06.14.06

#bestof2009.

There hasn't been much ght stuff going on recently due to fathering and such things, but here is a list of albums from 2009 that I fancied. There will be further comments that I have included with said list that will appear sometime soon on the most excellent MarathonPacks blog ran by Eric Harvey's knowledgeable pen.

Bat For Lashes Two Suns (Astralwerks/Parlophone)
Bear In Heaven Beast Rest Forth Mouth (Hometapes)
Beruit March of the Zapotec/Holland EP (Ba Da Bing)
Bibio Ambivalence Avenue (Warp)
Black Moth Super Rainbow Eating Us (Graveface)
BLK JKS Mystery EP (Secretly Canadian)
Burial & Four Tet Moth/Wolf Cub (Text)
Delorean Ayrton Senna EP (Fool House)
Dirty Projectors Bitte Orca (Domino)
Do Make Say Think Other Truths (Constellation)
Fever Ray Fever Ray (Mute)
The Field Yesterday & Today (Kompakt)
Flying Lotus / Joker Tectonic Plate 2.3 (Tectonic)
Franz Ferdinand Blood (Domino)
Gui Boratto Take My Breath Away (Kompakt)
Jónsi & Alex Riceboy Sleeps (XL)
Joker Digidesign (Hyperdub)
Kate Simko Music From the Atom Smashers (Ghostly International)
The Last Electro-Acoustic Space Jazz & Percussion Ensemble Summer Suite (Stones Throw)
Them Crooked Vultures Them Crooked Vultures (RCA)
Major Lazer Guns Don’t Kill People Lazers Do (Mad Decent/Downtown)
Memory Tapes Seek Magic (Sincerely Yours)
Mew No More Stories Are Told Today I'm Sorry They Washed Away… (Sony BMG)
Monolake Silence (ml/imbalance computer music)
Mos Def The Ecstatic (Downtown)
Neon Indian Psychic Chasms (Lefse)
Omar Soleyman Drabke 2020: Folk and Pop Sounds of Syria (Sublime Frequencies)
St. Vincent Actor (4AD)
Supersilent 9 (Rune Grammofon)
Telefon Tel Aviv Immolate Yourself (Bpitch Control)
Tortoise Beacons of Ancestorship (Thrill Jockey)
Various Arists Dark Was the Night [Red Hot Compilation] (4AD)
Various Artists Five Years of Hyperdub (Hyperdub)
Zomby Zomby EP (Hyperdub)

see hear.

more audio/video:

///a remix of (D)(B)(H)

///video clips of the Oranje performance last month

///new live material

jbg session.

(new album of music)

1933pt5.

this is a small video/promo-ish thing for the forthcoming new album of music that will happen online sometime soon.

performancing.

we will be playing here and then:

09.19.09 (@ 2323 n illinois st - indianapolis, in)
**ORANJE 2009**
andy d
BASILICA
goodhands team
dj motif
dj rudy kizer
dj skidz
drache musik
elsinore
en2
grumpy old men
sean haefeli
heavy hometown
holistic
jascha
kink ador
lucky pineapple
joe meltdown
ligyro
matt mitchell project
roebus one
john dtockton project
skittz feat. dj helicon
state
the last good year
the wrongly accused
the twin cats
wye aak
grey granite
dj el carnicero
dj starsteadty
dj jackola
dj mike b. vs dj oh be one
censr
big robot

10.13.09 (@ the bluebird - bloomington, in)

**TOTAL TRASH TUESDAYS**

goodhands team

(TBA)

fragments.

random words from a file in a folder on a hard drive:

• @ any rate
• agglomerations.
• albinism
• american idle
• as with as much as such
• avulsion
• beaded rearview
• bipolar express
• boots on the ground
• breakaway region.
• buy all our fare
• by all are fair
• centrist.
• challenge flag
• chinacular
• chromacy
• chronoscopy
• circular breathing
• circular firing squad
• citizenry
• commoditization
• composite sketch
• conferencing
• contingency
• credit balance
• culture of life
• cyclical redundancy check
• details apply.
• dispatch
• doing our level best
• donor fatigue.
• dots not feathers
• drives
• dynastic
• elector city
• ethicists
• everyone’s in a while
• exceeds allocated transfer limit
• Faithwielder
• feral
• format war.
• from a different cloth
• geospacial networkcentric warfare
• getting by on a good name
• gibbous composition
• got it coming
• haremen.
• hearings
• hedging risk
• hopefool
• hopelessness and its likenesses
• ideologue
• illusionaries.
• impairment
• imperial vanity
• institutional memory
• irreligious
• irrespective
• is and is not
• jack russel terrorism
• juggling libraries.
• keep right except to pass
• labmix
• lesser evilism
• litigant
• make believery
• makesense?
• making it up as you go
• martyr barter
• microsurgical vasectomy reversal
• middle classic
• Might as well
• minpin
• moccasin
• modemental
• nice piece
• notary
• offset
• open eye swivel snap
• orthodoxy.
• pareidolia
• pending notification of next of kin
• Period pieces and static cling
• peripheralysis
• planned obscelecense
• poll vaults
• post script
• predictive
• preoccupation
• prepare to attend
• priamry
• prison stock
• privatizing accountability
• probabilistically.
• probe.
• proctor
• proxemics
• put down
• pyramids of modern pharoes
• quarum
• rachel corrie
• recursivity acronym
• regretion
• reight
• relativism
• remainder
• renminbi
• revisionists
• right honorable friend
• rotisseries
• Saud off shotgun
• self-fulfilling prophecy
• self serve us
• semiautonomy.
• set loose.
• shermstick.
• shun
• sleeper cellular
• slickery.
• so it looks as though
• so&so
• social engine nearing
• speaking truth to power
• spectator zealotry
• speed food eating circuit
• spine ache
• staying power
• stop me if youve heard this one
• string theory
• subjected
• suiciders
• suit yourself
• sun setted
• super deep ocean
• talking points
• talons
• tape return
• technopolitics
• test drive accident
• the crown against the cross
• three and out
• throwaway culture.
• thru
• tikur.
• top brass
• two part
• unsustainable levels
• voicelessness
• vying.
• wardrum
• weak end war yours
• wear in the world
• works in any fixture

reprieval.

**still chopping up last 4 minutes of jbg sessions, to be followed by re-listening to the mixes and making adjustments, to be followed by probably never listening to it again. ever. (i'm exaggerating)

**couple of cool blogs that were recently brought to my attention:

-make: online

-shizzle

the upward trajectory of mercury.

-there is this ridiculous metric shit ton of material that has been coagulating over the past year and a half while I've been mixing this jbg stuff (including this mostly iPhone thing that Greg and I were doing the other day) that will probably start to get sorted out as well. the plan is to be at a good "stopping point" for the ght stuff by the end of October...when this kid I'm having happens...

video relocations.

in the process of relocating all the youtube videos to this place.  there are also a  few (longer) clips over at vimeo.  and some on facebook as well.

website.

in the process of adding levers and flipping switches over at this webpage.  mostly just streamlining it. some pages are renamed, and some have been sucked out of existence altogether.  thanks to google profiles for providing those nifty little buttons from which to link other places on the interwebs.

facebooked.

show @ big car.

mon04.13.09 (@ big car gallery - indianapolis, in)

breakaway (chicago)

mana2 (indianapolis)

goodhands team (bloomington)

colin cambell(ann arbor)

7p

onward.

::mixing some mixes.

::and visiting these fine time-wasters in the meantime:

http://www.ronwinter.tv/drums.html

http://lab.andre-michelle.com/karplus-strong-guitar

http://www.hobnox.com/index.1056.en.html

azeda booth+secret mommy+ght!!

ght mix of a track by the calgary band azeda booth is on their freshly released ep. so is a secret mommy remix (he owns the vancouver label ache records) - which is pretty rad...  

canadian stuff is cool.  hopefully a return to montreal happens in the summer.

wfhb session.

years and lists.

hey go over to bloomington writer eric harvey's marathon packs blog 

where he has harnessed a bunch of people's 2008 best of lists and stories.

here is a list of 2008 albums that i fancied:
gang gang dance | saint dymphna
flying lotus | los angeles
luomo | convivial
deerhoof | offend maggie
gregor samsa | rest
high places | s/t
copy | hair guitar
growing | all the way
portishead | third
m83 | saturdays = youth
girl talk | feed the animals
one day as a lion | s/t
basic channel | bcd-2
vampire weekend | s/t
autechre | quaristice
sigur rós| með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust
fennesz | black sea
elbow | the seldom seen kid
philip jeck | sand
love is all | a hundred things keep me up at night
lindstrøm | where you go i go too
meshuggah | obzen
booka shade | the sun and the neon light
skyphone | avellaneda

c-ya next year...

it is unseasonably hot outside.

***things that i hope to have on some page or another in the next few weeks/months may include but are not limited to:
-stuff from wfhb live session
-some? tracks from jbgs (listening to some mixes now...)
-more images. and more images
-some type of video viewing page that is not lame . and some more videos.
-more live mp3s.
-updated things.
-general all around crunkness.

art generators are fun.

worth a thousand words (pt2).

shwa.

=t=

(new album by Terrorist)

fivethirtyeight.com

the most in-depth scenario-analyzing pojection stuff ever. fancy.

when waves become walls.

when waves become walls features some music and videoings of jon pettit and others. jon has been on a few ght albums and live sets, just moved to taiwan for a spell w/ his family, and is generally a swell dude w/ ridiculously cute children. maggie and i have talked about stealing one of them. (not really)

worth a thousand words.

live mp3s.

postage.

**here’s some stuff that ive been into past months or so:

tracking.

=====we played a show recently. there is audio. there is (HD!) video. but i need to sort it out. "sort it out" = trying to figure out how to watch a 2+GB HD video file on my windows machine. bc quicktime and my 1GB ram is giving me the finger. but the audio sounds good. we played a really long set. it was like 50 minutes. which is about twice as long as usual. i will try to get some audio up soon, and give my pc steroids or something re: the video.
=====im watching this computer screen tracking my wifes airplane from charlotte to indianapolis. shes been away at some teacher convention thingy in washington dc. for the last 9 days. which - is a long time i guess. its weird being married for a few years...you start to lose some of yourself in each other. and 9 days seems like forever.
=====i saw radiohead in concert (time #3) a few days ago. it was very pleasant. i hope all of the folks that i know who went to the show had as fun of a time as i did. big ups to hien for hooking it up.
=====the bodies exhibition that is currently in downtown indianapolis is SOOO worth the price of admission. my mom and i saw it the other day and it was probably the coolest thing ive seen all year.
=====im still working on the jbgs sessions. blah blah blah...

thingys.

##heres a recording of our last show.
##mixing on the tracks continues...
##theres some new pics on that image thingy to the right. it only holds 500 images though. im pissed. come on google. i know you have the storage...
##the website is down cracks me up.
##i dont see why everyone is so afraid of iran having long range missles. especially while pakistan (along w/ china, india, and THE GREATER WESTERN WORLD) has nuclear weapons. if you walk into an NRA meeting w/ a slingshot i dont think anyone is going to give a crap.

new moves.

*****we just moved. i havent been mixing much because of that. moving blows. but our new house is shaping up nicely.
*****i would like to give props to some local music stuff. i always think about posting about it - but i forget. i dont hype local shit enough - so heres a list of local stuff i dig :
dj spikes
remnent
os
uno moss
dust from 1000 years
dbh
basilica
dj ignorant
rebecca ciaglia
all good stuff. go see them if they are playing in town.

so is it summer yet?

i have been doing a little spinning at the spoon on sundays here in town. bb and rebecca ciaglia host this lovely record party type of thing called sundown sundays. from 9p-midnight @ the runcible spoon in bloomington. i typically mess around a little bit at the end of the sessions. the above photo is of a doodle that maggie did during last weeks spinnin.

*we are looking for another house bc the dude who owns this one and the contracted property rental agency had a falling out. and its all fucked. onions to them. but whatever, it could be worse.

*blade runner on hddvd looks miraculous.

*lightweight bikes are really the way to go.

*the mixing of the broad ripple sessions continues. sounds neato so far. kind of polyrythmic post-rock-noise-hop-electro.

*been listening to these lately:

this stuff we played last week.

05.02.08

probably one of my favs.

btw: all live mp3s are here.

obamarama.

i went to the obama campaign rally at assembly hall here in bloomington. it was pretty neat.

as of late.

flashdance.

spikes showed me all these neat flash artist types. pretty neato:
brenden dawes (check out mcgoogle)
erik natzke
joshua davis

hearts and minds...

LEAP!

so today is leap day. i feel like i should do something really cool today - something that i would only do every four years to celebrate such an occurrence. but i cant really think of anything, so screw that.

so maggie, krampy, mogwai, anakin, and i will be moving to a different house on the other side of town. actually, weve already started. its a lot bigger. most people i know tend to move to different residences fairly frequently. we have been in our current house for about 6 years - which is about how long we have been together, and is also about how long goodhands team has been in existence. it will be weird being in a different house doing all this recording, mixing, living, eating, etc...but sometimes its time to move the f on.

speaking of mixing, i started mixing the last session. mixing in the lightest since of the word. im pretty much just trying to weed out tracks that are blank, or to soft - that kind of thing. so i guess you could say its more like pre-mixing. jbg has made a couple mixes of some of the stuff since its been squatting in his hard drive for nearly a month. i will have those up on the remix page sometime soon.

been getting into this stuff lately:

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theres lots of new images online, including some stuff from the session we just did in broad ripple.

we just did a session in broad ripple. thanks to all that participated. it frickin rules that so many fabulous musicians care to be involved in such things. corresponding audio to be messed w/, and tracks to be produced in form of a short album type thing.
in the process of retroactively assigning .zip files to all past albums which will include fun stuff like art work and information about who was involved, etc.

90101-51-1

good stuff.

**__**

__diggin on:
venitian snares | pink + green EP
miles davis | the complete on the corner sessions
mr. bungle | disco volante
pinch | underwater dancehall
karlheinz stockhausen | microphonie 1
the field | sound of light ep of l
portal

rain, sleet, or snow.

hi. its cold and snowy here. and there? some stuff going down...some stuff going up.

I) i got some super killer record scores from my inlaws (kathryn and andy). twice,
now, ive taken huge loads of records during a tucson, az visit. needless to say, my vinyl
collection hath been sufficiently pimped.

II) heres some stuff ive been into lately:

laurie anderson | big science
kraftwerk | radioactivity
sami koivikko | salmiakki
claro intelecto | neurofibro
growing | social club series #8
thelonius monk | (s/t)

no country for old men
zelda: a link to the past
how to build an igloo and other snow shelters

choke.

axe-ensemble.

axe-ensemble art contemporain musique experimentale

_

_("underscore") is an album of tracks.
( heres a .zip file if you like)

marathonpacks.

earlier, i put up a blurb about my top 30 albums for the year 2007. eric harvey, a friend from my dorm days at indiana university (back then he used to roll us these "cigerettes" that were so huge he would proceed to write the word HOSS on the side), has this blog called marathonpacks. its a pretty decent place to find music and show reviews...and is well connected into the state of the bloomington happs. anyway - you can read my entirely too descriptive list on his blog now. along w/ some other year end stuff from eric and friends.

r.i.p.

karlheinz stockhausen
1928-2007

electroacoustic classical pioneer. a lot of things would not have happened if he didnt happen. not bad for a dude who was born and educated on the star of sirius.

$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ (pt2).

the biggest bank in the united states, citigroup, inc., just sold off 11% of itself to the abu dhabi investment authority from the united arab emirates in exchange for $7.5B in cash. that is because of continued fallout from the mortgage market "crisis". (what?! americans cant handle the responsibility of credit? wha?!)and wall street "rallied" because of this. perhaps wall street will "rally" too, then, when the dollar collapses completely - which is what i believe this is an indication of. if the united states were a person, or a company, or a business of any sort - we would have been bankrupt several several several years ago. but instead we perpetually create economic gymnastics to keep telling ourselves that we are financially sound. and just keep on printing (ever decreasing in value) money.

makes sense to me - since we are already giving a huge percentage of our collective income to mid east oil, we might as well top it off by giving stakes of our public financial instituations to the region as well. as one good addiction deserves another. what COULD they be doing w/ all that money they get from us? (besides car-bombing our occupation and making a building thats about half a mile high - that is...)

and what better time for impending fiscal doom, than when we are spending somewhere around
$300,000 a minute on a war.
this - a war that is somehow supposed to make me feel safer, by virtue of its most-expensive-war-in-the-history-of-the-planet status, is making me feel remarkably LESS safe. im fucking sick of this. i try to stay out of politics when i can bc im tired of the whole mess...but any kids that my wife and i are thinking about having will be born in to more debt than any country has ever known.

i hate republicans. they largely got us into this mess. they will deny it though - saying we were attacked first, yadda yadda...(look at the history of our involvment in the middle east bitches...) and the religious right (the one that is presidential-candidate-less at the moment) must have missed a few sunday sermons...bc god isnt cool w/ killing people or forcing there hand for no good reason. hes about understanding and withholding judgement. or so i thought. and you know what else? i also hate democrats. b/c they dont care about people as much as their own party - and the need to want/do opposite of whatever republicans want/do. and are weak minded and weak willed to commit to any actual change. both parties scream about such changes that need so badly to occur - yet neither has the sack to actually lift a fucking finger. except to keep giving themselves raises...or drop bombs. actually maybe what i really hate is the fact that theres only two choices. either this, or that. bc our countrys dynamic is so simple that it can be broken into two choices that can quickly lift us out of any problem. give me a fucking break. democrawhat?

being strong on defense apparently means selling your country up the river (ussr anyone?). yet we dont have enough money for health care. i havent had health care in 10 yrs. o well. hope i dont get sick. my country sure doesnt give a fuck. we dont even have enough money for CHILD health care. yet 70%+ of the country does not want to be in this war, and 70%+ thinks child health care is a good investment. democrawho?

but whatever- maybe we will just keep talking about those "illegal aliens" and "communist china" (who is lending us more money than any country has ever lended any other country - ever - by virtue of our debt that they gobble up). and of course, the "terrorists." b/c they are all obvously to blame for the fact that we can't balance a fucking check book.

its a joke. it must be.

pat buchanan, who i typically think of as a right wing nutcase (full disclosure: the right wing kinda thinks he's a nutcase too) just published a book that cites the "end of america." thats an incredibly sad prospect...but also a fairly realistic one. history shows the beginnings of decay of every major empire have characteristically been flanked w/ rash decisions which worsen already irreparable damages.

i dont hate america. i know we have it better than a lot of other places. but we are also seemingly hell bent on propetuating ideoligical warfare at the cost of our general security and well being. and that of other countries. which is a sign of desperation. and pretty lame indeed.

in less than a year we will have a new president and a new congress. and a new party will most definitely be in power (according to both parties strategists) - and a new chance to try to fix some of the problems we face. but im pretty sure that will not be allowed to happen, regardless.
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end rant.

live stuff.

:::::shows are updated and listenable on this internet page.

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|||||||liketh:
sigur rós | hvarf-heim
burial | untrue
dj signify & blockhead | nobody's smiling 7"
cluster | zuckerzeit
the darleeling limited

news outlets.

i often encourage people to check out news from other parts of the world,
as if to observe how they see/report on themselves - and on us.
heres a couple i read daily:
chinas official news about china.
al jazeera english site.

more listening.

currently b diggin:

flying lotus | 1983
radiohead | in rainbows
m.i.a. | jimmy (7")
car bomb/burnt by the sun | (split 7")
dub trio | not alone (7")
the heliocentrics | before i die (12")
mr. oizo | transexual (12")
out hud | one life to leave (12")
junior boys | the dead horse ep
the knife | marble house (12")
va | classical music of india compiled by john levy
grand ulena | gateway to dignity
niyaz | niyaz

check.

stuff that is worth checking out:
machinefabriek | lenteliedjes (7")
aaron martin & machinefabriek | cello recycling/cello drowning (10")
colleen | colleen et les boites a musique EP
madlib | beat konducta in india (vol. 3-4)
luigi archetti & bo wiget | low tide digitals, vol. 2
mr. oizo | moustache (half a scissor)
the peter brötzmann octet | the complete machine gun sessions
the knife | silent shout

the devil and daniel johnston
battle at kruger (aka lion vs buffalo vs crocodile)

es muy bueno.

vladislav delay | whistleblower
scott walker | and who shall go to the ball and what shall go to the ball
múm | they made frogs smoke 'till they exploded (7")
aoki takamasa | simply funk
m.i.a. | boyz (12")
snd | makesnd cassette
joe beats | diverse recourse
flying lotus | 1983
liars | plaster casts of everything (7")
schola cantorum of amsterdam students | gregorian chant
growing | vision swim
dirty projectors | the getty address
earlimart | mentor tormentor
excepter | alternation


y tu mamá también

lately.

+++++ive had poison ivy lately. man that blows.
+++++today maggie and i have been married for two years. did you know that wedding anniversaries involve silly materials? i dont quite get it.
+++++work continues on an album. and on video. and on performances. we played an 'electronic' set the other day. that will be online soon. the other day i was listening to one of our live performances w/ the 'milkdrop' winamp visualization plugin...and it glithced all out. which is what this image is.
+++++recent aquisitions:
the field | from here we go sublime (12")
the field | things falling down (12")
m.i.a. | kala
sixtoo | jackals and vipers in envy Of man
rciaglia | promo
mugison | mugimama is this monkey music
múm | go go smear the poison ivy
mstrkrft | the looks
car bomb | centralia

my ear drum is broken.

i have an ear drum infection. i went to prompt care bc i, like nearly FIFTY MILLION OTHER AMERICANS, don't have health insurance. why? bc the health care system in the united states is a hysterical joke. i hear some guy did a movie about this recently. i had a clinic visit where they cleaned out an ear and prescribed me drugs.
clinic visit: $220
drugs: $110

i can't help but wonder how this compares w/ other industrialized countries' costs for the same services. if i were a betting man, i would say it does not compare well. i mean if i didnt have the money to pay for this, i would be screwed. and that would be that. as a musician i would have probably risked irreparable damage to my hearing/livelyhood simply bc...uh...the gigantic drug lobby runs the shit.

and why is that?

the amount of money that is being put into 'health care' in the united states should be able to pay for a universal system. and then some. we can put a damn remote control car on MARS...but cant seem to provide basic health care for our citizens.

noice.

justice | D.A.N.C.E. 12"
lily allen | alright, still

i hear.

here are few labels i fancy:
hyperdub
rune grammofon
sub rosa
constellation
stones throw
ninja tune
rephlex
skam

i also heard some neat music lately:
burial | ghost hardware EP
gyorgy ligeti |musica recercata
seefeel | quique (redux)
alog | catch that totem
caribou | andorra
dr. who dat | beat journey
liars | liars
va | an anthology of noise & electronic music, vol. I-III
band of horses | everything all the time

more.

a recent remix.

apse | spirit (ght rmx)

bloggity.

i like this blog: good vibrato

memorial daze.

waste of money.
waste of lives.

stuff.

all things i recommend:

justice | †
björk | volta
fujiya & miyagi | transparent things
the tuss | confederation trough ep
black dice | roll up (12")
money mark | brand new by tomorrow
deerhunter | fluorescent grey ep
tussle | tomlab alphabet series (7")
king crimson | in the court of the crimson king
&
the fountain

odd.

what do you mean there's no law requiring u.s. citizens to pay a federal income tax?!

diggg.

/////digg:
the field | from here we go sublime
dabrye | additional productions, vol.1 (12")
stars of the lid | and their refinement of the decline
mono | memorie dal futuro(10")
ratatat | remixes vol.II
sparklehorse | don't take my sunshine away (7")
battles | atlas (12")


/////i saw lightning bolt the other day. uhhh...whoa.

turning japanese.

if mono and world's end girlfriend are coming anywhere near you, i would go check it out and notice your face peeling off of your head and onto the floor. bc i saw them w/ some homies in louisville, and thats what happened.

theo jansen

this dude is a kinetic artist from amsterdam that makes these delightful, yet creepy moving sculpture things.

another dead american hero.

kurt vonnegut
1922-2007

is risen?

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i like when it snows in april. not really.
i do like this stuff though:

menomena | push isolation /tung track (7")
cloud mireya | singular
nadja | touched
panda bear | person pitch
john zorn | six litanies for the heliogabalus
menomena | friend & foe
the walker brothers | nite flights
panda bear/excepter | (split 12")
&
children of men

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some new versions of live stuff is or will be up here.
im trying to get greg to remaster the whole lot of
live crap eventually. hes got the magic juice.
im going to try to get live pictures and some video
snippets up sometime soon as well. still not quite
sure what all of this video footage will end up being...

black moth super remix.

this is a remix of a black moth super rainbow tune.
i think they are fancy.

black moth super rainbow | flowers grow here (ght rmx)

dance comp.

heres the new album.

re:cently

*****david byrne's blog inspired me to make a post. so here it is.

*****bryan's blog from saudi arabia is also excellent.

*****the more recent live shows (and the rest) are now up here. at some point im going to get back into video editing and try to put
this dvd thing together...which contains lots of live stuff too.

*****i shudder to think how much longer american politicians will play dumb. as far as i can tell the war has actually ended - and nobody has told the american government or military yet.

*****check out reactable. because it might melt your face.

*****some things ive been listening to are these:
battles | mirrored
sally shapiro | disco romance
arcade fire | neon bible
castanets/dirty projectors | unusual animals, vol2 (12")
basilica | theforevervictoriousunfathomablegreatmightyone
deerhoof | friend opportunity
air | pocket symphony
do make say think | you you're a history in rust
the microphones | two songs by the microphones (7")
deerhunter | cryptograms
dj spikes |volume six
blonde redhead | 23
liars | it fit when i was a kid (7")
va | jonny greenwood is the controller
four tet | a joy (12")
charles ives | piano sonata no.2

******some niflty films:
babel
c'etait un rendezvous

MMVII.

here are some things that will [most likely] happen this year:
1) a dvd of some sort will be finished
2) another improv studio session, and subsequent album

4) a couple of videos/remixes of other artists
5) the start of a record label
ppphheeewww.

2006 made me realize i frickin love vinyl!
here is a list of some of the past years
favorite record purchases:

girl talk | bone hard zaggin' (7")
love is all | busy doing nothing (12")
the dave brubeck quartet | take five (7")
thom yorke | harrowdown hill (7")
black dice | monoman (12")
dm and gemini | 26 inch ep (12")
samuel barber | symphony no.1 / medea suite
thelonius monk | piano solos
kraftwerk | die mensch maschine
the jasmine isle | javanese gamelan music
wilderness | living through (7")
melt banana | 666 (6")
jaylib | mcnasty filth (12")
walter carlos | the well-tempered synthesizer
voice of the congo | tribal music of central africa
j dilla | donuts 45

ieds

improvised explosive devices

likes.

fm3 | hou guan yin
jóhann jóhannsson | IBM1401
the boy least likely to | the best party ever
duke ellington and his orchestra | nutcracker suite
thomas brinkmann | klick revolution
asobi seksu | citrus
susumu yokota | wonder waltz
koushik | be with

&
little miss sunshine

more remixes.

basilica | untitled (ght version)
goodhands team | 09 (ght+derty pants remix)

consummery.

toons.
black moth super rainbow + the octopus project | the house of apples & eyeballs
excepter | sun bomber ep
the lovely feathers | hind hind legs
remnent | a wake
dj spikes | vol.5
malajube | trompe-l'oeil
walter carlos | well-tempered synthesizer
gregor samsa | 55:12
tori amos | from the choir girl hotel
lindstrøm | it`s a feedelity affair
melt banana | 666 [on 6"]
miles davis | the complete birth of the cool

moovies.
edmond
house of flying daggers
lord of the rings [special edition]
run lola run

classic arts showcase.

there is this lovely program that comes on public access television here in bloomington called classic arts showcase. its beamed to us from the sky for free bc some people thought it important to show other folks some art. which is a sentiment i can get down w/.

1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8.

brian eno / david byrne | a secret life help me somebody (ght version)

these things.

i quite like:

monbiot.com
dj krush | stepping stones
mono | one step more and you die
mono&world's end girlfriend | palmless prayer/mass murder refrain
aloe blacc | shine through
eno/byrne | my life in the bush of ghosts
isis | clearing the eye [film]
the departed [film]

stuff.

several ght remixes are in the works.
and video stuff is still coming along.

and as your lawyer, i would advise you to listen to these:

samuel barber | medeas meditation and dance of vengeance
mew | and the glass handed kite
stones throw records [w/adult swim] | chrome children
mastodon | blood mountain
girl talk | night ripper
apse | spirit

labor day post.

1) the videoing rolls along.

2) i love when they show bbc world on pbs. it gives me great joy.
on it they were making references to how the american occupations of
afghanistan and iraq have now claimed more american lives than the
attacks on 9/11. which i find interesting.

recent observations:
sparklehorse | dreamt for light years in the belly of a mountain
dabrye | instrumentls
pierre boulez | structures pour deux pianos
thom yorke | harrowdown hill
isis | the absence of truth
the dave brubeck quartet | jazz impressions of new york

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1) a show will happen in chicago on new years. also playing will be:
terrorist, scantron (w/bob), the delay productive, and others to be revealed.
2) stuff im currently diggn:
the dirty projectors | new attitude ep
tom petty | wildflowers
otto von schirach | maxipad detention
fugazi | furniture + 2 (7")
black dice | monoman (12")
sigur rós |sæglópur ep
the machinist
sigur rós | sæglópur (dvd)
3) the video type thing (whose working title is now viddles) continues to
slowly come along. and it looks as though some new ght tracks will find
their way onto this thing along w/ live recordings of previous shows.
4) missing link records in broadripple (indianapolis) has an obscene amount of records.

recommendations.

the mars volta - amputechture
miles davis - nefertiti
dave brubeck - brubeck plays bernstein plays brubeck
the monkeys - the monkeys
bohren & der club of gore - black earth
cut chemist - the audiences listening

me and you and everyone we know
syriana
why we fight
ryoji ikeda - formula
march of the penquins
radiohead - the most gigantic lying mouth of all time
dave chappelles block party
supersilent - 7

more things.

1) video stuff is coming along. i need more ram. and another harddrive. and more time.

2) goodlistens:
herbert - scale
black moth super rainbow - lost, picking flowers in the woods ep
dabrye - two/three
ravel - string quartet in f
supersilent - 7
cyann et ben - spring

[disproportionate]

dominique wilkins.

recently i was reminded how i felt when i saw dominique wilkins play at larrys game in 1986 at market square arena. what reminded me of that? well, seeing the liars play live - a day before seeing radiohead live. i heart chicago.

r.i.p.

györgy ligeti
1923-2006

things and stuff like that.

some things that may or may not interest you:
1) indonesians needs help. they are averaging about 2.5 cataclysmic disasters a year it seems.
2) i wish people at ght shows would do the 'hands-in-the-air-prayer-dance' that all the modern christian chart topping anthems evoke. sorry - sometimes i get angered by the fact that 40% of my cable (the $14/month kind) channels are gateways into ultraevangelism.
3) a dvd is in the works. well, its in the pre works i guess. lots of footage to mill through. speaking of 'lots': TONS of live ght audio over here.
4) goodlistens:
burial - burial <---------------------(album of the moment)
alva noto + ryuichi sakamoto - vrioon
meshuggah - catch thirty three
boards of canada - trans canada highway
colleen - mort aux vaches
thom yorke - the eraser

so&so&such&such

disc2 of plethra is done. its at the bottom of this page. (or just click here) the deal behind this 'dj mix' (except im not a dj) - is that some associates bestowed about 6G of raw audio upon my harddrive - and i mixed some of it together like somekind of sound smoothie.

i wish samuel barber would have had some mellotrons to play w/.............

nooz.

1) a couple more shows coming up.
2) a couple of new remixes are here.
3) there are lots more live mp3s to listen to over here.
4) rox is neat.
5) goodlistens:
scott walker 'the drift'
meshuggah - 'i'
red chamber - 'red chamber brings you the mao sound'
tool - 10,000 days
gnarles barkley - st. elsewhere
the advantage - elf titled
slowblow - slowblow
va - behind the beat (w/book)
liars - drum's not dead
old man gloom - seminar iii: zozobra

plethra.

plethra = new album.

max/msp.

shout out to my homie greg for consistantly updating my plethora of virtual gadgets and levers. not to mention the typical mp3 dumps on my hungry hungry harddrives. speaking of that: musics im into @ the moment include the following:

taylor dupree - slit
bird show - lightning ghost
gza - liquid swords
alan hovhanness - mysterious mountain
ghostface killah - fishscale
samuel barber - symphony no.1
present - triskaidekaphobie & le poison qui rend fou
...and balinese gamalon music of any kind pretty much...

ok so the main point of this post was show this max/msp junk that i shall soon have in my grips. the image above would be a screenshot of the mighty autechre using this ware. (...those english mac fanboys...)

commadore 64

for those of us who can remember the actually floppy floppies of the commadore64 will be delighted to know that some of this old computers noises could be making its way to ght shows and tracks. greg is reuniting w/ his childhood computer friend, and is even getting some nifty synthesis software to boot. horray for new (old) gear!

goodlistens.

ryoji ikeda - 'dataplex'
deerhoof - 'the runners four'
autechre and hafler trio 'ae3o & h3ae' &amp; 'aeo3 & 3hae'
dave brubeck: 'time out'
alarm will sound plays aphex twin
depth affect - 'arche-lymb'
slowblow - 'slowblow'
grandaddy - 'just like the fambly cat'
men of science - 'robot love'
blockhead - 'downtown science'