today’s chops were especially good -I got a little excited and so…hope you all move in some strange manner to this Repeat Pattern filth! -thank you!
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James Pants – Rhythm Track vol 1-5
James Pants – Kah (feat. Deon Davis)
James Pants – AFI
A couple of weeks ago I emailed James Pants to try and convince him that it would be a good idea to take me (a complete stranger) on a brief tour of Spokane while I ask him stupid questions and point a camera in his face. He said he’d love to but then came with some bullshit excuse for the dates I proposed (like his girlfriend’s cat’s funeral is that day or that he’d be out of town doing shows–don’t remember). Anyway, he obliged me with the names of some places to check out for my Spokane adventure and this email exchange as an alternative to my initial request.
me: how long have you been wearing pants (not just today, I mean in general)?
james: Quite a while. I started with acid wash jeans in my early days. Then on to khakis. Now, back to jeans.
Interview by Billy Gomez [chad interviews billy here]
Chad Imes began playing piano and then guitar at around six years old. His mom really wanted him to be good but chad would never practice what his instructors gave him to study. Instead, he’d spend lots of time with these two instruments, making up his own sounds. He continued playing guitar and it was during his early teens, that he says, things became more serious…
“I thought, if I start making music and continue to do it until the end… I might be able to make something that’s good along the way and if not, it’s at least something to focus on. I would be happy to find lots of people appreciating what I do and have the opportunity to collaborate with some favorites but whatever… I’ll probably keep making songs regardless.”
fall math – paper throwing star
fall math – digging tunnels to the moon
repeat pattern – all the heads
repeat pattern – fairport
loudspeaker speaker meets clearly human – hush your moon glow
Explode Into Colors is a Portland Oregon trio comprised of three brilliantly shining woman that sew brilliantly shining swells of dance floor push. I recently stood stage-side center for an EIC Holocene show in Portland. Mid-set I looked back to see a room completely packed with boys and girls in love, in motion catching the holy ghost–many with face full of smile. Claudia Meza and Lisa Schoenberg (baritone guitar/vocals and drummer for EIC) graciously took the time to answer a few questions.
Explode Into Colors – Sharpen The Knife
Billy Gomez is an LA native living in Seoul Korea and the dearest friend I’ve never met. He’s also become an amazing photographer in the three years since he’s began taking pictures. For these reasons, I wanted to share Billy and his photos with the fmly.
Full name?
William Nicholas Gomez. William after my dad, Nicholas after my grandpa, and Gomez after some greedy conquistador.
Arthur & Yu – Come to View (Song For Neil Young)
First off, this music isn’t good to listen to if you’re trying to read “A Guide to Japanese Visas”, but it is good to listen to with your third 22-ouncer…very good! I’ll tell you another secret: If you squint just right when reading Manicorn, it’s sometimes enough to describe this LA duo’s sound, intent, lyrical content and jean sizes. Unfortunately, I was on my third 22 at that point and that’s where everything starts to get too loose to accurately recall. This is for certain though -these guys have some great hooks, their sound is dirty as shit (in this case shit is good) and it’s charming like the funny mushroom trips. This all translates to seriously good music. Oh, I think I forgot to mention that this was all about Manicorn’s self-titled, nine-track release. You should seek out this particular album if you enjoy any of the tracks posted below.
manicorn – song of blood
manicorn – renee
manicorn – some kind of idiot
As of last Sunday from 3 to 5 KAOS, The Evergreen State College’s community radio station, will be regularly broadcasting Cottleston Pie. Cottleston Pie’s ultimate schtick is to have bands/musicians/sound crafting persons create the background music for the reading of our favorite children’s stories which will then be broadcast. For now however Melissa Suther, the person conducting and eventually reading, is playing carefully selected books on tape versions of children’s stories. I think in concept this project has the potential to yield some amazing or at the very least interesting results. If this sounds like your thing listen here Sundays from 3 to 5pm.
Getgot is an animated short by Atlanta Georgia’s Bryan Fordney. Everything in this lonely work is uniquely engaging and perfectly in it’s place. I particularly love the character design and musical themes, both of which seem to have been plucked from the same musty, water-stained cardboard box found in a garage sale of some retired alternate universe. If you like Getgot, then you may also be interested in watching Bryan’s ‘Bee Bog‘, where the same characters are found in a water-color painted music video approach. Bryan is currently working on a stop-motion short set in a post-apocalyptic future featuring a hand-crafted bat as the central character. More of Bryan can be found here. Bee Bog after the jump.
Every Saturday for the past two months I’ve been teaching audio production as part of a privately funded youth outreach program. Most of the kids that I was working with were 9 to 12 years old (somehow I ended up working with all the younger kids). By the end of the classes, there were two songs that I really liked which were a product of myself and a 10 year old boy named Tyree. Originally, we recorded Tyree’s vocals over the song but neither Tyree nor myself were satisfied with what we got, so I decided to add acapellas and edit them to fit. One of the acapellas is The Jackson 5, ‘I Want You Back’ and the other is Three Times Dope, ‘Once More’. The young man in the photo above is Tyree.
Tyree & Jackson 5 – I Want You Back
Tyree – Three Times Dope Once More
Simple white-noise soaked square and saw wave melodic-bounce for casual and full-time subtext interpreters. The bulk of this release’s 18 songs were made in parks, hotels, museums and trains around Tokyo during a two week visit to Japan last summer. The packaging was musician designed, screen printed and assembled — only 50 made so far.
Circle vs Square – Melody Boy
Circle vs Square – Can’t Sleep
Circle vs Square – Bend Circulation
Asonic Garcia’s FREE Senzu Beans EP is 10 tracks of boom-boom-kack head-nod used to prepare crew members of intergalactic voyages lasting two or more years for deep sleep. At moments it reminds me of some of the psychedelic freak-outs in Altered States. At others, it’s like listening to some chill-out tracks in my car while driving on a flat tire and hitting pot holes at regular intervals. Translation: Backdrops of reverb and delay-drenched synth squelches, filter sweeps, horn samples and the occasional rainstick (?) supporting synth bass lines and jagged drums.
Senzu Beans is officially supported by Kowloon city 93′/Anime4breakfast (due to the DragonBall, senzu or holy beans concept). You can download it for free from Asonic’s myspace or here.
Sometime this summer Asonic Garcia will be releasing a full length album under the Matte Black Editions banner. So if you like Senzu Beans, you have something to look forward to.
Asonic Garcia is San Francisco based Jason Garcia Ragonton. He loves his SK-1, Alesis Micron, Sp 505/303, Evengelion and his girl Rosemarie.
