The excellent onedotzero team land at the v&a museum for a special late night opening. Lots of fine people guesting and some very interesting digital work.
http://www.vam.ac.uk/activ_events/events/fri_late/index.html
Rescoring cult classic movies is becoming the performance piece of the every hip artist these days…but when its done right it can be genius. I was pretty excited to see that Jimi Tenor is rescoring William Kliens – ‘Mr. Freedom‘. This is worth going to just for the film itself. Its a satire, it has a superhero dressed as a american football player…and its french! Oh yeah and the master Serge Gainsbourg originally scored it and he also pops up as mr drugstore…oh yes!
The showing is at the Queen Elizabeth Hall on Friday 24 March 2006, 7:45 pm.
Many of you know I love all things retro and synthy so I was knocked out by this amazing site – http://www.miniorgan.com/
A whole slew of gorgeous and downright bizarro music making machinery!
 
 I found it by searching for ‘sermad’ in google and clicking on similar pages. Crazy yet cool.
The ninjatune artist – Loka has a competition for any budding video makers. I love the music these guys produce…so possibly I might try and rope somebody into helping me out with it.
http://www.signals.org.uk/ninjatune.html
A recent trip to the Tate Modern threw up a very interesting season of films – ‘Italian Kings of the B’s: Secret History of Italian Cinema 1949–81′
Some scorchers in there – well played the tate.
Just spotted that the excellent hippie/weirdo/folkie band circulus are playing at the barbican as part of ‘Folk Britannia’Â on 4 February 2006 / 23:00.
The great Bob Stanley is djing after…and its FREE. Superb.
http://www.barbican.org.uk/music/event-detail.asp?ID=3954
I went to Jazzman’s studios the other day and laid down an hour of the usual weird gear. Good laugh it was too!
Tracklisting -
La Ragazza Fuoristrada Cantata per Maryam Sound Workshop Italian library
America Giovane Spiralys Leo Italian library
Pyranha Soleil Epsilon Swiss funky prog
The Pawnshop The Telegraph is Calling RRC Italian sitar funk
Jean-Claude Vannier L’Enfant au Royaume des Mouche Suzelle cult French orch
Le Allucinazion LSD Disco Psichedelico CDI Italian/Ethiopean madness
The Boss Music Rolly Rock Soleil Masque French library
Jess & James A Man’s Symphony Belter DUtch drums
Don Shinn Temples with Prophets Columbia French psychedelique
Bennys Badekar Blaekspruttesangen Fiasco Danish cartoon music
The Pawnshop My Shade RRC Italian funk
Bernard Bonnier Vero La Toto Amaryllis Canadian electronic/concrete
Echoing America Coast to Coast SR Italian library
Quinteplus El Marques EMI Argentinian funky fusion
Understood Cartridge Freesound French library jazz
The launch for the library book is at the hat on wall bar on October 26th. Everyone that helped contribute to the book is spinning for half an hour – thats me, trunk records, cherrystones, jerry dammers and probably many more people.
It’s going to be dope!
Right.
I’m really going to see these mad mofo’s now…as Greenman told me they are playing the Garage in Highbury on December 1st.
It was the monthly london vinyl get together last night and it was a really really good night. We moved to Filthy McNasty’s down the road as the usual venue was shut. Anyways…Jonny Trunk came down and he brought us the very first copy of his library cover book to show!
All I can say is just…WOW. It is just amazingly beautiful and I cannot wait to get my own copy. I was dead chuffed to see quite of few of the my own covers make it into the final book.
