APR 2007 INSIDER
Sunday, April 01, 2007
el moog de mauri por diego taborda
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*** this is april 2007 ***
*** SHOWS: ***
***** VERDE3 LIVE + NEW WAVE *****
***** viernes 27 de abril $10mil + cerveza *****
en ¡¡¡ SOCORRO !!! bar
carrera 6 # 26-57 frente a plaza de toros, parking
*** NEW WAVE DANCE SESH ***
LISTENING TO:
RADIO FUTURA
BAT FOR LASHES
THINKING OF:
the coming neno, basically.
also, the dub killer combo's accident
FEELING:
happy now
champi tells:
spring, holy week (strange name), cleanups, meeting old friends in parties (hadn't gone out in ages really), dancefloor djing, played music for a new play with mapa teatro for the goethe institut, played a fashion show in barranquilla with vicky sur, neu chums eugenia y carlota y lina, clara y celia, victoria y hugo a record in the making. grand really.
march was spent talking on the phone, endlessly, meeting people live and on celu, walking and reaching such a point of downtown dwelling that paying a monthly fee at the usual calle 13 parking lot was required.
observing loads! enjoying the pleasures of observation and being a quiet boy for once really! looking at people on dancefloors, looking at ravers in raves, looking at people basically, looking at smiles and new eyes, looking at windows for a rental sign. renewals and a sense of peace.
met a bunch of people after a while. lenis in lefunk, el profe radónico, buddies in cabuya and la 33, friends from mr. gomes en bombay, cello player in proyecto avalon, engineer buddies, sound company buddies working, heard about the stabbing of a member of the dear dub killer combo. hope he's better now, will keep u posted.
the scene, we may safely talk about a nascent colour in the bogotano scene. it touches all styles and has a thirst for organisation. so this makes the vibe happy, when people are coming to agreement in working for music and all. fortunate really.
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*** 10 de abril de 2007: ***
this being the first insider with more than one entry per month. a good sign one thinks.
what else is happening? finally we're onto uploading new tracks on our myspace. it's all blogged. also to cutpaste a part of champi + verde3 myspace blog, written yesterday...
yes we are gently switching to spanglish on the blogs. smoothely.
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CUTGATE RMX de "viernes por la noche" sale la semana entrante
SINGLE "viernes por la noche" (vox diana) sale en dos semanas
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about the cutgate rmx. so champi's taking the tracks from the D (re) version of "viernes por la noche" which the band uses to play live (programmed by checho) and putting some gates here and there. so the reprogramming is not midi but sheer audio: the gate removes some inf. champi plays guitar on it and the original programming is all checho as well (the version online as we speak). the song was written by checho + champi with diana correcting champi's vocals, lyrics finished in a surprisignly short lapse of time... 90 minutes!
champi never wrote a lyric in this short time. it's got him thinking about the nature of composition, as well as writing new tunes claro!
then diana will hit the beta87 and there will be a first vocal version.
the song was written for it's first airing live in the ladytron concert december first 2006.
the lyrics: champi found diana's myspace blog. it read of things she wanted to do. it was titled "viernes en la noche" (still there we think), in the text champi finds "pintarse el pelo" as well as a general idea for the tune. after sitting three times w checho and getting the music and melody, champi went to diana's, wrote with diana giving yes nos and maybes to what champi produced then and there. 90 minutes... done.
the music: checho had made a section of programming. champi had ideas of chord sequences for a new song. the former was used as base for the verses part a, the latter for the bridge. part b of the verses (refrains?) were cooked in champi's head and then transcribed onto checho's programming with champi playing those ideas on acoustic piano (hi + thankyou marie + martin!).
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READING:
"RAYUELA" julio cortázar, 1963, paris
why a rereading of "hopscotch?" because ale (aka maría alejandra camero b., singer with diana galán in "el angelito" filmfest-awarded song, as well as in the 2004 colón show in bogotá, and my dear niece) tells me she's reading it in school. so i remember the locations and reread a huge love story and the arguably the first important hypertext novel written in spanish (rulfo did it too in "pedro páramo" but by removing parts of the mother text)...
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thanks 4 consistent visits + luvly comments really
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