C-Mon & Kypski – One Frame Of Fame (More Is Less)

Ever wanted to star in a music video? Here’s your chance!

Funky-ass band C-mon & Kypski came up with the brilliant idea to let fans mimic the moves made in the video. By using your own web-cam you can join the fun and be a star in the video for their very catchy track; “More Is Less”. When you go to the website oneframeoffame.com and hit the “start webcam” button you’ll be presented with a frame from the video. After taking a snapshot of you reenacting the given frame you can immediately see the results in the video and hence you’ll have your “One Frame Of Fame”.

At the time of writing this blog-post about 7200 people have already posed for the video. Granted that some people might have taken more snapshots than one…

Here’s mine!

Though, you will have to have pretty sharp eyes to notice..

MIGA Netlabel

Thanks to @Offaudio, I found another net-label to pillage, loot and plunder for free CC 3.0 downloads!

Happy 5th anniversary MIGA! Like Offaudio this label is Spanish, features Minimal-Techno and all tracks are completely free and use the Creative Commons 3.0 license you let you mix, remix and distribute how you see fit. (As long as the CC license allows you to.) On first impression the label sounds good, and one thing that sets this label apart from many others is the usage of video-clips to give a little extra depth to the music and the label as a whole.

Since I will be in Tokyo for a few days, I don’t have the time right now to review the label in it’s entirety. But once I’m back I’ll download all, yes all, releases to tell you how I feel about them. Currently, the first three releases keep me happy enough to tell y’all about this label. And I suggest you take a look around their website: http://www.miga-label.org/

Here’s the first video MIGA released, “Nökeö & Decolora – Mañana en el parque”. Expect more in the upcoming review-post.

Trip Lava – Oddball in the corner pocket

Sometimes you meet people on Myspace. Nothing special. But sometimes someone adds you (or you add someone) that really has something to say, or in this case, something to play. Meet Trip Lava.

Oddball in the Corner Pocket; Psychedelic rock, or as the CD cover puts it: Experimental, improvised, instrumental rock, is not a music-genre you would usually expect on a blog like mine. But I take a lot of inspiration from different genre’s of music, especially indie rock music from Britain and the US. (I’m still thoroughly in love with 90’s grunge for example.) Once I started listening to the music I was hooked into the vibe. Listening to these tracks takes me back to The Chemical Brothers and James Holden’s Border Community. The former doesn’t need explaining, but for the latter it’s the somewhat esoteric switches, glitches and samples used in the tracks. Think about the wailing guitar (-like) sound in Nathan Fake’s “The Sky was Pink” and you are one step closer to digging the sound of Trip Lava.

After 44 minutes I was disappointed that the CD was over.. Which is, of course, a compliment as it makes you wanna hit play again. Lovers of experimental music should definitely check this out, and lovers of other genre’s could take inspiration or maybe even samples from works like these. (But don’t forget to clear samples before use!) An all round cool CD.

Trip Lava was so nice to send me his CD so I could listen & review it. Add him on Myspace and tell him how you feel about his tracks. Your thoughts are appreciated, so don’t be shy!

20 years of Warp Records

Congratulations Warp Records. Twenty years of unique, bizarre, extreme, freaky, cutting-edge… Never mind, this list could go on and on, I love Warp Records!

It’s called Warp20 and I’ve got two words for it:

1. DO
2. WANT

More over at Warp