| CHOICE LINK | TENORI-ON by Toshio Iwai and Yamaha. Pretty cool light/sound toy. I was one of the artist-testers for this in the USA. It's only available in the UK unfortunately, so it would be a bit pricey for Americans to pick one up. Blinky lights!!! |  |
| Sept 16, 2007 |
Folks have finally asked a couple of questions often enough that it actually makes sense for me to make a FAQ. I'm going to use "bitchy humor" to answer the questions, don't mistake it for hatin'. It's just more amusing this way, and boring any other way. Maybe I'm staring at my navel and making you watch... but here we go! :^)
Q: Is Last a name you made up to sound cool? It's not your real name right? A: Last is my mother's last name! It is not a fabricated name. Don't believe me, ask my moms. Q: Why do you play reggae and hip hop vocals over techno? A: Well, I don't think I make techno. I'm influenced by techno and love techno, but I just make some kind of mutant dancefloor music. The influence from reggae and hip hop grows naturally out of my taste and interest as a NY dancefloor producer. Having been influenced deeply by electro hip hop culture from NYC in the 80s, it's something that I feel attached to about this town. So it grows out of being specifically a New York producer, much moreso than being an American producer, or a Detroit-influenced producer, or a European notion of what dancefloor music is right now. I love that stuff, but it's not where I'm coming from, and they do it better than I do anyway. Q: I hate people from New York and I'm ready to hate you too. Are you an a$$4o13 New Yorker hipster Brooklynite? A: See a therapist. Short answer: No. Long answer: I live in a Jamaican neighborhood near Prospect Park, lived here for 8 years now, and on the other side of the park before that. (Where all the jazz musicians used to live before cell phone cyborg yuppies rolled over everything with triple wide baby strollers and the rents went way up) My neighbors like me, and if I'm sick they sometimes make me soup. |
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Our current "CHOICE LINK" selection is:
OINGO BOINGO on the GONG SHOW, 1976! |
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| Sept 1, 2007 |
Live September 22 at Less, Lower East Side NYC! Nice sound system, nice room, nice people... what else do we need?
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| August 8, 2007 |
Comin' Up... DUB WAR peoples!
Saturday August 18 10pm-late LOVE 179 Macdougal St. at 8th Street LIVE David Last South3rn RESIDENTS Joe Nice Dave Q MC Juakali |
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| Jan 23, 2007 |
Mental illness finally becoming widely unpopular in the States
THIS report from CBS News shows public opinion of Mr. Bush at 28% in the USA. As the "War President" prepares to send 20,000 more troops to Iraq, there is one obvious solution... Draft 'em from that 28%. Or, better, take them, and him, and deposit them on another planet. And let us get on with our lives, without all this mental illness. By the same poll, 30% of Americans still don't see global warming as a serious problem. Pretty close to the same number, isn't it. Can we terraform Mars so it can support far-right fundamentalist nutballs by 2050? For that matter, can we terraform Earth so it's livable in 2050? |
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| Dec 29, 2006 |
I'm long overdue in mentioning a new label started by my partner in Pocket Pet, Segeke. He has a nice tech house label on Beatport called GeometricDeck.
If you like tech house, you should check it out... especially if you are a DJ. (^_^)/ |
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| Nov 12, 2006 |
Here comes winter, but what a fine weekend it was, upstate. Fresh pesto ahoy. I have this happy feeling due to the democrats winning control of the non-executive branches of our government. The first referendum on the Bush administration since Katrina. I think people were more outraged by all the horrors of this presidency than BushCo (and Fox apparently) would admit.
They finally kicked out Skeletor too. 
Been working on a new EP, and trying to learn how to use a brush well. (zzzzzzzzzz) |
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| Oct 29, 2006 |
Hey fellow Americans... in a couple of weeks we have the chance to fight the darkness! Show some love... Don't forget to VOTE! Now if only these electronic voting machines would stop showing my vote going to "A HUGE BLUE APE WITH BOXING GLOVES (R)"
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| Sept 27, 2006 |
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| July 16, 2006 | New techno music EP for Unfoundsound now up on their site. Click over to Unfoundsound and download for free! 3 good remixers re-worked the tracks too. | |
| July 8, 2006 |
Let's have that orange popsicle California sunset! On July 28th, I will be playing with (a)pendics.shuffle at Flavorpill's Getty Museum series. I'm quite excited about this show... Flavorpill's Guggenheim Museum series in NYC is kookoo krazy, so if it's anything like that, I'm in for quite a night. If you live in Los Angeles, come on out for dancefloor fun. Coming soon, a remix for The Social Registry label's "Interference" 12"... Interference was an avant garde noise-rock type of project put together by my friend David Linton back in the early 80s. David has been on the downtown scene in New York for a while, has been behind the multimedia performance series Unity Gain, and even played drums with Sonic Youth for a time, in their early days. Well, I'm super excited to be part of this project, because I have great respect for David, and I like Social Registry. The remix is an uptempo beats piece with maybe subtle grime and breaks influences, without being "genre." |
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| Feb 23, 2005 | On the horizon! Super secret work with this super secret animator cat in Tokyo... and more collaborations with my friends, also part of this animator's krew, Sequence3 and Sense. And coming soon, a trak with a vocalist... A kick-ass MC... wish I could tell you who, but I can't spill the Beans yet... | |
| June 20, 2006 | Pocket Pet's "WeSendIt EP" out now on Goosehound label! Your local DJ vinyl shop oughta have it, or you can snag it mail order at Kompakt. I'm pleased that Kompakt's description of the 12" is that it is "extremely weird!" Yeah, I like that! | |
| May 17, 2006 |
Minlove is a cool website, with news on minimal electronic music. They also have a "label showcase" section.
Goosehound put together a label showcase. It has Pocket Pet on it, and good tracks by my friends! Check it out HERE! They also posted some info about Pocket Pet. I'm really happy and excited to be part of Goosehound. I think it's a great little label. |
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| June 15, 2006 |
happy summer! |
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| Jan 20, 2005 |
The Push Pull out now!
The Push Pull NYC Release Party Sound and Video Especial Sunday January 30, 2005 Tonic, 107 Norfolk St. at Delancey - David Last (The Agriculture) live PA with Yusuke Yamamoto (Chimp Beams). - Dub Trio (ROIR). Organic live dub action. - DUO: qpe (The Agriculture) + Lloop (The Agriculture). Double-dose psych-chill-hiphop-explosion. - Marianne. Japanese trio of dense hypnotic outerspace noise-funk. - DJ Egg Foo Young (Secret Frequency Crew). Flingin' hot beats. Visuals by David Lublin (LMNOPF), David Last, Sequence3 (Concrete | Tokyo), Berkoy, and Chika. Performances begin at 8pm sharp |
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| May 2, 2006 |
It's a fine spring day, with ice cream trucks, smiling kids, and beautiful flowering trees. (and allergies, but I'm willing to deal with a runny nose when there's sunshine!) I received an email from a friend of mine, who noticed that my song "Cat Silver" is the soundtrack to a Google promo animation. Check it HERE. I heard something about this from the Agriculture some time ago, apparently it has happened. |
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| Feb 26, 2006 |
First off, DOUMO ARIGATOU GOZAIMASHITA to everyone I met in Japan. I really appreciate your help!
Secondly, The Push Pull will soon be re-pressed by The Agriculture. Thanks, everybody who bought the first edition! I still have a few Japan tour t-shirts which I held in New York. The design is just a lot of crazy line drawings of bizarre abstracty creature monsters, printed in black ink on black t-shirts. Yeah, black on black, in sunlight it looks cool. If you want a t-shirt, please email me. david at david last dot net (with no spaces at all). They were an edition of 30, and they are $25 each (japanese price, but hey it's a limited edition), paypal is encouraged.  |
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| Aug 8, 2004 |
You can listen to an MP3 of a DJ SET I played for WNYU's "Rotation" show. That's New York University, 89.1FM in NYC. Tasty rekkids, in the grey areas between reggae, bhangra, hip hop, and electronica. New records (like selections from the new Mouse on Mars rekkid) and some familiar older ones, mashed up in funny and nice new ways.
The big show Benton-C and I put together for the 2004 New York Video Festival was a success. A sold-out house was hollering, laughing, cheering, and generally just enjoying themselves. So many great audio and video artists from all over the world lent us their work to show, and we are very grateful. |
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| Nov 15, 2005 |
Just getting back to earth after having played a booming live set w/ Christina Wheeler in Bushwick, in front of a crowd of roughly 650 people. So many people dancing and screaming, it was the good fun!
Looks as if I shall be working with the Wolf+Lamb again. |
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| Nov 6, 2005 |
New gig info up on Gig/Get:
Bushwick Art Projects, Brooklyn, Nov 12 Shows in California in early December (SF/LA) Also news, The Push Pull is now distributed through Warp's BLEEP online mp3 shop. |
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| Nov 4, 2005 |
I have been working on new tracks with a friend in Osaka called Segeke. We'll be working together under the name "Pocket Pet." From here, Pocket Pet will have no relationship to the remix released on WaveTek... it will have a more minimal tech sound, with funny little voices and funky accents.
We've just completed an EP for a brand new minimal tech label called Goosehound. You probably haven't heard of Goosehound, but you will! They're an imprint of Kompakt, so you will definitely be seeing Goosehound vinyls around. This EP contains three new original Pocket Pet tracks plus a remix by Japanese minimal tech geniuses The Suffragettes. |
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| Oct 10, 2005 |
I made this little art book for my friends.
You can see it HERE. |
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| Sept 13, 2005 |
New vinyl 12"s coming out on AUDIO.nl (Rotterdam) and Staubgold (Berlin). They're both somewhat reggae & hip hop influenced glitchy beat workouts with eerie textures. Audio NL mix is a remix of Andreas Tilliander, and Staubgold mix is a remix of Kammerflimmer Kollektief.
Pretty soon I'll have some techno trax coming out on Unfoundsound and a couple of other labels. More info on that later. |
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| Sept 4, 2005 |
I don't usually put up any political posts on this site, but I think this account of the conditions in New Orleans from a friend of my friend J is pretty intense, and needs to be read. Peace...
'-.,_,.-'``'-.,_,.='``'-.,_,.-'``'-.,_,.='````'-.,_,.-'``'-.,_,.=' Please Forward Notes From Inside New Orleans by Jordan Flaherty Friday, September 2, 2005 I just left New Orleans a couple hours ago. I traveled from the apartment I was staying in by boat to a helicopter to a refugee camp. If anyone wants to examine the attitude of federal and state officials towards the victims of hurricane Katrina, I advise you to visit one of the refugee camps. In the refugee camp I just left, on the I-10 freeway near Causeway, thousands of people (at least 90% black and poor) stood and squatted in mud and trash behind metal barricades, under an unforgiving sun, with heavily armed soldiers standing guard over them. When a bus would come through, it would stop at a random spot, state police would open a gap in one of the barricades, and people would rush for the bus, with no information given about where the bus was going. Once inside (we were told) evacuees would be told where the bus was taking them - Baton Rouge, Houston, Arkansas, Dallas, or other locations. I was told that if you boarded a bus bound for Arkansas (for example), even people with family and a place to stay in Baton Rouge would not be allowed to get out of the bus as it passed through Baton Rouge. You had no choice but to go to the shelter in Arkansas. If you had people willing to come to New Orleans to pick you up, they could not come within 17 miles of the camp. I traveled throughout the camp and spoke to Red Cross workers, Salvation Army workers, National Guard, and state police, and although they were friendly, no one could give me any details on when buses would arrive, how many, where they would go to, or any other information. I spoke to the several teams of journalists nearby, and asked if any of them had been able to get any information from any federal or state officials on any of these questions, and all of them, from Australian tv to local Fox affiliates complained of an unorganized, non-communicative, mess. One cameraman told me "as someone who's been here in this camp for two days, the only information I can give you is this: get out by nightfall. You don't want to be here at night." There was also no visible attempt by any of those running the camp to set up any sort of transparent and consistent system, for instance a line to get on buses, a way to register contact information or find family members, special needs services for children and infirm, phone services, treatment for possible disease exposure, nor even a single trash can. To understand the dimensions of this tragedy, its important to look at New Orleans itself. For those who have not lived in New Orleans, you have missed a incredible, glorious, vital, city. A place with a culture and energy unlike anywhere else in the world. A 70% African-American city where resistance to white supremacy has supported a generous, subversive and unique culture of vivid beauty. From jazz, blues and hiphop, to secondlines, Mardi Gras Indians, Parades, Beads, Jazz Funerals, and red beans and rice on Monday nights, New Orleans is a place of art and music and dance and sexuality and liberation unlike anywhere else in the world. It is a city of kindness and hospitality, where walking down the block can take two hours because you stop and talk to someone on every porch, and where a community pulls together when someone is in need. It is a city of extended families and social networks filling the gaps left by city, state and federal governments that have abdicated their responsibility for the public welfare. It is a city where someone you walk past on the street not only asks how you are, they wait for an answer. It is also a city of exploitation and segregation and fear. The city of New Orleans has a population of just over 500,000 and was expecting 300 murders this year, most of them centered on just a few, overwhelmingly black, neighborhoods. Police have been quoted as saying that they don't need to search out the perpetrators, because usually a few days after a shooting, the attacker is shot in revenge. There is an atmosphere of intense hostility and distrust between much of Black New Orleans and the N.O. Police Department. In recent months, officers have been accused of everything from drug running to corruption to theft. In separate incidents, two New Orleans police officers were recently charged with rape (while in uniform), and there have been several high profile police killings of unarmed youth, including the murder of Jenard Thomas, which has inspired ongoing weekly protests for several months. The city has a 40% illiteracy rate, and over 50% of black ninth graders will not graduate in four years. Louisiana spends on average $4,724 per child's education and ranks 48th in the country for lowest teacher salaries. The equivalent of more than two classrooms of young people drop out of Louisiana schools every day and about 50,000 students are absent from school on any given day. Far too many young black men from New Orleans end up enslaved in Angola Prison, a former slave plantation where inmates still do manual farm labor, and over 90% of inmates eventually die in the prison. It is a city where industry has left, and most remaining jobs are are low-paying, transient, insecure jobs in the service economy. Race has always been the undercurrent of Louisiana politics. This disaster is one that was constructed out of racism, neglect and incompetence. Hurricane Katrina was the inevitable spark igniting the gasoline of cruelty and corruption. From the neighborhoods left most at risk, to the treatment of the refugees to the the media portrayal of the victims, this disaster is shaped by race. Louisiana politics is famously corrupt, but with the tragedies of this week our political leaders have defined a new level of incompetence. As hurricane Katrina approached, our Governor urged us to "Pray the hurricane down" to a level two. Trapped in a building two days after the hurricane, we tuned our battery-operated radio into local radio and tv stations, hoping for vital news, and were told that our governor had called for a day of prayer. As rumors and panic began to rule, they was no source of solid dependable information. Tuesday night, politicians and reporters said the water level would rise another 12 feet - instead it stabilized. Rumors spread like wildfire, and the politicians and media only made it worse. While the rich escaped New Orleans, those with nowhere to go and no way to get there were left behind. Adding salt to the wound, the local and national media have spent the last week demonizing those left behind. As someone that loves New Orleans and the people in it, this is the part of this tragedy that hurts me the most, and it hurts me deeply. No sane person should classify someone who takes food from indefinitely closed stores in a desperate, starving city as a "looter," but that's just what the media did over and over again. Sheriffs and politicians talked of having troops protect stores instead of perform rescue operations. Images of New Orleans' hurricane-ravaged population were transformed into black, out-of-control, criminals. As if taking a stereo from a store that will clearly be insured against loss is a greater crime than the governmental neglect and incompetence that did billions of dollars of damage and destroyed a city. This media focus is a tactic, just as the eighties focus on "welfare queens" and "super-predators" obscured the simultaneous and much larger crimes of the Savings and Loan scams and mass layoffs, the hyper-exploited people of New Orleans are being used as a scapegoat to cover up much larger crimes. City, state and national politicians are the real criminals here. Since at least the mid-1800s, its been widely known the danger faced by flooding to New Orleans. The flood of 1927, which, like this week's events, was more about politics and racism than any kind of natural disaster, illustrated exactly the danger faced. Yet government officials have consistently refused to spend the money to protect this poor, overwhelmingly black, city. While FEMA and others warned of the urgent impending danger to New Orleans and put forward proposals for funding to reinforce and protect the city, the Bush administration, in every year since 2001, has cut or refused to fund New Orleans flood control, and ignored scientists warnings of increased hurricanes as a result of global warming. And, as the dangers rose with the floodlines, the lack of coordinated response dramatized vividly the callous disregard of our elected leaders. The aftermath from the 1927 flood helped shape the elections of both a US President and a Governor, and ushered in the southern populist politics of Huey Long. In the coming months, billions of dollars will likely flood into New Orleans. This money can either be spent to usher in a "New Deal" for the city, with public investment, creation of stable union jobs, new schools, cultural programs and housing restoration, or the city can be "rebuilt and revitalized" to a shell of its former self, with newer hotels, more casinos, and with chain stores and theme parks replacing the former neighborhoods, cultural centers and corner jazz clubs. Long before Katrina, New Orleans was hit by a hurricane of poverty, racism, disinvestment, deindustrialization and corruption. Simply the damage from this pre-Katrina hurricane will take billions to repair. Now that the money is flowing in, and the world's eyes are focused on Katrina, its vital that progressive-minded people take this opportunity to fight for a rebuilding with justice. New Orleans is a special place, and we need to fight for its rebirth. ________________________ Jordan Flaherty is a union organizer and an editor of Left Turn Magazine (www.leftturn.org). He is not planning on moving out of New Orleans. ----------------------------------------------- Below are some small, grassroots and New Orleans-based resources, organizations and institutions that will need your support in the coming months. Social Justice: www.jjpl.org www.iftheycanlearn.org www.nolaps.org www.thepeoplesinstitute.org/ www.criticalresistance.org/index.php?name=crno_home Cultural Resources: www.backstreetculturalmuseum.com www.ashecac.org/ http://198.66.50.128/gallery/ www.nolahumanrights.org http://www.freewebs.com/ironrail/ http://www.girlgangproductions.com/ Current Info and Resources: http://neworleans.craigslist.org/about/help/katrina_cl.html |
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| Aug 13, 2005 |
I just finished a one minute VIDEO for Ryan Junell's SloMoVideo Compilation project. It will be released on DVD, and tour as part of a collection of 120 1-minute slow motion videos. |
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| July 27, 2005 | Just returned to NYC from Japan. It's mind boggling how much happened in the space of two weeks and a few days. The sheer amount of beauty, sound, light, flavor, joy, sadness, smiles, zen focus, and frivolous meandering I did was pretty intense, for such a short period of time. Well, I can't say I haven't lived! | |
| July 28, 2005 |
HERE is an MP3 of my live set from Kyoto. It was a great show, so many beautiful people jumping up and down with big smiles. Chekuitauto!
It's 60 minutes, 62 MB. |
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| June 14, 2005 |
I'm currently in Amsterdam, playing at Test Portal. Huge warehouse space, with 10 screens, each screen is 20-25 feet tall. So far I've played with Solu and Hoppy Kamiyama, as well as doing a lot of long solo improvisations (video and sounds). Will post pics / movies soon.
The people here are very kind and almost everyone in Amsterdam seems to speak English. I'm kind of amazed actually. Some of the artists are staying with the event organizer on the outskirts of town. I have a little trailer outside in a little wooded area. The trailer was decorated by a young girl (the event organizer's daughter), so when I get home after performing, I'm surrounded by cute little stuffed animals and things. The city itself is lovely, and I'm really enjoying the little parks and picturesque places to sit and think and talk to friends. I had the best apple pie I've ever had at a small cafe here... it's always crowded because their apple pie is famous. The pie's not too sweet, not too tart, and the crust has perfect texture and flavor. There are quite a few things I'll miss about Amsterdam. |
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| July 10, 2005 | Headed to Japan... Looking forward to seeing many friends I haven't seen in a while. And eating good foood! Yeah! | |
| May 28, 2005 |
I've been commissioned to do a remix of the band Kammerflimmer Kollektief for Berlin label Staubgold. It will be a set of vinyl 12" EPs, and I'm in great company for the other remixes. Other remixers are Sutekh, Radian, Jan Jelinek, Noze, Secondo, Aoki Takamasa, Lump and Hans Appelqvist.
In other news, there's this chihuahua running around in my foyer. It keeps hopping up and down and making little gurgling noises. It's called "Tofu." |
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| May 15, 2005 | Remix: Push Pull vs. M.I.A. Yeah, OK, everyone's talking about M.I.A... but that's because her record is so f@cking good! | |
| April 22, 2005 |
Advance Warning! 
You can now take a look at the TV-show-intro animation I worked on for MTV-Japan. I worked as character designer, with Chromafresh animation studio. |
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| Mar 12, 2005 | Commerce vs. Inspiration. Commerce, the hulking metal robot lizard monster of disaster, coming into the frame hard and fast from the left. Inspiration, a light butterfly made of shiny perforated paperboard, is flitting quietly about on the right side of the frame. Who will win out for the heart and mind of our protagonist? This week our protagonist seems to be a film history teacher in Baton Rouge with a secret wish to be a professional screenwriter. Stay tuned, we'll show you the carnage after 17 minutes of car commercials. | |
| April 12, 2005 | Hot lil' trak coming up with the one and only, super-science MC, Beans, formerly of Anti-Pop Consortium! Vocal is completed, and final production and mixing will begin soon. Will be released as part of an upcoming project with vocalists. More info on that later. | |
| April 1, 2005 |
Upcoming in UK and Amsterdam!
End of this month, I'll be traveling to the UK with the fine fellows from Vidvox, makers of rawking clip VJing software, Grid Pro. (unpaid endorsement based on enjoyment!) At the end of April and beginning of May we'll be showing work at AVIT in Birmingham, but also doing a demo at the Apple Store in London (May 3). I'll be playing a music set at the Big Chill Bar, also in London, with Vidvox David Lublin on video mix (May 4). Will put info up on Gig/Get soon. Then in June, off to Amsterdam for Test Portal experimental video/audio festival. More info once it's settled. Incidentally, I'm returning to England for another Big Chill thing in August... in fact, the festival itself, huge but intimate camping event at a castle, lots of bands and video and fun times. I'll be doing music and video sets there. Come on out! |
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| Mar 30, 2005 | I've just finished a remix which will be out on Francois K's Wave Music label. It'll be under the name "Pocket Pet," which I'll be using for dancefloor music. I chose this name because it is simultaneously a music reference ("pocket" being another word for the rhythmic sweet spot of a groove), a cute image ("pocket pets" are actually small pets, usually girbils, hamsters or the like), and also, I've been told, mildly naughty. Some people just have their mind in the trash, ya know? | |
| Mar 30, 2005 | My rekkid was tapped by the writer of this nice mp3 blog Moebius Rex. There's a wide array of recommendations, great for music-omnivores! Nice lot of fotos on there as well. As it says on the page, if you really like the mp3s, buy the music. | |
| Mar 14, 2005 | Now that things are humming along I can share that the Japanese TV program I'm doing character design for is a reality show about rock bands trying to become famous. What this has to do with the content of the animated intro I'm working on is definitely food for deep thought... but if there's one culture where cuteness rises above cognitive dissonance, it's Japan! | |
| Feb 30, 2005 | Changes! Changes in the site, thanks to my good friend Mr. Aaron Harder, who was kind enough to build a custom site maintenance tool for me. Thank you Mr. Aaron Harder! Also check out the artists who have contributed images to some of the site themes... Masamichi Shimada, Benton-C, and Sense! | |
| Feb 30, 2005 | Cartoons! I've just been hired to design characters for the animated intro of a TV show on MTV Japan. Can't give out any more details than that right now, but it'll be fun! If I'm gonna draw for The Man, I might as well be doing animation for J-MTV. | |
| Feb 14, 2005 |
Happy Valentines Day! (Ableton live DJ mix, made for a cafe gig in Williamsburg) Due to financial hardship, I won't be able to make it to the San Francisco show on the 20th, my apologies. Times are tough. But I'll play in Cali again soon enough, y'all Cali friends... |
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| Feb 1, 2005 |
NYC release show for The Push Pull was a blast. You can check out the live set on the listening page of the somnaut.com archive.
Two pics from the show. I'm playing in San Francisco in a couple of weeks... February 20th, XLR8R and Fluorescent presents: Presidents Dead Party. Tim Sweeney (DFA, DJ), Kid 606 (Tigerbeat6, live), Fannypack (Tommy Boy, DJ), Gravy Train!!! (Kill Rock Stars, DJ), and DJ Olive (The Agriculture, live). Olive and I will be in the Dub Hut with visuals, rest downstairs on the Booty Rave Floor. At Club Six... gig specifics can be found on XLR8R's Website. |
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| Jan 17, 2005 |
Flyer Design Sketch: Osaka Drawing Party, "Be My Valentine" Edition |
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| Jan 12, 2006 |
HERE's a new video for Pocket Pet. Osaka producer Segeke and I have finished a 12" for Goosehound that will be out in a few months, and working on a 12" for Microcosm Music. The footage was taken last July in Kamakura at a club called Enoshima Opa La where I was playing with my friend KG. Opa La looks down over Enoshima beach, and the cool dawn light was pretty magical as everybody down on the beach wrapped up a night of partying. All the people here are leaving bars on the beach and walking down the boardwalk, tired and sometimes a bit drunk. A little voyeuristic, but for me it was a pretty fascinating microcosm cultural study. The video takes it to an even more micro level, expanding fleeting moments in time so every detail is visible. Sounds creepy, but it's actually pretty funny. |
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| Jan 4, 2005 |
Headed to Japan in February to participate in a cool event... I've been asked to play music underground in a cavern in Kochi Japan. The event organizers and I are working together on projections for the walls of the cave as well (somewhat like the characters pictured here). I'll also be in Tokyo, Osaka, Shizuoka, and possibly Kyoto. More details on Gig/Get. |
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| Jan 2, 2005 |
Release of The Push Pull CD on January 19. Cool shops internationally and iTunes store will be carrying it. Of course with the iTunes download, you won't get the 12 page booklet with fly polaroid photos and bronze ink drawings...
Happy new year! My new year's eve was spent doing video at The Bunker's NYE event. On the decks were Ghostly International artists Tadd Mulinix (Dabrye/James T Cotton) and Todd Osborn (Osborne, Soundmurderer), as well as residents DJ Spinoza and Movement. Tonnes of funne. Let's hope the new year is a bit less grim than 04 turned out to be in some ways. Here's hoping for less disasters, both natural and political. |
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| Oct 17, 2004 |
What a party! The Agriculture's show last Friday at Tonic turned out to be quite the joynt. Thanks for coming out, y'all! Kacy qpe Wiggins started the show with a sexy downtempo set that had the ladies on the floor, and simmered beautiful for an hour... Badawi came on and had a whole mess of boys on loan from the Ghostly International show upstairs craning their neck going "what the hell is going on over there?" as he attacked the DJ Mixer. Then DJ Olive killed it (of course). K-I-L-L-E-D__I-T. I think only sex and really hot beats can cause people to make the faces I saw people in the audience making during his set. I had the daunting task of following Olive's sound explosion, but the audience was cool (I=relieved)! After working for so long on this music, it's really satisfying to let it out in a room and see big smiles on peoples' faces.
Following my set, Movement and Spinoza rocked it. All in all, it was a great home-turf show, and even though Ghostly was quite an attraction upstairs, there was a rowdy crowd of just the right size, bouncing around with us. Magic. I had a dream last night about a totally fictional video/audio show. I thought it was funny, but you might have to be a total electro-media dork to think so. Here's what I wrote down when I got up: Some guys from Denmark were set up to play live video. The show began with photos of them connecting their equipment. Some of the equipment was home made, some was also audio equipment. There was a photo of them connecting an echo box that had been manufactured in Philadelphia. Since they were in Philadelphia, the crowd cheered for the echo box. The first video peiece was a water tank piece. A single fish was captured from many angles and composited so that it looked like several fish in a tank. Then there was a piece that began with footage of a car's left side mirror. The view split over and over again into a prism of images. Then there was a cut to a view of the hood of the car, as the car moved down the road. An egg dropped onto the windshield and fried, right there on the glass. Then another and another. Then somehow popcorn began popping on the hot hood of the car. Soon a bicycle became adhered to the hood of the car. Many things ended up on the hood of the car. I thought, "How did they do that? These guys are doing some really cool video." We walked up to watch the performers, and the dream ended. |
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| July 7, 2004 |
I am Very Very excited about the show I'm curating with Benton-C for the 2004 New York Video Festival at Lincoln Center. It's on Thursday July 15th... Check the website for details!
Second vinyl EP coming soon... More hypnotic riddims and "tons of sense of humor," to quote JetSet Japan's review. This time, bass guitar tracks were provided by Stu from Dub Trio. (!) Full length CD will be out in the spring. Want to get a big weevil out of your jumper? Read my advice for this problem. |
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| Dec 12, 2004 |
Record release parties comin' right up for The Push Pull. Confirmed, January 30th release party in NYC, at Tonic. I'm headed to Amsterdam this summer to do video at the Test Portal fest, and am planning a little travel around that time. May rock it with Al-Haca from Germany, they're doing some cool stuff that's probably the closest thing I've heard out there to what I'm into. Other tasty things on the burner, will post developments...
No comment on the presidential election. How could I sum up my horror and disappointment with the people of this country? If you're in NYC, come on out to SubTonic on Thursday Dec. 16th, for my birthday party. Info on Gig/Get page. |
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| Oct 23, 2004 |
PLEASE remember to VOTE on Nov 2! Remember that someone is lookin' to keep what he stole...
I have a couple of away gigs coming right up! First one is Virginia Film Festival on October 28th and 29th, with the Synaesthesiologists audio-video program. I'll be showing the theatrical video screening, and there will also be a party featuring DJ Spinoza (The Bunker) and Berkoy tag-teaming projections with me. Then the following week, on November 5th, I'll be doing a beautiful live music/projections set with jazz pianist/composer Geoff Keezer, doing a live audio-video remix of materials by my good friends SEIN and Sequence3 from Tokyo. I'm doing some projections that will react to rhodes piano and samples that Geoff will be playing. Offical info on the Gig/Get page. The Posca Kid EP is delayed a couple of weeks due to a switch in vinyl pressing plants. |
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| Oct 7, 2004 |
How'd you like that Vice Presidential Debate?
Posca Kid EP vinyl will be out next month, and it's gonna look tasty... Now that the second vinyl and full-length CD are in the can, I have time to do some updates that need doing. New review from Repellent Zine in the reviews section, and cover images and descriptions of the new records are added to the discography. Repellent gave my trax a really good review, how could I have missed it until now? Wow, thanks to Ihu from Repellent! (Taking deep breath) Ah. I also have time to do a bit of video, which is good after so long "between the cans"... my ears need a break from earphones and critical listening. I have a couple of video shows coming up, first one at the Virginia Film Festival, as part of the Synaesthesiologists show there, on Oct 29 and 30. Then after that the In Flight Festival in San Francisco, on November 5th. I can't escape music for long though, I'm playing a live set at Tonic during CMJ. Whoa, that's October 15th... !!! The Agriculture is downstairs, and Ghostly International will be upstairs. I saw Dub Trio's record release party tonight, their performance had quite a few of those moments where the audience collectively makes that "oooooooohhhhhh!!!" sound. The live video was pretty rad feedbacky stuff, who is this Berkoy? |
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| Sept 27, 2004 |
New album "The Push Pull" completed! I'm working on the artwork for the book, which looks to be drawings in bronze ink printed over tasty polaroid photographs by Rogo from United States of Belt.
Vinyl In Action Report from the field! Steve Nalepa from Dilettante Press writes to me about a DJ gig he played for little kids in California... "Hey D, The gig yesterday at the beach was incredible. It was Greta Garbo's old beach house, and it was a 4 year old's birthday party. It was pretty hilarious. I was playing Augustus Pablo: King Tubby vs The Rockers Uptown. Turning 4 year olds on to Dub. My favorite moment was when I was playing your Secret Society track, and this little 4 year old black girl in a cute denim dress outfit is dancing her brains out. She grabs her dress, pulls it up over her head revealing her rainbow underwear, and proceeds to shake it like a salt shaker. Hilarious! I wish I had it on tape, it would be pretty great for your music video. Little did you know that your music would be a big hit at Piņata Fish parties. I followed up Chiki with a children's version of Elvis record to accompany the bashing of the piņata. I bet you never had a DJ transition out of one of your tracks with a bunch of little kids singing Hound Dog. :)" Noteworthy gigs... The Agriculture's CMJ show at Tonic on October 15th, and an audio/video performance with Geoff Keezer at the In Flight Festival in San Francisco on November 5th. Second vinyl will be out soon! Full length CD in January! 3rd vinyl coming at that time too... a remix is in the works by Lunchbox, which is DJ Olive's newest project, with Martin Baumgartner and Bruno Amstad... more remixes on the horizon from others as well. And by the way... have you seen THIS amazing news-page yet? |
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| May 29, 2004 |
I've been in San Francisco for a little over a week now, working on a special project with Damon Soule, doing a few live shows and finishing the second 12" and full length for The Agriculture. So far I've gotten sunburnt, boiled myself at a hot spring, played for a bar crowd and at radio stations, made a rubberstamp pattern for a friend's skirt, made new tracks amongst the mini-malls in the suburbs, watched fireworks from a rooftop, observed the "makeout stakeouts" of drunk clubgoers, had amazing home made buttermilk ice cream, eaten orgazmikally good Mexican food, and heard an excellent live set by a manic Bay Area beat-mangler called PlanetSize.
In other news, I'm organizing a night of video with Benton-C Bainbridge for the New York Video Festival at Lincoln Center. We're looking for submissions of audio/video work that shows a tight relationship between sound and image. Audiovisual folks can submit work at the Synaesthesiologists website. |
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| May 12, 2004 |
Badlands 12" EP is out now. It's been out about two weeks now, and reactions have been surprisingly swift and positive. Mixmaster Morris heard it the first week it was out and started a thread about it, in the Big Chill Forum. Read an excerpt in Reviews.
It made my day. |
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| Apr 24, 2004 | Badlands 12" EP is out now. In New York ask for it at Other Music and other fine record stores. In the rest of the USA, Europe and Japan, look for it in your favorite shop with DJ vinyl. | |
| Mar 10, 2004 |
David's new 12" vinyl EP, Badlands, is out soon on theAgriculture, NYC. Another vinyl will be released this summer, followed by a full length cd in the fall. Check The Agriculture for release details.
In NYC, Catch David's live video projections with Kompakt (Koln Germany) and Rephlex (London England). Saturday March 13, 2004. Check the flyer for more details. |
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| March, 1973 |
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