Oh man. Twitter... micro blogging... the future... it almost makes no sense to blog music anymore, you have to worry about music breaking copyright infringements and getting your posts deleted and stuff. All of the big music blogs ie Pitchfork, DiscoBelle, BigStereo, MissingToof, etc etc have kind of taken over. I don't have anything really new to offer. I'm not really a great writer. I think I'm going to focus COLORTRONIC more on my Artwork and video posts and less on music. I'm going to keep blogging shoes on SHOEGAYZR and hopefully one day make the SHOEGAYZR COFFEE TABLE BOOK!
no.1 - i saw Barbarella for the first time this weekend. it is too good. Matmos named themselves after the omniprescent force that drives the plot of this movie. if you haven't seen it, see it. if you have, read a little bit about it... here
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no.2 - http://www.asianmandan.comthis is a shout out. as you may have noticed, dear reader, COLORTONIC has taken a turn, musically speaking, to the more avant-garde side of my taste buds; which is not to say i've lost my love for musique d'electroniques i've just been putting more focus into other interests. in any case, sir ASIAN man DAN you've restored some of my confidence in the bloghouse genre. love it.
these Late of the Pier remixes are awesome, I will be keeping them on my radar for sure! He posted some live music by them too, here.
I can't get enough of these remixes though, I've been listening all weekend
also this Zongamin remix of Ratatat is wilde, like its name it sounds like a washed out payote dance remixed into the tribal-future-rave sound of Zongamin. it has tones and textures used by projects like Rainbow Arabia, El Guincho or Panda Bear in short, this is brilliant. this is one of those i can put on repeat, repeat, repeat.
k. so i'll admit that was kindof a cop out / copy paste
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they are coming to denver and playing with my good friends Slight Harp (Colortonic rmxz of them coming soon btw) holy shit. i am so excited. i'm going to die of awesome. every song on the new album Saint Dymphna is fucking brilliant, i can't deal.
Letter to HRO: I'm not going to lie, I am an avid reader of your blog. you are always one step ahead with yr hipster and/or bangers wearing american apparel and/or just being sexy/rawesome in LA attitude. its very pre-political vice magazine. sex, drugs and supr qute girls eating vegi-sandwiches and drinking sparx. When I read your blog it almost makes me want to start blogging in BIG TEXT in some faggetronic color like NEON YELLOW or PURPLE and start misspelling every third word in giant run-on sentences... almost... but i'm just not hip enough :p in any case, carles, -golfclap..
Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "What Music Will Sound Like After the Electro-Reces...": Everyone knows the UK is the window to the future. Everyone is listening to dubstep and minimal now, duh. Or pretending to like Bmore.
Well. I'm glad someone knew. If you went to Sub.mission w/BABYLON SYSTEM @ Vinyl on Friday you would know that white ppl gettin KRUNKY like blck pppl at DUBSTEP RAVEZ is the future.
In other news. I recently got back in touch with my cousin Eliot, in the RainbowDestroyr online art/music collective, who now goes by the moniker Relitron (I think its FITNESS now actually...). He makes qute 8-bit. Not chip tuning but makin noise none-the-less. From his first album Falling Forward peep Press-ON -inspired by SPACE and WHIMSY. Keep your ear to the ground for the New album Battleship Tristesse to be released soon. The entire Falling Forward Album is available here.
Speaking of producing, I just made my first track in Ableton Live (the new not ableton live) and I'm willing to put it up becasue I dont think a ton of people will storm it. I want a new fusion sound like nu-mnml-electro-futurepop. I made the track mostly out of vocal samples I recorded of myself and a synthesizer.
JohnElectric - GONE (soon to be remixed) --also soon to come up w/ a better pen name.
The sound I really want has been capitulated by the band/collective GUDRUN GUT they have transcended genre through the 1980s in a genre aptly named "ingenious dilettantes" into a futurepop dimension. They hold a Portisheadesque quality. They have taken my little group of friends by storm. Give them a check out. YOU CAN GET THE "PUT ON A RECORD" ALBUM HERE!!! I'm going to highly suggest it!
Don't you worry, this post will include some REMIXES of INDIE SONGS for your HUNGRY EARS.
I'm not going to lie. I've had this picture on my desktop all week. I have somewhat of a bl0ggerCRUSH on this fellow PFUNKT. His music is bangin too! I found him while I was peeping the MOCHIPET RemixContest Blog. I mean watch this video and tell me it doesn't make your man/woman parts say hello.
