Thieves Like Us

Video for Goldfrapp’s new single “Rocket”

Brian Mars — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 02:26:41 +0000

Dear Ms. Alison Goldfrapp,

You may duct tape me to a rocket any time.

Rocket

GOLDFRAPP

A GRUM remix of this song is on my last mixtape Cooker.

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Cooker – A Mixtape

Brian Mars — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 01:18:50 +0000

Only two weeks since the last one, but there are a couple of tracks I absolutely fell in love with. Some of these folks (Cassette Kids, Sean Roman, Chaos in the CBD) are going to be huge in the near future (and if you live in the Southern Hemisphere some of them may already be). I know – no Dunproofin’ and no YYYs, but there may be a hidden bonus track that takes care of the mashup and the French vocalist requirements for one of my mixtapes.

Enjoy!

Marchin’ In – Lo-Fi-Fnk
The Funeral (Buckmaster Remix) – Band of Horses
Phone Call – Sean Roman
Make You Mine (Codebreakers Remix) – Miami Horror
Cheese’s Christ – Chaos in the CDB
Lying Around (Diamond Cut Remix) – Cassette Kids
Doubt (Doc Daneeka’s All For Space Grime) – Delphic
Police Us (DJ Apt One Remix) – Instamatic
Robot Rock – The Glamour
Rocket (Grum Remix) – Goldfrapp
YGTL (XX Remix) – Florence and the Machine

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Apple iPad

Brian Mars — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 02:15:51 +0000

So – after the dust has settled, here is my impression of the thing:

Yes, it is an iPod touch on steroids and that is the perfect thing for it to be. It is not for replacing your laptop or your phone. It is simply a media delivery device with some extra computing power.

Right now, I am not its target market. My mom is. I gave her an iPod touch and she loves it. She’ll check her email from the living room, play some games, etc. Giving her a larger platform to do so on is going to thrill her. It can turn into a digital picture frame? Perfect! Electronic photo album that she can hand around to people and not drag out the laptop? Awesome! Color ebook reader? Sweet!

Yes, we the cognoscenti are picking it apart. With all the hype how could we not be disappointed by some aspect of it. And yes, Apple is famous for features driving revisions. I’ll bet they have a cameraPad already in the works, along with multitasking, just waiting for the better power consumption the new A5 chip will have next year.

Will I buy one? I don’t know. Definitely not right now. But I have a feeling the evolution of it, along with the new apps it is going to spur, will be pretty tempting…

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Sleep

Brian Mars — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 15:44:34 +0000

So I am trying out this app, Sleep Cycle for the iPhone.

It claims that it can sense your sleep patterns from your motion in bed, and after calibrating over a few days, wake you up within a half hour time frame when you are sleeping the lightest, therefore giving you the best wake experience.

Last night was the first night, and as such, it waited until the end of the half hour period. I had actually woken up 10 minutes prior.

The chart it produced was fairly right on. I was in and out of sleep early in the night and wide awake at 2am. Not sure if this app can address those issues, but any edge I can get on sleep, I’ll take it.

I’ll let it go for a few days and update with the progress.

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Shiny – A Mixtape

Brian Mars — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 02:25:25 +0000

Let’s see… a track with a French chick singing? Check. A Yeah Yeah Yeahs remix? Check. Some mashups? Check. A Dunproofin’ track? Check. Yep, all the hallmarks of another mixtape. Just some of the tracks that I’ve been loving lately. A little something extra at the end.

Homerun (Dabo “on the beach” Remix) – Man & Man
Seventeen (The Glass Remix) – Casxio
Earthquake (Treasure Fingers’ Epicwave Remix) – Little Boots
Comme Ci Comme Ça (The Twelves Remix) – Terry Poison
Honey Trap (Le Matos Remix) – We Have Band
Like A Player (fourthrock edit) – Lorenz Rhode
Hello Dust – dadahack ft. Hannah Robinson
4h30 – Danger
Heads Will Roll (A-Trak Remix) – Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Sex Diary (Kings of Leon vs. Yazoo) – Divide and Kreate
Bedroom Shotgun – Suck Shaft
Zzzz (ZZ Top vs. Miss Napalm & 4Kuba) – Dunproofin’
Our Time (Kap10Kurt Remix) – Ocelot

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In his heart the wolf was planning mischief

Brian Mars — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 16:50:40 +0000

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Venn Diagram

Brian Mars — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 02:34:21 +0000

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99

Brian Mars — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 23:12:37 +0000

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No one named Spray Bone is touching my meatus!

Brian Mars — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 22:14:28 +0000

(via Achewood)

And thus begins my attempt to send more content to my blog instead of the whirlpool of Twitter or the cesspools of Spicealley. I’m trying to define a separation for what kinds of “content” I generate on my various digital haunts. Oh, sure the massively cross-linked auto-update plugins will shovel this crap around to various places, but I think if I can develop the right mindset, I can use this thing for more creative purposes than just Achewood comics and links to my latest mixes.

We’ll see. After all, it’s only January 4th after a crazy New Year’s Four Day Weekend. My mind and body are still yelling “Payback’s a bitch” at me.

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Another Season, Another Mix Tape

Brian Mars — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 23:51:38 +0000

A couple of months have gone by, and its time for me to compile the tracks that have found a way to stick around here in the lab. Just in time for Halloween, here is the MixDLT where we keep the hot side hot and the cool side cool. (In retrospect, had I known I would have finished these today, I may have gone for “Trick or Treat”).

In reality, the Hot side is filled with squelchy bits and rumbly bits, while the Cool side is Late Night Makeout Disco™

1. Heartbreaking Maps (Metronomy vs Yeah Yeah Yeahs) – DJ Clivester
2. This Must Be It (Rex The Dog K-DART Remix) – Röyksopp
3. I’m Not Your Toy (DATA Remix) – La Roux
4. Love.Cure.All (Suck Shaft Remix) – Baron Bane
5. Spektrum John – Dunproofin’
6. Mama Used To Say – Jupiter
7. Qui Est Cette Fille – Yelle
8. Distant Star (Deluce Remix) – Triobelisk
9. I Might Like Ghosts Better (Amanda Blank + Bad Cabbage vs. Deadmau5) – DJ Paul V.

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1. Shelter (Them Jeans Drum Edit) – The xx
2. Stuck On You (Ouputmessage Remix) – Dmerit
3. What You Need (DCUP Remix) – Priors
4. Fight For You – Morgan Page
5. Sometimes – Miami Horror
6. Shooting Stars (Kris Menace Remix) – Bag Raiders
7. Starlighter (Steve Moore Remix) – Jupiter
8. Gold In The Fire – MONARCHY
9. Starlove – Marchand

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