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Glitch art is nothing new.  People have been creating art from “glitches” (accidental imperfections in sound and video) for decades.  Musicians like John Cage, and filmmakers like Stan Brakhage intentionally sought out such flaws to emphasize the beauty within.  In recent years, music video directors have been exploiting the glitches created by VHS tapes, video feedback, and corrupted digital files to add nostalgic flare to music videos.  It’s a nostalgia that reflects the near-vintage sounds and cassette-only releases that these bands produce.

The following videos are some of my favorite videos that utilize some of these glitch art techniques:

Ariel Pink- “Round and Round”

Flaming Lips’ lead man, Wayne Coyne, shot this video on his iPhone while on tour with Ariel Pink.  George Salisbury added the psychedelic effects to create one of the most mind-blowing videos of the year.  Streaming online does not do this video justice.  You have to sign-in on Vimeo.com and download it to watch its full resolution.

Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti – Round & Round from Delo Creative on Vimeo.

Neon Indian- “Mind, Drips”

Lars Larsen and Edward Leckie created a new technique, LZX Visionary, to produce this video’s swirling colors.  They call their new technology “an analog video synthesizer” that manipulates video like a musical synthesizer does for sound.  It’s similar to circuit bending, a technique long-used by glitch musicians.

Neon Indian “Mind, Drips” Official Video from Neon Indian on Vimeo.

Autre Ne Veut- “Soldier”

Luke Wyatt created this video with his technique called “Video Mulch”.  He described one part of his process by saying, “My VCR gets beat up with a size 13 docksider until it makes errors and the VHS tape spits up on itself.”  Its cut-and-pasted/datamoshed/feedback result makes a nice backdrop for Soldier’s slightly off-key melodies.

AUTRE NE VEUT “SOLDIER” from OLDE ENGLISH SPELLING BEE on Vimeo.

Chairlift- “Evident Utensil”

Ray Tintori created this video a couple of years ago, and stirred up some drama as Kanye West was releasing a video at the same time using the same glitch technique.  It really doesn’t matter, neither one of them used the technique first.  But I think this video was best at using the process called data-moshing, where certain pixels in the video freeze and become attached to images in following frames of video. You’ll see, just watch…

Chairlift – “Evident Utensil” Music Video from Data Mosher on Vimeo.

Greetings Boo’s and Ghouls, this [Music Friday] we have an epic 2 disc playlist for you to get your spook on, all Halloween weekend. I was able revive Shannon the Boy from the dead to assist in putting together yet another eclectic mix of tunes perfect for your devlish Hallows Eve antics. This spell’s ingredients calls for an odd mixture of haunting indie, bewitched electro, creepy classics, demented hip-hop and of course what would a Halloween mix be without this years favorite new genre Witch House! So enjoy your treat, trick!!! Muahahahahahahahaha! Enjoy or die!!!!! (by the way, its not a mixtape, its a playlist….if any of you still use cassette players all these mp3 based playlists you’ve been downloading would be worthless)

Dowload entire 2 disc compilation HERE

DISC 1

†‡† -”Psychic Teens”
Broken Bells -”Meyrub Fields”
2Pac -”The Fog feat. Notorious B.I.G”
Crystal Castles -”Not In Love (Ft. Robert Smith)”
The Mae Shi -”Run To Your Grave”
Gary Numan -”I Die : You Die”
White Ring -”IxC999″
Pink Floyd -”Lucifer Sam”
Van She -”(Don’t Fear) The Reaper”
Ramona Falls -”I Say Fever”
Keepaway -”Sideways Smile”
Dead Kennedys -”Halloween”
Big Gipp -”Boogie Man Ft. Andre 3000″
HEALTH -”Eat Flesh (Baron von Luxxury Extended Remix)”
Book of Love -”Witchcraft”

DISC 2

NIKE7UP -”Swallowed”
Lil Wayne -”Im a Monster [EverY Day is Halloween]“
Tobacco -”Unholy Demon Rhythms”
Roy G and the Biv -”Somebody’s Watching Me”
The Glove -”Perfect Murder”
Restiform Bodies -”INTERACTIVE HALLOWEEN LAZERSPORT”
Risqué -”Psycho Killer”
oOoOO -”Burnout Eyess”
David Bowie -”Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps)”
Salem -”Redlights”
Editors -”Lullaby”
Neon Indian -”Psychic Chasms (Apache Beat Remix)”
Skrillex -”Scary Monsters And Nice Sprites (Noisia Remix)”
Of Montreal -”October Is Eternal”

The [Hellox6 x DYFO] SXSW Backyard Blowout was epic. The house was sick, and our friends who all came from all over were amazing and contributed in some way or another. Florene was one of my favorites shows of the day as were Jessica 6, The Happen-ins, Hoyotoho and Sore Losers. Tonight, Dustin Hollywood and I are interviewing Jessica 6 before their show in Denton — which should amazing. I have to say this years SXSW was by far the most exciting and fun partly due to everyone who came out and supported us.

A very special thanks to SXSW, Sea of Shoes, Neon Indian, Honor Roll Music, Jessica’s Mirror, Sweet Green and saving the best for last: DYFO.

Photos By: SHOK

Friday at SXSW we had a Backyard Dance Party at the house we rented in Austin. Our friend Jane that runs SEAOFSHOES.COM stayed with us during the festival and our friend Ronnie from Neon Indian stopped by to hang for awhile also, while we were chilling waiting for the party to start I snapped a few photos in the backyard, The party ended up being amazing, I have three new bands I’m absolutely in Love with: Jessica 6 formerly of Hercules and the Love Affair, The Happen-ins, and Sore Losers, everyone should check them out!!

Photos By: Dustin Hollywood

Video By: SHOK

The Flaming Lips @ NX35 this year were amazing — I’ve never seen them live but their performance was one of the best I’ve ever seen, and the crowd was intense. On Sunday we went back to Denton for the end of the NX35 weekend. We saw the 8-track museum, a rooftop hip-hop show, and enjoyed some free pizza. We ended the night at Rubber Gloves where we saw Neon Indian, Ishi, French Horn Rebellion and others.

What a weekend, here comes SXSW!!!

Photos By:  Dustin Hollywood

Last weekend I went out to see my friends in the band’s Neon Indian and Ishi play at Hailey’s, in Denton, TX.  The show looked like it was gonna sell out at 8pm and they didn’t even go on until 11:30pm, it was pretty amazing!  This time last year Neon Indian was but a beginning, now in 2010 they’ve seen and toured the world, been mentioned on the national news, and have a fan following that seems to growing by the minute.  They aren’t the only band making waves though, Ishi is just another example of the growing music scene in Dallas, TX, despite the citiy government’s blatantly obvious hatred for it, and anything creative.  Ishi’s sound is a finely tuned dancing machine, that infects anyone that hears it.  I even found myself dancing in the middle of photographing them!  Look for big things coming from these two bands in the future!

Photos By:  Dustin Hollywood

This week we bring you a Neon Indian track, 7000, as remixed by ‘ISH’ veteran Yeahdef. Dude originally layed this track down immediately after Neon Indian’s set at Granada Theater on December 28, 2009. Give it a whirl — you will like what you hear. And be sure to make it out this week to ‘THE ISH’ Wednesday: Power Up as we team up Yeahdef with Ocelot and Indo. You can thank us with a solid Thursday morning hangover.

Click HERE to download Neon Indian (Reprise) ’7000′ (Yeahdef’s Remix)

On Monday my good friends NEON INDIAN came back to Dallas, TX to do a show at the Granada Theatre with ISHI. It was quite possibly the best performance by either band I’ve ever seen. There had to of been between three or four hundred kids tightly packed around the famous Granada Theatre stage for both bands. Neon Indian and Ishi’s success can not only be attributed to their great stage presence but to the amazing music that they create. Fizzy Dino Pop also performed at the beginning of the show, I’ve never seen him before but I’d keep my eye out on him, I was definitely impressed, he had the group all fired up for Ishi.

Photos By:  Dustin Hollywood

My week in LA started on a Tuesday at Cinespace, I was in LA to do a Spring 2010 Shoot for a Huge company I’ll tell you guys about in the future. One of my favorite places on a Tuesday in L.A. is Cinespace, they have Dim Mak Tuesdays there which is Steve Aoki‘s dance party.

They ended up having bands playing in the back and I caught this group, just two people, one on a synth and another on violin and guitar, it was one of the coolest things I’ve seen in awhile!  I met up with my Friend Ivy Levan, who models in Los Angeles, that night.  Everytime Im there the energy and atmosphere is oh so good!  The Next day I felt it for sure, but breakfast at TART was just the trick to get me going. After an exhausting day on the shoot I headed back to the hotel and changed then headed to Hollywood for Club Moscow @ Boardners.

I was there to visit my friend Keith Wilson who’s the promoter for the club and DJs there all the time, he also acts & models around Los Angeles.  I stayed there until about 1 a.m. and then headed over to this new spot called Bardot over on Vine up From Hollywood Blvd.  From what I heard about it from a few friends I saw at Moscow, it’s the hot spot on Wednesdays in Hollywood, celebrities are spotted there all the time.  It’s dark on the inside, and almost seems like a maze with it’s numerous hallways and low lighting — in other words I loved it.  My sister Natalie met up with me there and the rest of the night was just hectic electricity to say the least.

I got done early around 6 p.m. Thursday with shooting, which was amazing because earlier that day my friends in Neon Indian/Vega flew into L.A. for a show with Crystal Castles at the Siren Studio on Santa Monica Blvd. in Hollywood. When I got to the venue there was a line around the corner and the venue was already to capacity, 300 people.  Thank god I was on the list!  I walked in and straight into the dressing room to see Ronnie, Jason, Allen, & Leanne.  Crystal Castles shared the same dressing room with them, we basically all hung out and drank until they went on.  Once they started the electricity in the room was like a god damn transformer blew for a 10 block radius around us.  I saw more feet moving and heads swinging then a kiss concert on ecstasy, L.A. showed their dancing addiction that night.  I happen to get a bunch of really good shots of them but after the second song the venue made all of the photographers stop taking photos, too bad I got the ones I wanted!  I also happen to see a hamster cage device holding about 100 running hamsters on stage left, weirdest stage prop ever?!

When Crystal Castles finally took the stage after some quick drinkin’ and last minute shots the room was so noisy you had to literally yell into someone’s ear next to you ear talk.  They had a few strobe lights littered across the stage and drum set, and as soon as the music started the lead singer Alice Glass grabbed one of them near her, jammed it up her shirt, and started screaming the night away.  It was one of the best live shows I’ve seen in awhile, really, the energy was fire.  After the show we all hung out in the dressing room drinking and such until me and my friend Marisol decided we would head to my friends studio’s party going on downtown, Boxeight Studios.  Saosin, Eye Alaska, P.O.S., and InnerPartySystem and a few other bands were kicking off the Pacsun Tour there.  When we got there, the bands had already played but my friend Dirk Mai, a local photographer in L.A. that’s amazing, was still there, along with some of the bands and a huge crowd.  I actually got to take a pic of hang out with some of the guys from Saosin while I was there.  Sonny Moore or ‘Skrillex’, formally of From First To Last was there DJing, he’s currently working on a lot of solo stuff you all should definitely check out!

Photos By:  Dustin Hollywood

If you either: a) love Neon Indian b) don’t have Halloween plans c) are obsessed with Granada Theater, or d) are broke, then get your a$$ over to Granada Theater tonite for a FREE Halloween shower featuring Neon Indian and White Denim. Should be an insane show at Dallas’ most insane venue. All you need to is RSVP to Halloween@GrandaTheater.com!

Afterwards, mosey on down to the official afterparty, featuring a DJ set by VEGA, Jason Faries, Mountblood and HOYOTOHO. Doors open at 12:30 AM, and with sponsors like HELLOOOOOO.com and ETCx2, it’s guaranteed to be a great time!

And of course talking about how AMAZING the band is. We are so happy and proud of them!

AHHHH!!!!! :):):):):):):):):)

see the video HERE –>   Neon Indian on ABC World News

This Music Friday we bring you Awesome New Republic a 2-piece electro/indie band from Miami, FL. They count Passion Pit, Of Montreal, and Chromeo as their musical contemporaries.  Their sound and live show draw heavily on psych of the late 60′s, disco of the late 70′s, and new wave of the late 80′s.

The band is releasing Hearts on 10/27 via Honor Roll Music. They’ll be doing a national tour around that, including a few dates with Neon Indian.  Check out some of my favorites from their new album below.

Last Drop: Download

Deep Love: Download 

Photo By: Peter Richardson

This is an old interview I posted awhile back of Alan Palomo of Vega after their show with Shiny Toy Guns at the Palladium in Dallas. In the interview, I asked Alan what really went down with Crystal Castles after their cancelled show in Dallas.

Took a short trip to Denton last night to see yet another one of Alan Palomo’s bands,  Neon Indian. The show was at Rubber Gloves, an old cement factory that was converted into a rehearsal studio and then eventually into a music venue.  Although the band had some technical difficulties at first, the show ended up being amazing, and the girl in the band was way too sexy. I wish these guys the best of luck with their upcoming North American/European tour.

Denton is smoker-friendly

Photos By: Shok

As some of you know, I shot some creative press photos for mister Alan Palomo of ‘Neon Indian’. So far, some well known blogs such as thecoolhunter.net,  gorillavsbear.net and bleachonlinedrop.com have used my photos for articles about Neon Indian as have some Danish and Polish magazines! I was so excited about the news that I just wanted to post some of the polaroids and other pictures you guys may not have seen yet…

as well as a couple non-polaroids

If you are down with Helloooooo then you are down with VEGA. Alan, Ronnie and Jason hit the West Coast this past weekend for a five-date concert series up the coast. To all my LA peoples, make sure you check ‘em out at The Arena in Hollywood on Tuesday night. Unfortunately Gilberto will be in Los Angeles two days too late as I arrive on Thursday.

Sorry for the lack of posts but I’ve been preparing for a 10-day trip on Wednesday that takes me to London for a night and then off to Split, Croatia. There I will be boarding a small dinky and touring the coast with a few friends. Last night the gang, including Jane & Rokarony, headed to Grimaldi’s Pizzeria in West Village for some mouth-watering thin crust NY-style pizza and then to Don Carters/USA BOWL for a friendly game of bowling.