ACROSS the desert and into the jungle we go.
Sun on your back so hot your skin bubbles up.
Sand like broken glass under your feet.
Hands like claws gripping your FN FAL.
Finger on the trigger.
Get in the game.
Steal a boat.
It’s kill kill kill.
Alpha rule.
The Journey of a Drug Smuggler in 17 glorious tracks mixed for you by Salvatron.
Track Listing:
DJ Zinc – Take me with you (feat. Katy B)
Lynx and Maple – Shaku
2DB – Starsign
Serum – Ammo Drop
Q Project – Credit Crunch
Alix Perez – Crooklyn
Heist – Ambush
Jangala – Eastern Grove
Kjell – Climate Change
Naibu – Nami Island
Out of Order – Ghost
Taxman – Unreal
Zero Tolerance & Mosus – Run Time
Vendetta & Barber & Bad Kid – More Gun
Aphrodite – Pure Columbian
Chris SU & TC1 & Stress Le – Final Cut
Camo & Krooked – The Fear
You’ll find this new mix to be a bit more on the evil side, featuring some classic scary and creepy tunes for you to feel spooked by. If you listen to the mix, let me know what you think in the comments.
A new track for Jubilee, recorded live with Christopher Grant Ward in San Francisco. I think the final track will be arranged pretty differently, but this shows the general structure.
Ifthedarknesscomes this evening
how my hands will trace
all the starry night reflected
off your sweaty waist
how our bodies burning made the ground a town for passing planes
and together singing tura lura lura
Pour the holy water over our heads
Hollow out our spines
Change our blood to sap
Our bones to limbs
Edit veins to vines
What our skin remembers render into colors for the leaves
and together singing tura lura lura
Because all that I have ever wanted
All that I could need
Is to go back to the body
where I was a seed
Where we’d graft ourselves into a perfect weeping willow tree
and together singing tura lura lura
At first glance it just looked like some bullshit spam from some ridiculously rich OC band that hasn’t released anything. The Lights Over Paris band website is just a temporary one linking to their various social media accounts. I dismissed it immediately as spam.
But something about it struck me as being slightly off.
Upon second glance it looked like a band that could be serious contender for the biggest bunch of douchebags in the history of the music industry. I didn’t understand why these idiots wanted to be my friend. How did they even find me?
The next day I still had a remaining friend invite. Oh yeah, those bozos again.
At third glace it looked like a devilishly brilliant and unprecedentedly smooth execution of a biting satire on the creative process (rather, the lack thereof) behind manufactured pop music. I looked at all the comments on their channel and noticed a lot of people didn’t get it. Their satire is very subtle, but if you watch more than 2-3 of the videos it will start to come through. Even the Lights Over Paris Twitter feed reeks of sarcasm.
Is it really satire? Are they really this clever?
The riddle:
I want to believe. Have a look at the videos after the jump, and tell me if I’m crazy to think that a parody exists in this stuff. Or, is this some kind of viral marketing? If so, what are they pushing? Is it the studio? Are these guys actors trying to gain exposure? What’s your theory?
Made this last week using FCP7 and Magic Bullet Colorista. Mainly I was just experimenting with Colorista. It’s pretty simplistic/versatile.
Anyhow, tried to give it that 70s vintage coloring.
I got a fresh mix for you guys, inspired by my recent trip to California where I got to see the good Dr.’s Echo Bloom & Conspicuous. 30 more minutes of some of the latest liquid funk for your ear holes. Please listen:
What’s good kids? How’s your health? ….your creative muscles? They workin’ out good? I’d hope so. So here I’ve promised to finish the Heavy Weapons Guy, and I have done so. It’s not my best, but I am proud considering I did the ENTIRE set of lineart without reference or previous sketches. Although I’ve realized, I will probably never do it again. I found it to be waaaaay to inefficient and I ultimately end up screwing up anatomy and great tangents that can pretty much make the image look pretty terrible. So, lesson learned. What I was going for with the pose in the image was the Heavy attempting to closeline some poor sap. (preferrably the Scout that stole his “Sandvich.”)
Here are the respective wallpapers at 2048 x 1152 resolution so that you may adorn your beautiful widescreen monitors with my art. Please? No? That’s okay, I understand. ::sniff::
Once again kids, If you need to shrink the image down, they should fit just fine at any 16×9 aspect ratioed resolution.
The Blu Russian.
..also in venetian!!
Last but not least, allow me to present you with the introduction of the Heavy Weapons Guy so you can get a taste of his unintentional humor:
“Heh heh heh, cry some more…..”
Time to have a long chat with my old friend Jack Daniels and his estranged sexy black cousin, Coca-Cola.
I have been woodshedding these past few weeks during my redneck riviera sojourn and have made serious headway on Jubilee. My macro approach has been more subtractive than additive, and over the past few weeks I’ve done my best to hack the haggard outlines of an album I previously introduced into something more cohesive. I think I’m moving in the right direction. Evidence:
Musical Structure
When we last visited this, I had a tangled mess of 15-some-odd fragments that were possibilities. I have whittled that down into 7 songs that (currently) will form the core the final album – representations of the elements of these pieces are above. I’m currently debating whether or not to include instrumentals (I have three) to serve as musical bridges from set of songs to set of songs. I feel pretty comfortable not making a standard LP (as standard as a 7-song LP is now – it was actually pretty common in the 60’s) but the instrumentals could break up the flow and enhance the over-arcing musical themes.
Lyrical Structure
Similar to the way I’ve been massaging the music, I’ve been slowly hacking apart lyrical fragments I’ve previously written and constituting them into new sets of pieces for each song. I’ve also been reading a lot of beat poetry looking for stylistic cues. Two old favorites that jumped out are William Carlos Williams and Allen Ginsberg. I love the way Williams piles his images on top of each other, as in this excerpt from Spring Strains:
the blinding and red-edged sun-blur—
creeping energy, concentrated
counterforce—welds sky, buds, trees,
rivets them in one puckering hold!
Ginsberg writes frequently in an ecstatic (and in reality, Benzedrine-fueled) voice, as in this excerpt from his poem Song:
The warm bodies
shine together
in the darkness,
the hand moves
to the center
of the flesh,
the skin trembles
in happiness
and the soul comes
joyful to the eye–
yes, yes,
that’s what
I wanted,
I always wanted,
I always wanted,
to return
to the body
where I was born.
I’ve got the lyrical outlines for three songs done. When I have the set of seven fully outlined I’ll complete all of them at once. Hoo-ha!
QUESTIONS
– Instrumentals or no instrumentals?
- Ecstatic poets I should be looking towards?
- Feedback on any of the song sketches in the widget?
