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About Matthew
About Matthew- I lead a regular life, providing spectacular I.T. support by day and pursuing my unquenchable rock star dreams by night.
In short, I can stop any cocktail party conversation in its tracks by explaining the best methods to enforce system policies across a corporate network, or the coolest way to program MIDI beats in a modern software sequencer.
Thanks for stopping by, and I look forward to that cocktail.
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Home is the NW
Home is the NW
- Portland, OR, USA
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- Chicago, IL, June 20122012-06-06 - 2012-06-06
- New York, NY, June 20122012-06-12 - 2012-06-12
- Portland, OR, June 20122012-06-17 - 2012-06-17
- Las Vegas, NV, April 20122012-04-04 - 2012-04-06
- Nice, France, May 20112011-05-10 - 2011-05-22
- Reno, NV, October 20102010-10-09 - 2010-10-10
- Sacramento, CA, December 20092009-12-17 - 2009-12-20
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- Reached that point in life where I consider selling my car for a Mellotron. Discuss...
- Haven't thought about the Dominos Noid in about 2 decades, then I hear 2 references to that little pizza demon in the past week. What gives?
- In a bar surrounded by old people talking about Facebook, Windows, hard drives, and smartphones. What the hell is going on? #bitternerd
- Think I'll be pondering this for a very long while: http://t.co/nSfV9BNFMar 13, 12 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- Everyone rips off everyone. This is both comforting and a little disappointing: http://t.co/JkI3mOud
- The worst thing about Slowdive is how quickly their songs fade out. Correction: it's the only bad thing about Slowdive: http://t.co/1CjFH5sz
- Uh oh, my life as an app is ending?.. RT @ClintonLittle: Received sad news that my favorite app @flook will close down on 2/25. #flookfamily
- Listening to an all-one-hit-wonder station at a fine dive bar. Already 100% convinced I need to do a cover of When In Rome's "The Promise"
- @yeahjoestrauch We can make this happen. Just name the date. As long as it's like, 3 months in advance
- I know this is old news, but I'm pretty sure I heard a band doing a cover of this at our rehearsal space: http://t.co/imlGuSkA
- Thank you, @msuzanne, for making my day with this pot of glorious gangsta gold: http://t.co/c8UstyNP
- So true, @yeahjoestrauch. Also, access to more cool vibraslaps than you can shake a vibraslap at
- I don't really like Cake, but I dig how uniquely and consistently-Cake they are from album to album. Which reminds me: I really like cake
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- When You Sleep by My Bloody Valentine
- Jimmy by Keith Canisius
- Gentle Guys by Keith Canisius
- Imagery by Keith Canisius
- The Beach House by Keith Canisius
- Kill Your Systems For Earth by Keith Canisius
- This Time It's Our High by Keith Canisius
- Inner Blue, Outer Red by Keith Canisius
- First Tambourine Love by Keith Canisius
- People's Faces by Keith Canisius
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Dang. Long live hi-fi!
Survey shows increasing preference for MP3 by youngsters, audiophiles weep
A step in the right direction!
Samsung unveils Blue Earth, a solar-powered mobile phone - Engadget
Oh god…
The Double Bacon Hamburger Fatty Melt
Three bacon-stuffed grilled cheese sandwichs for buns, cheese, bacon and two four-ounce beefs patties.
(via seriouseats)
Now that’s just not a good design at all.
Coding Horror: Don’t Reinvent The Wheel, Unless You Plan on Learning More About Wheels
This one is definitely making the rounds online. Our president is amazing.
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This is a recording of Barack Obama saying, “You ain’t my bitch, nigga! Buy your own damn fries!”
Apparently there are some choice phrases quoted in Dreams From My Father. Obama did the audiobook, and so there are now clips of him saying these things, including, also:
“Sure you can have my number, baby!”
“There are white folks, and then there are ignorant motherfuckers like you.”“You know that guy ain’t shit. Sorry-ass motherfucker ain’t got nothing on me.”
And, perhaps best of all, “So what happens when we go out to a party with some sistahs, huh? What happens? I tell you what happens: Blam! They on us like there’s no tomorrow. High school chicks, university chicks, it don’t matter!”
From the Boston Phoenix, with many thanks to ephemeron
New Prius looks like a high-tech sneaker. I want it.
Next-gen Prius semi-officially leaks out: yep, looks like a shoe - Engadget
Hmm…doesn’t quite fit.
VAIO P doesn’t have nothin’ on these other awesome pocket-friendly PCs - Engadget
- Hippies
- Dan: when we left this hippie in goggles came up and was asking us where we could find some noise or electro sexual fusion
- Matthew: you should have pointed to your crotch
- Dan: whos to say i didnt
- Matthew: i should never have doubted you
I don’t think I’ll ever tire of the 8-bit aesthetic.
2008 Holiday Cards: Listen In On A Very 8-Bit Christmas Album
Dang…Oregonians don’t know what to do when it snows.
I was just watching Terminator 2 last night…shit.
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- Everyone ready for the supermoon tonight? We're thinking this song will make for a fine soundtrack: http://soundcloud.com/pinscape/the-moon-woke-me
- Next up we have the release of our brand new web site - check it out over here, friends: http://pinscapemusic.com/
- It's here! Our new single, "Letropa", can be found for streaming or free MP3 download over on SoundCloud: http://soundcloud.com/pinscape/letropa
- It's here! Our new single, "Letropa", can be found for streaming or free MP3 download over on SoundCloud: http://soundcloud.com/pinscape/letropa Stay tuned for some more exciting announcements throughout the day.
- Masters now in hand and sounding really, really good
- We're taking some new material in for mastering today and can't wait to get it into your hands. Watch the countdown app above to track this imminent release! (http://www.facebook.com/pinscape/app_2376093053)
- Mixing precious new sounds for your ears and hearts
- What it sounds like from the stage.
- It didn't take the winning spot, but our Lamb remix is now offered as a FREE MP3 download right over here: http://soundcloud.com/pinscape/lamb-butterfly-effect-pinscape
- We played a new unreleased song at Backspace the other night with fellow bands dropa and Defender. Enjoy!
- Trying something a bit different today - less MIDI, more distortion
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- We would highly recommend also watching the 2D version of our latest film, as the colors and some of the imagery come through much nicer. Find it on Vimeo here: http://vimeo.com/27787952
- Did you see our latest 3D film - To My Darling Grand-daughter...? Don't forget the red & blue glasses: http://www.vimeo.com/27932131
- In case you missed it, the Cannes edit of our award-winning film - To The Land of the Setting Sun - can be seen here!: http://www.vimeo.com/22269059
- Watch our new film - The Night Terrors of Tadeusz Grient - created in 24 hours: http://vimeo.com/24804290
- Our new film (made in 24 hours) will be screened at the Hollywood Theater next Wednesday at 7pm. Please come and enjoy/reprobate
- Kindly reminding: last day for voting on 48gogreen.com for our film (and the others, too) for the top 3 spots: http://bit.ly/eDH6r0
- Our new landing page is now online at http://monsieursoeur.net - point your browsing device in that direction for immediate delight!
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BuySometimes, we want sound — bleeps, burps, squawks, zips, static, clicks –- and sometimes we want the kind of auditory sensation that swells our brain and dead-weds us to the measure. Sometimes we want a damn guitar. Most of the time, we want it all. With A Loom and Not Me, IG88′s first release with Nueva Forma, our ears give praise. Collaborator Jenni Potts grabs your hand from the start and grounds the album throughout in a way that only a balletic, weightless voice can. Intentions of a Dart Frog is a projectile, kinetic jam that won’t let you go. Bed of Stars enter just in time with the titular track to tie you up into a ball and bounce you on into the second half of things. Then there are the brilliant clusters of abounding space in between until Coughing on Syrup Shores clangs around in your jellied head like the guts of an arcade game and spits you back out like a contraband nickel that’s just had the ride of its life. Listen for flux, for soul, for willful racket. Listen for it all. - 6 tracks (00:00)
BuyIf you permit Del Dot to reel you in, you'll come ear to ear with a limitless world of interplanetary racket and neon whimsy. Dippy spirit reigns in the quick, 6-track You Can Play These Songs With Cords, where pliant, happy beats shimmy, clack, thump, and twine with the first-string noise of right where you sit. In the doozie Shedd View, Del Dot leaves the TV on during an electrical storm, and lets the characters of his voltaic opera clap it out. There are times you'll be totally zoned out on the pacifying racket, and suddenly everything will gather force and you'll be moving, with wired purpose, to a song you like. You won't know whether you're listening to a cosmic change in the weather or if you've stomped head first into a party you'll never leave. When Del Dot says goodbye with Won't C U Again, your heart falls a little bit. It's like you've backslid into the last scene of a heart-bending film, unwitting. The beauty bumps up against that tender spot where all emotion swells and fades out of your attention with a parting twinkle, the loose glitter and amorphous gurgle of a gasping baby star, until he finally says his last goodbye with a wink and a nod. To assure you that nothing is too serious or more important than the bobbing of one's head. - 5 tracks (00:00)
DownloadConscious Automata is Masmöd's sophomore release with Nueva Forma, an unexpected and yet natural followup to his debut album, Axiom. Where Axiom left listeners in a state of seemingly cold and urban decay, Conscious Automata transports listeners to a warmer, more melodic sonic narrative; a place of rediscovery, forgiveness, and new-found courage. - 5 tracks (00:00)
DownloadSeveral months ago, Damon Sheeley of The Bear and the Sea started his remix of Common’s 'I Used to Love H.E.R.' with the intention of slowly accumulating and releasing a handful of selected remixes as a free release; sort of a tribute to hip hop through his hazy musical filter. So here it is, after several months of late nights and drowsy sessions. Enjoy the free download! - 5 tracks (00:00)
BuyA glitch at its most basic is an intrusion into expectation. Such is the world of iameb 57’s sophomore release for Nueva Forma, 'Delicate Glitch'. At once hard and biting, soft and lush, dark and impenetrable, bucolic and bright, the five-track EP is as intricate as its name suggests. These are the stylings of Jimmy Batista, who works brilliantly in the world of contrast. At the core of each track is a head-bobbing mid-tempo dance pulse perfect for late night summer mixes; the pads are luscious, the bass tones warm and inviting. Built on this is a precise balance of urban static, post-digital glitch, and minimalist melody that holds a cracked mirror up to the cuts he produces. As we expected from his music after the release of 'Tipsy Hax' last August, iameb 57 has become an intriguing writer of melodies. His skeletal leads leave much to the imagination, a fair accomplishment considering the ability of digital artists to become omnipotent over-writers. Check out the emotive sparsity of the strings on "Thelpwe" to hear how much he can say with so little. Batista in general has a more concise approach to style in this offering. Where 'Tipsy Hax' was more sprawling as he explored every color and option of the IDM idiom, he is here dialing into a recipe of composing that suits him well. He has distilled himself into an intimidating potency on 'Delicate Glitch', and this twenty minutes of bliss bodes well for his followers. - 9 tracks (00:00)
BuyDrew Wiltsey of Creta was known as White Car when he became Nueva Forma’s first roster member back in 2009. Two years later, we are excited to introduce him under his new moniker for this sophomore release, Closing the Doors of Perception. As an album, the hour-long offering has nine of the sweetest glitched-out, source-material-pulverizing, groove-minded, crooning tracks we’ve heard in a long time. With samplings as divergent as a Langston Hughes poem and an Internet pop-up ad, it’s no wonder how Creta got his reputation for being notoriously restless, and how he’s come to rewrite the perceptual practices of electronic music. - 12 tracks (00:00)
BuyImagine Miori, as your tour guide through an ethereal, illusory land. I Have No Memory of This Place has this sense about it. Miori invites the listener into his domain with open arms for a half-hour exploration of its terrain and inhabitants: mellow grooves, eerie synth patches, acousmatic layering, a filtered and detached voice surfacing here and there. A timeless sense of music emerges from the album as tracks fade in and out, swirling in the atmosphere of its planet. You may find the title fitting as everything feels new while at the same time familiar and comfortable. Miori is the conduit, not the architect. Let him show you what he has found. - 10 tracks (00:00)
BuyWhat comes through most prominently throughout The Living Lucid is Lapse (Garcia)’s improvisatory sense of development and motion in his songwriting. “Pillow” starts out with a sleepy guitar riff only to end up in a full-tilt breakbeat by the finish without so much as a twitch of the eye to see how it got there. The following track, “Melt”, begins in a carnivalesque glitch that, while perhaps not dance music at first glance, is certainly of intelligent design when reined in to a steady pulse and soaring synth leads. In a genre rife with three-minute theme-and-manipulation, it’s quite a pleasure to hear what Lapse can do with patience and a little breathing room. Check out the keystone “Stable Propulsion” for an exquisite 10’43” look into his stream of consciousness. In watching a time-lapse video, though so much change is covered in such a short span of time, we never really lose track of where we started, never doubt that the resulting butterfly emerged from the original chrysalis. And so it is with Lapse’s guitar-driven melodies. The mixes run so deep that there is always something tying them together: a rhythmic motif, a harmonic sequence, stray digital bursts. Downtempo at its core, The Living Lucid isn’t trying to jolt you with the unexpected; it merely aims to nudge you in a new direction of awareness. And in its beauty, we here at Nueva Forma are confident you won’t be able to resist. - 7 tracks (00:00)
BuyWhat shines through brightest in the lens of Transitory Timing is Pinscape founder Matthew Flook’s fixation with the shoegaze music of the early ‘90s. The tracks are laced thread-and-needle with Flook’s gorgeous vocal work and mixed to blend his ethereal orating deep into the layers. And while nods to My Bloody Valentine and Slowdive would explain much of what you hear in this 7-track EP, the landscape shows a broader horizon of musical upbringing and experiences. In lieu of the heavily effected guitars traditionally used by bands of the shoegaze era, Pinscape turns to electronica and IDM tactics to fill out the backdrops. “Last Wish” puts on a bass-heavy synthetic beat perfect for either a night on the dance floor or a mellow evening on the couch, while “Tres Pasitos” and “Through the Window” follow the more ambient wanderings of bands like Telefon Tel Aviv and Aphex Twin. Occasional acoustic instruments and analog sampling and manipulations add ear-catching details throughout. In the end, it’s Flook’s voice that will bring you back to the album again and again. Its dark, emotive power will not be denied. He has impressed upon Transitory Timing the grey, gloomy din of Pacific Northwestern weather and midnight outings in pitch-black corners of a dim city. Similarities to Sparklehorse’s collaboration with David Lynch surface on more than a few instances. With this in mind, the ethereal reverb placed on the vocal tracks gives an almost otherworldly and uplifting sense to the music as a whole. It is the space rock musician turning his head from his more shoe-conscious forebears. - 3 tracks (00:00)
BuyThe long-awaited single from acousmatic pop artist Hello Square is finally here, and we are delighted to celebrate in its dissemination. Office Jargon finds the perfect balance between the synthetic downtempo dance beats you’ve come to know and love from our label and the more mainstream vocal work of early-‘90s shoegaze and grunge outfits. Michael Louzao, the mastermind behind Hello Square, has created an instrumental backing track of pure beauty. A clear and catchy synth lead reminiscent of The Postal Service stays at the forefront throughout. Anchoring this down with an understated intensity is the mellow groove of the bass line and the head-bobbing backbeat of the pulse. In the background, arrangements of ambient strings and chimes wash through the anthem as Louzao’s voice sails over the sea. The subtleties throughout, as you will see, are epically gorgeous. Since we couldn’t rest until others from our roster had some fun with the single, we are sending you along with two remixes. The first, done by iameb 57, lends a heavy dose of glitch to Hello Square’s pop sensibilities. A deep house reverb passes in and out of Louzao’s vocals while scattered subdivisions deconstruct the strict backbeat like waves chopping through the original track. The second remix, done by Nueva Forma’s newest member A Gap Between, is perhaps more precisely a sampling. A new almost galloping beat lays the foundation for a club treatment of the material. Only two lines of the original vocals are used, and A Gap Between deftly weaves them in and out, layering them around and on top of one another. - 19 tracks (00:00)
BuyTipsy Hax, the newest album from iameb 57, will have you at its mercy from the first beat drop to the final echoing tones. We urge you to give into the sensation and get lost in the encapsulating melodies and deeply-textured layers of this 19-track offering. Creating some of the most beautiful compositions and eclectic mixes this side of the mainstream, iameb 57 has done more than make an album; he’s reinvigorated our love for IDM. Check out free streaming previews of the tunes right here and purchase all 19 complete mp3 tracks for only $10.00 USD. - 10 tracks (00:00)
BuyIn his debut album entitled Axiom, Masmöd takes the listener on a hauntingly gorgeous experience through the antithetic sounds of progressive urban movement and antiquity. Although a relatively modern music genre, Masmöd has mastered the art of atmospheric electronica and has produced a sonic sentiment that's both intimate and ethereal. With throbbing beats, brilliantly complex arrangements, and dark, moody textures, this album is tremendously evocative from start to finish.
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