Brian Eno – 2 Forms Of Anger (taken from Small Craft On A Milk Sea) by Warp Records
Some pounding guitars invade this preview of the new Eno/Warp collaboration just after the two minute mark. Just wonderful stuff! Can’t wait for the full release on November 2, 2010. Here’s the Warp link, and a tip of the hat to Synthtopia for bringing this delicious clip to my plate.
From QuietEarth, here is a trailer for something mysterious, dangerous and wonderful:
Mrs Peppercorn’s Magical Reading Room – Trailer from Black Lake Films on Vimeo.
Even the title is just right: Mrs. Peppercorn’s Magical Reading Room.
Not much more than that to report, but the album cover looks great:
Beyond that, not much to add. News of the release and the cover art come from the invaluable resource “Progarchives“. Not sure where we’d be without them. Here’s the same info from SBB’s home label, Metal Mind.
Strong language from a strong woman:
I am not a fan of iTunes. I am not a fan of their growth through their overbearing means by which they have a reduced value of music. First, they taught everyone how to steal it and then they said,” Oops, sorry here’s how you can pay for it really cheap!” So you know, I’m not a fan of that and I’m not a fan of price-fixing, which is something they do. You don’t have a lot of choice in what you can offer and how you can offer it. I mean they just have rules and I understand that it is probably just a by-product of some of their programming issues but there should be other choices. I believe that the future is that there will be other choices and they will be on every artists own fan site or a conglomerate consortium of artists’ fan sites that’s not controlled by an outside party that does not respect artist’s rights.
This is from a recent interview that was linked by the fantastic Kill Ugly Radio blog. Go there for more quotes and a link to the whole. Gail rocks!
Thanks to the amazing Live For Films blog, we have two more trailers for the upcoming Battleship Yamoto. This is epic space opera at its finest!
For more on Star Blazers (the English language version of the Japanimation upon which this material is based), check out this beautiful site.
Eventually, I have to give up all the dreams of being a superstar DJ and running Ableton Live with Reason 5, controlled on an iPad. I mean, I’m sure I’ll keep dabbling, but eventually, I just have to go back to doing what I do. And, in this case, it had been so long that I was a bit worried my fingers wouldn’t cooperate, but after all these years, they still remember. This is just something, a bit sloppy, that Lucy and I made up on the spot.
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I wouldn’t exactly call it eclectic, but I liked how it’s all over the map.
That sequence from Paul Gilbert to Kaki King to Genesis was highly motivational. I was a little perturbed when I had to stop at a red light during the most dramatic part of Woke Up, but those are the breaks of running on public roads. This wasn’t shuffle, but something I threw together quickly a few hours before the run. In fact, I had forgotten what I selected, so that only added to the delight. I don’t know if I’ll use this again for running, but I’ll probably just listen it again on some other occasion because it all killer, no filler.
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Game of Thrones. HBO. 2011.
Thanks to io9, we have this trailer for Douglas Trumbull‘s upcoming documentary, 2001: Beyond the Infinite – The Making of a Masterpiece.
2001: A Space Odyssey is the greatest film ever made. This documentary will reveal a large part of how that reality came to be.
When I first heard Squarepusher, it was 1997. I was driving alone on the BQE, having just extracted myself from an unfortunate romantic entanglement. Or perhaps I was dumped. Either way, after just a short time on the road, it was beginning to dawn on me that not continuing this particular relationship might actually improve my life. A lot. That ended up being true, of course, but at that moment I wasn’t entirely sure. To sooth myself, I scanned the New York radio dial, hoping to hear something wonderful and crazy. I did.
By the time the aptly named “Male Pill 13” had run through its 8:38, I knew my life was not going to be the same. I squinted my ears, so as not to miss the name of the artists. I may have even had to wait through another song or two. And I had nothing to write with and about 2 hours of driving left. But when I finally did find out who was responsible for that amazing, shocking sound, I didn’t forget: The Squarepushers.
Well, it’s easy to see why the DJ made that mistake. It sounds like a band, sort of,… well, a band with a coked-up, six-armed tasmanian devil on drums. Of course, I went on to learn who Tom Jenkinson was and the rest is history. I’ve even been lucky enough to see him do his magic act in person a couple times.
But now, there is a band.
Shobaleader One members:
Squarepusher: Bass/vocals
Strobe Nazard: Keyboards
Sten t’Mech: Guitar
Arg Nution: Guitar
Company Laser: Drums
And on October 19, we will be listening to that band. I urge you to click below for a sample because it is wholly out of hand.
Squarepusher presents Shobaleader One – Megazine (taken from d’Demonstrator) from Warp Records on Vimeo.