Hey all, dropping by with a quick update. There's going to be a little lack of posts in the coming weeks, I've done broken a finger and fractured an elbow (on opposite arms no less!) so typing is a hassle to say the least. Me and Adam do have another podcast recorded so that should still go up soon. Instead for now have a selection of thematically appropriate tunes and I'll see y'all soon.
Showing posts with label Locust Toybox. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Locust Toybox. Show all posts
Sunday, 9 July 2017
Wednesday, 13 April 2016
Last Minute Updates
Jacek Yerka - Last Minute (2000)
Oh crumbs, I let the days sneak up on me again. Ah well, I'm a little busy today too so let's see what I can muster up in about half an hour or so. Shamelessly putting up more from my hometown hero Mr. Evelyn again, to be fair it's been a long time since I put it up and it well deserves another round.
Long time since I mentioned Locust Toybox too, I still mean to his last LP, the first one he's actually put up for a price. Not that I blame him either, we had about 10 years of free tunes and it was high time he got a lil something more than just the occasional donation.
And seeing us out is Stenhman's remix of DJ Shadow's Scale It Back, Stench recently put out 3 compilations of what he'd selected as his best tracks in certain genres, this one appeared in the Best Of Downtempo one and it was a solid choice indeed.
Thursday, 17 March 2016
Hangin' Around
Jack Tworkov - Thusday (1960)
Feelin' a little trip hop hip hop this time, picked out some things that have been tickling my fancy this mornin'. Starting with a lil' something from Scattle, a bit of a departure from the synthwavey-y stuff of his I've posted before but there's still hints of that slightly menacing vibe there. It's a short one but sweet as, can't get enough of that bass.
Throwback from one of the many music side projects under David Firth's belt. This one has been a long standing favourite of mine; I understand why vocals are sparse in his Toybox work compared to say the folk styling of the Grape Digging Sharon Fruits but his long time pal Christian (AKA Crust) did a solid job here.
And finally yet another tune drilled into my skull, which I mean in the nicest way possible. The times I've heard it must number almost a thousand by no, and every time I can't get enough of it's hazy vibe. Easily in my top 10 of go to tunes to scratch my instrumental itch.
-Claude Van Foxbat
Sunday, 23 November 2014
Gloomy Sundays VII
Skipped out on a couple of these, but I'm back now with even more tunes to drag you down before monday, So without further ado let's get started.
More UNKLE with well known sad boy Thom Yorke on vocals. There's nothing really like it on the album, but that's not to say it's bad it's just a bit of a left from the trip-hop vibes of the rest of the LP.
Winter means more OPN. Nothing like analogue ambient brilliance to see the cold in. One of the shorter bits from Rifts though it feels like it lasts an eternity. Lopatin keeps its sedate here, there's no surprise arpeggios or descent into noise like some of his other tracks, just lush sounds throughout.
David Firth of Fat-Pie fame has been making a splash as of late with animating a video for Flying Lotus and all, few people seem to know he also does music under many a psudeonym. Much like his cartoons there's often a dark streak in them.
-Claude Van Foxbat
John Lautermilch - The Decision (2009)
More UNKLE with well known sad boy Thom Yorke on vocals. There's nothing really like it on the album, but that's not to say it's bad it's just a bit of a left from the trip-hop vibes of the rest of the LP.
Winter means more OPN. Nothing like analogue ambient brilliance to see the cold in. One of the shorter bits from Rifts though it feels like it lasts an eternity. Lopatin keeps its sedate here, there's no surprise arpeggios or descent into noise like some of his other tracks, just lush sounds throughout.
David Firth of Fat-Pie fame has been making a splash as of late with animating a video for Flying Lotus and all, few people seem to know he also does music under many a psudeonym. Much like his cartoons there's often a dark streak in them.
-Claude Van Foxbat
Sunday, 10 August 2014
Day 3: Still Alive
Hello again! I know it's been quiet on my front but that's because I've been doing normal 20 year old things like filing taxes and whatnot. Nah, just joshin ya, I've been living it up a little but now is time for music. Tacks after more art.
Sitting at the tippy top of my music player every time I start it is this little number here. I've heard the first ten seconds like 1000 times before I set the shuffle off, but for once in a very long time I sat through it, and it's still as good as ever. The whole albums is chock full of that lovely clash between the lush synths and the broken beats.
And in a prime example of shuffle being absolutely aced we segue nicely into some Locust Toybox. Noon is by far and away my favourite album of his and shows off a good deal of his musical influences. This one here's a lot like The Flashbulb meets some chiptunes and most of Warp Record's output. By the way you can still get 99% of Locust Toybox's discography for free (and legally) over HERE.
Speaking of warp, I'll leave y'all now with probably my favourite example of the early-mid 90's bleepy ambient techno they were putting out under the {Artificial Intelligence} series. Autechre's entry is a far cry from their later work for sure, and while they might not care for it too much themselves these days, it's still top notch techno that's remarkably futuristic considering it's so old it can legally drink in the USA. I highly recommend you check it out.
-Claude Van Foxbat
Atelier Olschinsky - Ghost Cities Remix (02)
Sitting at the tippy top of my music player every time I start it is this little number here. I've heard the first ten seconds like 1000 times before I set the shuffle off, but for once in a very long time I sat through it, and it's still as good as ever. The whole albums is chock full of that lovely clash between the lush synths and the broken beats.
And in a prime example of shuffle being absolutely aced we segue nicely into some Locust Toybox. Noon is by far and away my favourite album of his and shows off a good deal of his musical influences. This one here's a lot like The Flashbulb meets some chiptunes and most of Warp Record's output. By the way you can still get 99% of Locust Toybox's discography for free (and legally) over HERE.
Speaking of warp, I'll leave y'all now with probably my favourite example of the early-mid 90's bleepy ambient techno they were putting out under the {Artificial Intelligence} series. Autechre's entry is a far cry from their later work for sure, and while they might not care for it too much themselves these days, it's still top notch techno that's remarkably futuristic considering it's so old it can legally drink in the USA. I highly recommend you check it out.
-Claude Van Foxbat
Thursday, 24 April 2014
Freebies
I've got a fair stack of tunes hanging around that people have just given out. Seems to be a growing trend these days and its always nice to get some free tunes from your favourite artist, or stumbing across a new one you wouldn't have heard before. Here are some of my choice picks.
I misplaced my original download of Stenchman's first free release and only picked it up again not too long ago. Despite being released in 2010, the dubstep on it is Stench's own unique brand rather than your typical brostep. I urge you to check him out, he's one of my favourite producers especially with his new Housey stuff under his new Philestine moniker.
Stenchman - Overtaker
Moving onto animator David Firth's musical stuff again. I've always thought he is was too nice with his releases, all 9 of his previous albums were available for free (and still are by the way), and even though he's charging for this latest one it's still only a fiver. Here's a tune from my favourite of is albums Noon to give you an idea of what he does.
He also does some other musical stuff, here's side project I'm The Manager that while not strictly electronic is still lovely. I picked the EP this is from up after he used it in a retrospective of his animations, you can grab the tunes over on the last.fm page.
And finally, ambient freebie given out by Röyksopp in the run up to Senior. I initially passed up on it because the first few entries were just instrumentals from Junior, but then I was pleasantly surprised by this track here, gives me the same warm fuzzies that Sparks does. Don't think it's available on their site anymore, so enjoy!
-Claude Van Foxbat
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Vincent Mahé - The Living Room (from Neighbours), (2014)
I misplaced my original download of Stenchman's first free release and only picked it up again not too long ago. Despite being released in 2010, the dubstep on it is Stench's own unique brand rather than your typical brostep. I urge you to check him out, he's one of my favourite producers especially with his new Housey stuff under his new Philestine moniker.
Stenchman - Overtaker
Moving onto animator David Firth's musical stuff again. I've always thought he is was too nice with his releases, all 9 of his previous albums were available for free (and still are by the way), and even though he's charging for this latest one it's still only a fiver. Here's a tune from my favourite of is albums Noon to give you an idea of what he does.
He also does some other musical stuff, here's side project I'm The Manager that while not strictly electronic is still lovely. I picked the EP this is from up after he used it in a retrospective of his animations, you can grab the tunes over on the last.fm page.
And finally, ambient freebie given out by Röyksopp in the run up to Senior. I initially passed up on it because the first few entries were just instrumentals from Junior, but then I was pleasantly surprised by this track here, gives me the same warm fuzzies that Sparks does. Don't think it's available on their site anymore, so enjoy!
-Claude Van Foxbat
Saturday, 29 June 2013
AT / AA 30
Ellsworth Kelly - Spectrum Colours Arranged By Chance III (1951)
I'd long forgotten about this one, there's a bunch of good remixes on Locust Toybox's Remixes And Other Crap. From the title and metadata comments it seems Firth didn't care for a lot of the work on it, but they are quite nice to listen to every now and then. A reminder that you can get all of Locust Toybox's releases for free (and legally) over on this page
Saturday, 15 June 2013
AT / AA 19
Jimi Hollis -Mangled Tape Memories I (2006)
One of my favourite internet people David Firth has been awful quiet lately, he's set off on another travelling jaunt around Europe this time. Shame because he'd just revived the excellent Waller FM podcast on Fat-Pie. Still while we wait there's other pieces by him to digest, take his Locust Toybox work for example. Enjoy.
Wednesday, 20 February 2013
Glitch With Me
And just so I'm not leaving you hanging with no music, here are some of my favourite glitchy tunes to give you a little something to work by if you're making some glitched up goodness!
Thursday, 16 August 2012
Just A Bit Rude
Having a loud setup does have its downsides. There are more than a couple tracks in my collection that are... uncomfortable to listen to with an audience. Like watching an 18 rated flick with your parents. But today I'm gonna embrace them and delve into the slightly more than risque tunes I have.
More from Felix's Devin Dazzle this time, with an incredibly suggestive song (fitting actually, considering his ties to the early electroclash scene). I always found this one to be quite funny because on the tracklist, a tune called She's So Damn Cool has 'damn' censored with a tactical asterisk, yet the lyrical content on Hunting Season goes unaltered. You'll see what I'm talking about when you give it a listen.
Of course, Frank Sinatra deserves a honourable mention, I already posted the 2001 remix which is my favourite version, but now it seems suitable to bring the original up. Recorded in 1998 in a dingy record store basement (according to Kittin at least), it sounds pretty rough as a result, and of course the infamous reputation of track proceeds it, there are some pretty classic lines in it such as the titular "You know Frank Sinatra? He's Dead. DEAD!" and that's the cleanest line in the thing.
Dabbling in a bit of sampling now with a bit from the Toybox from his charmingly named Remixes And Other Crap. It's some voice clips cut up and re-arranged to sound rude set to a catchy beat with some chiptune-y synth accompaniment. I can see why it wasn't included on any of his main albums but it is fun to listen to. And I legitimately love that beat.
And of course, Peaches. This one's slower than most bits on I Feel Cream, but like most of her catalogue, it shines in the production department. If you're not paying too much attention it seems pretty normal, maybe a bit more if you don't know what the shocker is (though there's a handy Wikipedia article to explain). Saying that this album is home to possibly the cleanest Peaches track ever; Downtown, but that's not why we're here is it?
and that's that. I honestly thought I had more prime examples than this, though I could be forgetting some I suppose. Regardless, enjoy.
Totally Clucked Up,
-Claude Van Foxbat
More from Felix's Devin Dazzle this time, with an incredibly suggestive song (fitting actually, considering his ties to the early electroclash scene). I always found this one to be quite funny because on the tracklist, a tune called She's So Damn Cool has 'damn' censored with a tactical asterisk, yet the lyrical content on Hunting Season goes unaltered. You'll see what I'm talking about when you give it a listen.
Of course, Frank Sinatra deserves a honourable mention, I already posted the 2001 remix which is my favourite version, but now it seems suitable to bring the original up. Recorded in 1998 in a dingy record store basement (according to Kittin at least), it sounds pretty rough as a result, and of course the infamous reputation of track proceeds it, there are some pretty classic lines in it such as the titular "You know Frank Sinatra? He's Dead. DEAD!" and that's the cleanest line in the thing.
Dabbling in a bit of sampling now with a bit from the Toybox from his charmingly named Remixes And Other Crap. It's some voice clips cut up and re-arranged to sound rude set to a catchy beat with some chiptune-y synth accompaniment. I can see why it wasn't included on any of his main albums but it is fun to listen to. And I legitimately love that beat.
And of course, Peaches. This one's slower than most bits on I Feel Cream, but like most of her catalogue, it shines in the production department. If you're not paying too much attention it seems pretty normal, maybe a bit more if you don't know what the shocker is (though there's a handy Wikipedia article to explain). Saying that this album is home to possibly the cleanest Peaches track ever; Downtown, but that's not why we're here is it?
and that's that. I honestly thought I had more prime examples than this, though I could be forgetting some I suppose. Regardless, enjoy.
Totally Clucked Up,
-Claude Van Foxbat
Thursday, 13 October 2011
Dramatic Return
So, I'm finally back. As you probably already know, I've been quite unwell for the past few months. I'm a little better now, but still not 100%. To make myself feel even more better I picked up some music stuffs, which is good news for you as well!
Kicking us off is Ladytron, who brought a house inspired brand of psuedo-electroclash to the synthpop revival scene of the early 2000's that I quite like with 604. It still sounds quite fresh for an 10 year old album, check this out.
It's not all house all the time though, 604 really shines when it's fully embracing the simple bleeps to create that undoubtebly Kraftwerk inspired sound. It's perhaps easier to hear the influence on other cuts, I just picked this one 'cos it's a favourite.
I finally got around to picking up The Knife's soundtrack to swedish indie flick Hannah Med H too, which I've posted a bit of already. It's short (just over a half hour) but all the tracks are brilliantly produced.
Now, this one is a bit of a wildcard. What happens when The Knife takes a stab at techno? well, this. A menacing sounding, frantic and cut up to hell track that lasts all of two minutes. It sort of reminds of of Aphex Twin's Digeridoo only more... European sounding, if that makes sense.
I really like the structure of this one, it's one of the longer tracks on the album, nothing is wasted and no element overstays it's welcome: everything feels very precise and calculated, from the opening beats to the breakdowns.
Sending us off is my favourite internet animator turned musician, Locust Toybox. His new album Noon dropped earlier this year and as far as I'm concerned it's his best yet, it's very refined and mostly sample based and doesn't have that sort of unfinished feel some of his earlier stuff did.
The first track I heard from Noon, the intro is good by itself, but the track really shines when that brilliantly executed sample at 1:26 drops. That was when I knew it'd a be a favourite of mine.
Finishing up with the first track, which sounds just a bit like something Mr. Scruff would make, but with hazy reverb infused vocals over the top. Could've probably been a summer track, but it's a bit late for that now isn't it?
And that be that, I apologise for not being around as much as I'd have liked to, but between going back to school and havin' brain problems, I kinda had a lot on my plate. BUT on a lighter note I have some other stuff planned so expect a semi-regular return to form for me!
Feelin' Fine,
-Claude Van Foxbat
Tuesday, 12 April 2011
Locust Toybox
David Firth, Internet animator best known for his infamous Salad Fingers series, also has a number of music based side projects including I'm The Manager and The Grape Digging Sharon Fruits. Locust Toybox is another one of these projects, and unlike the others is a purely electronic affair. If you've ever seen any of Firth's flash cartoons you can hazard a guess at what his tracks sound like. For those who haven't everything ranging from 8-bit chiptunes to full on ambient is covered on his 8 albums. it's quite hard to sum up in words due to the constant change in styles, instead check out my choice cuts below:
Oh, and since Firth is a really nice bloke, You can download ALL EIGHT of Locust Toybox's albums for free (and legally) HERE that's over 100 tracks for nothing. Enjoy Find Locust Toybox on: Myspace Soundcloud Last.fm There's Trouble A-Brewin', -Claude Van Foxbat
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