I wouldn’t describe this release as jazzy, but rather as a mixture of dope beats and laid-back Lounge sounds. In its unpretentious but inspiring manner it’s literally Easy Listening at its best. Nice bonus: This great piece of music is available for free on Bandcamp.
Google’s Street View captures bigger and bigger parts of our planet. Photographer and artist Jon Rafman obiviously spend a lot of time exploring all this image data – and discovered lots of weird, mysterious, funny and beautiful snapshots.
One year after the amazing Merry Meditation, Switchstance Recordings presents another fantastic mix by Astroboter: Delights For Psychic Minds takes you on a ride through LSD-drenched Psychedelic Rock, surreal Library Music and ends with Jazz & Sitars, played in the dark woods. The second part of this great piece of music is promised to be released on Dublab.com during the next weeks.
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Now this looks like some hilarious trash movie!
“Josh Keyes’ style is reminiscent of the diagrammatic vocabulary found in scientific textbook illustrations that often express through a detached and clinical viewpoint an empirical representation of the natural world. Assembled into this virtual stage set are references to contemporary events along with images and themes from his personal mythology. Josh Keyes‘ work is a hybrid of eco-surrealism and dystopian folktales that express a concern for our time and the Earth’s future.”
All pictures © Josh Keyes
Again and again very impressing: The Parkour Masters…
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Surreal impressions from Pakistan: Due to the massive flooding of the country, a huge amount of spiders moved up to the trees- and cocooned them in spider webs.
Via National Geographic. Photos © Russell Watkins
A live record of Pophop, core member of the 3000° collective, playing at the Mit Pauke und Trompete event in Hamburg last weekend. Impetuous Balkan music meets Polka, Latin flavour, and electronic grooves.
Just discovered this apparently unreleased footage from the DMT – The Spirit Molecule documentary. Putting things in a nutshell, Douglas Rushkoff talks about healthy psychedelic use, consciousness engineering and the risks of taking things too serious: “The best psychedelic explorers are people who realize that even the truths they see on a trip are not truths but new models.”
The new mushroom magazine is out! This time it includes heaps of artist features for the upcoming Freakplanet Tour. I had interesting interviews with jack of all trades Chris Zippel, S.U.N. Project, black light bodypainting master Wolf and the Psytrance veterans O.O.O.D., just to name a few. Also, mushroom had a little interview with me, in which I tried to explain my Hedonistic Freelancer philosophy.
