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the (allegedly) oldest Japanese song in the world, "Kokiriko Bushi", is remixed by Omodaka of Far East Recordings to sound like a video game. accompanied by some appropriately INTENSE animation from Teppei Maki.
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Busy P w/ DJ Mehdi
9/18 @ Santo's Party House.
Bout time he got his silly French ass back to NY.
I'm ready to do some dancefloor shredding after the disappointment at Tellier, and Pedro has not let me down in the past. Start working on your fist pump.
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Wednesday, August 27, 2008
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Artist Noriko Ambe cuts holes in books and other "bound publications" creating beautiful designs/scultpures. Check out her list of upcoming exhibits here
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Tuesday, August 26, 2008
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Here's a chart that represents which body part different musical genres tend to sing about (hip hop=booty, and so forth). The size of a circle corresponds to how often that part is mentioned in each genre. Click here to see.
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Sunday, August 24, 2008
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Kate Moss does Purple
Mary-Kate does UK Elle (holding a cup of Starbucks coffee)
Kate Hudson does W
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Happy Saturday!! I'm going swimming (pictured above: minnetonka yacht club)
Play: Boomp3.com
Download: A Minha Menina (My Girl) - Os Mutantes
Paul Mawhinney's music archive includes 1 million albums and 1.5 million singles making his record collection the largest in the world. I'd love a tour of this place before it disappears.
The Archive from Sean Dunne on Vimeo.
I'm at home in Minneapolis for 10 days. Today I played mini golf on the Artist Designed Mini Golf course at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. Each hole is a sculpture designed by a different artist. Obstacles included dozens of dangling water bottles, a sculptures of Theodore Roosevelt and Paul Bunyon (think wilderness conservation), and pinball machine powered by an old bicycle that you got to pedal on.
Our group included a '96 Junior League alumnus (me), an '03 Junior Club Champion (Lindsay, photographed with her trophy right), and a National Park Ranger (Neal). Naturally, the game got competitive. I got third place, shooting 28 (I had a lot of stroke penalties, and one dangerous fore), Lindsay got 2nd place shooting a 22, and Neal got 1st place shooting a 21.
The last hole (below left) was a cylinder whose mirrored top appeared to have an oddly shaped hole. If you look at the hole from the correct angle and bend down a little bit, you could see that the hole was actually a monkey's silhouette whose eyes were made up of holes on the side of they cylinder. Not sure if that makes sense, but it was pretty rad. If you got a hole in one on that hole you'd get to hear a chiming melody (which I did).
Guilty Yacht by Jeff Koons
Art superstar Jeff Koons has landed another hit, and designed his first yacht. The"Guilty", owned by art collector Dakis Joannou, features an extravagant artistic take by the US artist on the exterior.
Designed by renowned architect Norman Foster, built by prize-winning boat-maker Rodriquez Cantieri Navali in Italy and exclusive to YachtPlus (a fractional ownership program), the 40 Signature Series is both an unparalleled vessel and comes with a cost well below ownership. The benefits of the design and the program are many — from eliminating the hassle of maintainance and management (YachtPlus employs a staff of six) to a layout that offers 30% more indoor and outdoor space than any other yacht, it's a smart approach to luxury.
The impressive four-tiered design stems from Norman Foster's consideration of "such issues as quality and quantity of space, outdoor terraces, light and views" and allows for both the staff acomodations as well as room for 10 guests. Features like forward-looking views from all four decks, two balconies in the master suite and spacious rooms and saloons that take into account the needs of children and families offer far more appeal than the more sleek-looking counterparts out there.
Not that the overall profile of the 132-foot yacht is anything to complain about. The grand staircase uniting the four levels offers a stunning design element, as do the floor-to-ceiling windows which lend an unusual appearance for a boat. See more images of exteriors and interiors, as well as design illustrations, after the jump.
Weekly rates start at about €80,000 but the eight shares for the first boat have already been snatched up. Contact YachtPlus to inquire about future boats in the fleet.
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Thursday, August 21, 2008
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GZA's compilation album Pro Tools has dropped and I like what I hear. The album title is a reference to the fact that he doens't need pro tools to drop dope beats that are classic....which is the kind of hip-hop I like. And (per usg) GZA lyricism is superb.
Download: GZA, "Alphabets"
Download: GZA f. RZA, "Life Is A Movie"
And if you haven't seen it here's brilliant scene from Jim Jarmusch's 2003 masterpiece "Coffee and Cigarettes", a series of 11 vignettes with only coffee&cigarettes in common. Below you'll find the installment featuring Bill Murray, RZA and GZA talking it out in a cafe. (Jack and Meg of The White Stripes, Cate Blanchett, Steve Coogan and Alfred Molina also appear in other installments of the film. )
Everyone knows and loves the Stones' classic hits. I've heard them all a million times and even though I'll admit that I'll often flip by "Brown Sugar" when I hear it on classic rock radio, these songs will always have a time and place in the unfolding epic that is my life...which is funny 'cuz I wasn't even around at the time these songs had a real context.
That said, one of the great things about the Stones, and I guess a lot of those British Invasion groups (i.e. the Who, Kinks, Beatles, etc.), is that their catalogs of material are serious mines of musical pleasure--the deeper you go, the more your respect and adoration for the group grows. Digging through my CD collection yesterday, I came across a Stones box set collection of their singles through 1971, the year they left Decca/London Records (Decca in England, London stateside
) and moved on to bigger, and, in my humble opinion, less impressive things. While the collection indeed features almost all of their more well-known songs (i.e. "Street Fighting Man," "Honky Tonk Women," etc.), and a fair amount of their mid-60's hits (i.e. "19th Nervous Breakdown," "Paint It Black"), the defining attraction of the box set for me is the abundance of deep cuts/rarities, mostly in the form of B-sides.
I've done the dirty work and collected them all for you here and now, so enjoy, and make sure to take a minute to revel in how cool you are after you download these guys.
All songs are off of The Rolling Stones Singles Collection: The London Years.
Rolling Stones- "Come On"
A Chuck Berry cover, this song is the first single the Stones ever released. Although short, the song packs a great early rock 'n' roll punch. Love this one.
Rolling Stones- "Stoned"
Here's a bluesy instrumental number, much in the same vein as a Booker T. & the MG's tune. The song is credited to a certain "Nanker Phelge"--a pseudonym created for all of the Stones' early original compositions.
Rolling Stones- "Under Assistant West Coast Promotion Man"
Bill Wyman: "The Under Assistant West Coast Promotion Man was a good-natured jibe at George Sherlock, the London Records promo man who accompanied us on our first American tour. The track is based on Buster Brown's 1960 hit, Fannie Mae, which also inspired the Beach Boys' Help Me Rhonda."
Rolling Stones- "Gotta Get Away"
Along with "Come On" and "Memo From Turner" this one competes for best of the bunch.
Rolling Stones- "Memo From Turner"
This one was originally released as a Jagger solo track...and, in true Jagger form, it's got fantastic sneerin' & drawlin' vocals. Scorsese also featured the song in Goodfellas during a Ray Liotta coke binge.
Rolling Stones- "The Singer Not the Song"
Rolling Stones- "Long, Long While"
Rolling Stones- "Who's Driving Your Plane"
Rolling Stones- "Surprise, Surprise"
Rolling Stones- "Out of Time"
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Wednesday, August 20, 2008
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"Hip or Dangerous" captures shabby chic at its finest. A short by TheBurg.tv (who says gentrification isn't funny?)
For many more shorts & episodes from their TV series check out TheBurg.tv online
"Value Pack" typeface bagged/tagged/sold to the butcher at the store by artist Robert J. Bolesta.
Check out the work of Nike design director Manny Bernardez. Had no clue what was up with these pics when I first came across them, but apparently they are intended to visually/dynamically represent the customization process of NikeID...huh. Artistic vagueness aside, they are certainly a visual delight, and the guy's portfolio, which can be viewed online at smalldeer.com, is worth a quick spin.
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Really enjoyed this one, partially because it's clever and funny, and partially because Ladyhawke is a major babe, or babus majoris in scientific terms.
A good remix of the tune:
Ladyhawke - Dusk Till Dawn (Linus Loves Remix)
Whether or not this helps drive revenue for the Klondike Co is TBD / not the point. Klondike's just lookin to ride a meme like the rest of us.
The UGV contest idea has been done before and rarely does it result in anything more than a couple hundred numa numa renditions. But at least one really great thing has come out of theis contest: Andy Samberg's entry. Give that man his 25K and let's be done with it.
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Monday, August 18, 2008
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Brian Eno & Davey Byrne's new ablum, Everything That Happens Will Happen Today, is now being disseminated to the masses through their website. I'm digging the first track pretty severely:
PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by executive producer James L. Brooks, an appreciation by Martin Scorsese, and original artwork by Ian Dingman
(via criterion)
A few nights ago Lizzie, Buck Dancer and I were hanging out, eating Buttercup cupcakes, drinking some vino, and so on. Buck Dancer popped in Phil Collins "Serious Hits...Live!", and before I knew it I was on my knees watching Phil sing "Easy Lover" (clip below). Lizzie and I have decided that we simply MUST learn the choreography from the DVD, but we need a third person. Any takers????
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Misha Calvert, 25yr-Williamsburg, was sentenced to community service after being arrested for stealing two 40oz of Colt 45. Misha pitched the idea of holding a "Mr and Miss Williamsburg" pageant to the judge as part of her community service. The judge approved, and so the pageant goes.
The pageant will take place September 5th @ Supreme Trading (213 N. 8th St) 10PM.
Refer to Going or Facebook for more information.
read Brian Ries's interview with Misha at FREEwilliamsburg
1. Osborne "Afrika"
2. Todd Osborn "Bingata"
3. Osborne "Junk Food"
4. TNT "L8"
5. Osborne "Outta Sight"
6. Osborne "Even More"
7. TNT "Beat This House"
8. Osborne "Bout Ready To Jak"
9. Todd Osborn "Wait A Minute"
10. Osborne "Fresh"
11. Osborne "16th Stage"
12. Superstructure "Concourse"
13. Osborne "Detune"
14. Osborne "Downtown"
15. Todd Osborn "I Think It's Me"
16. Osborne "Ruling"
17. Todd Osborn "Minibike"
18. Osborne "Air Pistol"
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Summer is slip, slip, slipping away (only two weeks left of August!). NPR has compiled a slew of playlists for your next road trip. The playlist titles include "Songs for the Gas Guzzling Blues", "Songs for Stops Along the Way", "Downshift on the Downbeat: A Jazz Roadtrip", and "Songs for Getting Lost (And Found)".
Andhra Pradesh - Hyderabad 
Actor Nitin injured
HYDERABAD: Actor Nitin sustained bleeding injury on his cheek during the shooting of a film at Ramoji Film City in Hayathnagar on Tuesday. He was rushed to a corporate hospital. Doctors said he was out of danger. The actor suffered injury when a broken tube light hit his cheek while shooting a fight scene.
(via The Hindu)
FYIzez, Nitin's mah cuz. Word from fam abroad is that he's going to make a full recovery. His gorgeous mug will, God willing, stay gorgeous.
Oh what, that was a close one! N-Dog's my ticket into the slamminest Bollywood parties-- Wingman!
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TO DO:
1. Listen to this
2. Walk into bar
3. Order double Jack on rocks
4. Repeat step 3 ad infinitum
I would've liked to include Al Kooper/Mike Bloomfield's cover of "Green Onions" and Bloomfield's "I Got My Mojo Working" ("got my mojo workin' but it just don't work on you...") but was unable to track them down on mixwit. Oh well...I highly recommend both tunes. Homework: find and download.
1. | Booker T. & The MG'S - Green Onions |   |
| 2. | Cream - Born Under A Bad Sign | |
| 3. | The Stooges - No Fun | |
| 4. | MC5 - Kick Out the Jams | |
| 5. | Brian Eno - Needles In The Camel's Eye | |
| 6. | The Rolling Stones - Bitch | |
| 7. | New York Dolls - Trash | |
| 8. | T.Rex - Jeepster | |
| 9. | David Bowie - Drive-In Saturday | |
| 10. | Led Zeppelin - The Lemon Song | |
Photographs of Maddy and Laurent's road-trip west from Saturday July 18th to Sunday July 27th, 2008. Looks like some good times were had.
itinerary: minneapolis >> south dakota >> wyoming (yellowstone) >> montana >> north dakota.
Gardiner, Montana- home of the coolest bars and our good friend, Angel
Hot Springs in Mammoth. they smelled
Sturgis, SD. 2 weeks before the largest motorcycle rally in the country.
Bob the bison, the dude, the legend. leader of the pack.
good meat.
the most common animal in all of Yellowstone Park.... the Macaw
the 6 most important people in US history.
Ladies and Gentlemen I present to you...the future, albeit not a terribly practical one. Here are some of the green (running on everything from electricity to algal fuel) concept cars dreamed up by the freaks at the Royal College of Art:
For more photos and some enlightening/fun commentary check out the rest of the gallery over at Wired.
Design your own Keds. I'm not talking about that Nike ID shiiiit, this is fo' real. You can upload images and text to your shoes, drag the designs around, play, love, laugh, and so on. $60/each. Here are two designs I made:
Mark, Charlotte, and Samantha Ronson photographed by Jenny Gage and Tom Betterton for Harper's Bazaar a la Tenanbaum. Brilliant.
"The parallel between the Ronsons and the quirky prodigies, Chas, Margot, and Richie Tenenbaum, of the 2001 Wes Anderson-directed dramedy The Royal Tenenbaums isn't just a clever concept. All are products of an unusual upbringing and artistic environment."
Read the full-length article here.
New York
St. Mark’s Bookshop, Printed Matter, Ink, Opening Ceremony, Spoon bill, McNally Robinson, Bluestockings, Rapture, Matter, Art book PS1
Chicago
Museum of Contemporary Art, Quimby's Bookstore
Minneapolis, MN
Walker Art Center
Los Angeles
Ooga Booga, Opening Ceremony (la), Silverman Gallery, Skylight Books
Distribution is also available through Textfield textfield.com
Santa Monica
Arcana: Books on the Arts
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01. treasure fingers - champagne room intro
02. The glamour - get into it
03. does it offend you, yeah? - we are rockstars
04. snowden - anti anti (treasure fingers remix)
05. dragonette - i get around (midnight juggernauts remix)
06. digitalism - pogo (punks jump up remix)
07. mstrkrft - street justice
08. LA riots feat. jadis - if i could
09. architecture in helsinki - it’s 5! (33hz & ming remix)
10. cassius - cassius 1999 (remix)
11. busta rhymes - touch it (kid fresh remix)
12. anthony rother - freaks
13. M.I.A. - bucky done gun
14. lovely chords - my disko is broken
15. gucci mane - freaky girl
16. math head - do damage (passions remix)
17. miami horror - don’t be with her
18. fergie - glamorous (treasure fingers remix)
19. mark ronson feat. lily allen - oh my god (chris lake remix)
20. cassius - feeling for you
21. cousin cole - thuggish ruggish love
22. the black ghosts - any way you choose to give it (boy 8-bit remix)
23. D.I.M. - airbus (mstrkrft remix)
24. roy davis jr - rock shock (thomas bangalter remix)
25. treasure fingers - cross the dancefloor
26. squarepusher - my red hot car
27. mr oizo - patrick122
28. klaxons - gravity’s rainbow (soulwax remix)
29. snowden - black eyes (le castle vania remix)
30. the discoboys - for you (patrick alavi remix)
31. the cribs - mens needs
32. krazy fiesta feat cassie - me and you
33. rockwell - somebody’s watching me
34. simian mobile disco - hotdog
35. czr - chicago southside (paul johnson remix)
36. naive new beaters - bang bang (yuksek remix)
37. digitalism - digitalism in cairo
38. fiasco - happy hour (the scar remix)
39. justice - genesis
40. da shop boyz - party like a rockstar
41. ocelot - this is our time (treasure fingers remix)
42. tepr - minuit jacuzzi (data remix)
Avid New Yorker reader that I am -- er, rather, aspire to be-- I was happy to learn more about Glen Baxter, longtime cartoonist for the NYer & Vanity Fair. Per Wikipedia, "Baxter was born in Leeds in 1944 and trained at the Leeds College of Art. His images, and their corresponding captions, fuse art and language inspired by pulp fiction and adventure comics with intellectual jokes and references. Baxter's simple line-drawings often feature cowboys, gangsters, explorers, and schoolchildren, who utter incongruous intellectual statements regarding art and philosophy."
You can check out a bunch of his work at GlenBaxter.com. I came across some choice pieces at the online outpost of the Adam Baumgold Gallery (74 East 79th St NYC). Definitely worth a jaunt this weekend for an in-person perusal.
I wonder how he works through these pieces. Does he come up with the drawing first? The caption? Hrrrmmm...
The dudes from Sao Paolo's Database, Lucio Morais & Yuri Chix, have dropped some heat with their Ugly Edit Vol. 1, composed of 12 groovy disco-house tracks from from the guys themselves and 7 bonus tracks from guests The Twelves, Bo$$ in Drama, Fisk, Cello Zero among other notables.
France be damned, Brazil is dropping the best pahty music on the planet right now. Makes ya wanna throw on that slimfit tracksuit, double-knot yer laces and get ridigooluss... anybody want to hop the 4:56 outta JFK to Rio? Be back by Thursday, promise.
Many thanks to Discodust for the tunes... The Alan Parsons Re-edit is motherfucking GENIUS.
database & midnight martyn - party people
database - ritchie got me dancin
alan parsons project - i wouldn't want to be like you (the twelves re-edit)
Stream Ugly Edit Vol. 1 in its entirety at Database's MySpace.
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Attention drawers, sketchers, doodlers, and designers! Tostado fav, Tokion Mag, is sponsoring an art project for Paper Rad, an art collective based in Providence, RI.
(via Tokion) Working collaboratively, Jessica Ciocci, Jacob Ciocci and Ben Jones (of Paper Rad) create zines, comics, videos, installations and animation, and have exhibited/performed at Tate Britain, Deitch Projects and the New Museum of Contemporary Art. Known for their creative resampling of iconic pop culture artifacts from the '70s and '80s, Paper Rad's own roster of unique characters populate their artworks alongside well-known characters such as Bart Simpson, Mario, Garfield and Alf.
Your task is to use the power of creativity and collage to mix and match a new zany character design. Have fun. Show us your creations. It is a fun game. The game of art!!! Upload HERE
And now for a message from the Pick Up Artist's predecessor:
Courtesy of the folks over at LP Cover Lover.
A dark day for comedy yesterday - Bernie Mac died at the age of 50 from complications related to pneumonia. Here are some exceptional moments from "Kings of Comedy":
Vintage goodness (dig those threads):
Stir it like coffee:
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Chinese luxury retailer Lane Crawford commissioned 12 fashion designers to design Olympic uniforms for their favorite sport. If the archery and fencing uniforms looked like those below (designed by Givenchy and Alexander McQueen) I would have been much more inclined to learn/follow the sport.
Pucci | Gymnastics
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Absolute hambone of a tune put out a while back by The Bag Raiders called "Nil by Mouth". Re-edited by Knightlife, and brought to the discotecs for the hungry hungry hipsters.
Should you find yourself craving an intense electro experience this weekend, put this tune on blast, kick back and watch the ragamuffins melt. It's an intense track but softens up quite nicely around the 3:30 mark. Have a listen.
Bag Raiders - Nil By Mouth (Knightlife Remix)
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The righteous dudes at Mad Decent posted a prehistoric mixtape from none other than the Young MD, Dr. Dre. The mix was ripped from a cassette he recorded back in '86 when he was DJing at a club.
"Peep the stethoscope, Side 01 is all ‘86 hiphop blended at an ADD pace that would take a million years even in ableton. Side 02 he puts Mr. Postman over Unknown DJ and the rest is all Electro joints. "
Yup.Dr.Dre - Four Track Mix 1986 (Side 1)
Slow motion captures the strange dance electricity makes as it heads towards Earth. See, the internet isn’t just about nip slips and celebrity babies after all. (via BuzzFeed
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here's a killer Daddy Cool music video for "Eagle Rock" made in 1971 by Chris Lofven. Two of my best buds from Minneapolis, Alli & Charley, are in New York tonight and I can hardly wait to see them...this video will serve as the inspiration for our night together.
Moulinex's cover version of Pineapples "Come On Closer" off of Buffetlibre's Rewinded Mixtape has become a de facto ML jam. I downloaded the tune around the time when the mixtape hit the blogs, and, as often happens, never really gave it a solid listen. To my misfortune, I have only now come to realize its excellence. I take particular enjoyment in the way that the dark synth bass line contrasts with the vocals..and the way it inspires visions of dancefloor grandeur.
That said, I tracked down the original Pineapples version and it's comparably disco-tastic, although I'd say the female vocals on the Moulinex cover really do it for me (I find it hard to articulate the qualities that I like in this type of voice, but a simple listening should explain all).
Given the inferiority (or just plain shittiness) of the vocals in the original version, I'm only posting the instrumental dub (sorry about the quality).
Moulinex- "Come On Closer"
Pineapples- "Come On Closer" [Instrumental Dub]
And would you believe it? The original artist had but 18 years to speak of at the time he cut this track. Here's an interview - in semi-broken English - that I tracked down:
via The Red Room.
How did you come about to produce a disco track at the tender age of 18?
Roberto: I was trying to make music as a real job from the age of 14. At 18 when "Best Records" released "Come On Closer" it was a huge success in the italian and french clubs and radios, so i left immediately the University (i was studying architecture) to continue the job of artistic Record Producer.
Who is Douglas Roop? Contrary to most italian disco productions he has a decent accent which makes us believe he is in fact American.
Roberto: Yes, he came from Texas, in 1983 he was in Naples (my city) working as a soldier in the NATO base (south Europe Nato headquarter) in Naples.
Are you aware that "Come On Closer" was a big track in the early Chicago House scene and was of great influence to Dj's like Mickey Oliver?
Roberto: No, I absolutely don’t know nothing of this, I really LOVE this Music period and i’m really fascinated from Your info about this situation, and is funny for me remember at that time the old italian house djs always criticized my old productions “that was too commercial and euro oriented”, but the fact was that I reach the USA sales charts Billboard 3 times with my “too much euro oriented” productions, and many many times the Japanese, UK, French, Italian, Holland etc. sales and club charts.
What was the italo disco scene like for you in the 80's?
Roberto: In the 80’s - but above all in the ‘90 -, Italo Disco scene was for me a great “place” to have fun, make money, trip around the world and have a lot of good sex (with the disco club professional dancers...). Now that everything is death here in Europe, i find the same old good energy and things in the Caribbean Music scene.
Good for you! One for the gear-freaks: What equipment did you use to produce "Come On Closer"?
Roberto: Only 2 gears! An old Oberheim Drum Machine and all the sounds with my analog keyboard Korg Polysix, WITHOUT A SEQUENCER, everything played by my hand in real time. We record the project in an old and ugly studio in Naples on a 3M 24-track Tape Record Machine and an old '70 mixer made in Italy. "Come on Closer" was the first dance record success produced in Naples and in the south of Italy.
What was you motivation for recording disco tracks? We read in your bio that you also played in more aggressive punk/rock bands.
Roberto: I’ve thousands and thousands of records vinyl and cd of every kind of music, in 22 years i’ve released eurodance, house, italian hip hop, pop topseller italian Artists... maybe You remember this old song that says:... I love music, every kind of Music...
London DJ's Addictive TV are remixing the 2008 Olympic Games for live TV. The duo will mash up live Olympic footage with outside footage, music, visuals, and other "creative elements" in an effort to make the TV viewers experience more exciting.
Here's a little taste of what to expect: A short Addictive TV did for Adidas' latest traveling art exhibition "Sportive". All the sounds you hear are from the video clips, except for that beating heart noise.
Report to Cool Hunting for more info.
H19's SKYplay Flickr Photostream explores the interaction between an object in the foreground with the sky in the background. The photos aren't photoshopped, either. The slideshow makes you feel like you're lying in a field watching clouds. 
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This is the guy I made on marvel.com's create-your-own-superhero. His name is Baron Von Bedlam, and he's bad...real bad. The product of a high-profile affair between two members of the German nobility, the Baron was exiled from his homeland and forced to fend for himself on the streets of NYC. The Baron was hardened by years of street gangs and petty crime, but turned to religion after a life-changing experience with an unidentified Native American drug. Given his traumatic childhood experience, he harbors an acute distaste for white-collar crime and the wrongdoings of the upper classes.
Baron Von Bedlam likes to disco dance on weekends.
Zonker Harris day at Wesleyan U, April 20th, 2003. The Management get wacky during an afternoon sesh whilst covering an all-time favorite chune.
And a few miles up 91, Amherst College goes up in smoke...
College.
Lose the jambox for a minute. The cool kids are blastin big beats on BMXs-- so says Made In Queens, a short film that chronicles this new trend among Trinidian teenagers in Queens, NY. The film documents their interest in kitting out whips with max megawatts.
“In this age of obsessive video sharing and social networking, nearly every action is designed and packaged for public consumption. Especially with young people,” says co-director Joe Stevens. “The immediate charm of (this) crew is that they’re the exact opposite of all that. There is nothing calculated or self-conscious about who they are. They’re just a group of friends doing something to challenge themselves and have some laughs. It’s a story which would have never come from kids who were born here.”
Watch the trailer:
More at CR Blog
In response to ND's post featuring Mary Ellen Bute's 1940 "musical film" titled "Tantarella".
Warner Brothers 1960 Cartoon "High Note" (as seen on Looney Tunes circa 1990):
Our friends at Novel Designs have updated their Flickr Photostream. I like the fish-eye...and that wedding looks like a gas!
Novel Designs' Flickr Photostream
Congratulations to Brian May, the founder/lead guitarist of Queen, who just completed his doctoral thesis* in Astrophysics. May took a 30
-year hiatus from his Astrophysics studies in Zodiacal light to rock out with the band.
"I have thoroughly enjoyed my years playing guitar and recording music with Queen, but it's extremely gratifying to see the publication of my thesis," May said. "I've been fascinated with astronomy for years, and I was happy to finally complete my Ph.D. last year and record my studies of the Zodiacal Light in this book."
I always knew there was something magical and zodiacal about those harmonies.
*May's thesis examines the mysterious phenomenon known as Zodiacal light, a misty diffuse cone of light that appears in the western sky after sunset and in the eastern sky before sunrise. Casual observers, if they live under very dark rural skies, can best see the light two to three hours before sunrise as they look east, and many people have been fooled into seeing it as the first sign of morning twilight. A Persian astronomer who lived around the 12th century referred to it as "false dawn" in a poem. (via Space.com)
Read more about Brian May's thesis atBuzzFeed
One of the best nights my friend Alli and I had on our backpacking trip through western Europe back in the summer 2005 was spent at Le Bilboquet (aka "Le Temple du Jazz"), a tiny jazz club in St-Germain (think dark oak bar, rich red velvet upholstery, dim antique lighting). A friend of mine who recently spent time in Paris told me that the jazz club shutdown, which almost brings tears to my eyes. But anyway, here's a good cockail we sipped:
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| Method: Stir ingredients in a tall ice-filled Collins glass, mixing completely. Think of Paris circa 1947. Garnish with a lemon twist. Variation: Think of Sartre circa 1947. Be the lemon twist. |
Beijing's aggressive face-lift for the Olympic games includes shooting silver-iodide filled rockets into the sky to control rainfall, and feline extermination.
A visitor walks down a once historical street that belongs to Beijing's oldest neighbourhoods but has now been turned into the city's newest tourist attraction on June 17, 2008. Beijing city and local banks have poured 9.2 billion yuan (1.3 billion USD) into restoration work on Qianmen Street, they claim that their goal is to restore it to its former glory a century ago during the Qing dynasty (1644-1911), however critics have charged that the street has been turned into a Disney-style version of old China that bears little resemblence to reality. (via Big Picture) Peeps an excerpt from Michael Bay's unsolicited script for The Dark Knight, ultimately / inexplicably rejected by Warner Braz. Bay, a product of Wesleyan U, wrote a dazzling screenplay loaded with big-time action, subtle sensuality, and visionary cinematography.
Hey dummies at Warner, lemme give you a piece of advice: this movie needs to be made, EMPHATICALLY, a number of times. Forget your piddling record opening, Mike Bay has a bolder vision for the franchise-- and it starts here:
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What IS up with NYC right now? Is it the heat?
Antoni Radevsky's "The Modern Architecture Pop-Up Book" looks pretty rad. It features 20 buildings in 3D pop-up fabulousness. Highlights include:
download Strange Overtones, the first track released from the David Byrne/Brian Eno collaborative album titled "Everything That Happens Will Happen Today".
David Byrne and Brian Eno - Strange Overtones
Merkin says "upbeat, sounds like air france, and its got a kinda caribbean vibe"
Done a bad thing? Hire Peter "P'Ta Mon" John! I dunno about you guys but if I was heading to court, there's no other dude I'd rather have in my corner. He's practically a Get Outta Jail Free card--
And look at that car... I bet it goes fast!
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Friday, August 1, 2008
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| 1. | Liquid Liquid - Bell Head | |
| 2. | Jeremy Jay - Airwalker | |
| 3. | Animals Talking - It Was | |
| 4. | Wild Beasts - The Devil's Crayon | |
| 5. | Brendan Canning - Love Is New | |
| 6. | Hercules And Love Affair - Athene | |
| 7. | CFCF - The Explorers | |
| 8. | Ibi Ego - Murete | |
| 9. | The Radio Dept. - Closing Scene | |
| 10. | Albert Hammond Jr. - Bargain Of A Century | |
| 11. | Arcade Fire - Born on a Train (Magnetic Fields cover) | |
| 12. | Microfilm - Teenage Symphonies (Les Beautiful Fools video edit) | |
| 13. | Flying Lotus - Robo Tussin Ft. Lil Wayne.aif 15.41.55PM | |
| 14. | Santogold ft. Diplo & Amanda Blank - I'm a Lady | |
| 15. | Anoraak - Nightdrive With You (Fear of Tigers remix) | |
| 16. | El Perro Del Mar - How did we forget | |
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