3.30.12.

Interrupttape.

Music from February. Download here.

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3.8.12.

YOU DON'T ZÉ: THE MUSIC OF TOM ZÉ

This is a Tom Zé mix I made for a friend last month. I'd frequently heard the Brazillian art-pop genius' name, but I needed to do some digging myself. These are the results! Enjoy.

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2.6.12.

DROOPY BLOCKS

I had the privilege to compose both music and sound effects for a new iPad game called Droopy Blocks. The music part was a blast, and the sound effects part was a challenge; at one point I had a mic in one hand and was throwing fruit into my bathtub with the other. Foley work is weird. Anyway - the game is mad addicting, and has received great reviews so far. Download it for your Kindle or iPad, for free, here.

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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

Beats and birds from the past six months. Buy one and enjoy the spring a little more.

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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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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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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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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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