TRMW Archives

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February 4, 2006

Little Green Men Singing Over and Over and Over and Over

Hot Chip

The new Hot Chip video is great – fairly perfect visual accompaniment for a fantastic song. Especially like the one part where the guy moves the giant red pixel around like realtime Microsoft Paint, and the clever use of green screen throughout. Each time I hear “Over and Over” it blows me away a little more; How can one track contain just about everything I like in a song? It just can, I guess. I haven’t checked the lyrics too closely, but it seems to be about being bored with recycled culture. In that sense it almost comes off as bragadocio, like “everything else is boring retread, now watch us do something unique.” Bragging is so not indie rock, a point the music – a weird-ass mix of clomping techno beats, thrift electronics, wind chimes, fuzz guitar and crooned slang – only reinforces. All together it makes for a fairly perfect union of genre-splitting form and anti-genre content (seeing as Hot Chip clearly comes straight outta the indie rock diaspora). It’s also super good dancing-around-my-apartment music.

If none of the above makes sense please remember that I’m wearing a bath towel as I type this. I used “diaspora” on my blog! 8′] <— check the shades

See also: Hot Chip DJ set over at Beats in Space (first track = Devo of course), and this cool-looking blog with lots of music videos.

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January 19, 2005

Just realized I’m mentioned by (fake) name over at Beats in Space, the radio show hosted by DFA-affiliate and all-around mega-hipster Tim Sweeney. No really, the twelfth link down here points to Metempsychosis and mentions my old production alias, Comma. So I’m cool now, guys, right? GUYS?!?!

I’ll chalk this up to Richard Caraballo aka minusbaby, long time member of the Metempsychosis Krew and super-talented designer/photographer. Rich designed a past version of the Beats in Space site, maybe even the current one, I don’t know. You can see the genius oozing out of Rich’s brain here, in a good way.

markmattkaraoke

fig 16: trmw (left) and mark rocking the human league

In other news, Justin Wescoat Sanders and Douglas Wolk have joined the PDX concert blogging action over at Team Tinnitus. This means we can now be two places at once, and still make it out for karaoke the next day (see fig 16). Watch out, Portland, the eyes of Tinnitus are upon you!

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Blast from the present!