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the only thing fake about it is the credit given at the end... it was actually ripped off from a MOG post from 2007. i know the person who made it, and i've heard the full tracks, not just the parts in this medley. it's real.
EDIT: found a better link
That may be true, but that was not always the case:
"Two weeks went by. Then I got a CD in the post. I listened to it and it was very strange. It was this other person inhabiting my most personal song. I'd known where I was when I wrote it. I know what I was thinking about. I know how I felt. Hearing it was like someone kissing your girlfriend. It felt invasive."
The article goes on to say that he later appreciated it.
MOG has eight of the ten, missing only Between the Buried and Me (#7) and Anathema (#1). I made a playlist of the albums (counting down from #10). If you're a MOG subscriber, enjoy.
Spotify has the same records, here's the Spotify playlist.
Quick little google indicated that it felt invasive because it was a song that was so close and personal to him, and that was only his initial reaction. Overall he considered it a great honour.
So, I don't think it would be 'pissy' to have a reaction like that to something with such a personal significance. Even at that, he got over it and came to fully appreciate what he was a part of.
Really I had read in other interviews that he wasn't too thrilled when Cash's people called he said "It's Johnny Cash and hes dying what do you say?" and he went on to say how teh song was very personal and about suicide and that he knew Cash would make it different about more of a wasted life since he was on his way out...had no clue what the OP posted was true or if it really is... Wiki source... It's funny one would swear his sentiment softened once Cash died..
Source Two weeks went by. Then I got a CD in the post. I listened to it and it was very strange. It was this other person inhabiting my most personal song. I'd known where I was when I wrote it. I know what I was thinking about. I know how I felt. Hearing it was like someone kissing your girlfriend. It felt invasive."
He goes on to say some positive things but the article is from 08' and he says he heard it for one of the first time that weekend but yet the song came out in 02' who waits 6 years to hear something hes excited about... I think he's just being overtly kind and had a problem with it considering Cash had zero contact with him and prob had no clue who he was juts an artist who song he was going to cover.
If you look up some interviews by datsik, he talks a lot about how he came from making hip-hop beats to dubstep, I think he called it "a natural progression". Ill try to look one up for you but yeah just do a quick google search for it. He also did a whole album with wu-tang, not the greatest but there's a whole album oh hip-hop/rap and dubstep together.
Edit: Datsik interview
Wu-tang dubstep album (not just datsik)
MOG was my go to service. The UI was so clean. The community was great - even had real people blog and curate playlists, and quality was always 320kbps, a decent quality for its time. Fucking loved it. This was back when having 16 million songs in your service was a big deal, lol.
Mog?
Edit: Made it myself.. Mog playlist
Missing:
Jungle Giants - She's a Riot
Chromatics - Kill for Love
The Oh Hello's - I Have Made Mistakes
Tame Impala - Led Zeppelin
The Black Keys - Little Black Submarines
Ty Segall & White Fence - I Can't Get Around You
Captain Murphy - Mighty Morphin Foreskin
Clams Casino - I'm God
"Bass reflex" usually refers to using a port in a speaker enclosure to aid in generating low (bass) frequencies. Not sure exactly how it's used in headphones.
"Sub bass" and "mid bass" are terms referring to portions of the audible spectrum. I usually assoiciate "mid bass" with the portion of the frequency range that covers bass guitars and floor toms. "Sub bass" is the REALLY low frequency stuff that shows up in dubstep, electronica, movies (rumbling) and the like.
I don't know much about how the DT770's generate their bass, except to say that they do it deeply and with a good deal of control.
James Blake's "Limit To Your Love" features some pretty serious sub-bass. You'll know it when you hear it.
I was a MOG subscriber for 4 months. Just switched to Spotify last week. MOG is a great service... the sound quality is great, the mobile apps are nice, and I also liked the high quality album art. Music discovery is decent, but creating playlists with the web interface seems a little clunky. The web interface was a little buggy at times too. MOG also released a Windows desktop app last week. They already had a Mac app. I haven't used either of those. 2 week free trial here (CC req'd I think):
http://mog.com/promos/all_access
MOG was bought by Beats (the headphone company who is owned by HTC) last week. Who knows what changes that will bring.
So far I am really enjoying Spotify... I like the apps, the instant streaming (no buffering time), and the ability to play local files. Hopefully they get the ipad app out fairly soon. The "OS of Music" should not be the last streaming music provider with an ipad app.
BTW, Rdio is another good service and they have had an iPad app for a long time.
Let me amend a bit, I seem to have remembered that wrong. I do not think he asked him to cover it but from interviews given he's done it seems like he was okay with it and he was very flattered by the result.
Reddit recommended me to sign up for MOG (no Facebook required) and while I found an awesome music collection, great sound quality and excellent service, their customers have awful taste. I know, I know... you can't argue about taste, they say, but hell, we do it all the time anyway. I cannot imagine that a service like MOG exists mostly for the purpose of serving crappy music to people with crappy taste. This just sends the wrong message. Let those people have Youtube, and let us have MOG with Air, Pink Floyd, Garbage, Portishead, Cameron Carpenter and the likes.
MOG currently doesn't have: The Beatles, Metallica, Caro Emerald.
They do have: Radiohead, Cameron Carpenter, Slagerij van Kampen, The Future Sound Of London, Trentemøller.
Please submit more missing music, we could compile a "wish list".
This is what I could find from Reddit's top 2011 albums: http://mog.com/m/playlist/1167322