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Vault: Can I Still Rock?

In the month of February in 2006 in New York, I joined friends Tim and Dan (aka Disasterock) a handful of times for epic jam sessions into the late hours (until the neighbors would knock on the door and complain). I vividly remember lots of snow, Pizza, and it being frigid in Dan’s house, having to play guitar for about an hour to get the cold out of my fingers. Nonetheless as a collective experience it’s one of the best I’ve had, not to mention musically.

This jam came out of a session a week earlier and we played it a couple of times afterwards incorporating new ideas and refining it. Still, it’s a jam. We originally called it “Can I Still Rock While I Get My B.A.”. This version is lovingly called, “Can I Still Rock and Hang with the Bachelor’s Associates”.

At this point I’d only been playing guitar a few years, and writing even fewer. Pretty much everything I’m playing is by ear and memory of positions.

Nonetheless, I think this is a cool little number that has some potential. Kind’ve has a Tortoise/Slint/Assorted Post-Rock vibe to it.

MP3: Can I Still Rock and Hang With the Bachelor’s Associates

Note: Vault is a new feature which you can also access directly at: Disasterpeace.Tumblr.com

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A Chip off the Shizz Block, Volume One

Concatenation Records

Concatenation Records

A new compilation featuring music from artists who frequent the Minibosses‘ message boards on TheShizz.org is now available. I have a collaborative track on here with Temp Sound Solutions called “Ascend”, and there are tracks from many of the Pause artists including Phlogiston, Alex Mauer, Shnabubula, and Norrin Radd, and there are also contributions from videogame music extraordinaire Virt and Rushjet1, all of which have frequented The Shizz at one time or another. Old School NES Composer Neil Baldwin even has a contribution on the album! Definitely check it out.

Link: A Chip off the Shizz Block, Volume One

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Kind of Bloop is Out!

I’m proud to announce that Kind of Bloop is officially released!

http://kindofbloop.com/

If you were one of those kind enough to back the project through Kickstarter, you should have received an email today with your private password to stream the album or download it in MP3 or FLAC format with high-resolution cover art.

The digital download of the album will be available for purchase to the general public on Thursday. There are also short previews of each track on the website.

Thanks to everyone for their support and for making this project happen!

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We Did It!

August 1st has come and gone, and we’ve not only passed our $2,000 goal for the putting together of “Kind of Bloop: An 8-Bit Tribute to Miles Davis”, we’ve shattered it! We’ve managed to raise over $8,500! Thank you guys for all of your support. We’ve all been working hard on our tracks, and I think you’ll be pleased. For those who have pledged, check the Kickstarter for updates in the coming days about the production of CDs. The album will be available for download on August 17th. We did it!

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Kind of Bloop: An 8-Bit Tribute to Miles Davis

We’ve already received over $5,000 in pledges to help make this project possible! Thanks to everyone for their support.

An Excerpt from Project Creator Andy Baio:

What would the pioneers of jazz sound like on a Nintendo Entertainment System? Coltrane on a C-64? Mingus on Amiga? For years, I’ve wondered what “chiptune jazz” would sound like, but there are only a tiny handful of jazz covers ever made.

To commemorate the 50th anniversary of Miles Davis’s “Kind of Blue” &mdash I’ve asked five brilliant chiptune musicians to collaborate and reinvent the entire album in the 8-bit sound.

The lineup, in alphabetical order:

Ast0r (Chris J. Hampton)

Disasterpeace (Rich Vreeland)

Sergeeo (Sergio de Prado)

Shnabubula (Samuel Ascher-Weiss)

Virt (Jake Kaufman)

To create this album, I hope to raise $2,000 to pay royalties, pay the artists, and print CDs. Legally releasing cover songs requires paying mechanical licenses to the song publishers through the Harry Fox Agency, totaling about $420 for every 250 downloads and a $75 processing fee. I’ll be using the remainder to print a very limited run of CDs for Kickstarter backers, and split the rest evenly among the five musicians for their painstaking work. (This is a labor of love for me, so I won’t be keeping a dime.)

I hope to have the entire album download ready for Kind of Blue’s 50th birthday on August 17. (Printing and shipping CDs will take longer.)

All project backers will get exclusive first access to the album download before anyone else in the world, and exclusive updates during the album’s creation. Backers donating $30 or more will receive an extremely limited-edition CD, printed only for this Kickstarter project. Once the August 1 deadline is reached, the CD will never be sold again!

Track Listing (Tentative):

1. So What – Ast0r

2. Freddie Freeloader – Virt

3. Blue in Green – Sergeeo

4. All Blues – Shnabubula

5. Flamenco Sketches – Disasterpeace

(“Kind of Bloop” pixel art by SnackAdmiral.)

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