Wednesday, August 13, 2008
Videos From Philly
8gb at 8/8/08 from Dauragon C. Mikado on Vimeo.
Animal Style at 8/8/08 from Dauragon C. Mikado on Vimeo.
Nullsleep at 8/8/08 from Dauragon C. Mikado on Vimeo.
Monday, August 11, 2008
Wednesday, August 6, 2008
Stuff You Should Listen To: Vol. 1
I sit here at work, fairly bored flipping through songs on my ipod to play at very low volumes and I am suddenly compelled to needlessly bombard whomever stumbles upon this wee blog with my music taste.
Things that have been on heavy rotation on my iPod:
A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory
In my humble opinion THE perfect, quintessential Hip Hop Album. If you ever wanted to explain what Hip Hop was and what it is SUPPOSED to be, this album should be the top example. The beats get you on your feet, the incredibly tight bass lines rock you to the very core, and the lyrics enlighten, empower and amuse you all at the same time.
Nine Inch Nails - The Slip
Yeah, I liked it. I liked it ALOT. Sue me. I honestly enjoy this album greater than most of what Trent Reznor has done since The Downward Spiral. It is by no means a return to form, but more of a return to basics. It doesn't try to blow you face off with sound, nor make your parents cringe with lyrics about religion and hot sweet animal lovin. It just takes you fun little musical ride that you will want to experience again and again and again. Download it for free (if you haven't already) here.
Portishead - Third
As soon as I heard the opening *tick* *tick* *tick* *tick* *tick* *tick* *tick* *tiiish* of cymbols in "Silence", the first song on the first new Portishead Album since 1997, I knew I was in for something very special. This album is a massive departure from the Portishead of the 90's. Gone are the super slick jazzy beats and triphop turntableisms. Gone are the breaks and sharp venomous lyrics we grew so used to from Beth Gibbons. Here instead, is the dirty, gritty, pulpy, scratchy, unnerving soundtrack to the greatest pulp drama never made. Rarely does a musical work have the same resonance with me as a film or a novel, but after the droning guitar of final track "Threads" ceased, I couldn't help but just lay there on my floor and allow what just heard to soak in fully.
Various Artists - The Liverpool Chiptune Compilation
A hotly anticipated compilation of chiptune cover of songs made by bands from Liverpool. featuring chip musicians such as Nullsleep, Goatslacker, Seed AI, AutoDaFe, and Bud Melvin. Not much I can really say other than this compo is FANTASTIC!
A stand out track for me would be "While My Gameboy Gently Weeps" by Seed A.I, a cover of one of my favorite Beatles songs. Download it here.
Thats it for now. I may do more of these in the future. Now it's time to return to *shudder* work.
Things that have been on heavy rotation on my iPod:
A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory
In my humble opinion THE perfect, quintessential Hip Hop Album. If you ever wanted to explain what Hip Hop was and what it is SUPPOSED to be, this album should be the top example. The beats get you on your feet, the incredibly tight bass lines rock you to the very core, and the lyrics enlighten, empower and amuse you all at the same time.
Nine Inch Nails - The Slip
Yeah, I liked it. I liked it ALOT. Sue me. I honestly enjoy this album greater than most of what Trent Reznor has done since The Downward Spiral. It is by no means a return to form, but more of a return to basics. It doesn't try to blow you face off with sound, nor make your parents cringe with lyrics about religion and hot sweet animal lovin. It just takes you fun little musical ride that you will want to experience again and again and again. Download it for free (if you haven't already) here.
Portishead - Third
As soon as I heard the opening *tick* *tick* *tick* *tick* *tick* *tick* *tick* *tiiish* of cymbols in "Silence", the first song on the first new Portishead Album since 1997, I knew I was in for something very special. This album is a massive departure from the Portishead of the 90's. Gone are the super slick jazzy beats and triphop turntableisms. Gone are the breaks and sharp venomous lyrics we grew so used to from Beth Gibbons. Here instead, is the dirty, gritty, pulpy, scratchy, unnerving soundtrack to the greatest pulp drama never made. Rarely does a musical work have the same resonance with me as a film or a novel, but after the droning guitar of final track "Threads" ceased, I couldn't help but just lay there on my floor and allow what just heard to soak in fully.
Various Artists - The Liverpool Chiptune Compilation
A hotly anticipated compilation of chiptune cover of songs made by bands from Liverpool. featuring chip musicians such as Nullsleep, Goatslacker, Seed AI, AutoDaFe, and Bud Melvin. Not much I can really say other than this compo is FANTASTIC!
A stand out track for me would be "While My Gameboy Gently Weeps" by Seed A.I, a cover of one of my favorite Beatles songs. Download it here.
Thats it for now. I may do more of these in the future. Now it's time to return to *shudder* work.
Monday, August 4, 2008
Things to come
Over the past few weeks i've been debating on registering my own domain name and setting up a little website where I can gush and show off all of my various overly ambitious projects in one place. Doing so would give this blog a new home, and maybe a change of pace. It would go from a more personal blog to a more progress oriented blog centered around my various "art" projects.
Lets see how this goes.
Anywhoo, more music news;
As I stated in my previous post I recently received a music program for the Nintendo Gameboy called Nanoloop. It's basically a 16 step sequencer that produces sound from the Gameboy hardware. Here is a video of some one fooling around with a nanoloop demo:
It's a real blast to mess around with. I can wrap my head around the interface quite nicely (which makes nanoloop far more usable for me than other "tracker" style interfaces used by programs such as LSDJ and Famitracker), and it makes pretty unique sounds.
You can hear a little track I made after messing around with it for a day or two here.
exciting things ahead!
Lets see how this goes.
Anywhoo, more music news;
As I stated in my previous post I recently received a music program for the Nintendo Gameboy called Nanoloop. It's basically a 16 step sequencer that produces sound from the Gameboy hardware. Here is a video of some one fooling around with a nanoloop demo:
It's a real blast to mess around with. I can wrap my head around the interface quite nicely (which makes nanoloop far more usable for me than other "tracker" style interfaces used by programs such as LSDJ and Famitracker), and it makes pretty unique sounds.
You can hear a little track I made after messing around with it for a day or two here.
exciting things ahead!
Monday, July 28, 2008
Fucking Kittens!
I have recently acquired two kittens and they are KYUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUTE. The little buggers eat and poop like it's going out of style though O_O. They also keep me up at all times at night, but I love them to death!
They couldn't have wandered into my life at a better time. Right when I was getting ready to die from boredom and loneliness, these little fur balls come around and supply me with limitless duty and entertainment. Keeping them from running out of my room (my grandmother wants to make the rest of the house kitty safe first) is pretty much a full time job.
Alright so what have I been doing? Ahh thats right. MUSIC!
I'm currently kicking myself out of a musical drought by working on a small split album with fellow chiptune hombre, Big Chip. It will be raw, it will be nasty, and there will be lots of nekkid *bitches.
In terms of musical equipment, a few weeks ago I ordered and received an R4 flash cart for my Nintendo DS, which allows me to use all kinds of home brew programs on it. There are lots of really cool DS music programs out there!
I have also just now ordered a gameboy program called Nanoloop
So in the near future my musical set up shall be:
Untill next time,
-Dauragon
* Dauragon does not endorse the use of the terms Bitches to describe people of the female gender in a derogatory manner. Don't hurt me ladies.
They couldn't have wandered into my life at a better time. Right when I was getting ready to die from boredom and loneliness, these little fur balls come around and supply me with limitless duty and entertainment. Keeping them from running out of my room (my grandmother wants to make the rest of the house kitty safe first) is pretty much a full time job.
Alright so what have I been doing? Ahh thats right. MUSIC!
I'm currently kicking myself out of a musical drought by working on a small split album with fellow chiptune hombre, Big Chip. It will be raw, it will be nasty, and there will be lots of nekkid *bitches.
In terms of musical equipment, a few weeks ago I ordered and received an R4 flash cart for my Nintendo DS, which allows me to use all kinds of home brew programs on it. There are lots of really cool DS music programs out there!
I have also just now ordered a gameboy program called Nanoloop
So in the near future my musical set up shall be:
- Laptop w/ Fl Studio
- Nintendo DS w/ Nitrotracker/Glitch DS/ Protein DS
- GBA/Gba SP w/ Nanoloop
Untill next time,
-Dauragon
* Dauragon does not endorse the use of the terms Bitches to describe people of the female gender in a derogatory manner. Don't hurt me ladies.
Sunday, March 2, 2008
Life update, and such..
So, just to keep a proper log of things, my live has been split into two very distinct parts. The internet land world place, and the "Real World". Internet land world place first.
On the internet, The following has been done:
Released my first 8-bit album, Bass_Avenger
Started writing several short stories/scripts that I plan on bringing to life at some point.
Launched my little gaming blog, Disk Read Error
Met lots of really awesome and inspiring people from 8bitcollective
In the real world, my life has, for lack of a better term, gone to shit.
I was unable to register for classes for the spring semester because of near soul crushingly painful financial aid fuck ups, which lead to me owing Montgomery College over 4 grand.
I'm still jobless, because getting a job is such an unnecessarily hard process when you don't want to flip burgers.
Overall between those two things I have been pretty depressed. The problem is that the depression keeps me in the house, which in turn hinders my job searching ability, which in turn beckons forth more chastising from my mother and grandmother, which in turn flares my depression. It's OK though, cause I will be trying my hardest to break the cycle over the next few weeks. This can't continue, It's not good for me physically or mentally.
So yeah, thats what I have been up to in the first few months of 2008 :D
On the internet, The following has been done:
Released my first 8-bit album, Bass_Avenger
Started writing several short stories/scripts that I plan on bringing to life at some point.
Launched my little gaming blog, Disk Read Error
Met lots of really awesome and inspiring people from 8bitcollective
In the real world, my life has, for lack of a better term, gone to shit.
I was unable to register for classes for the spring semester because of near soul crushingly painful financial aid fuck ups, which lead to me owing Montgomery College over 4 grand.
I'm still jobless, because getting a job is such an unnecessarily hard process when you don't want to flip burgers.
Overall between those two things I have been pretty depressed. The problem is that the depression keeps me in the house, which in turn hinders my job searching ability, which in turn beckons forth more chastising from my mother and grandmother, which in turn flares my depression. It's OK though, cause I will be trying my hardest to break the cycle over the next few weeks. This can't continue, It's not good for me physically or mentally.
So yeah, thats what I have been up to in the first few months of 2008 :D
Thursday, February 21, 2008
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