Introducing The Spiderbots
No they are not from Mars. Here's an extended piece I have worked on for many years: Music for Spiderbots, in Three Parts. Na zdrowie!
Money Is Tight: Purchase Wisely
I'll give you a double dip recession, and trust me you'll feel better after!
Here's my question - why do "D"-Presidents like Obama and Clinton get blamed for the economy they inherited and then not receive credit for any changes they do enact? Yet GW Bush was able to take credit for the whole ride up the bubble and then leave the crash to be blamed on his successor.
I've always heard from Republicans that Democrats shun responsibility and expect things for free but I'm sorry, it's the opposite. Clinton balanced the budget. Clinton/Gore led a financial revolution for this country using high-tech american ingenuity. Almost everyone I knew in the 90's in America was doing better or had a path to better themselves. W Bush took this (using the supreme court to get him into office), sliced taxes for the wealthy, used a 30-year proxy war against a middle eastern crime syndicate to launch into ridiculous land wars we couldn't afford, pushed new home building and McMansion ownership over anything else (even though we have plenty of housing stock and apartment living is much more energy efficient), and pushed a decadent, wasteful, 'everything is bigger in Texas' mentality on this big gullable country.
It wasn't sustainable. Imagine! This word that Republicans don't care to understand just won't go away! The housing market collapsed, the SUV's need fuel and repairs (since no one is fixing the roads or bridges without tax revenue), and the average american keeps putting 40 gallons of fuel in their truck or truckish-car every week to drive their fat ass all over the suburbs even though the same 11 stores exist at every strip mall in america.
So there's this: The Flux-adel Store. Spend your money wisely people. Only support the brands that support you. You can eat, sleep, party, serve drinks, clean the house, and scare your neighbor in clothes like this.
The Pressure Is On, or Why I Decided To Record An Entire Album In One Weekend
I've produced quite a few songs at this point for a variety of artists and styles. I've also released many of my own productions - countless hours in the dark studio clicking, sliding, and space bar-ing my life away.
This spring is time for a change, a new challenge: Roaming Crazy is going to record an entire album in a weekend marathon recording session, and we are going to film the whole ordeal for a documentary. See, this is how we live. Being an independent artist in the 21st century is a strange existence, one that never seems to be documented besides the content of the creation itself. This challenge is the largest the band has ever faced, and the largest this producer has ever faced. In short, there will plenty of opportunity for drama and fun so we are bringing a camera crew with us through the journey.
(BTW - I do hate most reality TV, so I'm going to be uncomfortable with the cameras around, but I think there is an excellent story to be told so I'm gonna go along.)
The plan is to make the best Roaming Crazy album we can in the shortest amount of time, at the lowest budget. This will not be 1-mic in the corner rehearsal punk rock stuff, this will be a full Flux-adel Multi-track Production. We will be using every bit of our resources in the name of ART and ROCK AND ROLL, amen!
Plus there's a little addition -- YOU could be in the documentary. We are looking for recorded opinions on our chances, reviews of our song and sound, or whatever you want to send/post. Turn your camera phone on and sound off. Ever heard of a band doing this? Think it's a horrible idea? Need your gorgeous face in our goofy documentary? Just want to send best wishes? Here's your chance.
Roaming Crazy Available on iTunes – Put it on your walkman now!
-Ezraz
Messed Around and Made a Rock Band
We are ROAMING CRAZY and we are alive online here (and sorta here so far). You can stream our debut track "Stares 2020" and soon enough purr-chase it. I am twiddling knobs and playing some keys in this lineup and it's been a blast trying to make some fresh sounds. It ain't what most would call the funk but life is just so complex, I had to get my rocks off!
Being the weird post-everything music industry that it is, we have more merchandise than songs available. Killer! Head over to the Roaming Crazy Store to see our new sexy shirt models, you won't be disappointed.
Progress/Process… ps “I am not a whore” haha
Wow, the 2MERIMIX OPEN MIND NITE @ The Duck last night has left all involved groggy and probably a bit irritable, but time marches on, the beat goes on, the show must go on, etc.. Thankfully two bits of progress in the battle against irrelevance came through today:
-- First off the next 2MERICA single just left the mastering engineer and it's making it's way to the tubes of the internets. Titled "Keep Steady", it's the 2nd of 5 tracks from the Scherzo Elskorpion LP. It's also the 'sex scene' in the soundtrack so check it out! Like most 2MERICA songs, it's a curveball that turns into a knuckleball right before you swing and miss, so yeah, stay tooned for the latest and greatest. This track is an old school sick jam with Jesus on bass, Swifty on the v-drums, some killer sax from J, Jaimeson doing his dirty rap, lil' Z on guitars, and Ezraz supplying the remaining noise. It should be available for purchase at the usual suspects (iTunes, cdbaby, amazon) and for streaming (Napster, Spotify, and Jango) in about a month.
-- Secondly, the process of 'going legit' (aka getting our chit together) has continued, with a parent company formed to manage the Flux-adel Recording Division and all of it's various progressions and proclivities. You the faithful internet cruiser won't notice or care about this, but we are all proud and wanted to make the announcement. Collinwood Sun LLC has risen.
So yeah. My manager Fahqfasse finally got some stuff done. I get to hang out back and pee on his office, the mighty brick fortress known as FF Bookman Promotions. Which is my little way of posting status updates on his wall.
LOVE
Ezrazmus 'elemento' jones, founder of the round world society, 73rd generation panfunktual bonobo
ps - here's something to cheer you up, the unforgettable Cee-Lo Green has had me singing this hook for 3 days now!
From the Floor
View from the floor as just Jenny plays line 6 games for my ears. Very nice.
Flux-adel Recording Division and 2MERICA team up for EVENT/HAPPENING
This is cool fluxadel.com check out fluxadel.com, bout time!
Totally Awesome Tune, Vol.1
If you don't have flash, what you are missing is a tape deck playing "Never Met Tomorrow" by 2MERICA. Follow links on right to hear it on your iphone.
New 2MERICA Video: The Cop(s) + Lego(re)
An augmented future starring Headtronics
So with all this hopeful optimism (Obamaism?) I have to tell you about 2 new developments. First off the always funky Freekbass has joined forces with 2 others for his first "supergroup side project". Called Headtronics and featuring a killer lineup of Freek on bass, Steve Molitz from Particle on Keys, and DJ Logic on everything else, they are finally playing Ohio next weekend so you know I will have to check that out. Been a big fan of Dub Trio for a bit so I can't wait to see the Headtronics Trio put their shingle out.
On the homefront, The Flux-adel Recording Division (also in the heart of the northside) has been active lately, doing both final mixes on 2new 2merica tracks for Scherzo Elskorpion, and starting preliminary writing on new material with the very talented Dakota "chief" Stonerock.
Finally -- Last summer I was part of my own wannabe supergroup sideproject that managed to write and record a single song before disbanding. The track is called "Stares 2020" and is currently hanging around on the HD waiting for it's parents to work chit out. I hope you readers will get to hear it sometime, it's probably the hardest thing I've ever produced, like way up in your face, you know, HAVE SOME! Production.
Ezzy
Ps Anyone see Roy Ayers sitting in with The Roots on Fallon last night? Hot damn I hope the roots are recording all those commercial break jams that we miss on tv for us to dig on forever after.
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