Pop Levi: “Semi Babe”

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):

Earth and Moon as Seen from Mars

via BB:

I Met The Walrus

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).

James Houston: “Big Ideas (Don’t get any)” Video

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.

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This is very very good.

the future is black and greasy

on a day like today, i’m glad i rode my bike to work.


Grangemouth Oil Refinery by Night CC BY-ND by Bryan Burke

Grant Falardeau & Carson Mell: “Frito Lo”

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.

Air France: “Collapsing At Your Doorstep” MP3

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:

Air France: “Collapsing At Your Doorstep”

Eat Your Eggs

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:

Count Bass D: “Can We Hang Out Tonight” MP3

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).

Count Bass D: “Can We Hang Out Tonight”