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Quite the drought. I’m back in it - making music again and existing in cyberspace. More to come shortly. In the meantime enjoy this from one of my favorite weird artists - follow the instructions and experiemnt with volume settings to get the complete effect (via antville):
The ever brilliant John Lennon waxing to a 14 year old kid with a tape recorder who snuck into his hotel. The animation is new and beautiful and draws some nice parallels between then/now (via CDM).
The best Radiohead “Nude” remix I have heard (no easy feat considering Holy Fuck’s brilliant effort). + this video and it is one of the coolest things I have seen in a while. The equipment being used:
Sinclair ZX Spectrum - Guitars (rhythm & lead)
Epson LX-81 Dot Matrix Printer - Drums
HP Scanjet 3c - Bass Guitar
Hard Drive array - Act as a collection of bad speakers - Vocals & FX
I also disagree with Houston’s claim that “It doesn’t sound great, as it’s not supposed to” - it sounds absolutely majestic and I think it was always meant to sound that way. Get through the intro and you will see what I mean.
Big Ideas (Don’t get any) from 1030 on Vimeo.
on a day like today, i’m glad i rode my bike to work.
This is one of the weirdest, but most enjoyable, short films I have seen in a while. Garret showed it to me over pizza and beer while we were waiting to go out and it left me feeling very uncomfortable in the best way possible, like I stumbled upon some home-made film by some kids who were trying to create a high-art action piece (yet fell short and exceeding in other ways).
Frito Lo from Grant Falardeau & Carson Mell on Vimeo.
Amazing track from Sweden’s Air France. I love thsi type of sampling (reminds me a lot of Jens Lekman, which might be an erroneous correlation due to their national heritige but whatever) - very subtle and very beautiful. The bass line is silky and the whole song just washes over you in a way that, at least for me, evokes flying over a cityscape/country. Nice band name. Great pop sensibility. Via GvB:
Jamie Oliver is one of my favorite chef’s but this stunt pushed my respect for him outside of his cooking abilities and into his value as a member of society at large. Maybe it is time to go vegan (sans-cheese which I don’t think I could ever give up). Via Smashing Telly:
I don’t know much about Count Bass D - this is my first exposure to his work - but his production is radical. Lots of nice synth lines, great sounding beat, nice vocal line, dope lyrical abilities. Generally spooky feeling. He is on my radar - just one track and I’m stoked for L7, his upcoming album (via The FADER).
