Almaty by Bus – The Documentary !

14 Mar

Finally it’s on. It’s been ages, so long that most of you might have forgotten that it happened, but we didn’t. I have to confess a big part of that delay is due to myself, as it took me a while to finish the subtitles and post-production, not even mentioning the fact Esia and Arminda had to leave back to France quite urgently and it kinda f*cked up the whole workflow. But anyway, better late than never, as they say, and after showing the documentary for the exclusive Sub-Culture TV programs, it’s now free and available for every supporter of reggae music out there.

If you didn’t know before, Almaty by Bus is a musical documentary in which you will tag along three members of Uprooted Sunshine, Arminda, Esia and Didjelirium, as they make their way towards Almaty, Kazakhstan to take part in the eponymous reggae event at Da Freak Club, organized by Jammin’ Bus Soundsystem and JahRA Corporation.

26 hours bus rides, live footage, local Kazakhstan music, friendly drunks, awesome people and interviews with those who are pushing reggae music in a place where nobody was expecting it, proving once more how reggae is THE international music!

Feel free to share the link, roll one up and get on the bus with us as we travel from China to Kazakhstan to spread good vibes !


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Original Fools’ Sick & Tired Music video !

4 Mar

Finally, my foolish friends, finally !!! After a month of slaving my ass behind my screens and missing out on ‘great’ parties and social gatherings through town, I’m done editing and uploading the newest music video for Original Fools’ Sick & Tired.
It’s mad, it’s psychedelic, it’s totally fucking up the rules of sanity and it’s high on original foolishness. Plus there’s a troll face. I know you might not be an internet geek and meme savvy individual, but nonetheless you should recognize a few things in there and, maybe, smile. This is my way of celebrating 2012, the internet civilization, the modern times and the essential sickness and exhaustion of being part of that without the possibility of a choice.

Feel free to spread the word everywhere you want, everywhere you can and mostly where you need to, tell your entourage to get ready for the madness, because this is only the beginning. So far, two music videos have sprung out of the Original Fools hidden stash of nonsense, but there’s more coming, so stick around ! ;)

Here are the necessary links and, as usual, lyrics are included in the description, as well as an extra dose of nonsense to make you feel right back at home, eating sunday dinner with Original Fools on a beach made of metaphors :

Original Fools – Sick & Tired on YOUTUBE


Original Fools – Sick & Tired on VIMEO


Original Fools – Sick & Tired on YOUKU
(sorry i still didn’t figure out how to embed Youku videos…when i will, i’ll update that)

http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMzYwOTI1ODY0.html


In case you just came back from another planet and missed out the essentials, here is the first music video for Original Fools’s Five!


Original Fools – Five! on YOUTUBE


Original Fools – Five! on VIMEO


And of course don’t forget to hear and read more on the Original Fools’ Soundcloud page.

Bless !

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“… so unique that we’re two …”

14 Feb

Damn it’s been a while again ! Somehow I feel absolutely fine about it, though I tried to post a few times in the past month, but just couldn’t find the time to properly sit and write some more nonsense on these deserted pages. Anyway, i’m not one to aim for quantity but quality, as much as I can, and so my silence in here is only equal to the amount of time I spent behind my pen and paper first, behind my mic then and behind my animation screen next, trying to put together the music video for Original FoolsSick & Tired massive track.

In fact, lot of things are happening right now. 2012 is going to be a mad year, everywhere, for everyone and about everything. I’ve been witnessing a lot of changes indeed. People finally trying to change their life, and not only trying but actually doing it, unlike the past decennia/century/millennium. Whether be it a new job, a new out-of-business attitude, a new city, a new relationship, a new ruler, a new state of mind, even a new parting ways though it seemed nothing could ever alter its course ( one could type online “I <3 DMKRCY 4EVER“) …. It might not be the famed ‘shift of consciousness’ loads of ignorant believers are hoping for in these times of 2012 madness, but this might just be a prelude to something. Because in the end what matters isn’t the object of the change but rather the change itself, this flow of energy set in motion and creating things, whatever they might be. I know this is a popular proverb that one needs to ‘be the change [one] wanna see in the world‘, but the simpleness of that saying doesn’t forbid its veracity. If there’s one thing i’ve learnt in all my years wasted in philosophy, that’s the hints of truth hidden deep inside every common quotes, every cultural expressions that defines a fact or a popular belief/statement – and usually forgotten and eluded due to a dirty popularization of those same sayings. But what if it weren’t any harder than that to change the world ? What if the humble infinitesimal change one can bring to his own existence could be the most necessary thing to do ? Once again, if we’re all in it together, changing little pieces of the world at the same time, well… There’s billions of humans (and still counting !) so this could provoke a massive switch on a planetary level. And, finally, a shift of consciousness – now you’re smiling lightly, i know, half skeptical half satisfied and fully aware.

Trust me, I know words like ‘planetary’ or ‘consciousness’ or ‘awareness’ or even ‘philosophy’ are usually enemies of the fun and the hype and the usual Facebook or Twitter status – unless you’re one of those poor beings desperately holding to a ‘cool new-age attitude’, hoping to make the front page of your favorite people magazines. That said, I know most of you (those who started reading these lines by accident) probably left already past this point, if you ever reached it. And you’re right. I mean it’s your right to be wrong. As it’s my right to think you’re wrong, and vice-versa. Vive le freedom ! Those of you still bearing with me though, you are the ones that matter. You are the ones who will bring the change and the magic/horror of the mayan 2012. You and me are not chosen ones. We’re not on a holy mission. Nobody gives a shit about us in the cosmic out-there surrounding our piece of land but us, humans. Or maybe there is, but then again, they’re probably busy dealing with their own shit that goes way beyond our ability to comprehend. Anyway, let’s face it, we’re not the biggest army on the field. We’re not the headlines of the evening news. But be warned ! We’re the living organ, we’re the breathing sound, we’re the synapses enabling the flow of energy. Because don’t be fool as to think a few people cannot change everything. One look throughout history will prove to you that, in fact, it always happened that way. Back to David and Goliath, and probably before that. So in 2012, i chose my side. I stand amongst those few ones, not for the glory of it – because there’s none, obviously, the spotlights and the money and the luscious parties are on the other side, i can see them from here -; not even to satisfy a troublesome ego i keep pushing further as much as i can, though i can deny it’s influence, from an artistic point of view to start with. No. I chose to be part of the change for the need i feel to do something, to stop waiting for someone else to do something for me, and mainly, to be positive. No matter what. And here is another ‘evil‘ cliché, an ‘image d’Epinal‘ – as no french people says nowadays because they all forgot the wealth of their own language, damn frogs ! ^^ On a serious note, the sad reality is how overrated and mocked and pointed at is to be positive, so much that almost nobody is trying to anymore. Being a troll, dissing everything and everybody is much more fun and hype and trendy. It’s cool to hate – the climax being the coolness of hating those who hate, in a perfect soothing loop. Or so I see and understand when I lose myself on FB, or Youtube, or any of those places where humans gather to take a piss at each others and post their stupidity with the pride of Genghis Khan. Which is fine, of course. Once again, freedom and respect means accepting to see people taking a step into the abyss of commonness and boredom they dug for themselves. On the other hand, they should accept that some people are trying to get the world to tilt on a different direction, whether they like it or not. Say… toward a positive direction. That’s only fair play, innit ? You too can and should choose your side, take your part in this whole comedy.

So in 2012, Didjelirium is more than ever a ‘Soldier of Positivity‘, which is a concept I still hold close to my eyes when i’m evaluating my own growth. Being negative and suffering is the easiest natural human way to be. Being happy and positive takes some strength. For a whole lot of reasons, even the simplest ones : for tears fall but a smile aims up high. For eyes easily glance down but it takes some nerves to look up. For the fight is never over and we must never give up. I’m not ego-centered and self-interested enough to think I can change the world by myself, but I do know I’ll play my part and I know for a fact quite a few people around the globe are assuming theirs as well. I thank them all. I thank those I feel so close to – like made-from-the-same-mold close to – wherever they are right now. The magic of internet is that frontiers and distance are annihilated so easily, thus enabling those energies to flow all over the place in a blink of a soul. All over Earth, at this very moment, some of us decided that the world as we know can’t keep on going as it is, this whole birth –> growth –> job –> money –> marriage –> children –> death without ever thinking that there could be more to this than a pure reproductive function. Simply said, it’s not because it always been like this that it has to stay that way forever. Let’s break the chain, let’s get back to the 100% use of our brain we lost many reincarnations ago. Let’s be aware, let’s feel each other – i don’t mean necessarily in a sexual way, but that works as well as an entry-level awareness – let’s remember what we’ve always known and forgotten before we were born. You can do it, i know i can and several out there are doing it right now. That mere fact fills me up with even more positivity. The exponentiality of flowing energies, that can never be stopped once triggered. Yet, sad negative auto-punishing minds can be, anytime. All it takes is the will to change. And to change. Simply. It sounds like an evidence ? Good. But ask yourself if you’re actually doing it. No shame in acknowledging, for humans, simplicity is the hardest thing to achieve.

Thus I’m here – well, not much on these pages as you can see – but everywhere else. The music video for Original Fools is my main project I’ finalizing right now. The documentary about the Uprooted Sunshine‘s musical trip to Almaty, Kazakhstan is finally done and ready to be aired for a music festival coming soon in Shanghai, before reaching the web realm. Schizocèle, my french rap album, is getting released digitally next month (and I shall tell you more about this nonsense too !). I have several collaborations to record and push forward, with folks from around town and more around the world, mainly amongst the really supportive Soundcloud community – and I’m not just saying that cos I’m witnessing a ‘followers‘ boom on my page, stop trolling ! :p Last but not least, Original Fools is shining brighter than ever and tracks keep piling up like dirt in a gold mining contest. Hopefully some live gigs will take place later this year. We push we push we push and won’t be stopping anytime soon ! I know I’m lucky I somehow came across Damscray – one more example of this same-mold same-shit i was mentioning earlier. Liar too, who touches me in places no human ever did before through wise use of vibrations. I could name a few more here, to flatter some ego and cause some more division/speechlessness out there, but I have interest in none. As a popular word of wisdom also claims : “Those who matter don’t mind and those who mind don’t matter“. Think about the underlaying implications…

Meanwhile, because you courageously reached the end of that post – unless you cheated ! :p – here are a few treats for you to discover, or re-discover and share with those you love, those you hate but wish you loved, or vice-versa, and all the others busy being themselves. Lyrics are included in each track description, if you feel like getting a bit deeper in the whole meaning.

I won’t be posting anytime soon. I said it. Which will help you not to get mad at the lack of new posts here and, also, allow a nice and pleasing surprise when you will realize that this initial statement is an obvious lie. You’ll never know. Neither will I. Until we do it. So let’s do it !

Bless y’all ma fools and keep spreading the mad words you can find HERE !


Original Fools – OFU BBQ

Check Original Fools music HERE !

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Possible Address feat. Didjelirium – Hope is a drum

Check Possible Address music HERE !
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Arktor feat. Didjelirium – Pier

Check Arktor music HERE !
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Original Fools feat. Demokracy – Ghost 28

Check Demokracy music HERE !

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Lust and found

18 Jan

Damn it’s been a while again !

One would think a whole year, but that would only be a date trick cos in fact i’ve been gone way longer than this, so long ago and so far away that it seems i was never really there or, as true as the aforementioned, that i’ve always been here. For it’s an etiological principle that if all is all then nothing is nothing. Mark my word, you can’t deny it. And if you think i’m lying, then you failed Socrates once more. Far was i, thus, past that certain point where/when time and space melt in one shapeless speedless abstract form, lethal for most humans but quite enjoyable once one master the keys of the non-existence, mainly located in ‘Creation’.

Meanwhile, life as it is went by, with its loads of human non-sense… Wars didn’t stop, nor did hunger, and the now overrated ‘end of the world’ topic is revealing its true nature day after day : a hope ! “Things will have to change !” i hear down in the streets, but i’m not surprised, this ain’t new. What i think, humbly and desperately, is that change will have to change. In fact, we need to re-think the whole process of changing because, let’s be honest for a second, it didn’t do us any good for the past millenniums we’ve spent polluting this planet. But how to change the act of changing itself ? Mmmh… Tough one. Well, i dunno. Despite all my attempts and illusions, i’m still only human. So i dunno. What i do know is that, meanwhile, i’ll keep writing these absurdities and even chant them over absurd beats coming from Russia until somebody stops me or better, stops everything.

Thanks for checking these pages, whoever you might be, poor lost soul. To comfort you and congratulate you here is a freebie from Original Fools, featuring Demokracy, and when i say freebie i mean you can download it for free and spread it to your friends/enemies laptop through usb coitii (singular : coitus) Yet another track talking about humans, because i don’t seem to be be able to do anything else. My life doesn’t really matter much. Yours neither. And their even less. But when you put them all together and try to see past them, it all starts to make sense and, at the very same time, it loses any bit of rationality. All is all, nothing is nothing.


I’m also posting this video here because i think it’s awesome. You may like it, you may not. Personnaly, I like it for the animated visuals more than the sound though the music is a sweet grimy tantra which can stay suck in your head. Hopefully, i’ll be able to upload the next music video for Original Fools pretty soon too, ‘Sick & Tired’ which you should check HERE while it lasts… or while you last ! :p


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Get outta here, 2011 !

23 Dec

Man, have i been waiting for that to happen. 2012 i mean. I know a lot is gonna happen, as much as i’m sure nothing is gonna happen. Obviously, i’m talking about two different things, no contradiction here, be assured. It’s not like the end of the world is a real thing, though i wish it was. I would love to be able to post on my social network pages ‘End of the world : been there, done that !’ but this is just not gonna happen, i’m no fool – at least not to that extent. Though i think a lot of other things are gonna happen. First of all, a lot of music, that’s for sure. More gigs and shows and possibly around Asia, not only in China… and who knows ? Maybe even slowly closing in with Europe and those distant scenes… On the way, there might be a chance to do some performances as well, we never know.

Original Fools will be out in 2012, that’s another sure thing. Damscray and myself are accumulating a heavy dosage of frustration and craving for a live show, so we’ll have to spread the word out there so that the duo can finally be united again, somewhere between Russia and China. Here is a shiny new player with a freshly uploaded set through my soundcloud page, but do check the Original Fools page as well for more tracks to preview !

Talking about Soundcloud, a quick mention to the increase of traffic on my page, for some shady reasons and unknown factors that leave me wondering ‘what the f*ck is going on with you people ?!?’ I mean, what’s the trick, huh ? How come there’s been a few hundreds followers for years, and all of a sudden i’m circling in the few thousands ? I mean, might just get beyond the 10.000 followers before the end of the month/year, and thought it’s pleasing, don’t get me wrong, it really does cause a strange doubt and meditative cynical thoughts in my tormented brain. Mass-Media Madness, the 3 holy M’s ruling this almost 2012 world. All in all, that’s a good thing and i guess i should be thanking those of you who really care and support my music, so thank you. I’m forever in your debt, keep spreading the word, let’s make it happen together. Maybe 2012 will see Didjelirium a bit more out there, amongst normal people… Geez, that sounds freaky… >_<

On another topic, the sequel to my french hip-hop project is also in the making right now, since it seems french rap still has a few supporters and i do enjoy writing in french as well. Schizocele was the first part in my initial plan, which is to lay down a trilogy. I've been leaving it to rest long enough, now it's time to get back on it ! So coming up soon, more madness and insanely true stories told in frog language, for those who understand, those who would like to and those who wish they didn't ! :)

Meanwhile, there's life in Shanghai and work and our regular events and xmas season and stupid party flyers and awful people thinking they are so beautiful… Life as it is, in and out. Anyway, as announced by the picture on top of this post, tonight is Shanghai by Bus, special Reggae Xmas session once again down the Shelter, so get your dancing shoes on and hide your bottle of home made eggnog cos that’s where we’ll be til the morning light !

Blessings and Ho Ho to the Ho’s to all of you !

PS : If you can access Facebook from where you are, then here is a Kollektiv Xmas NYE message for you ! :p

http://www.facebook.com/v/10150423772215764

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There’s no ‘me’ in ‘Time’

6 Dec

time machine

If you’re somehow a regular visitor of these shameful pages, you’ve probably noticed i have somewhat of an obsession with Time. As any other victim of humanitis, one shall object. True. Though there’s a whole lot of variations in intensity, and mine usually sits at the top. The reason for that is my unfathomable lack of uniqueness. By that i mean the fact i’m totally unable to do one thing. I sometimes look with envy and jealousy at those out there working hard on their unique activity, mastering their solo skill and perfecting each move of a unique weapon. Many times i wonder if i could do it, or rather, if i should do it, considering the frustration inflicted by the doomed impossibility of doing everything. But i’m a fool, it’s been proven, and yet i stand and i try to be everywhere, to do everything. And i suffer from it.

But as i see it, which is in a really simple metaphoric way inspired by a life of hardcore role-playing game, i’m not a specialist and i don’t wanna be a specialist. Some people will focus on one skill. Let’s say a warrior. Their character is a warrior and they put all their skill points, every time they level up, in one competence and/or attribute. So they get strong real fast. They will be tough and have amazing kill streaks cos they hit hard. The crowd will clap at them for hitting so hard, kids will want to be them when they level up and statues and bards will tell the story of ‘the one who did that’. Life is beautiful and the warrior gains respect. Then again, the world is a complicated place and along the way, here comes the mage, as much of a specialist. Warriors have a shit defense against magical attack and they’re getting their tough ass kicked with rains of fire and ice tempests. Or they will be fast – cos they specialized in speed – and maybe they’ll hit first and hard enough. One like the other face a crush, whether of triumph or defeat. It’s fast, it’s somehow easy and it pleases the commoner.
On the other side, there are those who try to think their character over hundreds of hour. Those who feel like there’s too many skill trees to be wasting all their points in only one and decide to build a polyvalent character. In life, this is not really a choice, most likely a necessity – at least that’s how it feels to me. Anyway. Those characters will suck for a long time. Any enemy will kick their ass cos they don’t have much health, any situation will look dangerous cos they don’t have enough level in that or that skill. And most of the other players will laugh at them for 10 to 50 levels (depending on the inherent scale) because they’re not specialist or master in any given domain. People will ask them what the hell is it that they’re doing, what’s their function in this universe and why aren’t they picking something they wanna do. Meanwhile, each level up will pass almost unnoticed because each skill is increasing at the slowest pace. Nonetheless, years and levels later, those characters will end up being quite the adventurers. Understanding the local history of some useless dialect – giving them the opportunity of special side quests just for that – knowing their way around the sword as much as good ol’ fireball and being able, if not to shine, at least to handle various situations and challenges. But until then, yeah… The world’s a bitch and it takes a damn time to reach those levels. Most of the players will have given up by then, or died so that they won’t witness the final achievements. Or they will simply have changed their way and stick to the one, whatever that maybe. And if you think about it, game or life, this is one and same mechanism, innit ?

So here i am. Noticing with a stomach ache that i’m failing to keep interesting notes and elements popping out on those pages with a decent pace. Months jump over desolated posts sitting there lonely, chewing on their infamy. Still, it doesn’t mean i don’t try. But writing takes time, and there’s other things to write first. Thinking takes time to, so does music, so does animating, so does day-dreaming, virtual worlds, relationships, reading, chatting, being lazy and all those things we, plagued with humanitis, surround our lives with until the day we die. Blessed those who chose wisely only a few ! Meanwhile, i’m dragging behind me worlds that can’t fit together. But, once again, i’m a fool. And here i stand, still trying…

On another topic, here is a lovely track, collaboration i did on Arktor‘s album entitled ‘Retreat Syndrome‘. Arktor is yet another russian mad man i happen to share music with, skilled in sampling and creating sad and dreamy abstract hip-hop. Or something like that. I dunno, i suck at naming genre. All i know is i’m glad he invited me to share this piece of sound he distilled over there, in the cold mother of dear communism. Lyrics are included lower as well, so you have no excuse to miss the story… Because with that dude, Didjelirium, there’s always a story ! And guess what ? This one is called ‘Pier’, which is a twisted way to refer to a time machine. Time, time, nothing but time…

Bless !

Pier – Lyrics

VERSE 1 :

I remember the first time i dreamt i was time traveling
Woke up in the middle of the night and found my cat scribbling
On a piece of paper, with a tail like a painter,
He looked in my eyes and i’m telling no lies but i saw what i saw : on his face the same fever
So i blinked back and i sat down next to him
I picked up what he drew and saw my own meaning in his drawing
And let me tell you at that moment i knew
Time-travel is one of dem things made just for two
So i told him we need to sort out the structure
The things that make ya stronger can also destruct ya
We don’t wanna end up in flame though we might like it
This is a once in a lifetime time trip they don’t sell in mass markets
Trust me this is alchemy, add a bit of chemistry,
We’re working in our own lab so we no report to no ministry
But if i’m right then i’m sorry but we’re gonna need your energy
Life is the main part…you got nine… can you spare one for me ?

CHORUS :

It takes one soul to fill up the tank of the machine that sends you away
And i got one goal : to fill up the blank left between now and today.

VERSE 2 :

And we did it, we stopped any decoy
Built a time machine with a dream and a plastic toy
We never seemed to be missing a piece of the equation
Pluses and minuses nicely skimmed off the emotion
Results blinking and starting to show up
I really want it to work cos i don’t want to grow up
I know there was a time when humans didn’t make me throw up
I just can’t find the day where my happiness is holed up.
The past is where the future is for the choices we never made
Tell me when should i intervene first, change what has been said
I can’t go clueless cos the lives are not mine
My cat helps, still, he only has nine…

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What happened to us ?

11 Nov

I wish i knew. One second we’re alive, happy and it’s monday… The next we’re still alive, wondering if happiness is not slightly overrated and it’s monday again. What happened in between ? What did we do to deserve that ? Uhh… Nothing much i guess, we’re humans in a human society and that’s what happens. Yet we keep on moving forward.
I didn’t realize i haven’t posted anything for so long. A couple weeks top. Shanghai’s space-time continuum issue hasn’t been fixed, or so it seems. Like a swallowing bitch that she is, she vacuums hours and red bank notes with the avidity of a serial-killer nymphomaniac on the loose, not even mentioning she takes the uttermost pleasure in leaving us empty of spine and direction.

Thus, i decided it was about time i fight back and spill the bits of minutes i found laying in my back pocket to post another useless but long-time missed article to give myself a proof that I am, somehow, really living. Also it includesa few noticeable facts :

1) Uprooted Sunshine (the folks doing reggae in Shanghai, think i’ve talked about them before) are celebrating their 6 years birthday today (a.k.a. Friday 11th November) and they’re bringing famed Vibronics and Echo Ranks to spice up the party and provide Shanghai with a really nice gift. Though its their birthday ! How nice of them, huh ? I know, these guys are lovely. ^^ Anyway, if you happen to be around, you should definitely come down the Shelter and drink yourself to the dancefloor with us, cos that’s where we’ll be and that’s what we’ll do. If everything goes as planned, we should still be drunk when we board the flight to Manila, cos yeah, we’re going there with aforementioned Vibronics and Echo Ranks to keep partying and spreading some good vibes and, as far as i’m concerned, to enjoy some fresh air and the warmth that inexorably left Shanghai by now. Yeah… It’s a sad sad world, but this is an even more sad sad city. Which bring me to my 2nd point.

2) A couple months back i started joining force with other creative minds and friends on board of a design studio doing funny and less funny stuff, but with a fun attitude – because that’s what matter after all – and this is probably the main reason why i didn’t post anything in here. Most of my day time is now spent at a desk in front of a lovely i-mac who’s chewing on After Effects render time, and i thank him for that. The hours left need to be split between more writing (you guys will hear about it at some point, maybe…) more reading, more animating and more learning stuff about animation. Yeah. I’m animating things now. Since the M.V. for Original Fools’ Five, i kinda stay hooked up on it and i try my best to learn as much as i can. And that takes time, obviously, but luckily i’m improving. And that’s reassuring. If not, then what’s the point ? So what happened on that side ? Well, here is a little animation i finished a couple days ago, my ode to sunshine and fresh air and creativity. All free of charge. Ain’t I lovely, huh ?


3) Well… I could stop here but that wouldn’t feel just right. See, three is the right number. Almost as good as five, but five is the number for the big occasions, like wedding, funeral and shower day… not so much for casual posting on a virtual network for spam bots and back end porn sites administrators. Yet, 2 would be too short, so 3 it is. And as a third element, well, what can i say ? 11.11.11. is the day, and games are being released – ones that allow you to virtually kill other people, really cool shit -, so is Aquasky’s new album (cf. earlier post), lot of stupid parties for even more stupid people in this queen of the sin cities, because 11.11.11 rumor has it it’s a date worth going out and party til there’s no tomorrow. Alas… If only it were true. When i see 11.11.11, i’m struck by an unfathomable despair, realizing how it seems i’ve just missed 00.00.00. Always too late, am i ? Funnily enough, i do remember more or less where i was and what i was doing or noticing on 06.06.06 (no devilish activity out of ordinary), 07.07.07 (not such a lucky day, at least not more than any other), 08.08.08 (almost ended up in a 88 club, *phew*) and so on til today. Guess my addiction/phobia toward numbers is stronger than any other drugs or degenerative forces hard-working my brain. So f*ck it ! Here we are, music still lives on (Blessings and thanks to my fellow space colleagues, Damscray, Hmot, Liar), and so does this world, though waves are covering more and more part of the Earth, slowly cutting humans short of fertile land and pushing them into backtracking evolution if they wanna survive. In fact, soon, we better all get back to our fish-mode or we shall be drowning with our useless banking system and other apple products. At least i hope so. But i’ll be disappointed, i know it. As long as there’ll still be humans around, i will be sadly and surely disappointed. Yet, what choice do i have ? What happened to us that didn’t already happen or wasn’t supposed to happen anyway ? Ahhh… Life, such a great thing. Such a beauty. Such a worthy experience. Please, lemme know if and where we can get a refund though…

Anyway, i probably lost you guys a while ago, most definitely at the first picture, so i’ll just get back to one of the million things i have to finish before the Earth gets me, her and her sweet tidy waves. This time, there won’t be no foolish Noah to f8ck it up all over again i hope… Damn ! I wish i could see that from up there, floating around space and trying to grasp at the hours before it all turns back to the blue planet she should have never stopped to be. One can dream… and then laugh about it.

Bless !

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Tonight : Shanghai by Bus !

30 Sep

Yes Shanghai folks ! Uprooted Sunshine Soundsystem are back at The Shelter with your monthly dose of good vibes! Reggae, Dub, Dancehall, Ska and Roots on the Soundsystem and a lot of nice sweaty people shaking den booty pon the dance floor. You know how we roll right ? Well… if you don’t, then you should definitely come down those dark stairs and see it for yourself.

This month sees the return of HangZhou’s DJ Maze and a special dub set by dji feat ChaCha on vocals and our brand new official sunshine : George Wyndham on Harmonica! Be there or be quare ! Yes… QUARE !!!

Bless !

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灵魂计划 – 肥宝 feat. Uprooted Sunshine

22 Sep

Yeaaaaaaaaaah ! It is finally on !
You guys don’t know it but we’ve been waiting for that video for a while and today was a blessed day. The link is available and the video is up. I will try and get more links as well for those of you who don’t have access to a holy chinese connection, envied by the whole world – yeah yeah, i know you do ! – but if you’re patient you shall be able to see it as well.

This is a collaboration we did with Jing Qi Shen, wicked crew from Guangzhou (i.e. south China, you geography crippled monkeys) and it’s banging like the last Christ’s temptation – and i’m not talking about the movie ! Also, when i say ‘we’, I mean the guy posting on this page and the three other vocalists from Uprooted Sunshine : Chacha, singing in mandarin, Arminda, singing in portuguese and Esia, singing in french. KidGod a.k.a. FeiBao is the first to blow his lyrics, in cantonese if you please ! So yeah, as you can hear, there’s nothing like ‘too international’ for us and we’re proud of it !

Chinese hip-hop is rising (check friday’s event which i posted a few days ago !) and it’s not gonna stop anytime soon, so i’m simply glad to be humbly part of it somehow and get involved on my small human level.

Thanks Dickid for the video, thanks Chee for the beat production, thanks Jing Qi Shen for the collaboration, thanks Uprooted Sunshine as well, for who they are, and thank you, random people, living being, for taking the time to listen to the music !

Bless !


YOUTUBE :


TUDOU :

http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/4Tf4z4eQ6-Y

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Aquasky – ‘Raise the Devil’ – Album out on 11.11.11

21 Sep

This is an album release you should look forward to, and for various reasons.

First, this is Aquasky‘s new album. Those of you who heard some of their tracks before probably know what to expect, i.e. massive head-shakings, outrageous booty jumps and excessive but deserved physical tremors. Nothing less than that. So if you’re one of these party people cruising the clubs, searching for banging tunes to sweat on, chances are you’ll be happy to bump into the devil raised by the Aquasky trio.

Second, and though they might be a trio producing these sonic eruptions, they have a fetish for vocalists and are not ashamed to prove it by collaborating on almost each track of their new album with great artists such as Tenor Fly, Daddy Freddy, Diane Charlemagne, Ragga Twins and more. So those of you who are into ragga flows, soulful notes or simply tremendous lyrics, this new album is also for you.

Third and last, a weird individual irrupted the crowd of the aforementioned talented singers and, for what it’s worth, it happens to be Didjelirium. Yup. That guy. So though you won’t get the album for that track specifically, the looniest of you will surely appreciate the collaboration on that album.

Thus, on the highly symbolic date of 11.11.11, Aquasky is releasing ‘Raise the Devil‘ and you should definitely mark that day in your shopping cart.

Here is the promo track to make you drool until 11.11.11. as well as the vital details you need to know.



* www.facebook.com/AquaskyUK
* www.twitter.com/AquaskyUK
* AquaskyUK
* www.myspace.com/AquaskyUK
* www.youtube.com/Aquaskizzle

Tracklist of the promo track :

1 Phantom ft. Engine Earz Experiment
2 And The Beat Goes ft. PYRAMID & Roisin Brophy
3 Press Play ft. Acafool
4 Girls Girls Girls ft. Lee Mortimer & Daddy Freddy
5 Stardust ft. Roisin Brophy
6 Raise The Devil
7 Taken Over Me
8 Frontline ft. Tenor Fly
9 Change Is Coming ft. DeJa
10 Small World ft Didjelirium
11 Streets Of Rage ft. DeJa
12 Cold Crush ft. Bex Riley
13 Humble ft. Tenor Fly & Ragga Twins
14 Take Me There ft. Diane Charlemagne (Cutline Mix)
15 Get Me Out ft. Bex Riley
16 Superbad ft. Ragga Twins, M-Tek, Pedro Slimer & Mr. Thing

Released by: Passenger Records
Release/catalogue number: PASA010CD
Release date: Nov 11, 2011

Bless !

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