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Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
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.
Monday, August 25, 2008
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.
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
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.
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.
Thursday, August 14, 2008
Thursday, July 31, 2008
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.
Thursday, July 24, 2008
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!!!
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!!!
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