As promised new music later in this post but first some words about snow.
Snow
-snow is great in the mountains
-snow is fun for snowball fights
-snow is great for skiing and snowboading
-snow is nice to see in the winter time
-snow is not so great to drive in
-snow is dangerous on the roads
(Thank you for letting me interupt are normally scheduled programming for this brief rant about snow, no back to are regular broadcast)
Willkommen people of blogospere
(welcome is spelled weird on purpose, think cabaret)
This post will consist of many things including but not limited to new music, videos, some updates and tons of fun!
First off a joke
"Never write software that anthropomorphizes the machine. They really hate that." - Unknown
Snow
-snow is great in the mountains
-snow is fun for snowball fights
-snow is great for skiing and snowboading
-snow is nice to see in the winter time
-snow is not so great to drive in
-snow is dangerous on the roads
(Thank you for letting me interupt are normally scheduled programming for this brief rant about snow, no back to are regular broadcast)
Willkommen people of blogospere
(welcome is spelled weird on purpose, think cabaret)
This post will consist of many things including but not limited to new music, videos, some updates and tons of fun!
First off a joke
"Never write software that anthropomorphizes the machine. They really hate that." - Unknown
Today we start off the blog with a little post about to much exposition and freedom
Urinetown-Run freedom run
Hunter Foster is amazing as Bobby Strong in 2001 original broadway cast of urinetown. I think it's fitting to use this video now as the musical symbolizes the very embodiment of what's wrong with capitalism, bureaucracy and corporate mismanagement thats going on in today's society.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urinetown
Hunter is the brother of Sutton Foster whos rise to broadway fame was the story of fairytales. After several other actresses came and went as the lead in the 2002 broadway debut of Throughly Modern Millie, Sutton was picked from chorus (a move almost unheard of on broadway) to be lead. Hunter was also seen as seymour in Little shop of horrors and Leo Bloom in the producers.
Sutton Foster (Amazing Voice, Chills Guaranteed)
I love her facial expressions
Thoroughly Modern Millie "Gimme Gimme"
Next up
Poetry video of the week!
Saul Williams - Not In Our Name (The Pledge of Resistance)
New Music
Evil Nine-All that Cash
Evil Nine - All The Cash (ft. El-P) (Alex Metric Remix)
Evil Nine's Bio
Don't be surprised if Brighton based Evil Nine and their forthcoming album They Live! does for zombies what Daft Punk did for robots. With stomping electro drums, '80s Italian horror-movie synths, dirty punk basslines, and a wanton disregard for genre rules, the infamously subversive dance/electronic duo create an unstoppable soundtrack for the new virtual zombie revolution.
The title track (and first single) They Live! pays irreverent homage to cult director John Carpenter's classic 1988 sci-fi ghoulfest They Live with its ultra-catchy vocoder chorus ("They walk, they lie, they love, they live!/They wake, they fall, they cry, they live!/They fight, they fail, they die, they live!"). "We love that film and the weird, crunchy, stripped-down analog-electronic scores John Carpenter creates," Beaufoy says. "I've had a massive fascination with zombie films since I was a teenager," Pardy adds, which probably explains why they also recruited cult artist Dan Mumford (known for his infamous sicko album art for Gallows and other punk/metal classics) to create the gory horror-show like album art for this particular album.
The album itself features a number of surprising collaborations, foremost is Def Jux's radical mastermind El-P, whose brutal spitting transforms the apocalyptic slammer "All The Cash."
We hooked up with him after our DJ set at Coachella last year and really got along," Pardy says. "If there was one rapper we wanted to work with, it's El-P. And he was up for something different: I don't think he's much of a dance-music fan, but he's very open-minded musically." Elsewhere, Beans (of Anti-Pop Consortium) turns "Set It Off" into a Goth-meets-hip-house burner, while David, vocalist of Kitsuné buzz band Autokratz, adds melodic New Wave melancholy to "The Wait." "I'm not sure what David's singing about," Beaufoy admits. "I think it's about getting laid after a gig and trying to slip away quietly to avoiding any awkwardness." Additionally Seraphim (from Brooklyn indie-electro seditionaries No Surrender) and Bristol scenester Emily Breeze also make crucial cameos. "To us, Emily's the female Danzig," Pardy explains. "It was great having her make ballsy punk-rock-chick noise over us pretending to be a rock band. We always like to push people to do something completely new."
Creating this army of like-minded iconoclasts is all part of Evil Nine's plan to confound expectations. To that end, They Live! features pounding tracks that will work in any club, but filtered through unexpected influences spanning '80s cock rock, The Cure, early Prince, krautrockers Cluster, Can and Tangerine Dream, vintage noise punkers Suicide and Black Flag, and newer sonic saboteurs TV On The Radio and Queens of the Stone Age. As such, "Behemoth" welds Timbaland rhythms to Black Sabbath heaviness; "Feed On You" comes out somewhere between Beverly Hills Cop and a phantom death march; "Dead Man Coming" loops soundtrack composer/Goblin member Fabio Frizzi's theme from Zombie Flesh Eaters with ragga rudeness courtesy Toastie Taylor of U.K. rap crew New Flesh; "The Wait," meanwhile, incorporates the experiments of Paul Lansky, the early synth pioneer whom Radiohead sampled on "Idioteque." "He's a mad Princeton professor who experiments with strange noises," Beaufoy explains. "We're obsessed," Pardy says. "We can usually find something positive and inspiring about most of the music out there, we then fuck it up and twist it into our own thing." Equally individual will be Evil Nine's kinetic new live show: it features Pardy and Beaufoy singing and playing dueling bass guitars, synthesizers, samples onstage, an actual human drummer, fittingly spooky visual phantasmagoria along with group's new full-length They Live!—a worthy successor to their 2005 album debut You Can Be Special Too, one of the most acclaimed electronic albums in recent memory.
Also...
MGMT-Kids
Artist of the week
James Lavelle
James Lavelle (born 1974 in Oxford, England) is a DJ, electronic recording artist and record label boss. He is best known for producing work in the trip hop, breakbeat and house music genres.
Born into a family with a strong tradition of music, Lavelle first began by learning the cello with his Granny in Oxford.
While attending Cherwell Upper School, Lavelle's music career started at 15 when he ran block parties in Oxford. At only 18 he started the Mo' Wax label, taking the name from his club night at the time, Mo' Wax Please. Around the same time he started the That's How It Is night with Gilles Peterson, which went on to become one of London's longest running nights.
In 1996 Mo' Wax released one of electronic music's most celebrated albums, DJ Shadow's seminal Endtroducing...... Soon after this Lavelle started work on an album with DJ Shadow under the name UNKLE. The resulting release Psyence Fiction featured collaborations with Richard Ashcroft, Mike D, Badly Drawn Boy and Thom Yorke. In 2003, he released a follow up to Psyence Fiction, titled Never, Never, Land, though this album saw DJ Shadow replaced by Richard File as the second full time member of UNKLE. It featured collaborations with 3D of Massive Attack and Josh Homme of Queens of the Stone Age among others.[1]
He is a long time resident at Fabric in London, mixing the inaugural Fabric Live mix album.[2] He has also mixed two progressive house albums for Global Underground.
He has produced a number of film soundtracks, including Sexy Beast. Also an in demand remixer, he has reworked tracks by Garbage, The Verve, Beck and Massive Attack.[3]
In an August 2006 interview with The Skinny, Lavelle revealed that he's working with Chris Goss and Autolux on the follow up to Never, Never, Land, entitled War Stories. Of the album's direction, he said “It’s rawer than '‘Psyence Fiction’' and Never, Never, Land although it’s more in the vein of the traditional singer/songwriter. If the first record was UNKLE does hiphop and the second record was UNKLE does electronic, then this one is like UNKLE does rock, but it’ll hopefully still have its continuity.”[4]
Of other forthcoming projects, he revealed “I’m working on a film with Darren Aronofsky at the moment. It’s a collaboration between me and Clint Mansell who did the score, it’s to remix the score and do a whole new DVD package, the film is unbelievable. I’m working on a documentary about Abel Ferrara as well.”
He has recently finished working alongside his brother Aidan Lavelle on the soundtrack for the movie of the popular sci-fi series The X Files.
(Taken from Wikipedia)
Upcoming shows
28 Years Later-12/25
Legends-NYE
Evil Nine-2/8
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