So the lazertits/d-structure party at Submission on friday night was a blast. i had a lot of fun, met nice people, was with good friends, and the venue was very cool (apparently there’s a lot of all ages punk shows there, smells like beer, cans/bottles/cigarette butts, graffiti and stickers everywhere, and the soundguy’s setup was in a hollowed out van raised up in a loft situation opposite the stage)
Here’s my live set from the night, its a mix of all original tunes getting the usual remix treatment with the exception of some Vanity 6 samples at the end
Back around 1999 till about 2003 I was really concerned with getting songs (dnb at the time) signed to labels. The whole time I was also making tons of music and not releasing it. I sent several albums to planet mu, some smaller electronic labels, and tried warp and ninja tune (weren’t accepting demos). Now I know there are plenty of hardworking small labels out there that would be great to be signed to but with the unavailability of my favorite labels, what seemed like (and still does) the unraveling of the “music industry”, and a fear of death before interfacing with the world led me to self release albums under the goodluck/badluck name.
As you can imagine the results are mixed. I get all profits, see where the sales are coming from, and get to interact directly with my fans. That being said I dont have nearly as much exposure whether it be from lack of clout or lack of advertising money. I wouldn’t exactly suggest the same to anyone nor would I discourage it. Maybe it’s a question of what you want to do with your art. Or if you even view it as such. Music is very very important to me. It happens to be my strength but I see it as falling under the greater field of “art” or “creativity”. It’s pretty much a 50/50 split between its therapeutic effects on me and my desire to provide the world with something abstract to enjoy no matter how small.
So yea, 4 albums and 2 EPs in and I guess Ive never technically made any money from sales but Im proud. It’s what I work really hard on. Sometimes it seems like I release albums too quickly for hype to build, to reach the people, and to make it around to all the internet and college radio venues. Before any of that happens Im planning my next move. That you can blame on my fear of dying early. And it it’s not like this gripping day to day fear. It’s more like dealing with the notion of impermanence. You can get smashed by a bus, shot, stabbed, have an aneurysm, you just never know. Wouldn’t it suck for all that work you did to just disappear without reaching its audience? If you happen to come across this post/page/my music for the first time do have a poke around itunes and all those shops. Ive got several releases and remixes under the badmammal alias as well as The Gimps (a ftp rock project). Ill also be redoing the online shop soon to incorporate it into our wordpress using paypal. This way if you’d like to purchase directly from me you can.
also look out for photo prints and t shirts. gonna start messing about with that stuff once goodluck/badluck finds a bigger apartment.
So Ill be performing at the Lazertits and D-Structure event here in San Francisco at “Submission” (2183 Mission St, San Francisco, CA). There’s gonna be lazers, booze, live music, and fun people.
“A Murder of Lilies” and “Lurv” will be performing after.
Tittastic
August 27 at 9:00pm
@ Submission
2183 Mission St
San Francisco, CA
Live music from:
Badmammal
Murder of Lillies
Lurv
and of course forget to check out the reason behind this event… LAZERTITS!
no it’s actually not a cruising webpage but a service that helps people find and share fruit locally from backyards and public land.
had to do a quick registration before being able to poke around the webpage some more.
hmm apparently there’s some figs a couple blocks over and a few blocks down from where we live. whoa, another fig tree on the corner by that cheesy club on broadway!
Alright, Ill have to go looking for figs in my neighborhood. figs are yum.
I’m (chris matule, badmammal) currently working on a new album. Its gonna be really dreamy, spacey, psychedelic, and have words! yes words. Its been an interesting (embarrasing) process but definitely worth it. Kind of silly playing all these instruments except for the one that we all carry somewhere between the chest, vocal chords, mouth and all that. So yea, not totally sure if its gonna be a badmammal release or under a different name (or even on goodluck/badluck).
in other music news goodluck/badluck has adopted a french garage rock outfit consisting of a man (louis putain) and woman (jacqueline leveque) who call themselves Louis XIX. theyre currently trying to record some tunes for either an EP or full length. we’ll do our best to get them exposure/signed and if we cant we’ll just do what we always do, self release that ish.
So far things have gone quite well with the Blu Mar Ten Natural History remix series. The Seba and Bop remixes made the Juno August recommendations for drum and bass and the badmammal remix made the Juno august recommendations for Rock/Indie. The review is below
“The first part of this remix project sees Bop, Seba, and Badmammal each transforming Blu Mar Ten tracks into a new and altered state. Washing, rippling rhythms with hints of jungle textures creep into Seba’s fantastic re-work of “Overwhelm”, before being carried away on a tide of sound. Bop strips it back with his usual stark, Slavic style in “Believe Me”, with howling Siberian winds prevailing in the atmospheric intro. Finishing up with “Above Words”, it’s all about the pristine, lacquered beats and gentle easing rhythms of Badmammal’s sombre yet incredibly evocative interpretation. Punctuated by warm harp flourishes, plucking strings and glistening xylophone-like effects, the textured layers are beautifully evocative and bring the EP to a melancholic but intensely satisfying close.”
look out for the next part of the series. sounding very nice
Hi..We’re moving.
Hopefully as soon as we can. It’s been in the works for about 6 months and we really look forward to the inspiration it will bring. Greg and myself (chris) will be banding together with another creative dude named Ji (who is involved with video work). Most likely our living room wont have a couch, tv and coffee table but rather a screen printing setup, music toys, art chemicals, paint etc.. this way we can have a little more room where we sleep.
Im expecting the new environment to shape all of our art forms. im most interested in exploring the new neighborhood for moticos (to me, photo worthy things) and seeing what having a real wall between our bedrooms does to my currently embarrassing and tedious singing process.
We’ve been working away at our cover version of Madonna’s “borderline”. We will be releasing it soon for free and hopefully making a video for it in the near future. The Gimps will also be making a video for the song “why worry?” off of their latest release, The Gimps -EP. We’ve also been busy pecking away at a full length release. More news and clips soon
Here’s another remix ive had the pleasure doing from a great band out of new york called Murder Mystery. There was a choice between two tunes to remix and I had to go with the female vocal one (things like orbital and stereolab immediately entered my mind). Turned out to be some sort of 90s pop rock dance freestyle electronic type stuff. Anyway, it was fun as always. Grab the tune, its free. Check out the band, they’re cool.
