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.”
MTV have opened up their huge catalogue of music videos and put them online here - it’s a bit like youtube but just for music videos. And just like youtube, you can embed the clips anywhere. Like this one:
Wired magazine said “SeeqPod lets you turn the entire internet into your own personal iPod” and that pretty much sums it up.
I’ve been using this for a few months and it’s awesome.
Just type the name of an artist, song, album or whatever and it searches the web for any files it can play. It also finds blogs, wikis and myspace pages relevant to your search, tries to help you buy or download the songs you find and allows you to save and share playlists.
You can embed stuff like this playlist I made of a few of my favourite Daniel Johnston songs:
(Again, if you don’t see the playlist in the feed or email you might have to click through to bsidebeats.com)
Oh yeah and it’s free. It’s difficult to describe just how powerful this tool is but give it a try and you’ll see what I mean: seeqpod.com
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)
If you don’t know kowtow, they’re a Wellington-based clothing label who do some very, very sweet t-shirt prints.
They also put out these CD compilations - 3 of them so far - buy a shirt, get the CD for free. It’s all tasty NZ stuff in a dubby-trip hoppy-electro vein from artists like Olmecha Supreme, Opensouls, Electric Wire Hustle and a few cuts from us at b-side as well.
And right now (for October I believe) if you subscribe to their mailing list you can win all 3 CDs. For nothing!
The kowtow music blog is well worth keeping up with anyway. Lots of music news, podcasts and such. Check-a-check it out.
Sorry for the delay in posting new stuff last week but dark forces conspired. Now the computers are all running (purged of vista - what a disaster that was), I’m healthy again, and I’ve even got some cool new toys in the studio.
So back into it.
Today I finished mixing this Harmonica Lewinsky track, it’s called “Engine” and it’s the kind of thing you’ll see us playing live this summer.
Illness (both human and machine) has led to a lack of action this week, so I’ve got no new tracks to post. Instead, shout outs to a couple of the NZ radio shows who’ve been playing our tracks and play other good stuff too:
RDU98.5 where Kid90 hosts “The Green Room”, all NZ electronica, Saturday 5-7 pm.
KiwiFM where Fleur Jack hosts “Independent/Alternative/New” weeknights 9-12.
I’ve just found out that a few of the download links on the site weren’t working.
If you’ve tried to download an album or song here lately and it didn’t work, it should now. Please let me know if you find any more bad links.
Vinnie and I are on Waiheke right now for Harmonica Lewinsky rehearsals with Lani and Dione. If we record any new stuff while we’re here I’ll let you know.
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