Coming across this amazing music video from OK GO, it makes me think that this would be a great winter activity for Brooklynites who don’t want to spent time outside freezing. Rube Goldberg Contest, winter 2011, anybody? We’ll sponsor it. P.S. This video is unbelievable. How they got the timing so perfect in one take, blows my mind.
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There’s nothing wrong with opera. For singers, it’s the hardest genre to sing (even Beyoncé attempted to sing a few measures of “Habanera” from Carmen for a soda commercial a few years ago – and failed,) but if you can sing opera, you can sing anything; for composers, the sky’s the limit: Mozart threw in the highest note ever and the lowest note ever in The Magic Flute, and there’s no such thing as too extravagant – and the same goes for costume designers. Behind all the satin gloves, tuxedos, and white hair in the pompous crowd associated with it, a night at the opera can be hilarious, heartbreaking, and full of beautiful music.
That said – it’s a pleasure to see that The Knife, at the other extreme of music in the world of electronica, has composed an electro-opera as well as written the libretto for it (even Mozart didn’t write the words for his own operas.) Excerpt:
An intersection of the plain
by the bank of some great stream
the animal carcasses
and skeletons would be
entombed
Tomorrow in a year
tomorrow in a million years
Since it’s The Knife we’re talking about, it goes without saying that there must be some cool, eccentric catch to it all. Yes, well, the opera is about the world through the eyes of Darwin, in honor of the 150th birthday of the publication of On the Origin of Species. Differing from traditional operas that tend to have a 4 or so main characters on top of a chorus of 30, The Knife’s opera, Tomorrow, in a Year has 3 singers (only) and 6 dancers that perform to choreography by renowned Japanese modern dancer Hiroaki Umeda.
Tomorrow, in a Day will be residing at the Danish theatre Hotel Pro Forma, and will be touring in Switzerland, Germany, and France.
Here’s a video from the show, maybe it’ll even provoke you to take a trip to Europe:
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At long last, our Grado babies have come back home. Oh, how we missed you so!
Check it out, we got the whole lineup. We also have the GS1000i, RS1i, and RS2i headphones available for special order – because they really are just that special.
Some of you guys have been waiting a long time for these, and we love you for it. Here’s looking at you, kids.
70 Greenpoint Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11222
Take the G train to Greenpoint Avenue and walk towards Manhattan one block, pass Franklin, and it’s on your left!
Teenage Engineering, a rather mystical company that seems to have some sort of Japanese origins, is now officially showing their OP-1 synthesizer. It was last demo’d in Frankfurt in April. Their website still shows the system as in “beta” but we can only hope this little wonder gets released soon…the possibilities look endless. If (hopefully!) they release it at a reasonable price point, I can see this thing taking stage center in the synthesizer/controller/sampler arena, because the interface looks truly amazing and intuitive, unlike anything I’ve seen before. Also, it’s tiny! Check out the video to see the “spy shots” of the interface in action, and the Frankfurt interview showing the finished product on display. As soon as this puppy is released, look for it here, we’ll definitely stock it if they’ll let us!
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I sort of miss Yelle, especially for her funny rap lyrics full of kink and attitude, and the ridiculous Tektonik scene that ensued. Well, now there’s Make the Girl Dance, an electro-rock duo comprised of Greg Campana and Pierre Pérrin, also from France. They’re hottest song at the moment,”Baby Baby Baby,” features quasi-rap by Musubi, whom I hope becomes the Yelle of 2009. In their just-released music video for the song, they got some nice girls to sashay down Rue Montorgeuil in Paris – naked. Be warned, this video is kinda NSFW. Gotta love ‘em.
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The song’s easier to appreciate if you speak French, but for those of you who don’t:
I want plans that revolve around me
I want (Sébastien)Tellier on my iPod
I want your mother’s black AmEx
I want your father’s car
I want to party with your friends
I’ll put on my prettiest panties
I want an encounter that’s a little hot
I want you to watch, but you can’t touch
I want to be in Justice’s ‘Top Friends’
I want Gaspard’s (Augé, of Justice) hand on my thigh
I want to count even without fingers
I want yours in the right place
I don’t want to climb stairs
Oh hey, it’s perfect, you can carry me
I want to be the only one in pictures
I want to model for YSL
I want supergifted children
I want my dog to have a degree
I want your head on a plate
I want mine on (Michel)Denisot’s show
I don’t want cake, I want coke
I don’t want Kate, I want Ethan Hawke
I want to jump from a huge ladder
Figure out the rainbow for yourself
I want chocolate and vanilla ice cream
I want your balls with blueberries
I want to dance like Vanessa (Paradis)
I want to see her man (Johnny Depp) in Ibiza
I want to go to bed when you’re waking up
I want the same t-shirt as Yelle
I want to fit into all my jeans
I want you to shower me with your cash
I want ice in my drink
I want to give your grandma a (smoking) shotty
I saw your ex, you know, that skank
Tell her I found her boots
I don’t want pits in my cherry
I want you to fix the Tower of Pisa
I want to orgasm in a 2CV (an old Citroën)
And I’m gonna do it behind your back.
Bag Raiders are the hottest DJs from Modular Records right now, and they’re stopping by Brooklyn tonight on their US tour. These guys have an awesome sound, the dance floor is going to looove them, for sure!
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While TVOTR isn’t exactly the type of band I’d expect to hear remixed in a club anywhere, I just stumbled across the news that they’ll be releasing a new EP with three remixed tracks from Dear Science. The tracks aren’t their hit singles, and they’re not being remixed by any huge blog-house names, either. No Crookers or Justice names on this EP. The album, called “Read Silence” is available for digital download on April 14th. Good stuff. Here’s to ”the most vital, current band in America”.
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So pissed I missed these guys at Studio B last month. Oh well. Here’s a great mix by them that’ll get you going anytime.
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Intro – Title Music from A Clockwork Orange
1. Revolte – Weak Generation
2. Michael Jackson – Thriller (instrumental)
3. Chromatics – In The City (The Twelves Replay)
4. Datarock – I Used to Dance with my Daddy (Metal on Metal Remake)
5. Lifelike – So Electric
6. Theatre of Disco – YOA (The Twelves Remix)
7. Boys Noize – Feel Good (TV Off)
8. Thieves Like Us – Drugs in my Body (The Twelves Replay)
9. Le Knight Club – Rhumba
10. Les Rhythmes Digitales – Hypnotize
11. Black Kids – I’m Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How To Dance With You (The Twelves Replay)
12. M.I.A. – Boyz (The Twelves Replay)
