RECENT JAMS IVE BEEN JAMMING

in no particular order or relation to each other.


CROWBAR - BROKEN GLASS


EXPLOSIONS IN THE SKY - SO LONG, LONESOME


HORSE THE BAND - NEW YORK CITY***


WILLIE HUTCH - THE GLOW (FROM THE LAST DRAGON SOUNDTRACK)

***more on these dudes in a later post

IM LIKE PETER I RIDE FOR MY ANIMALS!

"koala, assaulted. brave while facing insurmountable odds."

i've been so busy working on new projects and finding singing prog rock babies on youtube i forgot to post these jams up from last month. A series of desktops that i designed for Rockstar Games. Snapshots of widescreen violence recovered from the deepest recesses of God's green earth featuring lasers, helicopters, wild beast of every variety, lasers, S&M chicks, kung-fu, lasers and psuedo nazis. and more lasers.
go here and then select "Desktop Series Fall 2007" and the "Battle Series" to get your slice of the magic.

"beaver once pacifist; now reconsiders the motives of the uprising."

"they will pay... with oceans of bloods."

RAISE YOUR KIDS RIGHT!

i dont usually get too into cutesy shit too much, i kinda prefer the more disturbing things aesthetically. but with that said, this is the cutest thing ive ever seen. this big cheeked baby singing along to french prog rockers MAGMA. a couple posts ago i was talking about how bizzare magma are/were and how much i dug on them. obviously this baby shares my world view, as she knows the made up babbling language (Kobiasian) that MAGMA sing in and all the stops and starts.

clearly this child is going places.

GRIME-ING!

Holy hell do i love grime, its pure chaotic, manic energy. Beats that sound like dancehall reggae programmed by space aliens and blasted out of the trunk of a time traveling delorean with rapid fire lyrics. grime is to rap what grind is to metal. jacked up, add'd out , over caffeinated mayhem. Its a damn shame no one in the states is really looking for it.

last weekend i caught a set by Matt Shadetek playing grime and dancehall anthems and while dudes selection and cutting was top notch the crowd did not respond as they should have. and by that i mean i only saw like 2 or 3 gun fingers, not counting my own. no one completely lost their shit. and generally people sorta stood around politely bobbing their head. thats fucking insane in my book. i understand most heads were not there for the grime, but if you chillax even a lil and let the sub bass move you you'll be gun fingering in no time.

in my mind grime is best delivered and appreciated as below, with way too many dudes in one room music crazy loud and the ever present threat of a fight breaking out hanging heavy in the air.


Ghetto On The Mic 1st, Spyro(?) on the Decks

70's NERDROCK HOW I LOVE THEE LET ME COUNT THE WAYS

you know i jive on some hip hop business. i jive on the metal. i get down on the laser sounds. but allow me to reintroduce myself as myself. and by that i mean, whats up with prog rock??? the seventies yielded so many jumpoffs of magnificent odd time signatures and fretboard gymnastics, honestly i love all of em. let me drop the knowledge jewels on some of my favorites.


CAMEL - HIGHWAYS OF THE SUN
Camel is on some other other prog rock shit because they were one of the few prog bands to get straight up into some smooth rock shit. yacht rock territory. this jam above is just on some sailing youre yacht to Rijul 9 shit. so smooth and laid back yet spacey as shit. you dont really get a feel of the progginess* here but damn does this song go down smooth.


MAGMA - ??
you wanna get super nerdy prog rock shit? you talk about Magma. my dude made up his own language to sing in and wrote a 12(?) album suite about a war between two planets of aliens or some such shit. you dont get that in any other genre. Jeezy will NEVER EVER do that. i mean i wish he would, 12 albums about crack that were all adlibs and abstract mumblings sounds liek magic to me. nonetheless in a weird really bugged out Can sorta way this shit rocks real hard.


THE MAHAVISHNU ORCHESTRA - THE NOONWARD RACE

While not technically prog rock (technically theyre fusion jazz) TMO are them dudes. filled with ex miles davis players, these dudes took jazz and rock and jammed em together and came out as hard as zepplin when they wnated to or as soft as chet baker when the moment called for it. and their chops are entirely not to be questioned. watch every single memeber of the band take it there for kids who questioned if they could shred. jump up to get beatdown.



*for the proginess check out this video of camel doing rhayader goes to town. its from the snow goose. in short its about a dude befriending a goose in war and then the goose leading dude to his one true love. i shit you not. only in the 70's.
check my dude on the flute SLAYING SHIT!!! and the riff at 3:40 is so money, proto breakdown.

NOW MY GRANDMAMA AINT THE ONLY GIRL CALLIN ME BAAAABBBEEE

Kanye West & T-pain - The Good Life
Uploaded by Brownsugar18

forgot to put this up before, really awesome video.
directed by super frenchy So_Me. some quick thoughts:
- dudes typography skills are astounding.
- the vector handstyle is really whimsical and playful, and the motion design totally reinforces that with the eased bouncing and popping.
- i kinda hate the rotoscopping jam with the lil HP commercials pane, but within all the other greatness its totally excusable.
- the girl in this video is on some 1.618 shit. no objectification-o.
- during the "we like the real girls cause they got more ass than the models" line, putitng the cartoon butt in the shades, its such a classy move. way to give us the sexy with the above mentioned young lady, but just not where we were expecting it.
kudos frenchies, kudos.