Mon. 9/15/08 9:33pm
From: CJ

This is the best radio I’ve ever heard in my life.

three hours of rock band 2, live to air on wfmu in new york city, courtesy of trent and friends on sound and safe.

mp3 stream. trent’s rendition of pearl jam’s “alive” at approx 60:00 is a highlight.

i got to say, love shack is the most played-out of played-out tunes. but i couldn’t help but fall in love with it all over again when i got distracted with some pitch-shifting while putting together my bro’s playlist. simple pleasures, folks, simple pleasures. here’s what i’m talking about:

its not quite a screw, but you know. i’ve always had a sneaking suspicion love shack was meant to be sung by an all male choir, and this is a step closer. for some reason i can’t get this guy out of my head when i listen to it, brian, hank kingsley’s assistant:

wonder why that is.

MP3: B-52s – Love Shack Screw

but here’s a real screw, and a real heavy-hitter. this is bona fide, knock-it-out-of-the-park amazing type shit! god bless dutty artz for posting this earlier in the year. i’ll admit to having a serious soft spot for alicia keys, but this takes this song to a whole other planet. this is the kind of song that can keep me going when things get tough, know what i mean? this is something i can get behind. i feel better every single damned time i listen to this. i’m posting it here because you can no longer get it from dutty artz.

MP3: Alicia Keys – No One (Mike Watts screw)

screwing is about slowing songs down, but i can’t bear to hear any more of love shack than absolutely necessary so, yeah, original tempo. in fact, recently i’m all about shortening songs. like, for example, did you know that “horses” by daryl braithwaite is waaay more palatable when condensed down to 1 minute and 9 seconds?

MP3: Daryl Braithwaite – Horses (Time Poor edit)

MP3: Hall & Oates – Maneater (Time Poor edit)

this all reminds me of the time i condensed my 60 minute JJJ mix up set down to 7 minutes. imagine if itunes or winamp or whatever just had a button you could press that says “condense music” and it just compacted what you were listening to into a fraction of its running time. we’d get so much more done.

and lastly, i found this great 7 minute megamix of “i wanna dance with somebody.” in fact, on a p2p network that shall remain nameless, i found no less than TEN remixes of this track, all neatly packaged together by some dude. its 70 minutes of i wanna dance with somebody. most of it sounds way to queer eye soundtrack for my liking – this is the pick of the bunch. no trickery here, just seriously intense 80s pop remixing. the best bit is about 5 minutes in, where it just becomes this intense drum machine workout and some dude yelling at me over and over “dance, dance, d-d-d-dance”

MP3: Whitney Houston – I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Hot Tracks mix)

i’m seriously RIAA-baiting with this post. methinks i’m about to trigger a wide variety of alerts on RIAA automated blog piracy detection bot programs. note to tim’s ISP: prepare to receive correspondence! shit i’ve even said RIAA a couple of times in this paragraph so no doubt they’ll be checking me out.

simple pleasures.

what can i say, chris willits‘ little guitar/ableton lesson inspired me, i now have a guitar midi synth thing coming to me (in parts, from hawaii and japan) thanks to ebay. all this purchasing feels so right given that its my birthday in a couple of weeks.

here’s what my guitar sounds like:

here’s what it sounds like, in context:

and here’s me, as chris willits, playing my shiny new guitar:

slash shreds

santana shreds

eddie van halen shreds

how does he describe himself on myspace?

Sounds Like: Lightning Bolt & chiptunes :p

duracell plays bubble bobble live in san guistino, italy:

duracell plays space harrier and turrican:

bbc collective interview with duracell:

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bigger font. why? i’m going blind. and i’m bored.

gene krupa & buddy rich drum battle. 1966. two masters. did you know that peter sellers studied as a drummer under krupa? rad.

rahsaan roland kirk’s ‘pedal up.’ 1975. dear quincy jones introduces rahsaan as “the black master of black classical music” and its only then that you get a peek at an absolutely smoking jazz sax ninja… the dude plays two saxes at once! are they both saxes? one’s a soprano sax, right? anyway you got to wait for it, it gets completely absurd at about 5 minutes in, when one of the saxes threatens to pack it in and briefly ends up sounding eerily similar to a balloon having the air let out of it. this is crazy stuff.

play them all at once for maximum love. honestly, try it. you’ll thank me.

this means that at random points throughout the day you’ll be hearing my song “changes” on the triple j airwaves, and you’ll also be hearing short intros from me discussing my music and myself.

here’s a tasty excerpt – listen to me candidly discussing my mixed feelings about being selected as part of triple j’s next chops:

MP3: Faux Pas Next Chops interview

hear more at the faux pas next chops profile page.