Adrift Ocean Drift riff
This weekend I watched sea monkeys and re-worked a remix I did late last year. The video above captures both of these endeavours.
The remix is expected to be released in the next month or two and was the result of an interesting methodology, which you can read about at this blog post.
Into Kaoss
From out of the box and into my Kaoss Pad, here's a short remix of some sounds generated with my circuit bent toys.
Cosmic visitor
Starman - Buchla remix by ethanhein
Digging this re-working of David Bowie's Starman, a tune that made a lot more sense for me after seeing the film The Velvet Goldmine.
Ethan Hein's blog is a great read too, his discussion of Originality in Digital Music is a great overview of contemporary copyright issues and the like.
Digging this re-working of David Bowie's Starman, a tune that made a lot more sense for me after seeing the film The Velvet Goldmine.
Ethan Hein's blog is a great read too, his discussion of Originality in Digital Music is a great overview of contemporary copyright issues and the like.
Soma chillout dub mix
A deep dub mix must be about as relaxed as electronic music can get while keeping score on the foot-tap-ability index. This Soma Records collection blended by Nadja Lind features a fascinating lecture on the role of endorphins and dopamine in human development.
Out of the box
Another sample of my sonic mayhem using circuit bent La Dictee Magique and Pitchshifter. It's very loud and lo-fi, so turn down your speakers a bit before clicking on the triangle.
Amon Tobin's Slayer remix
Amon Tobin used this track to close his set last time he was in Australia. It's an OTT and somewhat comic drum and bass remix of Slayer, who are a fairly groovy sorta band anyway and played New York's Studio 54 back in the day.
Tomorrow Never Knows
Above is a great piece on how The Beatles took ideas from avantgarde composers into the pop charts. For further reading on this I recommend Craig Schuftan's The Culture Club because he charts the influences widely and comes to some really disturbing conclusions about pop music.
Various sources on the internet have mentioned the amount of money paid by producers of the show Mad Men to use the track in a recent episode and, it seems to me the producers had no choice. Sure, it'd be a bit weird to see Don Draper say something about The Beatles and not hear them but could anyone make a convincing reproduction of this tune, with all the tape loops and effects?
More to the point, what other song captures the zeitgeist of the time? Within a couple of years The Beatles were transformed by their use of drugs and thousands followed them on similar trips into their own self-consciouses.
One of my favourite tracks to reference The Beatles' Tomorrow Never Knows is The Chemical Brothers' Setting Sun. I like how the clip represents the idea of finding yourself by taking psychedelic drugs but in the '90s it was MDMA rather than LSD, which had become difficult to source for a new generation of astronauts exploring inner spaces.
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