Tuesday, December 21, 2010

SOUND: Kuhn - Quiet Nights



The LA rain storm continues to flow relentlessly on day 5, today. I love it except for the idiocy it soaks into every driver's soul. I want to play outside in it rather than wade through it, protected by this senseless aluminum bubble. Instead, Kuhn's remix of Antonio Carlos Jobim and Stan Getz's Corcovado is about as close as I'll get to being outside today. Eat a taco, it's tuesday.

-Danny

Monday, December 13, 2010

W&V ORIGINALS: KneeKnocked - FINAL DAY


The final tracks of the KneeKnocked C-Sides happen to be my personal favorites as well as both the first piece I ever put together and the most recent (listed respectively below). While they may be amateur at best, they do remind me of how much work and detail goes into the creation of remarkable things and why I have such appreciation for those capable of enduring the search for excellence.
enjoy.



Day 4 - FINAL DAY, Tracks 7 & 8 - In Memoriam.


Tribute








Best Thing In A While









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Thursday, December 2, 2010

Wednesday, November 24, 2010

SOUND: Bon Iver - Skinny Love (Das Kapital Rerub)

Well shit, this is good. I wasn't going to post anything else for the day but this is too good to pass up. I'm not generally a huge remix fan, but whoever Das Kapital is, with this Rerub* of Skinny Love they're killing it.

*Really? We need another word for remix? We're not exactly Eskimos here, we don't need a thousand terms for "hey I changed your original work".


WHO DOES IT BETTER: GRFX - Chiddy Bang vs. HotKid

Both of these groups do some really fun and creative work with integrated graphics in these live-action music videos. While I'm a much bigger fan of Chiddy Bang musically, HotKid really pulls through with some very complex and innovative editorial cuts alongside their graphic fusion. However, there is something to be said of the casual-cool feel of "Truth", as sometimes subtlety says a lot more than we tend to give credit for.


Chiddy Bang - Truth

HotKid - Yours and Mine

W&V ORIGINALS: KneeKnocked - Day 2


Day 2, Tracks 3 & 4 - In Memoriam.

Ghost Dance








The Outdoor Room









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Tuesday, November 23, 2010

SOUND: The Avalanches make madness...

THE AVALANCHES - Frontier Psychiatrist
First off, I've listened to this song for the past two years or so and am still inspired by this beat and all the elements that seem so different from one another that still find a very original way to work together. It kills me how under-exposed this song is. But this video is on a whole other level of well-orchestrated insanity...




THE AVALANCHES - Since I Left You
Apparently every coal miner is required to have Chris Penn's Footloose dance nailed before venturing below... I really wish I hadn't admitted knowing what that is.

W&V ORIGINALS: KneeKnocked - Day 1


Day 1, Tracks 1 & 2 - In memoriam.

Runners vs. Hiders










The Glass







Friday, November 19, 2010

THE PICTURES: Coachelletta

Tilt shift promo piece for Coachella 2011: So this is what we look like from up here? Dates are up and performance speculations are already frothing with big names... April 15, 16, and 17 are locked. Daft Punk... maybe? I digress, enjoy this really well done vid, even the integrated end grfx are totally sweet.

FACES OF US: NickO & Peen Celebrate 28 Years of Waves, Motorcycles, Shrubberies, Tents, Twinkies, Making It Pop...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DUDES

These guys also have websites that make mine look like a 3rd grader ate heavily toxic paste then finger-painted for twelve hours in a dim-lit room... wait that sounds way too rad.
dangit.

and
Janos' not porn

FRIDAY UPDATES: stuff and things are happening...

So there's no fancy friday showdown or anything like that today, there's just the announcement that I'll be taking this shit up a notch. I'm tired of trying to perfect every little thing and then just not posting anything because of a fear of sucking. I spend so much time trying to do everything sometimes I end up not doing anything at all and fuck.that. I've got a list of videos that I'll be posting today that I'm really excited about and I've got a great new collection of graphic design sources that I'm going to be tapping into. Also, in honor of some additions I'm making to my home studio I will be releasing a series of "B-Sides that don't have an A-Side" which are about 9 songs that I've produced over the last six years whose master files have recently been lost forever on a busted computer. I'll be spreading their digi-ashes right here on W&V where I'll post a song or two every morning starting Monday. Some are incomplete and needed more work than others but I'm not just gonna let them sit there, staring at me, mouthing the words... "we could have been good together". I won't do it. I WON'T. Plus, I think it'll help make some healthy room for the new stuff I'm working on...

That is all.

Love,
Daniel


Wednesday, November 17, 2010

FACES OF US: Everything in it's right place...

BYUN from thismustbetheplace on Vimeo.


Well that was a nice three month vacation... if only I could survive on a 1 month working / 3 vacationing schedule with everything in my life. Nonetheless, I'm back with a month and a half left in the year to make some dents on this blog.

This video of the Brooklyn artist, Byun, has been sitting in the queue for a few months now. It provided some great inspiration for the new header and has a different look into the influence of space and design in the places we live and create...

Friday, August 13, 2010

THE PICTURES: Some Modern Vintage - The Pass and Baths

A few current favorites using some old stock footie...

THE PASS - "Treatment of the Sun" (From PrettyMuchAmazing.com)
(Be on the lookout for THE PASS' full length coming out this Fall)


Tuesday, August 10, 2010

SOUND: Into The Lonely Wild

On Friday August 6th, a small quintet of Angeleno musicians finds their way through the Griffith Park brush to the center of The World of Birds stage at the Los Angeles Zoo. The air is heavy with the chatter of their neighboring mammals and an ageless crowd gathers as the five approach in calm and gallant pace and the feral stir of The Lonely Wild begins…

For most of us this is a brief retreat from the city; an oasis stumbled upon at the center of a concrete basin. And perhaps the very same thing could be said of The Lonely Wild themselves as their tone pulls from old spaghetti-western flare and their lyrics often clamor out in proclamation of journey for journey’s-sake and for our old wild and forlorn lives that sometimes find themselves restricted by self-constructed cages.

While most of us spend tireless hours searching for music to help us pass time in our commutes, to guide us through our bad times and through our great ones, The Lonely Wild is capable of serving us with something so much more: an intermission. An intermission from our search for purpose and grandeur, an escape from our heavily tracked vehicle timecards as we traverse from one side of the city to the other, an escape from all that we search to have in our lives so that we may dance and play loudly and ferociously in the moment. The sound encourages us to howl at the raw intonation of our souls and recall the nostalgic feel of the unexplored so that we may move on, ready for the adventure that begs us to turn from the roads we are on and into the brush of the uncharted days to come.


THE LONELY WILD IS:
Andrew Carrol
Ryan Ross
Andrew Schneider
Jennifer Talesfore
Edward Cerecedes

NEXT SHOW:
Thursday, August 26th @ 10PM
Silverlake Lounge
2906 Sunset Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA

LAYERS: New York