Spent Sunday afternoon filming my good friend and Percussion Lab resident, Nooka Jones, playing records and talking about some of the LPs in his collection. Look out for the video, Five Records with Nooka Jones, in the coming weeks!
That’s the very talented Victor Tadashi behind the camera.
XI, Dave Q, Nihal Ramchandani, Nooka Jones, and Braille Sounds at Percussion Lab Radio on Monday Night (Left to Right).
The electronic music equivalent of where all your favorite chefs go to eat. You don’t want to be a Wednesday morning, That looks like fun, I’d wish I’d gone! next week, do you? Come!
Done Did It (and seriously, he did) starring Dorian Concept Live on Percussion Lab Radio on April 11th. With support from Sougwen, Machindrum, and Others.
This was my first year celebrating Record Store Day, which was founded in 2007 as a “celebration of the unique culture surrounding over 700 independently owned record stores” and the art of music. The holiday takes place the third Saturday of every April, and as I’m not going home for Passover and don’t support nationalism (I do support my mom’s brisket, however), it was perfect timing
I had an extremely modest record collection in college that mostly consisted of Grateful Dead albums because I loved hearing Jerry Garcia’s voice on vinyl (I probably should have realized this would extend to most other artists and bands, but college is about not realizing things, as much as it is about learning others). I became aware of Record Store Day when I read that the Wild Flag debut LP would be made available exclusively on/for Record Store Day. I signed up for the cause right then and there. For the uninitiated (both to my blog and to the band), Wild Flag is a newly-formed super group, made up of Carrie Brownstein and Janet Weiss of Sleater-Kinney, and their fellow friends/amazing musicians, Mary Timony and Rebecca Cole. I waited. I even told Matt McCormick how excited I was. I waited some more…and then, it was Record Store Day Eve!
I greeted Record Store Day a little less than enthusiastically, due to tequila at TWISUPBASS in Brooklyn the night before (Braille Sounds, who is Praveen of Sepalcure and Percussion Lab, killed it by the way). It was also grey, windy, cold and rainy, a winning combination all around. By the time I made it into my first record store, Generation Records in Greenwhich Village, Wild Flag Future Crimes 7” was long sold out. I felt dejected. This was all going wrong. It’s my first Record Store Day! I didn’t know!, I wanted to yell out. Luckily, something happened.
A promo video for Sepalcure’s new EP, Fleur, which recently came out on Itunes. Sepalcure is a collaboration between Brooklyn based DJ’s Praveen Sharma, from Percussion Lab, and Travis Stewart (Machinedrum). They initially nicknamed their music lovestep. It is emotional, layered, and complex, but will still get your feet moving. You could call it minimal dubstep or post-dubstep, or you could just listen and be the better for it. Enjoy.
Their promo video for Fleur and all their art direction is done by the Brooklyn based artist Sougwen. Her visuals are beautiful and quite stirring. A perfect match for Sepalcure, as her drawings are complex, moving, and very forward thinking. As she draws while listening to Sepalcure, their collaboration is a lovely reminder that the best part about music, is that it really does not occur in a vacuum; it’s about connecting, influencing, and evolving. Even when you’re at home on your computer (maybe blogging?), if there’s music on, you’re never really alone. Again, enjoy.
