Flying Lotus

Layer 3

"Flying Lotus 'Layer 3' - A Red Bull Music Academy Film from Red Bull Music Academy on Vimeo

Our new mini-documentary peeks behind the scenes of Flying Lotus’s new live audiovisual extravaganza, 'Layer 3' – which the Academy was proud to assist with developing in support of the 'Until The Quiet Comes' tour. Made with the help of visual artists Strangeloop and Timeboy, the trio have devised a method of transporting FlyLo into outer dimensions using two transparent scrims and interactive front and rear projectors, conjuring nothing short of the acid-fried Space Odyssey "Stargate" scene."

via Brainfeeder

It's pretty neat how FlyLo described himself as a homebody, but now that he feels he has purpose he needs to go out and share that purpose with the world.  I think we're all in search of that happy place and its an accomplishment that Flying Lotus has finally come to his or at least that that first level of higher satisfaction.  

It's fun to think about our own pursuits, if we have found something important to us, and where they will take us.  It's not that difficult to step back and analyze our lives to see if we're going in the right way, we just need to do it.  I spoke with Jeff Svoboda of First Floor Surfboards and I could tell that, though he's busy as shit, he's doing his thing and really vibin' his situation.  It shows in the quality and uniqueness of his surfboards.  Refreshingly enough as bumping into a friend like Jeff is, it seems like many people I meet and know are just floating through life.   A tough thing to discover for yourself is a purpose and that's right in the ballpark of other existential things like the question, "who am I?"

Without any substantial life goals or feeling as if you don't have any reason for being around, the void of not looking forward to anything will take a shit on your brain and how you feel.  To not fall into a rut or to quickly bounce back from getting fucked by the world, set some goals for yourself so you can always have something to look forward to.  Society, specifically corporations in pursuit of profits, will prey on primordial "achievement instincts" to get people fiending for more and to grab our attention for as long as possible.  But we can control and channel that thing in our brain that wants that instant gratification, we just have to be conscious of it and want to master it.  I've started eating healthier and trying to optimize my body with the fuel in needs to run on and I feel physically and mentally better.  Better able to deal with the stresses of an incredibly stressful world that isn't going to get any easier.  Take care of your body and your mind will thank you (and vice versa).

enough.

I had to get a little deep right there for second.  Feels good to do it sometimes.  I love music and posting daily is one of my personal goals (albeit a smaller one in the grander scheme of things).  Well, Happy Halloweiner, kiddos.

-gonz

Halloween Tunes

Yeeeaaaah!! Halloween is my favorite holiday and I love getting in the mood by watching horror movies.  One thing that can really give a film that extra scary edge is a great soundtrack.  So, below are a few songs that might put a chill down your spine.  Enjoy.

Smouldering Fury

The Gaslamp Killer - Shattering Inner Journeys (ft. Computer Jay)

Johnny Cash - The Man Comes Around

-gonz

Flying Lotus x KRTS

Until the Colours Come (KRTS Recoloured)

Shit gets real around 3:10.  

-gonz

Heavy Hawaii

Super Bowl XXIX

A chiller song off DC Shoes' surf mini movie, Free For All, which I viewed over at SURFBANG.  The short, but sweet flick has some fun clips of Craig Anderson swaggin' it out.  Go watch it!

-gonz

Young Pharaohs

Put Your Love In My Hands

Another great track from Young Pharoahs.  Be sure to check out Balconies, it's another winner just like this one.  Also, Sloane's a babe, shwing!

-gonz

Natural Child

D.T.V

Pack this in your pipe and smoke it. DTV is definitely going on my shredlist, WHOOP WHOOP!

-gonz

Ultraísta

Our Song

photo creds to Sally Mckay

Mega shout out to Brandon C for the heads up on Ultraísta. I browsed their youtube vids and they've got a bunch more killer songs. Check 'em out!

-gonz

Johnny Hobo and the Freight Trains

Whisky is My Kind of Lullaby

I heard this on the dublab podcast and after the second verse I knew I would want to learn the lyrics.  Gonna drunkenly sing this song pretty soon haha....

-gonz

St. Anne's Place @ Storke Plaza, UCSB

I saw these guys at Muddfest a month or two back and they had some grungy songs.  Definitely going to see them again this coming Monday!  Here's the details straight from ASPB's site:

St. Anne’s Place in Storke Plaza on Monday, October 29th, 2012, as part of our FREE noon-time shows throughout the quarter.

Stop by Storke Plaza each week at noon to enjoy FREE music and FREE ice cream.

You'd be a damn fool to pass up free ice cream.

 -gonz

Beta Frontiers

Hondo (Lee Paradise of Phèdre Remix)

This was the song on the Tiff mix that I just couldn't get out of my head.  I had to find it, buy it, and play that shit on repeat.  I'll probably over listen to it and hate the song in a month, but for now it's my fix, son!  Anyhoo, it reminded me of futuristic/fantastical, Heavy Metal Magazine stuff (hence the art above).  If you like graphic novels and crazy sci-fi stories then you should definitely look into what Heavy Metal Mag is all about.  I'm out for Taco Tuesdayz.

-gonz

Tame Impala

Feels Like We're Only Going Backwards

Tame Impala is on to something here...

-gonz

Beta Frontiers

TIFF REMIX

A siiiiiiIIIIck song starts around 4:20 ish.  Super hot mix and it's free to download!

-gonz

Times Neue Roman

Way Way Down

It appears I've been perusing Dap Recs this week... Lots of good stuff coming out of that label (PHèDRE!).  Check em out!

-gonz

Hellaluya

Gotta. Have. My. Punk.





Some music just makes you want to jump into a mosh pit.  Actually I just had a funny thought:  the viagra song.  A song that gives you a boner.  wtf?

-gonz

US Girls

Jack

Throwback OK Chalet up in hur!  That girl effectively hid her identity because I honestly cant remember who the hell that was.  Anyway, dope saucy sauce song!  

-gonz

1000 Mods

Vidage

This is definitely on my shredlist and would also be in my surf movie. 

-gonz

Teen Daze

New Life

Diamond Messages

You Were The One

Untitled (Pentagram Study), 2012 Paper Collage and enamel via Fecal Face

Wish I had time to write some more, but I'm swamped!  Really quick though, this song is fucking right there, man.  

-gonz

King Tuff

Screaming Skull

Yeaaaaah King Tuffffaaay


-gonz

Phantogram

As Far As I Can See

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Mogwai

George Square Thatcher Death Party (Justin K. Broadrick reshape)

A Wrenched Virile Lore is a collection of remixes of tracks from Mogwai’s critically acclaimed Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will album. Featuring contributions from a diverse range of artists from Zombi to The Soft Moon, this record offers some unique and inspired interpretations of Mogwai’s seventh studio album.

The A Wrenched Virile Lore album will be available in the following formats: as a limited-edition, colored 2xLP (with digital download code) on Black Friday, November 23 and on CD and digitally on December 4. The album will also be available in Europe via Rock Action on November 19.

Starting today, the download of the Justin K. Broadrick (from Godflesh/Jesu) remix of “George Square Thatcher Death Party” is available for one and all.

A Wrenched Virile Lore Tracklist
George Square Thatcher Death Party – (Justin K Broadrick Reshape)
Rano Pano – Klad Hest (Mogwai is My Dick RMX)
White Noise – (EVP Mix by Cylob)
How To Be A Werewolf – (Xander Harris remix)
Letters To The Metro – (Zombi remix)
Mexican Grand Prix – (reworked by RM Hubbert)
Rano Pano – (Tim Hecker remix)
San Pedro – (The Soft Moon remix)
Too Raging To Cheers – (Umberto remix)
La Mort Blanche – (Robert Hampson remix)

via Sub Pop Records

Hopefully the Mexican Grand Prix is done well.  Also, go effing see Looper right now.  Best movie I've seen this last year.

-gonz

The Underachievers

Gold Soul Theory

The flow and cinematography are spot on.  Also diggin' the kaleidoscope!

-gonz

FECAL FACE

"How would you describe Fecal Face to someone that may be unfamiliar?
Well, it went online in 2000, and back then there wasn't much in the way of art/ skate centric websites online. We were online before EBay/ Youtube... Google had just got going a few years before. There were no such terms as "blog", etc. So at the time, it was a pretty radical thing... Now, I tell people it's an online art magazine/ blog that's mainly curated by me and its contributors from San Francisco, Los Angeles, NYC, and wherever really. Been doing it for so long and the web has gone through so many changes... Guess I would call it a forum for art, culture and visual information and stimulation curated through the eyes and ears of a man in his thirties that grew up highly influenced by skateboarding culture, music, art, and life."

via fecalface

It's a dope website and hosts some really crazy-good art.  Buck showed me free fridayz, which is a weekly drawing contest open to anyone that awards the artist of the top rated piece with some swwwag.  Check it out!

-gonz 

My Other Man

Gap Dream

In and Out, Eric Shaw via Fecal Face

Down for this sound.

-gonz

David Byrne and St. Vincent

Who

Groovy tune!

-gonz

The Balconies

Kill Count

The Balconies will appear at Filter Magazine's Culture Collide which, "is a four-day international festival welcoming artists from 25 countries and counting, bringing their unique perspectives on music and culture to LA’s East Side for a musical melting pot of live performances, film screenings, and happy hours featuring food and drink from around the world. The festival will once again end with the Block Party, a free all-day event in Echo Park on Sunday, October 7th. (http://www.culturecollide.com)."  More posts about artists from this festival to come!

-gonz

Koop

Come to Me

"Koop is Oscar Simonsson & Magnus Zingmark.
"When listening to Koops music it's somehow easy to believe that it's played by a small orchestra, but in fact the music is based on samples. Thousands of small clips from records puzzled together into new songs. All the drums, strings, horn sections and choires are actually sampled! This is a very time consuming way to make music (it's one of the reasons it takes such long time to make a koop album), but it's the only way to create the surreal Koop sound. One thing though, that for sure aren't sampled, is the vocals. Many singers has blessed the Koop albums with their talent, and on Koop Islands the singers are : Ane Brun, Yukimi Nagano, Hilde Louise Asbjornsen, Rob Gallagher and Mikael Sundin. Come to me is sung by Yukimi Nagano and is taken from the album "Koop Islands". Marcus Söderlund directed the video in Stockholm."

I was shocked to learn that Yukimi Nagano was only 15 years old when she sang Come to Me for Koop. Thanks for the heads up on this one Buck.

 -gonz