Sharing different heartbeats...

Sony Europe recently released an incredible commercial featuring seemingly millions of bouncy balls that are poured down the elevated streets of San Francisco. Combined with the music, this clip is an extremely moving experience, especially for me, as someone who's grown up in the Bay Area. I have such powerful romantic feelings for San Francisco and somehow this throw away Ad for flat-screen TVs has brought them out of me. I'm touched. Thanks for putting this together Danish guy (Nicolai Fuglsig)/Sony (European Division)/Jose Gonzales (Swedish Guy)/The Knife (Swedish Duo).

You can see the 180 second version of the ad and making of docs at www.bravia-advert.com. I think the message Sony is trying to convey here is that the product's so good that the largest segment of the commercial's audience shouldn't even be allowed to buy it. Sony is clever like that. They're really stuffing muskrats and blowing minds with this one.

The song featured is a Jose Gonzales cover of The Knife's Heartbeats.
Both are featured here, at ICBJOD.

The Knife - Heartbeats 6.2 megs
Jose Gonzales - Heartbeats 3.7 megs

Erotheque and Other Works of Jay

Phenomenal new Jay music is upon us.

Jay S. - Erotheque 3.1 megs
Jay S. - Akuma 1 meg

Have you heard Strange Geometry?

I like it. It's good.
Especially the last song on there. Perhaps I'll post it so you can listen.

The Clientele - (I Can't Seem to) Make You Mine 5.1 megs

Lonely guys talking nonsense isn't usually my shtick, well, no, actually it is. Anyway, this record's too enjoyable to pass up.
Pick it up.

Procure this EP...

Get Fisk Industries' Todo Por La Patria EP straight off his personal site. Cop this immediately.
These are the individual tracks:
Todo Por La Patria
70's Jets
Czar Promo

Fold In Your Mirrors!

The JOHNODAY is back and yes, I still listen to music.



Every since Brown Paper Bag and his New Forms record, Roni Size has been penetrating my brain with sharp cheddar cheesy genius.
Here's some newer tracks, the first from 'In Tha Mode' and the second coming from his collab with Victor Duplaix.

Roni Size - Lucky Pressure 7.2megs

Roni Size feat. Victor Duplaix - Pull Up 9.2 megs

Devin The Dude

Devin The Dude - See What I Could Pull 6.9 megs

Devin The Dude - Don't Wait 6.5 megs

Rabbi: He's Big in India

My homie brought this back from Punjab and assured me that it's unlike any Bhangra music that I've ever heard. He was completely right and I'm wholly enjoying this record. The album isn't available in America and is nowhere to be found on Amazon, so you may need to do some digging if you want a copy of this. Seriously, enjoy.

Rabbi - Tere Bin 7.4 meg m4a

Jim Gaffigan will bring it to your house.

I highly recommend Jim Gaffigan's "More Moo-Moos." The dudes a fuckin' genius. He gets heckled, reenacts audience responses and gets incessantly bitched out by his wife. Comedy paradise.
His rap is groundbreaking though. Check this out.

Jim Gaffigan - Untitled 4.0 megs

875KB of Heaven

Jay S. - La Spacconata 875K

Asian + Psychedelic

North Korean psychedelic rock. It must be hard to break into the scene over there with so many elitists and oppressors running the industry.

To be fair though. Love, Peace & Poetry has Asian Psychedelic music from Cambodia to Taiwan, while another compilation entirely is devoted to Japan.

San Ul Lim - It Was Probably Late Summer 7.4 megs

Teddy Robin & The Playboys - Magic Colors 4.8 megs

White Album Unplugged. You'll Cry.

When Eric Clapton dropped his unplugged record, I cried.
When Nirvana did an unplugged album, I cried.
When Jay-Z made his song cry, I cried.

Basically, anything acoustic that shows up on MTV at three in the morning makes me want to have a bowl of cheerios, a good cry and a cigarette. If Larry King, ?uestlove, and Shakira did a rendition of baby I love your ways, I would probably weep in my milk and call in to his show to tell him how great it was. That's how powerful this unplugged shit is.

Now, when I hear the Beatles did an unplugged version of the White Album before the they even started the studio version, I go to costco and pick up some Kleenex. This is seriously incredible. Now all we need is Grey Album unplugged to stomp the skull of an already dead art: Single track performance.

Beatles - White Album Unplugged - Circles 3.1 megs

Beatles - White Album Unplugged - Not Guilty 4.4 megs

Beatles - White Album Unplugged - Julia 5.1 megs

Beatles - White Album Unplugged - Blackbird 3.5 megs

µ-ziqal

Aphex Twin is often remixed into dissonant tones of seemingly no decipherable origin, while µ-ziq is quietly the one doing the remixing. Don't miss µ-Ziq's astounding/breathtaking/amazing/awesome/incredible/(adjective) remix of Aphex Twin's, "On."
It also serves as a wonderful accompaniment to your very own soy milk drinking, marijuana smoking, delusional lifestyle.

Aphex Twin - On (µ-Ziq Remix) 12 megs

Blue Oyster Cult (Demo Versions)

Bad Celebrity, No Hubbard.

But if you're considering the Blue Oyster Cult, I can't really blame you. They're the only band to write a song that I'll never get sick of, no matter how many times I watch Six Feet Under season one or hear it talked about in a sarcastic tone.

Don't Fear The Reaper (Demo Version) 7.8megs

The demo version of Don't Fear the Reaper is excellent, but it lacks cowbell. Hold your jokes because I'm being quite serious here.

I have a couple Oink invites

Hey, I know mp3blogs are all about posting music, but I think I have something a little more useful and less egotistical than a page full of music that I enjoy. I have two OiNK invites for anyone who can do a couple contributions. Interesting trades considered ;-) Could be nasty pictures of your girlfriend. Could be a copy of David O. Russells "Soldiers Pay". Hell, it could be even be some incense. To inquire, pop something in comments or send me an email.

Elvis Mitchell's Interview with David LaChapelle

Just a few days ago on KCRW's "The Treatment, photographer and filmmaker David LaChapelle participated in an incredibly revealing interview about his new feature "Rize." There is a moment in the interview where he simply cannot stop himself from talking, but no one (including myself) seems to mind. Extremely compelling and highly recommended by resident John O'Day. Enjoy.

KCRW The Treatment - David LaChapelle 10 megs

Craigslist V. Google Maps

This is for all those looking for apartments.
Google Maps and Craigslist are now, in effect, the same website.

Housing Maps .com

Same Ol' Shit

B.G. - Same Ol' Shit ft. Hakizzie, Gar, Sniper, & VL Mike 6.2 megs
Apparently, this track was stolen from Hardly Art, Hardly Garbage. Sorry 'bout that. Good song though. Enjoy.

Chuckin' the Deuce.

Paul Wall feat. Trae Rage - Oh No

Get that Hoodie off ya back, geezer!

Watch yourself. Tony Blair's cracking down on hoodies. You can't take the Maharishi off my back, bitch!

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/n/a/2005/05/31/international/i105844D79.DTL

Link courtesy of Beer and Rap

And here's a dude tripping on Salvia!

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