Pictures: Matas Drawings

A few days earlier I've found a stack of my old drawings, I've made them in the art school in 1990-1993. I was 16-18 years old at the time and my idols were Salvador Dalí, William Blake and Rembrandt. I had a dream to become a great artist some day...


Matas Petrikas - Early Artwork (on Picasa Web Albums)

Video: Bogdan Irkük - Curare

Film-noir-esque Bogdan Irkük video 'Curare', produced by Pistachios.

Audio: Minimal and Blow instruments

What's up with minimal artists and blow instruments samples? Ricardo Villalobos filled his 'Fizheuer Zieheuer' last year with gypsy horn samples, and this summer it's a track from Berlin again - Samim 'Heater' (Get Physical) with harmonica sample.

Samim 'Heater'

Direct link via minimaland : Heater



Ricardo Villalobos 'Fizheuer Zieheuer'

Direct link via minimaland: Fizheuer Zieheuer Pt.1

Update: Fizheuer Zieheuer sample comes from Chile's national anthem.

Video: Klaus Kinski in Fitzcarraldo

Kinski flipping out on the set of Fitzcarraldo. With commentary from the director Werner Herzog.

Video: Roberto Benigni in Night on Earth

Roberto - incredible talent...

Video: Midnight Juggernauts - Shadows

Midnight Juggernauts from Melbourne, Australia.
Bit Blondie, bit David Byrne, maybe X-press 2?
Anyway, it's a nice track, I've heard it already a hundred times and just few minutes ago I got the name of the band on Annie Mac's Mash Up.

Video: Exem - Kursiai 97 & Dar Nevelu

I've just found 2 videos of my old band Exem, both of them were made in 1997 (as far, as I can remember) for our album "Stereo". Yep, 10 years have passed and it seems like 20...

Kursiai 1997 Remix


Dar nevelu (It's not too late)

Video: Maps

Wonderful new music from Maps. I've already posted about him/them in May, and now there's a new video for the song called 'You Don't Know Her Name':



and the older one, 'It Will Find You':

Video: Busy P interview

Here's the interview with Pedro Winter aka Busy P, the founder of the Ed Banger record label and the manager of Daft Punk.

Video: Retro TV Logos/Signoffs

Hi all,
I'm back from my vacation, the summer of 2007 is over, and the Grumpy old Raver is grumping again.

This time it's a cool selection of tv production companies logos. Maybe somebody will steal/inspire themselves with retro animation. From the times, when there was no Flash, Photoshop, After Effects or Flame:



via BoingBoing

Video: Portishead vs Cher

Scary as hell:


Funk That Shit Productions, via Idolator

Video: I'm not there

Now, this looks interesting - Todd Haynes is directing a movie based on the life of Bob Dylan. The different aspects of Dylans personality is being played by different actors. In the following excerpt, Cate Blanchet is impersonating him (David Cross plays Alen Ginsberg):



via AICN

Video: Louis Jordan - Caldonia

One of the first music videos, check out the bassline!


More of Louis Jordan

Video: Hans Rosling talks at TED

"The seemingly impossible is possible."

and please watch this presentation till the end, it'll change your stereotype of a scientist forever.
Ladies & gentelmen, Hans Rosling!


TED

via Data Mining

Video: Future Funk Squad - Audio Damage

Audio Damage - Future Funk Squad

Audio: DJ Vidis in The Mix 2007

Something for the weekend perhaps? A good friend of mine Vidis from Vilnius, puts a tasteful selection of tunes, a very deep, introspective house music.


Tracklisting & Download at Ryralio

Video: Andy Warhol - Vynil

Andys interpretation of Clockwork Orange. Stanley Kubrick definitely saw it before he started working on his adaptation.

Video: Justice Live at Coachella Festival

Love that cross decoration, I guess the new album is already in the Vatican collection.

Video: Tesla Coil playing music

Some musicians use synthesizers to generate their sounds, and some others use the LIGHTNINGS for that. Just take a look at this:

Audio: Round Table Knights Summer Mix 2007

Some modern sounds for the summer of 2007 by Round Table Knights:




direct link Round Table Knights Summer Mix 2007

Tracklisting:
Justice - The Party
Gossip - Listen Up (Punks Jump Up Remix)
Pase Rock - So Fucking Disco / Cassius - Feeling For You
Feist - Sea Lion (Chromeo Remix)
Low - Hatchet
Hot Chip - My Piano
Digitalism - Idealistic
Paul McCartney - Temporary Secretary (Radioslave Remix)
Mr. Oizo - Patrick 122
Lil Mama - Lip Gloss (Round Table Knights edit)
Bjork - Earth Intruders (Spank Rock Remix)
Jackson Jones - I Feel Good, Put Your Pants On (Pilooski Dirty Edit)
Patrick Wolf - Overture
Larytta - Ya-Ya-Ya
Frankie Valli - Beggin' (Pilooski Edit)

Video: White Stripes - Icky Thump Live

White Stripes live on Conan O'Brien Show. Love the synth solos on that...

Video: Will Wright and Brian Eno - Generative Systems

Will Wright (SimCity,Sims) in a presentation of his next big project - Spore. Brian Eno talks about generative music and shows the future of automatic music generation.


via Synthopia

Video: The 10 Greatest Sounds from Star Wars

via Unidentified Sound Object

Video: M.I.A. - Boyz

A new video from M.I.A, dig the 1990 style motion graphics. It looks like something from legendary Yo! MTV Raps times:


via Discobelle

Audio: Justice - Essential Selection

Xavier and Gaspard delivered this mix last week on BBC Radio 1, and I'm still wondering if I like or not. Well, I like almost everything they do, but there are few 80s songs in there, that are just bland. Maybe I just have to listen to it a few more times... Anyway, when you have 70 tracks in a 2 hour mix, it doesn't matter much. Have fun:


Download it from New Mixes

via New Mixes

Video: Peter, Bjorn & John - Young Folks

Aaaah, at last! Ever since I heard this song on Annie Macs Mashup, I was looking for the song id, and here it is. Also, it was used in this unofficial iPhone commercial.


Update: actually, the version I heard on Radio 1 was from Kanye Wests new mixtape. You can get it on I guess i'm floating blog.

Update 2: And there is also a German version made by Nena for the soundtrack of Vollidot:

Video: Theremin version Of Gnarls Barkley 'Crazy'

Live band playing Gnarls Barkleys 'Crazy', with vocals replaced by theremin solo. It sounds definitely 'crazy':




via CDM

Video: Matthew Herbert - The Audience

A Matthew Herbert typographical video made in 60s style.

Video: Matthew Herbert - Never Stops The Music

Matthew Herbert Live in Berlin, Arena. Cooking electronics.


via freshmilk TV

Video: Roisin Murphy - Overpowered

The voice of Moloko has a new album next month.

Video: Meat Beat Manifesto - Edge Of No Control

Meat Beat Manifestos 'Satyricon' LP in 1992 was a turning point for me. It was the moment I've realized, that I'll start making music myself.
Strangely, how MBM sounds modern again:

Video: Chemical Brothers - Elektrobank

Music by Chemical Brothers, directed by Spike Jonze, gymnastics by Sofia Coppolla. Enjoy it!

The History of Simian (Mobile Disco, vs, etc)

If you like Justice vs. Simian 'We are your friends" ore Simian Mobile Disco mixes, you'll probably have to read this extended post on Missingtoof. Thanks guys, it's nice to see somebody actually writing blogposts instead of copy/pasting youtube embed tags! ;)

Video: Saul Williams - List Of Demands (Remix)

Although this track is from last year, the remix was new to me. And a simple but creepy video.

Video: Paul McCartney - Dance Tonight

And now, something completely different - a video directed by Michel Gondry, co-starred by Natalie Portman and Mackenzie Crook, made for some grandpa called Paul Mccartney.

Video: Simian Mobile Disco - It's the Beat

Funny video from Simian Mobile Disco and very contagious track..

Video: Justice Interview

Video: Justus Köhncke - Timecode

One more older minimal house track. This time it's another man from Kompakt Records, Cologne. Justus Köhnke is a former member of influential Whirlpool Productions.

Video: Golden Parazyth @ One man Band Festival

Golden Parazyth from Vilnius, Lithuania:

Video: Pete Tongs Fast Trax

Apparently Pete Tong has his own video podcast, which I've never heard about. So let the old man tell you, what you have to hear :)

Video: Daft Punk Interview in Japan

These Daft Punk helmets are incredible, and it seems they feel pretty comfortable wearing them. You get them for yourself for a the modest price of 65.000$ at Led Effects. They are totally worth it!

Audio: Zhiguli - Distortion Disco Mix

It seems, that nu-rave wave is spreading around the world faster than SARS - now we have a nice Ukrainian addition to all these folks from Paris, London and Vilnius - Zhiguli.



Direct Link Zhiguli - Distortion Disco Mix

Also you can download a few Zhiguli mashups and edits from their site.

Found via Missingtoof

Video: Microsoft Surface

The future of computing is apparently here:



I remember seeing the interview with Jefferson Han from perceptivepixel a few months ago, where he could confirm some interest in his projects from the big players. Somehow I thought it's going to be Apple and not the guys Redmond. Anyhow, it's nice to see something happening there, the windowed GUI is more than 25 years old, and it's definitely time for something new.

On Jeffs website you can find some beautiful abstract visuals controlled by multitouch interface.

Audio: Maps - It Will Find You

And now something very fresh, a truly breathtaking track from Maps:



Found through Missingtoof

p.s. are these balalaikas making tremolos in the background?

Video: Jens Wunderling - loopArena/MTC

A very unusual musical interface. Created by Jens Wunderling from Berlin.



more about loopArena.

Found through Livepa: Where Electronic Music Comes Alive: loopArena MTC performance @ c-base with bruda

Video: Dublicate - Slash Riddim

Here is another Lithuanian act - Dublicate. I've known these guys for a long time: in the 90s Pavlix played in one of the best bands in Baltics - Empti and Genys was a member of a hip-hop project UZI. Few years back they started a new project together - Dublicate. As the name suggests, they are heavily influenced by the dub/reggae culture, although their music goes far beyond that. Very innovative, very talented, very sophisticated.
And these guys certainly can play live:



You can find more videos from their live performances on Dublicates Myspace page.

Audio: SebastiAn at PIG party 04.18.2007

This is an incredible mix: hard, rough, groovy, futuristic. I just can't stop listening to it...
SebastiAn at PIG Party April 18th 2007 Milano


Direct Link

Courtesy of Pig Radio

Video: Mr. Brown - RossRossRoss

Mr. Brown is a young and very talented DJ/Producer from Italy, who takes the hypehouse agression and groove to another level. We should call him Thomas Bangalters younger brother, I guess...



If you like it, listen to his Glowstick Mix too.

Video: Jürgen Paape - So Weit Wie Noch Nie

Although it's a relatively old track (published in 2003), it still sounds modern and it gets only better with the time. I guess, these qualities define a 'modern classic'.
I was addicted to this track since 2004, and you can hear it at every party I made in last few years.
I guess, there are still some people, who don't know it, so here it comes:



A short notice: actually, the best version of this track has different vocal sample (by Münchener Freiheit) on it. But because of sample clearance issues, the track was released with a new vocals. You can still hear the original on Kompakt Total 3 compilation or an a highly recommended DJ Kicks by Erlend Øye.

Video: The MisShapes

For the last few months, I was hearing about the MisShapes, and strangely also from European media. So I guess it's not a NY phenomena anymore. Apparently the Generation Y got their own Club Kids.
I hope the music's at least as good as the famous white wall pictures...

Video: Metal on Metal - No Front Teeth

Metal on Metal are some seriously ill guys from Lithuania. Watch out for them this year - there's already their remix of Tim Deluxes 'Let the Beats Roll playing on BBC Radio1. They recently signed to Skint records, so everything's just starting.

It's not a music video per se, but more of live performance of their track 'No Front Teeth'. Notice the crowd reaction...


Also, here some pictures from M.o.M. parties by Tomas Černiševas.

Video: Justice - D.A.N.C.E.

directed by Jonas & Francois for irene75




also here's another nice video from these guys: Ed Banger Promo Video