The Debauched Post

80's Comedian's Are Cool



So if 80's Nintendo is Cocaine then the Nintendo Wii is definitely Extacy. It makes you dance around and get fit, grind your teeth in anxiety and stare at the pretty lights. I went to a Wii party (that name is SOoo! wrong) and we didn't really have time to drink or take drugs. We were too busy limbering up and preparing for the next round. The next day my arms were sore. How dare they try to make geeks fit, I mean really! I have to say it was also a bit trippy playing computer games with a 50/50 male female crowd. Half the time your watching the person jump around like an idiot. Yeah, and being an idiot is cool.

60's Porn is Cool



The thing I learnt from this educational movie is that 60's porn was kinda cool. It had a hip nonchalant beatnik vibe and the women were real. That's cool.



Cool,

T


ps. Note to self, promise not to use the word cool in the next few posts.

pps. Note to reader, if you are looking for my new mixes go down two posts and click on the highlighted HERE's in each paragraph.

The Biz

I found these guys through a HipHop music production forum. They are really into new media business models. Here is an interview with some film producers that created a system to find out what cities wanted to see their movie. There is also a cool interview with MC Hammer (really!). click on the YouTube logo to go to the other 'Internet Celebrities' Vidcasts.



Now this is dope. Through my infinite search for rare loops I chatted on forums to LaiF, who has made his own video. It's brilliant, totally real and hell funky.

The artists are out there making it happen. The difference is that the media is not CDs and TV (that are controlled by the labels) it's the web. Get into it!

You can even GET an education at MIT for free. No excuses.

Productive producer kept unkempt!

It's funny. When I am doing heaps of great creative work I have less web presence because I don't have time to update websites and blogs. Well, today I still have heaps of projects to finish but I feel a need to exist (online). I have also been promising people a preview of some of the mixes I have been working on.

Simon Kelly is an up and coming acoustic songwriter that has a cool layered vocal tone and is up for some crazy studio experimentation. I like the idea of doing a DJ Shadow meets JoseGonzalez style track and so does he. Cool, huh?
First off I'm remixing a groove of his called 'Cloud On The Corner'. Note the unkempt look of the studio producer. HERE is a preview of the first track.


Jasmin and Frans are getting me to work on a studio album. As the core writers of the indi band Halogen they have a lot of song writing experience to bring to the table. It's great because they bring in complete songs with just vocals and layers of guitars. It makes my job a lot easier. Together we have a lot of creative power. We just have to decide how to use it (for good or evil). Jaz wanted a gay disco track, so I referenced pet Shop Boys and New Order and went for a indi guitar disco track. All the instrumental sounds are Frans's guitars through mad effects. The only synth is the sub bass (done on a secret synth I am beta testing for Andy at FXpansion-London). HERE is a demo mix of 'Terrible Romance'.


Balvinder Singh, David Scharpf & I have a big project with no name. We have written and produced at least an album worth of dubby jazzy tracks. We are now involving different vocalists in subtle ways. As well as producing, Bal plays and studies tabla and sitar. David is a jazz keys player from Vienna. Together we write very fast, we just have a bit of trouble completing the tracks because every time we get together we write new ones. HERE is a mix of a few of the more dubby deep house ones. We have some heavier breaks/dub tracks as well and a bit of D&B/HipHop. As I said we have trouble not writing. It's a groovy scene man.


PIRACY
If you are concerned about piracy then click these pic ->
We take our movie going seriously, damn it.

RANDOM TUNES
Finally, if you want some random tunes while you work check out this awesome site, tun3r. It's like a world radio. You just turn the dial and tune into Internet radio streams from all over the world. brilliant.

Ahh, it's 4:30am. I better sleep.

enjoy..

T

Crazy Theramins

I have always admired Theramins and people who can play them. I have had a go, but they are a bitch to play in tune. It takes incredible sense of pitch and subtle nuances of touch. One day I will get one and learn it's mystical art.
On an earlier post I had a cool live video of Gnarls Barkley and their hot string section 'The G Strings' and to follow that up and bring this little blurb full circle, here is 'Crazy' being played on Theramins, brilliantly.

Vangelis in his glass studio

I love this interview with electronic/classical film composer Vangelis from 1992 on the BBC. He seems very wise and at peace with composing. With all this technology it's important to remember that it's the music that matters. He is happy "When he achieves a moment of harmony". Cool

rEaliTy pUnkEd

The way we interact with technology is just as important as the technology it's self. There have been lots of technologies that have been highly achieving technically but have given a bad user experience. The classic example is the MP3 player. Till the iPod came along they were not accepted into the popular culture. They were merely geek toys. With Apples design, user interface, software and promotion the general public could understand the MP3 player and thus wanted it. The iPhone I think will be a similar success, purely because Apple makes good GUI (Graphical User Interface). The technology is not that stunning but the impression it will give to the user will be of the software.

This brings me to the most amazing development in user interface. I am still excited about Google Maps and Earth, but this has incredible implication. Cyberspace, The Matrix, Virtual Reality seem so much closer all of a sudden. The idea that the virtual world creates itself with the data we all put into it. Truly inspiring. The implications are mind blowing. This is now! WATCH THIS VIDEO!



Steam Punk is a popular sci-fi concept that stylistically rebels against the common impression of technology and gives it a more classic hands on feel. Here are two steam punked computer parts. It's a Dell monitor and a classic old IBM click keyboard.


There endeth the Trilby thoughts..

Singing

I'm a music producer/song writer that works with singers. I sing my melodies and then work them out quickly on the keyboard. I'm currently working with four different singers on different projects. Anyway, you get the idea. Vocals are an important part of what I do.

There is a singer that has inspired me recently. Ever since I heard her sing on a track on the 'Garden State' soundtrack, I have loved her tone. I didn't know who she was. The track was 'Let Go' from the group Frou Frou. I later found out this was a collaboration project and the singer was actually Imogen Heap.

I love the way she uses technology, too. I think singers should record themselves. They are best at taking their own criticism. The less emotional complexity in the writing process the better. A track should be a clear defined expression. Simple is good (says the over-producer)


These girls were obviously inspired by 'Let Go' as well.

Cute.

Here is the original




Ok, one more while I'm heaping it on

Winter holidays and The Spanish Inquisition

Sigrid and I went on a short weekend holiday to Margaret River last week. We stayed at this cool studio (small challet) called 'Wood & Earth'. It was seriously indulgent. A beautiful place in the forrest near a field. We did have trouble leaving the 5 seater jakuzi. It was deliscious.


I know it sounds kind of boring but there is some crazy action happening in American politics. This link shows you one of the cadidates from Alaska in the running. "Tell me, Barack, who do you want to nuke?" classic stuff.

I wonder if he will get assassinated.





As I'm showing some holiday pics, it remided me of this Monty Python skit. Couldn't find the exact one with the holiday slide show (it might have been from 'Live at the Hollywood Bowl'), but here is the gist of it. It's also worth checking out John Cleese's Eulogy for Graham Chapman as well.



Oh, ok. One more.



Enough. I can take any more. ;-p

Free to be

Falling to Earth
I am a big fan of Google Earth, or more to the point I am a big fan of the Earth, that Google, Nasa and others capture so well. Here is the simplest most beautiful way I have seen to explore the Earth. It makes you want to go study an atlas. You will need some serious broadband to freely fly through the satellite photos. Check out the NASA daily shots if your interested in the weather. www.flashearth.com


First there was YouTube
This is a viciously great idea. It's like online stand-up. People send in their clips and the popular ones stay up the bad ones get sent to the crypt. So if you bomb on this stage the whole world knows, but they don't really know who you are. Hmm


PORN... but not as you know it Jim
Who is she. Where is she from and what is she thinking at the end. It doesn't matter, we have just seen her at her most intimate and we are online so that's all there is, simple. This is YouPorn.

Like an erotic sand castle that gets washed away in the morning with the tide. Hmm2

We are now free to be: funny, sexy, stupid, beautiful... YouChoose

D e S i g N

On another note I have been doing a little bit of design work. Here are some of the more creative projects:

Next post I will show some of my musical
adventures.

TT

Cycle into the Universe, 8-bit stylee

I have a heap of new mixes are nearly complete. Including the dub sessions of Balvinder and I.

A preview of the remix for Pablo and Ceci in Buenos Aires can be heard on the Res MySpace. I will be updating it as it is finished. Feel free to leave a comment here or on MySpace.

Click the pic to go to MySpace









Wow, man. The Universe is so small and we are so big.. oh wait. I may have got that wrong, better check the NIKON UNIVERSACALE!


Oh yeah, it's an 8-bit tie. I want an elite geek 8-bit suit. Dom wants 8-bit contact lenses and friend Sarah wants an 8-bit mirror. This was actually an April Fools, but it has been so popular that they are going to manufacture them. Click pic for more.


A cool website promoting cycling and some stylin' bikes. I like the idea of having a cruiser as well and a sports bike, but I ride quite urgently. I like to have a goal and get there, I don't really cruise. I'm not really a stoner more of acaffienater. Maybe I could cruise intensely. YEAH, MAN! I'M GONNA F*CK'N CRUISE!!


Ok, back to my jazzy Latin remix, now I got that out of my system.