Alright, I know I haven’t updated this thing in like a year. It’s been a weird one, folks. It always has.
More on that later. More importantly, I’m doing the speed creating thing again. One thing, every day. Forever. Not for a month, but for as long as I can possibly do it. Here goes.
This first one is cheating because I made it in January but who cares, I need to get the ball rolling and there are a few old items to clear out. I made this to promote my friend Ben’s music. I’ve talked about him here before, and it will happen a LOT more.
He makes music as Oceans In Space. He makes a LOT of music (like a proper “album” every week), yet no one is hearing it. Seriously, I think I’m one of the three people who has heard the bulk of his creations. SO, I started a “label” called SCUMCOM to get his music out there. He gives me hard drives full of music, I go through it, make some random covers for his “albums” and I put up the music on this site for (mostly) free download.
This video was created to promote the first release we ever charged for. Ben made this album called Zofrindia, and it is insane and great if you like strange electronic music.
The concept (as explained to me) was a traditional Indian Swami stumbles into a discarded and dusty (yet fully functional) lab full of electronic instruments. This Swami, upon discovering the lab, gets to work making music with the instruments at his disposal. In the beginning, he ignores the electronics and sticks with what he knows – tabla, drones, and a Chapman Stick (as a stand-in for a sitar, which makes sense because Ben is an absolute virtuoso on this instrument). That’s how the album starts, as a fairly traditional interpretation of “Indian” music. As time goes on, our hero starts to plug things in, turns on a few electronics and re-works his first few songs with new electronic accents.
He likes what he hears, he goes further and further until the whole thing devolves into a glitched out, electronically mutated version of his original ideas. There is a hidden track on the album that I think demonstrates this the most successfully. If you are interested in bizarre new music, definitely get Zofrindia. It costs a dollar for god’s sake.
To promote it to his youtube audience, I made this insane video. It was mostly directed by Ben. He sent footage and a few directions and I took it from there. Did I mention It’s totally crazy? Cool.
Check it out, and stream the album below.
Speed Creating. Let’s do this.