Mixtape no.2! (Freakin' Laid Back Summer)

This mixtape is unshamedly in the style of american new age freak folk. think along the lines of animal collective. perfect for the summer breeze. Get it here second one coming along very soon. is going to be in a simalir vein but featuring older styles of music. been working on them both for a couple of weeks and finally feel there ready. heres some vids for it:

This one always make me laugh. only way to describe them is a bon jovi verison of dan deacon:

I actually used another song of his on the album but i like the vid to this one.

(last.fm is down on my uni network so can't put links to the artist as easily as i normally do. so when i have it back up i'll edit this so people can find out a bit more about them. can always just google their name. most stuff has came out either this year or last year with a few excpections)

01 It's Great - Greater California

02 Beach Comber - Real Estate

03 Take Pills - Panda Bear

04 The Summer Sun - Chris Stamey

05 Watermelon Man - Herbie Hancock

06 Puerto Rico Way - The 6ths

07 Oppressions Each - Brightblack Morning Light

08 Drive South - Toro y Moi

09 Manhenga - Bhundu Boyd

10 It's Only Life - The Feelies

11 Frozen Bayou (feat. Alaskas) - Universal Studios Florida

12 Regiment - Brian Eno & David Bryne

13 Red Eagle - Paul Duncan

14 Horse Steppin - Sun Araw

15 Otis - Durutti Column

16 Beach Foam - Future Island

17 Canto De Ossanha -Baden Powell & Vinícius de Moraes

18 Buenos matrimonios ahí afuera - El Guincho

19 From Stardust To Sentience - High Places

Gundam

couple of months back i came across a constuction of a life sized gundam in tokoyo on the web. its now fully operational!

heres a vid of it still under construction but mostly done.



heres one of it completey finsihed and at night time. excuse the shite music to it.



and heres one of it from a distant to just get an idea the epic size of this thing. again sorry for the music.



have been wanting to go to japan for quite some time and especially tokyo. could you imagine anything like that happening in another city! love gundam aswell my dad actually brought me a gundam model kit for me when i was 10 we didnt have a clue what gundam was though. just loved the robots but last year did whatch the gundam seris 00 and was amazed by how much susbtance there was to the stories with not just relying on the coolness of the battles.

i'm going to france to french kiss french girls

Pariah's remix of xx's Basic Space. vidoe is Anna Karina's in Godard's Vivre Sa vie

new mixtape coming soon. i'm in the process of making a series of mixtapes meant for certain times of day and seasons.

hull fucked nick drake over big time! R.I.P Sky Saxon

was reading about nick drakes carers and was gutted to come across this:

"In August, Drake recorded three unaccompanied songs for the BBC's John Peel show. Two months later, he opened for Fairport Convention at the Royal Festival Hall in London, followed by appearances at folk clubs in Birmingham and Hull. Remembering the performance in Hull, folk singer Michael Chapman commented: "The folkies did not take to him; [they] wanted songs with choruses. They completely missed the point. He didn't say a word the entire evening. It was actually quite painful to watch. I don't know what the audience expected, I mean, they must have known they weren't going to get sea–shanties and sing-alongs at a Nick Drake gig!" The experience reinforced Drake's decision to retreat from live appearances; the few concerts he did play around this time were usually brief, awkward, and poorly attended. Drake seemed unwilling to "perform", and rarely addressed his audience. As many of his songs were played in different tunings, he frequently paused to retune between numbers."

maaaaan what a bunch of idiots was just getting respect for hulls old folk music scene. manly through the watersons with lal waterson specifally (king cresote is a fan)

if you know anything about psychdelica and garage you'll know the seeds. sky saxon (stage name didnt have zappa as a father) the lead singer passed away on the same day as michale jackson so annoyly the word of his death didnt really get out.

birdy nam nam

i only really know birdy nam nam from the world technics competetion they won a few years back and stuff they did with the beat junkies. but have just downloaded there new album manual for successful rioting and they've moved on from that turntableist sound that peeked a few years back into a more modern version. i'm liking it lots!

cool vid for it aswell.

if you don't know birdy nam nam are french. one of the most famous art/anaimation films to come out of their in the 70s was fantastic planet. the vid is a salute to it. whatch it here if you want