DECAYCAST Premieres: Bay Area Funk Wizard CHAKI Releases New Video “The Water”

DECAYCAST Premieres: Bay Area Funk Wizard CHAKI Releases New Video “Water” – WATCH NOW! 

If you’re in the Bay Area and you don’t know the work of CHAKI The Funk Wizard than you must hate fun, funk, horror movies, and capes, in which case, why are you even reading our blog? On his newest song and video, “Water”, CHAKI offers a masterfully crafted, yet slightly dystopian blend of self reflective cosmic brain altering funk! Blending astute musicianship, top notch arranging and production,  and a dark sense of humor, like a soldier of Funk,  Chaki covers all of the bases himself, performing nearly all the instrumentation solo with wonderfully nuanced results. Warm organ, marching bass lines, swirling screaming synths, hard hitting, tightly would drums, and the voice of an angelic maniac to create a funkily unique and dirty swim through the history of Funk music. “Water” gushes into your face and soaks you head to toe with cosmic funk liquid from the place of Chaki’s origin, a true assault to those refusing to feel the  rhythm, or maybe a hymn for those who feel the late night wrath of a post dance party Taco Bell excursion, whatever it is, we’re here for it. With it’s acid peaking level energy,  driving in the pocket beats,  “Water” is no doubt channeling the bombastic low end of genre-pioneering giants, Cameo, the glossy, psychedelic, and often flawless production of Prince with a dash of Blowfly-esque absurdist humor and what do you have? “Water”, which is to be released as a black vinyl 7” by Who Can You Trust? Records.

It’s a silly video for probably the most personal song I ever made. I was trying to channel my heroes like Cameo and Prince while in the studio.” – Chaki

“The concept came to Chaki in a reoccurring dream and scribbled onto a bar napkin. The vision was brought to life by the local Oakland filmmaker team Han Hale (director) and Dean Snodgrass (director of photography).

CHAKI has brought his dynamic stage show to festivals such as Noise Pop and The Offbeat Fest. This funky alien has gained a cult-like following over the past few years, playing shows with like-minded weirdos Shannon and the Clams, El Vez, Peelander Z, Bob Log III, Captured By Robots, The Space Lady, and Flipper.

You can Buy CHAKI “The Water” 7″ EP here: https://whocanyoutrustrec.bigcartel.com/product/chaki-the-water-7-vinyl

CHAKI performs 12/31 at FCOTB w/ Burmese, NDW, Jeweled Snakes and more. 9pm.

 

 

 

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DECYCAST Premieres: Kinetic Attack “Watch Out” Official Music Video

DECYCAST Premieres: Kinetic Attack “Watch Out” Official Music Video

Check this  world premiere of  Kinetic Attack‘s “Watch Out” video for  Miami based Crass Lips Records  “Watch Out” is directed, designed & edited by Ingrid Mouth (@ingridmouth) and features the band riffing through various  brightly colored scenes, opening passageways to psychedelic portals, glowing, strobing lighting effects give an other-worldly effect, which still maintaining a DIY charm not  too far off from an early Shana Moulton influenced works. Smoke, steam, goblets, antlers, walls of ripped and  tattered fabric play off  each other with skillful, stylized on beat, fast paced editing, gel the  seemingly endless scenes  together.  Kinetic Attack plays a raw, angular, aggressive version of  percussion heavy  synth-punk, with sharp, frantically yelled vocals which play off of the loopy, dizzying synth riffs and  thick, driving bass parts and this video is the perfect counterpart to “Watch Out”. All together, a cohesive, driving interpretation of synth forward punk music with a take all it’s own! The video component is no slouch either, that of a  dizzying array of glitter-bombed, surrealist, brightly painted  props obscure glistening bodies and playfully nihilistic dadaesque actions create a fun, confusing, yet tense and INTENSE visual for the  song, a perfect pairing. Fantastic collaboration.

 

 

DECAYCAST Reviews: Somnaphon “Anthology Of Errors” VHS (Out of Body Records, 2014)

Somnaphon “Anthology Of  Errors”  VHS

Somnaphon creates glitched/data  bending digital audio and   visual synthesis. Signals run into each other  creating psychedelic, colorful matrixes of broken digital cell rendering. Who knows the  signal  flow of this  glitch artist but it seems geometry is  running amok, backed by a minimal but all present digital noise/ambient soundtrack,. Visual , architectural loops with varying but  repeating Colors, shapes, and planes bend, distort, tear and melt into each other through  digital loops of  circuit bent  video pulses. Out Of  Body Records usually releases all  analog artists, but with the release of the Somnaphon VHS, OOBR presents  these  eleven tracks  digitally moshed and  twisted visual experiments in  an analog  format, compared to some  of Somnaphon’s other online works, “Anthology Of  errors”  has a distinct  hybrid  digital/analog feel, often times appearing as  digitally glitched out scenes of  confusion presented and pressed onto analog  tape, or reprocessed through analog devices. Somnophon does a good  job at masking, or rounding out the  digital aesthetics of  “data  bending music”  for a more  1970’s analog feel. Cascading pillars of pixels, lines, and rogue color palettes gently , yet  meticulously morph and pulse into and out of each other  to create visual poems of  distorted geometry. Mirrored madness through the multiplication of  destroyed and  wrong pixels  creates a visual  journey or  errors   inside the  first ever broken computer- error in, error  out, blood in, blood out, bad human in, bad human out. Despite subscribing to the  “data bending”  strategy of visual construction, which can often display a somewhat limited visual palette,  Somnaphon employs a wide  array of  image creating techniques, which morphs, pulses, generates and multiplies over  the entire eleven tracks,  creating an obtuse visual representation of  what is possible with “data bending” .

The sounds compliment the images quite perfectly, at times, to a point, where it seems they are  often coming from the same source. Glitchy, choppy, digital  distorted pillars  of failing  and  flailing spikes and pulses  and apparent  silence create a synesthesia effect within the work itself. Lots of  digital reverb coat the structures of computer  hard  drives crashing into a sea of blackness. Sharp electronic blasts, spurt out chopped up transmissions  of broken morse  code ; sending a message out into space to the  unknown. Sometimes more beat/loop oriented, and other times more  sporadic and random, Somnaphon keeps the sonic and visual palette fresh and ever  changing on “Anthology of Errors”

At times more  painterly images are  formed and other times, more  rigid minimal, geometric structures and rendered and bled  into new forms of their previous incantations. Somnaphon is seeking to destroy  and  redistribute the pixel, to create “anti digital-digital art and music”  and this  VHS is the  perfect introduction to just that! Beautiful packaging , as always  from this label, complete  with the STOP PLEASE  REWIND sticker!!

SOMNAPHON

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Nerfbau “Plastic Head Inside A Cage” Video ::: We live in error swarms…!!..

CLICK STILL FOR VIDEO SEUZURES……….

Nerfbau brain server errors result in the data congestion shutdown 200011-2012 . Here is the visual haptic logic of Error Swarms, a new compact disk offering for ill brain treatment experiments, recently made publicly available for perscription by the esteemed Resipiscent label, based out of San Francisco, CA. Nerfbau wrestles foam choaked ideal structures of mis meanings and imprisioned plastic brains in robot titanium case cages.,,,Silver iodine sulutions…IV your Last Glass….
Click below for fullscreen. Best not watched by humans, animals and/or cyborgs prone to seizures and/or/nor nervous system shutdowns. Seriously.

http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=17839431&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color=ffffff&fullscreen=1&autoplay=1&loop=0

The track, “Plastic Head In A Cage” from the album, “Error Swarms” by Nerfbau, released 2010 on Resipiscent Records.This is Part two of two. part one coming feburary 2011

Directed by Different Dentist, 2010.

Resipiscent Records <–buy the album hear….

NERFBAU