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3.27.11. PRINTEMPS Maybe the perfect spring mixtape is equal parts oldies and MF Doom beats. Maybe. If so, here's that exact thing. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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3.5.11. RADIO INTERVIEWS & CD REVIEWS This is my radio interview with KCSB's Radio Causeway (Santa Barbara); a blast once the nerves wore off. Thanks to Pav & Tim. Also, a nice review of Passerine by my man Chris at Rapid Transit Video. Just waiting for that first bad review to come in now. Then we'll really be getting somewhere... --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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2.25.11. PASSERINE
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1.22.11. THE LAST THING IS THE 56th BEST ALBUM EVER Hip hip hooray to the good DJs at Radio 1190 in Boulder, Colorado. They've named The Last Thing the 56th best album of 2010 in their yearly poll. The funny thing is, it's actually the 61st best. But don't tell 'em! Take that, Joanna Newsom! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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12.30.10. YEAR OF THE TIGER! My favorite 20 tracks and 10 albums from 2010. Here. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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11.5.10. MIXTAPE: THE REMIX A November mixtape, dedicated to the art of the remix. Or to the art of finding good remixes, as most of them are terrible. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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10.15.10. RAPID START LAMPS This is a collection of songs that, for one reason or another, never made it onto any proper album over the past ten years. Special thanks to Aaron Bevan for the album cover photo, and to John Grigsby for the upright bass playing on "Shtunk". Download here. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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9.15.10. EDITS #10: DIANA ROSS vs. STATIK SELEKTAH I could listen to this drumbeat for, oh, maybe 7 or 8 hours on a loop. If you're a drummer who can wreck this beat with a three-piece kit, you're hired forever. Call me. |
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8.25.10. THE JUKE // RETURN OF THE JUKE CDs I'm putting 50 limited edition copies of both The Juke & Return Of The Juke up for donations on the site today. These are hand-numbered, triple-stickered, fiberboard cds made with care here in Denver, Colorado. Each album is a mash-up tour de force, utilizing about 400 pop songs in 40 minutes - creating a world where Lil' Wayne cavorts with The Kinks, where Frank Zappa and Lady Gaga might throw a picnic with Salt N' Pepa. Buy a record and play "spot the song" all the way to the ocean. |
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8.24.10. DISCOGRAPHY Here's the full list of all the recordings I've made over the past ten years. I have seven releases planned for the upcoming months, so I figured I'd better start keeping some good records of the records. Before it gets out of hand. |
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8.16.10. AFTER THE BLOG RUSH More blog mentions are rolling in, including one interview I did with Bad Panda Records, who just added "Quittin' Time" to their releases. Other blogs spreading the word include Surviving The Golden Age, Tympanogram, Faronheit, and Undomondo. It should be mentioned that anybody who mentions my music in their blog receives a pretty exhaustive, comprehensive organic cheese package and a framed picture of themselves with the President. |
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7.12.10. BLOGJAMMIN' Good people at some good blogs have had some nice things to say lately about the new album. You can check out the niceties here from Dipped In Dollars, We All Want Someone To Shout For, and Vacay Wave. Thanks folks! You're running some fine operations over there. |
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7.12.10. ÉTUDE #5 IN Gb MAJOR In which the song lasts one minute. |
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7.8.10. EDITS #9: THE TEMPTATIONS vs. THES ONE The Motor City mashing continues... |
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7.2.10. EDITS #8: SMOKEY ROBINSON vs. NE-YO Mickey's Monkey has been with me since I was a little kid - my mom would rent this "DTV" videotape from the local store on sick days, which had Disney animation set to Motown and Beach Boys stuff. The Mickey's Monkey one was set to the great, early, black & white stuff Disney did where all the chimneys were bobbing and the ground rolled under foot. And Ne-Yo...well, Ne-Yo just makes great music. |
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6.27.10. EDITS #7: VAMPIRE WEEKEND vs. MICHAEL JACKSON The new Vampire Weekend record is fantastic. This is an edit, with a little MJ for good measure, of my favorite song from the album. |
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6.20.10. ÉTUDE #4 IN G MINOR In which a single one-hour trip to Goodwill, armed with $20, yields all the sounds for a song. I wound up with about fifteen records and six cassettes (after some successful haggling). Some good, some weird - there's this particular "Jeff Lorber Fusion" cassette that I still can't figure out whether it needs to be played out immediately, or is the worst lite-fusion ever committed to magnetic tape - and some that really didn't pan out. But, after wading and rooting and deciding, I think the resulting Étude bumps like geese. |
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6.13.10. ÉTUDE #3 IN Eb MINOR The rules of this one were simple: to use only sounds made by my newborn daughter. So I propped her up on the couch and got her to fuss, grunt, scream, and coo for me - about two minutes' worth. Then those couple minutes went into the computer, and I played the role of surgeon - snare drums made of coughs, kick drums from a grunt pitched down five or six octaves, and some nice pretty melodies extracted from an angry baby. So here's Stella Lee's first composition - thanks to my friend Sam for the idea. |
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6.6.10. ÉTUDE #2 IN C MINOR In which every sound is backwards. |
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5.30.10. ÉTUDE #1 IN C MINOR This is the first of nine or so études I'm making this summer, for a little exercise. An étude traditionally focuses in on one specific challenge on a given instrument (like the left-hand-only or black-keys-only versions on piano); for these producer-oriented ones, it's tackling one task or the other in the studio. This first one is all about isolation; no two sounds can happen simultaneously. |
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4.28.10. POLAR BEAR TWO Here's a DJ mix that I made last week. It's geared for patios, bar-b-ques, etc.: summery stuff, because here she comes. It is 55 tracks long, which is too long. But here's the secret: it's actually too short, because a good party should last between 12-13 hours. |
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4.1.10. TLT Here's the new record. |
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3.1.10. NEW ALBUM STUFF The Last Thing is finished. All pressed up, shiny, and ready to bully subwoofers. Preorder a real-life, 3D copy that you can hold in your hands and use as a makeup mirror here. The release party is Friday, April 2nd, at 10 pm at Dazzle Jazz Club. It will be available as an mp3 download on April 3rd right here.
Tracklisting: 1. Intro 2. Quittin' Time 3. United Colors 4. The Anointing 5. Check Your Dead 6. The Taking 7. I Stand Before You 8. Incredible Black & White 9. Scotch & Bonnet 10. Southern Lights 11. Trampolines 12. Peat Moss Rock 13. Ransom Of The Anthem 14. Summer Anarchy 15. People Everywhere 16. The Last Thing 17. Outro
Recorded Summer/Fall/Winter 2009 Colleen Lee sings on 13 Mike Thies plays drums on 14 Thanks to Kris Hutson |
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2.20.10. MAMARAZZI - GANGSTER (P. LEE REMIX) Here's the latest remix. Mamarazzi are friends from Brooklyn and their latest song is their strangest to date. It's about men and how they're nice to have around the house, in case you need someone to change a light bulb. This is what I did with the track - transformed from a cooled-out torch jam on Ambien into more of a Washington D.C. sax-a-thon. |
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2.1.10. THE LAST THING The new album's done! It's been ten years to the month since I made the first one. What a bunch of musical baloney. It'll be called The Last Thing, and should be up in April. I'm pressing 100 hand-stamped copies that will look really unique, with some full color stickers and pictures of my wife, as a two year-old, crying. It's some seriously charming album art. As soon as I find the right venue for the release party, it'll be up here. Excited! |
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1.17.10. HOUSE MADE OF STONE Someone played me some minimal, minimal house music one night at the cd store where I worked, and I knew I had to go home and try making some. It's not my genre; never has been, isn't now. Won't be. But for ten days, it was all I could think about. So I made a track a day, linked them together, and that was that. This was in the fall of 2004. The album's title is House Made Of Stone; you can infer whatever you like from that, but it's not true. |
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1.10.10. YEAR OF THE OX! Like watching Nebraska lose or going to the zoo for less than two hours, music is fun. These are the 20 barn burners that made my 2009 a little extra fun. |
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DECEMBER 2, 2009: MIXTAPE: TAKE IT TO THE BRIDGE. New mixtape. Plenty of Blowfly, Bernadette Peters, and Van Halen to go 'round. HERE. |
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DECEMBER 1, 2009. I just put my christmas tree up. So, I've got that going for me, which is nice. A lot of musical stuff going on this month. 1. New album: 18 tracks in the can and counting. This record is going to be an 80 minute blowout. Should it be called Combat Wolf? Maybe so. Maybe not. 2. New Year's at the Larimer Lounge. I'll be DJing and champagning with my good friends in The Knew. 3. New remix: My "Gangster" remix for Mamarazzi is finished. Maybe they'll release it someday. When they do, it'll be here. In the meantime, I'm hoping to put out a fresh mixtape in the next week, and to re-release the house album I made in ten consecutive days back in the summer of 2004, House Made Of Stone. Happy holidays. |
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NOVEMBER 3, 2009: GET YOURSELF FREE. Summer 2002: I moved back from Los Angeles where I had been living for the past two years. College was to start in August, so for May/June/July, I holed up in the folk's basement during the day, and made this album mostly from bits and pieces of their record collection - which they had put together when they were in college. I met my future wife and started the Analog Quartet while making Get Yourself Free - a nod to Paul Simon's lyric from "50 Ways To Leave Your Lover", so it was one high quality summer. |
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OCTOBER 16, 2009: BEARD SEASON. My good friend Jess made a fall mixtape about deer and beards, and I have a song on there. And she makes some good mixtapes. So...it's an honor, to say the least. Download it. |
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SEPTEMBER 21, 2009: NEW MIXTAPE: OUTONO. It's so ridiculous to call these mixTAPES. Oh well. Here's one for fall, which to me means hoodies, Scrabble, and more focused cooking. And apparently Brazilian music. |
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