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so i dont know why i am blogging about this since it probably interests nobody... 2002%20Fruity%20Loops%20Session.zip

Labels: Fruity Loops, Mselasco, Pre-pubescent electronica, Virus

I'm practicing for my show and this is a recording of some of it.
Take a listen: http://magicalmistakes.com/LIVETAKE1.mp3

Please enjoy it. I got some new equipment for my new project... A toy piano and a Korg Nano pad control surface which works well for making drum samples crazy. also getting my kaoss pad back together from music store tomorrow. i loved that thing.

and two shows coming up see http://www.magicalmistakes.com for info.

Labels: Death By Panda, erik, Live, Magical Mistakes, PREVIOUSLY DEATH BY PANDA

wooohoooDeath%20by%20Panda-%20To%20the%20train%20%28Mselasco%20remix%29.mp3

Labels: Death By Panda, Mselasco, remix, to the train

New Fitness album, In The Mirror. Post-Disco from our retro-future. More Fitness to come soon. The workout album and an EP are on their way, not to mention more B-sides. Mixtape series is also coming, be prepared.


Work it out.



Download In The Mirror

Labels: aural, Fitness, Free shit, Mp3, Music, music for every orifice, past life regression readings, rainbow destroyer

Last night I went to see both these bands, as well as another opener called

Johnny and the Moon (yet another wolf parade side project, this time going for the indie/folk genre)

Anyways, Beach House was pretty much amazing, Victoria Legrand's vocals have this deep and sweet whispery quality that is hard to describe,

its pretty much the best voice i've heard live in a long time. All this backed up with layers of drum-machines, guitar, organ, synths and live drums that

make the whole experience slow 60's pop shoegaze orgasm. Plus they wear super east-coast hipster outfits that really pissed off the two guys standing behind me.

At first i was kind of annoyed too, but once they started playing i was in such joy that I started to find Victoria's enormous WWE belt buckle and Alex's 

vest and creepstache ironic and charming (by the end of the performance Victoria started shyly performing wrestling moves as a joke).

THE WALKMEN... well one thing that really annoyed me was the way that Hamilton, the lead singer, thrusted his hips forward into my face whenever he

started yelling loudly into the mic (his fly was halfway open too). That said, he kind of sounds like bob dylan or elvis, but he screams loud as !@#$% - 

just like that. Which is impressive and enjoyable. What is also enjoyable is when they play their guitars loud like that too. At times there is a little too 

much straightforward pounding of barchords that is a little unoriginal and boring. But most of it was good. I like that they played that one song that appeared

in the volkswagen commercial, "we've been had"... i dont necessarily like car commercials, but thats still a damn good song.

Here is a video

...made sweet love to my soul last night. SWR is the free jazz version of Acid Mothers. If you aren't aware of some of their performance lineups, you can read up on them here. But basically Acid Mothers revolves around Kawabata Makoto, the guitarist with frizzy hair. And Pikachu was fantastic, as expected.

Saxophonist Umezu Kazutoki was a guest musician.

Drummer is from very influential band called Ruins.

Kawabata Makoto is a genuine baddass.


This is Pikachu. One half of Afurirampo. They are all involved in so many projects. I've seen both of them in various side-projects, but never seen them together. It's a shame. They were actually playing another show last night with Bogulta and Oshiri Penpenz. Also, Pikachu's MOM came to the show, which made me really really happy.

I bought a tape recorder to start documenting Japan and Japanese music in particular. I'm going to use a lot of the recordings for research or my senior thesis. I ended up interviewing Kawabata Makoto, which really surprised me. He talks about music, politics, drugs, Osaka, etc.
You can listen to it here: Kawabata Makoto Interview
Here's short part 2, about Namba Bears (the venue) founder Yamamoto Seichi (of Boredoms fame).
Kawabata Makoto Part2
I should apologize if I sound like a tool. I started speaking in Japanese and forgot to go back to English. That happens to me all the time in this country.

Here are some recordings of the show:
They covered KING CRIMSON: 21CenturySchizoidMAN.mp3
WITH PIKACHU: PikachuAcidMOTHERS.mp3
BEAUTIFUL FREEEDOM: FreeJazz1.mp3

It was a very beautiful evening.

Labels: Acid Mothers Temple, Acid Mothers Temple SWR, Afurirampo, Bears, Bootleg, Interview, Japan, Kawabata Makoto, Namba, Namba Bears, Osaka, Pikachu, Ruins, あふりらんぽ

Street Fighter's first single, Street Fighter/Gonna Make You Mine.





Download Street Fighter/Gonna Make You Mine

Labels: art, Demo, Mp3, pre/post op, silly colors, street fighter, yum

This is super rough, first time through stuff. But I made some MP3s for some artwork/networking purposes. So I decided I'd post it on over here.
Oh also I am changing my name to Magical Mistakes. at least for this release. And the first word in the song is 'passion' but I was rendering this real fast so I didn't bother moving the wave form far over enough to enough the P sound. Heh

magicalmistakesdemo.mp3

Labels: Demo, Magical Mistakes

BIZARRE?
I saw him last night and on New Years also.

Labels: art, artist, ikko taniuchi, Japan, Kobe, Osaka

I made this is an 8-bit rendition of a classic tango song sung by carlos gardel, "adios muchachos", which means something like "goodbye boys" in English.

Maybe Mselasco come out with an album called " Super Nintango" featuring nothing but 8-bit video gamey tangos. but most likely not.

Adios%20Muchach8s.mp3

Labels: 8-bit, Adios Muchachos, Carlos Gardel, Mselasco, Tango

With ENVY
http://www.temporaryresidence.com/mp3s/envy_gomadandmark.mp3
I tried to see this band three years ago when they played at Fuck Yah Fest in LA but things got complicated.
now that wait is over.
thank GOD.
I wonder what attracts me to Envy's brand of hardcore over all the other stuff I scoff at. I think it's that underneath the screaming high school angst are some unbelievably beautiful guitar parts. Unbelievable beauty :)

Event is at Shangra-Li in Osaka-Umeda on January 29th.

Labels: ENVY, Japan, Osaka, Shangra-Li, sonzai records, temporary residence

New single from the upcoming Fitness album. Its called Adonis Sisyphus Narcissus. Twenty-two minutes long. Super Post-Disco.





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Adonis Sisyphus Narcissus






Also, New Years with JohnElectric and Jalepeno of Gay Sunshine.





I DJed with them for a little bit, super fun. Hopefully JohnElectric will send me recordings of some of the mix to post here, but until then check out Colotronic for hip news from the Denver crowd.


Also to celebrate the coming of 2009, Rainbow Destroyer Blog will be starting a new Mixtape series. Coming very, very soon. Rainbow Destroyer friends Thumbkin will be kicking off our first mix. Be excited.

Labels: aural, Fitness, Free shit, Mp3, Music, past life regression readings, Seminal, Used to be Relitron

Labels: Death By Panda, Movies, past life regression readings