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Arnold Schwarzenegger aka Arnie, The Terminator, The Governator....

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 10:28:17 -0400

Arnold Schwarzenegger aka Arnie, The Terminator, The Governator. The Austrian bodybuilder, actor, director, politician and pillar of movie history remixed by Eclectic Method for your retro delight. Not every classic line could be covered in a standard hip hop / remix / Arnie Beat track but “I’ll be back” “Come with me if you want to live” “I need your clothes, your boots and your motorcycle” all make an appearance as well as “It’s NOT A TUMOUR!”. So check out what critics are already calling “the greatest waste of time since the last greatest waste of time”.

Iron Man so far

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 15:49:00 -0400

Hackers

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 00:06:00 -0400

You don’t use the same password over and over right? Let’s be honest this is the day and age of the hacker. Eclectic Method brings you “Hackers” , Hollywood’s celebration of basement dwelling 128 bit encryption masters. They’ll shut down before you can trace them, hack into the mainframe and go straight for the kernel, hell they might even insert a worm on the back of a trojan. Keanu Reeves has been one, Angelina Jolie has been one and Matthew Broderick was one before he was Ferris Bueller.

Shall we play a game? Spot every movie in this hackisode….

Tuesdays 2pm

Sun, 07 Apr 2013 12:39:32 -0400

TUESDAYS 2PM ET : Bit.ly/MethodLive

Spectacle: The Music Video

Fri, 05 Apr 2013 22:04:00 -0400

A few nights ago Maria and I went to the Spectacle Opening at the Museum of the Moving Image in Queens. Spectacle is the history of the music video told through many exhibits, a Sonos / Vevo event curated by Jonathan Wells and Meg Grey Wells of Flux. The event is up for another month so if your in New York totally go check it out. Besides featuring EM’s 99 Problems in the remix section alongside many great EBN videos it also has work from Spike Jonze, Michel Gondry, OK GO and Kanye West to name but a few. Throughout are props from historical music videos and a fairly all encompassing history of the music video from bottom to top as you walk through the museum. Totally loved it and you’ll find my instagram flooded with pics of it. Also at the very very top is Red Paper Heart ‘s interactive video light Sonos installation .

Tuesday Live Streaming

Fri, 29 Mar 2013 16:00:00 -0400

I am moving live streaming to Tuesday’s at 2pm ET on Dailymotion. I realized I am going to be away a lot of upcoming Friday’s so Tuesday it is, evening in Europe , morning on the west coast and afternoon on the east coast. Every Tuesday : bit.ly/methodlive

Happy Birthday Quentin Tarantino

Wed, 27 Mar 2013 15:26:19 -0400

Doing my taxes with J-Live

Mon, 25 Mar 2013 09:51:10 -0400

Chick N Touch Interview

Sun, 24 Mar 2013 15:21:52 -0400

I Did an interview with Chick N Touch, it’s mainly in French, English version if you scroll down

New Orleans

Wed, 20 Mar 2013 19:21:49 -0400

Just recovering from our New Orleans trip. I went down there for first time with Maria and my dad to visit Allison and our Baton Rogue / Mississippi crew. We started our first night with some Purple Drank and then went to meet up with our friends Carlos and Ricky who were staying at Lafitte’s Guest House with a balcony over looking Bourbon Street. Then we went to Arnaud’s Restaurant where we stuffed ourselves with seafood and I tried a Baked Alaska for first time, it’s a layered icecream shoved in a cake. Then went to Molly’s on the way to bed. Saturday I played a Saint Patrick’s Day house party at Collyn & Wiffy’s place. By “house party” I mean house to the street party as most people were on the street drinking and eating Jambalaya which is totally legal there, the drinking i mean, Jambalaya is legal everywhere. The band playing was made up of Dave Jordan, West Bank Mike and friends. New Orleans is pretty fucking cool really, admittedly we spent most of our time in the French Quarter but I totally love it…. Just the right amount of silly.

I am back this Friday with livestreaming video set at Noon Eastern Time on Dailymotion. Also Friday afternoon at 4pm Eastern Time I will be doing a set in Plug.DJ with Smokery a new site that allows you to play back audio and video in a virtual space you hang out in.

Doctor Who : SXSW

Thu, 28 Feb 2013 13:05:09 -0500

I am finally able to announce my SXSW show this year and it is totally great. I have been working with BBC America on a Doctor Who AV show. I will be playing a video remix set composed entirely from Doctor Who episodes from throughout history. This is one of my favorite TV Shows of all time and I have been buried in episodes for the past few weeks otherwise known as “total joy”.

Not only is Doctor Who a pioneering TV Show since 1963 but it has also pioneered in music making and generation of new sound effects that permeate our music today. The original theme by Ron Grainer and made by Delia Derbyshire at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop was an exercise in electronic music pioneering. It’s sound has not dated as it took the world a while to catch up with Delia’s techniques of running multiple oscillators and turning faders up and down whilst adjusting the tape speed, something nowadays people automate on a computer.

I am having mad fun making this show and it will be a awesome journey through Doctor Who , a 50 year time travel in it’s self. The show will exist for one time only on the night of 9th March in Austin at BBC America’s event………….

Also last week Raymond Cusick, the designer of the Daleks, passed away… The mix will of course be Dalek heavy in his honor.

Avan Lava Remix

Sun, 24 Feb 2013 09:24:00 -0500

If you haven’t heard Avan Lava’s tearaway Disco Hit “It’s Never Over” check out the original video here. I loved it so much I asked if I could do a remix, and here is the result. The original is such a solid dancefloor track I thought why try to do that ? So, instead I went for some fast/slow dirty synth something or other. I pitched up the vocals so they sounded like the chipmunks and then figured why not do a punk cut up chipmunk video to match. Here is my video remix and the extended audio remix for your download pleasure. Also Avan Lava are headlining a show next weekend at Williamsburg Music Hall. So go check out the show described as “Prince, multiplied by six and jack-full of liquid-sex funk” with lasers too!!!!

Live Streaming Today

Fri, 22 Feb 2013 10:36:00 -0500

LIVESTREAM by eclecticmethod

Today at Noon Eastern Time I will be doing a live video dj stream from Brooklyn in this very window. Click this if you want to go through to live page and chat with other viewers : bit.ly/methodlive . This will be my last live stream show until 22nd March as next Friday I am getting married then Friday after I’m in Austin for SXSW and the friday after i’ll be in New Orleans. Heck maybe i’ll figure out a way to stream the New Orleans show or something.

Public Enemy

Tue, 19 Feb 2013 09:12:25 -0500

I LOVE Public Enemy. So I made this.

Input/Output Video Mixtape

Sun, 17 Feb 2013 11:47:40 -0500

Finally my YouTube account can take videos longer then 10 minutes so today I uploaded the Input/Output Video Mixtape that was previously on Dailymotion, Vimeo and my snid account. MP3_

MULTiPAD

Sun, 10 Feb 2013 17:17:52 -0500

iPadNY

Tue, 05 Feb 2013 00:32:00 -0500

Start spreading the news….. Not saying New York is the best city in the world, it’s just my favorite and has become my adopted home. So my latest video is a meta frame within a frame remix of New York itself. Fragments of classic New York movies are scratched, remixed and jammed around New York locations. Oliver Stone’s panning Manhattan shots are scratched up around Manhattan, Scorsese’s classic Brooklyn shots scratched around Brooklyn and Woody Allen’s view of Manhattan from Queens gets jammed from a Queen’s rooftop. The remix about town, about a town. Eclectic Method (EM) also enlisted the help of New Yorker J-Live to scratch up classic NY centric music videos from the Beastie Boys, Jay Z and others. J-Live is a long term EM collaborator and also one of the few humans who can scratch and rhyme at the same time.

New York video screengrabs

Sun, 03 Feb 2013 15:44:00 -0500

Self Generating Remix

Fri, 01 Feb 2013 13:49:00 -0500

Self Generating Art has long been an obsession of BRIAN ENO’s. He made the 77 Million Paintings installation, a self generating painting that is always changing and also his work on the KOAN generative music engine.

For the last few years I’ve been obsessed with the idea of a self generating remixer. Something that is generating a real time remix (both audio and video) from media the world is spewing onto the internet. COLDCUT had an app called “My Little Funkit” that would generate music to pre-defined rules and the user could move faders that would make choices as to how to music would develop. I thought this would be a fun idea in a self generating media remixer where someone could come in and choose less news more salacious media stories OR less EDM more hiphop. Also with more and more online videos coming with subtitles and automatic editing machine could be trying to construct remix sentences that make sense. The site SUBZIN already allows you to search films by their scripts and it will tell you exactly where a word or phrase occurs in a movie.

FRIDAYS, Noon to 1PM ESTearn time. LIVE STREAMING LIVE @ bit.ly/methodlive

Mon, 28 Jan 2013 12:33:00 -0500

FRIDAYS, Noon to 1PM ESTearn time. LIVE STREAMING LIVE @ bit.ly/methodlive