30 June 2008
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"Cracked Share"
Expanded Celluloid, Extended Phonograph
film- Lee Hanjun
sound- Hong Chulki
Balloon & Needle
29 June 2008
28 June 2008
This Bliss
Solitudinous musings for a summer night.
Pantha du prince (Hendrik Weber) of Hamburg, Deutschland searches for utopia in 2007's This Bliss.
Weber creates light layered minimal electronic textures weaving a loose fitting sonic fabric to engulf your senses and lose yourself in.
Romanticism seems at the heart of Pantha du prince, with painter Caspar David Friedrich listed as an influence & songs "Walden" & "Walden 2" titled after Henry David Thoreau's transcendentalist book. The music embodies the Romantic spirit, expressing the sublime & creating a sense of human smallness within the world, through his swelling landscapes and wandering spiritualistic approach to sound. While encased in the sphere of electronics (which may seem contrary to the "romantic" approach), Weber manges to create a "natural vibe" through discrete tribal pulses, sweeping strings, and breathing tunes.
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If you are curious - - check out Pantha's loose "remix" of Animal Collective's "peacebone." Is there a line between remix & a new song?
26 June 2008
the american dystopia
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emily haines & the soft skeleton
knives don't have your back
"dr. blind"
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haines provides lush mellow meandering away from the dance-y bump of 'her' metric.
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did you know bankers get 'incentives'?
*3 months of perfect balancing = a $5 Wal-Mart Gift Card
23 June 2008
uh
some news - - though a bit old now.
Fujiya & Miyagi, the Brighton duo turned trio & now quartet, are back with another album on the way:
Lightbulb is out in September.
The ablum includes "Uh" - their 2007 single
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electro kraut funk : the new Neu!09 June 2008
organic cadence
by glitcher/prankster - fluorescent grey (Robbie Martin) : owner of experimental electronic Record Label Records
08 June 2008
the new national anthem
A quavering emotional anthem for the down-trodden American via David Wingo.
You may have heard of Wingo through his recent project Ola Podrida. They released their folky self-titled debut last year. (the ones who share with Interpol a love of the Natural History Museum's taxidermy collection)
Wingo has extensively worked with film, scoring David Gordan Green's George Washington & All the Real Girls and now Craig Zobel's debut comedy Great World of Sound, which features "New National Anthem" (lyrics by George Smith)
NYC / Atlanta director Zobel who co-created Homestar Runner with the Chapman brothers and like Wingo has been greatly involved with David Gordan's productions now has them working for him. Great World of Sound tells the story of two wanna-be producers who come to find they have been scammed into scamming others. Based on events Zobel's father encountered, the film warns us of a real music industry scam: song sharking, while demonstrating how even the well-intentioned can inadvertently fall into a career of hurting others.
The 2007 film amalgamates 'documentary' and 'narrative' creating a blend of American Idol and The Office. Zobel placed ads in local papers guised as the production company "Great World of Sound" & used elaborate hidden camera set-ups to record real musicians trying desperately to make it big. The result is a deceptive but honest, comic yet sad exploration of our culture's obsession with $ and fame.
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oh, here is a crazy video for Ola Podrida's "Lost & Found"
You may have heard of Wingo through his recent project Ola Podrida. They released their folky self-titled debut last year. (the ones who share with Interpol a love of the Natural History Museum's taxidermy collection)
Wingo has extensively worked with film, scoring David Gordan Green's George Washington & All the Real Girls and now Craig Zobel's debut comedy Great World of Sound, which features "New National Anthem" (lyrics by George Smith)
NYC / Atlanta director Zobel who co-created Homestar Runner with the Chapman brothers and like Wingo has been greatly involved with David Gordan's productions now has them working for him. Great World of Sound tells the story of two wanna-be producers who come to find they have been scammed into scamming others. Based on events Zobel's father encountered, the film warns us of a real music industry scam: song sharking, while demonstrating how even the well-intentioned can inadvertently fall into a career of hurting others.
The 2007 film amalgamates 'documentary' and 'narrative' creating a blend of American Idol and The Office. Zobel placed ads in local papers guised as the production company "Great World of Sound" & used elaborate hidden camera set-ups to record real musicians trying desperately to make it big. The result is a deceptive but honest, comic yet sad exploration of our culture's obsession with $ and fame.
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oh, here is a crazy video for Ola Podrida's "Lost & Found"
05 June 2008
zeigeist
The younger euro-pop electro-dance sibling of the Knife.
:Zeigeist:
Citing Matthew Barney, Comme des garçons, Peter Greenaway, Andy Warhol, David Lynch, and Alexander McQueen as influences, the Swedish trio take a multi-disciplinary *visual* approach to their art.
think Fischerspooner // the Knife
They released The Jade Motel earlier this year off Spegel
"the lake"
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