Archive for July, 2006
Happy Chief debuts “Gold Plated”
Lo-fi and amateurish, this is the speck Happy Chief will make on the skillet of rock and roll’s breakfast.
Ingredients: yours truly, upright and fretless electric basses, wineglass, guiro, four-string slide guitar, steel drum, drumkit, piano, harmonica, shaker and dog barks. All made on a four-track cassette recorder and no computers [if you know what i do for a living you're prolly not believing that]. well, i did mix the analog signal down to .mp3 format in order to share my inexperience with all of you.
Most all original tunes [except for a tribute to the late Morphine frontman, Mark Sandman, using a wineglass] the sound of this album is akin to basement four-track-noodling insomniance. That last is not really a word, true, but perhaps is invented here to describe the movement that is Gold Plated.
Listen to Happy Chief cover “French Fries with Pepper”
if you don’t hate that, you can download the album here.
Enjoy!
Lewis and Clarke couldn’t have dreamed
Pavion’s KCN 9000 handheld looks more like a PMP than a GPS unit, which is no doubt exactly what Pavion wants you to think, touting the device’s audio and video capabilities as much as it’s navigation functions. Alongside a SiRF Star III GPS module, the Windows CE-based device packs a 300 MHz Atlas 2 processor, 64MB of RAM, and 32MB of ROM behind a 3.5-inch QVGA screen, with storage coming in the form of an SD card slot (an SD card appears to be included but Pavion doesn’t say what size). Interestingly, Pavion also lists the device as having an AV in port, which can presumably be used for recording, although the company doesn’t explicitly say as much. It’s also not spilling any deets on a price or release date.
It wasn’t that long ago that we first discovered fire.
We’ve come a long way, baby. Or so it would seem, aye?
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Sun Tzu’s The Art of War (as it relates to one-upmanship during discussions of popular music between the uneducated peasant classes)
Posted by DaveTheGrinch under music
Open Letter to Creators of Publicly Published Playlists
Taken from DaveTheGrinch.net…
We (me), the undersigned, respectfully request that the technology enabled, power granted 15 minute fame seekers please stop clogging up the internet with their badly conceived and predictably executed user created playlists. Just because technologies such as Rhapsody allow you to create and publish your own playlist of tracks doesn’t mean you should. Playlist creation is a responsibility not a right.
The Eraser
From CityPages.com…
The man who once sang, “Anyone can play guitar” often chooses not to on his solo debut. Instead, Thom Yorke and producer Nigel Godrich build The Eraser on the same surround-sound circuitry that bolstered the last few Radiohead albums. The solo project is hardly a sign that the singer will abandon his mates indefinitely to do his own thing: Yorke’s thing and the band’s are one and the same.
Gnarly
The Gnarls Barkley collaboration didn’t bring producer Danger Mouse to the top of the British charts for the first time, but it did mark his debut as the pilot of a hit record. Mouse, born Brian Burton, first gained the ears of discriminating listeners when he concocted The Grey Album, a bootleg that mashed the vocals from The Black Album by Jay-Z with music samples courtesy of The White Album by EMI flagship the Beatles. Although the label posted a cease-and-desist order, one of their employees, Damon Albarn of Blur and Gorillaz, was one of the impressed, and he hired Burton to create the beats for the second Gorillaz album, Demon Days. Just one year later, Danger Mouse was back in the charts with another collaboration project, Gnarls Barkley, with singer Cee-Lo Green (a solo artist and former member of Atlanta’s Goodie Mob). The pair had met in Atlanta in the late ’90s, and began recording together around the time of a 2003 DM record titled Ghetto Pop Life. A few recordings were passed around and played by many associated with the pair, and eventually one of the leaked tracks, “Crazy,” became a hot property for the download market. It became the first single vaulted to the top of the British charts by digital distribution, and the resulting album, St. Elsewhere, peaked at number one on the album charts. An American release followed two weeks later.
Gnarls will be at First Ave on August 2nd.
; )
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