James Tauber's Blog 2007/12/21
The Future Comes in Green and White
This week I received two significant packages: my "spit kit" to provide a DNA sample for 23andMe to analyze and my One Laptop Per Child XO-1.
I think both of these are landmarks. I'll report on both over the coming months.
Here are some more photos:
by James Tauber : Created on Dec. 21, 2007 : Last modified Dec. 21, 2007 : Categories olpc : 0 comments (permalink)
You Me Us We Named Top Song of 2007
Back in May, I wrote about the song You Me Us We which was originally an instrumental piano piece of mine to which Nelson Clemente later added vocals as part of our Nelson James collaboration. For Nelson's solo debut EP, I worked with producer Rob Agostini on an electropop version that was described by one reviewer as "the perfect blend of sparkly pop that will make you feel like the world isn't so bad after all".
The site ElectroQueer has always been a fan of the song but they just released their Top 120 Songs of 2007 and guess which song ended up at #1!
Thank you Nelson and Rob and ElectroQueer for making a simple piano piece I wrote as a 19-year-old into an international number one pop song!
by James Tauber : Created on Dec. 21, 2007 : Last modified Dec. 21, 2007 : Categories music_composition nelson_james you_me_us_we : 1 comment (permalink)