I needed something to really pull me back into this.
November 25, 2009 | Filed Under exclusive, music, tuftsmania exclusive | 3 Comments
image: flickr (repost? i can’t remember)
Luckily my friends at Binary and Nightwaves were eager to help. Feeling like a match made in the dreamwave heavens, a connection was made between Despotz Records‘ own ultra-pop-funk O’Spada and Binary’s Nightwaves. They were given the task to remix/rework/whatever you want to call it O’Spada’s latest single, “Ten Strikes”. After just a short time they were ready to deliver the final product.
The result: TWO amazing renditions of one excellent original track. yew! Taking the original clean-cut/pop-funk groove, Nightwaves, took O’Spada to the land of bongos and reverberating synths. They did what they do best by creating an impossibly dreamy atmosphere and turned this squeaky clean track into a dream of cosmic proportions. TWICE.
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O’Spada – Ten Strikes (Nightwaves Midnight Fire Remix) –It starts fairly minimal with skeletal rhythm and stark vocals which gradually builds atmosphere –eventually into a thick pulsing aural beast just before breaking to the amazingly lovely chorus progression. so smooth. a knife through butter, creamy camembert, etc. massaging your auditories.
take note: BONGOS BONGOS BONGOS!!!!
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O’Spada – Ten Strikes (Nightwaves’ Sunday Morning Remix) –hand claps, reverb, and FM synths on a sunday morning is the best way to have any morning.
So which one is your favorite? Both? Thought so. No, but really. Let’s hear it.
For those of you who are just joining the mania, O’Spada is AWESOMELY fresh. You can hear what I posted about them a while ago, here.
BONUS:
Here’s the original version of O’Spada’s ‘Ten Strikes’
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Shouts to all who put in the time to make this happen. Bloodthirsty Crew, Carl-Marcus, Josh, Kyle, the whole Binary Fam, O’Spada.
WHO IS HRO?????? WHO IS TUFTY?????????
April 14, 2008 | Filed Under exclusive, music, photography | 5 Comments
I rarely get short and sweet fan mail. The messages I usually get are long winded, full of unanswerable questions, and usually end up with me in tears.
Here’s one unlike the rest:
…but wait… another message from Elle Estrange??
This was a most unexpected twist…
Elle Estrange, do you have more in your life than blogz?
The latest in Blogville scandals: WHO IS HRO??? WHO IS TUFTSMANIA?????IS HE/SHE/THEY ONE IN THE SAME? DO THEY TRADE BLOGS BI-WEEKLY??? DOES CARLES LEAD A SECRET LIFE?? IS TUFTSMANIA SKITZO??
Scenario Rock – Skitzo Dancer (Justice Remix)
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this post deserves a post (midnight juggernauts deserve a post as well)
March 5, 2008 | Filed Under exclusive, music, photography | 8 Comments
image: tuftsmania
A while back Jason inRGB got the idea of creating moustache stickers to post up on street advertisements or anything else that needed some good moustaching. I agreed that this would be epic.
We come up with probably hundreds of ideas weekly, none of them ever make it past the, “man, it would be totally sick if…” stage.
Well this made it past that stage, the rest of the stages, and it’s definitely a reality now.
Congratulations Jason, for creating an empire of Moustache Me goodness.
for insanely healthy midnight juggernauts… Read more
D is 21
February 10, 2008 | Filed Under exclusive, music | 2 Comments
This is today’s post:
HAPPY ITALIAN BIRTHDAY D
if anyone is near firenze italy, they should hit up my good friend D, and show him the time of his life. alcohol, hookers, blood, feces
message him on facebook and tell him how dope his hair is!!
here is the best italian disco i can muster, both posted in the past:
Bloody Beetroots – Ill to Destroy
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and an all time classic…
Bloody Beetroots – Harvest Time
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winners circle
December 10, 2007 | Filed Under exclusive, music, tuftsmania exclusive | 3 Comments
What an awesome weekend full of studying for finals…
This is going to be quick, as I’m still studying… so hope everyone who wanted in on this little contest had a chance to play.
winners:
1. John Swiatek from the east side (props john, dude was seriously on his shit, 12PM on the dot???)
2. Elena Reimeryte – lithuania!
3. Andrew Meyer
4. Judy Park
5. Jason Sherwin
6. Dustin Herrmann – Italy, partying with bob and T from the beetroots!
7. Takisha Parks
note: there are quite a few heads that didn’t leave an address! email me back soon or I can’t mail out your packages. I’ll update this list as people email me.
———–also, I got tons of messages about releasing this for download. No plans to do that on my part…. it’s up you guys who have the mixtape! I’m including cds with all of them, so ripping it is easy.
All I ask is keep the rips 192kb/s+. Anything lower shouldn’t even exist in life.
