Feb 28, 2009
David After Dentist
There is a theory that laughter can be turned into healing energy. The simple conscious decision to make your laughter a healing energy causes its vibration to change so that it is positively charged and then routed towards your target. That is a classic idea of the way that the science of magic works.
If you would like to entertain this theory, even just for the next minute or two, I suggest that the laughter that you generate while you watch this video be dedicated to the healing and rehabilitation of the planet earth, encompassing all the forms of life that it holds.
Even if you don't believe this theory, I believe that your laughter will still be a positive force as described, because that is my intention in this blog posting. This intention is subliminally interlaced within these wordings and phrasings, paragraph structure, etc., even without my complete understanding of it. Even though you may not consciously realize what this message may be, your subconscious has received the message clearly and it will respond unless it is consciously told to do otherwise.
Yes, I'm sleep deprived.
If you would like to entertain this theory, even just for the next minute or two, I suggest that the laughter that you generate while you watch this video be dedicated to the healing and rehabilitation of the planet earth, encompassing all the forms of life that it holds.
Even if you don't believe this theory, I believe that your laughter will still be a positive force as described, because that is my intention in this blog posting. This intention is subliminally interlaced within these wordings and phrasings, paragraph structure, etc., even without my complete understanding of it. Even though you may not consciously realize what this message may be, your subconscious has received the message clearly and it will respond unless it is consciously told to do otherwise.
Yes, I'm sleep deprived.
Feb 22, 2009
WTF - This video is nuts
N.A.S.A. ft. David Byrne, Chali 2na, Gift Of Gab and Z-Trip - The People Tree
Feb 18, 2009
Feb 14, 2009
What a quiet world they must live in...
As I was getting ready to go outside and shovel the driveway at about 2 a.m., I realized that I couldn't find my usual headphones (headphones are essentially a part of my daily wardrobe). So, naturally, I grabbed another pair... a beanie with some built in crappy headphones that I upgraded to from the even crappier headphones the beanie came with. I couldn't tell you how many pairs of headphones there are in my house, but by my count there aren't enough.
Anyway, I got outside and started shoveling. A few passes into it my drunken neighbors came home, driving up the middle of the road. I could faintly hear their voices and since it seems to be a common occurrence that people try to talk to me while I'm listening to music, I paused my mp3 player (listening to Silenced Of Words 2.5 - .5 if you care). It was dead silent, something you don't hear when you've got four kids AND make music. Thinking to myself I started pondering what it would be like without constantly hearing a tune, whether through some sort of speakers or the music that runs through my head all too often.
The conclusion I came to is I have absolutely no fucking clue. As long as I can remember I've been surrounded by music. My grandfather made violins and other like stringed instruments, so I was ushered into the Suzuki Method at the tender age of 2. Of course, my mother was a flutist and avid music listener too. Growing up I remember hearing all kinds of artists, unbeknownst to me at the time some who I would even grow to love later in life. Needless to say, it was just the start in the shaping of my musical tastes and one of the few constants I can think of. Then, I met hip hop through ciphers in the projects. I was about 6 years old. Since most people who know of me now know of me as an emcee and/or composer (it’s almost a shame I recognize the difference between someone who makes music and someone who oversees it), it only took me a good two years before I was getting involved in them myself.
What is it like for "normal" people who don't get that kind of experience? Do they have melodies springing around their skulls like I do? Thanks to the Suzuki Method I developed a damn good ear for music, or maybe it just helped condition my existing sense of it. Do they critique every sound possible listening for the timbre and tonal qualities? I imagine that isn't the case, and at times I've got quite the imagination.
Granted it was 2 a.m. and snowing, so, the roads were rather dead because the road commission has the silly idea that they might as well just wait until it stops snowing to plow; it was too quiet for my taste. That aside, is that what it’s like for "them" (the "normal" people that is)? Without the noise of kids trampling around yelling, or even worse, living in a desolate area, do they actually put up with silence or as close as you can get to it in a city?
I was at Target yesterday, headphones on listening to some Devin The Dude, walking around not knowing that it was dead silent there too. For some reason or another I paused my music and heard there wasn't anything playing on the speakers. Most of the time when you go into a store, there's at least some kind of music playing. This time, however, none. It took me about 30 seconds of walking in the disturbing silence before I had to turn my music back on. While looking at cards I wasn't going to buy, someone walked up behind and to the left of me and started talking. I couldn't hear what they were saying and had no idea if they were talking to me so I looked up (I was crouching, it isn't too often that I have to look up to see someone while standing). No idea who it was, so I awkwardly went back to essentially doing nothing other than listening to music and gazing at cards that didn't hold much interest. Still, no music playing at the store. Don't get me wrong, I do occasionally enjoy having things quiet. It's rare, but once in a great while I do. Hell, I even sleep with music playing. Sometimes I have some screwed up dreams, but I don't mind that. Do people who don't listen to music while they sleep dream less? Less vividly maybe? Again, questions I have no fucking clue as to what the answer might be. Even as I'm sitting here writing this I'm making a beat.
Am I just crazy? Ok, that question isn't really relevant. As I re-crafted in my most recently recorded track, someone once told and asked me "I've heard that people in the arts are crazy." (Short awkward silence) "Oh, you make music don't you?" Could it just be that I lost my sanity long, long, long ago? Do sane people not listen to or hear music all of the time? Guess I'll just have to find a sane person and ask them myself. Good fucking luck huh?
(It says I did this at 2:02 a.m. but I'm not THAT fucking fast at shoveling, it's actually 5 here... damn insomnia)
Since I mentioned that I was making a beat, have a listen to its unmixed glory before it becomes too dope to handle... sgc209
Anyway, I got outside and started shoveling. A few passes into it my drunken neighbors came home, driving up the middle of the road. I could faintly hear their voices and since it seems to be a common occurrence that people try to talk to me while I'm listening to music, I paused my mp3 player (listening to Silenced Of Words 2.5 - .5 if you care). It was dead silent, something you don't hear when you've got four kids AND make music. Thinking to myself I started pondering what it would be like without constantly hearing a tune, whether through some sort of speakers or the music that runs through my head all too often.
The conclusion I came to is I have absolutely no fucking clue. As long as I can remember I've been surrounded by music. My grandfather made violins and other like stringed instruments, so I was ushered into the Suzuki Method at the tender age of 2. Of course, my mother was a flutist and avid music listener too. Growing up I remember hearing all kinds of artists, unbeknownst to me at the time some who I would even grow to love later in life. Needless to say, it was just the start in the shaping of my musical tastes and one of the few constants I can think of. Then, I met hip hop through ciphers in the projects. I was about 6 years old. Since most people who know of me now know of me as an emcee and/or composer (it’s almost a shame I recognize the difference between someone who makes music and someone who oversees it), it only took me a good two years before I was getting involved in them myself.
What is it like for "normal" people who don't get that kind of experience? Do they have melodies springing around their skulls like I do? Thanks to the Suzuki Method I developed a damn good ear for music, or maybe it just helped condition my existing sense of it. Do they critique every sound possible listening for the timbre and tonal qualities? I imagine that isn't the case, and at times I've got quite the imagination.
Granted it was 2 a.m. and snowing, so, the roads were rather dead because the road commission has the silly idea that they might as well just wait until it stops snowing to plow; it was too quiet for my taste. That aside, is that what it’s like for "them" (the "normal" people that is)? Without the noise of kids trampling around yelling, or even worse, living in a desolate area, do they actually put up with silence or as close as you can get to it in a city?
I was at Target yesterday, headphones on listening to some Devin The Dude, walking around not knowing that it was dead silent there too. For some reason or another I paused my music and heard there wasn't anything playing on the speakers. Most of the time when you go into a store, there's at least some kind of music playing. This time, however, none. It took me about 30 seconds of walking in the disturbing silence before I had to turn my music back on. While looking at cards I wasn't going to buy, someone walked up behind and to the left of me and started talking. I couldn't hear what they were saying and had no idea if they were talking to me so I looked up (I was crouching, it isn't too often that I have to look up to see someone while standing). No idea who it was, so I awkwardly went back to essentially doing nothing other than listening to music and gazing at cards that didn't hold much interest. Still, no music playing at the store. Don't get me wrong, I do occasionally enjoy having things quiet. It's rare, but once in a great while I do. Hell, I even sleep with music playing. Sometimes I have some screwed up dreams, but I don't mind that. Do people who don't listen to music while they sleep dream less? Less vividly maybe? Again, questions I have no fucking clue as to what the answer might be. Even as I'm sitting here writing this I'm making a beat.
Am I just crazy? Ok, that question isn't really relevant. As I re-crafted in my most recently recorded track, someone once told and asked me "I've heard that people in the arts are crazy." (Short awkward silence) "Oh, you make music don't you?" Could it just be that I lost my sanity long, long, long ago? Do sane people not listen to or hear music all of the time? Guess I'll just have to find a sane person and ask them myself. Good fucking luck huh?
(It says I did this at 2:02 a.m. but I'm not THAT fucking fast at shoveling, it's actually 5 here... damn insomnia)
Since I mentioned that I was making a beat, have a listen to its unmixed glory before it becomes too dope to handle... sgc209
Feb 11, 2009
Support Th' Mole on Hype Machine
You can listen to my song "Jump Jack" featuring Warrior Queen and remixed by Mochipet at Hype Machine, and you can also click the little heart picture to add me to your "favorites" and make me RICH AND FAMOUSSSS!
DO IT!
Th' Mole's multimedia maxi-single
What the heck is this "multimedia maxi-single," you ask? It's awesome!!
Th' Mole's JUMP JACK single features Mochipet, Warrior Queen, DJ Amazing Clay and Bearmod, and includes three MP3's, a music video, and animated GIF cover art.
CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD
Turbo-powered "future rapper" Th' Mole refers to Jump Jack as "exercise music." "It's something to work out to," he says. "Something to get your blood pumping, to make your muscles big and get you in shape."
Preview the ridiculous "Go Horsie" music video and subscribe to the new ThMoleTV channel at youtube.com/ThMoleTV
Originally hailing from Jamaica, Warrior Queen is known primarily for her work with the widely acclaimed The Bug (Ninja Tune). She has an extensive body of work in dancehall, garage, dubstep and beyond, including collaborations with Skream and DJ Zinc. She has voiced the iconic Bug single "Poison Dart" as well as the stunning album track "Insane". The Bug and Warrior Queen are currently completing a series of US dates with Nine Inch Nails. myspace.com/thewarriorqueens
Mochipet, AKA David Wang, runs Daly City Records and endorses products such as M-Audio and Puma. He is currently working on several new projects including ones with Joyo Velarde, Lyrics Born, Antipop Consortium’s M. Sayyid, and Chicago’s MC Zulu. Listen to Mochipet's remix of Th' Mole, featuring Warrior Queen, on the Jump Jack maxi-single. myspace.com/mochipet
DJ Amazing Clay, whose DJ career stretches back some 27 years (circa ‘Planet Rock’, an early staple of Clay’s sets), founded ‘Equipe Curtisom Rio’ ‘ one of Rio’s earliest funk sound systems. Until his recent collaboration with Th' Mole (remixing "Go Horsie"), Clay's definitive production work has remained almost completely within the Brazilian baile funk scene, gracing recordings by Mr. Catra, Deize Tigrona and MC Dido, flanked by the unparalleled baile funk label, Man Recordings. myspace.com/djamazingclay
Bearmod (AKA Blingmod, Briefcase Rockers) hails from Hawaii but resides in Montreal, hanging tough with the Turbo Crunk crew, making people dance to the rocket-powered bleep hop, all in the name of love. He and Th' Mole met long ago when they were aimless young punks in Hawaii; now Bearmod regularly rocks crowds alongside such acts as Megasoid, Lazer Sword, Hovatron, Lunice, and more. For Jump Jack, Bearmod remixes the track "Heart Phire" (from the forthcoming album), transforming it from a hillbilly stomper to a city-slick stepper. myspace.com/bearmod
Th' Mole has been spinning his weird web since the 90's, jumping from the Bay Area to Hawaii to New Orleans and beyond, meanwhile running his own record label, Motion Recordings, and releasing music under a number of aliases. Th' Mole's music has been released by numerous indie labels (Hectic, Zhark, Anti-Party, Vaatican, etc.), and he has performed all over the world, sharing stages with such notables as DJ Krush, Venetian Snares, Living Legends, Meat Beat Manifesto, and more. Whoop-tee-doo!! On March 10, 2009, Daly City Records releases Th' Mole's Greatest Hits (Ha Ha Ha) Vol. 1 album. myspace.com/themole
Th' Mole is currently booking Europe, Canada and the US for Spring. Contact jonah.themole@gmail.com for inquiries. Press kit at dalycityrecords.com/the_mole
Feb 9, 2009
Dis is da Motherboard blog
Hello. I'm making this blog for all the peops who frequent the Motherboard msg. board. If you have over 50 posts on there contact me and I will add you as a blogger।
Oh yeah - here's something copied and pasted from my comment above:
no rules.
but we should keep in mind that the more entertaining the posts are, the more likely that people will come back here.
i figured that i would use this mainly as a promotional tool, and try to post some other interesting stuff as well.
as far as other things that can make the blog better, links are good for making the blog rise in search listings. there's a lot of stuff we can do involving networking and "badges" and "aggregators" but i still haven't learned about that stuff. anything you guys want to try to do to help run this thing better, please feel free.
feel free to mess with the appearance and banner and everything too.
One more tip: use the "Labels" (AKA keywords) box when you make a post.
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