This track goes back to around 2003 – 2004. It’s never been released until now but in 2010 it was included in the soundtrack for The Clean Bin Project. It’s a great documentary about an experiment to live waste free for an entire year. If you haven’t seen it yet check it out! And in case you’re wondering, I have no idea what “lozotomy” means.
Read MoreThis is one of the tracks I composed for the 2004 documentary Wrestling With The North. I’m not a wrestling fan myself but the movie is quite good.
Wrestling With the North explores the collision of two worlds. A professional wrestling tour – featuring rising Native Canadian wrestler Wavel Starr – ventures north to the dark, cold, isolated First Nations reserves of northern Manitoba. What follows are 20 days, 14 reserves, more than 100 hours of driving, 12 professional wrestlers, -40°C temperatures, no permanent roads, and thousands of adoring fans.
I did the whole soundtrack for this movie so there will be some more tracks from this in future HDD posts. I definitely would like to do more soundtrack work so if there’s any film makers reading this that need music let me know.
Read MoreOK, time to get back into this. First post of 2012. Dropping some hip hop beats on this one, circa 2005. Anyone have any mad rap skills they can lay down on this track? I dare you…
Read MoreTop Ten Albums of 2011. Here’s my list so far…
- M83 – Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming
- Washed Out – Within And Without
- Radiohead – King Of Limbs
- Modeselektor – Monkeytown
- The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart – Belong
- Ringo Deathstarr – Colour Trip
- Bachelorette – Bachelorette
- Dog Day – Deformer
- Justice – Audio, Video, Disco
- Bon Iver – Bon Iver
This is from around the same time as the other songs from Unity Gain but didn’t make the album, back when I was into doing vocoder vocals. The lyrics are “Everybody Get Together”. Seemed like a good one to put out for Christmas. Happy Holidays!
Read MoreSome Guitaro news. JJ’s Crystal Palace made it onto a couple best of the year lists for 2011. Nice!
From the Georgia Straight
Guitaro
JJ’s Crystal Palace
Vancouver’s own Guitaro continues to fly, undeservedly, under just about everyone’s radar, but this perfect synthesis of shoegazing rock and ambient electronica is every bit as buzz-worthy as anything Anthony Gonzalez released this year.
From The Decibel Tolls
Read MoreGUITARO - JJ’S CRYSTAL PALACE
This Vancouver outfit have quietly released brilliant EPs and full-lengths under the name Guitaro since the tail end of the 20th century. With great injustice, they mostly passed under the radar of the world’s tastemaking music media, save for the critical lauding within their native British Columbia. Hopefully that will change, since after a six year hiatus, this undiscovered gem of a trio may have released the definitive album for shoegazers who like to cut rugs and reach escape velocity. JJ’s Crystal Palace is a ten-song space disco romp through varying moods, tempos, and volumes. Those amongst us who were greatly excited by M83′s Red Cities, Red Seas, & Lost Ghosts and were then fucking pissed by the weak-ass Depeche Mode-shaped turd Before The Dawn Heals Us because it was bullshit, not to mention Tubeaway Army superfans and those who believe Air can do no wrong… are in. fucking. luck. Because you will find myriad treasures within this 10-song beuaty. Guitaro has constructed some truly beautiful, cerebral, and highly hummable anthems, slathered in infectious mid-tempo dance rhythms and a liberal dose of galacticism. It totally rips.
Another chill out track. This one goes back to the release of Reason 2.0 (for the audio nerds out there), around 2003. Playing around with some of the new instruments I came up with this.
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This is a track from 2005 during my phase where I would buy records from Value Village looking for stuff to sample. This one features a sample from a record of Hawaiian music, so fix yourself a Mai Tai and have a listen.
Read MoreNow for something a little different. Upping the tempo and intensity on this one. This track was made for a short film called Black Wave. It didn’t end up being used in the end as it needed something a little more understated, but the songs is still good on its own.
Here’s Black Wave with the other soundtrack I did for it.
This one is pretty chill, so sit back and relax. The title comes from a quote of a Dubya speech on literacy. Too good.
“I believe the results of focusing our attention and energy on teaching children to read and having an education system that’s responsive to the child and to the parents, as opposed to mired in a system that refuses to change, will make America what we want it to be — a more literate country and a hopefuller country.”
-George Bush, January 2001
