Just finished mixing this song. It’s not the first recording I’ve made of it though, so some might recognise it.
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The song is called “Over”. It’s here as a free download so pass it on, and it (or something very similar) will be on the soon-to-be-released Harmonica Lewinsky e.p. too.
The exciting part (for me anyway) is that it’s the most extensive use I’ve made of my platereverb so far – the percussion, guitars and vocals are all running through it – and in fact I don’t think I used any digital reverb at all now that I think about it.
More geeky stuff about reverb soon. For now enjoy the song.
Once a year (at least) I re-mix and re-invent white collar criminal, a track I started work on in 2004 and don’t intend to finish. The first one was a zero birthday present for my godson, Rhythm, and they’re all dedicated to him.
This year’s version is a noisy, glitchy, live-in-the-studio jam on my drum machine with a ring modulator, an oscillator, a crusty old sampler, an optical theremin, and lots of echoes.
It’s unedited and I filmed it so you can see I didn’t cheat. The only thing happening unseen is the occasional tweak of the delay feedback on the desk, just out of shot.
The new toys are the ring modulator and optical theremin: the former is used throughout to warp the drum sounds via the Good Will Audio Generator and the latter makes an appearance just before the end of the clip.
But more about them later, it’s 2 am and I still have noise to make. Download the track(s) here.
I’ve had a bit of a break from most of my online activities lately but it’s probably about time I resumed posting here and elsewhere.
On Saturday night Lena (Lani) and I played as Harmonica Lewinsky at Boardies & Bikinis, a weekend-long music festival hosted by Tractor FM in a beautiful bush/beach setting at Ruapuke.
(Anyone get any good photos I can post here? Let me know, cheers)
Yeah I know I should’ve posted about it beforehand but our participation was a bit last-minute hence the stripped down line-up (with a casiotone MT-70 for beats!)
In spite of the cheesy drums our set was a raucous affair with lots of feedback and echoes. I think this should evolve into a pretty interesting band. Actually I should have enough HL stuff recorded to release some kind of album. Or maybe a mini-album. Probably very soon.
I just found out about this live-in-the-studio project and I think it’s worth mentioning: www.fromthebasement.tv/home
The short version is they invite performers into this nicely decked out cosy studio and capture quite unique, intimate performances, beautifully recorded and filmed. I’ve seen a few web projects along similar lines but nothing quite like this, and nothing with such high production standards and general good taste. Think Jules Holland but without the audience, the bright lights, and the prancing tit.
So far the stand outs for me are:
gnarls barkley who do a surprisingly stripped down set with hammond organ, guitar and vocals
and seasick steve who I’d never heard of before but plays some really sweet blues
I haven’t even got to Radiohead, The White Stripes, PJ Harvey, Beck, Sonic Youth, QOTSA and all the others yet but this looks like a really good way to burn up some excess data at the end of the month.
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Also just a quick note: I’ve only got a few of the B*S*I*D*E mash style t-shirts left so be in quick if you want one. They’re only $15 til the end of the year and it doesn’t look like they’ll last that long. Email me to order.
Those of you in Auckland are encouraged to get along to this, beginning this Wednesday the 9th, upstairs at Handmade (the old Brazil) on K’ Road.
Experimental music, experimental instruments both acoustic and electronic, kind of an offshoot of the long-running Vitamin-S but perhaps with more of a rhythmic and melodic focus.
Come to play and listen or just to listen. I’ll try to get there too.
Couldn’t quite say Raglan is starved for live music but it’s not exactly Mecca for touring bands either. There’s a fairly steady diet of competent-but-very-ordinary reggae and somewhat-less-than-ordinary house, so last night was a rare treat.
The Shrugs are humans, made from flesh and The Trons are robots, made from Meccano. They’re both (mostly) from Hamiltron and they’re both excellent and that’s about all I have to say about that.
(Except to add that I bought perhaps the coolest bit of merch I’ve ever seen at a gig ever, pictured above. It’s a lathe-cut record made by Greg Locke (The Trons) and if it looks a little strange that’s because he cuts them on aluminium pie dishes. He claims that they sound awful. I haven’t played mine yet and I’m not sure if I will. Playing it would require punching a hole in the cardboard backing which would diminish the collectibility, for me anyway.)
I host a regular Tuesday night radio show here in Raglan (more about that later). I’m going to post recordings of the show here. You can download them or listen online.
It’ll also be streaming live over the interwebs every Tuesday night (NZ time) in a week or two, I’ll let you know when, where, and how.
The shows are about two hours long and just over 100MB wide. Last night’s show was a special on The Residents. Previous shows have focused on the music of Fela Kuti, and on the origins of punk rock.
I intend to do something different every week and I’m open to suggestions. If you have ideas for future shows, tell me in the comments section.
These songs and videos were made by sampling and mashing up unrelated you tube clips of people playing instruments and singing. Nice work by Kutiman.
This one is the third of seven, the eighth is Kutiman talking about the project.
If you click through to the youtube pages, in the sidebar (under more info) there are links to all of the original clips of each instrument part so you can see exactly what materials he’s used.
The idea seems glaringly obvious in a “why didn’t I think of that” kind of way when you consider the massive number of videos on youtube of people showing off their skills or demonstrating their new toys etc.
The winner of the Chemical Bros vs Beastie Boys mashup contest I entered over at Beastiemixes.com has just been announced and it’s, um, me. Nice. I’m genuinely surprised as I was really impressed by some of the entries.
Three of the (44) mixes which really stood out for me:
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Contretemps – Tripple Trouble vs Lost In The K Hole
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DJ Topcat – So Whatcha Want vs One Too Many Mornings
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