Lazer!

Really looking forward to this album - already pre-ordered (mainly for the cool as t-shirt) - here's the Major Lazer "Hold The Line" video -



And the fan N64 video on the Mad Decent blog is pretty funny too -

Two Weeks

Video for Grizzly Bear's "Two Weeks" - Faces made creepy, fireworks, great tune

Two Weeks

ATP highlights

Instead of the ATp vs the Fans review that I haven't got the time to write, here's some videos of the highlights:
Beirut:



Sleep



Grizzly Bear (with Nico Muhly joining them)



Andrew WK



HEALTH



There doesn't seem to be any video of Sian Alice Group, Fuck Button, Pink Mountaintops, whichever other of my highlights I'm missing, so here's another bit of Sleep to round things off

L'Azur

A Poem by Mallarme




The serene irony of the eternal Sky
Depresses, with the indolence of flowers,
The impotent poet cursing poetry
Across a sterile waste of leaden Hours.


Fleeing, with eyes shut fast, I feel it blight
With all the intensity of crushing remorse
My empty soul. Where can I fly? What haggard night
Can stifle this scornful torment at its source?


Roll in, you fogs, and pour out ashen haze
In tattered rags of mist traversing heaven;
Smother the livid swamp of autumn days
And roof them in a grand and silent haven!


And you, dear boredom, rise from Lethean pools,
Dredging their shoals for pallid reeds and slime;
Block with unwearying hand the great blue holes
Malicious birds keep gouging time after time.


Still unremitting! let sad chimneys smoke,
And let the smothering soot, a wandering prison,
In blackening trains of horror rise and choke
The sun now fading yellow on the horizon!


-The Sky is dead.-Toward you I run! Bestow, O matter,
Forgetfulness of Sin and the cruel Ideal
Upon this martyr who comes to share the litter
Where the happy herd of men is made to kneel.


For there I long, because at last my brain,
Like an empty rouge-pot on a dressing stand,
has lost the art of decking out its pain,
To yawn morosely toward a humble end...


In vain! The Azure triumphs. I hear it sing
In all the bells. The more to frighten us,
It rises in its wicked glorying
From living metal, a blue angelus.


It rolls in with the fog, and like a sword
It penetrates your inmost agony.
Revolt or flight is useless and absurd;
For I am haunted. The sky! the Sky! the Sky!

ATP vs The Fans photos

First off a guide to ATP via carpets:

In Reds (treated slightly, too dark in original version)

In The Centre Stage

In The Crazy Horse

In The Pavillion

And onto those bands... in no particular order...
Grizzly Bear
Health

Edan on the DJ tip

Casiotone for the Painfully Alone

Anti-Pop Consortium
Beirut

Shearwater

Pink Mountaintops
Jeffrey Lewis

And a monolith appears during Jeffrey Lewis

Sleepy Sun
Sian Alice Group

M83

And the beach, the beach
At night (early evening anyway)

Early morning

The opposite view, early morning quiet street, looking clean (the person who was cleaning the street was just off shot here)

Finally, the puppies I would have won had this stupid machine accepted my coins...

Fwendz 4evah

Here's a bit of an Eminem vs Arab Strap thing I've just done. Been trying to get a beat to go with the Arab Strap sample for a while and just randomly tried it with "If I Had" by Eminem and it seemed to fit sweetly, so I ran with it.
Hastily put together and just cut and pasted in Audacity so it's a bit rough, but I like it like that...
Was tempted to just make it go on forever, in the end decided not to, short but sweet.

Here's the link - Friendz 4evah

While We Were Dreaming

Video of Pink Mountaintops, "While We Were Dreaming", off Outside Love



Acoustic solo performance, completely different to the album version, love it, but the album version, with it's gorgeous female vocals and fuller sound, I love even more...
Really looking forward to them at ATP.

It's 3am in the morning

New scary Eminem video for 3am