Number 1 fan
Spotted this crusty prospector wearing this old Stussy tee in Laguna Beach last night…
Shirt must be over 15 years old…
Built for the long haul…
Pump up song of the day! Apr.26.2010
Stopped by Barracuda with a few friends to see the ED BANGER crew.
#Reminding me of my love for french beats
This pump up song was a sick part of the set.
Calm down people- the future of stupidity is now secure.
The library of congress will now be preserving all tweets for eternity.
Isn’t this redundant since Texts from Last Night added a TWEETS section?
The good news-
I think this officially makes the below tweet from Ice T a national treasure.
The government used a pun to launch the program??? #raisingpersonaldoubts
Oh, how tweet it is…
When is the library going to start sending their budget to google along with a thank you card reading
“you’re doing our job better than we ever could”
Pump up song of the day! Nov.23.2009
My ears are Francophiliacs.
Can’t get enough of the French Techno.
Bands like Daft Punk and Justice brought the Paris style of Disco/House to the masses.
This is the rocket fuel of pump up mixes.
When you listen I swear a tiny french mechanic crawls into your ears and chips the shit out of your brain.
ED BANGER RECORDS
Ed Banger recs. leads the troops on this.
Check their Podcast for great free mixes from their stable: HERE
BUSY P
DAFT PUNK, JUSTICE producer and ED BANGER Founder Busy P’s The Essential Mix is a great place to start: DOWNLOAD HERE
Romain Gavras
This smokey frenchman is the film captain of the Busy P french tech crew.
His film co is called EL NINO check his work HERE
MUST SEE TV- JUSTICE “STRESS” video by Romain Gavras
If you don’t bother watching, don’t bother reading the blog.
Solid gold music video: HERE
Pump up song of the day! Nov.9.2009
Download- Glass – Pruit Igoe & Prophecies
You’ll remember this song from Watchmen, but it’s actually a composite of two songs created by Phillip glass for the 1982 neuro-techno overload film Koyaanisqatsi
The composite is the epic result of blending the songs Prophecies and Pruitt Igoe and laying the chanting “Koyaanisqatsi” over the top.
Watch the Full Film (Thanks to a recent MGM deal with YouTube)
The word Koyaanisqatsi means ‘crazy life, life in turmoil, life out of balance, life disintegrating, a state of life that calls for another way of living’
Director Godfrey Reggio, freaking out over the pervasive existence of technology, made this two hour opus consisting entirely of time of slow-motion and time lapsed shots of technology and humanity interacting across the US.
No dialogue, no plot, and (according to Wikipedia) only three comprehensible phrases uttered in the entire film:
- “If we dig precious things from the land, we will invite disaster.”
- “Near the day of Purification, there will be cobwebs spun back and forth in the sky.”
- “A container of ashes might one day be thrown from the sky, which could burn the land and boil the oceans.”
The guy was trippin.
Even the most obtuse, drug infused, paranoia cinema can drawn from to create pop culture films.
I’ve always believed that the cutting edge of pop culture film making lives where the avant-guard meets the audience’s ability to understand.
Utilizing symbolism the popular audience understands, a good film attempts to slow drip diluted doses of creativity experienced by those with advanced knowledge of the art form.
Musical Memes
The parallels are easy to see with the Philip Glass’s themes of technological destruction used in Watchmen, a film about a looming nuclear apocalypse.
One question I have is:
“At what point does a song built of musical memes solidified over time to represent fear, unknown, and technology become the thing it originally set out to represent?”
It’s an obvious theory that attributed value to sounds comes from their use in widely known media culture.
My question is at what point does that turn over? When does the assembly become the building block?
It’s probably a useless chicken/egg argument when in reality these musical references live in a continuum that is constantly self reinforcing and evolving.
Wait for it— Bonus music time.
In a cosmic tech coincidence worthy Godfrey Reggio’s brow sweat- as I’m writing this I received an email notifying me that an awesome Philip Glass compilation is available for free download.
Maybe Reggio was not so far off in his paranoia…
Original Vision
I am not a hipster.
but,
I can appreciate the unique imprint Patrick Daughters has left on this video.
Whether you like the video or not, y0u have to admire that they definitely swung for the fences.
The visuals have changed the way I listen to this song forever and kudos for bringing back OG dance choreography.
Watch:
No One Does It Like You – Department of Eagles
Check the rest of his work at:
Tony “fuck you” Gilroy
There is tons of great screenwriting insight in this interview with the modern master of suspense films.
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/03/16/090316fa_fact_max?currentPage=1
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