While checking out HypeMachine to see if there were any new Deadmau5 mashups, I noticed a new feature, which is a local concert feature. I went and bought 2 tickets immediately, especially since the first 100 folks to get tickets get a discount. the show is taking place on Wednesday, October 28, 2009 at 8:00 pm. and though I normally don’t like seeing events at the Roseland Theater, especially dance music acts (the Crystal Method show I recently went to was lame), I doubt Deadmau5 will be coming through town any time again.
Awesome Deadmau5 mashups:
My Favorite Deadmau5 Originals:
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Collaborations with fellow canuck MelleeFresh (aka MELLENY MELODY):
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I know, as a Portland based blog we should really be promoting the PDX-POP NOW festival going on this weekend at Rotture, but I just can’t deny the superiority of Seattle’s Capitol Hill Block Party. Not only does it contain some of Portland’s biggest bands (The Thermals, The Gossip), but even those artists making big waves elsewhere! For instance, the headliners consist of The Jesus Lizard, Sonic Youth, Mika Miko and The Noisettes; and although big ones, these bands hardly cast a shadow on the rest of the line-up. Girls, Past Lives, Flexions, Deerhunter, Earth and Awesome Color make up only another fraction of the party. So consider spending the early part of the weekend in Seattle. Hell, you can still make it back for PDX-Pop’s final day Sunday which brings the likes of Grouper, Menomena and Guidance Counselor.
Posted By David Hutchinson
It hasn’t been long since Cryptacize played Portland last, but they’re back again this Wednesday at Artistery on another amazing bill. Last time we saw them opening for Ariel Pink as sort of the first show of an impromptu tour. Their show this Wednesday should be a bit more prepared, allowing them some more time to just relax and enjoy Portland.
Speaking of enjoying Portland, we had the opportunity to hear from each of the members of Cryptacize regarding their favorite Portland memories. Check out what they had to say after the jump, and don’t miss their set with Casiotone For The Painfully Alone this Wednesday at Artistery.
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Posted By David Hutchinson
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I have not done a very good job of keeping the blog updated with my ongoing travel around the world with my girlfriend. This is mainly due to traveling around the world being a hectic, confusing and often difficult goal, the intensity magnified by the more you try to travel cheaply.
With the dollar still being slaughtered by the Euro and trying to travel for six months continuously we are traveling verycheaply and have come to rely on large bottles of wine, couch surfing, buying baguette and meat from the grocery store and other more utilitarian methods then first thought.
Barcelona and Sonar music festival are impossible to describe in one go, I do not have the space or legal ability to fully tell you all that happened among the 90,000 hardened party goers. Let us just say that Barcelona and Spain in general is a very relaxed, pleasant place to enjoy music and the highlights were the Crookers dropping noisy transitions to a screaming crowdsurfing, very young crowd, Brodinski bringing in the new day as a soft gray rain began to fall at seven AM and Deadmau5 doing one of the most impressive big room DJ sets I have ever seen. Moderat was also a standout for pure technical mastery, one of the most cheered and moving electronic performances I have ever seen.
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Seriously, if you live in Portland, or even the west coast and are part of the the EDM scene and haven’t heard of the Glitch Mob yet, you are not going out enough. and you can get the opportunity to catch the Glitch Mob live @ Rotture July 27th. But the vegan of the crew, Kraddy, won’t be there, cuz according to one source, he’s evidently wants to go in a “different creative direction” using more “live instruments along with the electronics” which makes perfect sense since he knows guitar, bass, drums while mastering his piano technique. so it’s real nice for him to come directly to Portland. I guarantee, the show will be off the hook, considering that it also serves as the after party for Dead Prez, which it is rumored may actually perform as well.
I have major props for this man since he offers free REMIX KITS on his website so you can take his tracks and tweak them to your delight.
Though I don’t think that it actually gets the reader any clue to what is music sounds like, I thought the bio on his webpage was so intriguing I’ve pulled the selection for those that like flowery flourishy poetic verse.
“Kraddy’s music implicates cybernetic breaks with asymmetrical dub delays and hip hop grooves with dark ethereal melodies. At times his music is technical and frenetic and calls to mind images of genetically mutated earthworms, poping and locking deep underground to sub atomic frequencies, causing minute shifts in the structure and alignment of the tectonic plates, that over millennia will alter the magnetic core of the planet and thus change its frequency field steering its evolution towards greater harmony and a more peaceful form.”
Or you can just listen to it below.
Here’s my favorite remix selections off his his second album, “The Illegal Album” on his own label Refiner Records.
And then of course, there’s this track, which seemed to be the Burning Man anthem 0f 2006:
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- Bassnectar & Kraddy – Snakecharmer
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Portland folks may remember DJ Kue from when we brought him to town last fall. This mixtape shit is so goddamn hyped up electroCrunk, full of amazing RapClash splendor, blast it right away.
http://www.zshare.net/audio/59976128ac7aa42f/
or direct download: its electric mixtape – Dj Kue.mp3
Tracklisting hopefully coming soon. Update from Kue:
“as far as the track listing goes I don’t have one it was saved as a crate in serato but I dumped it already”
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