Metalocalypse’s Dethklok is both a real and animated super-shredder heavy metal band. Kinda like Gorillaz, but with more head-banging, blood, guts and mayhem. What I love is that Brendan Small first created a show around the world’s most successful (fictional) black metal band, then created a real live band around it, and invariably reaped the fame of the fictional animated one. Does that make any sense? I guess usually movies/things get big in real life, then get animated, not vice versa….
For all you post-modern ironic lovers of the power of technology to rearrange, interrupt and recontextualize….wait, let me start over. This video is HI-larious. Maybe it’s because I have been in rooms full of stinky dudes agape at footage of Slash’s classic 1992 Tokyo concert, going, “My god! This solo is a veritable treasure trove of repeating pentatonic licks! Slash is God! We are not worthy!” (Sorta.) Well, Mr. StSanders has thoroughly confounded legions of shred-lovers. He “voices over” in near perfect timing clunker-rific dissonent solos that are the worst you have ever heard over all my favorite obnoxious guitar-heroes, including, but not limited to, The Satch-master, Steve Vai, Clapton, and others.
This 10th anniversary self promotional animation for Record Makers is straight up bootylicious. It’s an adjective that so rarely applies but in this case it is positively apropos.
My friend D.Mo and I just finished a mix for Noncollective: a growing family of mixtapes with psychedelia, disco and rock as somewhat of an underlying theme. Memos In Absentia is our first joint venture and is amongst a tasteful collection of mixes from other special guests.
Download Mix + Album Art (zip) | Stream Mix (mp3)
Memos In Absentia
Energy settles within energies into forms until you are born. As other forms multiply before you, your inner formlessness grows quietly. More and more until friction drops its spark, giving birth to emotions. Accruing, like blossoms and clouds, like a balloon bouquet that shapes and colors our pasts. But when air gives way to wind, ripples to waves, smoke to blaze and land to sediment, we see others laid to rest. And we release balloons, one by one, as those gone show us eternity’s perfection lies not in the forms of yesterday or tomorrow. Only in the form of change when moving on.
01 / Le Premier Bonheur du Jour / Os Mutantes
02 / Old & Young / Roland Kovac
03 / Mulatu / Mulatu Astatke
04 / Tuareg / Gal Costa
05 / Mercury / Julian Lynch
06 / Haikuesque (When She Laughs) / Bibio
07 / The African Dawn / Electro Keyboard Orchestra
08 / Red Lady Too / George Harrison
09 / Absense / Clark
10 / Sour Soul / Pool-Pah
11 / Styx / Catharsis
12 / C is for Charlie / DJ Harvey & Gerry Rooney
13 / Shatavari / Metal Fingers
14 / Singing Sand / Quiet Village
15 / No Strings Attached / Coleman
16 / Dry Drops / Haider & Co
17 / Mowgli / Nino Nardini & Roger Roger
18 / Only When I’m Dreaming / Minnie Riperton
19 / Davos S (Trio ‘round Midnight) / Jan Jelinek (avec The Exposures)
20 / Orange Tree / Lone
21 / Birthday Music / The Gaslamp Killer
22 / Recado Para Pio Lobato / Lucas Santtana
23 / Alone Again / William The Blue
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