Mail Order Messiahs » mail order messiahs http://mailordermessiahs.com Thu, 16 Apr 2015 11:46:31 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.41 Genetic (Eomac Remix) http://mailordermessiahs.com/genetic-eomac-remix/ http://mailordermessiahs.com/genetic-eomac-remix/#comments Thu, 16 Apr 2015 07:06:28 +0000 http://mailordermessiahs.com/?p=228 Eomac is an extraordinarily talented musician/producer/DJ/bloody nice guy from Dublin. His debut album Spectre (Killekill) was one of the best releases of 2014 and, unsurprisingly, his music has gained plaudits and support from the likes of Thom Yorke and Aphex Twin. I’ve been a great admirer of his music for ages so I was delighted when, after only […]

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]]> Eomac is an extraordinarily talented musician/producer/DJ/bloody nice guy from Dublin. His debut album Spectre (Killekill) was one of the best releases of 2014 and, unsurprisingly, his music has gained plaudits and support from the likes of Thom Yorke and Aphex Twin. I’ve been a great admirer of his music for ages so I was delighted when, after only 4 days of captivity inside the boot of my Ford Focus, he happily agreed to remix not one, but two tracks from Practical. Genetic is the first of these remixes and, together with his remix of Practical Man, is bundled as a bonus track with a purchase of Practical from Bandcamp.

I’ve also made (or remade) a video for Eomac’s remix, itself a remix of the short film Necrology by the late Standish Lawder (1936-2014). The dark humour and simplicity of Lawder’s film really appeal to me.

The original film is below. It’s also on the National Film Preservation Foundation DVD: Treasures IV: American Avant-Garde Film, 1947-1986, which is available here.

““Necrology” (1970) is still among the most haunting avant-garde films I’ve ever seen, even though it’s also one of the simplest (and at times the funniest). Just by taking grainy black-and-white footage of New Yorkers on an escalator, and running it backwards in slow motion —with melodramatic music playing in the background—Lawder created a striking record of people on the go, which doubles as an impressionistic vision of beaten-down souls ascending into heaven” – Paul Murray

Necrology from Mdf Doyle on Vimeo.

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]]> http://mailordermessiahs.com/genetic-eomac-remix/feed/ 0 New Stuff http://mailordermessiahs.com/new-stuff/ http://mailordermessiahs.com/new-stuff/#comments Mon, 15 Sep 2014 12:08:04 +0000 http://mailordermessiahs.com/?p=195 ‘New Stuff’ is the second single from ‘Practical‘. The album, which is available from Bandcamp, features a number of songs that could be described as work, protest or socially conscious songs. ‘New Stuff’ is my attempt at a critique of consumer culture done in the style of an ironic ode. Whilst working on the album I was really […]

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]]> ‘New Stuff’ is the second single from ‘Practical‘. The album, which is available from Bandcamp, features a number of songs that could be described as work, protest or socially conscious songs. ‘New Stuff’ is my attempt at a critique of consumer culture done in the style of an ironic ode. Whilst working on the album I was really inspired by the works of Tim Jackson, Juliet Schor and Alain de Botton amongst others.

The video to accompany the song is made from a few short clips taken from two wonderful Ron Fricke films – Baraka and Samsara. Baraka and Samara are available in DVD, Blu-Ray and on-demand from http://barakasamsara.com/.

Update: Sunken Foal has done a great remix of New Stuff. It’s available as a bonus track on the Bandcamp version of ‘Practical’. Details are here.

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