05/09/2008
I know there weren't much of the updates on my site since.. err.. Last
YEAR!! damnnit..
Anyhow, but this time the update is pretty huge - the
www.Acidplanet.com
website decided to put up a remix contest featuring yours truly with our
song called "I hate my job". Check out the contest page here:
http://www.acidplanet.com/PSM And don't forget
about the PRIZES!! Yay! (the original track is available on this site, just click on 'music' on top of the page, under the main picture)
11/25/2007
I guess I'm productive only on a per month basis.. hmm.. Anyway, here's
another installment to the PSM trip-hop flavah, this time it's a bit on an
animal side - wolves. Some classic trip-hop beat patterns and a tasty
chorus. "Sweet
Yellow Eyes" - check it out.. Here are the
lyrics. I hope the song's not too
disturbing with the wolves crying and all..
10/28/2007
Heard a cool song on a radio.. "Elevator" by Hot Hot
Heat... Awesome freaking song.. Here's my rendition of the track -
Elevator. Check it out.. :))
09/15/2007
Another installment for your ukulele collection -
Fever. Check it out.. :))
08/31/2007
I have finally started the process and will try to
release my first CD this fall. Come to think of it it's been 10 years.. I
think it's finally the time. Anyway, I'll post the updates on the progress
of the CD later. And for now I did a little silly cover of the song "Whorehoppin'"
by Eagles Of Death Metal, which you can check out here: "Whorehoppin'(cover)".
It's an R rated material, so no kiddies, please.. :))
08/13/2007
Another month down the time toilet.. ehh.. Anyway, I've got couple of new
tracks down, but nothing ground-breaking. Decided to post my remake song
"Nature Boy" on YouTube. I have no one to shoot the video for me so I
borrowed it (yeah, yeah, I know.. but hey, it's not stealing - it's web2.0
!). Anyway, check it out here, I think it fits the mood of the song pretty
darn well. The vid is from Gorillaz "El Manana" music video. Cheers. YouTube
link:
"Nature Boy"
07/09/2007
D'oh! 1.5 months this time... Had a little bit of a creative crisis..
Anyway, couple of days ago my good friend Mitko (Violent Moods,
www.myspace.com/violentmoods) pointed me to an
interesting profile (http://www.myspace.com/moonssoul2)
where I was pleasantly surprised by a very deep, soft, atlas like vocals of
the French girl Moon (I doubt it's her real name..). In her profile she's
posted an original song "The Travel" - a strangely mesmerizing combination of minimalistic arrangement and kind of jazzy vocals. I've decided to
complement her song with my own flavor of sounds, beats and whatever else I
do best and voia la - here's the result "The
Travel". Check it out...
05/23/2007
Can't believe it's been a month since my last track... Here's a new one -
it's an oldie but a goodie - "Nature
Boy". It's a remake of Nat King Cole's original recorded sometime
in the 50's. I believe David Bowie did a cover of this song with Massive
Attack. But my version is bettah!!! :))) Anyway, I think I've managed
to keep that haunting feeling the original song had... Enjoy, my
little psm-ers... :))
04/22/2007
Met up with Mark (my drummer from the late PSM band)
and recorded him drum with 1 pair of stereo mics in the basement of his
house. Took the wave track home, loaded in to Acid, added my vocals, extra
acoustic guitar rythm, lead, bass, uhm, what else.. couple of things here
and there... The song is pretty famous - "Where
Is My Mind (Pixies, PSM cover)". Check it out. I think it came
out OK.. Might need to adjust the eq on the bass though...
04/12/2007
Hmm, decided to make a video clip for my remix of
Bang-Bang. After giving it a little bit more of thought I realized that it'd
be pretty freaking hard to shoot my own video and edit it down to 4 minutes,
so I decided to use Kill Bill footage and just create a "trailer"
so-to-speak with my remixed track as a soundtrack. It's my first attempt at
doing video editing, so don't judge too harshly. :)) Check it out here: "Bang-Bang".
YouTube has converted it in to a mono sounding track for some reason...
hmm..
04/02/2007
I did it! I quit drinking coffee. Period. And the
reason for that is my anxiety was through the roof. I mean like really up
there. Driving in traffic made me feel like I had a Tourette's syndrom. It's
been 2 weeks now and I'm a lot more relaxed, chilled out and ceased
pondering about mortality. However, the schizophrenia is kicking in. The
healthy one, more of a self-analytical type. Hence a new track - "Monster".
It sounds as if I'm singing about someone. That someone is pretty much..
well.. me..
03/22/2007
Aight, back to the trippy side of the Peach Stealing
Monkeys!! :) The new track is up - "Defy",
it sounds a bit like "life in mono".. or not.. I might be full of it..
Anyway, check it out! :)
03/12/2007
Another musical installment from my little ukulele -
this time it's a very pretty track "Ever
Fallen In Love". Looks like I'm on the roll
for ukulele.. lele..lah--lahalala...
03/04/2007
Decided to dust off my ukulele and record something else with it.
This time it's Ricky Nelson's classic and his first hit "Poor
Little Fool". Check it out.. (click on the song name).
03/02/2007
Big news this time -
PSM has won the 8mm remix contest
on the acidplanet. Here's the link to the winning page:
http://www.acidplanet.com/contests/8mm/
The news came rather unexpectedly, the judging took very long so by the time
it was announced I already forgot about this producer's battle. Well, still
have no idea why I won, but I guess it might be something to do with the
'noire' genre approach as many have noticed. The gift basket is awesome
though... really awesome... :))
02/24/2007
Honestly I think every single artist has to graduate from the "School of
Summertime".... Here's my diploma - "Summertime".
As usual - the vocals are by the crystal fragile Christine Lunaire... :))
01/28/2007
I think I'm on the roll this month... hmm.. Got stuck at work, then spent
couple of hours mixing acid6.0 dvd's loops at my desk and came up with this
little wierdness: "Have
you ever...". It's a trip-hop mix with a swing chorus. Doubt
there's anything else that can be said about this strange track.
01/16/2007
Ok, download should work fine now.. :))
I'm going back to my trip-hop roots (ha-ha) with the newest addition -
"Beautiful
Life". The song was made possible with the vocals and lyrics by
the extremely talented Christine Lunaire (http://www.myspace.com/christinelunaire)
from Austin, TX. We've met on myspace.com in November of 2006 when I did a
remix of one of her songs from "Rousheauproject". Since then we've already
done 3 songs and it seems that we didn't meet for nothing. I'm amazed by
Christine's energy and desire to sing and constantly deliver the results
so-to-speak. Her vocals are extremely dynamic, smooth, powerful and possess
quite a bit of a range. Anyway, give it a listen, see if you like it...
Cheers.
12/23/2006
I don't think I can stay off music for a long time. It's like a drug to me.
I took a 1 week long break and felt like something was missing. So yesterday
I came up with a fast new track that I literally recorded in under 3 hours
and then spent another 30 minutes on polishing some rough edges. I've got a
little bit of a sinus problem so the vocals sound a bit funny.. I hope not
that funny.. "The
One For Me". The lyrics are originally
by LoveBug from
Netpoets.com, even though I've adapted them for a song and you can find them
here
Lyrics - The-One-For-Me
12/15/2006
So I was watching "Scrubs", heard the acapella version of "over the
rainbow".. then heard another song in Rice Krispies cereal commercial..
anyway, both of them had the ukulele playing. I got so in to it so I went to
the store and picked one up for myself. Played with it for couple hours,
learned some chords (they're all different from the regular guitar) and
recorded this - "Sea
of Love (for ukulele)"
12/3/2006
Here's another remix contest entry that I think is
worth listening "8mm-Stunning", by yours truly of course. Give it
a listen and leave a review, if possible...
http://www.acidplanet.com/artist.asp?PID=908948&t=5673
11/20/2006
Yahoo!! I'm the winner of one of the remix contests
that are constantly taking place on Acid Planet. This one was for Julie
Moffitt (Burst Records) and my remix was found to be the best of them all.
Here's a link to the article and my version:
http://www.acidplanet.com/contests/juliemoffitt
11/05/2006
Another addition to PSM upcoming album "The Missing
Link Of The Lo Fi".. If it'll ever get released... I think 10 songs should
do it.. or may be 11.. we'll see
Anyway here's a new track called "Lovely
Ghost". It's amazing how some songs
take days and others take hours...
10/23/2006
Ok, finally finished something new... - "Sleepless
Night"
I don't think I've ever spent so much time on a track. It took me 4 months
to complete this one. The arrangement of the song was changed three times
from a plain 4x4 down-tempo to the current pop-ish like trip-hop (trip-pop).
If you listen to the lyrics of it you might pick up on the reason why I
didn't give it up...
04/09/2006
Another new song is up - "Where
Did You Sleep Last Night"
The second you hear it you will recognize the undying American Folk classic
originally written by Lead Belly. I believe "Nirvana" also did a remake of
this song...
03/20/2006
Our track "In
The Air" hit #1 spot in all charts on
"Acidplanet.com"
music portal, which was a home to our first records since 1999 (under a
different profile). Anyway, the track stayed #1 for about a week and got
more then a thousand hits and still counting. We think this is one of our
highest achievements in this business (yeah, rite)...
03/07/2006
Peach Stealing Monkeys are finally part of something. The
UGLY NEPHEW RECORDS
has published a compilation album where they used
2 compositions from our recent works. The album is available on CDBABY.COM
for sale at
http://cdbaby.com/cd/uglynephewrecs
Go there and BUY IT!!!
from the Album Description:
"...The philosophy behind Ugly Nephew Records is to contradict the major
labels in two important ways. First we sell our music as cheaply as we can.
Secondly we create music specifically tailored for niche markets rather than
made as general (and unfulfilling) as possible. Hopefully Reverse Causality
is a strong first-step in this direction...."
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