September 2010
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Joao Orecchia
Joao Orecchia, having a last name that derives from the Italian root ear, approaches his music from the experimental principles of ‘happy accidents’ with pre-composed samples and melodies. Based in Johannesburg, South Africa, Orecchia uses a collection of looping devices and effect pedals to create sounds with a variety of acoustic and electronic instruments including guitar, banjo,...
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August 2010
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WatchThis “mind melting” music video was directimated by Anthony Francisco Schepperd for Blockhead’s “The Music Scene” (out on the Ninjatune label). Schepperd works almost entirely in Flash, yet believes it’s important to hold on to the traditional values of animation making sure to push the medium as far he can. From the traditional point of view, this style is...
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WatchWe’ve all heard of ‘short shorts’, but 5 seconds?
5secondfilms.com churns out clever, humorous and “to the point” 5-second sketches with a variety of themes from politics, random-nonsense to pop culture. This collective of thinkers and filmmakers post a new video every weekday. 5secondfilms was originally created by Brian Firenzi in the Spring of 2005 “after...
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Full Frame Documentary OPEN CALL FOR ENTRIES NOW! →
Full Frame exhibits nearly 100 documentary films in various categories. By completing the online application, you will be submitting to NEW DOCS, the festival’s competitive program which includes films completed in the last two years.
In 2010, 60 films were selected for NEW DOCS from 1200 entries. NEW DOCS are eligible for a number of awards in various categories. The 2010 festival offered 8...
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Kid Mud
KID MUD, a San Francisco based project was signed to New and Used Records and released a debut full-length album “Now They Shut Us Down” in the summer of 2009.
Kid Mud aka Sean Duncan, displayed his ‘one man band skills’ in the “Birds Have Moved: Reworkings and Remixes” EP, which was released back in 2008 (said to have been rushed) using a variety of...
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WatchAU is the Portland based project of Luke Wyland, Mark Kaylor, Dana Vlatkaand and Jonathan Sielaff. They came out with a self/titled album in 2007, having signed withAagoo Records , releasing their 2008 album, Verb last summer.
July 2010
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January 2010
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December 2009
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NINJATRONICS - new website locale
Hey friends, The Ninjatronics Crew is busy getting the new website up, take a look at what we’re up to in the meantime! http://ninjatronics.tumblr.com change yr bookmarks - - - soon to be http://ninjatronics.net
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THIS IS OUR NEW BLOG
we will start posting here from now on, but if you want to read our older posts check them out here: http://ninjatronics.blogspot.com
we have a lot of things in store (including a web re-design) so follow us to keep up!
October 2009
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Missing In Action
The Ninjatronics Collective has been busy! o o o We are currently working on a new direction for the ’ .com ’ website o o o Our events on the sidebar will be up in the meantimessss. Thanks for keeping up with the site, we’re trying to make it better and find a way to post about our current/personal projects.
August 2009
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Junk Culture - West Coast
Another random find, Junk Culture also known as Deepak Mantena hails from Oxford, Mississippii. Recently signed onto the Illegal Art label (Girl Talk mantras), Junk Culture is scheduled for an LP release coming out on October 27th. Very similar to the likes of Javelin, Junk Culture’s looptic and sampling style fits right into the Illegal Art label. The lo-fi ness comes from the widely used...
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Karl Hector and the Malcouns
Karl Hector & the Malcouns are a ten piece group of musicians including Funk Pilots leader Karl Hector and Jay Whitefield (guitarist for the Whitefield Brothers and the Poets of Rhythm), and Malcouns founders Zdenko Curlija (drums, percussion, bass and vocals) and Thomas Myland (organ & bass). The band also includes Bo Baral on percussion, Wolfi Schick, ( sax, flute and bass clarinet),...
July 2009
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Azeda Booth - Tubtrek EP
Azeda Booth was a nice little surprise via lastfm, I stumbled upon a music video of their song Big Fist a while back from their previous album In Flesh Tones [released by Absolutely Kosher, 2008] that was directed by Jordan Easton. Little did I know at the time that they were indeed the voices of Morgan and Jordon, the wispy [now] unmistakable androgynous vocals. Us Ninjatrons were listening to...
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Neon Indian - Terminally Chill
We all need a little chill time in the summer and Neon Indian is the next best thang. Recently signed to the Lefse record label - the low-fi pop melodies scream (if they could) sunshine! Alan Palomo made his musiks by recording field sounds and samples last winter in the supreme ‘n cream Texas compiling 12 songs that resemble lushicioulsy drugged lullabies filled with wonderment and...
June 2009
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The Woods - The Final Breaths of a Main Character
Our fellow amigos The Woods from Tallahassee, FL have been getting busy with music and video making (I is proud of yous!). The official release of “The Final Breathes of a Main Character” is creating a BUZZ with their new [EP] The EP Logue. This is the first music video from The Woods singer Ian Dudley, being trapped in a nautical world of his own imagination. Lets all go sailing on...
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Pointer Sisters Rewind
The fabulous Pointer Sisters - often found on any funk/soul radio station, were doing it right in the 70s/80s with their impeccable sense of style and grooves. The original gang - Ruth , Anita, June and Boonie Pointer (formed in Oakland)- scored their pop ‘n soul hits (featured above) embodying funky rhythms and motownish hollatcha girl attitude. If you ever were watching Seasame...
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Hot Chip - One Pure Thought
So our friends Hot Chip are beat heaveaaaan returning with their new[ish] single ‘One Pure Thought’ which was issued back in early May, taken from the massively acclaimed album ‘Made in the Dark’ released earlier this year. This music video has been rocking my summer pants so hard. It was directed by Sheffield Hallam University Alumnis Bevis Martin &...
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Ninjatronics Events!
The Ninjatronics family has been weaned on the idea of community involvement, performance, and contribution to the well being of the artistic and creative realm. With this in mind, we’re pleased to announce the Ninjatronics Events section, which will provide information as to what all us Ninjatrons are up to as of late. This post will serve as a permalink for the events column (listed at...
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I Met the Walrus
In 1969, a 14-year-old Beatle fanatic named Jerry Levitan (Toronto,CA) snuck into John Lennon’s hotel room in Toronto and convinced him to do an interview. This was in the midst of Lennon’s “bed-in” phase, during which John and Yoko were staying in hotel beds in an effort to promote peace. 38 years later, Jerry has produced a film about it. Using the original interview...
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BIKE HYPE !!! JUNE 7TH, 2009
!!!!Bike Hype!!!! is this weekend ::June 7, 2009:: at Jengo’s Playhouse (815 Princess St). This is an all-day bike fest and FUNraiser for Hero Fest 2009 and the Wilmington Bike Recyclery. So all you southEAST bound folks come show your bikeLOVE as there will be an alley cat, a screening of VEER followed by Bike Prom! There are tons of cool prizes you can win for just being a...
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PSST! 3 Pass It On - Burial Sugar Live
Burial Sugar Live from PSST! on Vimeo. The short film BURIAL SUGAR LIVE was created for the PSST! 3 Pass It On animation collaboration which is a series of short animated films created in collaboration by a select group of motion graphics artists from New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and Berlin. The collaborative film project has 17 films made by 51 teams of Designers, Directors, Animators and...
iamxl
iamxl, aka Jon Hamlin, is an old familiar artist that I recently re-discovered lurking in the tattered remnants of my “Random Music” folder from years past. I have no idea where these songs of his I have came from, but they piqued my interest enough to do a little e-digging and figure out who exactly iamxl is. Working mainly in Vancouver (Canada!) and London (UK!), Jon’s...
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My Tiger My Timing - This Is Not My Fire
Formed in south east London in early 2008 by siblings James Vincent and Anna Vincent, Jamie Harrison and Gary Drain, this four-piece outfit creates electrobodi rhythms and with vocal heavy melodies to create their “hypnotic dark pop music”. The debut single by was produced by Andy Spence of New Young Pony Club, Freakniks and Organic Audio. You can tell why they made a good fit with...
May 2009
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In Bb- a collaborative music project
If you have a spare half-hour or two, check out In Bb. I could describe it to you, but it’s something that you should really experience for yourself. Very melodic and peaceful. And you ninjaflowers (yes, ninjaflowers. That’s what you all are) should contribute. I’m going to go work on something for it now.
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Monster Zoku Onsomb - Tinker
Nos amies over in France (Sourire Collective) dropped us a nice little psychotronic visual by the group Monster Zoku Onsomb. Hailing from the Brisbane/Queenland area, these Aussies like to sample all sounds, from rockabilly to ragga, drum ‘n bass , electro and experimental. You can check out their Remix Project 2009 for more tracks and sounds of late as they’ll be at the upcoming...
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Paolo Garcia - So it goes...
Paolo Garcia is a traveling animator/filmmaker, waiting to set foot in France to work on the animated television series hit Wakfu. He currently resides in Philadelphia, but So It Goes… was part of his final project for the Vancouver Film School which was made for a Classical Animation course. Garcia got the idea from watching the episode Plains from the hit series Planet Earth, what caught...
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The Static Fanatic
Rummaging through blogs is tough. So here’s a lil blog that a fellow matey of ours writes for called The Static Fanatic which is based on the expanding noise/experimental music scene from a Wilmington scope and beyounddddd. Carl (blogman!) also happens to be one of the elements found in The Khakazians. As known as the Caucasians910, the two piece comprised of Carl and Alli, who performed...
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Speaking in Code
I can’t wait till this film hits the local theaters…Speaking in Code is an intimate account of people who are completely lost in music. A heartbreaking and lighthearted documentary, it’s a vérité glimpse into the world of techno/. The film takes you around the world, following the people who make electronic music … their lives. Speaking in Code took around 3 years to...
April 2009
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Housemeister - Beef Jerky
CLP remix of Housemeister’s “Who Is That Noize” Last year our Berlin-based freund Housemeister put out the Who Is That Noize and Remixes for Modeselektor, Cassius and Zombie Nation on the Allyoucanbeat label (Boy Noize). Check out the CLP (Chris de Luca vs. Phon.o) remix of the song in the vid above for a peek in the past. Thizzzz year Housemeister is gracing us with his...
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Curtiss King - Spacebars ft. Ab Soul and Young...
It’s almost summer time….and the need for big beats ‘n booties is ripe. Curtiss King’s single from his upcoming release The Storm on Mars is just what the streets need…when you’re waiting for the ice cream truck or making a late night run to the nearest biscuit serving establishment (withhh gravvvvyy , YES!). King hails from Carson, CA and makes beats with his...
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Oi Va Voi - Everytime
Oi Va Voi “Everytime” from Katarzyna Kijek on Vimeo. Really creative video from the UK’s Oi Va Voi. Every third frame of the footage was printed, shredded and shot three times blended with adjacent frames by different stripes configuration. A lot of work! The video was made by Katarzyna Kijek & Przemysław Adamski from Warsaw, Poland who both are filmmakers with some...
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Voices Voices - Tape Noon
VOICES VOICES are Jenean Farris and Nico Turner, a two piece ethereal, provocative ambient experience from Los Angeles. The duo first met a Xu Xu Fang concert last summer…and took on a whole new approach to making music as they explored the drum ‘n drone of the experimental electronic soundscape by learning instruments from scratch, enabling them “to be more childlike, more...
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Erin Wilson - Robot+Girl
I’m extremely excited to post ROBOT+GIRL since it was made by my homie Erin Wilson, whut up NoLA! This animated short-film was entered in PATOIS: The 6th Annual New Orleans International Human Rights Film Festival which was held March 25th - April 5th 2009. ROBOT+GIRL won the Audience Choice Award for Best Short. ROBOT+GIRL from Erin Wilson on Vimeo. Synopsis After accidentally leaving her...
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Calle 13 - Electro Movimiento
Calle 13 - Electro Movimiento Reppin’ the latinaaaneeeoon, Calle 13 hits up the electro 80 scene with a colorful dance message ::can you tell? i Comprised of vocalist Residente (born René Pérez Joglar) and producer Visitante (Eduardo José Cabra Martínez) aka Pérez and Cabra first met at the tender age of two (step bros), and from what I know used to attend SCAD. Makes sense. Be on the...
Lucky Dragons
Lucky Dragons, at its core, is comprised of Luke Fischbeck and Sarah Rara. At least one of them is involved in all things released as Lucky Dragons, and they often bring in friends to collaborate on what has to be some of the most interesting trippy, electroacoustic, sample and beat heavy experimental music I’ve heard in a good while. Diverse and always engrossing, they manage to throw...
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Mungo Hi-Fi - Sound System Champions
When I was listening to the Solid Steel Podcast #89 (Ninjatune), there was this sweet dubilicious remix of Joanna Newsom’s song Book of Right On vs Cloud’s Shallow that caught my ear…and soon learned who was Mungo Hi-Fi, the dubskareggae sensation from Glasgow, Scotland that has already swept the UK. The trio began it’s journey in the year 2000 and since then has...
DJ the internet
While wandering around the repository of everything internet (aka reddit), I came across this little jem: Hobnox audio tool It’s everything you need to be your own online DJ. You can store beats to their library and browse other people’s stuff. I haven’t made anything due to being a busy little beaver (hence also why I haven’t posted in a while), but I figured ya’ll...
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Golden Silvers - True Romance (True Blues No.9)
Currently on tour in Europe, the London-based Golden Silvers are reppin’ it on the XL Recording label with their disco house retro beats and melodies. True Romance will be released on the 28th of April on CD, but you can Pre-order True Romance from Rough Trade. The album was recorded with Lexxx (Alex Dromgoole ) whose resume includes both Crystal Castles, Ben Esser., Björk, Madonna, Gwen...
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Devo - Don't Shoot
“DON’T SHOOT” - DEVO from DEVO Channel on Vimeo Pssssshhhhyaahh. Devo is on tour and performing a new stage show utilizing synchronized video, similar to the 1982 tour, new costumes, and three new songs: “Don’t Shoot, I’m a Man!”, “What We Do”, and “Fresh”. All of these songs included a video backdrop which the band performed in...