Pitchfork is too Cool #1 - Alexis Gideon "Flight of the Liophant"

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#1 - ALEXIS GIDEON "Flight of the Liophant"
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Out now on Sick Room Records. CD/Download right now. Vinyl will be out on Mission Label '08





1) How did you make this genius fookin' album? Seriously its good and tell
us in 5 sentences how you did it, Mr. Bad Ass!

All the songs came about differently: sometimes I would make beat on a drum machine or drums and then develop a melody and form around it; some songs started with a melody and some with a lyric. I made all the songs using drum machines and live instruments. There are no samples or computer generated parts. I am really excited about this album since I feel that it is a lot more cohesive than my last one and that it has a more personal sound.

2) 2 part Q: Where do you stand on the War in Iraq and what do you think about Blackwater USA in Iraq (if you are familair with that pivatized militia)?

I think the war in Iraq is absurd and horrible. It is a war that was started on false premises and it is fucked. I think that Blackwater and privatized military is also fucked. At the risk of sounding like an apocolyptical crazy: it is a mercenary system that could easily get out of control (especially when the dollar loses all value), and could be one of the warning signs of an empire about to collapse (ala Rome).

3) Where do you live now and do you like it?

Portland, Or and I love it.

4) If you had to make out with a member of the opposite sex? Who would it be and why...

My girlfriend Shelley Short cos I love her.





Go buy this album or download it now. Then burn or share it with atleast 5 people that get it.
For Fans of: Beck, Ween, Antipop Consortium, & Wes Anderson.

Thanks Alexis and cya soon,
Nick

FUCK LISTS...

CITY #1) Gothenburg, Sweden

STUDIO


Afrobeat-dub-disco-indie-pop from Sweden's West Coast...

mp3:
Studio - West Side
Studio - Self Service

THE TOUGH ALLIANCE


More West Coast pop...

mp3:
The Tough Alliance - Looking For Gold
The Tough Alliance - Something Special


CITY #2) Tampa, FL

YO MAJESTY


If you like this cut, check out Kryptonite Pussy.

mp3:
Yo Majesty - Club Action


CITY #3) Milton Keynes, UK

KOTKI DWA

A young band from Milton Keynes has won a major online competition organised by the Tate Modern Museum calling for 16-24-year-olds to create music inspired by art from the Tate Collection.

The band, called Kotki Dwa, won the Tate Tracks competition with a track called Le Beau Charcutier inspired by Francis Picabia’s The Handsome Pork Butcher 1924-26. The painting is on display in the Poetry and Dream wing on Level 3 at Tate Modern. The song is on display here...

mp3:
Kotki Dwa - Little Flags
Kotki Dwa - Pad
Kotki Dwa - Le Beau Charcutier


CITY #4) Washington, DC

THE WINSTONS

video:


The Winstons are a funk and soul music outfit, based in Washington, D.C., who are most notable for recording a track called "Amen, Brother" (a 1969 B-side to the Grammy Award-winning single "Color Him Father"). "Amen, Brother" is probably the most sampled record of all time. Midway through the track there is a drum solo which contains the "Amen Break" which has been sampled and used in thousands of hip-hop, pop, drum and bass and jungle tracks.

The sample achieved fame when former Downstairs Records' employee Breakbeat Lenny compiled it onto his 1986 Ultimate Breaks and Beats bootleg series for DJs. Lenny hired Louis Flores to edit four bars of the drum break at much slower speed than the remainder of the song. Although it created a jarring difference in tempo in the center of the song, it allowed Hip-Hop DJ's to extend the beat by switching between two copies of the record on two separate turntables at a danceable tempo while ignoring the rest of the song (this technique was created by Kool Herc in 1974 and became a trend at large in 1977 with the efforts of Grandmaster Flash). By 1987, E-mu released the SP1200 sampler, altering hip-hop production techniques from drum machines to sampled loops. Most producers began to mine their loops initially from Ultimate Breaks and Beats series, causing the Amen Break to gain a massive amount of fame in the late '80s hip-hop community.

Amen, sister.

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*Links to posted mp3s are for general previewing/sampling purpose only and are available for a limited time only. Please support these artists. Go buy their music. Go to a show. Go tell a friend about them. Sleep with them.

(And a hat tip to Sean Ryan, I Guess I'm Floating, Obscure Sound and Pinglewood.)

Track Bikes are done dude, It's all about the Moped now.

The SF Weekly has an article exploring the ironic and self-indulgent circle-jerk world of hipster moped gangs.

Link: The Angry Moped Gangs of San Francisco.

What Hipsters Look Like.

Hipsters have many features that are easily discernible to the casual observer.

Note: Moped and Asian girlfriend not pictured.

Illustration by Stephen.

Williamsburg

The classic Hipster Olympics:

WHEN DINOSAURS RULED THE EARTH /// MUSIC VIDEO

Here is a genius display of post-grunge death!!! I love these guys and wish them the best...

*notice all the subtle inside jokes throughout the bit*



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