The soundtrack is my life

It's soundtracks week for me.

● I have been commissioned to mix an ambient piece with Mel Robinson (Cello) and Steve Richter.

● She Selexx has been asked to build a soundtracks for a dance company. MORE INFO

● She Selexx track 'We Go Out In The Summer' has had interest from US TV for soundtracks.

I also did an all-nighter to do this remix for the ABC classical opera remix competition. It was quite fun. You can download the MP3 and have a listen.

HERE is an MP3 of my 'Orpheus' remix. Click the pic for more info on the competition. I'm not sure who has won.




GIG NEWS
Cloud Kollektiv have a gig on Saturday the 5th of April at Kulcha in Fremantle.

I will also have a birthday gig on Thursday the 1st of May at the Velvet Lounge with Deuce records. I'm not sure which of my bands will play, maybe all of them.

NEWS JUST IN..

Cloud Kollektiv have got all three of our tracks into the national radio station Triple J's UnEarthed competition dance top 10. Our track 'Free Love' has regular rotation. 'Soaked' - ft. Cle' is 4th, 'Weight Of The World' ft.JonoMcNeil is 7th and 'Free Love' is 8th.
For more info and to have a listen click HERE

To hear us on the radio download THIS MP3 of the UnEarthed radio show. More info here

See the Cloud Kollektiv play on April the 5th at Kulcha in Fremantle.

Keyboard Technique

I just played the Good Vibrations Festival with She Selexx. It was pretty massive. We were videoed in HiDef and shown on some massive screens as well as getting on channel 9 News. We played the new tracks well, but had a bit of a hard time rocking out as the foldback was a bit quiet. People said we sounded great. A decent first gig for She Selexx, methinks.This video from the 80's cracked me up. Talk about keyboard technique. Sun Ra is the man ;)



HERE is an bloody great article about Australian culture (I use this term loosely). Anyway it's bloody funny. If your not from Oz you should give it a squiz, mate.

Breakdancing Nu School

Damn this is bad ass power breakin'

If you need more of more of this dance crack, watch THIS. It will blow your mind.

I'm playing two big gigs in the next week.

SheSelexx plays the outdoor festival 'Good Vibrations' with Kanye West, Cypress Hill, Thievery Corp, High Contrast, Pharoahe Monch, Katalyst...

Cloud Kollektiv play The WAMi festival spectacular the week after. It's a strategic jam session with guests: vocalist Cle, percussionist Arun and guitarist/singer Simon Kelly. It will be a deep dubbed out psychedelic jazz session. It's another outdoor gig we are on at 4pm in the Russel Sqr park in Nth Bridge, Perth on Saturday, Febuary the 23rd.

New Star Trek Previews Mashups

Here are some cult mashups. I loved Karate Kid as a kid. This is quite stylish. it used some of the latest live video scratching technology.


Karate Kid AV Remix from momo_the_monster on Vimeo.

Trek in da hood.. Dat's what I'm talkin' about
I better warn you these are seriously rude, in a very silly kind of way and also seriously funny. There is a new ultra real Star Trek movie coming out, but I doubt it will be keeping it this REAL! totally NSFW

Here is the actual teaser to the Trek movie if you haven't seen it yet. i like the sound references to the old ship sounds.

Soundtracks - Now with pictures!!

I have always been into old soundtracks from the 60's. Batman, John Barry, James Bond, Beatnik movies, Westerns... When I was in London with my band ARG I loved the late night TV and sampled heaps of it into my old ASR10 sampler. I would sit up late waiting for some Hammer horror or rare late 50's Sci-Fi. So this site is a complete gold mine for me. A true fetish satisfier.


LikeTelevision Embed Movies and TV Shows


If you haven't found the TV show 'Flight of the Conchords' then here is a taste of them live. Any musician will relate to their show, it's tragic gold.



Who would have guessed the future would be like this, all retro and stuff.

Internet killed the video star

Not really, it just sounded good. I know that in Australia at least traditional video are not being made as much for TV. YouTube viral videos are another matter. We are in the transition from CDs to MP3s and TV video clips to YouTube viral clips. Here is a video that uses some of that light writing style mixed with that Matrix multi camera 3D technology. It's a dope track too.



While I'm on the subject HERE are the top videos of 2007 as selected by Rolling Stone. Also check out THIS graffiti art site. Art is seriously being taken away from the establishment and getting online and on the street. Good times.

I finally got my German Adam A7 studio monitor and they are sweeeet! So solid and clear. Worth the dosh definitely. Now I have a heap of mixing to do. Ahh, how quickly new toys become tools. Might watch a few movies first, though. Yeah.

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The Future of 1950's Post Modern Futurism From The Past

I love the Deco styling of this 1958 futurist film by Disney. Somehow Deco is always in. Some of this design is actually quite hip. Maybe it's so dated that it's hip.

I have nearly 8Gb of storage on my keyring. Enough space for a decent sized school library. I can translate, look up, read mail, buy things and watch porn from my mobile phone. It's funny how the little things have advanced massively but the big stuff hasn't. There are no super duper highways, jetpacks, smart cars, robot companions or space colonizing. Are we micro managing more or are the little things more important. Maybe we are just getting more petty. Of course now I have 8Gb of storage on my keyring the last thing I want is a library of books to read on it. I mean, really, who has time for that shit.

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The Cloud live and seeing the light

Light painting is cool:


Also the latest Cloud Kollektiv gig was cool too. It was hard work getting the EP together and finishing 14 tracks for two sets but it was worth it:
Check the Cloud MYSPACE for new pics and music. Great work, thanks to everyone involved. Special thanks to Cle Wootton, Simon Kelly and Amit Diwadkar for their vocals.

Good luck to Bal on his trip to India to learn to be even more cultural. Enough already Bal, your making the rest of the Cloud Kollektiv look bad ;)

A bit of suspense

I have been waiting with baited breath for my new Adam A7 studio monitor speakers to come from Germany. I could have got them from Sydney but they would have cost me even more, so I am getting them direct from the distributor with a studio friends who is getting five (surround setup for film composition), this way we can get them for a few hundred dollars less.
I am also mixing a heap of Cloud Kollektiv stuff for our gig on the 8th. So that we have an EP for people to take away. We have heaps of grooves but most are only a minute or two long. So I am working these tracks into a extended mix of cloudiness. It's sounding great but I wish I was mixing on the Adam A7's not my old Tannoy speakers.

Here's some new/old Hitchcock, directed by Martin Scorsese. Great stuff. Pity he doesn't go with it and make the full film. Very stylish. Note the Australian lead role.

Groovy Gig & Google Gives

Preperation for the next Cloud Kollektiv gig on December the 8th is accelerating. I'm mixing Cle's tracks and have all the singers signed on for the gig. We hace Cleonie Wootton (soul), Simon Kelly (warm folk) and Amit Diwadkar (traditional Indian). Now we just have to jam the grooves.


Here is what the iPhone should have been. Google rocks! It's open source all the way and Google are putting up $10million for anyone to write an innovative app for a phone running Googles Android operating system. This is going to be interesting.



Post gig Trilby and David Scharpf