Archive for the ‘Music’ Category
Auntie’s Lock
So I stole this from Brian Park’s awesome new blog The Greatest Conversation which is probably titled after the conversations he has with himself, which seem to be really damn good. He is like my super smart academic friend with refined taste who can’t handle stupid average people in the city so he moved to an island just off the city so he can study and think (and blog) in less diluted peace.
Anyway this track is off Flying Lotus’ most recent EP, which is a nice cue for me to say I am really fucking excited for FlyLo’s new album.
Also, ‘Auntie’s Lock’ is such a nice title. And I should really go find some breakfast. ta.
Pen ee sillyn
Bic pens are good for everything… Writing… Chewing… Breaking open old kryptonite bike locks… and…
(via flylo)
Dakota Roche in Insight
this section is still mindblowing
Nosaj Thing
As if Nosaj Thing wasn’t rad enough already, Adam Guzman & Julia Tsao designed this Visual Show for him and it is bananananananas.
via harrisonboyce
“If that had been a cheese roll it’d never got past me”
In the last two years of my high school days, I was whisked from the throws of Singapore’s public education system to the prepindepity of a posh private school in Victoria which is located at the bottom left corner of Canada. St. Michaels University School it was called. Steve Nash attended that school, something the school’s marketers never ever let us forget.
It was here we were forced into a sport. And not wanting to join the rugby jocks, as I am really quite far from the jockism, I instead chose… Cricket.
I sucked at all aspects of the sport, but enjoyed it immensely. Our time involved standing around a lot and watching our eccentric genius of a British Chemistry teacher – Mr. Fisher – scream things at us, and sometimes, at thin air. “DIVE!” and “CCCAAATTCCCHHHH IIIITTTTT!!!!!!!!!!!!!” were two of his favourite lines.
There were two students on our team who were exceptionally clever, endearingly naive to their nerdiness, and absolutely serious about cricket. One was Indan and the other Pakistani. You can only imagine how entertaining their antics were.
So I guess it can be said that I have very fond memories of the sport of cricket, made only better because one night (or more?) I had sex with a girl on the bowling lawn in the middle of the cricket pitch. Much to my roomate’s chagrin (since he knew this fact and also played cricket on that field weekly).
The Duckworth Lewis Method is, according to Wikipedia, “a mathematical way to calculate the target score for the team batting second in a one-day cricket or Twenty20 cricket match interrupted by weather or other circumstance.” Yeah I don’t know either.
More importantly, it is also the name of an Irish pop group who have released an album revolving entirely around cricket. Needless to say, I’m in love. The song above – Jiggery Pokery – is my fav. Hit the jump for Mr. Miandad which is their first single.
Mono/Poly
While on the RBMA Flying Lotus Canada tour, I had the privilege of sitting through seven different infosessions before each show. You’d think it would’ve been boring, but thanks to Flylo and My Man Henri’s conversational skills, the topics were usually slightly different each time and every session was always interesting.
However, there was one thing consistent at each infosession – Flylo always dropped a track by LA producer Charles Dickerson aka Mono/Poly, and it is f’in bangin. No matter what city we were in, that song got everyone talking. I never got tired of hearing it. Mono/Poly is on some next level shit but he’s relatively unknown, not helped by the fact that it’s frustratingly hard to find his music since he’s barely released anything on the net.
Whatever it is, watch out… If Mono/Poly keeps at it, he will be a big name for sure. Check out an interview with him above (wearing the weirdest shit ever) and below is a funny video of him battling with his speaker, apparently after drinking a 40 oz. I love seeing people’s ghetto-ass setups.
Professor Green – Upper Clapton Dance ft. Chynaman + Cores
Proof that you can do something interesting with a limited budget. Some really great shots in this, and bw was a nice choice. Samples Hungarian Dance #5.
“Professor Green was born and raised in Hackney, East London to a mother of only 16yrs.
His dad was in and out of his life and he was subsequently raised by his grandmother.”
Gnarly.
Björk’s MTV Cribs Episode
Björk has an MTV Cribs episode. Have known about this for a while now but for some reason never thought of posting it here. Anyway, here it is, and if you don’t watch this, well, you are an idiot.
pon de yogafuck
Video for Major Lazer’s Pon De Floor, undoubtedly one of the biggest floor fillers of the year (as is the entire album). It’s directed by Eric Wareheim.
Grab your girl/guy and if you can do every position in this (including the thrust from the ladder), ten WMD points to you! and you should probably grab a bandage too.
via nialler9
sonic ink
Múm – Half Noise
This series was made months ago when Andy Chung showed us a cool audio-visual app. I played music from my computer while the app ran in the background. After each song was done, I’d take a screenshot. but I can’t remember the name of the app anymore. (yo if you see this please email me the link to it).
