Networked Panhandling
Is it totally tacky of me to beg for a Vox invite here? Well, I don’t care, because I really want one. If anyone happens by and can spare one, let me know. THIS DOMAIN NAME at GMAIL.COM. You know you want to.
Is it totally tacky of me to beg for a Vox invite here? Well, I don’t care, because I really want one. If anyone happens by and can spare one, let me know. THIS DOMAIN NAME at GMAIL.COM. You know you want to.
Go Here. Where is “here,” you ask? Well, it’s a website, dipshit. OK, OK, come back. It’s a website of a guy named Matthew. More specifically it’s his website devoted to “Celebrity Pixies Tributes.” Even more specifically, these tributes consist of him covering Pixies songs in the style of other famous artists. If you ever wonder what the Beach Boys performing “Levitate Me” would sound like (answer: pretty fucking awesome), then this is the website for you.
Also great: A collection of Youtube links for videos shown on MTV’s late 90’s electronic music video showcase, AMP!
Thank you. Good night.
8Bit bEtty: Too Bleep To Blop on Hippocamp
Damn fine piece of blippy chiptune madness here, recommended to me by Shaun, of the always excellent Ice Cream Creatues. “And I know that you’re happy (ballad of the lonesome spaceboy)” is one of those songs that makes me momentarily rethink making music, before inspiring me to try to kick my own abilities up a notch.
Process vs. Beatokko split single & Buzz: Strange Days b/w Ziony on Exegene
Exegene puts out a lot of good drum n’ bass, and while I’m not intimately familiar with that genre, I tend to like what I find here. Slick, varied, and hard-hitting breakbeats all around. Also check out Macc’s single from a while back: an all-time favorite of mine.
Pablo Cepeda: Le Cicle Du Calme on Kikapu
Holy shit! 4 tracks of lush string playing combined with dynamic electronics. Acoustic and electronic elements combine in swirls of emotive grandeur. Kikapu’s introductory blurb touts this as one of their finest releases and a soundtrack waiting to happen, and they’re absolutely right on both counts. Highly fucking recommended.
Poetry is For Fairies: A double-album length mix of Anticon material, apparently authored by someone called CPI. Not sure where this came from, but it’s gooooooooood. I could tell you where to get it, but I’d have to kill you.
Harvey Danger: Little By Little: One-hit wonder (remember “Flagpole Sitta”?) releases new album for free on internet, with no catch. No DRM. No mailing list to join. No low-quality samples. Good pop with some excellent vocal performances. I’ve always thought there was more to this band, after hearing them play “Carlotta Valdez” live on the radio years ago. Maybe I’ll correct my oversight and pick up an old album or two…
N9: Hello Mr. Ohler (warning: direct link to 178mb download): Double album of richly textured ambient electro-acoustic music, created and recorded over the course of two years. Digital release only for now, but soon to be released on DVD-R, featuring source tracks that can be incorporating into your own works (under a creative commons license, of course).
So there’s a new blog on the block. I give you now: the Successless Comics Blog (temporary title). Just a way to separate out the comics-related content from all the personal/musical/random content here, and give it a dedicated space of it’s own to live in. If you’re into that sort of thing, check it out. If not, well, the main blog will now be pretty much comics-free. In case you cared.
Which Famous Homosexual Are You?
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I always kind of suspected I was anyways.
Hippocamp Ruins Pet Sounds, the new project from one of my favorite netlabels, Hippocamp, is finally out. Featuring 14 electronic artists from around the world deconstructing, reconstructing, remixing, reimagining, and just plain fucking up one track each from the legendary pop record. It ranges from dancy electro pop to glitched out funk, to minimalist soundscapes, to nrrdcore rapping, all tied in to the spirit of the original. Highly highly highly recommended, and a pretty definite slot on a top albums of the year list.
The moment arrives! The debut Airliner EP, Apparel is now available for download at www.IHeartAirliner.com. Go, get it! Now! Hurry! This may be your only chance!
More later!
A Scanner Darkly trailer is up at Ifilm.
I think I need to go change my pants.
More later….