Ulrich Schnauss at the Fox Theatre in Boulder, Colorado on July 8, 2008, with A Shoreline Dream, Cacheflowe, and Ian Cooke.  A remarkable show, one of the best.  Music was great, crowd was appreciative, and the musicians had much love for each other. Multiple encores.

Audio sample one; audio sample two.

If anyone happened to record this show, please post a comment below, I’d love to get a copy. Same lineup is playing July 9 evening in Denver at the Falcon.

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We went to the Holi festival in Sunnyvale today! Lots of fun :)

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Happy Holi!

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We went to see modeselektor last night at Mighty! It was super-packed.. a huge crowd for a Wednesday:

The Camo Bus was rockin outside… I love the fact that no one complains that there is an absolutely thunderous soundsystem set up on the street :)

Here is a short video of modeselektor being introduced. The Mighty soundsystem absolutely crushes the little microphone in my camera, so this video is kind of pointless but still fun. What you can’t hear in the video is an insane amount of soul-destroying bass:

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Wow, I really wanna see this! It’s going to be at the Lumiere on 3/28. More videos over here and more beats over here:

• DJTEE
• IAMISEE
• Peter Miser

Who wants to go?

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Tagged: dance

A couple days ago I heard this song on the radio and it seemed familiar for some reason. I’d never heard it before, but it reminded me of the music my mom used to blast on our tiny tape player in the kitchen when I was growing up (which I think I used to hate but now find strangely comforting…kind of like fish sauce on mangoes).

The song is called Shave Your Beard by Dengue Fever and it’s a cover of a classic Cambodian pop song. I don’t think my mom ever listened to Cambodian pop when I was growing up, but she listened to a lot of Cantonese pop…I guess there must be some similarities.

Anyways the song also made me hungry!

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Remember that Soulja Boy video that May posted? Well, here is Richard Stallman (yes, RICHARD STALLMAN) doing the Soulja Boy dance. His entourage is wearing labcoats, and he is holding a laptop. In a more perfect universe, it would be required that all music videos feature RMS.

via via

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After we went to The Missing Peace opening party, we went to see Daft Punk’s Electroma at the Clay Theater. Nate, Mario, Shag, Richard, Sonya met us there, but somehow we missed Aryana.

The DJ set before the movie was awesome. All movies need DJs, robots, and lasers.

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Shag and I are testing a netradio station, streaming CC ShareAlike-licensed tracks from archive.org. Give these a listen and let us know what you think!

Ambient Drone Electronic Folk Indie IDM Pop

Ambient:
Drone:
Electronic:
Folk:
Indie:
IDM:
Pop:

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Tagged: CreativeCommons , NetLabel , netradio , ShareAlike , streaming

Here are roughly 2000 albums, all licensed under a Creative Commons ShareAlike license. Tons of awesome stuff for you to listen to, all tagged by genre, artist, and label!

The code used to make the list of albums can be found at the NetLabelShareAlike wiki page.

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So…I’m slightly embarrassed to admit that I’ve spent untold hours watching all manner of people and cartoon characters doing the Soulja Boy dance on YouTube…but not so embarrassed that I’m not gonna post them all here. This one’s my favorite!

For those who aren’t required to immerse themselves in Top 40 music for work, Soulja Boy’s song has been #1 on Billboard for the last 3 months and counting. Yes, I’m embarrassed that I know this stuff…but whatever, I remember hearing it before he got signed and thinking, OMG this song sucks donkey balls. Obviously, I’m an idiot. Of course, everyone now knows that it was his brilliant instructional dance video that separated his from all other donkey balls songs out there…because it spawned such fabulous renditions like the Soulja Boy…

• Big Girl Style
• Virginia Tech Style
• Boyz in Red Style
Crunk Squad Style
• Suburban White Boy Style

you get the idea…

Anyways, this is just my roundabout way of saying that The San Francisco Hip Hop Dancefest is happening next month, and I think we should go!

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i love this video for Szamár Madár by Venetian Snares.

Higher-quality versions of fan-made vsnares videos here

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We went to LoveParade last weekend and had a blast! The Unimog should be at City Hall every weekend!

Linky to photoset

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Erin points out that the Chillits 2007 sets are now online! Yay! Happy Ears!

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No joke, there is such a thing! It’s what Cowboy Troy calls his music. He’s got a fan club called the Hick-Hop Federation and his single below is called the Hick Chick Dance Mix. I think I mentioned this to peliom and barbara when we were driving out to Mono Lake and they didn’t believe me so here it is :-)

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The Fray audio archives are up on the Internet Archive. These recordings from Fray Day 8 San Francisco are superb! This was the last Fray Day, held in November 2004.

Kevin Smokler’s story is very touching. Unfortunately, the recording doesn’t do Kid Beyond’s set justice.

Part 1:
Part 2:

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All music videos should involve robot legs.

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The KLF is maybe the world’s most enigmatic band. Once known as The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu, their lyrics are filled with references to Discordia, and their crazy exploits are too numerous to mention. When Jimmy Cauty and Bill Drummond retired The KLF, they went out with a bang. They won the award for ‘Best British Album’ at the BRIT awards in 1992, and while playing on stage, fired a machine gun (with blanks) at the audience (the entire British music insdustry), and a few months later left the music biz for good, deleting their entire back catalog. After retirement, they set up the art organization K Foundation, and in 1994 they burned £1,000,000 in a fire on a Scottish island. Although only four people attended (Drummond, Cauty, filmmaker Gimpo and journalist Jim Reid) and all evidence of the event was supposedly destroyed, Gimpo kept a copy of the video. One year after the burning, the K Foundation screened Watch The K Foundation Burn A Million Quid, which chronicled the whole thing. This BBC video, A Foundation Course in Art, has excerpts, and gives a view of the K Foundation mindset.. linky:

Via BB.

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It’s a site full of mp3s of Awesome Tapes From Africa. How awesome is that??!!!

I found it linked from mudd up!

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I think definitely wins the award for Funniest Thug Parody of the Week.

Read A Book

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Link to Read a Book on MySpaceTV

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Via MeFi, a documentary by Howard Brookner called Burroughs, starring Burroughs, Ginsberg, Patti Smith, and many more of his friends and family. I can’t believe I hadn’t seen it before:

Also, even though I’ve heard it a thousand times, I didn’t realize Bug Powder Dust was Burroughs-inspired, and I had never the video of the original Bomb The Bass version either:

The William S Burroughs wiki entry is quite thorough!

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E2-E4 is an experimental piece written by Manuel Göttsching in 1981, commerically released in 1984, remixed into a hugely
successful club track in 1989, and re-released last year. I hadn’t heard this groundbreaking electronic album until I stumbled upon this AskMe!

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Bob was in town for my B-day, and Tyrone’s band SABRETEETH happened to be playing at El Rincon, so we went out for birthday drinkies.. May and Peliom surprised me with CUPKAKES!!!, which we ate in the back of the truck, due to an extremely loud opening band.. photo linky!

Created with Paul’s flickrSLiDR.

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We took Zara to the BTxGGPPwBC day party yesterday, and we all had a great time! It was a beautiful day and a wonderful party! Thanks to EJ for taking pics!

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Tagged: BrassTax , GGP , picnic , rave

I was listening to this episode DJ Chang’s Buddha Hash Cafe podcast, and he dropped this track in the middle. I’m not usually a fan of mashups but more like this pleeze!

See also Sigur Rós and Twista.

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I installed the Audio Player Wordpress plugin so we can easily embed mp3s into our posts.

To demonstrate, I’ll point you to episode 4 of the excellent Sound-Free podcast, which digs through a huge number of Creative Commons and netlabel releases and mixes the best stuff.

I embedded the above flash mp3 player using the following code:

Perfect late night mix. Listening back, it reminds me of the days when I use to listen to late night radio, flicking between commercial FM stations and DJ’s with a licence to experiment (where did they go?). Hence some tracks that I’ve christened softrock-electronica, some fine 4-4 house and plenty of other oddments…

Here is the track listing and the archive.org page for Sound-Free #4.

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