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7.12.10. BLOGJAMMIN' Good people at some good blogs have had some nice things to say lately about the new album. You can check out the niceties here from Dipped In Dollars, We All Want Someone To Shout For, and Vacay Wave. Thanks folks! You're running some fine operations over there. |
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7.12.10. ÉTUDE #5 IN Gb MAJOR In which the song lasts one minute. |
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7.8.10. EDITS #9: THE TEMPTATIONS vs. THES ONE The Motor City mashing continues... |
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7.2.10. EDITS #8: SMOKEY ROBINSON vs. NE-YO Mickey's Monkey has been with me since I was a little kid - my mom would rent this "DTV" videotape from the local store on sick days, which had Disney animation set to Motown and Beach Boys stuff. The Mickey's Monkey one was set to the great, early, black & white stuff Disney did where all the chimneys were bobbing and the ground rolled under foot. And Ne-Yo...well, Ne-Yo just makes great music. |
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6.27.10. EDITS #7: VAMPIRE WEEKEND vs. MICHAEL JACKSON The new Vampire Weekend record is fantastic. This is an edit, with a little MJ for good measure, of my favorite song from the album. |
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6.20.10. ÉTUDE #4 IN G MINOR In which a single one-hour trip to Goodwill, armed with $20, yields all the sounds for a song. I wound up with about fifteen records and six cassettes (after some successful haggling). Some good, some weird - there's this particular "Jeff Lorber Fusion" cassette that I still can't figure out whether it needs to be played out immediately, or is the worst lite-fusion ever committed to magnetic tape - and some that really didn't pan out. But, after wading and rooting and deciding, I think the resulting Étude bumps like geese. |
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6.13.10. ÉTUDE #3 IN Eb MINOR The rules of this one were simple: to use only sounds made by my newborn daughter. So I propped her up on the couch and got her to fuss, grunt, scream, and coo for me - about two minutes' worth. Then those couple minutes went into the computer, and I played the role of surgeon - snare drums made of coughs, kick drums from a grunt pitched down five or six octaves, and some nice pretty melodies extracted from an angry baby. So here's Stella Lee's first composition - thanks to my friend Sam for the idea. |
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6.6.10. ÉTUDE #2 IN C MINOR In which every sound is backwards. |
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5.30.10. ÉTUDE #1 IN C MINOR This is the first of nine or so études I'm making this summer, for a little exercise. An étude traditionally focuses in on one specific challenge on a given instrument (like the left-hand-only or black-keys-only versions on piano); for these producer-oriented ones, it's tackling one task or the other in the studio. This first one is all about isolation; no two sounds can happen simultaneously. |
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4.28.10. POLAR BEAR TWO Here's a DJ mix that I made last week. It's geared for patios, bar-b-ques, etc.: summery stuff, because here she comes. It is 55 tracks long, which is too long. But here's the secret: it's actually too short, because a good party should last between 12-13 hours. |
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4.1.10. TLT Here's the new record. |
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3.1.10. NEW ALBUM STUFF The Last Thing is finished. All pressed up, shiny, and ready to bully subwoofers. Preorder a real-life, 3D copy that you can hold in your hands and use as a makeup mirror here. The release party is Friday, April 2nd, at 10 pm at Dazzle Jazz Club. It will be available as an mp3 download on April 3rd right here.
Tracklisting: 1. Intro 2. Quittin' Time 3. United Colors 4. The Anointing 5. Check Your Dead 6. The Taking 7. I Stand Before You 8. Incredible Black & White 9. Scotch & Bonnet 10. Southern Lights 11. Trampolines 12. Peat Moss Rock 13. Ransom Of The Anthem 14. Summer Anarchy 15. People Everywhere 16. The Last Thing 17. Outro
Recorded Summer/Fall/Winter 2009 Colleen Lee sings on 13 Mike Thies plays drums on 14 Thanks to Kris Hutson |
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2.20.10. MAMARAZZI - GANGSTER (P. LEE REMIX) Here's the latest remix. Mamarazzi are friends from Brooklyn and their latest song is their strangest to date. It's about men and how they're nice to have around the house, in case you need someone to change a light bulb. This is what I did with the track - transformed from a cooled-out torch jam on Ambien into more of a Washington D.C. sax-a-thon. |
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2.1.10. THE LAST THING The new album's done! It's been ten years to the month since I made the first one. What a bunch of musical baloney. It'll be called The Last Thing, and should be up in April. I'm pressing 100 hand-stamped copies that will look really unique, with some full color stickers and pictures of my wife, as a two year-old, crying. It's some seriously charming album art. As soon as I find the right venue for the release party, it'll be up here. Excited! |
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1.17.10. HOUSE MADE OF STONE Someone played me some minimal, minimal house music one night at the cd store where I worked, and I knew I had to go home and try making some. It's not my genre; never has been, isn't now. Won't be. But for ten days, it was all I could think about. So I made a track a day, linked them together, and that was that. This was in the fall of 2004. The album's title is House Made Of Stone; you can infer whatever you like from that, but it's not true. |
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1.10.10. YEAR OF THE OX! Like watching Nebraska lose or going to the zoo for less than two hours, music is fun. These are the 20 barn burners that made my 2009 a little extra fun. |
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DECEMBER 2, 2009: MIXTAPE: TAKE IT TO THE BRIDGE. New mixtape. Plenty of Blowfly, Bernadette Peters, and Van Halen to go 'round. HERE. |
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DECEMBER 1, 2009. I just put my christmas tree up. So, I've got that going for me, which is nice. A lot of musical stuff going on this month. 1. New album: 18 tracks in the can and counting. This record is going to be an 80 minute blowout. Should it be called Combat Wolf? Maybe so. Maybe not. 2. New Year's at the Larimer Lounge. I'll be DJing and champagning with my good friends in The Knew. 3. New remix: My "Gangster" remix for Mamarazzi is finished. Maybe they'll release it someday. When they do, it'll be here. In the meantime, I'm hoping to put out a fresh mixtape in the next week, and to re-release the house album I made in ten consecutive days back in the summer of 2004, House Made Of Stone. Happy holidays. |
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NOVEMBER 3, 2009: GET YOURSELF FREE. Summer 2002: I moved back from Los Angeles where I had been living for the past two years. College was to start in August, so for May/June/July, I holed up in the folk's basement during the day, and made this album mostly from bits and pieces of their record collection - which they had put together when they were in college. I met my future wife and started the Analog Quartet while making Get Yourself Free - a nod to Paul Simon's lyric from "50 Ways To Leave Your Lover", so it was one high quality summer. |
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OCTOBER 16, 2009: BEARD SEASON. My good friend Jess made a fall mixtape about deer and beards, and I have a song on there. And she makes some good mixtapes. So...it's an honor, to say the least. Download it. |
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SEPTEMBER 21, 2009: NEW MIXTAPE: OUTONO. It's so ridiculous to call these mixTAPES. Oh well. Here's one for fall, which to me means hoodies, Scrabble, and more focused cooking. And apparently Brazilian music. |
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SEPTEMBER 1, 2009: BEAUTY FLASH 2. Here is a brand new album by my electro project with my wife - Beauty Flash 2. We're really excited about it. It came out great - in turns weird, abstract, surprisingly catchy, and fun - most of this thanks to the words and melodies Colleen provides on the fly. I just screw around with the volume knobs. |
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AUGUST 20, 2009: REMIX: LIVE FOOTAGE. Here is a remix I just finished for the Brooklyn-based electronic post-rock duo Live Footage. Their debut E.P. is a great, spooky, melancholy record, and when Mike asked me to remix something, I was more than excited to do it. I chose the song "1976" from the aforementioned E.P., and it turned out very different from the original...the Snoop Dogg sample from Starsky & Hutch really rounded it out. Thanks to Snoop and huge thanks to my new favorite band - the Footage. |
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AUGUST 10, 2009: PACIFIC SOUL & POLAR BEAR ONE. Hey folks. Here's Pacific Soul, the fourth album I made, back in 2001. Also, Polar Bear One: a demo mix I made five years ago to get DJ gigs. I think it earned me one, during which one martini too many rendered me useless anyway, my friend Sam and I playing songs we thought were "hilarious" instead of "good for an art museum opening." Many things in the works: Beauty Flash 2 releasing on September 1st, the previously mentioned remixes of Mamarazzi and Live Footage tunes, a new album this winter, and all the albums I made before Golden Hour (Pacific Soul, Out Cold, The Classic, and Road Trip Friendly), are all available for free now, for good. I'm also busy putting together a live band to help me play all these tunes I've amassed over the years in a live setting. Look for our first show to be the new album's cd release party. December? Probably. |
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JULY 20, 2009: THE END. The End is a sixteen-minute "pastiche" of songs I made three years ago. Check it out. Look for the choice P. Lee singing and enormous tom-tom solo near the beginning. |
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JULY 7, 2009. First up: Ampersand Outtakes. The Christmas ornaments left in the box. Second: A new mixtape for July. More funk and dance tunes that I discovered during my DJ'ing residency last year. (Including the by far best song from Ghostbusters II.) And lastbut not least: I'm working on two new remixes for Brooklyn bands Mamarazzi & Live Footage, am finishing up a song for a Vitamin Water spot, putting the final coat of wax on the new Beauty Flash E.P. (look for it at the end of this month), and have recorded five songs for a new album. Cheers and enjoy. |
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JUNE 5, 2009: RETURN OF THE JUKE. ++DISCLAIMER: This album is chock full of swear words. Tipper Gore would hate it. It's rated R. If you are my parents or extended family, chances are this record will not warm your heart. If you're into the sailor language, let's go. The summer album. |
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JUNE 2, 2009: ROAD TRIP FRIENDLY. Road Trip Friendly: The first album I made. Senior year of high school. Whether or not it works (a healthy dose of the latter), I love the quantity of ideas it's bursting with. This was going from no possibilities to all possibilities in one fell swoop, one quick software purchase. Great times. Download it free this month here. Oh, and I made one previous MIDI album, but nobody gets to hear that. Ever. We're talking lousy. |
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JUNE 1, 2009: SONGS I FOUND WHILE DJ'ING LAST YEAR. I was a DJ for a year-long Friday night residency at a local jazz club here in Denver. Then I was fired. This was not a big deal, as I was replaced by a jazz trio in which I am the pianist. So it really wasn't a firing - especially because I am the best DJ in town (I'm fully prepared to back that up in any sort of buck-wild, scratching-behind-the-back battle). This is not a collection of the dance songs that got folks jerking around the room during the later hours; instead, some of the more interesting songs that may have started the night or snuck quietly by between Young M.C. tracks. Download it. |
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MAY 23, 2009: EDITS #6: THE METERS. The Meters. "Stay Away." Such a weird song. That whole album is weird. But, like guacamole and Primus, it is also great. |
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MAY 15, 2009: EDITS #5: JIMMY MCGRIFF. This has been one of my favorite songs for a while. It's so simple; they do the same thing for three minutes, and then solo over some blues changes. Doesn't sound like the recipe for success, but the atmosphere of the piece - people hollering, laughing - gives it its weight. I merely added some heavier drums, so that it might bump a little harder in a DJ set. Happy weekend. |
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MAY 11, 2009: EDITS #4: XYLOS vs. ERYKAH BADU. Xylos is a harmony-happy five-piece from New York (download their new EP here). Erykah Badu is rambling about how everything she eats is fried (not buying it). Together, they are one lazy afternoon car ride. |
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DOWNLOAD: Xylos vs. Erykah Badu: "In The South (P. Lee Edit)" |
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