Video: Zomby, “Aquarium”
Here is what this video says to us: A. Zomby keeps mitochondria as pets B. Zomby is down with French-Polish experimental filmmaker Piotr Kamler C. Zomby’s musical palette is consistently more extensive D. Someone maybe dosed our morning coffee? (via Zomby Twitter)
The Brown Acid, “Try Humanity (Zomby’s Vitamin E RMX)” MP3
Everything about this reminds us of the olden days, from the name Brown Acid to the posicore title (happy rave days dudes) to the fuzziness of the sample and, of course, the part where Zomby takes the band’s name literally and turns in a proper acid house track. The other day we were in Other Music and bought an old 808 State album we’d lost long ago. Thought twice about it at first—impulse buy?—but it still sounds as sick as it did in the Mesozoic period of our youth. Zomby makes no bones about his love for classic ’90s rave music, but when he feels like making tracks in the spirit of particular genres, they are never throwbacks, just the freshest improvements from an imaginative talent. Incidentally, the original is this sort of cabaret pop electro and barely a fragment remains in the remix, just how it should be.
(also via Neonized)
The ABSOLUT FADER Visionary Podcast #2 — Things
- story THE FADER
And now for part two of the Visionary Podcast series, curated by The FADER and presented by ABSOLUT, as part of our ongoing efforts to advance and advocate the art and music we love. With these words—Doing Things Differently Leads to Something Exceptional—and accompanying awesome visual interpretations of those words by director Rupert Sanders as inspiration, we set about scouring our music libraries for the new songs that are doing it for us the most these days.
This round is inspired by the word and image for “Things,” which is obviously quite broad, so we decided to make it as random as possible, with songs about computer files (we think), good days, real songs, funky mirrors and digital wildlife. Take these zeros and ones out into the real world and enjoy. Download the Visionary Podcast #2 with music from Get Back Guinozzi, Restless People, Konshens, Dam Funk and Zomby below, check the tracklist after the jump, and come back on Friday for #3, in tribute to the word, “differently.”
Download: The ABSOLUT FADER Visionary Podcast #2 — Things
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posted on Sep 22, 2009 in MP3 / STREAMS tags Absolut Visionary Series, Dam-Funk, Get Back Guinozzi, Konshens, Restless People, Zomby
Zomby Leaks His Own Song On Twitter
- story Matthew Schnipper
Though it’s a radio rip and unfinished, “Little Miss Naughty” is a doozy of a Zomby track that floated around the internet this weekend, after the man himself post it on his Twitter. It sounds like Timbaland with his Southeast Asian music obsession circa 2002. We’re surprised to see the faceless, somewhat drama-prone Zomby—don’t think we didn’t notice when he turned his Twitter private during the kerfuffle over his recent no-show to open for Animal Collective in NYC—put himself on e-blast with the incomplete thought of two minutes. But maybe he realizes he’s onto something potentially enormous. Or maybe he just likes to be a tease.
Download: Zomby, “Little Miss Naughty”
Premiere: Zomby, “Helter Skelter” MP3
- story Peter Macia
Mysterious UK producer Zomby, whose Where Were U In ’92? last year blew minds and club genres into little pulsating blobs, is about to come back with his One Foot Ahead Of The Other EP on September 8th (Ramp Recordings). The whole thing sounds like if that neon green swarm of robo-termites that eat the Eiffel Tower in the G.I. Joe trailer also wore tiny sized speaker backpacks that played songs to get them amped to destroy civilization, only there’s no crack team of really bad actors to stop them. “Helter Skelter” specifically sounds sick, a compulsive end times 8-bit slab of dubstep horror that typifies Zomby’s love of menace and disrespect for fidelity. If you live in New York, attempt to dance to this on Saturday, August 15th, when Zomby opens for Animal Collective at the Prospect Park Bandshell.
Download: Zomby, “Helter Skelter”
Video: Zomby, “Godzilla”
- story Matthew Schnipper
Neither dubstep maven Zomby nor Godzilla the movie (where this video gets its footage from) are as aggressive as we remembered. Where Were U in ’92, Zomby’s most recent full length, is a lot more claustrophobic than “Godzilla,” taken from an upcoming EP (and, most likely, excerpted, as this video is only two minutes long.) Possibly taking its inspiration from the sound Mario made when he collected coins, “Godzilla,” is much more bursting than impeding. He comes Stateside soon, opening for Animal Collective, whose “Summertime Clothes” he recently remixed.
Welcome to Deep Mind Spiral: Zomby Sheet Music
- story THE FADER
You may believe you are serious about dubstep, but clearly you aren’t thinking hard enough. In a post entitled “Loving Wonky,” Rogues Foam theorizes and unpacks and critiques that and other genres and, oh yeah, TRANSCRIBES ZOMBY’s “KALIKO” INTO SHEET MUSIC:
Naturally there are translation problems inherent in an act of transcription into traditional Western notation. What I’ve produced is a listening score rather than a performing one (though, huh, you’re welcome to try) of course, there are no performing scores with the nuum and so markings like staccato and dynamics are quaint approximations, and sharps and flats are redundant because nuum music doesn’t generally have a key (I’ve used only sharps throughout for the sake of simplicity). Traditional Western notation fails in that it does barely anything to represent timbre other than labelling staves and feature some percussion conventions, so I can only approximately notate the rhythms of Zomby’s sound effects.
That’s okay dude, we’ll give you a pass on this one. (via Dutty Artz)
Video: Zomby, “Mercury’s Rainbow”
- story THE FADER
Zomby has been filling up our dark dance daymares since February of last year when he was featured in an early edition of Bass Odyssey. Since then the eclectic UK producer put out the maniacal Where Were U in ’92? LP and continues to pummel brains with releases on some of our favorite labels like Hyperdub, Mad Decent and now, presumably Ramp since they put up this new 2001: A Space Odyssey video edit for “Mercury’s Rainbow.” (via NPIP)
