So after much discussion and deliberation, this will be the final post for Yours. With so many respective projects on the go, we're leaving this on a high note so we can all focus on new creative endeavors. Onwards and upwards! Thanks for all the support, it's been real.
This astonishing piece of ear-sex is "Mr Overtime", the forthcoming single from Joe Attard & David Andersson AKA Punks Jump Up, with vocal's from Chromeo‘s Dave 1. I can't really review it properly as I'm in a fucking trance right now, but it's more or less the sound of a black unicorn with three eyes flying out of a neon pyramid in a fury of dry ice and purple. That should do it for now.
The full EP will be released April 30th on Moda Music.
In what's shaping to be the most aggressively immersive marketing campaign in the history of either marketing or aggression, the machine that is the "Prometheus" viral campaign launched another flaming salvo of molten anticipation into the bleeding eyes of the internet today.
This is the mock-advertisement for “David”, the 8th gen android from the Weyland Corporation. David is played by Michael Fassbender, who's talent is underscored by the fact that I'm genuinely uncomfortable watching his synthetic, creepy performance.
Fox is going no-holds barred on this one. A full-page advertisement for David in The Wall Street Journal. The ProjectPrometheus website featuring the fictitious Weyland Corporation and an alternate-reality game. An interactive tour of the Prometheus ship at verizon.com/mission. And of course a Facebook page, Twitter and YouTube. If that doesn't work Ridley Scott is going to break into your house in the dead of night, stand over your bed as you sleep, and scream "June 8th motherfucker" over and over into your face until you throw up. You will see this film. You will.
Wow. In retrospect I guess it was only a matter of time. When multimedia kickabout Gorillaz debuted hologram technology live at the Grammy Awards in 2006, the potential for truly immersive entertainment must have seemed untapped. Imagine the possibilities - watching a (slightly opaque) Jimi Hendrix at the height of his powers, James Brown playing with the Soultronics... But instead we get the world's most overrated shirtless rapper, headlining Coachella from beyond the grave.
While there's no denying the poignancy of Tupac Shakur's early politicised work (anything off "2Pacalypse Now"), his influence on pop culture, or the template his voice and image would provide for generations to come (see: DMX, Ja Rule, Mystikal, Eminem, Game, 50 Cent), I'm a little surprised at the entire internet literally lighting up following the deceased's appearance on stage at Coachella on Sunday night, performing alongside rap's Willie NelsonSnoop Dogg.
Still, there's no denying the technology is pretty amazing. If you were in full festival-mode, and weren't expecting this it would probably hurt your mind a little. No word on whether Faux-Pac is back in the studio, but a world tour is probably inevitable.
This year I've been on a kick to not buy one single item of clothing I didn't actually need - and I'm defining need like John McClaneneeded shoes in "Die Hard". My overall 2012 steez is 'consume less', which is a nice little personal segueway (!) into the trailer for "Surviving Progress", a film by Mathieu Roy & Harold Crooks. Inspired by "A Short History of Progress", a book and lecture series by Ronald Wright, which deals with our collective illusion of progress, and it's inevitable 'societal collapse'. Prophetic culture-jamming or slick scaremongering? Probably a bit of both, but I'd take either over "The Voice".
Um, I'm not really sure what happened with Jay Electronica. The New Orleans-native, everyman MC teleported in out of nowhere in 2007 and generated massive buzz off the one Myspace track with zero label support. A couple of classic singles later, and he's courted by both Diddy/Bad Boy, and Jay-Z's Roc Nation. Roc Nation won the deal and a pissed Diddy famously took to Twitter.
It's not a hugely Easter-ish post this one, but we're talking about a holiday centered around mythical rabbits and chocolate eggs. So in the spirit of that randomness here's a replica of the iconic bike from "Akira", the "Powerbike". Ridden by the Kaneda character in both the Manga and Anime, it is one of the defining images from the 1988 Japanese animatedscience fiction film directed by Katsuhiro Otomo. The replica was built by a Masashi Teshima, costing some ¥10 million and seven years of development. As a bonus I also have the "Sabotage Party" video with the Akira montage I posted a couple of years ago - somehow incredibly rowdy boy-racer Grime fits the visuals. "Tetsuooooooooooooooo!"
It's not everyday I hear a future Yours classic, but this made me spontaneously disrobe in a sexy fever and hump my vintage writing desk half to death. This is Sexy Synthesizer's cover of the Marvin Gaye track (most likely to be played at a HR manager's birthday party), "Sexual Healing". But the best review ever is in the Soundcloud comments:
"I feel as if I'm listening to Marvin Gaye perform this in an arcade full of Galaga machines."
I don't know much about Sexy Synthesizer, other than he/she/they hail from Tokyo, with the manifesto "futuristic sounds we were dreaming in the 80's."
This track appears to be from something called "Dirty-Synthesizer Unreleased Project 1&2", but the real gem is the album "Sexy-Synthesizer Presents Funky-Bit", which is an entire album of covers - I almost fell over when I heard the "Human Nature" one.
