Woot, two posts in one day.
Puritan Blister’s most recent post has an Ike & Tina Turner vs. Benni Benassi vs. Beck mashup by DJ Moule called Nutbush Vulture. The mashup uses Sexx Laws and Benassi’s Satisfaction; can anyone identify the Ike & Tina Turner song? It’s pretty good, check it out.
Wired’s Steve Silberman wants you to know about this interview he did with Beck last year. It never ended up getting published but, thankfully, he’s put it online for us to see. It’s a neat interview in which Beck discusses the relationship art and music.
Mashup man Arty Fufkin has posted a Beck/Boomtown Rats mashup, Rat Sexx. Check it out here.
Update: Ok, maybe I should have listened to it first. It’s actually just a short clip of a mashup that I guess he’s having trouble with. My mistake.
From http://icv2.com/articles/home/8569.html:
Tokyopop will team up with Interscope Records to combine Beck and Beck. With every copy of BECK: Mongolian Chop Squad Vol. 4, Tokyopop will include an online access code to get Go It Alone, an exclusive remixed track from the musician Beck’s 2005 Guero.
The track will be downloadable from the Tokyopop website.
In connection with Plexifilm‘s release of the Kill the Moonlight DVD (which came out Tuesday), there will be a screening of the film in Los Angeles. The movie will be followed by a Q&A session with the film’s director, Steve Hanft. This will all be happening at the Echo Park Film Center in LA on Saturday March 25.
Here’s the relevant info from an e-mail Plexifilm sent me:
Los Angeles Events for KILL THE MOONLIGHT and GIGANTIC
Two Plexi related events are happening this Saturday at The Echo Park Film Center in Los Angeles:
Saturday, March 25th
3pm – GUEST LECTURE SERIES WITH AJ SCHNACK AND SHIRLEY MOYERS
Meet the director and producer of GIGANTIC (A TALE OF TWO JOHNS) among other cinematic wonders!8pm – KILL THE MOONLIGHT 16mm Film Screening and Q & A with director Steve Hanft
all happening at:
The Echo Park Film Center
1200 N. Alvarado Street (@ Sunset Blvd)
Los Angeles, CA 90026
213. 484.8846
http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/
The Coachella movie (which is about, appropriately, the Coachella music festival) will be released on DVD April 18. Beck has played at Coachella three times (1999, 2002 and 2004) and appears in the movie.
The Shynola-directed ‘E-Pro’ video has been nominated for, and lost, a 2006 British Animation Award. Apparently the nominations were announced in late February and the awards handed out March 9.
The winner in the Best Music Video category was Subtle’s ‘Swan Meat’ (sidenote: you may remember that Subtle remixed ‘Farewell Ride’ for Guerolito). Mum’s ‘Will The Summer Make Good For All Our Sins’ was also nominated (and also lost). The public choice winner for Best Music Video was the Gorillaz’ ‘Feel Good Inc’.
Nacho Libre update: iTunes and quicktime.com will soon feature “confessionals” from Jack Black shot during the filming of Nacho Libre. There will be two per week starting March 15 and going for two and half months. In a crazy case of meta-promotion, there is a trailer out advertising these confessionals, which you can download here.
How is this Beck related? Well, Beck is scoring Nacho Libre. An earlier trailer for the movie featured already featured a new Beck song and it is likely that some/all of these confessionals will also have some new Beck tunes. In fact, the new trailer linked above has a better version of the same song we’ve already heard, so that’s pretty darn exciting. Scratch that, I’m just stupid. This is a song that is in the other trailer, but not the Beck one. At least, I don’t think it’s Beck.
Confused? I’m sorry. I know that was poorly written, but I’m tired and can’t bring myself to edit it right now.
Your good friend Ross Harris just posted a beatiful video (or camcorder meditation) he made for ‘It’s All in Your Mind’. Check it out at youtube and vimeo. I really like this!
While you’re at it, check out this fan-made IAIYM video at youtube.
According to LowCountry Music, Sports & More Beck will be performing at the Les Schwab Amphitheater in Bend OR on Saturday May 27 2006. Tickets go on presale at Ticketmaster March 10 at 10 AM PST.
Is this the start of a real tour? Bend is pretty near where the Sasquatch Festival is (where Beck will be performing the next day), so maybe this is a one-off deal. I certainly hope he does a real tour though.