The Musical Brochure Vol. 4

So Week 4 I just recently became un-employed so I've had alot of time to update the Blog. This week's Playlist is filled with a bunch of goodies from 70's psychedelic to even some metal and acoustic works. I've given the chance to 10 individuals on Myspace to get a physical copy of the mixtape mailed to them if you want to find out more information go here to find out how to inquire about that. I've included some artists that Ihave been on my blog before, like Hercules and Love Affair, STS9, El Ten Eleven, and Manitoba, I wanted to get theses bands out there more so I decided to put them on this week's playlist. On a different note, I really like the picture used for this weeks artwork, I think it has to be the lighting or the fact that theres only one bulb in the fan. Anyways I haven't got much to say this time around besides that and I think Radiohead announced a approximate date in LA for the summer in august i'll keep you posted when they announce the actual day and location, anyways I hope you guys enjoy this weeks playlist and keep checking in throughout the week for some goodies and info.

The Musical Brochure Vol. 4 (16 songs/ 1:05:32 total time/ 96.2 Mb)

1. Syd Barrett- Terrapin (5:05)

2. The Books- Be Good to them Always (4:51)

3. Can- I'm So Green (3:06)

4. Sound Tribe Sector 9- ReEmergence (5:01)

5. Kings of Convenience- Leaning Against the Wall (3:17)

6. Casket Salesmen- I'll Buy That for A Dollar (4:57)

7. Hercules and Love Affair- Hercules' Theme (4:30)

8. El Ten Eleven- Hot Cakes (2:42)

9. Dictaphone- Vertigo II (2:28)

10. Crime in Choir- Grande Gallo (6:08)

11. Miho Hatori- Amazona (1:59)

12. Manchester Orchestra- Golden Ticket (3:31)

13. Curtis Mayfield- Superfly (4:00)

14. Del the Funkee Homosapien- I'll Tell You (3:21)

15. Manitoba- I've Lived on a Dirt Road All My Life (5:36)

16. Deftones- Be Quiet and Drive (Far Away) (5:08)

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This Week's Artwork was provided by Eversince...Photography he does different styles and formats, lately he's been experimenting alot with black and whites as you can see by this weeks artwork. He's solely self taught in Photography but did take a class just to venture with the techincals. His Artwork can be viewed on his Flickr or you can check out his myspace as well. He does Band Promos, Photoshoots, Weedings, any method to get some cash haha. he also works for food and drinks it's all love. Thank You Angel.

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Sound Tribe Sector 9- Artifact

Last summer my friend told me about this band and because I was really into prefuse 73, flying lotus, j dilla it was just perfect. Unfortunely my iPod crashed so i had to retrieve all the music i had or remembered that i had and i totally forgot about this band. I just recently remembered about them and i found it today and it brought back great memories. Sound Tribe Sector 9 has played various festivals and musical events but stayed pretty independent while gaining fans through their live perfornamce. The album i own from the various one's they've released sounds very down-tempo-ish, more of a Zero 7 feel with folk & acoustic sounds soulful ballads and even just easy listening tracks. I've read up on them and came to find out that everyone in the band plays the Laptop haha. They all sequence and record different sounds together and sample it's pretty interesting a lot of computer work going on there. You can hear pianos, glitch, chimes, electronics, drums. phasing. The album reminds me of a slow tempo version of 'Rounds' album from Four Tet, with the loops and samplings. With 'Artifact' you can hear every style and experimentation it's very clever you can hear every little thing like congas on the track 'Tokyo' and you can also hear an electric guitar used with a slide. It's a bunch of collective sounds weaved cohesively it works well, I haven't had a chance to see these guys live but when i do get the chance I'd love to catch this live. Beautiful guitar solos with ambient type beats and glitch, you'll even hear like arabic music or something reminiscent of that. It took me forever to find this album so I'm making it available for free through MediaFire because it took me a long time to find a copy. I hope you guys enjoy this album STS9- Artifact it's very creative in my opinion. Noticeable genres Electronica, Jazz, Funk, Pop, Ambient, Psychedelic, Hip Hop, Techno, Soul, just a straight up jam band. *UPDATE* STS9 will be at the House of Blues Sunset Strip May 16 and 17 tickets are on sale now $17.50 for One night and $35.00 for a 2 day pass on sale at ticketmaster. here's the link

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El Ten Eleven

So a big instrumental night for The Silent Ballet took place back in March which I was planning to attend but never went. I regret not going the night I wanted to go because I just started listening more to El Ten Eleven and read some info about them. The bill was pretty good it was El Ten Eleven, The Drift, The Littlest Vikings, and Signal Hill one night at Pehrspace for $5 bucks, i think, but anyways This band does a great job of giving you an intersting show. They are two gentlemen one on the drums and the other on bass guitar, electric guitar and looping. He has this loop station in which he constanly records and loops the recording and just keeps on adding with guitar and bass notes at the SAME TIME. He has this special guitar that is has two necks one guitar and one bass guitar, so he'll be playing loops on bass and on guitar it's very clever and unique. They have this live video of him doing it, There is also a music video for their single i suppose 'Hot Cakes' which are both pretty good. other than that it seems like a great live experience and a sight to see. Next time they come in town i'll try my hardest to attend it. They are on Tour right now.

Watch El Ten Eleven- My Only Swerving (Live Video) on YouTube

Watch El Ten Eleven- Hot Cakes (Music Video) on Youtube

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Ebu Gogo- Worlds

I think everyone should be scared of ebu gogo ugly ebu gogo what an ugly name? kind of like a death metal band, right? Or a punk rock group well check this out I don't know how Ebu Gogo got into my Ipod it's like some sort of virus i swear, damn bands. jk but let's start this off with a little background on Ebu Gogo they are a three piece Action/Adventure band comprised of Brendan Bell, Justin Abene, and Gavin Castleton of the futurock band Gruvis Malt and they are from Providence, Rhode Island. WTF? yup there are some good bands over there like, "Shit, I can't think of any of the top of my head" haha, but this band combines heavy synthesizers on some songs, noise rock, metal/punk well i can't really define them, but their influences surely stand out, ranging influences from Mahavishnu Orchestra, Fantomas, Boredoms. Talking Heads, and Neu!. I can describe them like the new age 'Residents' band with Fantomas-less frantic feel to it, well at times Ebu Gogo can amaze you, Keep you drifted and then pull you in fast and heavy. It's an Adventure like listening to 'The Advantage' with those NES covers it's fun. it's really hard to define their music but it's defintely got the rock-esque with a Math Rock feel. Very Rhythmically Complex, one of it's tagged genres is weird on LastFm haha. very obscured song titles too. Check out their cd and look for them at Pehrspace May 2nd in Los Angeles. Enjoy the download.

Download Ebu Gogo- Son of the Rancher of Neverland (The One Named Camera) on MediaFire

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Death Cab for Cute-Transatlanticism (Single)

So i've been here at home looking for a job for the past few days, now actually 2 weeks haha. anyways i go through out my day surrounding myself with music and positive energy to keep myself sane in this world. I have a goal in life; to one day achieve something that i feel content about before i die. I have ideas I have talents I have faith in myself but sometimes you sit there stoned and trip on the fact, "Man I'm living my life, slowly and slowly i realize one day i'm going to die, that i'm not going to be alive. not here". I don't know if your soul goes and you become like this fertilizer that helps make a tree grow but i know mentally&logically that at one point in time i will die, but one day at a time right, it seems like the days are going by so fast like, I am in a mentally subsidizing time machine not counting minutes nor seconds but weeks, months and years. i'll die. with or without a family, with or without being content, loving someone and someone loving you equally till the day we die, it seems rare now, that's ancient right. Well think about it no one really agrees anymore everyone is judgmental. We live in that sort of society. Okay! Now on to the song sorry for that off thought. So I judge music right away maybe not by it's genre or fans but more about the labels decisions to make them popular. I get caught up in the fact that mainstream bands shouldn't be good or talented musicians but you stop to think, Wait! They were doing good once right, Coming to help? bands like the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, and Muse off the top of my head. I picked out Death Cab for Cutie as a mainstream artist, which in terms are and I stood them up. My roommate told me to listen to this song, i never myself sat down and appreciated their music. I BOUGHT AN ALBUM and never really listened to it; Back with the first credit card days and tower records closing down ,what?.. anyways my itunes randomly hit this song from Death Cab for Cutie I downloaded for my roommate (ay jose if your reading this give me a blank i'll make that copy) so then I heard the outro, I guess it was very heavy so it caught my attention the dynamics i guess, but anyways it started it off from the beginning very simple, easy, i didn't seem like anything special, but i guess after the climax came in it hit me. Wow! This is it, that's the song the emotion. it simply is what it is. Simple. I've always treasured simplicity, How someone can get their point across with simplicity nothing all metaphorical but just simple. Very reminiscent of radiohead which really get much more metaphorical by their audience and listeners perception. the listeners distort the real meaning, but anyways this song is beautiful and i think you guys should watch this video i found on YouTube. So I'm gonna host it on my blog for the day. Check it Out.

p.s. think about your life, really think about it. be happy. i love all my friends and my family. blessings.

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Manitoba- Up In Flames

It's like one of those albums you can't wait to listen to from the very beginning to the last seconds of the end. The first song seems so perfect, with a vocal delay choked up by heavy phasing and acoustic guitar strumming brings the song into a breakbeat-esque beat sampling drum beats to such an epic song already and to end up to a kinda of free jazz feel and an ambient minimal beat congested with little what sounds like birds chirping. Manitoba does a great job keeping you in his song, capturing you easily, having you figuring out 'what was that i just heard'. p.s. the song is called 'I've lived on a dirt road all my life' i think you'll enjoy that song. the CD goes on and on with what it seems like many influences from free jazz, breakbeat, dream pop, noise rock, shoegaze. Manitoba does a great job mixing all his influences in this CD. Up in Flames in my opinion is a great way of showing you he loves music and is open minded to experimenting. Some of you might recognize the distinct similarities to Caribou well this is not a trademark incident but a lawsuit with Richard Manitoba aka The Handsomest Man in Rock n Roll forcing Manitoba to change his name to Caribou, yes. Caribou. Well anyways this album was released under Manitoba in 2003 and was re-issued 3 years later under the moniker Caribou. So that clears up the confusion you might have had with Manitoba and Caribou at Amoeba before you decided to leave it at the store thinking it was the same CD, well you missed out because when it was re-issued in 2006 they released 6 more songs in an extra disc. So run back and get those other tracks, hurry before supplies last, haha. Anyways, I hope you go buy the album and support Caribou on his upcoming tour he'll be at the El Rey Theater April 24. Blessings.

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Aoki Takamasa + Tujiko Noriko- 28

There is something about electronic music that I love  I think it has to be the ambience or the sudden drum rush pounding my chest through my speaker system or maybe the melodic elegance in the voice that captures the presence of the music. Lately I've been getting back into the minimal and glitch sound but this time around i've been trying to find international artists, i guess the mystery of the language captivates me especially when it comes from a cute little japanese girl.  Tujiko Noriko brings here pop melodies to Aoki Takamasa's electronic drums, soundscapes and the infamous glitch. Aoki Takamasa doesn't get to out of control when i comes to the glitch sound there are some artists that over use the glitch and suddenly destorys the sound into an annoying disaster of noise, but when it comes to this duo they weave their sound just right. When Aoki gets his chance to shine he still mixes the vocals just right. I think this band is great and the sound is beautiful. Aoki Takamasa + Tujiko Noriko need more fans that's why I'm making it available for free as a download. I hope you enjoy this clever international electronic outfit and check out their other work as well and if anyone knows at all what Tujiko Noriko is singing let me know because to me it's just some cute voice singing nonsense.

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