By dan on 27 February 2010 under sound, the internet
I’ve started using Last.fm more and it recently told me what I like. Here’s what it said…
I’m into hip-hop, rap, electronic, hip hop and experimental, including:
Lil Wayne, Burial, Eminem, Atmosphere, Beastie Boys, Notorious B.I.G., Drone, Clark, Bibio, Michael Jackson, Madlib, Gang Starr, Percee P, Mase, Guru (of Gang Starr), Cedric Burnside & Lightnin’ Malcolm, Chris Clark, D12, M.I.A., Longshot, Jedi Mind Tricks, Boards of Canada, NoidBoy, Roscoe Dash, Qwazaar, Jay-Z and Linkin Park, Raekwon, Koen Park, Jay-Z, Prefuse 73, Rick Ross, Ali, Obie Trice, Ad.R, Del tha Funkee Homosapien, Roglok, Murs, Shamanez, jo jena, NEUBAU, Benefit, JT Money, CandlestickMaker, Do or Die, MF DOOM, The Books, T.I..
Check out my music taste: http://www.last.fm/user/starschreck
By dan on 17 August 2009 under art works, sound
I’m very pleased to be back at test tube for my second solo EP, The First Report of Injury. If you haven’t listened to Grow in the Dark Watch yet, go and do that now. It was a big success, especially considering no one had heard of me. TFROI builds upon the oomph of GITDW and takes it… out of the dark, so to speak.
The First Report of Injury is inspired by true events—I’ve always wanted to say that. Digital fractals and remixed remixxxes, 7 tracks long, emphasis on improvisation, not an emphasis on quantization. I’d like to tell you a story or offer you a soundtrack to applying for a healthcare plan.
Thanks to everyone involved in the project, you know who you are. Thanks to S.E.B. for another great cover artwork.
I’d like to leave you with a ’stream of conscious’ description of the first track on the EP. It’s written by my friend Randall Harr.
Distopian robot junkyard in space, sending out signals from solar whales
Click here to listen. Thanks!
By dan on 20 February 2009 under something for you, sound
Dewey Decimal is the collaborative performance duo between myself and friend Gordon Tebo. The sound is a mixture of dubbed out riffs and rhythms, dipped in crackling Foley. In 2005, we started playing some shows and developing a sound, using new performance tools created by Ableton. Live electronic music with computers was becoming a more and more heated topic.
New City referred to our name as the ‘nerdiest electronica’ name ever. Though now separated geographically, with that kind of press it’s hard to imagine the group ever really dying. I’d like to think that Dewey Decimal is cryogenically frozen in a bunker in Texas, waiting for the right time to thaw itself.
Through performances in clubs, corporate retail, internet radio, and one rumored headphone practice in a coffee shop, a few artifacts remain:
Foreign Exchange Student (2006) 3:12
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Live set with Noah Jurcin & Alex Inglizian (2006) 23:05
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By dan on 20 April 2008 under art works
And now I would like to present a mixtape. I have compiled a collection of a wide variety of my own material, from melodic electronic to medieval theme song — some good-hearted tracks that probably would never have seen the light of day otherwise. I giggled when I found they fit together nicely.
I am excited about the new ability to release my own work but will be working towards more official releases in the future, whether it be by netlabel or nonnetlabel. This is a special gift from me to you.
Check it out here.
Update: no longer available.
