In an effort to increase #content I am getting involved in the internetular pat on the back that is “Charts”.

1. Azari & III “Reckless (With Your Love)” [Permanent Vacation]
2. The Swiss “Soap Opera” [Modular]
3. Black Meteoric Star “World Eater” [DFA]
4. ORS “Dream Machine” [Salsoul]
5. Tracy Weber “One Step at a Time” (Instrumental) [QROA]
and Ladyhawke “Magic” (Donnie Sloan Dub) [Modular]

A few days ago I was listening to the original version of this track on a pair of $2 earphones and somebody came up to ask me something so I took one earphone out in an effort to be polite. Noticing how good just the right channel of this track sounds really outshone anything this person may have been saying.

Christine Perfect “No Road is the Right Road” (Roulade’s Wrong Road Right Channel Split)

It took John, Paul and George Martin 24 consecutive hours (or something massive like that) in the studio to sort out the tracklist for “The White Album“. In about an hour I’ve done heaps better and come up with this more concise tracklist without losing any of the album’s depth or magic. The length is roughly in between each “half” of the original(/actual) version, I kept “Wild Honey Pie” and I didn’t respectively make “Back in the USSR” or “Goodnight” the opening or closing tracks.

I can see some new ground over there, there’s something wrong with it though OH WAIT, IT’S BROKEN

i chopped this together in cool edit earlier this evening. intended to be music to drink coffee to, it’s an edit that you don’t need a beard to enjoy.

“partyday“

the amp at the feet of riton is a vox VBM1 “brian may special”. it’s designed to mimic a little battery powered amp that john deacon designed for brian may, which he used to get that signature tone (prior to running it through a wall of AC30s). it seems like a cheesy/gimmicky product but this little 10watt amp sounds fantasic, i am a previous owner.

i am not a massive Queen fan but i got some pretty incredible t-rexy glam tones out of this, equal parts shimmer and grit. also, it looks great: white with gold trim and red & green diamond pattern on the mesh.

sadly though, the amp died on me. before i left perth i was in a band with some friends (jimmy swift/donalde dijon from electric limosine, daniel burt and matt funnell) called Decades although i wanted to call it Futuristic. jimmy played drums, i played synth (strings on the right hand, droning bass on the left hand), matt played guitar and burty played bass. there is only one recording of anything we did and it’s the mp3 i’ve included here. it was recorded on a knock-off dictaphone (so you can’t really hear the synth bass at all) in the corner of the room under a pillow. around the minute mark you can hear the guitar cut out. somehow, we pushed it too far and something got burnt on the solid state circuitboard bit. it was a real downer. whilst listening to the mp3 you will also note that i am the last one to notice that something has gone wrong.

Decades/Futuristic “Reverb Anthem” (half a demo)

You can pre-order the debut Die Verboten release here.

i bought this miniature moleskine (as part of a two pack) on the weekend. i’ve had these fruit and diamond stickers (from the 2005 autumn/winter bape catalogue  hahaha) since my trip to tokyo about four years ago and have been waiting to put them on something but never quite found the right thing. this little notebook seemed like the right candidate. in celebration of this, here are some equally fruity gems:

The Nick Straker Band “Beat Inside”
Ago “Stop Your Life”
Risque “Burn It Up, Mr DJ” (Club Mix)
Claudio Simonetti “I Love the Piano“

just found this picture that i made in 2005. so turbosaurus:

to go with it, here are some tracks i was listening to a lot of at the time*

james freud “modern girl”
artefact “mae”
joy division “disorder”
yeah yeah yeahs “y control”
felix da housecat “ready 2 wear”
rick james “cold blooded”
cut copy “saturdays” (reprise)

*still listening to them a lot now

Eno “On Some Faraway Beach”
Galaxy Toobin’ “The Day of the Duel is Approaching”
ELO “Another Heart Breaks”
New Order “Elegia” (Album Version)
Bernard Szajner “Welcome (to Deathrow)“

“midnight boundary”
“truth and lies”
“mia’s mouse”