I recorded this song after I read an article on the recording of Gold Panda's new album Lucky Shiner. The song was almost completely recorded using an old casio ct-680, with the exception of the bass and snare drum and the vocal part. It was an attempt at some lo-fi recording, all the fuzz and cracks are left in on purpose to add texture.
I saw this remix (contest?) up on AP.net and thought I'd give it a shot. The song was kind of a wacky, but I had some good ideas for it. The big challenge was that the vocals really didn't match the style I was going for, so I just stripped out the two parts that I really liked and looped those. There was also a bunch of hoops and hollers in the song, and i took little pieces of those and made a pattern which kind of became the verse vocals. I'm particularly proud of the transition from the first chorus to the second verse, it came off pretty seamlessly which rarely happens with my songs.
The ep is a little behind schedule (mostly likely it'll be out next weekend), so I decided to release one of the tracks I've been working on for my next album. It's a lot different from what's on the ep, as well what I'm working for my full length. This is just some music I'm screwing around with in the meantime. It uses some samples from Simon and Garfunkel's song Scarborough Fair, and there is some original stuff in there. You can expect an album of about 8 or 9 tracks like this near the end of the year. I don't have a title for the album yet, but the temporary title I'm using is Weathered.
Here is the first look at some of my new music. This is a version of one of the songs that's going to be on my EP, that's coming out in a couple weeks. The final version is going to have completely different drums and an overall different mix. The vocals are provided by the awesome Lion, ROAR!
There isn't much to say here since I did a play by play on pretty much every track on this album. If you've been following the remixes as they come out this is still worth a look. About half the tracks have been re edited, and this also includes an extended version of the Passion Pit Sleepyhead remix.
I'm gonna give a little update here. I just spent an hour looking at photos for the covers of my next two albums. Above this is a little taste of the art coming up. I'm also working on my last remix for vol.3 which of Nu Wave's Favorite Drug. So I'm chugging along.
A-Trak - Dirty South Dance 2
mc chris - mc chris Goes To Hell
Tokyo Police Club - Champ
Chemical Brothers - Further
Asher Roth - Asleep In The Bread Aisle
RAC x Holy Rollers
Ratatat - LP4
This has been an eternity in the making. I've been working on this album for two plus years. I recorded the initial set of about 8 demos in the first six months, and then spent about another year just making songs here and there. And then after that I spent another 6 months just kind of tweaking here and there. This album is still far from perfect, but I came to the realization, that if I kept trying to make it perfect, that it would probably never get released. So I bit the bullet and decided that this is as good as it's going to get right now.
This album is kind of more of a compilation or anthology of sorts. DADA music is basically a collection of the best mash-ups I've done over the past five years. It all started a long time ago back during my days in Who-Rey-Grad. I was making these mixtapes that I called Heironymous Machine. I did two and started working on a third one (which I worked on for about 2 years and subsequently never finished). Recently I realized I had all this music just sitting on my computer and some of it wasn't half bad, so I decided to put all the stuff that was any good together and release it as an album under my wolves moniker. All the tracks have been tweaked and retouched so if you had somehow came across the original stuff, these version should be a lot better.
The name Dada music come from the DADA movement in which artist took things out of magazines and newspapers and made art pieces out of them. An eerily similar process compared to how I construct my mash-ups. These are definitely not your traditional mash-ups (not to pat myself on the back for doing something original, but to warn you that these may not be what you would traditionally expect to hear when you hear the phrase mash-up). Another little disclaimer, like I said before a lot of this stuff is super old an even though I polished every, thing it's all still a little rough, but that's kind of half the fun of it, so be gentle. Well enough of my ramblings, below are all the liner notes and links to downloads:
DADA music
All music stolen and then cut and pasted by Wolves Of Saint August
01 Machine *
02 Laude Mouths (FALL OF
03 Robot-Human-Absolution (DAFT PUNK vs MUSE)
04 The Quiet
05 Crunk Shiskas At Club
06 A Valuable Lesson **
07 Protest Tongs 65' (65DAYSOFSTATIC vs ANIMAL COLLECTIVE vs REFUSED)
08 Disgrace Anthem (RADIOHEAD vs FUGAZI)
09 Passenger Of
10 Close To The Edge Of A Floating World (ANATHALLO vs YES)
11 Future Worlds (RUSH vs DELTRON 3030)
12 Journey ***
* Samples: Sharks Keep Moving, At-The Drive In, The Velvet Teen, Glassjaw, Q and Not U, Refused, Death From Above 1979, The Format, The Get Up Kids, Finch, Gruvis Malt, Dialouge Taken from the Venture Bros
** Features samples from the song My Favorite Accident by Motion City Soundtrack
*** All samples from Rick Wakeman’s Journey To The Center Of Earth
The thing that really stood out about Brian Beyke for me was that I thought it was so cool that he was doing this big post rock sound by himself. The other thing I thought was amazing about his music was that even though it was rather minimal, each of the songs had parts that really drew you in. Each song had an individuality to it with some sort of special element that keeps what is a rather acute sound from blending together.
While I was looking for some new music the other day I stumbled across the group TeamNate. I downloaded their demo CD. After a listen or two I found that I kept getting their song Do What We Say stuck in my head, so I ended up contacting to see if they'd be interested in me doing a remix and it turns out they were.
This song has been popping up all over the place recently. It seems like every time a movie wants to have a really happy scene they throw this song in there. I'd heard this song before, but when I stood up and took notice was when it appeared in Step Brothers. I thought the Bass/Piano line at the beginning would make an amazing dance riff.
I'm going to start posting all my new music stuff here. I have a ton of music on my computer that I want to start posting somewhere. The posts should be about once a week. The first song should be posted tomorrow. The blog is a work in progess at the moment and should be a little fancier in the coming days.
