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Moby gives some valuable advice to aspiring musicians and producers in an article published on his popular online journal yesterday:
"I know I'm an opinionated loudmouth, but I've always felt uncomfortable and presumptuous offering advice to people when I don't know their circumstances. But I do feel moderately comfortable offering general advice to aspiring musicians," he says.
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Dutch trance DJ and production superstar Tiesto will release a new artist album titled "Elements Of Life" via Ultra Records in April.
The new LP is Tiesto's third full-lenght artist album to date and the follow-up to the 2004's "Just Be".
Guests on the album included US-based producer Brian Transeau (aka BT) on "Break My Fall," vocalist Julie Thompson on "Can You Feel Me," Jes (from Motorcycle's hit single "As The Rush Comes") on "Everything," and Maxi Jazz from Faithless on "Dance4Life," the first single from the album released last year.
"I am very excited about my new album. It's a very experimental piece of work and combines the style of rock with trance and electronic. This is the first time that I have combined these different genres. I have always liked rock music so it made sense," says Tiesto.
Continue reading "Tiesto to release Elements Of Life">Update! By request, my Puff the Magic Dragon triptych mix in mp3. See the "video" section after the jump for detials.
So last Thursday night I left my job in the West Village and, realizing that I only had five bucks to my name and was darn sick of pizza, I decided to get dinner at the place on my block that I have thus far avoided going to: the KFC/Taco Bell. Yeah. That one.
The next morning as I turn the corner onto 6th Ave, I notice a swarm of reporters and satellite vans all straining to peek in the window of said franchise. If you live in NYC then you know what happened (local TV and newspapers, faced with a slow day, made the story priority number one), but at the time I was clueless. For a terror stricken moment my brain screamed "EBOLA!", and I felt my bowels pinch. Then I passed through the melle, heard all the talk of a huge rat infestation, and ended up clutching my stomach instead.
But ultimately, I was glad it was just plain ol' rats and not something worse. And since it's been almost a week and I don't seem food poisoned or plague ridden, I'll assume I got off lucky. And so - here's a musical tribute to rats! Zip file 1 Zip file 2
Speaking of shifty vermin, here's my favorite little trivia piece tucked way down into the Reuters article about the rat-tastrophie: "Earlier this week, the president of KFC, also known as Kentucky Fried Chicken, asked Pope Benedict XVI for a papal blessing for its new Fish Snacker sandwich." Now that's a meeting I would like to sit in on.
In other news, tonight (Wednesday) is almost your last chance to check out the art exhibit of Scopitones down at the d.u.m.b.o. arts center. If you don't know, these are the charming 60s music shorts that used to play in in video music boxes. The Scopitones blog has more details on the lecture taking place tonight, as well as tons of Scopitones that you can download. My favorites include an inspired bit of psychedelia from The Martin Circus, the incomparable Joi Lansing (Queen of All Scopitones), and one with a bunch of white-haired musicians that we were told we would like (and yes, we do!). While not the most exciting to watch, this Scopitone featuring the squeaky clean Back Porch Majority (which sounds kinda dirty to me, actually) actually brought down the empire when the band sued the company over their insertion of randy underwear shots. Oh, but what would they make of this one? But the most famous Scopitone making the round (after Nancy Sinatra) is the as-yet-unidentified "Mister Eraserhead".
Now, on with this week's mp3 internet blog finds. Follow the jump!
Only Men Fall in Love...and sing about it over a synth beat. Tons of music videos this week:
Puff! Puff! Puff! I just opened this in three windows and had them each a fraction of a second off and it was freaking brilliant! I even documented it for you. Update: Now also in mp3!