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Sosososo

New music up here: "Soso"

This is my most sample-heavy yet. Unfortunately, as I was in the process of mixing, my copy of Ableton crashed. Some sort of "copyright violation" or another. I wouldn't consider this one fully done yet... I still want to sit down and really mix it well. But this is pretty good, good enough to share.

Thanks to these records:





Many, many thanks to Jason Bergman for rendering the project for me. www.jbergs.com // myspace.com/internalmusic

Microsoft Songsmith

Microsoft Songsmith is a new program that lets you be the one-man band you've always aspired to be. The premise is simple: record unaccompanied vocals and the software creates the music for you. The program is especially fun when paired up with vocal tracks from Billy Idol songs.

One of my projects today is to alphabetise the scattered cds in our closet. Now i just have to actually put them in order...

M83 @ MSG

This photo represents the crappy Killers set.

Key points about the Killers set:
-Sounded like Steely Dan playing all the crappy David Bowie songs
-Looked like it was sponsored by the Dollar Store (thanks to many inflatable palm trees and a large vase full of weird fake flowers)
-Smelled like beer

M83, however, sounded magnificent. Typical underdog opening act. They apparently went on at 7PM sharp, as I showed up at 7:02 and "Graveyard Girl" was already at the silly girl vocal part. Their massive sound really filled the cavernous Madison Square Garden well. A+ to MSG sound guys. I was impressed.

M83 @ Fillmore, plus random Killers

Tonight was my first Mute VIP experience seeing M83 at the Fillmore (Irving Plaza). It was a special show during their gigantic stadium tour with the Killers that I'll be seeing tomorrow at Madison Square Garden. This was a fun one because Steven got to come with me, so I had him do the photography for me (photo credit above is to him.)




Unfortunately, the VIP section was not as exclusive as I was expecting, seeing as it became as crowded as the regular, plebeian sections of the venue. And then Fillmore security got all huffy when they were trying to clear out where Steven and I were standing because the Killers drummer needed an extra table for his entourage (he already had 3 or 4 reserved). I ended up standing next to where he was sitting most of the night. Another Killer was at the next table. They were just as boring in person as they look on TV. The drummer's face is weird.

Moz

M83 tonight! Woo.

Look at the yellow blob

My favorite ad that I walk by every day on the way home from work. Just wish they were as creative on the red blob..

Graveyard grrl

To all future owners of the limited edition m83 silkscreens, take comfort in knowing i hand numbered each of the one hundred copies. And its only 12:30!

Panda Bear

Boneless (Remix)

Probably my favorite artist this side of Michael Jackson

Coming soon..

I've wanted to sample this record for 3 years now, and I'm finally doing it. New music on the way!

Snow snow new york

Snow new york

Thx flea market

Also featured: my double chin

Our other two roommates.

Nightschool

Since Fall '07 I had been kicking around the name "Nightschool" or "EXWIFE" to call myself for the music I would make at that time. Turns out I hadn't really recorded any music til Fall '08, and still decided to call it "Nightschool." More on the origin of that name later. I spent most of that year just playing with all of my electronic gadgets and not having the time to record much of anything I wanted to keep (I was a Communications major at the time, and I actually had homework to do). I also lacked a synthesizer at the time. In my past bands, I've gotten away with recording on other people's equipment, synthesizers in particular. For my 20th birthday, I gave myself a KORG Poly-800 as a present, with the goal of finally making music again. So now with my arsenal of mixer, sampler, synthesizer, Kaoss Pad, and other stuff, I could finally begin again. The name "Nightschool" stuck as I worked on music mostly at night (at school) and on the busses to and from New York before I moved here. I am a perfectionist, and have never been able to churn out creations quickly... so to this date, I only have two songs finished and a third that I currently hate (but will re-make and not hate it). Both of them are available for download via RapidShare now and always on MySpace (but I wouldn't recommend the latter because of how they get compressed) at myspace.com/nightschool2.
"M800" is the first project finished with my new synth during a time I was listening to a lot of M83. Available here.
"Even Farther Away" is the other and is my favorite. Available here.

I will probably try to finish the new song soon-ish, because I really should be working on mixing my last band's (A Fetish for Ethics) record. It was recorded June-July of 2007 and never made it much farther from where we were recording it in upstate NY because all sorts of miscommunications. Now I have probably 30 gigabytes worth of audio that I need to sort through to begin the intimidating task of putting it all together.

Here's a video of a terrible performance in summer '07 of our favorite and best song, "Nighttime Cowboy." I'm the drummer with the crazy hair. You wouldn't know it from this video, but it's a really good song.

Cold day for a crash...

Today a US Airways Airbus 320 carrying 150+ passengers made an emergency crash landing in the Hudson River in New York City. Apparently the plane hit a goose or a flock of geese. I like the idea of a flock of geese better.. makes it more reasonable for a plane to actually go down. When we heard about it in the office today, jokes were made of the plane hitting a flock of seagulls. Some people chuckled, showed concern for a few minutes, and then resumed being hip.

Today was a particularly bad day for a crash into the Hudson, seeing as it was about 10 degrees out. Oops. Good thing the Hudson is so full of gasoline and dead stuff that make it 30 or 40 degrees warmer. Everyone made it out of the plane okay. I thought it was funny when I heard that the plane was actually floating downstream. Eric, the sales guy who sits at the computer next to me, went out on the street to walk to the river to see (where we are in Soho isn't far from the water). I thought about going with him, but then remembered that I hate winter.

Oh, and I discovered that this has been just above my head where I sit at Mute:

I like it there.

EDIT: HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAVID! Finally, you're 23. It's about time, really. I feel like you were 22 forever and it was starting to really get to me (David is my older kin).

Feeeeeever Ray

Mute is all abuzz about Karin Dreijer Andersson's new sideproject "Fever Ray." Andersson is one half of Swedish electro-pop superstars the Knife, and her debut self-titled record makes that pretty obvious. I like it though.. only listened to it once through so far. It was handed to me after several employees made sure I wouldn't "put it on my iPod and then lose my iPod." It doesn't come out until March or something. But if you go to www.feverray.com, Klicktrack has it for sale via digital download. Kind of made me feel less exclusive about having it.. but it's nice that it says "Advance CD" on the disc. I spent half of today finishing yesterday's project of burning and labeling 200 copies of its first single, the creepy "If I Had a Heart," and the Fuck Buttons and Familjen remixes that will come out on a couple different 7"s. I put 'em on earlier during the day but walked away from the computer and forgot to keep listening to them. Actually.. that disc might still be in the computer. Oops.

Hello, internet.

I've decided to begin blogging. I'm not entirely sure what about yet. Here are things I do know: I'm living in NYC til June, I'm an intern at superhip Mute Records, and right now I have bad gas. The blog will probably cover these three points in detail, and other points in similar detail. I'm finding this post incredibly hard to write. I'm going to play Mario Kart now. Forthcoming updates will include what the room that my boyfriend and I share looks like, my menial intern tasks (the more interesting tasks may be included as well), what Mute is doing, what I'm doing, what New York is doing, and what my dog is most likely doing (sleeping).

Also: I'm learning to not be disgusted by eating mushrooms. I ate some in the stir fry that Steven made for dinner tonight. I liked it.