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edIT resurrection

peep this mashup (old)
The Hood Internet - Back 2 Da Ltlp (B.G. x edIT) by hoodinternet

Glitch Mob answers questions about live gigs

Ripped from Create Digital Music:

"Free Single, Upcoming Album

“Drive It Like You Stole It,” the first single, is free, courtesy the band, so you can give it a listen and let us know what you think. (I am definitely pumping that track as I drive my Chevy Aveo out of the rental lot at LAX next time I’m in your town, guys. Nothing like ghetto-blasting in a crap GM rental car.) It’s just a taste of the album to come, but nicely wrangles some thickly-arrayed synth stacks and big percussion. Yes, this is American music in the triumphantly-proud Obama era.

driveitlikeyoustoleit.mp3

The band nods to the LA musical epicenter from which their work emanates. From the press release:

According to Boreta, Drink The Sea certainly reflects the pioneering, individualist spirit of their home base. “Everyone around us from the West Coast—Flying Lotus, Nosaj Thing, Daedelus, Eprom—has their own distinctive sound. We all seem to want to break boundaries, but everybody has their own lane, which is what makes it so exciting.”

They’re great, approachable guys, so I’ll be talking to them more.

I’ll be curious to hear the rest of the album, because the band seems like such an essentially live performance-based band, and it’s always tough to translate that experience. That is, it’s a challenge, but the kind of challenge worth exploring.

Behind the Scenes: Playing Together

If this were just a music blog, the story would end there, but of course the advantage we have on CDM – and the chance to go beyond our own tastes and stylistic differences as musicians – is that we’re all wrestling with the same technology. In case you’re wondering how these guys get three laptop artists playing together onstage, it’s a problem that poses its own challenges.

edIT and Boreta joined me onstage to talk about some of those challenges, and how their approach to simultaneous performance and sync have evolved. We got to look at the state of technology, warts and all. Here’s the full video (skip past the introductions for the bit where they talk about how they’ve managed to clear some technological hurdles involved with multiple people playing laptop music together):"

get the rest of the scoop here: http://createdigitalmusic.com/2010/03/25/the-glitch-mob-tour-free-single-download-multiple-laptops-lemurs/

tears make up the river, and i dont know my name

Are we left all alone?
Mother has no time but she cares for me
and she cried all the tears
I am joining now the river flow
I am three days old
Now the time has come
You have to be man
I don't want to destroy
the only chance I have
to survive down here
The wind blows I'm so scared
and the waves so big, I'm not prepared
I will have to be strong
but for now I cry all the tears

Now enter the storm and feel electric sword
My entire life is about to burn
I am struggling, life is illusion
But I keep the dream of a better time

This secret knowledge
I receive from where I am
So precious the treasured icons
Extended to this point
Forget the ones that hurt
They all want, they struggle
They fight and try to dry their tears

We are all left on our own
We are bound yet by each others lives
Now I'm leaving this world
I will never forget the river flow

The pains and traps of life
I put my scars away and love

I have to face the truth of living
I left my boat behind
I am not taking it
Where I go I won't be crying
I die

Boreta is a favorite

Not much known about this guy, except that he is 1/3 of LA's most sophistated electro trio 'The Glitch Mob'. They are always better when you don't know much about them.

http://soundcloud.com/boreta/nalepa-4th-of-july-slidecamp-remix - Nalepa -Fourth of July (Boreta/Slidecamp Remix)

Fuzzy Ankles

Fuzzy Ankles

My Album Due out 4/20

Moontrapped due out on Milled Pavement next month!

More info: http://milledpavement.com/EMBEN0011.html

Track Listing


01. Sleep
02. Drone
03. Indifference
04. From Cataclysm
05. Instant Trip To The Cosmos Pt.2
06. Drunken Trees
07. Eaten By The Sun
08. Silver Buckshot
09. Serendipity
10. To Cataclysm
11. Comfortable Skin
12. The Pantomime Legacy
13. Synergy
14. Instant Trip To The Cosmos Pt.1
15. Lost Man
16. It
17. Moontrapped
18. For 13%

Credits


All songs written, recorded & produced by: Mike Dennis.
Additional lyrics on #8 by:
Leo (John Satter) & Dr.Willow (Vince Ayala).
Additional guitars on #13 by: Brad Didway.
Artwork by: Jeph Valenzuela.
Mastered by: Moshe.

George Bush apparently doesn't like Haitian sweat

wait for the wipe.....

The backlash: Reform turns personal - Jake Sherman and Marin Cogan - POLITICO.com

The backlash: Reform turns personal - Jake Sherman and Marin Cogan - POLITICO.com

Game your Hen

Here's another one: Stuffed game hen!

What you need: 3 or 4 celery sticks, 3 or 4 carrots, acorn squash, cucumber, turkey stuffing (stovetop works), as many baby chickens as you can handle, red potatoes, butter, olive oil, seasoning (old bay, salt, pepper, cumin, red pepper), rosemary, balsamic vinegar, pure apple juice.

First, dice up carrots, cucumber, squash, onions into small squares. Sauté in pan with oil, add salt and fresh ground pepper - cook till carrots are almost soft. Add chopped rosemary.

Add breadcrumbs in pan, mix it all together.

Next, marinade hens in seasoning, olive oil, splash of balsamic vinegar, rosemary. Stuff them with your delicious veggie stuffing stoner madness. Tie up the little legs with phone cord...or string.

Place it all in a glass dish, pour in 2 cups of pure apple juice, add potatoes.

Preheat oven to 405 degrees. Place birds in the oven uncovered for 1 hour.

Enjoy with some steamed rice.

Salmon con Ziplock

Dudes and Dudettes:
Here is a favorite, simple, and BOMB dish I make every once in a while. Everyone has to take a break from red meat at some point. This dish comes in clutch when that moment occurs.

Real Simple- all you need is 1 large ziplock, 1 Atlantic salmon filet, season-all, salt, extra virgin olive oil, 1 lemon squeezed, 2 handfulls of spinach, 1/4 butter, 1-2 garlic cloves minced.
Cook Time: 30 Min

In your ziplock combined your salmon filet(s), seasoning, squeezed lemon, and a democratic amount of olive oil.



Next, you close up the zippitydodah bag, shake it all around, and store it in the fridge to marinade for about 3 hours or less.
Pull it out, put it on a flat foil bed-Pull both sides of foil up and towards the center, and create a capsule for the fish to steam (going to steam this in the oven at 350 degrees for 15 Min).




While the salmon is cooking, chop up washed spinach, minced garlic cloves, butter.





Saute garlic in pan, add butter, then spinach. Saute everything for 3 min or until the spinach is totally wilted.





Combine your bomb ass cooked salmon with steamed white rice and spinach for a great pre-drinking meal.


BOOYYAAHH

Drive It Like You Stole It | XLR8R

Drive It Like You Stole It | XLR8R
Taken from XLR8R's site:
"Together, edIT, Boreta, and Ooah have amassed a large number of remixes, singles, and mixtapes, but May 25 will mark the release of Drink the Sea, the debut full-length from LA's veteran blap collective. The Glitch Mob opted to drop the album on its own imprint, Glass Air, and has also given us the premiere of the album's first single, "Drive It Like You Stole It." If this track is anything, it's an anthem. Amidst a trademark head-nodding beat heavy with slap, a number of synths vie for the forefront position—like a team of buglers announcing the coming of the beat scene's heroes—before giving way to an arsenal of heavy percussion and reverberated vocal samples."

GOP Fantasy

from Candid Ho

Artwork By Jephree Valenzuela

Wonkette : Victory Party To-Nite, Obama Bringing Limo Full of Nurses/Hookers

Wonkette : Victory Party To-Nite, Obama Bringing Limo Full of Nurses/Hookers & Blow

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Sites Recommended for Boredom

LA Stoner Blog: Resources for LA Stoners
-This site includes strain test reviews, bomb places to grub, great locations to chill, etc.
http://lastonerblog.wordpress.com/

I AM A LASER!
Laser's got all the news you need on some of LA's tightest producers, artists, and musicians.
Dope video on Deru courtesy of IAMALAZER
http://www.youtube.com/user/iamalaser#p/a/u/0/tE8hv33xG98

Healthcare passes, not sure if anything changes

While I and shit ton of other people sit and wait for the Senate to pass the last piece to the healthcare puzzle, I wonder if anything good will ever come of it. I'm real disappointed that the GOP is so disingenuous and misleading on the whole debate. I'm disappointed that the Democrats can't be as shameless as the Republicans sometimes. I guess that's why I'm a decline-to-state.

Dr. Douche of the House seems to have forgotten how he and his colleagues got bills passed when the entire country opposed them.

Check out Candid Ho

Yuri Hasegawa's art is effing amazing. I'll let it speak for itself. Check out her blog, Candid Ho @ http://candidho.blogspot.com

get her art all up in yo face face with this ish right here - http://yurihasegawa.com/index2.php

Peace for now.

First blog post evverrrrrr

Dudes and Dudettes:

I am pleased to announce that I gots another form of internetcomm with everyone in the world.

Quick shit about me:

I'm a music producer. I write and record electronica/triphop/IDM. I have a couple of unofficial releases but have been fortunate enough to get picked up by my friends at Milled Pavement Records. My first full-length releases worldwide on 4/20/2010 wooohooo!

Get info on my album "moontrapped" over derrrrr http://milledpavement.com/EMBEN0011.html

Will have some more cool photos from my shoot with Jephree and Yuri Hasegawa very soon!