Archive for May, 2009

FloatingPoints Growing Through Music

May 28th, 2009 by

[vimeo]http://www.vimeo.com/2631992[/vimeo] Sam Shepard, aka Floatingpoints (piano player, musician, producer, and DJ) has been making music since his early teenage years, and is now beginning to taste fame as Floatingpoints grows in popularity on the international music scene. One of his inspirations for music is the creative jazz musician Sun Ra, for whom he wrote the track [...]

体会怎么演奏得动听

May 23rd, 2009 by

我喜爱。凡是能从目前作音乐的那些有利可图的垃圾中救出我来的事都算稀有和美好。来自北京的欲望之箭(Arrows Made of Desire)成为了在中国正在创立一种新颖的音乐的乐队之一。

Learning How To Play Nice

May 23rd, 2009 by

Arrows Made of Desire is releasing their new album this next days, on May 29th. Layabozi got a preview of it, and a great interview with Joewi Verhoeven leader, singer and songwriter of AMoD. Read here about their music, the new album Songs that Sell Out, and listen in advance to two of their new songs.

Shanghai Music Chronicles: When Music is Rocking in Shanghai.

May 22nd, 2009 by

Last week our editor’s picks were in tune with my mood for music, and I followed the instructions provided by Mike “Big Duck” Brownell almost to the letter.

Free your Mind and your Ass will Follow

May 21st, 2009 by

We have been saying for some weeks now that the music scene in Shanghai is pretty hectic! Because we are only ducks and not octopuses, we occasionally have to ask for help, and Leo from Free the Wax has lent us some of his free time with this one. Free the Robots will play this Saturday at YuYinTang, and we wanted to tell you what kind of robots they are freeing, and about the music they will play for us; so we made an exception from our rules (sorry boss) and asked Leo to do the interview for us himself. And, yes, be careful, Free the Robots are freeing some wax on Saturday at YuYinTang. (!)

Get in the Van gets filmed

May 21st, 2009 by

Jay Caplan made a short film about last April’s Get in The Van for Spin Earth TV. The video includes some shots of The Rogue Transmission,  Boys Climbing Ropes, 24 Hours, and The Dropkicks. This is the first time we have embedded a video from Spin Earth, so in case it’s not working go to [...]

Ratatat Preview

May 17th, 2009 by

演奏合成器的Evan Mast和吉他家Mike Stroud，也被称为Ratatat，是具有一个灿烂的未来的经典作曲家。 他们收集并用了一序列旧和新的工具来创作一种应在头脑的深处里演奏的分层、数字化改变的杰作。从些长发的人采集并点燃了几条树枝以后,我们没看到过这么全新的事情。他们让我们明白只要把自己的匠心潜力增加到最大限度音乐就会得到的效果。
Synthesizer driver Evan Mast and guitarist Mike Stroud, otherwise known as Ratatat, are classical composers for a brilliant new future. They have collected and utilized an array of old- and new-fangled tools to create layered, digitally altered masterpieces to play in the deep recesses of mind space.

Download Coldplay’s New Live Album

May 16th, 2009 by

Coldplay are handing out free copies of a new live album, LeftRightLeftRightLeft, at upcoming shows in their Viva La Vida tour; and as of yesterday you can download it too.  Isn’t that nice?