing their music to the masses. At the end of one of the season 5 episodes, they had a song that I thought was by someone else. After researching for a while, I found it to be Tortoise, not my buddy Dan. I immediately when out and obtained my very own copy of their latest album, Beacons of Ancestorship.
Oh, what was the song that turned me on to them? Glad you asked…
sample_-_tortoise_-_northern_something.mp3
This is, of course, a sample of the song… 29 seconds of my crude, do-it-in-60-seconds-or-less-audio-slicing. If you like it, hit them up on iTunes or another legitimate music store.
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