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New Bobby Birdman single, from the upcoming album New Moods! (photo by Sarah Meadows) Check it:

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Friday, Sept. 25
Supernature #18 featuring:
Panther
White Rainbow
DJ E*Rock, DJ Copy, DJ BJ
Don’t call it a come back… call it a precum! Panther performs an old school solo set for Supernature as a record release party for the Sacred Yawns CD: Free to the first 150 people that cum to the show! A CD of 12 Remixes and unreleased tracks (remixes by Jeffrey Jerusalem, Copy, E*Rock, Lips & Ribs, and even a cover by Guidance Counselor!) as meta gear up or the new Panther 12″ coming on Kill Rock Stars. And if that wasn’t enough White Rainbow is doing a special percussive hyphy-house party set! DAMN! Resident DJs E*Rock, Copy and DJ BJ keep the night pumpin, taking turns on the decks as well. $5! 21+, doors at 9pm.

“Self-Referential” from Audio Dregs Recordings on Vimeo.

This is the video loop I did for the big video show that Peter Burr curated earlier this year at Gallery Homeland as part of the PDX Film Fest (sorry, Pete I’m spacing the name now), with a new soundtrack that I recorded the other day. Hold down option+play to get it to loop and drive everyone insane.

I got the finished version of this album cover today, something I designed for Sack & Blumm on Berlin’s Staubgold label. It’s a bit of a return to my 2002 “Conscious” style design, working with more abstract, high contrast sketchy automatic drawings, with lots of negative space, a bit formal expressionist and a bit anti-formal.
Sack & Blumm were an influential band for me, a collaboration between Cologne’s Harald “Sack” Ziegler and Berlin’s FS Blumm, their self titled debut on Tomlab (2000?) made me an instant fan. I admit I picked it up based on the lovely album cover and then soon fell in love with the music which was somber yet playful; a variety of acoustic and toy instruments. Loops played and recorded in real-time and shuttled between Cologne and Berlin via cassettes; it didn’t quite sound like anything else I had heard before; sparse and experimental, outsider yet informed, melodic and strange. This record eventually it led me to do a collaborative EP and comic book with Harald Ziegler, a collaborative compilation with Tomlab entitled For Friends, and a release on Audio Dregs with FS Blumm. A couple summers ago when I was staying at Extrapool in The Netherlands, Harald happened to be coming through town to play a festival and I got to see him perform live for the first time, in the ruins of a castle outdoors. I was happy to learn that they decided to make a new album recorded between 2004-2007, and they ended up asking me to create the artwork for it (I even helped out with the album title a bit). Now I feel I’ve come full circle somehow, and I’m listening the the new record and its a nice feeling. I’m still not sure where I’m going with art or music today, but the at least the journey has been good.

Bobby Birdman returns to Portland! Fake Drugs debut featuring dudes from Starfucker and Guidance Counselor!

Here’s ADR Podcast #7 for download, some space disco re-edits that get kraut punked.
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Space Pirates Across A Scarlet Night: Mix by E*Rock
00:00 – Harry Nilsson “Gotta Get Up (E*Rock Edit)”
03:30 – Carly Simon “Why”
06:00 – Os Mutantes “A Minha Menina (E*Rock Edit)”
11:30 – Higamos Higomos “Infinity Plus One”
13:30 – Moebius & Plank “Conditionierer”
17:30 – Suburban Lawns “Boyfriend”
19:00 – In Flagranti “Pick a Trick”
21:10 – Rolling Stones “You Can’t Always Get What You Want (Soulwax Remix)”
26:10 – Wire “Dot Dash (E*Rock Edit)
30:00 – Diskjokke “Større Enn Først Antatt”
33:30 – Panther “Puerto Rican Jukebox (Lips & Ribs Remix)”
35:30 – Alter Ego “Why Not!? (Adam Sky Remix)”
38:30 – Mungolian Jetset “Clairvoyage”
44:10 – Grace Jones “Warm Leatherette”
47:30 – Woolfy Vs. Projections “Return of Starlight (Invisible Conga People Remix)”
51:30 – Brassica “The Centre”
55:50 – Trans Am “Surrender to the Night”
57:20 – Ratatat vs Bobby Birdman “Spiller Shiller”