Plaid Creature

Halloween Castle

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.

http://vodpulse.com/misc/halloween-09-mix.mp3

Enjoy. Happy Halloween! Post your costume photos in the comments as well.

Plaid friends. There is a new mystery that I need your help in solving.

The story:

I got a random friend invite on the 30LBS Skunk YouTube channel the other day from a user I’ve never viewed, called Lights Over Paris.

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?

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Golden

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:

http://vodpulse.com/misc/dnb-mix-plaid-oct10th.mp3

Tracklisting after the jump. Comments would be wonderful. If you missed any of the previous sets, you can listen to them here.

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Instead of sleeping, I made another liquid drum & bass mix for y’all.

http://vodpulse.com/misc/dnb-mix-plaid-aug27th.mp3

Tracklisting after the jump. Please give it a listen and let me know what you think in the comments.

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Follow up to last week’s DnB mix, I bring you part 2:

http://thirtypounder.com/misc/dnb-mix-plaid-aug11th.mp3

Tracklisting (Artist – Song Title):

1. The Flashbulb – Prelude

2. Apex – By The Way

3. Hard Fi – Hard To Beat (London Elektricity Remix)

4. High Contrast – Metamorphosis

5. Friction and K-Tee – Fired Up

6. Danny Byrd – Labrynth

7. Rudenko – Everybody (Danny Byrd Remix)

8. Sigma – Paint It Black

9. Q-Project – Living with Beaker

10. B Complex – Beautiful Lies

11. Brookes Brothers – F-Zero

12. High Contrast – Music Is Everything

13. Nu-Tone – Crosstalk

14. Mistabishi – The Light’s Really Bad

The tracklising for last week’s mix is posted in the flip.

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Today I leave for Vegas to see Underworld with a few other Doctors and friends. But before I go, I leave for you the near final version of the music video for The Antlers. My friend, Ethan, is still making some last minute tweaks the band requested but this is pretty much it. My job of creating a shit ton of bubbles is complete. The final should be done this weekend, so I’ll post an update to it next week. Anyway, I think it turned out pretty great and hopefully this video will continue to fuel their current success (Pitchfork Review).

The Antlers – “Two”

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Here’s a slab of red-hot liquid dnb. Raise your hands and stomp your feet. Beatmatching skills are still under development, but I like how this mix turned out. Please comment if you listen to the mix. Thanks.

http://thirtypounder.com/misc/dnb-mix-plaid-aug4th.mp3

YEAH BUDDY

Live

Guess nobody had the balls to step up to last week’s challenge. Tha’s OK…I did one for ya.

Mixed -LIVE- in Ableton, so it’s a little sloppy. Enjoy.

http://vodpulse.com/misc/bring-em-down-dnb.mp3

There’s also some new business happening over here, but it isn’t done yet. Seems to be the status on every single project I’ve got flying around my head right now…

Wading through the mind

Always searching for MORE time

I am… Thunderstruck

You've been....

Shamelessly ripped from the Interwebs

Greetings citizens!

In the true nature of Plaid, I’m going to do another experiment.

I’ve concocted a batch of loops that I’m going to open up to all of the other audio Doctors (and visitors) out there to tinker with.

To set a standard that I want to see completely broken, I’ll provide the most straight forward arrangement in order for you to get an idea of what not to do:

http://vodpulse.com/misc/bring_down.mp3

Now grab the raw audio files and filter ‘em, remix ‘em, reverse ‘em, alter ‘em any way you see fit and present your new findings in the comments for maximum badassery.

http://vodpulse.com/misc/bring-it-down.zip

If you’re not much of an audio wizard, here are some free tools to get you started should you still want to participate (and you should):

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

http://www.buzzmachines.com/

And much more…

Now get to work!!!

What’s up everyone, the doc is back! Lately I’ve been working on a few projects – one of which is helping some friends with a music video for this band, The Antlers, based out of Brooklyn. The idea for the video is to have the band crudely animated from construction paper cutouts while jamming out inside of a room. My task for this project is to animate bubbles… lots of bubbles. The bubbles animate out of each instrument in sync with the music and float up to the ceiling. As they fill the room, they start to float out of the window and into the city. I don’t know much more about the video except that I have to create bubbles… lots of bubbles. So far, the bubbles are all manually animated so that they sync up to the music. For some later shots, I’ll probably use Particular, a particle simulation plugin, but for now I need a little more control.

Anyway, this is one of the shots of the drummer. The plan is to animate each member separately throughout the entire song so they can just edit between different shots as needed.

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The video should be done around the end of July, so keep an eye out for it.