LS MGMT TaLkiNG hEaD AnnouncemenT

This memo was recently released, I figured I'd post it due to its dire importance.

LS Talking Head Announcement #1 by LaserSex

A Big Gigantic Signal Path !!!!!!!

Kind of strange (maybe not?) but awesome news, two great electronic groups have dropped FREE albums today!

Check them out below: (click the links to download)

Big Gigantic.




Signal Path.

bFunk Plays DJ

YO WHATUP WORLD IT'S DJ kiTTiE PhA$E!!!!!!!!!!
(just kidding)

So today I was playing DJ.

So what, I don't have the equipment (because I don't have any money) but I can always pretend....right?

Anyway, check out my mix. You'll notice the first Crookers track from yesterday's post (I really dug it).

Go and dance around if you'd like
Or cry if you think it's terrible.

Disco Biscuits on NPR's World Cafe

Not really a fan of their new album but check out the Bisco interview on NPR's World Cafe

Pretty neato I spose': Check it out HERE.

Also the Bisco Power Mission seems like a great idea and I'm glad the band and Brownstein's HeadCount are supporting alternative energy.

Pretty Lights: Making Up A Changing Mind

Pretty Lights' first EP in the trilogy to be released in 2010, "Making Up A Changing Mind", is out NOW. Go download it free (along with the rest of his albums) right HERE

(From his e-mail list)

Making Up A Changing Mind is a collection of six tracks, produced in January and February of 2010. Stylistically I fuse hip-hop production with elements of electro & dubstep, and combine that with the organic timbres and raw feeling of old school soul & funk, to, hopefully channel a number of feelings that pertain to the concept of the EP... In more than one way, this EP is a reflection of the massive changes I'm going through in my life and recent decisions I've had to make regarding my relationships, my career, and my music. From the lyrics of the vocal samples, to the fusion of production styles, even to the model and timeframe in which this EP is being released... this album speaks to the importance of adapting in a changing and surprising world. All will change with time... the future none can see. In the reconciliation of seemingly opposing options (making up a changing mind) we can hope to find new perspectives and better ways to move forward. ~Derek Vincent Smith

Wiz + Bisco= The Wizco Biscuits

WIZ KHALIFA - SWEAT BOX from Creative Control on Vimeo.

Hey Cool!

(i'm so clever)

Get Dirty!

Tryna get dirty? Of course you are! Get down with one half of PANTyRAID, Marty Party's set from Coachella. Download it HERE

Sound Tribe Saturday

Yahooo!!!

It's Saturday !!!

But not just ANY Saturday. It's Sound Tribe Saturday. That's right! Another reason to be happy that it's the weekend. A little something that should "instantly" give you satisfaction. So cool out. Dance around. Whatever, it's the weekend! Enjoy.

-b Funk





Psss, STS9's new album "ad-explorata" will be on sale this Tuesday, December 8th. Also they are going on a nice two month tour beginning in February.

Dates:

February 11 – House of Blues – San Diego CA
February 12 – Wiltern Theatre – Los Angeles CA
February 13 – Fox Theatre – Oakland CA
February 14 – Grand Sierra Ballroom – Reno NV
February 18 – Crystal Ballroom – Portland OR
February 19 – Crystal Ballroom – Portland OR
February 20 – Showbox (Market) – Seattle WA
February 21 – Showbox (Market) – Seattle WA
February 22 – Wilma Theatre – Missoula MT
February 25 – The Depot – Salt Lake City UT
February 26 – House of Blues – Las Vegas NV
February 27 – Marquee Theater – Tempe AZ
February 28 – Rialto Theatre – Tucson AZ

March 03 – George’s Majestic – Fayetteville AR
March 04 – The Lyric Theatre – Oxford MS
March 05 – Cains Ballroom – Tulsa OK
March 06 – House of Blues – Dallas TX
March 07 – House of Blues – New Orleans LA
March 10 – The Music Farm – Charleston SC
March 11 – Amos’ Southend – Charlotte NC
March 12 – The Norva – Norfolk VA
March 13 – 9:30 Club – Washington DC
March 14 – 9:30 Club – Washington DC
March 17 – Mr. Small’s Theatre – Pittsburgh PA
March 18 – Madison Theatre – Covington KY
March 19 – The Pageant – St. Louis MO
March 20 – The Pageant – St. Louis MO

Moby's SICK Analog Synth and Drum Machine Collection

Wow, Wow, Wow, this is great. Really. For your own good, check it out.




Thanks Daily Swarm and Mother Board

Give Me Every Little Thing

On a lighter note (or maybe not) this video from the Juan Maclean is pretty rad(more so the song though...the video is actually pretty weird). Oh well.

Enjoy

New Pretty Light Album Out Today (FREE!)

Today the electronica/hiphop Producer, DJ, and "button pusher" Derek Vincent Smith aka Pretty Lights has released his new album "Passing By Behind Your Eyes" for free download on his website. Pretty Lights is famous for his use of the monome , which is an electronic controller that uses open sound protocol to produce electronic music (check here). Download the new album, (as well as his 3 others!) HERE

MLR finally moving from derekvincentsmith on Vimeo.

EOTO TOUR

Go see them, dance around, have fun. Also, if you didn't notice they are playing EVERY SINGLE DAY in October.

09/18/09 Fri Camp Zoe Salem, MO
09/19/09 Sat Camp Zoe Salem, MO
09/20/09 Sun Cirquinox Festival Selma, OR
09/26/09 Sat Earthdance (Black Oak Ranch) Laytonville, CA
09/29/09 Tue Moe's Alley Santa Cruz, CA
09/30/09 Wed Mission Rock Cafe San Francisco, CA
10/01/09 Thu The Red Fox Tavern Eureka, CA
10/02/09 Fri McDonald Theatre Eugene, OR
10/03/09 Sat Berbati's Pan Portland, OR
10/04/09 Sun Nightlight Bellingham, WA
10/05/09 Mon The Palace Missoula, MT
10/06/09 Tue The Filling Station Bozeman, MT
10/07/09 Wed Aquarium Fargo, ND
10/08/09 Thu Cabooze Minneapolis, MN
10/09/09 Fri High Noon Saloon Madison, WI
10/10/09 Sat Abbey Pub Chicago, IL
10/11/09 Sun Papa Pete's Kalamazoo, MI
10/12/09 Mon Scarlet and Grey Cafe Columbus, OH
10/14/09 Wed Mohawk Place Buffalo, NY
10/15/09 Thu The Westcott Theater Syracuse, NY
10/16/09 Fri Club Metronome Burlington, VT
10/17/09 Sat Harpers Ferry Allston, MA
10/18/09 Sun Port City Music Hall Portland, ME
10/19/09 Mon The Hi Hat Providence, RI
10/21/09 Wed Red Square Albany, NY
10/22/09 Thu Sullivan Hall New York, NY
10/23/09 Fri World Cafe Live Philadelphia, PA
10/24/09 Sat The 8X10 Baltimore, MD
10/25/09 Sun Canal Club Richmond, VA
10/26/09 Mon Attitudes Blacksburg, VA
10/28/09 Wed Old Rock House St. Louis, MO
10/29/09 Thu Bourbon Theatre Lincoln, NE
10/30/09 Fri Gothic Theatre Englewood, CO
10/31/09 Sat Granada Theater Lawrence, KS
11/27/09 Fri Granada Theater Dallas, TX
12/01/09 Tue George's Majestic Fayetteville, AR
12/05/09 Sat Canopy Club Urbana, IL

PANTyRAiD

BUMP THIS


PANTyRAiD is MartyParty and Ooah.

Imogen Heap..?

If I hear that name one more time I might...have to go actually listen to her music.

I feel like I keep hearing about this person yet I know next to nothing about her. Apparently she is a sort of "wiz" at the social networking aspect of the music marketing business (mainly YouTube and Twitter) which I always find pretty impressive, that is, the way some artists know how to use these tools and others just don't seem to get it. Well anyway, she just released a new album on August 25th titled "Ellipse" and its' creation and marketing/promotion were pretty intriguing. For a better idea of what I'm talking about check out the Wall Street Journal article below written by Jim Fusilli.

Also you can listen to the whole album HERE. Don't ask me why but I find it satisfying for some odd reason. It possess a sort of electro-poppy texture and a sense of emotion that just sounds...good? I dunno. If you are so inclined, check it out.

Arriving this week after what seemed like a lengthy gestation, "Ellipse" (RCA), the new album by Imogen Heap, is smart, textured modern pop, full of invention, personality and countless joys, much like the work of Kate Bush and ­Annie Lennox.

If you are among the ­approximately one million people who follow Ms. Heap on Twitter, as I am, you've been eager to hear "Ellipse," for she posted, at times charmingly so, about 1,500 tweets about making and marketing it. I felt so intimately involved in its creation that I'd forget it didn't exist in a final form until recently; I found myself trying to remember songs I hadn't yet heard.

The 31-year-old Brit began writing "Ellipse" during a spontaneous trip overseas. "I didn't want to be in London, where I'd be doing my washing," she told me last month when we met in New York. "I got my laptop, went to Google Earth and spun." She visited ­Hawaii, Japan, Australia, China and Thailand. While she was away, she wrote a dozen songs, six of which ­appear on "Ellipse."

Travel, she said, "put my brain in an ­interesting space." Classically trained on piano, cello and clarinet, Ms. Heap rented a flat with a grand piano in Hawaii. Work cut into her sightseeing plans—"I didn't get to see very much of Maui. I didn't want to feel like I'm slacking"—and she composed "Wait It Out. " In the full arrangement on the ­album, the song retains as its platform a piano figure, but soon it slides into a collage of voices—all Ms. Heap's. She made every sound on the disc.

Ms. Heap had decided the songs on her new album would be composed rather than spliced together from soundscapes she created. "The last album had bits of all sorts of stuff. I had to try to cram a melody over a back track," she said, referencing 2005's "Speak for Yourself." "This album sounds different because it was a linear process."

When Ms. Heap returned to England "with an army of songs," she moved back into her old family house in Sussex and built a recording studio in it. "As the scaffolding was around the house, I started to hear the floorboards, the radiators. I was fresh to those sounds and I wanted to incorporate them into the album. I took a binaural microphone and walked around the house for hours. The boiler, the washing machine, my fingernails on the banister—I recorded all of it. I brought the house into the music." The interior of the 200-year-old house, she added, is elliptical. Hence the title of the new album.

"Ellipse" is full of surprises. The percussion and colors of electronica are prevalent, often used in unexpected combinations with natural sounds. "Canvas" springs from a nylon-stringed guitar and syncopated rhythms, while "Between Sheets" balances acoustic ­piano with swooping, sweeping soundscapes and gently chugging percussion. "The Fire" is a delicate, haunting solo piano piece. Lyrically, a few songs tells stories seemingly culled from what happened to Ms. Heap moments before she set her fingers to the computer keys: A less-than-satisfying mirror image sparks "Bad Body Double," which turns out to be a song about self-doubt. In "First Train Home," she wants to escape a night out to return to work. The album's closer, "Half Life," is a heartbreaker, both lyrically and through the use of strings and layered voices.

"When I'm arranging ­music," she told me, "I'm trying to get to the core of emotions. There might be nice, funny bits of sound, but it's a serious matter."

Earlier this summer, Ms. Heap faced a moment a modern recording artist dreads. A copy of her album, sent to a reviewer in the U.K., wound up for sale on eBay. She posted a note about it on Twitter and many of her fans were outraged—we knew how hard she'd worked on "Ellipse." Now there was the possibility it would be widely distributed for free. Ms. Heap and her fans bid it up to more than £10 million to short-circuit the auction and eBay stepped in. (See http://blogs.wsj.com/­speakeasy.)

The reaction of fans to her posts on social-networking sites and YouTube motivated Ms. Heap while she was working on "Ellipse." "I needed to know people were there and waiting for it," she said. "Tweeting and YouTubing made me feel like I was taking steps forward. The other thing is, I don't have a boyfriend. Now I'm on my own, rattling around the house. Twittering became a surrogate boyfriend. I was worried that it would dispel the magic, but it didn't."

(from WallStreetJournal)

Podcast Number One

I put this together the other night. It's about a half an hour long mix of different dance, electronica, type stuff from artists like Kruder & Dorfmeister, Pretty Lights, DJ Mark Farina, and some others. Check it out.

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Get Em' !

Listen to this. Dance around a little. Go ahead. It's okay

bonastic - Ludi-Boman

Download it HERE

54 Seconds of Electro-Tech-Trance Madness

listen to this and feel free to dance around like a fool.

ludiboman - Ludi-Boman

Download it HERE

techno-tronica

This really isn't "new" news but i figured I'd throw in my 2 cents.I know techno,house,electronica, dance music, or whatever you would like to call it these days has sort of "historically" gotten a bad rap (at least in certain contexts). A good deal of people think it's stupid, boring, repetitive, etc, (which I do understand) and a good deal of people also just can't stand the type of fan that is drawn to this type of music. (Bisco kids get a bad rap but well..never mind)

Despite that,it can't be denied that it seems to be continually gaining huge popularity, especially among the jam band community with bands/groups like: The New Deal, Disco Biscuits (their various side projects: Conspirator, M80 Dub Station) Sound Tribe Sector 9, Telepath,MSTRKRFT, Thievery Corporation, Infected Mushroom, Hallucinogen, Lotus, Deadmau5, Girl Talk, even the band Ozric Tentacles who have been around since the early 90s and COUNTLESS others (Hey even the String Cheese Incident broke up and around 4 of the 6 members have electronic based projects going on) So what's my point to all this? I don't know, I guess I don't really have one, but I happen to enjoy this stuff and I take it for what it's worth. I think it's just fun music and I'm a beat junkie, a sucker for something that can make me nod my head or tap my foot and if you can make me do that then you're half way to making me dance around like an idiot.

Actually, this does have a point. This genre has been creeping into pop music for quite a while now (Moby,Fatboy Slim,Daft Punk , thanks Kanye) and it looks like it's all starting to blend together and become more mainstream (Kanye West's 808's and Heartbreaks, Rhianna/Ti's "Live Your Life", Common's new album "Universal Mind Control", Chromeo's "Fancy Footwork", that lousy Metro Station band, etc etc etc) I don't know, it seems like people are looking for something new to do so they are ripping off what is popular in the "underground" (which i guess is what always ends up happening anyway) Oh well.

Ozric Tentacles


Disco Biscuits


Daft Punk


Chromeo


Common