Seattle’s hometown heroes Truckasauras are releasing an album!!! Everybody and their hot sister is waiting with bated breath for the Crunk, the Hyphy, The SAURRRSS!!!!

Release show is at Nectar June 8th, and you totally suck if you’re not in the front row dancing your ass off.

Collaborative release by 4thCity & Popular Noise.

Available 2 weeks early from Necodo on digital!

Oh, and here’s something else:

Poster Giant sucks. Clubs, promoters, etc., please use Poster Midget instead.

Ableton Seattle Live User Group 2.6
Jazz Mutant’s Lemur
November 15th, 2007 7pm
Oseao - Electric Tea Garden
1402 E Pike
Seattle, WA 98122

“Using the Jazz Mutant Lemur Controller with Live”
The Lemur is a top of the range control surface for audio and media applications, that breaks from the prior art on several grounds. Its major innovation consists in its brilliant modular graphic interface concept and its exclusive multitouch sensor technology.

We’re going to take this one of a kind interface for a test drive with Live, exploring the possibilities for sound design and live applications using this unique controller.

Featuring

-Exploration of the potential for control and expression Jazz Mutant has opened up with multitouch technology interfaces, the Lemur and the Dexter

-Design and assembly of faders, switches, pads and multi dimensional controls with the JazzEditor software interface.

About
Jazz mutant is company based in Paris and Germany that is at the cutting edge of
the electronic music world. They have developed and released 2 of the most unique and forward thinking interfaces seen to date.

Our Guest
Ari Joshua is the local Jazz Mutant representative. Ari is a South African born - transplant to the Seattle area who spent 5 years in NYC studying Jazz and Classical performance and composition at the New School. As a musician he has recorded and worked with such people as AriSawkaDoria, Robert Glasper (Blue Note Records), Michael Shrieve (Santana), The Benevento/Russo Duo, Skerik, Marcus Strickland, Blake Lewis, and recently Stone Gossard (Pearl Jam).

Jazz Mutant
Ableton
Ableton Live Seattle
Laptop Battle
Oseao
Decibel Festival

while mainstream rap music (i still refuse to call it hip hop) continues to mine its way towards insignificance while somehow still dominating the american mindset, any real innovation in beatmaking is coming from the fringes. in one particular case, those innovative fringes are scattered about the northwest like a strategical line of defense around all of cascadia (with one satellite operative in nyc). under the guidance of label founder kitimat, the movement has been dubbed run riot records and extends from the forests of b.c. to the jail cells of multnomah county. the current run riot clip is loaded as such: kitimat, gouseion, selector pointblank, arius blaze, vincent parker, audient and nuisant. while we could simply give you capsule reviews of each artist as they stand alone, what is so unique in this situation is the cohesiveness of the roster as a whole.
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I caught this over at rhizome.org. Its a heads up about remixtheory.net, a blog by new.media artist Edwardo Navas who differentiates between “remix culture and remix proper”. So, if you are the thinking man’s turntablist, have a blogroll:

Remix Your Blogroll @ rhizome.org

Ok, so i couldnt think of the first 1,000 but here’s 2 for you.

 1. DJ Babu at The War Room This Saturday

2. DJ Spinderella at The War Room This Saturday

 Before you throw the hate stick at me, let me es-plain. I went to see Babu with Cut  n’ Kandy about this time last year. I’m a HUGE Beat Junkies fan. So my dumb ass sat (read stood) among the Sea Of Suckers the War Room to get a chance to see One of my favorite Turntablist - Babu skratch for a bit…

What did i get instead? 4 hours of waiting for nothing to happen… thats right, i waited until 1am and no freakin’ Babu no freakin Kandy… NOTHIN’! I left because i couldnt stand the typical War Room folks and not to mention no one seemed to know who the hell Babu was in the first place (i asked a few people).

I later found out that Babu was there and DID preform. He was just in the back with Kandy doing a bunch of Beat Junkie Nose Kandy and got to high to preform.. But ended up doing a very short set with one of the memebers of Dilated Peoples.

 Oh yeah.. Number 2 - Do you even need a reason!? 1. she was never a DJ and 2. She was never a producer… Though she was the hottest out of the 3…. though, thats not saying much, is it.

*Grumble..

Try this jazz out. You write out some text. It searches a catalog of tagged sound clips, arranging performances of each word into a sound montage. If it doesn’t have a word you wrote in the database, it tries to break it up and shorten its clips. Supercool.

so i don’t know what the synchronized dancing on box wine is supposed to mean…but regardless you have to check out the latest from m’chateau and the creative think tank that is fourthcity/brushed golden. also look for cameos from members of plan b and foscil. priceless! i give it four stars.

This Saturday, June 30th, Robo.Trash, the legendary techno/electro night that originally appeared at the Baltic Room in 2001, the Alibi Room in 2002, Chop Suey in 2004 and the Mantra Lounge in 2005, is back! Featuring some of Seattle’s favorite party techno Dj’s in a non-club enviroment, ie: PARTAY! It’s a loft space down on First Avenue South (2917) and we’ll be raging from 10-4. Come early and get 1/2 off admission till 11pm. Come late and pay just 10bux to keep the night going after last call.

Selectors:

10-11 Kris Moon - Division
11-12 Dj F.I.T.S. - Comeback
12-1 Jerry Abstract - Fixelplix
1-2 Dj Recess - Shameless
2-3 Randy Jones - Orac
3-4 Robo Tag Team

apparently this video has been on this site for a year or so now, but i only got link-ified to it within the last week or so. it is an hour and a half long geek-out/discussion between electronic music pioneer brian eno (arguably the inventor of ambient music and founder of the church of the long now) and video game creator and innovator will wright (the sims). the synergistic element of this is that brian eno is scoring will wright’s currently in development game ’spore’ using roughly the same generative concepts that wright is using to create the gameplay elements themselves. for those interested in any one of the following: generative music, video games, ambient music, nerdspeak, l-systems, or cellular automata (and who isn’t?), this is a great watch. particularly relevant to sea of hands as the northwest has so much game development in the area.

View Will Wright and Brian Eno on FORA.tv