This time its DC recordings mighty The Oscillation taking Telepathe – Devil’s Trident in a motorik direction.

Nano of  Sintevision took up the challenge of making the video, and we leave you in his capable hands for the rest of today post.

I’ve been living in madrid for not that much, just 5 years ago i moved here, but i find there is a lot of nice stuff happening around now a days, but most of all, i feel there is a colaboration actitude between people wich i think is very important!

One of my favorite bands around to see live is, or were, since they  are not together any more!, Mundo Grua. Jose, Toño and Guille play like maniacs and dressed as space androids made with rubbish.

Mundo Grua – BioJava

They split because Guille, the drum player went to live to Portland. Before he left he played a solo show under the name Piñata wich was the most intense thing i saw EVER. It was an art show we did at Nasti  (best club in madrid! our second home!!) with 30 people going bananas in front of only ane guy, one sampler, tons of pedals and a drum set! I think Guille sent his drums by ship and he is still waiting for them to arrive to the west coast, and of this it’s been more than 4 months since he left!

Other incredible band, some of the best and more personal in madrid ever is Campamento Ñec-Ñec. They have two things in common with Mundo Grua besides being friends: they also broke up (shit!) and there is a Jose among them.

Campamento Ñec Ñec – Pinata

He does tons of wiked fanzines and noise tapes as Afeite al Perro, hyperactive and super nice guy. They did a beautiful 12″ with a screenprinted cover on plastic and an etched drawind on the b side. It was published by Gssh Gssh! - due respect!

Another interesting character is a malasaña local from Belgium called Olaf Ladousse. His musical project consists in making Doo-Rags  (you can make them too !)  and break ears together with Los Caballos de Dusseldorf. He is an incredible ilustrator too and fanzine maker extraordinarie.

Los Caballos de Dusseldorf – Boom Boom Bit

Lastly, a nice picture from my friend Alfredo Cocoars.

and our video for  The Oscillation remix of Devil’s trident.

[vimeo]http://www.vimeo.com/2336719[/vimeo]

Telepathe – Devils Trident (The Remixes) 12″ is out now on Merok records.

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Oh, and go and check out our second instalment at the Vice blog. This time it’s Mariah, Salem and Young Cream, nuff said.

The forth of our Telepathe – Devil’s Trident remixes comes from Mi Ami, with a video by Dan Nixon.

Over to Dan-

Having your home flooded can do strange things to the mind. Shortly after the August ‘monsoon’ in Brighton, 20JFG sent me the Mi Ami remix of Telepathe’s Devil’s Trident and asked if I’d like to make a video for it. So, surrounded by all my (slightly damp) possessions and trying to sleep on the couch one night, I plugged in my headphones, fully intending to think of ideas while listening to the remix on repeat.

The remix is dense. Dense and layered and (I’d come to discover) incredibly intricate. Probably too intricate for my tired mind as I started to have the most intense ‘visions’ of trees and strobes and pagan rituals and other oddities no doubt influenced by the M.R. James book I was reading. This went on for about an hour. Finally snapping out of it I placed the headphones down beside me and fell into a deep sleep. In the morning I sketched out the video you see here.

[vimeo]http://www.vimeo.com/2227084[/vimeo]

Adventure – Unknown Track

This is the final track on Adventure’s 2007 self-titled album. Though I’m actually quite a sucker for ADD 8-bit music I like nothing more than when it transcends its functional roots and hints at something epic. This does that in spades. The melody is actually quite mournful but layered over the propulsive beats it perfectly encapsulates an almost nihilistic plunge through the deadly hordes of pixels that our ur-hero takes in the side-scrolling nirvana this track creates.

There’s something so plaintive about this though. I kinda’ want to tease out the resolve on the melody’s face rather than wash everything in a rapid cycle of primary colours. Giving it a mental pixel-art interpretation robs it of its most exhilarating quality: its glorious moments of release. It’s a cry for contrast and a recipe for the contradictions in these two paragraphs.

Hatchback – The Lotus and the Robot

This isn’t the ‘best’ track on Hatchback’s wonderful Colors of the Sun. Nor is it the most immediate but it is the one I’ve had the strongest emotional response to. Maybe it’s the Eno. That sunkissed synth loop. The naive melody the sounds like dips in a Balearic pool. Maybe it’s the pace. I’m pretty sure it’s the pace. Slow, deliberate building in stages. Not necessarily one thing at a time but one idea at a time. Calling out to each other like some alternate soundtrack to the end of Close Encounters.

Then the beat. Upping the ante but simply the kinetic response to the same languid dialogue as everything that led up to it.

5:30 – that’s it. That’s what this has been leading to. Without the pacing it’d be a lovely melody but with it, it’s something emotional. That indescribable synth calling over all that has come before it. I heard it properly for the first time riding on a train at sunset and came over all asymmetrically fringed.

[previously posted at Urlaubshits, I now discover]

Arthur Russell – Eli

This is about a dog. It’s by Arthur Russell so it’s also…indescribably beautiful.

I’ve been obsessed by music and video for pretty much my whole life. If you’re interested in any collaborations or would like me to create a music-video for you please get in touch. My website, which includes other work, is here

YouTube mixtape fun:

Popol Vuh – Improvisation (1971)
[youtube]http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=DON-CogKcfk[/youtube]
Il-Conformista – dance scene (1970)
[youtube]http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=KbD5W1qcDOY[/youtube]
K√°rhozat (1988)
[youtube]http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=45py8pY_J1Q[/youtube]
Beau Travail (1999)
[youtube]http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=8e5g_wXJf1I[/youtube]

all blog images today taken from videos by Dan Nixon.

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As a sidenote to Dan’s wonderfully weird woodland wanders if you head on over to Viceland today you will find that XXJFG have made an infiltration. It’s going to be a weekly thing so be sure to check it out. Kind regards.

Also thank you to everyone who voted to bestow upon us the accolade of Best Blog at the Record of the Day Awards last week. We’d like to thank the little baby Jesus, George W, and the world in general.

We leave you in the capable hands of Tommyboy for the post today.

David Bowie and Amanda Lear

About Tommyboy :

I am the by-product of a Texas Republican, Evangelical, middle class upbringing. I escaped from this conservative, chaste, conformist culture by watching endless hours of television and film. Science Fiction became my genre of choice since it proposed endless possibilities for the future that didn’t revolve around Armageddon. I became enamored with retro-futuristic imagery found in late 70s and 80s television and film. Like the Challenger explosion, they left an indelible mark on my subconscious and imagination.

My visual aesthetic today has been informed through years of intensive research in film history coupled with the extensive use of mind altering drugs. I enjoy exploring visual metaphors which juxtapose supernatural phenomena with technology and science.

I am a firm believer of repurposing intellectual property with the creative use of sampling. I aspire to create video art that incorporates my sensibilities with the artistic integrity and ingenuity of such luminaries as E.B.N, Negativeland, Coldcut, and Nam June Paik.

tags : metaforms, Carl Jung, Joseph Campbell, transcendental cosmic disco, artificial intelligence, Hajime Sorayama, Boris Vallejo, Nam June Paik, Dan Flavin, “rock n’ roll people in a disco world” fluorescents, neon signs, culture jamming, hactivism, convergent technologies, nostalgic computer animation, Neuromancer’s, retro-futurists, -ism’s, electronic civil disobedience, erratic consistency, multimedia, power, relativity, video art, the idea of peace and positivity thru geometry/science, finding beauty in pure forms, celestial beings, higher consciousness, neo-digital hippy shit, the clock on the wall…

[vimeo]http://www.vimeo.com/2208814[/vimeo]

My other recent work includes video projections for the Butthole Surfers fall ’08 tour, the Maker Faire festival in Austin Texas, Show Cave’s “Summer Sizzlers” series, Dallas Museum of Art late night series, and multimedia performances with Operation Playmate.

I also DJ sets around town and contribute content to arawa.fm

I am presently working on a video for CFCF‘s new release on Acephale Records.

About Texas ?

I love Texas. Seems like every time I think the grass is greener elsewhere, I’m reminded how special this place really is. Please allow me to share these local, kindred spirits with you. If this doesn’t prove that we have what it takes, I don’t know what does.

Darktown Strutters
Survive
Tense
Jake Five
Prince William
Ben Aqua
VC CHLDKRFT
Totally Wreck Institute

lastly, I would like to share the recent mix I made.

Tommyboy – Love Running Down

This mix is indicative of my current interests in dance music. I am very much into the baleric, italo, cosmic sound. My favorite artists at the moment have to be JAZ, Daniel Baldelli, Beppe Loda, DJ Harvey, Thomas’n'Eric aka Rub’n'Tug, and Lovefingers. I have a deep appreciation for the Netherland disco scene and all their exports. Love Viewlexx, Clone, Flexx, etc. You get the picture….

You can see further work/stalk Tommyboy on Youtube or his Blog.

My name is Mark Brown and I’m a video and new media artist from
Baltimore. I want to thank 20 Jazz Funk Greats and Merok for putting
this project together, all the remixes are fantastic and it’s been
incredibly exciting to see what my peers in the video-dome are up to.
I created the video for hyper-talented Teen Girl Fantasy’s Basic
Sensation Dub remix of Telepathe’s Devil’s Trident. Let me share it
with you:

[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/2239489[/vimeo]

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I would also like to share a few songs by some of my friends from Baltimore:

The first is by Sixteen:

Try to imagine a sonic assault being waged upon the self-sur-veiled
YouTube unDead™ degenerate nation via twitter spell casters chanting
Tuvan riddims, jailbroken hearts, and geo-locative power-ups. You’re
definitely going to need a bigger antenna for your Zomes modem if you
want to survive the trance-punk uprising of 2077.

Sixteen – Ethics Gradient

The second is a new piece by the legendary Baltimore based techno
mystic CEX:

You’re at a party on the top floor of a neo-noise-cruster squatted sky
scraper in a post-industrial metropolis and someone just slipped some
yopo powder into your malt liquor energy beverage of choice, what do
you do?

Cex – Freq

Look out for full force floor-brooder A/V collaborations between
myself and Rjyan in early 2009.

The final song is from 20JFG alumni Thrust Lab off their recently released Wind Breaker EP (Out now on Creative
Capitalism).

Thrust Lab are post-Casio drum and bass pebble pushers, heaven sent,
inscribing potions for euphoria and understanding ultimate reality
from the depths of your inner cloud factory, all night and every day.

Thrust Lab – Durkey

I’ll be going on tour with Thrust Lab around the east coast and parts
of the mid-western portions of the US in mid January doing live
visuals and hyper reinterpretations of Baltimore Bass anthems as Mark
Brown (sometimes known as DJ Mark Brown or Pyramoods).

you can see more of my work here: http://www.mcbrown.info

I’m also always looking for more video commissions and collaborations,
email me at mark@whamcity.com to get in touch.

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Thank you for letting me temporarily interrupt the flow of cosmic
dissonant-disco wizards and trance-crunk enchantresses with my
post-singular metaphors and tongue nashers.