Learn From the Scruff
Mr Scruff - Producer Masterclass from Mat on Vimeo.
Brewmaster composes a song in a day, and lets you in for the entire session.
Andrew Bird Plays With the Sound of Self-Destruction
Andrew Bird makes it all look so easy. The orchestration, and creative awareness.
The source of inspiration can take infinite forms, and for the Mr. Bird's new song he exclusively performs for TED, the everyday occurrence (especially for a sound wizard) of a noise loop triggers an investigation of other self-destructive loops and how they occur in biological, metaphysical, and creative instances.
I find that relationships are the greatest source of inspiration for my work...I guess I'm not too far off from using self-destructive loops, either.
Beginnings of a would-be dreamer
(photo by m. tounta)
I know what to do with this space now.
Succumbing to a collision of mid-exam inspiration and procrastination, I read a few articles from dubstep producer Matt Shadetek on creativity, production, and time management that helped prompt my new decision. The advice and strategies Matt discusses (yet briefly) coincide with both my creative plans for 2010/11 and my dissertation on artistic collaboration, all three contingent forces have planted seeds for a new website.
In the past, this space was used to promote new music, old music, my music, and your music, decorated by contributions from photographer friends and friendly artists. I have a new outlet for my de Leon-like obsession with new music which I urge you all to check out: The Kort
But there is an ever-growing obsession of mine that I've only just begun to nurture, and that is the mystery and philosophy of creativity.
So this website will now attempt the following:
1) To catalogue and discuss the day-to-day of my creative experiences as I work on my newest releases, with the hope of providing inspiration and caution to all my fellow producers and creative engineers out there
2) To showcase the brimming wealth of information these interwebs have to offer on creative production, management, composition, marketing, etc.
3) To keep you up to date on the various drafts of my own work and those of others that will serve as accompaniment to the discussions
4) To feature interviews/articles from artists worldwide on the 'creative' phenomenon, and how they interact with it
5) To bring you some sweet tunes and beautiful images.
Expect things to start popping up regularly from August onwards, but don't be surprised if I start a bit earlier...
For now, here:
Tunes:
love,
tgrs
'Rockaway' Released on Cassette//Lazy Roar Records
"Rockaway" is featured on Lazy Roar's Discovery Compilation Mixtape. Here's what the label has to say about the cassette:"How do you describe the indescribable? Through song, of course. A few months ago, sixteen artists took on the challenge of composing a piece of music that captures of the experience of experience and the feeling of feeling. The finished product plays much more like a mixtape or collaboration than a mere compilation, with each song seamlessly picking up where the previous one left off. Cassette culture is back, baby. With over 70 minutes of material, this floating, flowing epic is not to be missed. Mastered and compiled by Rob Duffy of Kleptocephalus with awesome artwork by
List of artists featured:
Bengar Use Hypnosis!
Blackfeet
Bob Dignan Anthony
Boy Fruit
Bradford
First Dog To Visit The Center Of The Earth
The Great Red Shark
Healthy Animal
The Letter Box Project
Living (member of Inverness)
Maxwell Hell
Mystery Cave
Panthalassa
Splinter Villa
Tamma's Music Box
Young Man
Go ahead and stream the album at last.fm. If you like what you hear, pick up a copy for $4 and support your local DIY record label.
- tgrs
'Still Alive' Gets An Official Release//Amazon and Beatport
My track 'Still Alive' has been picked up by Vitamin D over at Cold Busted Records and distributed through the first in a series of chill-out compilation CDs and mixes. I'm very excited to have a song of mine out there in the wonderfully wide world of music shopping malls, and below are a number of ways for you to help support the artists and label involved in this record.
The tracks range from techno to 'Snatch' and 'Ocean's 11' funk breaks, coffee house jazz to warm electronica. It's all good, and there's sure to be something you enjoy on this mix.
- tgrs
December 20th//Glasslands, NYC
I've got my first live show in NYC coming up. I'm excited and nervous, but I'd love for you to come support if you're in the big city.
Glasslands Gallery - December 20th
289 Kent Ave.
Brooklyn, NY
8pm - $6
Big ups to all those involved:
http://www.myspace.com/inkyowl
http://www.myspace.com/sareeny
http://www.myspace.com/turtleambulance
http://www.myspace.com/thegreatredsharkmusic
http://www.myspace.com/badnancyk
http://heywo.blogspot.com/
hazy autumn, you trickster//Inside The Weather Is Cool
Four Tet - Love Cryso happy to hear this scot back in action. i wasn't a big fan of his collaboration with burial, which produced two tracks of dark, drawn out electronica think-pieces that felt like unpolished jams rather than works of attention care that X mr/ tet's back catalogue. i can feel carpet fur crawling up my socks, rubbing against my skin and leaving marks to remind me of dirty nights on the basement floor. its all about the groove, and the steady beat keeps your head moving through the intermittent explosions of sampled vocals. one for the wax heads, one for the headphones, one for the jazz fiends and nu-sex fiends. the ending is so quintessential four tet i had a wide grin on first listen.
//electronica\\
Boards of Canada - Seven Forty Sevenanother downbeat electronica giant released new material, and i am so happy to be a fan of this genre. boc are the kings of their own wild, the fuzz as jesters and the beats as the court in which they dance a dusty slowdance with their queen, canadian tv show samples. insects and hazlenuts, crunchy leaves and a bubbly sneeze, two skips over acid puddles and three hits over winter snuggles. those windows aren't frosted, they're alive; your hot chocolate isn't dripping, it's escaping; this track ain't growing, it's evolved.
//electronica\\
Tamma's Music Box - Wasn't Born To Followa Byrds cover. the voice haunts my thoughts, and the layers of subtlety give me audiophile boners. everything about this track is perfect. please download and give it at least three spins, and get lost in the woods of this beautiful piece by a relatively unknown with a fancy looking website.
//folk\\
(photos via mental gymnastics)
if it's not enough
to return inside and expect nothing more
than the warmth of a mother's hug,
the gruff of a father's grin,
and the practiced gestures from friends old,
their eyes thicker but as welcoming as before,
to make you smile and thankful, still,
for twenty years luck and a few more
in the cards
(fingers crossed)
then i think it best
you settle for less.
- tgrs
We Can All Rest Easy//Chillout Show Playlist, 3
The Chillout Show w/The Great Red Shark: 28/10/09Massive Attack - Teardrop
Florence + The Machine - You Got The Love (Jamie of The xx Rework)
School of Seven Bells - Iamundernodisguise (alternate version)
Thievery Corporation - Lebanese Blonde
Joe Beats - Sleep or Bust
The Craters - Cool Enough For School
Tonnatill - Cultured
Mike Bones - What I Have Left (Alexis Taylor Verison)
White Hinterland - My Love (Justin Timberlake Cover)
Ruby Weapon - Daily Routine (Animal Collective Cover)
The Third Eye Foundation - La Dispute (Vs. Yann Tierson)
Patrick Watson - Sleeping Beauty
Amen Dunes - Patagonian Domes
Sareen - The Blanks Filled In (Demo 07-30-09)
Sam Amidon - Fall On My Knees
The Tallest Man On Earth - I Won't Be Found (Daytrotter Session)
Iron & Wine - Waitin' For A Superman
Cougar - Foil Epee Sabre
Sarah Jarosz - Song Up In Her Head
Chris Thomas King - Hard Time Killing Floor Blues
Beach House - Saltwater
The xx - Infinity
Memory Screen - Botone
Parotia Tree - Calvus Arcus
Aughra & Mosh Patrol - I'm Going To Sleep On It
Brian Eno - Deep Blue Day
Tamma's Music Box - The Endless Search
Cat Stevens - Father & Son
The Beatles - Tomorrow Never Knows
Belle and Sebastian - The State I Am In
Madeleine Peyroux - Dance Me to the End of Love
that's it for me on air until February. so, until then, keep checking out the songs I post up here if you're ever in need of a relaxing night in.
- tgrs
Blind Man's Colour - Jimmy Dove//new remix
i spent my Hallowe'en working on a remix for Blind Man's Colour's track, 'Jimmy Dove.'
here's the result:
Blind Man's Colour - Jimmy Dove (the great red shark remix) by The Great Red Shark
to check out more BMC material, go visit their blog and myspace.
- tgrs
Candy for The Deaf and Blind//and away away we flow
entirely your own, embodied and effervescent, a fiction of life present
Julianna Barwick - You Were Waiting (Daytrotter Session)Tallest Man On Earth - I Won't Be Found (Daytrotter Session)
big ups daytrotter. the lonesome sounds beautiful when accompanied by piano. if i were a hermit, i'd settle for the company of an instrument, but the spoiled ways of this ending decade leaves me demanding a recorder as well, because as good as solitude may ring in a cave or a cabin or a closet, i have developed a feverish propulsion to lay everything to tape, to relive a few moments later or to sink back into the trance inevitable when recording. daytrotter accomplishes just this: inviting a few into their studios and pressing the little red circle, until the chills are at peak and the hairs are stiff.
//vocal.folk\\
(via daytrotter)
Thom Yorke - Hearing Damagedthe song travels in a distance mirroring physical hearing loss. by the end the sounds are increasingly grainy, pulsating, and fractured. it's always hard labeling an artist with the tagline 'genius,' but it's getting increasingly hard to deny that the genius suit looks good on thom.
//electronica\\
Tamma's Music Box - Sounds of Symmetryso vibrant, these sounds of youth and dreams and majesty, harmonies fit for the weak and the strong and the dying or just born. hallowed in song, enriched with dripping reverb, and pleasure for any with the sense of imagination.
//acoustic.unsigned\\
Florence + The Machine - You Got The Love (The xx Remix)this song deserves to be stuck in your bed for as long as you can bring yourself to feel sinned and saintly, backing music for meeting a lover or detaching a friendship, for losing yourself at a party, for emerging from a rain-soaked street corner into a coffeshop and coming face to face with your dream-life, for breaking up with your resolution and taking that puff, for spilling a drink into the ocean after plunging feet first, for brushing aside her hair and kissing her hips, for running your hands across his shoulders and clenching his back, for keeping those headphones fastened, for pressing your suit just to wear it while smoking a cigarette outside.
//dubstep.pop\\
(via curbcrawlers)
d z z b
if you want some budstep (did i say dubstep),
Bass Lift by The Snare Bear
- tgrs
relax and think easy//Chillout Show Playlist, 2
The Chillout Show w/The Great Red Shark: 21/10/09thanks to anyone who listened. next week again, wednesday, 10pm UK/5pm US East at www.standrewsradio.com
- tgrs
free music//Circus Love EP
Circus Love EP1. Circus Love (cassette version)
2. Circus Love (Snare Bear's Quit Clownin' Around Remix)
3. Circus Love (Jason Hunter Remix)
4. Devils Eyes (Toy's rework)
5. Handful of Dust
Artwork by Il'ya Sokolovskiy.
Check out more music from the Snare Bear.
Check out more music from Jason Hunter.
Thank you
- tgrs
mad mad feet//Blue Skies Are Always Fine
no words --
Volcano Choir - Still
//alternative.downtempo\\
Karen O and the Kids - Cliffs
//acoustic.dreamy\\
Zero 7 - Ghost sYMbOL
//electronica.deep.lounge\\
Burial - Fostercare
//atmospheric.dubstep\\
Venetian Snares - Poor Kakarookee
//IDM\\
- tgrs + pdhw
Volcano Choir - Still//alternative.downtempo\\
Karen O and the Kids - Cliffs//acoustic.dreamy\\
Zero 7 - Ghost sYMbOL//electronica.deep.lounge\\
Burial - Fostercare//atmospheric.dubstep\\
Venetian Snares - Poor Kakarookee//IDM\\
- tgrs + pdhw
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