26 Aug 2009
JACK PENATE / BULLION – Pull My Heart Away (Bullion Remix)
Capitalising on the critical acclaim of his sophomore album, Everything Is New, Jack Penate releases the downright bombastic ‘Pull My Heart Away’, which really underlines how far this young chap has comes since his thrashy, punked-up troubadour beginnings. The Jamie XX remix makes for an interesting clash of ingredients, slamming skittered beats, woody rimshots and romping basslines against one another it makes for a decent, surreal dismantling of the original, but the Bullion mix feels markedly more substantial, reconfiguring the track as a psychedelically-inclined wonky epic. (boomkat)
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Nosaj Thing Live Visuals 2009 (Video)
Nosaj Thing Visual Show Compilation Test Shoot from Adam Guzman on Vimeo.
Electronic music is huge and growing in popularity, but the genre places an unusual demand on the actual artist: They make their money at live shows, but how interesting can a performance by someone tapping at their laptop possibly be? Who wants to pay to see that?
Increasingly, electronic musicians are turning to graphic and interactive designers, to pull in the crowds–and electronica shows are quickly becoming can’t-miss live events, as Justice, Simian Mobile Disco, and, of course, Daft Punk have proven. But it doesn’t have to be such a big-budget affair. Here’s one of the freshest examples we’ve seen in recent months, a projection designed by Adam Guzman and Julia Tsao, for the performer Nosaj Thing.
The idea, according to Guzman and Tsao, was to turn the entire 3-D experience into a 2-D layout like you’d find in a magazine. You can see their work through the fall, on Nosaj Thing’s club tour. (FastCompany.com)
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