Phantogram – Let Me Go

I’ll really be going – as fast as I can – in 3 days. First XC race of the season up in Echo, Or. I’m going to need to find some faster music by then. Hello spring break!

Like this one from Pretty Lights. I love Pink Floyd, and I like remixes, which probably explains why I’m so into this song:

Pink Floyd Time Remix – Pretty Lights

You can download a ton of this guy’s music off his eye popping website. Seriously, who designed that thing? I want to be their friend.

Anyone that can explain this picture to me gets $2

First, let me share with you some music that others have shared with me. I have not posted music for a very long time and this is just completely different.

Gotta thank Fitch for this one. Some good real music with a little bit of synth to make it nice and cracky. Self titled album is really good.

Broken Bells – The High Road

Heres from Andrea (as usual) Black River Killer by Blitzen Trapper, natives of this here fine state. I’m a sucker for music with a good story.

Blitzen Trapper – Black River Killer

Here is a really cool art installation:

Check it out. That was 3 media types in one blog post, all having absolutely nothing to do with eachother. I love the internet.

Haven’t had much computer tome since school got out a few weeks ago, but today I thought I’d stop by and see what was new on the interwebs.

Not much.

But I did come across a few new songs for the New Years Eve mayhem. Hope everyone is enjoying the holidays!

Everybody loves the pixies.

The Pixies – Where is My Mind (Bassnectar Remix)

This is a fun track – a mashup of the 25 most popular songs of 2009 (according to Billboard) in one song. Kinda makes you realize that a lot of these pop songs sound exactly the same…
DJ Earworm – United States of Pop 2009 (Blame It on the Pop)

Im not entirely sure what I just watched. But I like it. From the artist’s description:

Syn Emergence is a project which examines my own associative relationships between sound, form and space.

The project is constructed according to a range of specific sonic and spatial scale rule sets (micro, component, meso and macro) which I designed as part of a cross-disciplinary notation/cartographic system.

Syn Emergence from RICH BEVAN on Vimeo.

Dead week is upon us. That terrible time when months of procrastination finally catch up to you. For all of you typing 10 page essays the day before they are due, this is for you. Hopefully these tunes can help you out a bit.

Cool track from this band out of Manchester,  to get that intro paragraph done.

Everything Everything – My Keys Your Boyfriend

Here is a very dreamy, relaxing song from The Animal Collective. I love the intro.

Animal Collective – What Would I Want – Sky

What cramming session would be complete without some Thievery Corporation?

Thievery Corporation – Amerimacka featuring Notch

Enjoy!

Ah, the end of the quarter. For some reason it always seems to mean movies, movies… movies in class. Today I watched two films about global warming – one about the sinking nation of Tuvalu and the other An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore’s most lasting contribution to society. Ironically last night was my first night back at the robot hut, of course, the heater is broken again. I had a dream I was wrapped in a hundred blankets, when I woke I thought I had frostbite on the tip of my nose. Who cares, lets just get to the music.

Thanks to Andrew for trading a few CDs with me last night! Heres a sweet track he made that he also gave me:

Andrew Hathon – Chasing Kids (MGMT vs Snow Patrol)

And some more stuff:

Neon Indian – Deadbeat Summer (thanks Andrea!)

The XX – You’ve Got The Love

Have  conversations with yourself. You’d be surprised how much you have in common.

Take the slightest driving errors by others completely out of context (this includes driving < 80 in the fast lane). Express your feelings with your horn, and be liberal with threatening gestures and cuss words. Dont worry – everyone understands.

You don’t really need food. Only eat when your car does at gas stations. Rockstar and pretzels. Nuff said.

Have someone make you a CD before you leave so you can listen to something unpredictable. Who cares if its dance music and you are stuck in traffic,  and that someone slipped a Paris Hilton track in there – take it like a man.

Listen to bangin’ tracks like these until you reach your destination:

Army of Yeah – The White Panda

Homecoming – The Teenagers

Wonderwall (Conor Cutz & DJ Black Remix) – http://salacioussound.com

The Innards

There is a really cool kit made by Future Kit that will allow you to pretty easily make your own LED VU meter. The kit comes with 15 leds, the PC board, all the components and a little bit of solder. The solder that comes with the kit is pretty big so I just used my own 60/40 rosin core solder from Radioshack. You have to attach your own power supply and the kit accepts 9 – 12v. I didnt want a huge AAx8 power supply so I just stuck with a 9v battery at the expense of slightly dimmer LEDs. It stays in the box with velcro.  I wanted the whole thing to be something I could easily carry around (party trick!) so I decided to place mine in a box. Project boxes from Radioshack work well, they are fairly cheap and the material is easy to cut. One thing to watch out for the is the microphone – it has no leads. You have to solder wires on to the solder pads on the back of the mic. Be very careful, if any of the solder drips and touches anything else on the mic it will short out the circuit.

You can order one from Bakatronics:

http://www.bakatronics.com/shop/item.aspx?itemid=410

Here is a video of the thing in action:

The Generationals – When they fight, they fight

The White Panda – Army of Yea

The Walkmen – The Rat

Snowden – Black Eyes (Le Castle Vania Remix)

Dragonette – Fixin to Thrill

Sebastien Tellier – Fingers Of Steel (Hypnolove Remix)

Datarock – Fa Fa Fa

James Yuill – “This Sweet Love”

Digitalism – Pogo (Shinichi Osawa Remix)

Basement Jaxx – Hot ‘N Cold

Edwin van Cleef – Overtaken <– wrong song in vid, oh well.

The Teenagers – Homecoming

New Order – Bizarre Love Triangle

Kelis – Millionaire

The Heavy – How do you like me now?

Elefant – Misfit

The Rapture – House of Jealous Lovers

Bloc Party – Where is home? (Burial remix)