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The initial meeting between Derek Miller and Alexis Krauss of Sleigh Bells sounds almost like a scene out of a movie: He was working at a Brooklyn restaurant during the summer; she, a fifth grade public school teacher, was one of his customers and by chance they started talking about music. A mere week later they were recording together and thus, Sleigh Bells were formed.
To make matters even more interesting, the two come from very different musical backgrounds, with Derek playing hardcore and Alexis being part of a pop group during her teens. Their differences seem to have merged though as their current music is a bit of a mix between soft and hard. What really got my attention though were the beats. Upon first hearing their EP 2HELLWU I couldn’t help but wonder what hot shot hip-hop producer these two had teamed up with. Tracks such as ”Infinity Guitars” and “Holly” sound almost like The Kills produced by The Neptunes, while the title track and the sweet “Ring Ring” are much more laid back.
The producing is all Derek’s doing though and according to him, “everything starts with and revolves around a beat; vocal melodies and guitar lines sometimes reinforce a kick pattern”. He also claims to still have a lot of learning to do when it comes to producing, but considering how good it sounds now it can only get better. -Last.fm
“First ever not not fun vinyl compilation finds the spotlight landing fairly on the fairer sex, and the glare is glorious. 11 diverse femme musical energies corralled across 12 inches of black vinyl, all exclusive contributions, and the breadth of zones and interzones traversed is a beautiful thing to hear. Carry on my wayward non-sons. LPs in jackets with artwork by Pocahaunted bassist/scholar Diva Dompe, plus a full-color double-sided insert. Edition of 500. This year’s Estrogeneration includes: Zola Jesus, Tickley Feather, Pocahaunted (vintage unused track from Gold Miner’s Daughters sessions), Inca Ore, Topaz Rags, HNY, Talk Normal, Islaja (featuring Samara Lubelski and Blevin Blectum), L.A. Vampires, U.S. Girls & Valet” -http://www.notnotfun.com
edit: looks like you need to have veoh player installed to watch full length
if not you can only see a 5min clip
youtubed in segments below
Krautrock – The Rebirth Of Germany looks at how a radical generation of musicians created a new German musical identity out of the cultural ruins of war.
Between 1968 and 1977 bands like Neu!, Can, Faust and Kraftwerk would look beyond western rock and roll to create some of the most original and uncompromising music ever heard. They shared one common goal – a forward-looking desire to transcend Germany’s gruesome past – but that didn’t stop the music press in war-obsessed Britain from calling them Krautrock.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00nf10k
i’ll try to figure out how to enable fullscreen
Official video of the new Charlotte Gainsbourg’s single, in duo with Beck.
Directed by Keith Schofield.
The IRM album, produced by Beck, will be released by Because Music / Warner / Elektra on Dec 7, 2009 (France, Swiss, Belgium, Germany) and Jan 26, 2010 (Rest of the world)
http://vimeo.com/7703592
Director’s cut here
LaMonte Young: The Well-Tuned Piano 81 X 25, 6:17:50 – 11:18:59 PM NYC [LIVE] [BOX SET]
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Performed by La Monte Young in a setting of The Magenta Lights by Marian Zazeela. Recorded live at the last 6 Harrison Street Dream House concert of The Well Tuned Piano, New York City, October 1981, presented by DIA Foundation.
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there are actually 2 used copies of this on Amazon.com for $1,500ea
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The first 10 minutes of the more that 5 hours composition. The piano is re-tuned to in just intonation.
Divine Horsemen: the Voodoo Gods of Haiti
“Divine Horsemen: the Voodoo Gods of Haiti,” Lyrichord. Recorded in
1947 on a wire recorder with the microphone attachted to a post in
the middle of the ceremony by Maya Deren in the filming of her
documentary of the same name. No Hollywood silly business here, this
is the real deal: a trance/possession ceremony where participants are
actually possessed by the Rada Loa (the pantheon of voodoo gods, the
ancient gods of the East African Fon): Deren says, “There are moments
when the voices of the loa can be heard talking and singing on this
recording.” Astonishing and intricate drumming, powerful almost
beyond comprehension; you’ve never heard anything like it. Regards,
Face A
1. Legba
2. Damballah
3. Agwe
4. Erzulie
5. Ogoun
6. Litany
7. Ghede chant
Face B
1. Invocation to azacca
2. Azacca possession
3. Ghede
4. Azacca
5. Congo cult
6. Petro cult
7. Banda dance for ghede
8. Rara festival
9. Mardi gras carnival
all propers to nauma over at black star liners
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download the video: Maya Deren Divine Horsemen
or watch @guba.com
i couldn’t get sutostart turned off to embed
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divine_Horsemen:_The_Living_Gods_of_Haiti_(film)
Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti (1985) is a black and white documentary film about dance and possession in Haitian vodou that was shot by experimental filmmaker Maya Deren between 1947 and 1952 and edited and completed by Deren’s third husband Teiji Ito and his wife Cherel Winett Ito (1947-1999) in 1981, twenty years after Deren’s death. Most of the film consists of images of dancing and bodies in motion during rituals in Rada and Petro services.
Deren had studied dance as well as photography and filmmaking. She originally went to Haiti with the funding from a Guggenheim fellowship and the stated intention of filming the dancing that forms a crucial part of the vodou ceremony.
The film that resulted, however, reflected Deren’s increasing personal engagement with vodou and its practitioners (Wilcken, 1986). While this ultimately resulted in Deren disregarding the guidelines of the fellowship, Deren was able to record scenes that probably would have been inaccessible to other filmmakers.
Deren’s original notes, film footage, and wire recordings are in the Maya Deren Collection at Boston University’s Howard Gotlieb Archive Research Center
http://thebeatlesneverbrokeup.com
The Beatles – Everyday Chemistry
The following is an actual account of my experiences as of recently. Because of the nature of what has happened I must remain anonymous until I feel it is safe to reveal my real name, but for now you can refer to me as James Richards.
On Sept. 9, 2009 I experienced something that I still am having trouble believing happened to me. I came into the possession of a cassette tape containing a Beatles album that was never released. In fact, not only was it never released but it was recorded many years after they broke up (and no I’m not talking about Klaatu).
Now this is where the story becomes slightly more unbelievable and it is almost embarrassing to attempt to explain the incident to you for fear of viewing me as completely absurd. I must assure you, I am not insane or on drugs, and hopefully the audio from this tape will be enough proof that there is more than we think out there…
I live in Livermore California but on Sept 9 I was driving home from Turlock after visiting a friend for a few days. I had my dog with me and I didn’t have any plans for the day so I decided to take a drive through a place called Del Puerto Canyon just west of Turlock. There is a scenic road that is a fun drive and actually goes through to Livermore. I hadn’t taken a cruise through it for a while so I thought i would take this way home. It was about 2pm.
A ways into the canyon my dog starting acting like she needed to use the restroom. So I pulled over to the first available parking area to the side of the road and let her out while I stretched. At first I didn’t notice, but then I heard the barking from 30 yards away…my dog was chasing a rabbit. Now my dog is a pretty good dog but if she is chasing something then there is no stopping her so the only thing I could do was become part of the chase.
They already had about a 40 yard head start so I had to really book it. The uneven ground and soft dirt patches made it difficult to run and it wasn’t very far into the chase I had stepped in a rabbit hole, fell and knocked myself unconscious.
When I woke up I was in a room with some furniture and electronics in it. I was taken care of with a bandage on my head but I still felt uneasy about the situation because where I fell and hit my head was in a very rural unpopulated area with no houses, and outside the window of the room I was in I could hear traffic.
I wasn’t near the window in the room, it was actually on the other side next to a unusual looking electronic machine that i didn’t recognize from anywhere I’ve seen before. The only reason this stood out was because it seemed out of place in a person’s home, which most of the room resembled. I decided to get up and look out the window but the door opened and in ran my dog, who was pretty excited to see me. When I looked up there was a man standing at the door. He was about 6 ft tall, had medium long black hair and was dressed casually nice but gave me a “greasy” vibe, if you know what I mean. He introduced himself as Jonas and asked me if I was ok, which I said yes. He said he found me unconscious in a field with my dog barking at me. So I thanked him for helping me and my dog out, and that I was surprised my dog even came back to me. I then asked him the question that would make me start wondering if I in fact had gone crazy… I asked him “where am I?”.
“About 20 feet away from where I found you” he replied. I told him that couldn’t be possible because there were no houses within at least 20 miles from where I last remember being. He then told me that what he was going to say next will be very shocking and unbelievable, and that if he didn’t actually experience it himself then he wouldn’t believe it. He took a look at the machine near the window and looked back at me and said he transported me into parallel Earth. He said he traveled to our Earth dimension and found me knocked out in the blazing heat with nobody around to help me out. Normally he said he doesn’t take outsiders through a portal but in my case he thought I needed urgent help.
I immediately started asking questions about traveling to parallel worlds, since all I knew about the topic was you tube videos of Michio Kaku. He told me to slow down and that he would explain himself. Apparently in his world a Parallel Travel machine can be purchased quite easily, while not cheap, its pretty popular even though the machine can be dangerous enough to cause death. In the 1950’s of his dimension, the government was faced with the decision to continue to fund a space program (I’m guessing NASA) or a parallel dimension program called ARP-D (i can’t remember what he said it stood for, I’m pretty sure the P-D is Parallel Dimensions, and i remember the acronym because I noticed it on a lot of the electronics in the room I was in.)
He then explained that the real danger of using one of the machines was exploring new dimensions. Since there are an infinite amount of Earths in other dimensions, only a small amount have been explored.The problem with exploring unknown dimensions is the chance you will die somehow once you walk through the portal doorway. He told me that people die from falling (if the ground isn’t close enough to where the portal opens), die from drowning (there are worlds covered in water, hard to reopen a portal underwater), die from fire, atmospheric issues…he said in order for people to avoid this they would have to know that there would be similar ground in the dimension they were traveling to. So his government began to research worlds that were “safe” to transport to, even creating public spots where people could choose a menu of worlds to go to that were all safe.
Many of these worlds were lush vegetation worlds that were never ruined by man, only to be invaded by the large overcrowded population of the travelers world. He said something about new industries that opened up because of this, one of them being something like dimensional life brokers, these people offered the chance to live as someone new in an already established similar world that doesn’t know of dimensional travel, nor that there are people crossing the dimensional border to. Jonas said he was an explorer for one of the dimensional travel agencies and was looking in new uncharted dimensions and came up my Earth.
We talked about a lot of things, it was interesting to see what similarities and differences we had between worlds. Foods, culture, TV, technology… we covered a lot. We also started talking about music, which was an interesting topic because there were many of the same bands between our worlds that existed, including The Beatles. When their name got brought up Jonas mentioned that his brother just got back from seeing them perform at a concert recently, which I gave a weird look to and said “you mean they are still together?”, and he said yea. I then told him about how they broke up in our world and that John & George passed away, apparently in his world they are all alive, healthy and on tour still.
Jonas then had me follow him into another room that had a bookshelf looking thing with some cassette tapes (yes the music ones, apparently CD’s never caught on in his world) and a tape player/radio/record player, though it didn’t quite look like the type of radio’s we have, the speakers looked more like crinkled cardboard but sounded pretty good. I didn’t get too good of a look at the speakers but they certainly weren’t round, they almost looked like a tall accordion.
The only Beatles album he had that was store bought and had real cover art was Sgt Peppers, which the cover looked slightly different then the one we have, but the songs were all the same. The other 6 Beatles tapes he had were all like somebody recorded them onto a blank cassette for him and wrote the song titles on a card slipped in the case. A couple of the album titles written on the tapes I recognized but there were about 4 that I had never heard of before. He played a few songs from one of them, which was totally surreal to hear Beatles music that was never made (at least in our world). We talked about it a little bit, he said a girl made the tapes for him while he was in upper school (what they call high school). She was a huge fan of them and wanted him to listen to them.
He popped out the first tape and was putting in the second one when I told him he should record me a copy of one so I could take it back with me, thinking it wouldn’t be a big deal. Well the look Jonas gave me when I said this is part of the reason I am remaining anonymous. Not only did it sort of scare me but it had a very serious almost creepy look to it followed by the phrase (not word for word, i can’t remember what he exactly said) “No, you are not to take anything with you back to your world. No pictures, no souvenirs, no tapes, NOTHING.” I asked him why and he wouldn’t really say except that for my safety I wasn’t to take anything back.
Of course I am not the type of person to go through all of this parallel world stuff and not grab something to prove the outrageous story of my experience. So for the moment I told him I wouldn’t take anything and changed the subject. About an hour later after some more talking I heard a doorbell ring and he left the room to check the door. I knew that I may not have another chance to take something so I grabbed one of the tapes and put it in my pocket, and then shuffled the tapes around to make it look less obvious that something was missing.
When he came back inside I said I was kind of hungry (to just get us out of the room, i mixed the tapes up a little so it was hard to tell one was missing but I didn’t want to be there when he found out), so he then took me in the other room and fed me. For the most part the food tasted like ours but was different product names and colors. The purple ketchup was the strangest. We talked a little bit more and then I expressed the notion that I should be going because it was getting late (the time of day was identical to ours, as is all worlds).
We went back in the room with the machines in it, I grabbed my dog and shook Jonas’ hand for taking care of me after I was knocked out. I thanked him again and stepped through the portal (which felt like getting wet but staying dry the entire time, really weird… when i put my dog on the ground she even shook herself like she thought she was wet).
Back in our world I could see my car on the road still and there was straight line burn mark on the ground from where the portal had shown up. It was dark outside and the only reason I noticed the burn was because it was still smoking from the heat. I walked back to my car (didn’t run this time) and drove home. The worst part was I couldn’t even listen to the tape on the way home because I didn’t have a tape player in my car. I actually wasn’t even able to listen to it at home either for the same reason and had to go to Wal-mart to buy a tape player just to listen to it.
Unfortunately I don’t have any information about the tape other than what is written on the card sleeve. The track names were written, as well as the album title “Everyday Chemistry” . Everything else about it is as mysterious to you as it is to me. It also wasn’t like I could have asked the guy anything about it, especially after taking it from him.
I’ll post some more about my experience in the coming days, but I have to go to work right now and this post is already long enough. If anyone has any questions they want to ask me about this incident then I’ve set up an email address that you can contact me at:
thebeatlesneverbrokeup@yahoo.com
I’ll try and answer every one’s questions as best as possible.
Lastly, if there is ANYONE out there that has experienced anything like this then please contact me, some of the things this guy said to me almost make me wonder if this isn’t the first time dimensional travelers have been here.
- James Richards
Video for “Ready, Able,” from Grizzly Bear’s ‘Veckatimest.’ Directed by Allison Schulnik.
i’ve been gettin back into dr sample & SP culture/work a teeny bit as of late
really diggin on this lo-fi meditative metal jam
one take live on a SP-404
it has a muddled…
maybe muddy
diffused sort of vibe
not ephemeral
or ethereal
it’s earthy
i’m reminded of light through waves
and the sea foam mud of said waves break
but in slow-mo
the name of the piece is lost seagull
and i thought this pic work well for me imaginin it playin out in slo-mo
it needs a sunset in the background though
so beachy proper
not just in that post person pitch pop sound thats been so prevalent this past year
werdz
(not official album art)
sleeps numb – lost seagull mixjam
14 minute live set one take enjoy…
Silver Futures – From the Swamp Rot Rises My Babies Dreams
Collaboration between Mark McGuire of Emeralds and Etienne Duguay of Predator Vision. Bonding on their love of Popol Vuh two friends record some jams. Guitar, Synth, Drums, etc. recorded live in nyc.
http://www.myspace.com/etiennepierreduguay
http://www.last.fm/music/Mark+McGuire
somebody get me a dance floor!
the old homie has some nice remixes up on his space
http://www.myspace.com/brenmarsomeday
my son wanted to be a super hero this year for halloween
but wanted to make up his own “guy”
he decided he would be “moth man”
moths being “drawn to light” and all
he has a thing for puns
he selected the death’s head hawk moth to be modeled after
his super power was a “cosmic photon laser” that would shoot form his eyes at super villains and “bad guys in general”
this laser would blind them in a darkness to everything but the truth
placing them in a state of reckoning and understanding
he would have no need to fight them
and no need to “call the cops” since the villains would “right themselves”
moth man is also a freestyle rapper…
which you would really just have to hear
quotes above are his words
all his ideas
i just did the work to manifest as best i could
this is a 10 min music mix he and worked on together that basically serve as theme song and fight scene score
he picked out the songs and i mixed them http://www.mediafire.com/?yjmyd2gjn3z
these are not my mixes
i wanted to share them proper here
and i want all praise due to Lilian De Munno of mstambourine.org
do check all the great musical content on her site out
a worthwhile bookmark!
SPRING/2009
#1
springly mixed (mix de primavera #1)
Tracklist:
01. Washed Out – Belong
02. Coconot – Te Tenía en Cinta
03. Emilio José – Antigua
04. Thomas Mapfumo & Acid Band – Hokoyo
05. Fluffy Lumbers – Cruisers
06. Nurses – Technicolor
07. The Babies – Meet Me in The City
08. Diamond Rings – All Yr Songs
09. Henry Pedro – Midnight Sun
10. Glass Ghost - The Same
11. Pillow Talk – What Does It Take?
12. Staff Benda Bilili – Sala Keba
#2
Flowered Tones (Mix de Primavera #2)
Tracklist:
01. Sunnybrook – Waving Hands (Water Me Glow EP, 2009)
02. Bibio – Lovers’ Carvings (Ambivalence Avenue album, 2009)
03. Norse Horse – Needle Beach (Secret Geographies album, 2009)
04. {{{Sunset}}} – 24 Karat Soul (The Glowing City album, 2008)
05. Divisible – Everybody (Less Than Lion album, 2009)
06. Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti – Can’t Hear My Eyes (Can’t Hear My Eyes 7″ single, 2009)
07. Terry Callier – You Goin’ To Miss Your Candyman (What Color Is Love, 1973)
08. Toro y Moi – Talamak (Unreleased)
09. Kurt Vile – Overnite Religion (Constant Hitmaker album, 2008)
10. The Parasails – Skylife 9 (Skylife album, 2009)
11. Matt Fishbeck – You Made My Dreams Come True (VA – The Human Ear, Volume 1 compilation, 2007)
12. Pearl Harbour – Lost @ Sea (Calistonia Dream CD-R, 2009)
13. Julian Lynch – Nen Vole (VA – Wild Animal Kingdom Vol. 2 cassete, 2009)
#3
Delight Meadows (Mix de Primavera #3)
01. Rainbow Arabia – Holiday in Congo (Kabukimono mini-album, 2009)
02. Weed Diamond – Walk Away (Mastered Demo, 2009)
03. Cat Killer – Tree Limbs Together (Words to Remember ep, 2009)
04. A Classic Education – We Can Always Run to Hawaii (unrealeased)
05. Yarn Owl – Yarn Blues (Tiny Dots cassete, 2009)
06. Lentil Famine – Liberation of the Naked Heart (La Casa de Nuestra Edad cdr, 2009)
07. The Drums – Best Friends (Summertime EP, 2009)
08. The Love Language – Sparxxx (The Love Language album, 2009)
09. Wild Nothing – Summer Holiday (Unreleased)
10. Pastels & Tenniscoats – About You (Two Sunsets album, 2009)
11. Desolation Wilderness – Slow Fade (New Universe album, 2009)
12. Buffy Sainte-Marie – Adam (Richie Havens cover) (Illuminations album, 1969)
#4
I’m in Love With the Sun (Mix de Primavera #4)
Tracklist:
01. The Very Most – You’re in Love With the Sun (Summer EP, 2009)
02. Arms – Kids Aflame (Kids Aflame album, 2007)
03. Julian Lynch – Human Nature (MJ cover) (Chum Onah – BxF celebrates de music of M. Jackson online comp, 2009)
04. Caballo Trípode – Sweet Oh Mine (Horror Vacui album, 2009)
05. Woods – The Hold (Songs of Shame album, 2009)
06. Here We Go Magic – Fangela (Here We Go Magic album, 2009)
07. Navajo Bixby – Moonlighting (Demo, 2009)
08. Paulette Williams – My Island (Trojan Reggae Sisters box set, 2003)
09. Drum’n’Zez – Dunav (Dunava Ukus album, 2008)
10. The Ornament Birds – Paper Clams (Demo, 2009)
11. Sin Fang Bous – Sunken Ship (Clangour album, 2008/2009)
12. Young Buffalo – Catapilah (Demo, 2009)
13. The Fair Ohs – Summer Lake (upcoming 7″ on Sex is Digusting)
#5
Sweet October (Mix de Primavera #5)
Tracklist:
01. Julian Lynch – Ears (unreleased, 2009)
02. Church – Happiness (Gold EP, 2008)
03. Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti – Every Night I Die at Miyagis (House Arrest album, 2006)
04. Princeton – Down Where The Valleys Are Low (Crayon Angel: A Tribute to the Music of Judee Sill, 2009)
05. Pearl Harbor – Luv Goon (Something About the Chaparrals EP, 2009)
06. Espers – Caroline (III album, 2009)
07. Bark Cat Bark – Ézerville (Mathilde album, 2009)
08. Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson – Buriedfed (self-titled album, 2008)
09. Anthony da Costa – Back of My Mind (Typical American Tragedy album, 2008)
10. Andy Shauf – Your Heart (Darker Days album, 2009)
11. Nicky Bomba – Rocksteady Woman (Planet Juice album, 2009)
12. Dead Man’s Bones – In The Room Where You Sleep (self-titled album, 2009)
#6
Sunny Dreams – Mix de Primavera #6
Tracklist:
01. No.9 – Flower Shop (9-9-9-9-9.com album, 2009)
02. Fantastic Something – If She Doesn’t Smile (Sunshine Pop 99 compilation, 1999)
03. Greg Fine – Come Back Again (Always Time album, 2009)
04. The Silent Years – Forest Fine (Let Go album, 2009)
05. Ducktails – Wishes (Landscapes album, 2009)
06. Best Coast – Something in The Way (unreleased, 2009)
07. Real Estate – Old Folks (7″, 2008)
08. Lake – Madagascar (Let’s Build A Roof album, 2009)
09. Tony, Caro & John – Eclipse of the Moon (All on the First Day album, 1972)
10. Woods – Death Rattles (Daytrotter Session, 2009)
11. Cass McCombs – Dream Come True Girl (Catacombs album, 2009)
12. BLK JKS – Lakeside (After Robots album, 2009)
#7
Dance Wid’ Me – Mix de Primavera #7
Tracklist:
01. Pascal Comelade – Two Maniaco Depressive Beatnicks Squabbling Over A Jane Russell Mozarella’s Stereokini
02. Quantic & His Combo Bárbaro – Un Canto a Mi Terra
03. Rita Indiana y Los Misterios – La Hora de Volver
04. CSC Funk Band – Bad Banana Bread
05. Big Boi – Shine Blockas (ft. Gucci Mane)
06. Stevie Wonder – Don’t You Worry ’bout a Thing
07. Gold Teeth – Everybody
08. El Guincho – Kalise (Tanlines remix)
09. Divisible – Everybody
10. Luciano – Los Niños de Fuera
11. Palov and Mishkin – Et de Clarinete
12. Konono No. 1 – Paradiso
#8
Allowed to Chill Out – Mix de Primavera #8
Tracklist:
01. Ducktails – Spring
02. Misophone – Run Run Run
03. Local Natives – Airplanes
04. Devendra Barhart – Forget About Him (Kath Boom cover)
05. Gross Ghost – Lurker
06. Crayon Fields – All The Pleasures of The World
07. MV & EE with The Bummer Road – East Mountain Joint
08. Toro Y Moi – 109
09. Hollows – Johnny Appleseed
10. Migala – El Caballo Del Malo
11. Les Anarchistes – Tammuriata Delle Mondine
12. Lucky Dragons – wooden Cave Loop
So, here’s an EP. One beat by my good friends Furious Stylz, three jacked beats,Rubox Cube on the beatbox, and two of my beats. All the raps are mine, all the freestyles are real freestyles. No fakin up in here (lyrics, in the zip.): -ZachG http://realzachg.wordpress.com
“We Are All Connected” was made from sampling The History Channel’s Universe series, Carl Sagan’s Cosmos, Richard Feynman’s 1983 interviews, Neil deGrasse Tyson’s cosmic sermon, and Bill Nye’s Eyes of Nye Series, plus added visuals from The Elegant Universe (NOVA), Stephen Hawking’s Universe, Cosmos and more.
[deGrasse Tyson]
We are all connected;
To each other, biologically
To the earth, chemically
To the rest of the universe atomically
[Feynman]
I think nature’s imagination
Is so much greater than man’s
She’s never going to let us relax
[Sagan]
We live in an in-between universe
Where things change all right
But according to patterns, rules,
Or as we call them, laws of nature
[Nye]
I’m this guy standing on a planet
Really I’m just a speck
Compared with a star, the planet is just another speck
To think about all of this
To think about the vast emptiness of space
There’s billions and billions of stars
Billions and billions of specks
[Sagan]
The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it
But the way those atoms are put together
The cosmos is also within us
We’re made of star stuff
We are a way for the cosmos to know itself
Across the sea of space
The stars are other suns
We have traveled this way before
And there is much to be learned
I find it elevating and exhilarating
To discover that we live in a universe
Which permits the evolution of molecular machines
As intricate and subtle as we
[deGrasse Tyson]
I know that the molecules in my body are traceable
To phenomena in the cosmos
That makes me want to grab people in the street
And say, have you heard this??
(Richard Feynman on hand drums and chanting)
[Feynman]
There’s this tremendous mess
Of waves all over in space
Which is the light bouncing around the room
And going from one thing to the other
And it’s all really there
But you gotta stop and think about it
About the complexity to really get the pleasure
And it’s all really there
The inconceivable nature of nature
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and of course
another excuse to post this
“A Glorious Dawn” is crafted from sampling Carl Sagan’s 1980 PBS Documentary Cosmos and Stephen Hawking’s 1997 PBS cosmology documentary series Stephen Hawking’s Universe. Cosmos is available to watch for free on Hulu, and many parts of Stephen Hawking’s Universe can be found on Youtube and various other video sites online.
[Sagan]
If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch
You must first invent the universe
Space is filled with a network of wormholes
You might emerge somewhere else in space
Some when-else in time
The sky calls to us
If we do not destroy ourselves
We will one day venture to the stars
A still more glorious dawn awaits
Not a sunrise, but a galaxy rise
A morning filled with 400 billion suns
The rising of the milky way
The Cosmos is full beyond measure of elegant truths
Of exquisite interrelationships
Of the awesome machinery of nature
I believe our future depends powerfully
On how well we understand this cosmos
In which we float like a mote of dust
In the morning sky
But the brain does much more than just recollect
It inter-compares, it synthesizes, it analyzes
it generates abstractions
The simplest thought like the concept of the number one
Has an elaborate logical underpinning
The brain has it’s own language
For testing the structure and consistency of the world
[Hawking]
For thousands of years
People have wondered about the universe
Did it stretch out forever
Or was there a limit
From the big bang to black holes
From dark matter to a possible big crunch
Our image of the universe today
Is full of strange sounding ideas
[Sagan]
How lucky we are to live in this time
The first moment in human history
When we are in fact visiting other worlds
The surface of the earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean
Recently we’ve waded a little way out
And the water seems inviting
a D.I.Y. masterpiece was made in his bedroom using a portable turntable and a Roland sampler. Larry Gus manages to record everything, cut and stitch his material in real time, without computers or software involved. He uses samples of records, music toys, rhythm boxes, Vhs tapes, Computer games, guitars, vocals and Library lps in an endlessly creative way bringing out a distinctive sound in anything that his music expresses.
MF Doom – Best of MF Doom Mixed by DJ Foodstamp
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MF Doom – My Favorite Ladies
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so the buzz boy of the day
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/15/hotair-balloon-boy-6yearo_n_322639.html
has a music video with his brothers
i have nothing else to say about it
“Not Pussified”
oh shit!
TRACK LIST
1. WATER BALLOON
2. TIP TOE
3. BLANKETBASH
4. 16
5. PENCIL PALS
6. PATIENT MOUNTAIN
7. EMANUEL’S JOURNEY
8. NOTHING IS
Sketches. 37 minutes. 20 copies made. 4 left. convenientlight.org
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Muddy Waters is obviously one of the most recognized and influential blues artists of this century. When his name is mentioned phrases like “slide guitar” and “electric Chicago blues” are associated with it, but what about “wah-wah” and “psychedelic”? For a small period in history, Muddy Waters’ image became one of a psychedelic icon and if there weren’t records still around from then, most people would doubt it had ever happened. The sixties were a strange time for music and musicians- none felt stranger than musicians from the previous decade trying to stay afloat then. Many times in music, established artists will try to expand upon their work and take a chance with something different. They should at least be praised and encouraged when they try to experiment with their sound. If music were condemned to always following a strict guideline of rules, it would be pretty boring. Music should be allowed to grow and explore new territories because everyone can agree that it’s not exciting if it’s always predictable.
We’ve already heard the story of Muddy’s rise from a Mississippi planation to a Chicago blues legend but that only took his career so far, at least in his chosen style of music. Eventually, bands that were influenced by Muddy like the Rolling Stones (named after one of his songs), Animals, Yardbirds, Cream and Hendrix became big, raising Muddy’s profile but not getting him the same level of success his descendants were having. Marshall Chess, son of the president of the label who worked at the company had the idea to try something different by putting Muddy’s music into a psychedelic setting to appeal to a younger audience. After discussing the project with Muddy, he went for it. He wasn’t forced into it as some have been led to believe.
Marshall Chess assembled in his words “the hottest, most avant garde rock guys in Chicago” for the album sessions consisting of Pete Cosey (lead guitar, later with Miles Davis) Phil Upchurch and Roland Faulkner (rhythm guitar), Louis Satterfield (bass) Gene Barge (tenor sax), Charles Stepney (organs) and Morris Jennings (drums). Since Muddy wasn’t as accustomed to this style, he only contributed vocals, but he still played an essential part in this recording. Electric Mud (1968) was mostly recorded in live takes with few overdubs and that off-the-cuff live feel that’s captured on it makes it stronger. On the opener, “I Just Want To Make Love to You,” pounding drums and Cosey firing out raw screaming guitar grabs your ear with Muddy’s confident singing pushing the music along. The solo on this song is nothing short of phenomenal. The guitar starts playing some distorted melodic notes then morphs into this gigantic screeching feedback riff becoming louder and wilder then continues to morph from a tearing solo until it reaches this intense mind-bending groove that sounds on the brink of collapse. At this point, the guitar cuts out, leaving you breathless, with just drums and Muddy’s voice building up back to the verse, then with an out-of-your-mind guitar and organ playing off each other to the end. The next song, “Hoochie Coochie Man,” begins with an incoming guitar sound and has the opposite feel of the last track. Muddy’s vocals seemingly come out of the speakers at you as alternating lines come from the left and then right, giving the listener a disorienting acid-like effect. A liquidy sounding guitar that washes over like a wave accompanies the verse and changes into an expressive wah-wah lead on the chorus. There’s a great, fun cover of “Let’s Spend The Night Together” which the Stones must have taken as a huge compliment, having their idol cover one of their songs. Muddy and the band turn it, around making it appear like he wrote it with a big mean sounding back melody, soulful distorted guitar lines and Muddy’s commanding voice sounding the way he might have sung in a club in Chicago. “She’s Alright” has a trippy beginning with bass notes fluttering up then swaying back down to open up to smash your head against the wall along with crashing cymbals matched by a dirty guitar that has real spirit to it. The song makes great use of cross-overs with a screeching guitar bouncing back and forth between speakers and then somehow transforms and ends with a pleasant distorted instrumental version of “My Girl.” Original material was also written for this record like “Tom Cat” and “Herbert Harper’s Free Press News,” with the latter as a vaguely topical song about the sixties with lines like “world is moving much too fast” and “where ya gonna run to, where ya gonna hide” and a fuzzed out guitar that parallels the confusion and outrage of the lyrics. “The Same Thing” closes Electric Mud with a slow heavy blues feel to it and a stretched out, aching guitar on top.
When Electric Mud was released, it was a huge success, selling 150,000 in the first six weeks. It was also the best selling Muddy Waters record at Chess ever, entering Billboard’s Top 200 Chart. It was a triumph of a record that updated his sound and put him elbow to elbow with the bands that had influenced him. The record broke down restrictions of genres with its inventiveness and ability to re-arrange songs and have them come out as something radically different. Unfortunately, narrow-minded blues purists across the board denounced it as atrocious, offensive and a big “sell out.” There’s a direct similarity between this and what happened to Bob Dylan a few years earlier when he decided to go electric, making his folk-purist fans angry that he was “selling out” to rock and roll. Since Muddy is primarily a blues artist, overviews of his career would be written by a number of blues historians who would automatically dismiss this record for years to come.
But not everyone hated the album. Pete Cosey was later told by Hendrix’s valet that before he would perform live, he’d listen to “Herbert Harper” for inspiration. In the ’70’s, when Marshall Chess went to visit the Rolling Stones rehearsal space, he saw a poster on the wall for the Electric Mud album. Led Zeppelin’s bassist John Paul Jones cites Electric Mud as the inspiration for the basic riff behind “Black Dog.” Marshall Chess also notes “the English accepted it; they are more eccentric.” Strangely enough, rapper Chuck D of Public Enemy has emerged over the years as the biggest supporter of the record, stating “To me, it’s a brilliant record. I’ve played it a thousand times.” Chuck D also explained part of the intent of the record saying “It took me a while to warm up to traditional blues, but what struck me right away was the Electric Mud thing.” Based on the success of Electric Mud, another blues musician on Chess, Howlin Wolf, was forced into recording a psych record. This Is Howlin Wolf’s New Album (subtitled And He Doesn’t Like It) (1969) isn’t as good as Electric Mud although it did yield a minor hit with a psyched out version of “Evil.” Chubby Checker even released a psych record (Chequered (1971)) that sounds better than you’d expect, though it only came out in England.
Over the years, Muddy has famously criticized EM, but around the time of its release, he seemed to have a different attitude. Blues fans claim he always hated it but the following proves otherwise. Six months after EM, the same line-up reassembled and recorded a sequel called After The Rain (1969) that still has distortion on it but isn’t as overtly psychedelic. If Muddy hadn’t liked EM, he would have had enough say at Chess to dismiss a follow-up, but instead he went along with it. In fact, Pete Cosey says “I’ll never forget as soon as I walked into the studio for the follow-up and Muddy saw me he threw his arms around me and said ‘Hey, how you doing, boy, play some of that stuff you played on the last album.” After The Rain’s songs alternate between Chicago blues and distorted guitar tracks. There’s a marked difference on After The Rain with Paul Oscher (harmonica) and Otis Spann (piano) from Muddy’s old band joining in and Muddy playing lead guitar on several tracks. On the Chicago blues tracks, more prominent bass and drums put the music into a rock setting, but it’s Muddy’s slide guitar playing that highlights them. Muddy really let’s loose with some striking, tenseful slide work on tracks like “Honey Bee,” “Rollin and Tumblin” and “Blues and Trouble” that just send a chill through your bones. On the other side of the album, the guitar on “Ramblin Mind” lashes and cries out in dense fuzz while on “Bottom of the Sea,” the fuzzy leads seem to hang in the air along with an innovative bowed bass and harmonious organ in the background (the bowed bass is also used on the record on “I am The Blues”).
By the time After The Rain came out, the blues critics created enough of a backlash that it started affecting sales. Muddy must have realized that the records were upsetting his blues fanbase which had been loyal to him for over twenty years. Perhaps he feared he’d lose them forever if he stayed in this direction and that the young fanbase he had now might not stick with him as long. It wasn’t until 1970 and after a more normal electric blues record (Fathers and Sons) that Muddy started talking badly about Electric Mud and then only mildly at first. Muddy released some great records in the rest of his lifetime, but he never experimented much with his music again.
In the years following Electric Mud and Muddy’s Death in 1983 from heart failure , the record itself started building a cult around it, comprised of acid rock fans, record collectors and curious people. By 1996, the resurgence of popularity in the record matched with its scarcity led it to being reissued in a deluxe edition by Chess with new line notes by Mark Humphrey and Marshall Chess. Despite all the bad press Electric Mud received, Marshall Chess never stopped claiming it was a brilliant, misunderstood record.
In 2003, The Blues, a PBS-TV series produced by famed director Martin Scorsese, traced the roots of the blues from Africa to modern day society, showing how it inspired other generations of musicians. While in production, Marshall Chess got an e-mail from Chuck D saying that he heard he was doing a film that connected the blues to hip hop and that he wanted to be part of it. Chess was happy to hear Chuck D say “Electric Mud was one of his favorite, most influential albums and that all the early hip hop guys were inspired by it,” affirming a connection he thought had happened. In the episode titled Godfathers and Sons, the focus is on the Chicago blues, Chess records and the effect of Electric Mud on Public Enemy, with Chuck D coming to Chicago, led on a historic blues tour by Chess. There, Chuck D’s feverant appreciation of EM got him to reassemble the musicians from the sessions to perform material from it for the upcoming 20th Anniversary Chicago Blues Festival. In keeping with the experimental vein of the record, Chuck D added a turntablist (Juice) and a rapper (Kyle Jason) to the band, re-naming the group the Electric Mudcats. Having the material played at a blues festival showed how the album had finally come full circle, from being hated to being respected and enjoyed. -http://www.furious.com/perfect/muddywaterselectricmud.html
*headphones are recommended for this video.
filmed in one continuous shot on september 24, 2009 at santos party house in chinatown, nyc. the silly visual effects were achieved in the camera – i need better ideas.
the beauty of debate lies within the subjective nature of each argument. however, it’s a shame that the self-absorbed cool-kids-turned-critics have so much negative shit to say about the ‘odd’ pairing of nathan williams and zach hill, because in MY opinion, these polar opposites compliment each other so well. i never buy into the hype, because of course it’s all subjective, but for the naysayers who doubt nathan and zach’s strong creative effort, check the video.
special shout to alex bleeker and the freaks, for gracing us with a choice 10 minute set under difficult circumstances.
**technical note: my sound recorder did not capture this set, therefore the sound is subpar to what it would have actually sounded like…sorry.
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was linked by freewave today
cool
that site was where i first started blogventuring about 2 yrs ago
Departmentstore Santas – At The Medieval Castle Nineteen 100-Year Lifetimes Since, D.S.
Departmentstore Santas’ M.O. is an entirely elusive one. There’s a certain guilelessness to the way experimentation is undertaken by this L.A. outfit, a kind of naif art brut, albeit one without the cloyingly cutesy overlay of, for instance, Jad Fair’s work. Incredible pop smarts are secreted away in offhand gestures and art damaged jams erupt in the least likely places in Departmentstore Santas’ mercurial shoebox universe, giving them a certain frisson I thought was exclusive to L.A. equally hermetic (if more acknowledged) Decayes. -http://mutant-sounds.blogspot.com
bactol
bank acct
surfboards, convertibles, and dark, lonely beaches
hey (what’s going on here?)
kids on a merry-go-round at eucalyptus park
play in the sun
r. joseph d’angelo theme
an open letter to seniors from mackenzie
jewel of the hills
photo album of baby
lost at sea
egypt
w
song for a sunny day
monkeys and organ grinders
kaleidoscope
music written and played by
joseph d’angelo – vocals, electric guitar, telecaster and stratocaster
with
erik ross brashers – vocals, electric bass, electronic guitar
matt metzgar – drums, electronic guitar
bart alan brashers – saxophone, trumpet
todd hilton – drums, bass
made by joseph d’angelo
recorded 1981-82
this record is dedicated to the memory of keith mcloud
“”d.s.s.” was the name i used for my recording projects at the time; “medieval castle” was recorded 1981-82 on various reel-to-reel and/or cassette decks and pressed 500 copies in 1984″
~ jos. d.
