Nerds of Prey
Ariel Pink has all the right in the world to be grump. After all, rather than spending his teen age years getting involved in all sort of Byzantine high school intrigues, drinking and having casual sex, he decided to stay home listening to forgotten gems of cold war pop and soul, taking it all in, not with the analytical detachment of a scholar, but with the zealous fervour of an addict*. One day he came out, fully formed genius with eyes that project lightning bolts of faded love, song writing skills that would have had him enthroned in the pantheon of pop brilliance…if it wasn’t occupied by whoever writes Lady Ga Ga’s music. It’s a good reason to be grumpy, but we love him even more for that.
Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti- Round and Round
Just check out his latest tune out on 4AD, it’s probably already been posted by every other blogger and his dog, but I don’t care. It’s gotta be here, dog.
*- I made this biography up.
Besides keeping us in our semiotic toes with his comments, Mr. Sean Orr also happens to make music under the moniker of ‘Tassels‘. He’s been sending stuff for some time, all of it more than worthy to be featured in these pages. If we haven’t, it is only because our continuous fight against inner demons and practical gremlins have kept us dead busy. But it is now time to get on with it, here you go.
Psychobuildings – Birds of Prey (Tassels edit)
Birds of Prey is the brief vision of a bloody street-fight between synthetic boogie commandos and lurking drone necromancers that occurred in the back alleys of Alphabet city on Sunday night, as beheld from the lush interior of a black limo with tinted mirrors that was driving us at full speed to a telepathic orgy at the Scientologist HQ. Step on it, Draco!
just in time Draco, we made it just in time.
Monday, March 29, 2010 1:17 amsean Orr
psychobuildings remix?
Wednesday, March 31, 2010 4:58 pmst
rad
Thursday, April 1, 2010 10:34 amzmp
Loved your introduction of ‘Tessels’ to the universe through dynamic words. Been under the trance of especially ‘Bird Apres’!
Thursday, April 1, 2010 5:25 pmLove your blog! Keep it up!
Ceyda Arinc
Loved your introduction of ‘Tassels’ to the universe through dynamic words. Been under the trance of especially ‘Bird Apres’!
Thursday, April 1, 2010 5:28 pmLove your blog! Keep it up!
Ceyda Arinc
Just so yall know, the sample Tassels uses is actually lifted directly out of an already-released song by Psychobuildings (nyc band), whose song is called “Birds Of Prey”. It’s kind of weird that Tassels sampled their song and stole the exact name of the song, too. WTF. at least call it a remix right??
Friday, April 2, 2010 11:47 pmKrew
Oooops, anything to declare Sean?
Saturday, April 3, 2010 8:02 am20jazzfunkgreats
It’s a remix. It’s a sample. Its an honour. It’s pastiche. It’s an edit. Its kosmiche. It’s plunderphonic. It’s wobbly man, I’m so wavy. Name is officially changed and will never be released!
Thursday, April 8, 2010 1:39 amsean Orr
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Wednesday, April 21, 2010 6:10 am20jazzfunkgreats » We were never postmodern mp3 blog fanzine from brighton uk
[...] Vancouver is always place to go for weird noise of all variety. I’ve been a fan of weird Vancouver noise for fifteen or twenty years, since the days of when I could see Chanchre and Pork Queen play live, anyway. But the city is fresh again — it freshens up every year with new crucial groups — and right now with a new storm of strange ambient noise music, beat-making, post-dub nightmare, lo-fi bedroom recording weirdos. Noise, yes, definitely, punk and improv and onkyo and feedback, but it’s been a while or maybe never that Vancouver has had really super solid laptop artists, but it’s starting to happen. I’m big into Babe Rainbow, and his CBC playlist of local music covers a great deal of the most mindblowing stuff like Calamalka, Myths, Basketball, and Tassles. I’m getting into the creepy vinyl tapeloop simplicity of all that Tassles is doing. I’m feeling Tassles. Reminds me of CC Nova’s stuff for Milk Cult or a funkier Philip Jeck. A few nights a week I see Tassles live because the composer plays soccer outside where I live, and I know him as a photographer and writer as well. Tassles. Click on some Tassles for links to his tunes. Tassles. [...]
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