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Sorry just noticed your other post. Dark Party is pretty fun stuff. It's nothing worth losing sleep over missing if you're driving back home though. It's pretty generic womptitude if I remember correctly. Octopus Project, on the other hand... couldn't be more pumped about starting off the weekend with them. They'll bring a different flavor to the festival, hopefully pushing the boundaries of psychedelia and throwing a straight dance party while they're at it.
Drag Stewart and Colbert's "Restore Sanity" rally is on the National Mall in D.C., Oct. 30th. Of course, Moogfest is the place to be, but I'm due for a righteous protest in the nation's capital. I imagine Colbert will rally some pretty good music for the occasion.
Pretty sure I'm going with Big Boi. I haven't seen Devo and while I'd like to, I just like OutKast/Big Boi more. Caught him at Pitchfork earlier this year and he was phenomenal. I'm not into pulling the "but they're a legend" card at festivals. I go with whoever I like more. Skipped Booker T at Bonnaroo one year to see an amazing Bon Iver set and Willie Nelson another year to see an amazing M.I.A. show.
Schedules are fun: Friday: Dan Deacon ambient set --> Octopus Project --> Big Boi --> some of MGMT --> RJD2 --> Dan Deacon --> Girl Talk --> Javelin
Saturday: Mountain Man --> Nosaj Thing --> Caribou --> JONSI --> end of Thievery Corp. or Matmos --> MASSIVE quacking ATTACK --> Four Tet --> Konika
Sunday: Shout Out Out Out Out --> Omar Souleyman --> Neon Indian --> HOT CHIP --> Marty Party?
Will for sure be at Javelin, wherever they wind up. Saw them at Hopscotch last weekend and it was one of my favorite sets of the whole festival. Looking forward to seeing who else they add, which will no doubt change my schedule some
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Post by A$AP Rosko on Sept 18, 2010 10:42:29 GMT -5
Not to get all David Hume on everyone, but ^ yeah, I think that while we can come up with all these reasons for choosing certain shows over others, it ultimately comes from a gut feeling of which act you're more interested in.
-When I Hear My Name -Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground -Blue Orchid -Passive Manipulation -Red Rain -Death Letter -My Doorbell -Hotel Yorba -Same Boy You've Always Known -Lovesick -Little Ghost -We're Going to Be Friends -The Hardest Button to Button -Black Math -The Nurse -I Just Don't Know What to Do With Myself
Encore: -Ball and Biscuit -Seven Nation Army -Screwdriver
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-When I Hear My Name -Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground -Blue Orchid -Passive Manipulation -Red Rain -Death Letter -My Doorbell -Hotel Yorba -Same Boy You've Always Known -Lovesick -Little Ghost -We're Going to Be Friends -The Hardest Button to Button -Black Math -The Nurse -I Just Don't Know What to Do With Myself
Encore: -Ball and Biscuit -Seven Nation Army -Screwdriver
Post by A$AP Rosko on Sept 19, 2010 10:50:58 GMT -5
There is a big gap in between the end of jonsi and the beginning of Massive Attack, though. I trust people not to be patient enough to wait an hour for Massive Attack's scheduled starting time. I'm guessing people will start finding their spot half an hour before their set is scheduled to start.
Wish I could go. Extenuating circumstances have prevented me in going.
Though I would do this if I were going.
Friday: Octopus Project > Big Boi/Devo > MGMT > Dan Deacon > Panda Bear Saturday: Nosaj Thing > Emeralds > The Volt Per Octaves w/ Bernie Worrell > Matmos > Massive Attack > Disco Biscuits Sunday: Cee-Lo Green > El-P
I guess its just my personal tastes, but Sunday is not "off the hook" like Ashley Capps said on his twitter.
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I said before, check out Emeralds, but also check out Nosaj Thing. His live shows are sick.
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I think I'm going to take them up on getting some PR information for artists to try to set up a little interview. I'll have to shoot for the smaller names, so what would you guys suggest going for? I don't want to blow her up with a huge list of names. I'm going to go for Four Tet, Neon Indian, Nosaj Thing, Caribou, Octopus Project. I'm so tempted to try for Jonsi and Van Dyke Parks but those seem quite out of reach..
Post by A$AP Rosko on Sept 23, 2010 8:18:26 GMT -5
That's awesome, Zapp
I think you gotta go for the artists that are the most independent-minded since they'll be most likely to do an interview for your blog. The five you listed are perfect--Caribou/Four Tet/Neon Indian/Nosaj Thing/The Octopus Project. Even Hot Chip or Girl Talk (or even Pandad Bear) might do it for you. But, like you said, you don't want to overwhelm her with a huge list of names. Also, with this news, you've ensured that all of us Inforooers are going to live vicariously through you until the festival starts haha. It's already begun.
And yeah, for me, it would be just about impossible to interview Van Dyke Parks and not ask him about Brian Wilson.
-When I Hear My Name -Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground -Blue Orchid -Passive Manipulation -Red Rain -Death Letter -My Doorbell -Hotel Yorba -Same Boy You've Always Known -Lovesick -Little Ghost -We're Going to Be Friends -The Hardest Button to Button -Black Math -The Nurse -I Just Don't Know What to Do With Myself
Encore: -Ball and Biscuit -Seven Nation Army -Screwdriver
Haha you know it. Yeah I'm not getting my hopes up for any of them, I doubt very much I land an interview with anybody, but I'm not going to pass up the opportunity of trying. Holy hell I just got an e-mail back with a complete list of artist contacts. Time to go to town on e-mailing.
Edit: Already heard back from some of them! Got denied by Jonsi and Four Tet, but I was granted e-mail interviews with Dan Deacon and Neon Indian!!
Bishop gave me a great question for Neon Indian: "How have low fidelity sounds influenced your music?", but that's all I've got so far. I think I'm going to ask Dan Deacon how the internet age has affected the way he thinks about releasing music. Definitely going to throw a lot of MoogFest-related questions their way, I just can't even think straight right now to come up with anything.
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Jeff Pearson: You are well-known for your communal tendencies of giving so much energy back to your fans, with Wham City, and the fan interactions during your sets. What sort of response have you seen to your innovative ways of getting the people involved with your music?
Dan Deacon: People, for the most part, are very positive in their response of the presentation of my music. I think it’s one of the things people look forward to the most is the presentation and how the performance will be structured. It’s the most fun part of me anyway.
JP: You have also been gracious enough to make your early works available for free online. In the face of shifting attitudes towards purchasing music, and the fact that with the tool of the internet, music is so readily at fans’ fingertips. Have you changed the way you think about the way you’ll release your music in the future?
DD: I think the basic goal of every musician is for as many people to hear their music as possible, from there you have the best chance of finding the most people who will enjoy it. I’d rather people download my older albums for free and hear them, rather then just be chanced upon by someone in a record store (I made very few of these release, they were all hand burned CD-Rs in self made cases).
The internet has clearly 100% changed the game and it’s clearly 100% still changing. It’s important to be constantly adapting but also sticking to your original plans.
JP: Speaking on your music, what artists and sounds most have shaped the way you create your music? Is there an artist playing MoogFest that you would cite as a big influence?
DD: DEVO. I dont think there is anything else to say.
JP: Other than influences, what MoogFest artists are you most excited to share the bill with? Any “can’t-miss” acts you can clue us in on?
DD: Emeralds and Javelin are a really great bands. I hope I get to catch their sets.
JP: You’ve managed to stay under the radar, for the most part, while gaining huge critical acclaim and pushing the boundaries musically. In a time when album sales are a fairly innacurate guage on success, and the most truly talented and innovative artists typically see very little commercial success, would you consider your career successful up to this point? What is your measure of success?
DD: I’m really happy with where I am at, as an artist. I’m just happy that people come to my shows and enjoy my music. That’s the bottom line. It’s nice to be able to support myself with my work.
JP: With your infamous Round Robin tour last year, and huge late night set at Bonnaroo, you’ve had some surely memorable moments onstage. Can you recall a personal favorite memory from while on tour?
DD: The last night of my first tour with the Dan Deacon Ensemble is a really wonderful memory for me. It was a great show and a really life changing tour that I will never forget. Nothing insane happened that night, it was just a solid show, ending a really grueling 8 week tour with 20 people on a school bus. It felt great.
JP: Very few artists create as much as you do in a live setting. Which environment of creation do you prefer: the studio or the stage?
DD: They are both very different. I really like performing but my heart is in composing. That’s what I love to do the most.
JP: Halloween is my personal favorite holiday, with the crisp fall air and beautiful colors, and I can’t think of a better way to spend it than MoogFest. What is your favorite holiday, and what would be your perfect version of said holiday?
DD: Thanksgiving is the shit.
JP: Finally, the readers are dying to know: when will you make the upgrade to an iPod Nano?
DD: I’m already doing it in several alternate realities.
