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for the time being i am blogging on the brand new eclectic method site to be found here:::::

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Santa Monica & Back

We did a beach party in Santa Monica with Gavin Rossdale then me and Justin flew back to New York and went straight to sound check at Drom for the CMJ gig. I did a much more global music video mashup set then usual to go alongside the vibe of the night. Last night I played at Room Service in New York. We came 4th in the DJ Mag Top 20 VJs this year, thanks to everyone who voted. We just been working on a new concept with Dark Igloo who have also been designing our new website with Laura. Ian and Geoff just did an NUS tour around the UK and now we are all getting ready for Mexico this weekend and sunday night we are all flying to Boston to play at the Roxy with LL Cool J. Sick.

CMJ

Just got back from four sunny days in Miami. I love Miami, only ever been there at WMC so was great to see the place and just have a break. Next NYC gig is a CMJ showcase later this month.

ZeitGhost 3

ECLECTIC METHOD :: ZeitGhost #3 from Eclectic Method on Vimeo.
Bish Bosh, Sting's your mother's uncle... Here's the new Zeitghost 3 and tracklist::::
Ray Charles - What'd I Say
Trevor Lovey - Open
Stevie Wonder - Papa Was A Rolling Stone
Paul Simon - Diamonds On The Soles Of Her Shoes
Paul Johnson - Get Get Down (Laidback Luke Mix)
Dave Chappelle - I'm Rick James
Carly Simon - You're So Vain
Baby D - I'm Bout Money
Beatles - Money (Mike the 2600 King's Fuck You Pay Me Remix)
Lil Scrappy feat Young Buck - Money In The Bank
Fifth Dimension - Let The Sunshine In (Solly Bmore Edit)

Showcase Live

Had a great time at Showcase live playing with Timbaland and Sebastian. The party was a celebration for Sebastian's birthday and was just sick. Showcase Live is an amazing venue with 50ft projection screen as well as multiple projectors and screens. The tech crew there were the fastest and most professional crew I have come across in the US so far. We did the show hang about with our good friend Kev Mitchell then went back to the hotel and talked them into letting us use the pool till the early hours.

Geoff flew up to St Andrews last weekend to play, said the show was sick. Then last night I played supportingLotus at the Mecury Lounge, party was great fun, audience was great. Tonight I am playing at Happy Corp for the lunch of Paul Pope's new DKNY clothing line. Been hanging out with Paul quite a bit recently, check out his sick Kid Robot action piece.

Adam Matters

So... did the Intermix Party for the opening of Fashion Week, tried out some new videos then retreated into production mode. Been recently working a lot with Dark Igloo who are working on new Eclectic Method designs and projects with us. One of those projects last week was filming the excellent beatboxer Adam Matta , check his video entertaining the wildlife:::

U-God from Wu-Tang dropped by my place and the video is now up on the new Crossfader site of his visit. Tomorrow night there is an Eclectic Method jam with Kotchy at the Lucky Cat in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. I will be playing DVJs and CDJs through the SVM and Kotchy is playing an electronic drum kit, samplers and vocals. He'll be dropping a few tracks off his new album and i'll be doing a DVJ set as well.
Then Sunday I am off to Foxboro Massachusetts to do a gig with Timbaland, no jokes. Next week Wednesday Eclectic Method is supporting the band Lotus at the Mercury Lounge in NYC.

Inner Party System

Check out this excellent audio & video remix we did for Inner Party System:::

The remix is a sick (literally) media overloaded onslaught of a mix. The Inner Party System guys asked us to go ahead go nuts go ape-sh*t.... so we did. They liked it so much it's coming out as an audio only mix for djs next month as well. Also Mediatronica built a online video remix sampler out of the video samples and riffs we used to construct the mix and you can play/jam jam with that yourself here....

Vote METH in VJ top 20

If you can, go to this page and vote for Eclectic Method in forthcoming VJ top 20 in DJMAG:
http://www.djmag.com/index.php?op=top20vj

U-God

Yesterday U-God of the Wu Tang Clan came to my place with my mate Darek to film an interview about Eclectic Method for the brand new crossfader site. The crossfader site is being relaunched and luckily they took down my last videos in which I mastered the art of looking like a twazuk on camera. U-God was great and well into it, my favourite quote of the day being, "This blew my motherfucking head off!! I've never seen nothing like this... this is some NEW SHIT!!! Kids is gonna love this..." He asked us to do some remixes, possible work on tracks together, exchanged details and departed. I then went to spend time with Sascha (aka Sport Casual) who is my favorite dj at the moment, check out this killer latin mix from him. This saturday me and Abe are doing live AV jamming at the Lucky Cat and Sascha is going to be playing with us as well.

EM on Solid Steel

Eclectic Method DJ mix on SOLID STEEL this week. A sneeky download of it available here. It's our second time on the show, I have been a fan of Solid Steel since I was a kid so it's always something like giddy excitement for me when the Ninja's ask us to make a mix. The mix has a definite more global/leftfield flavor then our usual dancefloor kicking mixes, should be streaming on their site all this week. Solid Steel has been around for ever, it started out as Coldcut's regular show on KISS FM then expanded to include members of DJ Food, Darren (DK) and others. They also started syndicating the show to stations around the world about a decade ago. Anyone who has heard Coldcut's Journeys by DJs (JDJ) will know the killer eclectic mixing styles that Solid Steel contains. Liam Howlett (The Prodigy) stated it as his number one influence for doing his astonishingly good Dirtchamber Sessions Vol 1 mix.

Little Big Beef

We've recently been working on levels, remixes and some development ideas for the new PS3 game Little Big Planet. The game is sick fun and has the most important ingredient for a game that is going to be huge, girls love it! We also recently spent time with Quincy Jones III of QD3 in LA who is working with our friends Tim & Raphi on some video orientated projects. We took QD3's Beef series, a bunch of documentaries about hip hop beefs. Check out the first Eclectic Method BEEF mix centered around KRS ONE and the South Bronx. The south south Bronx!
I am locked away in Brooklyn with a pile of drives, Ian is doing much of the same in LA and Geoff in London. I am doing another video jam band thing with Abe at the end of the month at the Lucky Cat in Brooklyn and then Fashion Week gig here in NYC and Geoff and Ian will be playing 2 or 3 times at BESTIVAL. So much remix work in production at the moment , brand new zeitghost, motown mixes, tv show , convention specials.

CaliforniaTourVideo

Eclectic Method - California Tour Summer 2008 from Eclectic Method on Vimeo.

Californication

Last weekend me and JB went to San Francisco where we played the excellent Bootie party at the DNA Lounge. We stayed with our mate Dan of TicketFly and even got a day to chill and drive over the golden gate bridge and go check the beautiful surroundings. Then we came to LA and Ian flew out to join us after his weekend of gigs in the UK at Global Gathering and Secret Garden Party Festivals with Geoff. Apparently Secret Garden was excellent fun and they played a tent where everyone wore headphones to the set. Monday we went to the Key Club to see Metal School, oh my god, it was ace.... Like the Cuban Brothers of Rock... Seriously funny i actually haven't laughed out loud that hard since seeing the Cuban's at our MITU night in NYC. Girls obligingly strip as a regular part of the show, every Monday night at the Key Club. Tuesday we were at the Edison which was a sweet venue, an old LA power station. Last night we played right before Lil John & T Pain at the Oakley party at the Key Club on Sunset, which was sick. Now we are chilling at our friend Nick's house in the hills. Been making an approximate video diary of our time in Cali, will pop it up sometime.

Tippy Toes

One month no writings... I moved apartment and been otherwise sorting out my belongings. Firstly had a killer Vimeo party in Brooklyn.


Ian & Geoff played to around 6,000 folks at the new Oxegen Festival in Ireland, ridiculous amounts of clips appeared on youtube:::

Played with Nikka Costa a few days later at the Bowery Ballroom here in NYC, we did a remix for her a few years ago so we made a video for it for her show. Then i had a jam with Reggie Watts & Abe Seiferth at the Lucky Cat, what is now our local since we moved. Me and Abe are occupying the same building and working on a few tunes together for fun but also a house tune with Reggie. Abe and Reggie also do the Tippy Toes disco band with the dudes from Hercules & Love Affair. They have a few shows coming up and i will be doing the video jam with Reggie & Abe again in August. It's a fun set up, Abe on loop pedals , guitar and drummachines... Reggie doe's his comedy loop pedal thing and also brings a Virus keyboard that he knocks out riffs on and i play video samples off two DVJs.

Also recently I have become a massive fan of Drop The Lime who makes bassline heavy dance music well worth checking in detail. My friend Mark Miller also recently introduced me to the brilliant nervous comedic outings of Josh McCutchen which i also advise checking out.

Right now we just finished a wicked video remix for Inner Party System which we promised their label we wouldn't show till it's about to be released, I hate sitting on things in the internet age. We're also deep into making video mixes for Motown which is probably a while away from being out there but we are dropping odd bits in our live shows. It was super positive and super progressive that their reaction to seeing us jam with Motown was to ask us to do it officially for them.

I am flying tomorrow with Justin to San Francisco for the Bootie Party there. The parties in San Fran are always off the chain so super looking forward to it. Ian & Geoff are doing another festival weekender tomorrow their at Global Gathering then the next day their at the Secret Garden Party with our boy Eddy Temple-Morris. Then Ian is flying out to LA to do no less then 4 parties with me in 6 days the most killer off the chain one looks like Bootie LA. All our LA peeps come out for party!!!

Bowery Nights

So things are joyously mad and hectic. Last night I played support and inbetween audio-video mixing at the Bowery Ballroom. Gotta say i loved the bands that night, Francis & The Lights were absolutely solid , Francis seemed a little stressed in soundcheck but the live show is amazing he actually puts in effort and has a very cool sound , the band is tight as f**k.... Also Heloise & The Savoir fare were wicked too. Today i just been running around and finally moved some stuff into my new place, me and a few friends have managed to find a building all to ourselves in Brooklyn and i have been trying to get my stuff there between gigs and running around. Tonight i am going to be playing at the Vimeo party in Brooklyn a few blocks from my new home. Sunday I am at the Remix Hotel for Pioneer. Monday I am back at the Bowery Ballroom supporting Nikka Costa who i have been a fan of for ages, Eclectic Method did a remix for her a few years back for the track "Matter Of Time" so i massively looking forward to the show. Then Tuesday playing a party for Zinc Magazine in Manhattan then wednesday i am going to sleep for a day or two.... We've also been hard at work on a video remix for Inner Party System who are blowing up all kinds of flavors of cool at the moment.

ZEITGHOST TV Prototype

CHECK IT, we just finished this prototype pilot tv mix version of ZeitGhost with Beatbox/Comedian/Soul Sensation Reggie Watts. It's the latest news/affairs/music videos/film clips everything mashed up with Reggie doing beat driven commentary.
www.zeitghost.tv



TRACKLIST:::::
Playtex Advert
Get Smart, Kung Fu Panda, Incredible Hulk Trailers
Wiley - Wearing My Rolex
Barack Obama
NERD - Everyone Nose
Bo Diddley - Bo Diddley
Mariah Carey - Touch My Body
Wanted Trailer
Tim Russert
GTA IV
Lost
Lil Wayne - Lollipop/Got Money
Oil Price Spike Hike, Four Dollar Gasoline
Keramick & Lobo - Rails
Coldplay - Violet Hill
Roni Size - Strictly Social
American Gladiators
BPA - Toe Jam (feat David Byrne)

Also we recently had EBOMAN visit us in New York and hang for a couple of days. We checked out his astonishingly brilliant software in detail. It's basically a combination of Vegas/ SVM/ DVJ and Video Sampler which he controls with a motion capture, the boy is on some next level sh*T.

Sound Of The Popo

Been so busy completely neglected to mention that Lucky Highstepper's Sound Of The Popo / Adam Gadget was out and available.

PLAYB0Y

So all three of us and JB just went to LA to play at the Playboy Mansion. Place had a lovely set up of a multitude of screens for Spike TV awards after party. The mansion has an amazing zoo and the pool is sick. We did a 3 hour set then basically just packed up, went home and passed out.

Then last Sunday we played again in LA supporting the Cool Kids at the Key Club. The Cool Kids were excellent. Massive thanks to Blake and Nick for helping us around in LA. We also got to hang with our friend Bernd late Sunday night. This weekend Ian and Geoff are playing at Fatboy's Rockness Festival in Inverness and we are all currently working on the next installment of the ZeitGhost mixes.

Dnchrd

Massive thanks to the LVHRD guys for putting on an excellent show at The Art Directors Club in which 6 different colored teams went at it in Dance Battle whilst i dropped Method video Mixery. LVHRD's Dave was the most hilarious host and kept the room packed throughout the event, even to the point where he had to beg the dancefloor to go home at club closing.

TONIGHT I am giving an interview on The Remix on XFM in the UK, Eclectic Method just did a guest DJ mix for tonights show and Eddy Temple Morris is gonna be calling up in a short while. Things have been hella hectic and hella strange in the last week just catching up with myself. All 3 of us are flying into LA next week to play at the Playboy Mansion and a few other LA gigs. Some super cool events and remixes coming from us in next few weeks i'll write about them when i have had a chance to catch up with myself.