February 28, 2007

More JBees



They'll be embarking in another tour of North America starting in March. I received a nice promo of their new tour EP titled 'The Dead Horse.' There's no new original material on the EP, just a collection of five remixes that personally, I really liked. The remixers include: Hot Chip, Kode 9, Tensnake, Marsen Jules, and even motherfuckin Carl Craig.

You can cop this at their shows all throughout their tour.

These were the highlights for me:


In The Morning (Hot Chip Remix)

FM (Tensnake Remix)

February 26, 2007

March in New York


march is the month.
inner city youth, enjoy yourself.


Adriana is going out tonight

Mount Sims


Exclusive track off the site.

Shedding Skin MP3


SimsSpace

February 24, 2007

OG Junior Boy

Johnny Dark, not to be confused with the American comic, is responsible for probably half of the tracks on Junior Boys' first album Last Exit. Originally a member of the duo, Dark got replaced by Matt Didemus after he and Jeremy Greenspan had creative differences, before the album was completed. Personally, 'Teach Me How To Fight' is tops in my book, which is a Greenspan and Didemus jam, but Johnny's responsible for those high-pitch vocals, the Timberland-esque beat work, and just the all around "sexy" feel, you find throughout those classics like Bellona, High Come Down, and Birthday. Basically, dude compiled a few things he did sans Greenspan from 2003-2005 and Domino-KIN finally put out a 4-track EP, titled 'Can't Wait.'

You'll definitely notice his influence on Last Exit throughout. It's interesting.
The highlight of the EP is the rework he did for High Come Down.


Can't Wait (ALT LINK)


HCD2 (ALT LINK)

February 22, 2007

aphex twin & chris cunningham live (torino, it)

About a year ago Richard D James and Chris Cunningham performed in Torino, Italy. They presented the audience with some familiar pieces and some unreleased/unseen music/videos. Also they bring out some very spooky afx masked girls that sway around on the sides of the stage. Some amazing shadow puppet work ensues at one point . I wish I couldve been there. My favorite show I never saw.

High quality video available courtesy of google video.


Watch it here :
Aphex Twin & Chris Cunningham
&
Aphex Twin Wheel Chair Dance

February 21, 2007

Stuart Price


I don't have much to say about Stuart. His Career speaks for itself. (Use the ALT LINKs)

Zoot Woman
It's Automatic MP3 (ALT LINK)
Grey Day MP3 (ALT LINK)
Too Young MP3 (ALT LINK)
Casino MP3 (ALT LINK)
Living In A Magazine Video





Les Rythmes Digitales
Feeling For You MP3 (ALT LINK)
Dreamin MP3 (ALT LINK)
Jacques Your Body MP3 (ALT LINK)

Thin White Duke
Talk MP3 (ALT LINK)
What You Waiting For MP3 (ALT LINK)
What Else Is There MP3 (ALT LINK)
Just Let Go MP3 (ALT LINK)
Four To The Floor MP3 (ALT LINK)

Jacques Lu Cont
Lose Control MP3 (ALT LINK)
Breathe On Me MP3 (ALT LINK)
Jetstream MP3 (ALT LINK)
A Pain That I'm Used To MP3 (ALT LINK)
Pin MP3 (ALT LINK)

Man With Guitar
Sorry MP3 (ALT LINK)

Paper Faces
Needy Girl MP3 (ALT LINK)
I Don't Feel Like Dancin' MP3 (ALT LINK)
Sugar MP3 (ALT LINK)

Stuart Price (Production + Song Writing)
Get Together MP3 (ALT LINK)
Forbidden Love MP3 (ALT LINK)
Guilt Is A Useless Emotion MP3 (ALT LINK)
Avalon MP3 (ALT LINK)


and don't forget to check out the Bedford Rockers' own Johnny The Boy in the Dress You Up Video!


Stuart on Pop Justice

Stuart on Myspace

Morgan Geist meets Owusu & Hannibal


The ZombieShark gave a nice nod to Morgan Geist a month ago
but check his remix of Owusu & Hannibal's Delirium

dios mio, man

dios mio



(and here's a few more of Geist's works)

The Equalizer MP3 (ALT LINK)
Skyblue Pink MP3 (ALT LINK)
Take Me Out MP3 (ALT LINK)
Delirium MP3 (ALT LINK)

Owusu & Hannibal on Myspace

Morgan Geist On Myspace


Roman loves you

Rave is the new Black!


So Rave is taking the world by storm (again?), well mainly London and NY I guess.

But apparently, Black ravers are the shit.




BLAVERS UNITE




Oh and are you a Blipster?

the bedfords

a few new members have joined the illustrious Bedford Rockers collective. Please take notice of their names to the left.

If you or a friend thinks they have the ability to summon the sheer, unmitigated gall it takes the it takes to become a member of our elite club.. please submit a proposal to Norman

requirements.

you must be:

I. moonlighting as a misogynist.
II. a music snob.
III. well versed in the arts of internal, international and intermittently introspective espionage.
IV. affiliated with a well established teen smut/fetish site.
V. able and willing to facilitate a Methadone & Methadone Anonymous Support meeting every other Monday at 4:00 pm sharp. (L.E.S.  of course.)
VI. that certain breed of cadet who has amassed a serious disdain for syntax, to which you have professed an undying oath, written in no more than 3 different bodily fluids, formatted as a Deutsche-Haiku-Catechism/Creed which has been translated from English to Latin, back to English, and finally converted into an Double Entendre Anagram, which you compulsively recite, without fail, daily, verbatim.
VII. handsome.

We neither expect nor accept anything less.

(*edit- this post is meant to be a whimsical pun. Please don't send any more applications. if you're down, you're down.)

February 20, 2007

Bubonic Plague

I long for you, Geneva.



ZombieShark MP3 (ALT LINK)
Sleep Room MP3 (ALT LINK)
Nonsence Nonsence MP3 (ALT LINK)

Geneva is on myspace

and her band is also on myspace

.........................

"There is more music everywhere, but less in your private mind, close to your inner self."

PERSONAL MUSIC IN AN IMPERSONAL AGE

Current Love

Tones on Tail "Means of Escape"
Visage "Frequency 7"
The Time "Stick"
Dominatrix "Chants"
Adonis "Shout"
Leather "Nervous"
Miss Tina "Miss Tina" & "Miss Tina Dub"
Softcore "Hot Stuff"
J*Davey "Everybody Touch"
Justin Timberlake "Until the End of Time"
Electric Soul "Xsquared"
Erik Travis "Return of Voices"
Jimmy Edgar "Function of your Love"
Aaron Carl "I-75 (Drive)"
Mike Dunn "Personal Problem"
Latext "Noir Friction"
& everything by Suicide

February 16, 2007

The ASR-10

a quick trick...Take a microphone and sample the word "hello"(its good for hearing the results) Now press and turn the loop on, loop forward for now(i forgot about this one, its a basic thing) Now you should hear "hellohellohello" Press and scroll to "autoloopfinding". Turn it off. Press again,and scroll to "loopend". Turn it to zero. Now you should hear either nothing or avery high tone (or the whole memory of your sampler,but thats another story) Underline the fine position (the one to the left) and move the loopend away from zero slowly. The tone you hear should become deeper.turn it away until its about the same pitch as your original "hello" was. This is a single cycle loop. Now go to "mod/src" as I told you,select "transwav" as mod. and "wheel" as source. Go to the next page ("mod amt=+0") and turn the modulation amount to maximum,+99. Now if you move the wheel, you should hear your singlecycle (=VERY short) loop. Move from h to e, to l, to o. This won't sound like the best audiomorph youve ever heard, but it explains the basic technique just fine. It depends on the source sample you use what results you get. A simple "bweeeaaaooouuuu" from a resonant filter is a much better source for example. The realtime timestretching can be done if you use the envelopes as the modulation source.a slow envelope will move slowly through the sample, a fast one will do it fast, all without changing the pitch.But, remember, finding the right loop, getting rid of all the clicks that might occur is a HARD job and youd be wasting your time if you try it if you don't know the asr/>eps by heart."loopstart+x" is a much quicker way to get a really wild modulation out of ANY sample! And, if youre interested in all the details, buy the Waveboy Transwave Library. You'll get a great manual and many examples for what a transwave can be good for.

all. night. long.


Blue Screen Boot Video

Future Producers Thread

ASR-10 Forum

Ed Rec Volume 2


Second Compilation from Ed Banger Records (drops the end of March). Nothing crazy. Best joint on there is the intro by Oizo.

and Feadz... Your shit is trash buddy.

(many thanks to the flightless bird who dropped this off today)

Oizo 'Intra' MP3

Sebastian 'Greel' MP3

DJ Mehdi 'Lucky Girl' MP3

Ed on Myspace

Just Blaze at Redbull Music Academy


Interesting talk about sample clearance/publishing as well as his switch from ASR-10 to MPC to (his most recent change to) Logic/Pro Tools. The Moderator is a complete piece of shit though, so you've got to deal with a bunch of nonsensical questions but besides that... an allright listen.

Interview M4A

Just Blaze Production MP3

Just Blaze on Myspace

February 15, 2007

God Loves Sampling


Is sampling re-creation or is sampling just ripping off some other artists work?

Posted are 3 huge songs, from 3 huge artists in 3 different styles of music... as well as the original tracks they sampled to make each song.

You decide. *Actually, you know what... I'll just tell you. These songs got straight jacked.





Gnarls Barkley

'Crazy' Inst. MP3

'Nel Cimitero di Tuscson' MP3

Daft Punk

'Robot Rock' MP3

'Release the Beast' MP3

Timbaland

'Do It' MP3

'Block Party' MP3

'Acid Jazzed Evening' MP3

February 12, 2007

Kavinsky



Buy Kavinsky's '1986 EP' February 26th on limited red vinyl. Seriously.
First track is off of his new EP, the second was off of his first EP from 2006, and the third is a gritty SebastiAn remix - also on the new 1986 EP. Enjoy..

Kavinsky - Wayfarer (1986 EP)
Kavinsky - Testarossa Autodrive (Teddy Boy EP)
Kavinsky - Testarossa Autodrive (SebastiAn Remix)

J dilla

re-issue of dilla's 'Rough Draft'. Casette tape format. Get lo fi.


Make em NV MP3

dilla on myspace

February 11, 2007

Superpitcher

Micro minimal purveyor, Aksel Schaufer, one of New York's cult leaders. 1:32 in the video is thick mood.
fuck that girl for ruining my moment.

Pure Vernunft MP3

Don't Save Us MP3

video

old interview

Super Pitcher on Myspace

OFFICIAL.


Dude means business. Here's to 2008.



Obama on NYTimes.com





And here's a mix from last week.


Yuh.

February 10, 2007

letherette


What the fuck. This guy must be possessed by the spirit of JDILLA. Fuckin heat heat on the beat. Hes on bibio's label that never puts out anything. Someone should sweep him up before he blows up.

check it out

David Axelrod

David Axelrod. One of the most innovative producers in the history of music. Buy his new DVD.

  • A Divine Image MP3

  • DVD at turntablelab

  • Interview

  • David on Myspace
  • February 8, 2007

    February 7, 2007

    uffie beefing with the hollertronix message board


    i'm only posting this for 2 reasons. 1. I feel the same way about this shit as I felt when I first heard heard Cheney shot his hunting buddy in the face. 2. oizo does uffie's beats.

  • UFFIE MP3
  • I'm a musical genius.



  • Video


  • At 36 seconds into the interview you get treated to a 17 syllable knockout combo of jumbled syntax, courtesy of the all time heavy weight speech powerhouse himself.

    February 5, 2007

    CASETTE




    Are you tired of the retarded amounts of lame parties that plague this beautiful city? I know I am. If I have to go to one more too-cool fashionfest with lame djs that play the same song every hour I think I will kill something or someone. So we (Normrex crew, Greg Dinwoodie and others) have decided to put an end to the madness and throw the kinda party that we would actually want to see.

    So Casette is born you are re-born. There are multiple reasons for wanting to come out and enjoy yourself.


    FILMS - ART
    Lets say you dont enjoy late night dance parties that make you want to change the rule you made for yourself when you turned 26 that you are "too old" to dance. You can still come have fun with us! The night starts off with exclusive and non-exclusive films and music videos from up and coming directors and artists. This will go from 9-9:30(roughly) so arrive early. In addition to these films is a chance to see and interact with new art. Different artists will be selected monthly to decorate, install or showcase their artwork all night throughout the venue.


    LIVE PERFORMANCES
    We plan on having many bands and performance artists come through and bedazzle your mind. And dont worry there will be no laptop+midicontroller based shows as we know you are all tired of that shit.


    DANCEPARTY
    You know how it feels to leave a party at 5 am and dance your way on to the subway because you cant let go of the fact that your mind has been blown and you have just danced more than ever? We do too and we want to provide that feeling for everyone, even the stubborn chin-strokers who "cross their arms and stare you down and drink and moan and diss". We have assembled the dopest lineup of DJs to provide THICK bass and RAW jams that will make your body jolt uncontrollably. There will be different DJs throughout the night but expect the energy to pick up as it gets later.

    So really there is no excuse for you not to come out.
    Opening night is Saturday March 17th @ Galapagos Art Space.
    Heres the e-flyer:



    Casette On Myspace
    Galapagos Art Space

    February 4, 2007

    SiriusMo

    a little too much digital jon.

    This is SiriusMo. you don't know him.
    analog head... like the greats tend to be. (See the pattern.)

    This track sent quite a few drunk blondes to the floor last night.

  • Discoding MP3

  • Sirius Mo on Myspace

  • Also check out a side project of his Featuring vox by Dana. ('U-again' is on i-tunes for those into it)

  • Dana and SiriusMo on Myspace
  • Zyklus + Ando

    A dream is not simply something one sees. I think it is important to hold on to our hopes and to continue creating our dreams. Although many restrictions operate in the realm of architecture, it is not enough simply to use architectural methods to fulfil a set of imposed conditions. I would like to reflect on what challenges I have faced and what I have tried to contribute to society through my architectural projects so far. For me, "dreams" are not just my dreams, so I want to create a setting where people can explore together how to make their dreams come true.' (Tadao Ando)

    Foto - The Church of the Light in Ibaraki-shi, Osaka, Japan (Tadao Ando)

    The space of the chapel is defined by light, by the strong contrast between light and shade. In the chapel light enters from behind the altar, from a cruciform cut in the concrete wall that extends vertically from floor to ceiling and horizontally from wall to wall, aligning perfectly with the joints in the concrete. From this cruciform shape an abstract and universal light seems to be floating on the concrete wall, its rays extending and receding over time with the movement of the sun. Light is also permitted to seep into the interior from the slicing of the volume by the freestanding concrete wall. The darkness of the chapel is further accentuated by the dark and rough-textured wood of the floor planks and the pews which are built out of reused wood used during construction as scaffolding.


    Sound - Der Zyklus

    03 Polar Coordinates.mp3
    02 Die Dämmerung von Nanotech.mp3
    01 Formenverwandler.mp3
    she wouldn't sit with us
    when we gathered for meals

    then immaculate
    you let her go

    she was in a sense
    innocent

    smiles sometimes
    you'd never know

    in her room, sees the moon as she wept
    her mood seized the room as she left

    and be it
    ambient

    .
    ..
    .


    Poem - untitled 2007
    Picture - John Pawson's Home in London
    Sound - Anders Ilar

    everlast

    No Such Thing


    Dope dope musician and general chill-ass dude, Jason aka "Nosaj Thing" from California is currently making moves with Daedelus & Scarub from The Living Legends, and also just released his own EP "Views/Octopus" which is available on iTunes and in hand-printed copy from Turntablelab (which gave him a nice review). Check out his live mix...

    Nosaj Thing Live Mix
    Nosaj Thing on MySpace
    Nosaj Thing EP on Turntablelab.com
    Nosaj Thing EP on iTunes

    I Want More Life, Fucker



    Bout shit myself when I saw Ice-T in the movie Breakin' wearing some ski goggles. I ultimately went to wipe after I heard this bassline. Shortly after a baby and her mother were found crying in lower Manhattan.

    Ice-T - Reckless (Ft. Chris "The Glove" Taylor)