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STRANGELOOP’S ‘2010′ on the BBC

strangeloop — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 22:32:31 +0000

“I met [Dr. Strangeloop] for the very first time last week in LA, having been a great admirer of his work for the last couple years. I can tell you he is seriously involved in pioneering the next step in the evolution of performance, fusing sonics, narrative, and visuals into an overwhelming hyper-sensory experience.” -Mary Anne Hobbs on BBC1

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The incredible Mary Anne Hobbs just featured an exclusive audio-visual edit from my ‘2010‘ project on BBC1, accompanying a unique mix of the soundtrack. ‘2010 : [or] How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Technological Singularity‘ is an ever-evolving avant-sci-fi narrative about a dystopia alternate universe where an AI-deity searches for transcendence in an archaic laptop. It had its International premier at the Ann Arbor Film Festival, and its Los Angeles premier at the Brainfeeder Sessions last month. It changes every time I perform it in a live-context, and it is composed of all-original music and visuals.

Some of the mandalic images were created in collaboration with artist Leigh J. McCloskey, the visionary painter behind Flying Lotus’s phenomenal ‘Cosmogramma’ album artwork. A limited edition run of 300 signed copies of ‘2010‘ will be available through the Institute for Cinema Studies, this run will include a full-version of the film, full soundtrack, b-sides, artwork, and more. The person who receives the copy number #2010 will get special unreleased material, b-sides, and the opportunity to destroy my television set. Enjoy!

2010 – audio-visual mix for Mary Anne Hobbs

2010 – soundtrack mix for BBC1

2010 – limited edition copies at ICS

by Strangeloop
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BRAINFEEDER ARTISTS 2010

strangeloop — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 01:49:45 +0000

by Strangeloop
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samiyam + dimlite live in lausanne switzerland

Ques — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 12:24:46 +0000

PHOTOS: Oscar Lavy

by Ques
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BRAINFEEDER SESSIONS at the DOWNTOWN INDEPENDENT III

Natvralism — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 09:21:54 +0000

by Natvralism
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Ques x Bleep t-shirts

Ques — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 01:54:00 +0000

3 color print on black / exclusive design
available through BLEEP.COM

by Ques
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THE GASLAMP KILLER IN SHANGHAI

Ques — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:05:05 +0000

PHOTOS: Frederic henriques

by Ques
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Teebs + Ques in Kanazawa

Ques — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 02:30:24 +0000

by Ques
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JAPANFEEDER

Natvralism — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 03:45:24 +0000

In the month of November, many members of the Los Angeles based Brainfeeder family will be traveling to Japan for a number of events.

First up, Low End Theory Japan touches down with all of their residents and a few special guests from our ranks:
Daddy Kev, The Gaslamp Killer, DJ Nobody, D-Styles, Nocando, Ras G, and Teebs (Tokyo only).

Nov 13 2009 10:00P Low End Theory Japan @ UNIT Tokyo, Japan
Nov 14 2009 10:00P Low End Theory Japan @ Metro Kyoto, Japan
Nov 16 2009 10:00P Low End Theory Japan @ Quatro Nagoya, Japan

Teebs will be spending much time in Japan through early December, with a number of shows, including an art show with The Ques.

11/13 Low End Theory Japan @ Unit tokyo
11/17 Eatsthecake Presents @ Manier kanazawa
11/18 Record Sleeves Series Art Exhibition by Teebs @ BUM THE SPACE kanazawa
11/22 CIRCULATIONS x Cosmopolyhonic present @ SOLFA tokyo
11/28, 29 INTO Inifinity “Eye” @ LOOK Gallery tokyo
12 / 2 INTO Inifinity “Talk” @ Mado Lounge tokyo
12 / 4 Tokyo Inifinity INTO @ SuperDeluxe tokyo

Flying Lotus will be playing WARP20 with Hudson Mohawke, Battles, Chris Cunningham, !!!, LFO, Clark, Andrew Weatherall, Steve Beckett, and many more. Also two other performances in Fukuoka and Osaka (w/ Hudson Mohawke).

11/20 (FRI) @ Early Believers & club BASE, Fukuoka
11/21 (SAT) @ Makuhari Messe – WARP20, Tokyo
11/22 (SUN) @ Club KARMA, Osaka

by Natvralism
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LORN : BBC RADIO 1 – MARY ANNE HOBBS MIX

Natvralism — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 03:19:40 +0000

LORN BBC RADIO 1 MARRY ANNE HOBBS MIX

by Natvralism
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Austin Peralta’s ‘Cecilia’

Flying Lotus — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 02:01:52 +0000

I kept hearing about this young jazz prodigy. My homie Thundercat, told me about his young kid who could play like piano like Chick Corea. Turns out that Dr. Strangeloop and him are good friends. I had to investigate and see what was up. All the things I heard are pretty much true.

We’ll be releasing Austin Peralta’s ‘Endless Planets’ sometime early next year.
Until then, Here’s a preview.

Austin Peralta – Cecilia (Strangeloop underwater mix) from Dr. StrangeLoop on Vimeo.

by Flying Lotus
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TOKiMONSTA – RBMA 2010

Natvralism — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 20:07:11 +0000

Artwork: by Jennifer Lee (TOKiMONSTA)

The results are in, and another member of the Brainfeeder family, TOKiMONSTA, has been chosen as a participant for the upcoming Red Bull Music Academy in London 2010. She will now be included as another member of Brainfeeder RBMA alumni along with Flying Lotus, Samiyam, and Teebs.

Toki is so psyched about her RBMA acceptance that she wanted to give away a track for download to all of our listeners, her remix of Tweet’s “Call Me”

TOKiMONSTA_tweet_callme_remix

by Natvralism
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Flaunt Feeder

Flying Lotus — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 16:10:55 +0000

Big thanks to the good cats at Flaunt Magazine for this dope piece on the crew.

http://flaunt.com/

by Flying Lotus
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brainfeeder dreams

strangeloop — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 16:05:25 +0000

by Strangeloop
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easy listening for our future children

strangeloop — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 06:46:11 +0000

I designed this graphic for my audio-visual LP : easy listening for our future children : coming 2010

watch for the Balance EP and Are We Lost Mammals REMIX compilation dropping before that …

by Strangeloop
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Strangeloop at Brainfeeder Sessions

strangeloop — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 06:16:10 +0000

performing an audio-visual set, original tunes with vids sampled from the anime masterpiece MindGame.

sooo much fun, can’t wait for the next one!

by Strangeloop
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a short film by da StrangeLoop

strangeloop — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 05:52:48 +0000

cephalapodophilia from Dr. StrangeLoop on Vimeo.

by Strangeloop
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calling…. planet…. earth….

Flying Lotus — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 22:21:12 +0000

by Flying Lotus
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yes, I da Strangeloop

strangeloop — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 05:04:17 +0000

a lil about me, Flying Lotus has been bugging me to put something up and clue people in so here goes …

photo by peter molignano

Lived in LA my whole life, born and raised. I’ve been making electronic

music since I was fourteen when I got a copy of Protools LE ; my Dad is

a production sound mixer for film, so he always had cool audio-gear

lying around that I could play with. I was a part of a lot of bands in high-school,

a math-metal band, noise-music, punk, but always found myself cutting up

sounds after school and delving into the sonic possibilities that you can get

with computers.

I met Steve [Flying Lotus] at the Academy of Arts in San Francisco, we were both very

interested in avant-garde film, crazy japanese stuff, fringe forms of electronic music,

and I was really impressed by a short film he had made called ‘Use Me’ I think that’s

what it was called…. We became friends pretty quick and since then, I’ve always found

his open-mindedness and forward-thinking creativity really inspiring.

we spent a good chunk of the year smoking, playing atari, and listening to drum and bassy stuff.

At one point I was taking taking hallucinogens kind of recklessly while I was up there, and he

helped me out when I might have gone right over the edge. I was pretty sure I was at least

partly mad for awhile, and during that period, I made a bunch of music that Steve was convinced

we had to release. Nothing came of it for awhile, but Steve and I always talked about doing more

collaborative work.

Later, we both moved back to LA. I was primarily doing the experimental film thing and Steve

was doing the music thing, and eventually he asked me to VJ for a Brainfeeder event.

After that, I realized that VJ-ing was really one of my forms, something quintessential to me.

When I realized that, I started getting all these opportunities; was able to play Coachella

thanks to Sam XL and the whole PureFilth crew … it was great.

VJ-ing had all the elements that I felt were missing from being a film-maker. It was

live, spontaneous, a chance to be transgressive and irreverent with media, and

a place where I could bring all the work I’d done with video, merge it with sampled work,

and project it in one medium. Since I’ve gotten into it, I’ve treating it really as a form

of real-time cinema, not just background imagery.

Currently, all my imagery is triggered in real-time with a midi-controller in response to the music,

there is no midi-synching or stuff timed before-hand to the music. Its live.

Sometimes I just get a feeling, and know what to do, all of a sudden things

synch up in this miraculous way. Other times, its just visual chaos, which

I’m comfortable with. Destroying media can be really fun.

see Flying Lotus and me at DudLab’s LabRat Matinee, Downtown Independent Theatre :

Flying Lotus @ Labrat Matinee

Flying Lotus performs a custom set with visuals courtesy of Dr. Strangeloop.

Dublab’s Labrat Matinee VI: Selections From An Astral Projectionist ….

As far as jams, I’ve posted things here and there, and released some stuff on an

internet label called Expanding Electronic Diversity (under the name NuOpSys)

and have probably thousands of hours of music I’ve made, but have not released.

My first real release will be on Brainfeeder June 30th. It’s called Are We Lost

Mammals of an Approaching Transcendental Epoch? whewww…

long title. I made it about a year ago, and it is probably the strangest thing

I’ve ever shepherded into this world. It is one track, 18 minutes long, very lo-fi,

and I picture it as some sort of narrative about the Singularity, mystical states,

and the evolution of man. It is more post-rock influenced than the stuff I’m

working on now, and is divided into three idiosyncratic movements.

enjoy!

by Strangeloop
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… transcendental epoch approaching …

strangeloop — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 14:08:27 +0000

by Strangeloop
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dorian concept + flying lotus + GLK + Alex Bonfanti jam at brainfeeder london

Ques — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 21:46:38 +0000

+ill visuals by dr.strangeloop

Brainfeeder LDN – Flying Lotus & Dorian Concept jam from Amy Johnson on Vimeo.

by Ques
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brainfeeder barcelona

Ques — Mon, 18 May 2009 02:53:37 +0000

by Ques
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Young Black Preachers (Free EP)

Flying Lotus — Thu, 14 May 2009 22:35:45 +0000

Hayhay
our good friend Jae R passed us this ep.

Check it out

http://www.mediafire.com/?yinuinzegjf

http://www.myspace.com/youngblackpreachers

by Flying Lotus
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RAS G reviewed in XLR8R

Natvralism — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 19:48:31 +0000

The good people over at XLR8R have written up a rather nice review about our man Ras G’s album, Brotha From Another Planet.
Click on the picture below to have a look..
(((Airhorn!!!)))

Photo: theojemison.com

by Natvralism
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David Lynch

Flying Lotus — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 21:53:18 +0000

by Flying Lotus
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042009

Flying Lotus — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 12:20:28 +0000

Light Up

by Flying Lotus
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NEW YORK

Ques — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 12:37:23 +0000

April 16 / 10 pm / Club Love

Flying Lotus, Kode 9, Martyn, Ras_G, Pursuit Grooves and Mike Slott Destroying shit…

by Ques
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Ras_G album Launch Party!

Flying Lotus — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 10:23:09 +0000

Mo Airhorn

Ras G (((Brotha From Anotha Planet))) album release at The Low End Theory Los Angeles from Theo Jemison on Vimeo.

by Flying Lotus
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Where were U in LDN?.Nyc?

Flying Lotus — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 17:45:26 +0000

Sorry folks,
sadly, Zomby won’t be around for Brainfeeder NYC
BUT, it’s still gonna be pretty fucking epic..