Bisco, IL

Auditorium Theater 10/31

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=87XZVL1U

Gustavo Santaolalla

You way recognize his music from such films as; 21 Grams, Babel, The Motercycle Diaries, Amores Perros, Brokeback Mountain, Into The Wild and The Insider.

A nice reminder to slow down…

Washington, DC Metro Station on a cold January morning in 2007. The man with a violin played six Bach pieces for about 45 minutes. During that time approx. 2 thousand people went through the station, most of them on their way to work.

After 3 minutes a middle aged man noticed there was a musician playing. He slowed his pace and stopped for a few seconds and then hurried to meet his schedule.

4 minutes later:
The violinist received his first dollar: a woman threw the money in the hat and, without stopping, continued to walk.

6 minutes:
A young man leaned against the wall to listen to him, then looked at his watch and started to walk again.

10 minutes:
A 3-year old boy stopped but his mother tugged him along hurriedly. The kid stopped to look at the violinist again, but the mother pushed hard and the child continued to walk, turning his head all the time. This action was repeated by several other children. Every parent, without exception, forced their children to move on quickly.

45 minutes:
The musician played continuously. Only 6 people stopped and listened for a short while. About 20 gave money, but continued to walk at their normal pace. The man collected a total of $32.

1 hour:
He finished playing and silence took over. No one noticed. No one applauded, nor was there any recognition.

Findings:
No one knew this, but the violinist was Joshua Bell , one of the greatest musicians in the world. He played one of the most intricate pieces ever written, with a violin worth $3.5 million dollars. Two days before Joshua Bell sold out a theater in Boston where the seats averaged $100.

This is a true story. Joshua Bell playing incognito in the Metro Station was organized by the Washington Post as part of a social experiment about perception, taste, and people’s priorities. The questions raised: “In a common place environment, at an inappropriate hour, do we perceive beauty? Do we stop to appreciate it? Do we recognize talent in an unexpected context?”

One possible conclusion reached from this experiment could be this: If we do not have a moment to stop and listen to one of the best musicians in the world, playing some of the finest music ever written, with one of the most beautiful instruments ever made…. How many other things are we missing?

DJ Hero….Hollacrunch

Papadosio and the Rootwire

What up everybody.

I’m kickin it in Athens, Ohio right now at the house of one of my favorite new bands of the past couple years – Papadosio.  It’s an exciting and crazy time around here with a lot of changes, but the guys have just released their second album Observations which i think the shredsomething crowd will appreciate.

The band held a release party at the Newport Music Hall on friday night with another Ohio band called The Werks.  This was Dosio’s first time headlining the Newport and before the show I recall hearing the guys saying that 400-600 in attendance was about what they were expecting.  All in all that night 800 showed up for what was one of the most spectacular and heartfelt display of music by such young musicians.

The Werks is going to be the perfect afterparty to next years Panic/Phish run – keeping it so close to home yet diving into the depths of space whenever need be.  The guitarist/vocalist – the big man in the front is named Hauser and isn’t afraid of belting out tracks such as “Psycho Killer” if the situation calls for it.

Similarly, Dosio is like the Railroad Earth of psychedelic/dance/electronic/progressive.  Anthony Thogmartin – guitar/vocals/programming – is one of the more thoughtful and talented songwriters – reminding me of Todd Sheaffer’s poetics, but with an entirely different set of sonics to back it.  If you take a listen, the lyrics to the track “All I Knew” will catch your ear.

All in all, I’m super excited for these guys.  They work, love, and play hard.  Like the mindblowing foliage here, they take a lot from a little and create some of the richest audible colors and textures on the scene right now.

Where I come in is a little unclear – but I decided to build them a Ning known as the Rootwire.  It’s getting pretty good, member list is only going to keep growing.  I know a lot of people out there appreciate shredsomething, but don’t want to get involved in Facebook.  If you’re into small community of talented individuals and minds, come check this shit out.

Similarly, I set up this Bandcamp for the dudes so we can get this new album as far as the mycelial 2.0 will reach :0 Hiyooooo!!!!!

PS

Nov 7th | Finnegan’s Wake | Avon, CO

Nov 8th | Mountain Sun | Boulder, Co

Nov 9th | Sanchos | Denver, CO

Nov 11th | Hodi’s | Ft Collins, CO

Nov 12th | three20 | Breckenridge, CO

Nov 13th | Owsley’s | Denver, CO

Nov 14th | Trinity Brewing Co | Colorado Springs, Co

Hope to see y’all there.

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Shred’s own DJ PWR (Preston W. Riggs) – Whompalicious Babies

Takes you on a blast into outerspace with a heavy take-off…tossing you into a blissfull trip across space/time. Then, after a trip to Sirius B, conversing with some aliens, your are then shot, while …inside your waterbubble, back into a time where Michael Jackson was alive, Godzilla was a popular movie and, slowly brought back to your own reality with some tasty jam and hip-hop.
Tracklist:
1. Rusko – Action Dread
2. Eleven8 – We End
3. Beezy – A Paper Boys Dream (Produced by Dubface)
4. Black Sun Empire – Cold Crysis
5. Heyoka – Airy Dub
6. 16 Bit – Shallow
7. Kid606 – Monsters (Cardopusher Remix)
8. Reso – Onsen
9. Deadmau5 – I Remember (Caspa Remix)
10. Heyoka – Meltdown
11. Mimosa – Flux For Life
12. Bar 9 – Murda Sound (VIP Mix)
13. ed solo – A Age of Dub 14. Reso – Smash Yer Face In
15. Mimosa – Sirius
16. EPROM – Bubble
17. Beats Antique – Michael Jackson__MLK Mashup – Feat. Pied Piper and BK2
18. Mochipet – Godzilla New Year (David Starfire REmix Featuring iCatching)
19. Heyoka – Bubble
20. Tipper – Tiny Face
21. Subvert – Shoota
22. An-ten-nae – Warning feat. Buccaneer
23. STS9- Shock Doctrine (Eliot Lipp & Leo 123 ‘Dark Party Remix’)
23. Eliot Lipp – Yeah
24. Jurrasic 5 – Game

Coolest new instrument around

I am starting a bake sale to raise money for one of these.

Only 3795 pounds left to raise

Popping yet another dose

Greetings er’ebody….Lots been happening out here on the West Coast, so much one could say they can’t help but notice.  I’ve got a couple things to shred.

First, I’ve created a new website to go in conjunction with my friends over at Papadosio’s new album coming out in 2 weeks called Observations.  My relationship with these guys has been nothing less than stellar, as they were the defining factor of the first event I ever organized: Earth Night.

Since then, we’ve been playing with a lot of ideas to connect people better, offer more sonic as well as Gaian downloads, and get the internet at the forefront of the magreenery revolution and I’ve come up with Rootwire.Ning.Com which is a Ning-based network, a Sonic Bloom of social Networks as opposed to the bonarroo like Facebook shred.  I wanna invite everyone to join and add all the shit they would ever want and use it as much as possible.  I think for smaller-scale bands this is going to be fun as well and it will be directly linked from Papadosio’s site as a replacement to their current forum.

If anyone still needs a dose, I uploaded their debut album Magreenery here:

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=8F6BEX9K

Interestingly, Dosio will be making their way to Colorado and I hope we can gather some gnarly support for these guys…Here are the current dates with an impending Hodi’s and Yeti’s.

Nov 8 2009 9:00P	The Mountain Pub	Boulder, Colorado
Nov 9 2009 9:00P	Sancho’s	Denver, Colorado
Nov 13 2009 9:00P	Owsley’s	Denver, Colorado
Nov 14 2009 9:00P	The Trinity Brewing Company	Colorado Springs, Colorado

Lastly….for a preview of the sound that won’t be missed on the new CD, I made this little vid a couple weeks back kickin it in Phil’s Arcata palace   Enjoy.

The song is called “All I Knew” and can be downloaded at the Live Music Archive here>

Inspiration Behind New STS9 Album, “Ad Explorata”

Haha, did anyone else catch this in the STS9 newsletter or web site yesterday? Murph’s been dosed for good…

THE GENESIS OF AD EXPLORATA

Santa Cruz, CA…10.06.09….A family member of ours has a shortwave radio that we have all been messing around with. We had been using it for sound effects and noises when one day it was left it on in the studio. Keyboardist David Phipps’ daughter Aya was playing around with the dials when all of a sudden it stopped on this voice on the super low frequencies of the spectrum. It was a woman’s voice, artificial we later found out, counting off numbers in a very clear and concise way. We became obsessed with what we had heard and for weeks we sat behind the dials trying to find more voices.
There was only one more to be found, the voice we sampled for the beginning of the song “Central”. After a bit of research, we found that these were numbers stations, thought to be coded messages various governments use to send correspondence to spy’s overseas. This of course isn’t publicly acknowledged by any government, even though in 2001 the United States tried the Cuban Five for spying using information they supposedly received and decoded by broadcast from a Cuban numbers station.

STS9 has always been fascinated by numbers; finding this transmission captured our imagination so much that we had to see if there was something more to what we had found. Immediately we enlisted the skills of a crypto-hacker friend of ours to see if she could find any relevance to the sequence we had recorded. When she ran the numbers as coordinates corresponding to a map of military bases in California, she came up with an exact location in Big Sur. We immediately went to check it out and sure enough there was a trail about 10 miles back off of Nacimiento Rd. just south of the park that led to this old abandoned bunker type structure. It was crazy. We were all looking at each other in disbelief but there we were. We crawled through a hole at the bottom of the fence and walked inside. There we found a rusted metal box that had a few pictures, documents, patches, passports, and a knife in it. The first picture was of a document from Allen Dulles to J. Edgar Hoover on brainwashing. The second was of two men standing over a map of the Middle East. That image became the cover of our first single “Atlas” off the upcoming release ‘Ad Explorata’. One of the patches we found was the most intriguing of our finds. It had this physically impossible symbol on it that looked futuristic next to all of the older documents. It’s the symbol we lay over top of every image you will see for the album. In doing some research, we later found an old book of ‘black ops’ military patches at the Prelinger Library that had a brief description of this patch. It was thought to be for a secret unit that first used satellites to gather SIGINT (signal intelligence) from other countries during the Cold War. The story is that this team actually gathered signals from another civilization in our galaxy. Their motto was ‘Ad Explorata, Forward into the Unexplored’.

We’re not ones for conspiracies but sometimes the truth is stranger than anything we could imagine.

With this, we present to you STS9’s newest studio release “Ad Explorata” due out November of 2009, inspired by the idea that there is always more to be discovered, manifested by the belief that you can always push towards the unknown and unexplored, and created by the will and desire for constant artistic evolution, expression and change.

STS9. AD EXPLORATA. 2009.

I just started downloading music again…it’s amazing.

Telepath, Fire One
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=1TJ11VGK

Telepath, Contact
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=1DCYFEC3

Ott, Live at Gnomelandia
http://web.mac.com/autonomousmusic/iWeb/Site/Autonomous%20Music%20Down loads_files/Ott%20Live%20at%20Gnomelandia.zip

Ott, Blumenkraft
http://rapidshare.com/files/48723132/Ott_-_Blumenkraft.zip

Digitalism, Idealism
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=5ATAL0NP

Cut Copy, Bright Like Neon Love,
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=4XDFD0KX

Bonobo, Animal Magic
http://rapidshare.com/files/53947026/Bonobo_-_Animal_Magic.rar

Bonobo, Live Sessions (ep)
http://rapidshare.com/files/165319011/epBLS.rar

Bonobo, Dial M for Monkey
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=MM2GU72S

Bonobo,Days To Come
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=5ZYIM0O0

mushroom jazz 7 – Mark Farina
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=2zr8zg8f

Eskmo- Sonic Bloom 08
http://www.mediafire.com/?mj1ywm3j1gu

Telefon Tel Aviv,
immediate action #8
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=f5tksxu3

Bluetech – Phoenix Rising 2008
http://depositfiles.com/en/files/qd73l4mq9

Bluetech – Prima Materia
http://www.mediafire.com/?vzegznki2tf

Bonobo Live Band – Live at Koko(audio from dvd): http://www.mediafire.com/?ryy5zjz2zt1

Lotus Halloween 2008
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=AXMQ1U39

Lotus – 12/30/08
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=Z31HOI2W

I. Spiritualize, Did Fatt > Improv > Comptroller > Tip of the Tongue, Marisol, Hammerstrike
II. Scrapple, Nematode > Umbilical Moonrise > Nematode, Invincibility of Youth, Travel > Jump Off > Contagion > Jump Off
E. 72 Hours Awake

Shpongle:

Divine Moments Of Truth
http://www.mediafire.com/?5nmzidnzp9m

Eclipse-Live
http://www.mediafire.com/?4hjwhhodymt

Remixed
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=LN441A05

Paul Simon – Graceland
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=42DB0TOE

Paul Simon – Still Crazy after all these Years
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=09UO0HAK

Paul Simon – There Goes Rhymin’ Simon
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=UF4C0872

Talking heads

TALKING HEADS ‘77 (1977)
http://www.mediafire.com/?idzy9d55bmi

MORE SONGS ABOUT BUILDINGS AND FOOD (1978)
http://www.mediafire.com/?acfomdmglwm

FEAR OF MUSIC (1979)
http://www.mediafire.com/?jmv4yjlww6s

REMAIN IN LIGHT (1980)
http://www.mediafire.com/?fzyqn20zkcd

THE NAME OF THIS BAND IS TALKING HEADS (1982, 2004 special edition)
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=5LE996HZ

SPEAKING IN TONGUES (1983)
http://www.mediafire.com/?d9cywzyc0mo

STOP MAKING SENSE (1983, 1999 special edition)
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=9YNVALGW

TRUE STORIES (1986)
http://www.mediafire.com/?ijaxh1uyynx

NAKED (1988)
http://www.mediafire.com/?qyd90l0jmz9

Daedelus Live at Webster Hall
http://www.sendspace.com/file/nj7864

MORE OF THIS NONSENSE HERE:
http://www.phantasytour.com/sci/boards_thread.cgi?threadID=1982174&page=3

we will be victorious

the new muse album is in top ten rollingstone right now. the kids are gettin into it…. untz.

video of “uprising” here

“The resistance” tracklisiting:

‘Uprising’
‘Resistance’
‘Undisclosed Desires’
‘United States Of Eurasia (+Collateral Damage)’
‘Guiding Light’
‘Unnatural Selection’
‘MK Ultra’
‘I Belong To You (+Mon Coeur S’Ouvre A Ta Voix)’
‘Exogenesis: Symphony Part I (Overture)’
‘Exogenesis: Symphony Part II (Cross Pollination)’
‘Exogenesis Part III (Redemption)’

family tree of electro

check it out, its interactive!

R@GE

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=F1VFOH53 – tdb 6-24-09

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=DUZAQ7HW – tdb 9-17-09

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=EGNU6IU7 – tdb 9-18-09

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=PSK3RVTH – tdb 9-19-09

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=UQYH9UJ8

[2009-06-03] Lupos Heartbreak Hotel, Providence, RI – http://www.megaupload.com/?d=T6TTGD0B

[2009-06-04] Lafayette Square, Buffalo, NY – http://www.megaupload.com/?d=8X34IG70

[2009-06-05] House of Blues, Cleveland, OH – http://www.megaupload.com/?d=4RWOYEUH

2009-06-25] House of Blues, Atlantic City, NJ – http://www.megaupload.com/?d=IB7U77O4

[2009-06-26] House of Blues, Atlantic City, NJ – http://www.megaupload.com/?d=PFN0XEIE

btw, these guys are semi mediocre at singing

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=WBXUEHQZ – Trentemøller – Live In Concert EP (Roskilde Festival 2007)

http://www.bassnectar.net/listen/releases/cozza-frenzy <–buy it
I ain't sendspacing it…but, u What.cd cats can get a ratio boost if you hop on it soon

Seein him on Thursday!!! Neener

Jason Bowman & the Jubilant Hipsters

Ten thoughts about Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros at the El Rey Theatre in Los Angeles last night:

1. I know, Dozemay got a haircut–this is dedicated to his former “untamedyawp” countenance
2. Soul, folk, gospel, rock, psychedelic, pop, but mostly just a lot of fucking hipsters EVERYWHERE
3. Only show I’ve seen where I felt clapping was appropriate and where it actually enhanced parts of the performance (except maybe The Flaming Lips or Raffi)*
4. Jade Castrino’s Solo Song
5. Jade, will you marry me?
6. Cheers to the smiling, shirtless spunion who stumbled onto the stage during the encore, tripping face
7. Boo to the crowd for booing the spunion
8. Cheers to Jade for telling the crowd to “be nice” to the confused spunion
9. Who is more “hippy”–wookies or hipsters?
10. Shameless pop music, but a great live show nevertheless!

* clapping is not to be confused with applause
Thanks to my man tijaha (Tim Hand) for the videos.

SoundCloud

Now works w/ wordpress…

Stonehenge untz

Rupert Till, an English professor(like from England) thinks that he has figured out the premis behinf Stonhenge.  And that premis is giant raves.

Mr Till, an expert in acoustics and music technology at Huddersfield University, West Yorks., believes the standing stones had the ideal acoustics to amplify a “repetitive trance rhythm”.

“The most interesting thing is we managed to get the whole space…to resonate, almost like a wine glass will ring if you run a finger round it.

Maybe the same thing as the merkaba only with sound?  A portal the nexus?  Time travel?  String Cheese 2012?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/4108867/Stonehenge-was-giant-concert-venue.html

future?

this is from the most recent rolling stone about the guy who got 2nd in American Idol:

“Sometimes, in the desert, you can figure things out. That’s what Adam Lambert discovered a couple of years ago at Burning Man, the annual utopian festival in Nevada…. [where he] experimented with certain funguses….. and ‘had a psychedelic experience where I looked up into the clouds and went, “oh, we all have our own power, and whatever i wanted to do, i had to make happen.” he wanted to make american idol……”

he also is gay, crazy, almost profound and has the eye of horus (see nassim) tattooed on his wrist. i can’t believe that i just posted about idol, but maybe this dude is gonna lead the teenie boppers into the glorious future we are destined to share….:

eye of horus on wrist

Jellyphish>6.08.09 Bishop Canning Crop Formation

A Beautiful Pardox + Quetzalcoatl and the Galactic Jellyfish