This is one of my ALL TIME FAVORITE Sergio bits:
Classic:
And, of course (for those who know me), I could have died a happy man if I saw this live:
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Retro Dance from Chef Jeff
For those who enjoy the old dance music…
RETRO DANCE – TRACK ONE by Dj Chefjeff (Jeffrey Tull) on Mixcloud
GreedyBot: I’m Keeping This (This One is Mine)
Fooling around with the Electribe Sampler 2 and Plogue Alter Ego this evening (hell, it’s better than drinking in DC).
Here’s the result:
Another Musical Loss: Dieter Moebius Passed Away Today.
This has been a very difficult year for me musically. Another favorite of mine has passed. This time it is Dieter Moebius. He is from the German electronic collective known as Cluster and Harmonia. I have highlighted their stuff before on here:
Here’s a live concert video with Michael Rother. Wonderful music.
Here are some of my most favorite tracks:
Speed Display
Deluxe (Immer Wieder) – I love this track like crazy. Total genius!
Dieter Moebius was one of these electronic music pioneers who sat behind a table of boxes and wires and made some of the wildest crazy noises anyone has ever heard. I have most of his work in my collection. I listen to it a lot when I’m in that Kraftwerk and Can sort of musical mood. His music inspires me to make electronic noises of my own. I think of him fondly when I create stuff for CHOB and Hozpitality.
This year has been very painful for my musical taste. Everyday we lose another and we are left with the crap that passes for musical entertainment that floats around today. Honor this man, and make some funny musical noises today!
UPDATED! DC Sucks! Let’s Count The Ways…(NOW With Mike O’meara Show audio)
UPDATE (6/5/2015): The legendary and monolithic Mike O’meara Show podcast read this blog post on their podcast. I was driving with MsNeeBo to Atlantic City, NJ for the weekend and heard this while driving on the Black Horse Pike. I nearly had a heart attack! Many THANK YOU’S to my favorite broadcasting gods, The Mike O’Meara Show. (Go shop at their god damned Amazon page)
Here we go with the list so far… Feel free to add in comments! NO REPEATS! (I may do another list for MD and VA as some of these issues leach over into both states).
- Bad traffic
- Rude opportunistic people
- Poor work ethic
- Everyone thinks they’re entitled i.e., “Dont you know who i am?!!”
- The food sucks
- Not a single good pizza in all of DC, MD or VA
- Yes washington dc sucks, but MD and VA are definitely contributors to the suck.
- Extremely high prices.
- One of the most expensive nights on the town.
- Nights on the town suck.
- The subways dont go to places, they go to parking garages and office buildings and businesses that close at 5.
- The parking police are high (literally. They cant even correctly type a license plate number, and they fine you for legally parking your vehicle thus sending you to court to fight a stupid ticket).
- The people are completely incapable of driving correctly.
- (Because of Maryland drivers) everyone drives in the left lane and makes right hand turns from it.
- (Because of Virginia) everyone drives with their turn signal on when not turning and drives entirely too slow.
- Extremely high taxes (for infrastructure that sucks).
- (probably mostly a maryland thing but) The power goes out a lot.
- (probably a virginia thing but) Full of racist evil conservative religious zealot republicans.
- The zoo is lame.
- The water tastes really bad.
- The weather sucks (no spring or fall, goes right into winter/summer).
- Stinky nasty humidity all summer and the air rarely moves.
- The subway is extremely expensive.
- The subway is extremely dirty.
- The subway is extremely slow and inconsistent.
- The subway is ugly (no! it is not beautiful… and who cares how it looks when it is always delayed or broken down).
- The subway is just plain dangerous.
- The radio stations suck (all pop and political / sports talk).
- Too many alcoholic rich people (who act like idiots).
- Overcrowded (and they just keep building overpriced housing to bring in the rich entitled douche bags).
- Not enough grocery stores to match the population (so they’re always out of stuff).
- Some people are stupid enough to be proud to live here.
- It is not a city, it is a facility.
- It is not “world class” it is “world ass”. Everyone from all over the world comes here to be an overpaid asshole!
- It’s too far from an ocean.
- It’s like living with an international terrorist target on your ass.
- Unsafe on a local and international level.
- Too many police forces covering too small of an area and still crime is rampant and it isn’t safe at all.
- The general public in DC is really stupid. (Proof: They have an announcement on the Metro that instructs the public how to use the ESCALATOR).
- The traffic circles are not beautiful or helpful. They just plain suck.
- The design of the city is meant only for horses.
- All of DC, MD, and VA are built for cars ONLY yet they claim to be pedestrian friendly.
- Nobody cares about their local sports teams (the fans aren’t fans, they just think it’s a night out on the town and they dont care if their teams win or lose).
- Their sports teams suck.
- The beltway is a useless parking lot.
- There is no effective way to access DC from the north.
- Highest rent (you might as well live in NYC. At least you would have some entertainment value for the high prices).
- Their baseball stadium is ugly and looks like a prison from the outside.
- The DC opened a trolley system that doesn’t take any passengers, yet runs 24/7 and clogs up traffic. This is not some sick joke. It really exists and does nothing!!
- Their football stadium for their team isn’t even in their city (The Laurel, Maryland Redskins).
- Their football team has a racist offensive name.
- The river that runs through the city is disgusting and stinky and stagnant (BOTH OF THEM: potomac and anacostia).
- The subway has so many stops and no express (so it takes forever to get to anywhere – if the subway actually WENT somewhere).
- The subway only has 2 tracks (so if a train breaks down its a disaster for the entire system, and it happens daily).
- Income disparity is disgusting. (Probably a Maryland thing but, slums on one side of the street, and mansions on the other).
Song of The Week or Moment (Roy Ayers-The Freaky Deaky)
I would just like to say, we get an excellent bargain here.
Not ONLY do we get THE freaky deaky …
BUT ALSO…
THE fonky donkey..
I mean, what more could you ask for? How about a poll?
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In the words of Big Uncle Joe Biden, “This is a very big fuckin deal, right here.”
Note: The wonderful stylish bathrobe hallway bead outfit Mr. Roy Ayers is sportin. Man is ALL CLASS! Makes Jay-Z look like cheap breakfast cereal.
Hall of The Titan Mountain Thing
I was playing my stupid Jackpot Party Casino game on my phone. I was winning big. When you win big in a slot machine, the music plays a repetitive arpeggio or loop while it totals (or dramatically counts up) your winnings. For some reason when I won on this slot machine, the “count your money up” loop got stuck on my phone.
Before the app crashed, I plugged my phone into the Korg Kaoss Pad (aka the red box) and tortured the loop with effects.
Put this in your headphones and check it out! Play it loud! Try to identify all the different effects going on. Half the time, its not even altering an audio source. The red box snatches up a sample and lets you torture it in mid-air. It’s TOO POWERFUL!!! 🙂
Knob Twiddler of The Year: Daniel Lanois
For those who don’t know who Daniel Lanois is, let’s just say he produced and made U2 famous, worked a ton with Brian Eno, produced stuff for Bob Dylan, and host of other artists that really have nothing in common with each other. This guy goes on CeMeGo’s top 10 music producers list (up there with people such as Brian Eno, Trevor Horn, Todd Rundgren, etc). With his latest album, he decided to play the studio like an instrument. Obviously this needs a very good rhythm section, which he definitely has here. The sounds he is generating are pre recorded and some are sampled in the moment (from the drum or the bass) and then everything is oscillated manipulated and extrapolated. 🙂 This, of course, is right up my alley.
As always, crank it!
Flim & The BB’s: God I Miss This Band
Some of the best and craziest jazz ever. These guys were one of the first to DIGITALLY record music (at the birth of the Compact Disc).
This is a video of them doing the song “Toy Chest”.
I have almost every one of their albums (at least I did on cassette and some on CD).
Some of the most whistle’able tunes ever created. Guaranteed, if you listen to any of their music, you will whistle or hum it immediately after you hear it. The musicianship is astounding but the song writing is sooooooooooo sticky.
It’s also fun to watch the videos as they are such a time piece. Notice the old IBM PC AT and the first generation Macintosh behind keyboardist Billy Barber. This song is “Sideman”. Also notice how sticky the melodies are on these songs. Its like a drug!
…also couldn’t forget the song “funhouse” (so glad someone posted these on youtube).
This song stuck in my head so much, I couldn’t rest until I could at least FAKE the main theme of this song on a keyboard. It’s not that hard, but my god does the melody stick. Intoxicating!!!
Listen and get infected.
(and the sad part is. I still cant find all of their music on the internet 🙁 ) You can hear most, if not all, of their music on WMOM (of course).
