| Aug 28, 2008 |
The hot "gimme a cold beer" days are turning into beautiful cooler days. My favorite part of the year is here! You can check out a newly uncovered piece of music now at MODYFIER. This is a fantastic music blog where a unique visual artist invites sound producing friends to add entries, which she illustrates in her own style. My entry is beautiful and abstract and strange music, I hope you'll enjoy it. I literally collaborated with a houseplant to make this music. You'll have to read the blog entry to make sense of that. :) Visual news: I have begun work storyboarding a music video for the band ELYSIAN FIELDS, one of my favorite New York bands. Hand drawn animation and beautifully sad gorgeousness is coming right up... |
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| Apr 28, 2008 |
Back from hibernation with new news... There were no updates during the cold months. During the cold, it's time to stay in and get some work done. So there's lots of new plans and new things happening.
"Musically Massive EP," a new vinyl with Zulu, will be coming out next month in Europe on Staubgold label. Dancehall influenced, but not really downtempo, this release is set to justify its vinyl form factor with 6 solid tracks for club DJs. Alternate versions of these tracks plus other (less DJ centric) tracks will be available in September on the full length Musically Massive album, which will be out on CD and MP3. There will also be a remix vinyl at that time. Other big news! Started a new record label and music project called Konque, with the guys from Russian techno outfit Alka Rex. Konque as a label is starting off as straight-ahead as oddball leftfield techno gets. The tracks we've been making (and looking for from other producers) are funky and yet quite strange. They will probably be good for DJs or listeners who are fans of labels like Foundsound or even Perlon. The film soundtrack mentioned first a year ago is still progressing, the computer animated IMAX film is in its final stages of animation, and the soundtrack is in its rough form and being crafted in line with the animation. Recently played a set with Konque at CMKY Festival, a brand new festival that has sprung up in Boulder Colorado. It was great fun, and I was privileged to share a stage with folks like Caro, Smirk, and Bruno Pronsato. |
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| CHOICE LINK | FUDGE FACTORY COMICS has scans of lovely little hand drawn 'zine style comics. Highly recommended. | |
| Nov 19, 2007 |
Get a bottle of whiskey, or phone your girlfriend to come over, 'cause yer gonna need something to keep you warm tonight! Two words for those who hate November through February: Southern Hemisphere. Would like to be in Buenos Aires or Sydney at the moment. Still and all, I've been quite happily plugging along. Film soundtrack is swingin', some new sketchbook styles are hap'nin'. Had been a bit burned out on making dance music, but have been rescued from this gravity by Alka Rex... we have started making a couple of tracks together, and they are sounding good to me. Very excited about this. Happy holidays... Holiday season gig news: If you live in SAN FRANCISCO, come on out to Filter on Nov 30. If you live in NYC, come on out to The Bunker on Dec 21. If you live in BOULDER or DENVER, come on out to COMMUNIKEY NEW YEARS EVE party. For more info on these gigs, check my MYSPACE. |
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| July 24, 2007 |
This post written to you from a stately Old School All American hotel room in Troy New York (it's near Albany, the Capital Region). Troy has a real Old Style vibe, and this room piles it on thick. There are watercolors of New England mansions with horses outside, some kind of replica of some sort of tool-bench used in southern cotton plantations (??nostalgia??), needlepoint of a flowerpot containing the herb sage (I know because it says "Sage" on the bottom), and a photo of a half-completed Eiffel Tower.
In this idyllic setting I am working on the soundtrack for an Imax film. A 3d CG cartoon that takes place enirely in the "nano" world of molecules and atoms. All the characters are talking atoms. A good excuse for a lot of wowee zowee CG animation of molecular physics, projected huge... should be fun to watch! It's also fun to score music for an 18 piece big band orchestra, which is how the music is being handled. Will report later on this project. Have recently completed a remix for techno artist "Someone Else" to be released on Foundsound Records. The track is called "Funky Fromage" and it's from Someone Else's recent full length CD "Pencaps and Colored Pencils". Also working on a music video for Foundsound, which should be finished soon. It will be available on iTunes music store. And last but not least, if you pick up a copy of XLR8R this week, the accompanying CD has one of my tracks on it. I was honored that they liked it enough to make it the first track on the disc. It's Royale's remix of my trak Bubble Tea. (Bubble Tea is available from Dope Recordings!) |
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| May 26, 2007 |
Summertime, and U.S. troops are gathering near Iran... and the Supreme Court has been infiltrated by appointees who are unfit to hold the bench. Yes, I'm one of those crazy people who "follows the news," instead of reading about football. This movie has turned into what would be a dark comedy... if there were anything funny about the situation.
Despite all this, I've been having some lovely summertime days, catching up with a few friends. And working as well. I've been doing some soundtrack work lately... soon I'll begin work on the soundtrack for an IMAX movie about molecular chemistry. Really looking forward to it. ...and looking forward to checking out MUTEK next week. NEW RELEASES! In the rest of 07 and in 08, there'll be a lot of music coming out. I've just had a release on Osaka label GeometricDeck, called "KRUST EP." If you like techno, please check it out. Also out now, a new release on the Dope Recordings label, "BUBBLE TEA." Again, it's a techno release. Both of these releases have great remixes as well and are available on Beatport (see links above). Coming up, more dancefloor tracks, and some reggae-influenced tracks with genius ragga vocalist ZULU... it's sounding good! |
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| March 25, 2007 |
As I write, there's some kind of Australian swallow singing a song I've never heard before, in the trees just outside my window. This is because I'm in Australia for a short time following some work in Europe. It's pretty beautiful here and the seafood is outstanding.
I'm primarily out here to work up a new CD of dancehall influenced tracks. Vocal duties are mostly being taken care of by dancehall genius ZULU. Good stuff on the way. In other news, new techno trax will be coming out on Beatport label Geometric Deck soon, I will post an announce when it hits. |
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| Feb 1, 2007 |
photo by Marshall Demeranville in Boulder Colorado, live at CMKY |
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| March 27, 2006 |
Winter begins to wear out its welcome, and war news can wear you down. Spring is just beyond the next hill, so close you can almost smell it. Maybe we're all ready to move on into new and warmer terrain. In this spirit, here's the first listen to a new live band I put together to play crazy outerspace reggae music. We played live at BPM in Williamsburg recently, and here is a nasty lo-fi bootleg style recording of part of that show. Solids (MP3, 11.4mb) David Last: Drums and Laptop Yusuke Yamamoto: Drums and Percussion Paul Grimstad: Guitar Matt Pavolka: Bass Dub Echoes Mix by Mari |
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| April 22, 2005 |
 VIDEO! Pedestrians + Mini-Tek = Hypnosis. See Unfoundsound. See also Masamichi Shimada. |
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