category archives: music

dark night of the soul

Dj Danger Mouse (one half of Gnarls Barkley, Gorillaz producer, and creator of the legendary Beatles/Jay z mashup “The Grey Album”) is dropping a new record, a collaboration with Sparklehorse and filmmaker David Lynch.
However due to ongoing legal disputes they can’t actually release the album without being sued by EMI, so instead they’re releasing a [...]

robot monkey orchestra

This Friday Auckland sees a rare appearance of the Robot Monkey Orchestra, which is the latest vehicle of head headless chicken Chris Matthews at Cassette Number Nine in Vulcan Lane, 9pm, $10.
Also playing: Charlie Ash, Bang! Bang! Eche!, DJ A.D.A.M.

remix: white collar dub

nuff said really.

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white collar criminal 09

White Collar Criminal 09 by bsidebeats

I usually get this done a bit earlier in the year but meh - here’s the 2009 version.
Actually here’s the first 2009 version - expect remixes.
p.s. earlier versions here.

saul williams - the government

So I haven’t posted anything over the holidays but I’ve been getting a few projects wrapped up which I’ll post about soon.
Until I do, here’s something that Saul Williams released today. It’s a cool new track, a free download to celebrate President Obama’s inauguration and it’s called The Government.

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all night with a video like

Lauren from Norwich sent us this direct film animation which she made as part of a college assignment. Her techniques for marking the film stock include
“scratching with knives and different grades of sandpaper, drawing with marker pens, painting and sponging food die, collecting dist patterns and probably some other things too.”
The song is allnightwithabeatlike from [...]

kowtow b-side podcast

The good people at Kowtow music are hosting a b-side podcast I recorded for them the other day.
It’s a half hour mix of b-side treats old and new. Check it out here or over at kowtow.co.nz.
Peace out.

b-side beats and pieces by kowtow music

jinja jamboo

Busy in the studio with Jinja Jamboo at the moment (that’s why I haven’t posted for a coupla weeks).
Last time Jinja and I worked together we made this track (below) called Ruff n Ready which is on the Holy Cow album.

This time we’ve got 5 or 6 tracks to play with so I’ll let you [...]

a couple of things you should know about

First, sorry if you got an old email re-delivered today. I don’t know why that happens but sometimes it does.
Anyway, I want to let you know about a couple of tools for finding music online.

mtvmusic.com
MTV have opened up their huge catalogue of music videos and put them online here - it’s a bit like [...]

instrumental for the people

This is a rhythm track I’ve been working on with a lot of nice live percussion.
It does have some mean vocals but before I finish putting it together I thought I might release the instrumental to you all in case anyone else wants to use it. (creative commons license)

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Instruments used so far include:

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