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Sunday, October 12, 2008 

Category: Music
Erykah Badu, "Real Thang"
Noddable "Fudge Thang" remix
http://noddables.cannedoxygen.com/fudge_thang.mp3

Since July, I have been waiting for Erykah to call Tyrone. And by "Tyrone" I mean me. And by "call" I mean e-mail. And by "Erykah" I mean whoever is judging the Erykah Badu Remix Contest. The deadline (extended at least once) was July 30, and the winner was to be contacted by e-mail.

I was sure I wouldn't win, but I figured I had a good chance of placing. From the sounds of it -- "Creativity is key, so all types of remixes are welcomed (hip-hop, r&b/soul, house, broken beat, rock, reggae, etc.)." -- they were looking for something a little different, and I gave them that (see "etc."). Oh wellz. That e-mail is apparently not forthcoming (it makes me feel a little better to know that no one on Okayplayer has heard back either), so I'm posting this now.

I started on this track before I knew about the contest, and I made exactly the track I wanted to make, so I'm pleased with the outcome regardless. Hope you enjoy.


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Sunday, June 08, 2008 
I "met" Elmattic over at acapellas4u a while back. He has been bringing the heat for a while, and this time is no different, but I'm posting about it because he used "Respect the Name" in his latest mix. Many thanks for the nod.

It's always nice to hear my stuff in the mix, especially because that means a fellow producer gets what I'm doing. In Elmattic's case, he even gets the much maligned "So Emo". ("On some Minor Threat Bodyguard tip" might be the funniest description of it I've ever heard.) I'm still feelin it myself, so I've posted an extract from the podcast on my MySpace page: It's a (some would say mercifully) short version of "So Emo" mixed into my other Fugazi mashup, "Celebrity Break". Head here and click on "Celebrity Emo" in the jukebox.

While you're at it, check out Elmattic's page. the one finger of victory is a particular favorite of mine.

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Saturday, May 10, 2008 
I was corresponding with a fan on MySpace (that's right, wise guy, I have a fan) who was asking why some tracks that appear on the Bootie-to-Go mix are not posted anywhere as stand-alone tracks. Truth is, I'd been thinking about posting those and just never got around to it. They are now linked up to the podcast playlist.

I redid some tracks because I always thought they were excellent in concept, but I didn't have the technical skill at the time to make them as good as they could be. Others I did specifically for the podcast. Still others I used it in an unaltered form, or the altered form was worse. So you won't read about those below, but the original tracks are still linked up on the podcast page.

(BTW, if you want to know track and album information, go here:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/richpub/syltguides/fullview/R1S4KI149OM1LK)

True Spit
Broken Social Scene vs. Spandau Ballet
http://noddables.cannedoxygen.com/podcasts/true.mp3

"Connective tissue" for the podcast, this is a case of never hearing the BSS song without hearing the SB song. BSS drops the beat near the end, so you'll hear the two tracks go out of sync. I guess click tracks haven't made it up to "The Frozen Nort'" yet. Just joshin'. I love you guys.

The Scene and Cake
Broken Social Scene vs. The Sea and Cake
http://noddables.cannedoxygen.com/podcasts/scene_and_cake.mp3

More BSS (seriously, I love you guys) and also new for the podcast. I planned at some point to do an EP or LP around these two artists and call it The Scene and Cake. But you know how plans go. I guess it'll have to wait until I win the MacArthur genius grant (or, far more likely, the lottery).

Step into Flint
Sufjan Stevens vs. Archers of Loaf
http://noddables.cannedoxygen.com/podcasts/flint.mp3

I almost called this "Flint with Drums" cause that's basically what it is. But it is a mashup, so I've got nothing to hide. And if it gets one more person to check out Archers, that's cool. When I told The Review Committee (aka, my wife) that I'd added drums to "Flint", she was curious to hear it, probably thinking I'd made it more upbeat. Then she heard it and said, "Wow, I didn't think you could make 'Flint' even more depressing." It's a talent of sorts.

Hated for Hipster Qualities
Blonde Redhead vs. Tortoise
http://noddables.cannedoxygen.com/podcasts/blonde_tortoise_v2.mp3

Redo for the podcast and another foray into the "depressing mashup" genre. Just always heard these two songs together. Little touch of Fugazi there at the end, if you hadn't noticed.

Rock Ya Bono
Justin vs. U2
http://noddables.cannedoxygen.com/podcasts/rock_ya_bono.mp3

OK, this is an old one, and I didn't redo it, but I didn't release it the first time either (unless you're a reader of the Tweak section of GYBO). Fair warning: Sound quality on the DIY Justin pella is awful (thus the Tweak section), and I think the chorus is the only part that's really worth hearing (that's all that's on the podcast). But, hey, download and decide for yourself. If you take things like the lyrics in pop music seriously, this one is pretty blasphemous.

Last Look of Love
Slum Village vs. Jeff Buckley
http://noddables.cannedoxygen.com/podcasts/love.mp3

New for the podcast. This was never a full composition, so it's all connective tissue here. Also blasphemous, if you're a listen-to-the-lyrics type.

Sunny Day of Tha Month
Sunny Day Real Estate vs. Bone Thugs-N-Harmony
http://noddables.cannedoxygen.com/podcasts/sunny_month_v2.mp3

Redo for the podcast. This one continues to be one of my favorites. Urban jubilation meets (in my case) exurban angst. It's never set anyone else's hair on fire, so I don't think some analysis will ruin it for anyone.

The chorus is a classic example of the comic's cliche, "black people do it this way, white people do it this way." The "wake up, wake up..." part of the Bone chorus is syncopated (i.e., emphasis is on the one-and), whereas the corresponding SDRE "juh-nuh, juh-nuh..." guitar part is right on the beats, so I had to shift the vocal chorus back a bit.

I love both the source songs, though for years I wouldn't have admitted to liking Bone (I'm over it). I never could understand why it's un-hip to like Bone, who basically invented this style of rapping, but it is hip to like other tongue-twisters like Blackalicious or Twista, who came along later. Oh well. I like all those cats. Obviously.

Loro Circles an Angel
Pinback vs. Sunny Day Real Estate
http://noddables.cannedoxygen.com/podcasts/loro.mp3

New for the podcast. More SDRE, this time with Pinback. They often remind me of each other, though I can't say why (they're not much alike).

That's it. I hope you enjoy.

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Monday, April 14, 2008 

Category: Music

Woo!
instrumental
http://noddables.cannedoxygen.com/woo.mp3

My daughter was born two weeks ago today. "Woo!" pretty much describes my feelings about it... and it just so happens I have an instrumental by that title that I haven't shared yet. It's just a little pop tart (the track, not the girl) but I wanted to commemorate.

Noddable Industries is, for the most part, an ironic moniker for one guy who makes not-always-noddable music at a decidedly non-industrial pace and posts it on the internet. But around my house, music is most definitely a family affair, and I am so pleased about our latest addition. Welcome little one.

This is a mirror of the Noddable Industries blog.

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Friday, March 07, 2008 

Category: Music

"Bed Lady"
Erykah Badu "Bag Lady" vs. The Police "Bed's Too Big Without You"
http://noddables.cannedoxygen.com/bed_lady.mp3

Been off the blog for a while -- I apologize if you've stopped by looking for something to hear. Haven't done a mashup in a while, so I thought I'd share. Have been wanting to do this one for a while and finally got around to it. Your basic A+B but with some breaky cutups in the middle just for grins.

I've also got some new instrumentals -- links and blah blahs below. BTW, I always post stuff to myspace with a bulletin (http://www.myspace.com/noddables) before I ever get around to posting it here. So if you want to hear this stuff streamed you can go there (add me while you're at it why don't you).

"Respect the Name"
instrumental
http://noddables.cannedoxygen.com/respectthename.mp3

Your basic beat. Lots of samples, but I ain't tellin.

"Cello Joint"
instrumental
http://noddables.cannedoxygen.com/cello_joint.mp3

One possible answer to the question: What would happen if D'Angelo traveled back in time and crashed Nick Drake's recording session?

"Ready Already"
instrumental
http://noddables.cannedoxygen.com/ready_already.mp3

Most sounds by Don Cab. J Dilla, Aesop Rock, and Lungfish on the hooks. Verses are wide open -- would love to hear someone set it on fire.


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Sunday, December 03, 2006 

 

Here we go again: You can't kill a genre.

The latest to claim that you can is Anthony Lane in The New Yorker: ""Spinal Tap" ... not only assaulted the rock documentary and left it for dead but practically killed heavy metal as a musical species. (Not that hard-core metal heads would notice. They can't hear you anyway.)"

At least he parenthetically concedes the point I made before: After a genre's "dead", practitioners of the genre somehow carry on making music anyway. So, once again, what can it really mean for a genre to be dead.

What's weird is not that Lane thinks Spinal Tap is Christopher Guest's most successful film (it is, far and away) but that Lane wasn't onto Guest a long time ago. Of one unsuccessful part of For Your Consideration, Lane says, ""Entertainment Tonight" is already so close to self-parody that it requires no further assistance." And metal isn't? It's as though Lane thinks metal was an important (or at least self-important) institution before Guest came along and -- zing! -- exposed it for what it really is. The fact is that metal, like all the marginal activities that Guest "documents", was/is important to practitioners and listeners and absurd to everyone else. Isn't the central conceit of every (not just the latest) Guest movie, "Hey, look at these freaks. Aren't they daft? Let's make fun of them!"

Lane accuses Guest of "rigging the evidence" in only his latest film… as if that's not what he was always up to. Don't get me wrong -- I love Spinal Tap -- but it's of a piece with every Guest film that came after it, better though it may be. They may not show up in a Lane review or a Guest film, but there are intelligent metalheads who are conscious of how absurd or stupid the rest of the world thinks they are -- and have a sense of humor about it.

All right, so I'm a metalhead. Sue me.

Just for fun, let's just say you could kill a genre. If you're going to call in a hit on metal, you'd be much better off sending a real documentary -- Some Kind of Monster -- to do the job. Forget the bologna-doesn't-fit-the-bread scene from Spinal Tap. Almost any scene from Monster is likely to be more damning. But, especially for mashup fans, I'm thinking of two interludes from the film in particular. One shows Kirk Hammett in full jogging regalia running down the street, and one shows James Hetfield driving an absurdly long hotrod (insert Freudian cliche here), and both are paired with a Metallica song. These are images of what money and California can do to even one of the most venerated metal bands paired with the incredibly heavy music for which they are venerated. The juxtaposition is powerful (and hilarious).

I hear the new Deftones album is good. Even The New Yorker thought so. And I recently found that Emusic has my two favorite metal albums: Sleep "Volume 1" and Confessor "Condemned". They also have a bunch of Don Cab stuff.

Speaking of Don Cab and Metallica, both make an appearance on my podcast. The problem is the podcast has yet to make an appearance on iTunes. World Famous Audio Hacker has been incommunicado. (Maybe he's in jail again.) His site is down, and iTunes won't connect to Bootie-to-Go. All this has gone on since my mix was supposed to air. Coincidence or not, it feels like a letdown. I didn't want to steal WFAH's thunder, but I really want to post this thing, so here goes.

This is sans interview -- which hasn't happened yet, and which will no doubt be incredibly witty and insightful -- but all the music's here if you care to check it out.

Noddable Industries Bootie-to-Go podcast
MP3 audio, 38 MB
http://noddables.cannedoxygen.com/podcasts/bootie_final_mix.mp3

playlist:
http://noddables.cannedoxygen.com/podcasts
 
This is a mirror of the Noddable Industries blog.
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Wednesday, November 22, 2006 

Category: Music

The Bootie Blog is doing a podcast called Bootie-to-Go, which features a different U.S. based mashup artist each week. This week it's featuring me!

The podcast is scheduled for release on Tuesday (well... that didn't happen, but it will come out this week). It will have an interview with me followed by a continuous mix featuring all "original" material. You can subscribe to the podcast on iTunes -- just search the podcast directory for "bootie" and you'll find it. There's more information about subscribing to or downloading the podcast here: http://bootie.fm/togo/.

I posted a playlist here: http://noddables.cannedoxygen.com/podcasts/  If you've been following my music, most songs on the playlist will look *eerily* familiar. But there are a few surprises, one of which I'll let out of the bag now: "Celebrity Break" (Fugazi vs. Twista). It's sort of a B side to "Overnight Superman". You can hear it streamed at my MySpace page or download the mp3 at my "official" page.


Thanks to World Famous Audio Hacker and the Bootie Blog for putting this together.

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Wednesday, July 26, 2006 
On the Who's Nodding Now tip, I found out recently that "Whole World Loves Jesus" was featured on Canadian radio this summer.  How cool is that?

The show is called Impending Loom. It airs on Radio Malaspina, CHLY 101.7 FM, Nanaimo, British Columbia.  The hosts are DJ Doc and MC Mic Control.  The playlist for the night on which I appeared features some amazing artists.  (Like... how did I get on this list?  Not that I'm complaining!)  I wrote in, and the guys kindly offered to try to get a stream of that night's show for me.  If they post it, I'll post it here.  Otherwise, I'll find out if they mind me sharing it.

Impending Loom and other cool links that turned up in the net were added, as always, to the Who's Nodding Now post, but I thought this was worth calling attention to.  Thanks again, guys, for putting Noddables in the mix.
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