The Audiozine

Zirafa Presents Tunnel Vision, his first ever mix, produced on behalf of I Paint My Mind.

Zirafa
Orange Drink
Nullsleep

live clips from soapbox.

Also wrapping my head around the new Panda Bear. Human voice as church organ.

Back in the day, Zirafa used to play drums in a band called Animate Objects who are now a reasonably big prospect in Chicagoland. These days, Zirafa's got other things on the brain -- Soapbox, jams from the past/future, and so on -- but you should peep the remix he just did of "Jesse Jackson" by Animate Objects. Swate.

SHOUTS (!!!!!!!):

1) scroll down to the bottom of this page and peep double-A presenting a project called "Beatscape" by some of the grad students in the Georgia Tech Music Technology program. Pretty awesome, it reminds me of personal favs like Autechre and Death Comet Crew, maybe even this one Art of Noise jam I heard way back in the day in a Virginia public library.

2) Soapbox gets some press for Chicago Equinix.

3) Props to Asif and the gang at 2 Player Productions, working hard as usual, and getting some recognition in Electronic Gaming Monthly.

You and you and you should know that over the last few months, Zirafa and his compatriots in the Chi have started Soapbox, "an arts incubator for independent musicians in Chicago". From late September through a good bit of October, they'll be hosting an installation by Eric Laska, who is a NYC-based sound/digital media artist (and all around nice guy). The short story: Eric will be taking the 60 Hz ground hum, that anybody who's ever set up a stereo or plugged in an amp will recognize as a familiar "unwanted" sound, and beam it 792 miles from NYC to Chicago remotely, filtering/EQing/tweaking it along the way until it goes from "noise" to something bigger, warmer, more enveloping. More info here. Not able to go myself, but all Chicago folk should definitely try to hit it up while it lasts. The idea itself reminds me in some ways of a homespun version of LaMonte Young's "Dream House" installation.

Work N Progress. Yum.

Farsheed has an excellent post on Midnight Parking about Bandcamp's recent decision to take a 15% cut from music sales through their website.

How did I not get the inside scoop on this one yet?

The move to NYC is imminent, I'll be up there by this Tuesday. New chapter and all that; I'm excited.

In the meantime, just noticed a theta blast from the past on the internets. Enjoy!

Still traveling around on the interview trail, living out of a suitcase, rarely in a city for longer than 3 days at a time. However, been in Boston for a few (cold) days already and will be here until the middle of next week. Hence, actually have a little time to occasionally read the news and even post up here. Which brings me to the following:

1) Dave (shoutout to Olde English) has put up a really thoughtful, expansive year-end list at his music blog, Migrating Taste. Not only does he listen to a ton of music, but Dave also has a really reliable ear. And you can download samples of his huge range of rock, hip-hop, jazz, R&B, electronic, etc. via the same post.

2) Zirafa's got a new Jazzanova remix up at Midnight Parking. Head over there for the new remix and to snag his earlier Public Enemy remix as well.