Posts Tagged ‘Live’

Non-Format

Saturday, July 24th, 2010

Home­work­home­work­home­work.  I’ve got lots of it but for the past few hours ended up dick­ing around down­load­ing pat­terns, brushes, and gra­di­ents for Pho­to­shop…  Although, I don’t feel like it has been a com­plete waste of time, con­sid­er­ing some of these will help me do some future home­works.  In the end, I sup­pose it has been pro­cras­ti­na­tion…  Oh well, time to get to work now I suppose.

I’ve been work­ing on a Typog­ra­phy assign­ment.  My inspi­ra­tion?  Non-Format.  Never heard of these guys?  Well, two words: 1)BAD 2)ASS.  They do the coolest work.  Well, maybe I’m get­ting ahead of myself here.  For those of you who have had your head in the sand: Non-Format is a com­pany run by two dudes, Kjell Ekhorn (Nor­we­gian) and Jon Forss (British), who have worked together since the year 2000.  They have done a range of projects rang­ing from art direc­tion all the way down to fash­ion and yes, even typog­ra­phy.  You’ve prob­a­bly seen their work in The Wire, that music mag­a­zine, as they have art directed it in the day.  They are basi­cally just really, really, really good graphic design­ers, in my opin­ion.  Don’t take my word though, see for your­self and check out their site that I linked above.

So, I’ve had the visual inspi­ra­tion for this assign­ment, and you can bet your asses that I’ve also had the musi­cal inspi­ra­tion.  What have I been lis­ten­ing to inorder to design some kick­ass posters?  None other than Mr. Eti­enne de Crécy.  I’ve taken the lib­erty of upload­ing my favourite tune of his (that has been get­ting replayed over and over while I’ve been work­ing on these posters), ‘Fast Track,’ aswell as a live ver­sion he did where he mashes that tune up with Camille’s ‘Some­one Like You’ and Simian Mobile Disco’s ‘Never Be Alone.’  Amaz­ing stuff.  Also check out the video that I put up, which fea­tures ‘Fast Track’ and the amaz­ing live set de Crécy toured around with (props to Alfie for orig­i­nally show­ing me this, this set would make Daft Punk proud).  SO COOL!

Down­loads:

  1. Fast Track — Eti­enne de Crécy
  2. Fast Track Live Vs. We Are Your Friends — Eti­enne de Crécy
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The xx/Hot Chip Live in TO

Wednesday, April 21st, 2010

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N: Last night Toronto was invaded by the Brits.  Tris­tan and myself were there to soak up all its ear­gas­mic glory.  Let me tell you, what a great night it was!  We like to say we got two qual­ity con­certs for the price of one.  The xx was so smooth sound­ing, I was left mes­mer­ized.  It really fit as last night was the evening of 4/20, the place reeked of mar­i­juana, I’m sure all those ston­ers were blown away and trans­ferred to some new mag­i­cal musi­cal envi­ron­ment hah.  After a short break Hot Chip came on and in good tim­ing.  They opened with “Hand Me Down Your Love,” and left us super pumped for the rest of the show.  I think the most pow­er­ful song was “Over & Over,” Tris­tan joked about how he almost had to leave because it was mega-intense, when that cho­rus kicked in the crowd went crazy and I think my ears almost exploded because it was so loud.  I lit­er­ally felt the music shake my body, and that’s what I like to expe­ri­ence when I see such an act.  They are such a cooky band, and I love it.  They joked about all night long, and the front­man Alexis Tay­lor was sport­ing a Wham! t-shirt, which I thought summed up the band’s sense of humour.

I’ve uploaded some of both bands’ tunes incase some of you aren’t famil­iar.  “Intro” is an instru­men­tal but really sets you up for the “xx sound,” and it was fit­tingly the song that the trio opened up with.  “Shel­ter” is my favourite xx tune, and it blew me away last night when they played it.  The Hot Chip songs below are pure clas­sics: “Over & Over” is a must in your music library, and “Ready For The Floor” is my favourite tune of theirs.  They closed the show with that song in their encore, and it made the evening that much bet­ter for.  I couldn’t wipe the smile off my face when they played it, and the live twist that they put on it is pretty awe­some.  Last is from their new album, “One Life Stand.”  If you haven’t got­ten a hold of it yet, you must, I think it’s Hot Chip’s best work to date.

Our next con­cert is the amaz­ing Brazil­ian duo, The Twelves and all us Unkitsch boys are going to it.  So be sure to check back for some sort of report.  Till then, enjoy the sounds of The xx and Hot Chip!

T: My thoughts… hmm.. this was the loud­est fuck­ing con­cert I’ve been to in my life. It was so loud that at one point I asked Nick whether he was breath­ing through his mouth because my nos­trils were hum­ming and it was really strange feel­ing. It was so loud that you couldn’t think — only kind of groove with the crowd.. the hour and half set seemed to just pass us by and before we knew it they were fin­ish­ing up with an amaz­ing encore of “Ready for the Floor”. What stole the show was the per­for­mance of “Over and Over”. It was to put it bluntly: ear­gas­mic. The video doesn’t really do it jus­tice– but hope­fully you get the point.

Down­loads:

  1. Intro — The xx
  2. Shel­ter — The xx
  3. Over & Over — Hot Chip
  4. Ready For The Floor — Hot Chip
  5. Hand Me Down Your Love — Hot Chip
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Beach House Live

Wednesday, March 31st, 2010

T: Alfred and I made a trip to the Opera House on Queen East for a great show by Beach House. The open­ing act was from New Zealand, Bach­e­lorette. Great way to start the sum­mer con­cert season!

A: Bachelorette’s solo per­for­mance, open­ing for the Beach House was unique, it def­i­nitely got that indie feel to it and she had this most won­der­ful, shy New Zealan­der accent. Basi­cally I find her very “cute”, cute lit­tle quiet voice, short hair, I just might have a crush on her, not going to lie… Beach House than came on at about at about 10:30, their set had these dia­mond shaped reflec­tive things, with per­fect light­ing… they were really cool, at some point they just seem to be float­ing behind her. The con­cert was very mel­low, basi­cally it helped de-stressed my intense last week’s work habit… which by the way if I had kept it up for­ever, I’d prob­a­bly cure can­cer, but no thanks.. too tir­ing or I’m just lazy.

Any­ways all in all, it was a great expe­ri­ence, and oh one thing I for­got, their live per­for­mance was top notch, it sounded incred­i­ble, match­ing up to the sound of their album “Teen Dream”, (and every­one should look into that album ), which was def­i­nitely a very impor­tant fac­tor for me for a live per­for­mance, don’t want to hear bad bands with bad vocal.

More Beach House: Can’t fig­ure it out? Go take a shower

Down­loads:

1. Beach House — Norway

2. Beach House — Bet­ter Times

3. Bach­e­lorette — Donkey

4. Bach­e­lorette — Her Rotat­ing Head

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St. Vincent Live

Sunday, August 9th, 2009

Went to the show last night, awe­some. Videos are good, but don’t really do it jus­tice. She had a way of end­ing songs that made me feel like I was going to get destroyed by all of these things: a wall of sound, crazy bright strobe lights, Annie Clark’s musi­cian­ship, and her stun­ning good looks. Yes, I have crush on her.

MP3s (click on link to preivew, right click save as to download )

1. St. Vin­cent – Save Me From What I Want

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