Merry Christmas!!!

Well, here it is.

The fourth installment!
Christmasasaurus Volume 4

SANTA CLAUS AND HIS ELVES PRESENT:




click on cover to download!



It took a ton of work to get it organized this year... more so than any year prior.
Dingle has been very busy, so I didn't have my usual extra help to get people to contribute.
A Beautiful Lotus asked a bunch of people though and is using his net-label to release it.
Also, special shout-out to Mike of Kamakaze Kitten, who contributed a lot more than I expected.
Also a shout out to Dylan Sparrow of Giggle The Ozone. who did that fantastic looking art.


All of the hard work all of the artists and myself put into this installment really paid off, and I would consider this the best one so far.
If the current trend of annual compilation quality improvement continues, we should be the best compilation of all time by 2020.
Songs cover mysterious IDM, wacky digigrind, happy folk, dark ambient, lo-fi shoegaze, psych, performance art punk, lo-fi hip-hop/punk, depressing fingerstyle banjo, rave, plunderphonics, musical noise, blown-out grooves, frantic electronic pop, dub, chiptune, and who knows what else.

Christmasasaurus Vol. 4: Final Day

Today is the last day I'm accepting the tracks for the compilation and I have to say... even if no one else I asked contributes, this will be a good year.
This is a picture of the tracks I have so far (pre-track ordering):


Clearly, a good spread!

Picking a favorite is actually very very difficult this year.
I'll admit, that in past years I've often found myself pointing to a song or three and being very confident that they were the best ones, the other songs ranging from "very good" to "completely disregarded the concept of the compilation."

Photos: Life of m@ the c@

I have nothing I feel like saying right now, so here are some random photos.
Some are music oriented, some are not.
Let's start with a new picture from the Gulu Gulu Cafe in Massachusetts (probably during a noise portion of my set.)
There are a lot more, and I don't think this was even taken by one of the 'official' photographers for the evening:

Upcoming release updates

Okay, not as fun as I was anticipating... but I hadn't slept in a while so everything sounded fun.

Still waiting on pictures, video, and audio from the past three shows.
There are two videos on youtube from that miserable show with TRUE PUNK ROCK LEGENDS Bowling For Soup.
One was posted by a fan, one was posted by a dissenter.
I won't link them here because I don't really want to go fetch them... I hate watching myself, and youtube comments make me very uncomfortable... positive or negative, intelligent or completely moronic.... ha... intelligent youtube comments... right...

There were also three videos from Virginia posted... ANOTHER miserable show.
There were noise complaints during the Yatagarasu set, so I was forced to turn down from the start.
By the end of the set it was basically whisper quiet.
They also posted a video from the after-party of Chris and I playing Taiko No Tatsujin on some special machine that there is only one of in the country.
The audio is awful though because the ultra loud DDR playing overpowers the Taiko game.


Anyway... so let's get to the point of the update.
Release for the near and semi-near future!

Geared Up To Get Down

I was going to do a post about Micro-Mini Tour #1, complete with pictures and even videos or audio... but I don't have any of that just yet... so let's do another picture-less entry...


Over the years I've gotten many a strange question, and many questions that I've answered dozens and dozens of times.
One question that's come up a number of times is not as simple to answer:
"WUTS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN UR PROJECTS ANYWAY"

Or the more eloquent and profound version:
"Why do you impose restrictions upon your artistic self with multiple projects with a set boundary? Isn't your purpose as an artist to express yourself unfettered to set rules?"


The answer is long and drawn out, but I'm going to do my best to finally explain myself accurately on a project by project basis....

Christmasasaurus Vol. 4: artist list continued

I got more of the artist names Phil asked:

I Killed Techno! (digigrind-esque electronic punk)
IAYD (exciting, thumping chip-tune)
The Tliexau Music Machine (I actually haven't yet heard his non-Christmas music!)
They All Had Tentacles (in-your-face digigrind that is often mathy. He's from my home state!)
Melted Cassettes (have not heard yet!)
Ghouliez (same as above!)
Jay Randall of Agoraphobic Nosebleed (I think that one is self explanatory)

I also got Zathura to join in on the Christmas fun.
They're a manic bit-pop duo from Canada.



BgO Micro-Mini Tour #1 starts tomorrow!
Goodnight!!

Christmasasaurus Vol. 4

A lot of people have asked in the months leading up to everyone's favorite, annual, (mostly) electronic Christmas music compilation whether or not it would be happening again.

So, as I've announced somewhat surreptitiously, it is indeed going to happen once again.
So far the following artists have confirmed:

Xrin Arms (badass, extreme grind/punk/breakcore cut-ups)
Yatagarasu (freaked out chip-skram)
Baaddd (ultra-weird, huggable, minimalist, electronic parties)
Kindergarten Hazing Ritual (probably the finest "cybergrind" band around)
Lissajou (loopy 8-bit techno joy)
The Toilet (completely brilliant plunderphonics with extreme vocals)
Mickey Roberts (lovable outsider noise and strangeness)
Magicool Beauty Fool (wacky pop-sploitation)
The Three Brained Robot (performance art you can sing to!)
OxygenStar (traditional chiptune turned FM jams with ultra tough drums)
Giggle The Ozone. (avant-surf-prog-punk-rock)
Charlie Boy (synth pop turned digigrind turned new wave turned darkwave turned....)
Josef Motley (abstract hip-hop connoisseur)
White Guys Jumping (one man folk band)
Kamakaze Kitten (cute electronics and breakcore)
Scissor Shock (the king of unclassifiable)
Sakura Pups (digigrind from the days of yore)
Watabou (melodic, video game influence electronics)
Colors Killing Numbers (digigrind influenced digital weirdness)
Active Knowledge (catchy chiptunes and acid-trip karaoke)

Of course, don't forget the people presenting it:

Peppermint Pony (minimalist chipglitch)
A Beautiful Lotus (one of the pioneers of MIDI based digigrind)
Bubblegum Octopus (a sexy man)

There are some other tentative people involved, and I left it up to ABL to ask people on his label/people he knows and likes/whoever else, as well as up to PMP (this was originally our idea after all)... but those are the people that have told me personally that they are on board.
No guarantee they'll all follow through, but hey... that's how it is!



That's all for my update. I need to figure out if there is an "LJ-cut" equivalent for blogspot....

Micro-Mini-Tour to Massachusetts starts Thursday.
Come out and see me!!