This dude is relatively prolific and pretty damn reliable, I actually like this one more than I did the last LP...I prefer when he's not singing on the tracks, cuz then it's kinda like second-rate PandaBear but the girls on this are good, and the beats seem to be a little dancier good ish all-around.
Chur boiz here at Rise of the Visigoths be doing some thangs; excuse our relative absence. We've been plotting a group art event under the wing of our friends, The Holland Project, the noble art and music organization here in Reno, Nevada.
Poet Joanne de Longchamps once compared the air and light of the Aegean Sea to Nevada’s ancient Pyramid Lake. Recognizing and exalting the geography of mythology, she was able to allow the wellspring of Western thought to seep through into her art and psyche that was firmly seated in the desert. Here on the crux of a disenchanting American dream, and unbound universal potential, Austin Pratt, Jaron Coxson, and Jake Graves seek to propagate a comprehensive mythology and aesthetic for swift modern currents. Inspired by the desert geography and history, religious icons, empirical astrology, and cultural relics, we have assembled paintings and other visual expressions of magic to create an environment that will both honor novelty and exuberance and lament the rusted antecedent myths.
Here some info they've released about us.. Jaron Coxson, Jake Graves and Austin Pratt have pulled from worldwide folklore, contemporary commentary, conspiracy theory and pop culture to develop their aesthetics and attitude towards art-making. The work they have made and collected represents their directed efforts towards their own representations of our present, pressing up against the unknown future, while referencing a mythologized past.
Each artist has contributed recent works, including but not limited to: paintings, sculptures, found objects, collages, photographic prints, and other curiosities.
A new form of human being announces itself: dynamic, creative, multidimensional, protean, unfinished, self-defining and self-creating, infinitely aspiring, set apart from the whole, overseeing the rest of the world with unique sovereignty, centrally poised in the last moments of the old cosmology to bring forth and enter into the new. -from Tarnas' Cosmos and Psyche on twenty-three year old Pico della Mirandola's 1486 Oration on the Dignity of Man
"Neither a fixed abode nor a form that is thine alone nor any function peculiar to thyself have we given thee, Adam, to the end that according to thy longing and according to thy judgment thou mayest have and possess what abode, what form, and what functions thou thyself shalt desire. The nature of all other beings is limited and constrained within the bounds of laws prescribed by Us. Thou, constrained by no limits, in accordance with thine own free will, in whose hand We have placed thee, shalt ordain for thyself the limits of thy nature. We have set thee at the world's center that thou mayest from thence more easily observe whatever is in the world. We have made thee neither of heaven nor of earth, neither mortal nor immortal, so that with freedom of choice and with honor, as though the maker and molder of thyself, thou mayest fashion thyself in whatever shape thou shalt prefer." Here's Korine's preferred shape at the same age: yesterday was jodie foster and larry king's birthday too, here they are:
Cupla posts back Austinian mentioned Die Antwoord Harmony Korine and Lil Boosie in the same sentence. Im gonna chalk that down as one of my November highlights. Anyways got me to thinkin about the Boos, I honestly wastn't sure if he was ever going to get any real attention thrown at him, because those in the know can clearly see that the dude has bona fide skills. Any youtube comment list you read will have some talk about him being the next Pac. Hmmmm that whole conversation is kinda, "eh" but it got me thinking, first I had to construct a "2Pac" in my head and distill his importance cross-referenced and translated into a form(a sort of mental rubrick if you will) that I could compare Lil Boosie too. Once I did that, I found that indeed Lil Boosie fulfilled my arbitrary and completely baseless expectations of 2Pac. But unfortunately the type of people who are good at identifying Lil Boosie's greatness are not usually given much clout in any form, maybe least of all in the music-journalists world. But we shall see we shall see.
But then there is the other impending and faaaar more bleak reality that he is currently facing 6 muder 1 charges and could very well be the first Rapper to be executed. When keeping it real goes wrong? Or should we entertain the idea that the powers to be might not like a Boosie type popular in the world. Well, of course the powers to be don't like the idea of Lil Boosie, but to the extent that they would orchestrate some way of blacklisting him like this....that's hard to imagine.
Now I fully realize that there is some (probably large) percentage of the Boosie character that is completely made-up. But it certainly was not made in a vacuum. Just as Captain America didn't ever decapitate a red skulled Nazi-type, but it is definitely coming from somewhere, so too does some element of Lil Boosie really exist in our world. But are people really listening to what he has to say? and thinking about what it all means? probably not, but just do a comparison between the homespun wisdom of rappers like Rakim and Big Daddy Kane, and then think about the life-philosphy of the new-school, it's not that the new school is dumber or meaner per se. It's just that the situation they are reflecting is probably far grimmer.
But honestly put yourselves in the position of an old-timey white sheriff or D.A. in some shit parrish in the south, over your life-time you too have seen the degradation of your way of life and your base of power, and out of the woodwork comes these twacked out, bug-eyed, homocidal maniacs flashing guns and money and throwing a middle finger to your whole world. Speaking for myself it would be coonin' time for sure.
But what do you do? Sit on the side and try and wipe yourself clean from the mess and throw admonishments and call it macaroni? or do you say fuck it and get knee deep in the muck and bask in the evil surrounding you? I'm not too sure, on the whole I don't think the kind of shit these guys are saying is really constructive or beneficial long-term. But I can't deny that I like it, and indeed love all the robbin' mobbin' shootin' and lootin'. I feel like I can separate good fantasy from the reality we live in and extract what should be extracted and leave the rest, but I don't really trust the next man to be able to do the same....hmmm problems without answers
Started a YouTube channel for the blog. A more wholesome experience. Here are two videos that are better online somehow than in a file somewhere on the desktop. From The Holland Project's "Under 3 minute Film Showcase" 2010 and 2009
Word has it that with super high bit-rates this video appears to be more than it is...I haven't actually been able to watch it yet, and certainly not download and watch it proper, high and defined, but yeah check this shit out. No lie I've listened to this song more than any other in the last couple of months(beating out Joanna Newsom, Big Boi, Isobel Campbell...that is one large feat). While static is an interesting medium, they really need to get someone with a Carpenter/Kubrick aesthetic up on their videos and start churnin' out the new DARK...you can pick up a super Fidelic version of the video somewhere on this website but not entirely sure how...how helpful
this and C&C Music Factory's everybody dance now were the first tapes I got, tape singles mind you, it was a while later till I actually got full albums. Turtle Tape's, I loved the sign and thought it was the coolest place on earth....why in the hell do I remember that?
Before the internet if your parents didn't know the answer, then there was no way to know something. Case in point, my mom had no idea who Leaders Of The New School were so it didn't matter how many times I tried to get more info on them, I couldn't, at the end of the day my mom was my only source of information, and the slight trickle I would get from MTV, but that mostly just frustrated me because I would see something hecka tight but have no way to follow up on it at all, it would appear out of nowhere with no context and disappear just the same. It's funny that Busta Rhymes was in Leaders Of The New School, I had no idea until many years later, I couldn't youtube the above mentioned video, and by the time Gimme Some More was out, Leaders of The New School might as well have never existed....they surely weren't getting played in between Usher and En Vogue.
ha! I can't wait until twenty years from now when I can REALLY start laying on the "when I was your age-isms", something like, "when I was your age, we had to wear clothes and spend our whole day in stuffy rooms with artificial light, sitting in funny chairs staring screens that lied to us all day, and the lies on the screen tried to take advantage of you and make you buy other screens and clothes and get you to sit in other stuffy rooms with funny chairs and artificial light...." yeah something like that would be a pretty cool thing to be able to say.
hey but as long as we're not saying shit like this anymore I'd be good
CANNOT get enough of this shit. I don't have words to extrapolate...sorry.
as long as marginalized people like the Shangaan of Limpopo have a vehicle to share their souls with the rest of the planet, the internet will get a pass in my book. If you can buy this album I would highly suggest it, these guys are from South Africa...which you know has a whole can of problems-poverty being right there on the top of the list
It seems every coupla months I will find out about some new crazy-ass region specific dance that is just coming out and every time I get my head blown off. You can tell waaay more about a group of people by what they create rather than what a Rand McNally picture atlas could tell you. The newest dance music craze sweeping the internet is from South Africa, it sounds like the soundtrack to the cheaper N64 games like Bust-A-Move or Diddy Kong racing....but sped up to impossible speeds with super mechanical yet polyrythmic drums and a notable lack of low-end. But the way these girls are dancing to it is what gets me, crazy crazy hypnotic....there is no reason to try and describe just let it explain itself. All-in-all it reminds me of something you'd see on Sesame Street or Gullah Gullah Island, it's a feel good vibe and a reminder that Americans are way to stiff and neurotic to have a pure good time compared to some others in the world.
If you don't have any patience for the music the dancing starts a minute in....
This last song I actually kind of dig, but you might want to take that with a grain of salt because I've been lately feeling like C+C Music Factory is one of the best bands of the 90's, and I always have room in my heart for a saccharine sweet ode to love.
jupiter conjunct neptune - feb 2009-march 2010 this means were at the end and at the most manifested time, or "sunset effect"..
..fertile imagination with outlets in art, music, philosophy, and religion. extreme sensitivity where emotional or psychic proclivities are concerned. flights of religious ecstasy and mystical absorptions into the astral realms are characteristic, often giving rise to involvement in mystical cults and psychic forms of religion...extreme idealism. ..may lose contact with reality and live in a world of private fantasy, well-meaning, but often promise more than they can deliver..
Sure it's February, but Ive blown classes all morning so why not a recap on 2009? Best-of lists are impossible for me, I can barely remember what came out last year, plus I usually give shit a year or two of "maturing" time till I give it a proper listen...so this is in no way definitive, only indicative of this particular day.
Tame One-Acid Tab Vocab This was probably my favorite thing released this year. At first his flow got on my nerves, but after a minute it all makes sense, and you realize he's just a mush-brained genius. But the absolute deal sealer on this one is the BEATS whoa doggy! Where in the hell did these come from? Highlight tracks-Molly, Ooops, and Suede Adidas. Still haven't picked up the Tame/Del release from last year, but if it's half as good as their collaboration on this, then it's gonna be a doozy.Get Wet
El Perro Del Mar-S/T Every once and a while Starbucks will turn me on to a band that ends up being one of my favorites at the time. El Perro Del Mar was that band last year. We play that song "Coming Down The Hill" and I would always wonder to myself who the hell it was. After a couple of weeks I checked her out. She has a new ep out, and an album after this one, but for me this album just straight does it. One of the best breakup albums ever. Her voice is super haunting and full of emotion. She is what I hoped Bat For Lashes would sound like.
Vivian Girls-Everything Goes Wrong What's worse than when an undeserving band get's over-hyped? When a fully deserving band gets slighted for not meeting an impossible mark. Case in point: The Vivian Girls. In 2008 they couldn't be touched, people treated them like The Father, Son, and Holy Ghost were chicks. But when they dropped this album everyone was like, "eh, it's good" it's nothing mind blowing. Well they were never mind blowing to begin with. They are a minimalist outfit who deliver a very specific product. And they delivered the goods goddamn it! Everyone digs how Ramones albums all have a different angle. That's what sets "albums" apart from "a good collection of songs". Albums in some way have a cohesiveness, and they created a singular album, while maintaining their identity.....and besides it fucking rocks!Everything Goes Wrong
Prefuse 73-Everything She Touched Turned Ampexian Guilermo Scott-Herren is one of my picks for musician of the decade(Im not the only one who thinks so). More so than any other artist I think he represents what music should sound like in the future. That's why it took me a minute to get on the Flying Loutus train. Prefuse has been doing him better than himself for waaaay longer. This isn't my favorite Prefuse record, that would be Sercuirity Screenings. But it is pretty damn far up there on the list. Any of his albums are perfect starting off points, but I might even say this would be the best to start out with just because all of his styles are on display here, fully realized. Although it would have been nice to have a collaboration like the one with Kazu from Blonde Redhead, or his work with School of Seven Bells. But I'll live. Touch Midas
Broadcast & The Focus Group-Investigates Witchcults of the Radio Age When I first heard the title to the new Broadcast record I thought to myself, "these dudes must be taking the same shit i'm taking....Ive been meaning to investigate witch cults for a minute now....maybe this cd will help." I don't have any pertinent information to share on the subject, but I will say that this album is the shit. I love to watch bands grow and become whole other beasts than they were before. Broadcast had retro-hip, synth-pop, electro-joy, whatever-hyphen down on lock. And then they say to themselves, "let's totally alienate all our too cool for schooler's and drop some occult drenched seance shit. with totally relevant allusions to the current state of Consciousness expansion." Effectual music for the Unaffected.Wee G'z Bored
Herbie Hancock-Maiden Voyage Maiden Voyage was probably the first jazz song I could pick out and distinguish from the rest. And over the years this album just doesn't lose any punch, you've got some of the most important jazz musicians ever laying it down for Blue Note, with that signature Blue Note sound. Surely music to quell the tempest.
Band of the Year Best Coast!!!!!! Lazy westcoast potheads. Yup, sums it up right there. Simply put, the absolute crystallization of the coolest chick ever, and the coolest band. So good I went back and gave Pocahaunted another try. So good, im going to see them twice next week.....once at a Creperie(is it a word? a place to get crepes). All year they would just hit you with a tape here, seven inch there. Made the year fulfilling. A lil' taste ThereSpace
Favorite Movie of the Year
I can't really think of a movie that has impacted me this hard. It just tore my head off as far as making a movie that could stand up next to Rembrandt's as far as artistic weight. I don't know the words to describe this movie....maybe they are in French, anyways this is the only movie that even crosses my mind anymore. Well this and Gummo, but that's a given.
Favorite Weed Strain of the Year This ones hard cuz I didn't really pay too much attention, plus if it's really good then you definitely can't remember. I think we smoked a lot of Trainwreck? But who really knows? It's still a purdy picture.
ps-I pilfered all of the links used above.....SQUATTER'S RIGHTS!
