Nick Thayer + Valentine's in San Francisco = LOVELY!

Here are a couple short vid's I shot while dancin' my @ss off to Australia's Nick Thayer with my fiance this Valentine's weekend in San Francisco.

Check out his myspace or facebook, and bookmark this for future reference.

Sir Dark$eid Interview on AccidentalPractice.com

Sir Dark$eid Interview on Accidental Practice 2009-12-27

We caught up with NYC rapper/producer, Sir Dark$eid, for a couple of moments for NYE2010 and are proud to share with you the fruits of our labor! (by labor we mean drinking, ha!)

You can find the direct link here, and can also view the interview on AccidentalPractice.com.

10 Reasons to Check Out AccidentalPractice.com

OK, we're not actually posting 10 reasons to check out AccidentalPractice.com. AccidentalPractice.com can now do that for itself after today's release of AP's 10th Episode!

"An aural collage of indie artists from around the globe (outside of the US, Episode 10 explores Britain, Belgium & Brazil to name a few) and local artists from "Smokeland", California that touch on genres as diverse as acoustic, electronic, jam and experimental, and as traditional as drum & bass, dubstep and hip-hop -- but done up with a twist...forging "found sounds" with remixes, movie clips with collaborations and practice sessions with the world's finest indie artists is what we pride ourselves on at Accidental Practice." -Brian Ball (Oakland, CA)

Episode 10's Rockstars:

Audioescapism [Britain]
Sixfingerz [Antwerp, Belgium]
Cy Tru [Wuppertal, Germany]
Eric Grabczyk [Milwaukee, WI]
Jones Fo Sho [somewhere between Antarctica & Spain]
Natur-al [Britain]
Tape Deck Apocalypse [Milwaukee, WI]
The Malander [São Paulo Brazil]

Stream/Download (WAV) on SoundCloud:



Alternate MP3 Download: http://sizzlinsoundz.audioacrobat.com/rss/accidental_practice.xml

Burning Souls Pay Deathly Tolls

This exclusive One-Of-A-Kind Performance marks a brief and tranquil moment in history, where time stands still, and musical notes hover about weightlessly in the air.

Armed with a new venue, a high-output fog machine, plenty of lighting and effects, candy sushi, a case of Rockstar, a fully-stocked bar with sexy bartenders that love to pour, 36 marijuana-laced cupcakes, 30 of our closest friends and 1 spellbound musical hex conjured up by Primate King himself, we aim to outdo ourselves every Halloween, and this year was no exception!!

Tune In and discover the haunted sounds that span throughout the many different styles presented in this mind-bending brainchild of Oakland California's most versatile and elusive artist, Primate King.


Tracklist:

01 - intro - alfred hitchcock - music to be murderd by (primate king edit)
02 - phon.o - trick or treat
03 - wade denning & kay lande - halloween dance
04 - zombina & the skeletones - come on!
05 - squidward - sponge bob scaredy pants
06 - cunninglynguists - hellfire (instrumental)
07 - rjd2 - the horror (primate king edit)
08 - peeping tom (mike patton) - your neighborhood spaceman (ft. jel & odd nosdam)
09 - the bastard fairies - we're all going to hell
10 - those legendary shack shakers - blood on the bluegrass
11 - deadbolt - channel 5
12 - david lynch - ghost of love
13 - concrete blonde - bloodletting (the vampire song)
14 - lee ross - the mummy's bracelet
15 - primate king - the wolfman vs. super mario world haunted house bgm
16 - outro - benji hughes - mummy


Download the Live Performance WAVE file on Bandcamp

Download the Studio Mix WAVE file on Bandcamp

Download the Studio Mix MP3 file on MediaFire

Stream it all right here courtesy of SoundCloud:

Burning Souls Pay Deathly Tolls by primateking

Accidental Practice: Episode 09

When exploring the depths of both real life and the internet for the world’s finest independent musicians, a lot of gems can be turned up—many of which come from the most peculiar places. In the 9th episode of the Accidental Practice Podcast, all listening ears will be filled with freshly recorded sounds both local to Smokeland California and reaching around the globe. Discover underground heroes in genres as far reaching as dubstep, glitch, trip-hop, psychedelic blues, ambient, experimental, funk, 4-bit, hip-hop and MORE!

Super fun happy bonus extras include in-house jam sessions, live (and studio) remixes, UC Berkeley freshman band practice, David Bowie and Weezer karaoke, a live taping of The Ellen DeGenerous Show, movie clips, local folk music and some Atari 2600 SFX!

Download the WAVE file on SoundCloud

Download the MP3 file from AccidentalPractice.com

Stream it here:

More about these Rockstars:

Alone Together

Alone Together is a Sound Collage artist. Sound Collage: the aggregate of the many tiny samples plays an original score. Do the live show with a computer, talkbox and vocoder. Member: Yuki Ota

http://myspace.com/alonetogether2030

Analog Affair, The

The Analog Affair began in the spring of 2008 in a small college town in Wyoming. When Cody Moser and Evan Baker discovered that they both shared said passion during an intermission of bi-weekly beer pong, The Analog Affair was born. Since then, the brainchild, influenced by the likes of Stars, Straylight Run, Ben Gibbard, Brand New, Dallas Green and Styrofoam, amongst many others, slowly has grown legs and is on its way to becoming a fully-functioning, developmentally sound, upstanding citizen in underground indie electrodramatic pop (technically not a sub-genre....yet....). To put it plainly, if music is war, then the Analog Affair has become adept at the art of guerilla style music making.

http://www.myspace.com/theanalogafair

Ballademaker aka Ivar. F. Hansen

Hello I am a musician who play keyboard and piano, I teach in keyboard and piano. I have play piano since age of 9 now I am 47, I love to make music, and listen to music. I make my own music, but I play some cover songs sometimes. Like Elton John and Billy Joel. I have my great Korg Karma and my Roland XP80 and my DX7 love them all, make good sounds all of them. I have my own home studio, have play in several groups. Style is ballad now but I also like funk jazz rock blues gospel.

http://soundcloud.com/ballademaker

Brian Knarfield

Brian Knarfield is a music producer, remixer and DJ located in Oakland, California. He co-owns the Sonus Collective label and is resident at the label's Sone parties, a prominent minimal and tech-house Tuesday night weekly, in Berkeley, California. Brian records minimal and tech-house tracks at his Oakland recording studio and plays weekly residencies at Sone on Tuesdays and Butter on Thursday nights.

http://www.brianknarfield.com/

Christiaan3 aka Christiaan Pistorius

Have been playing piano for a while and now I'm pursuing my love for electronic and acoustic music alike. I like Tori Amos, PJ Harvey, Matthew Herbert, Underworld, Depeche Mode, NIN and much more ... I'm not interested in creating music that is "polished" and "clear and crisp" sounding. I like it when a song sounds a bit rough - I like that type of energy. What is most important is that the integrity of the song is sovereign to everything. I don’t work on my songs too long and most of them have been done in a day or 2. I would like to collaborate with others.

http://soundcloud.com/christiaan3

Diakon

Diakon is a Dubstep and Electronic music producer/DJ living and working in York. Diakon and his girlfriend Demeter are the resident Dubstep DJs on Radio Equinox. Tune in to their show diakonanddemeter on 103.1 in the York area or online at www.crankyradio.co.nr. This couple also regularly collaborates on beats together. In addition, Diakon produces Glitch Hop as Breakmagos and is also a member of Breakcore outfit 1/4master, Electronic Drone Behemoths STR255 and bleepy glitch crew Mutant Algorithms with Ghostwriter.

http://myspace.com/diakondub

Evan Westmoreland

Audio Engineering student, phat beat extrordinaire.

http://twitter.com/etwestmo

Genesis aka Prophet of the Womb

http://www.myspace.com/genesis2012

Sixfingerz

My name is Tim, I live in Belgium, in the city of Antwerp. I have been making musical tunes for about ten years, I started of with techno, trip hop, break-beat, drum n bass and electro. Every year I have the urge to go about a new direction and as of may this year, that would be very hip hop oriented. But I always seem to carry personal style with me. My style is a combination of transformed rare samples and clean vst basses/synths with some live instruments in the back. Some of my big Beatheroes are: Dj Shadow, Coldcut, J. Dilla, Dj Premier, Pete Rock and Dj Muggs, Lamb, Blockhead, Aphex Twin, … To name but a few.

http://myspace.com/sixfingerzholdingitdown

WelterWill

Starting and finishing tracks within’ an hour or two is something I am always guilty of. I make the music that comes out at the time that I’m recording. My recent flood of songs has been influenced by cabin fever and a slow unraveling of thoughts and understandings.

http://www.myspace.com/welterwill99

Accidental Practice Podcast: Episode 08 ft. One Man Krass & Sir Dark$eid + Living Dred

Hi, this is your Host, Primate King, welcoming you to the 8th Episode of our try to be but not so weekly rotating jam session . . . Accidental Practice!

This episode has been a long time coming and believe you me, we didn’t pull any punches when it comes to bringing you the finest independent musicians our beloved Smokeland California has to offer. Actually, we’re bringing together artists from all corners of the globe. Yeah, we had to step it up a little bit…it helped get you tuned in though, didn’t it?

We’ll hear from Smokeland California’s very own resident guitarist Dennis Wong who will actually be playing keys for a short while in this episode…also, we will hear some recent guerrilla-styled performances from Nice Guys Finish Last and Fill (that’s F – I – L – L) from Southern California that took place at our good friend Rose’s 24th birthday party. Another treat we have to offer on this episode of the Accidental Practice Podcast is a collaboration between Swiss producer Patrick Kiener aka One Man Krass and NYC rapper/producer Sir Darkseid aka Johnny Freaking Awesome. We also have a brand new remix of a song by Milwaukee, Wisconsin’s very own Living Dred. If that doesn’t quench your thirst, perhaps a couple exclusive prim8king remixes + mashups will dump the proverbial cooler of Gatorade over your head while you’re not looking…either way you crack it – it’s going down!

Now we bring you . . . Accidental Practice!

Accidental Practice Podcast: Episode 08 by primateking

More about Sir Dark$eid:
Born in Trinidad and Tobago. . .The name's Jonathan Quamina a.k.a Johnny 5.1 a.k.a Johnny Freaking Awesome a.k.a Sir Dark$eid. I reside in BROOKLYN N.Y! I was raised in Harlem, Brooklyn and Oakland. Sound complicated? It's not! I'm an east coast kid at heart. Music, among a list of other things, is one of my deepest passions. Hip Hop is my religion and it's how I get my mind right and force the negative energy out of my spirit. Some of my role models in Hip Hop right now are MF DOOM, Mad Lib, Jedi Mind Tricks, Apathy, Aesop Rock, Eminem, Ludacris, and Busta Ryhmes. . .just to name a few. Danger Doom is probably my biggest idol combos. When they came out with the Mouse and the Mask album it was just mad stoopid. Every song on that album is pure gold. Like I tend not to rap about guns, drugs, and cars. I mean I've lived the street life but your not gonna hear me glorifying killing nigga's on the block. People listen to your stuff, especially the youth and one should really wanna set a good example and send a decent if not good message. Now not to say my lyrics are on that Will Smith level, but I hope you'll notice that when I rhyme I rhyme about silly stuff but keep in real. The fact is I rap for the people plain and simple. I Like to have fun with rap. People like Busta, Kanye, Common, Mos Def. . .these are guys who are having fun with rap. It don't always have to be about killing and drugs. I love music and I would be lost and dead without it. Hands down, palms up!

More about One Man Krass:
Hi my name is patrick. i'm from Traintown, Switzerland. i'm a bassguitar player, also i play the guitar and lots of air drumming or just programm it in reason 4 (rewired to logic). I listen to anything that rocks - metal to funk and jazz to hardcore and everything in between. i produce my own songs. i love music.

More about Living Dred:

Living Dred is an ever growing musical adventure, made up of a committed and talented group of musicians who give nothing less than every ounce of energy into capturing the brilliance of reggae and rock, fuzing them together to create their own unique sound coined acid-reggae.

It gets cold up here in the north woods, so we learned how to make our own sunshine. Best described as a hint of mint with a twist of poison Living Dred's unique style know as acid-reggae in-fuzes elements of punk, rock, metal, blues, salsa, polka, surf and dub with their own special style of reggae. And the story begins...

Living Dred looks forward to what the future has to offer. The band continues to grow and develop their individual talents while writing and learning new material.

Electro Pusher Deux

"Electro Ain't Electro No More" is the Atomic Hooligan vocal that seems to sum up the Electro Pusher Mix Series in a phrase...but to experience the creative genius behind this project is the only way to let the dance-friendly, remixed and re-fixed sounds of Primate King enter your brain.

You'll find local talent from Smokeland California (Divasonic), SoundCloud friends (RuNRiOT & Elektropusher), BIG names (Dizzee Rascal, The Ting Tings, Princess Superstar, Kanye West (please listen before criticizing), LMFAO, Yeah Yeah, Yeahs, Haddaway, Robin S.), and yes the late great Michael Jackson in the 2nd installment of the Electro Pusher Mix Series.

Electro, Dubstep, Hip-Hop, Pop, Rock and a whole barrage of other genres are seamlessly spliced into fifty eight and one half minutes that you will want to experience again and again at an uplifting 129 BPM. (workout music anyone?)

Support for the creative process (beer money) can be shown by donating at http://prim8king.bandcamp.com/ and if you like I'll even burn and autograph a CD for ya--just send your mailing address to primateking@gmail.com with the subject line: Autograph.

Track listing is as follows:

01 - The Ting Tings - Great DJ (Galaxy Of The Dead Remix)
02 - Emiliana Torrini - Jungle Drum (Tolo Remix)
03 - Dizzee Rascal & Armand Van Helden - Bonkers (Club Remix)
04 - Lee Mortimer - This Is Real Shit (Elektropusher's Dirty Shitty Bassline Remix)
05 - Run Riot - If You Seek Peace Plan For War
06 - Alexander Technique - Rock U (ft. Princess Superstar) (Chewy Chocolates Cookies Radio Edit Remix)
07 - Boemklatsch - Bonafied (Mightyfools remix)
08 - Mightyfools - Amsterdam (ft. Guerilla Speakerz) (Dem Slackers Remix)
09 - Divasonic - Can of Wormz (ft. Atiim Chenzira) (Pance Party Remix)
10 - Master Shortie - Dead End (Sticky K Remix)
11 - DJ Class - I'm The Shit (ft. Kanye West) (Ernold Sane Wobble Remix)
12 - LMFAO - Lil Hipster Girl
13 - Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Heads Will Roll (Dan Oh Remix)
14 - Michael Jackson - Blood On The Dancefloor (DIGIRAATI OUT2KILL REMIXX)
15 - Michael Jackson - Smooth Criminal (Telemitry Remix)
16 - Haddaway - What is Love (Barletta Remix)
17 - Atomic Hooligan - Electro Ain't Electro
18 - Robin S. - Show Me Love (Ruben X's Fun Punch Mashup)

Total Playtime: 58:38
Released by: primateking
Release/catalogue number: ep02
Release date: Jul 24, 2009

Click Here to Stream/Download Electro Pusher Deux on SoundCloud