yes you did read the title of the post right. Originally, GZA was featured over a remix of the song “Keyboard City” done by The Hood Internet. Now, Dan Deacon took that remix and dissected it into this an awesome blend of Vocoder / electro madness.
This collaboration was inspired by the idea of GZA and Dan Deacon working together and Salvador Santana a platform was set for more original material between the two in the future. GZA first caught wind of Dan Deacon earlier this fall and after a connection via their publicist, Dan ended up taking GZA and Salvador's remix and putting his own twist on it.

Dan Deacon remix of Salvador Santana's "Keyboard City" featuring GZA

If your feeling the need for a more trippier Deacon remix well Dan also made a separate ambient piece of Salvador’s Vocoder line layered 120 times or so with slightly different start times and LFO’s on the panning

Dan Deacon remix of Salvador Santana's "Keyboard City" 2

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Music video for the sonic warrior Dan Deacon. the video was directed by Natalie Van Den Dungen and the song is taken from Bromst. The video is chocked full of brilliant creative ideas keep your eyes peels for a puppet Dan Deacon.

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Above is the cover of the soon to be released new album from sonic warrior Dan Deacon
tracklist is as follows
1 Build Voice
2 Red F
3 Paddling Ghost
4 Snookered
5 Of The Mountains
6 Surprise Stefani
7 Wet Wings
8 Woof Woof
9 Slow With Horns/Run For Your Life
10 Baltihorse
11 Get Older

looks a little like the cover of In Ear Park but with a tent....just me???
Album is out in the States 24th March (no idea as of yet of its release over here anyone know)

***update****
check out the track "Get Older" from Bromst, mmmm tasty

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It’s that time of the year again, and as people get their wellies out for electric picnic egoeccentric compiles a guide to our must-see acts. With a line-up drastically removed from the likes of Oxegen, there’s always plenty of gems at the Picnic, and many of them are acts most folk never heard of before. This is the beauty of Electric Picnic- think of it as a live mixtape made by someone with impeccable (if mildly insane) taste.

Read on for the guide…

Friday

Digitalism
9.15-10.30, Electric Arena

What will probably be the dance highlight of the weekend, Digitalism’s first album was a humdinger featuring four singles, at least one of which you’re bound to have heard. Idealistic is a thumping dance-punk classic, Zdarlight is an awesome psychedelic dance opus, and Pogo a kickdrum & synth heavy indie song. So something for everyone… Bring water, it’ll get sweaty.

Mp3: Digitalism- Idealistic



The Gutter Twins
9:30 - 10:30 Crawdaddy stage
Two of the alt-rock era’s greatest frontmen, The Gutter Twins is a musical collaboration between rock musicians Greg Dulli and Mark Lanegan. not to be missed


MP3:The Gutter Twins - Idle Hands





Sigur Rós10:30 - 12:00 Main Stage

The Icelandic slow-motion rock band return to our shores with new material for the latest album as well, high hopes for a reenactment of the video for Gobbledigook in the crowd.

Sigur Rós - Gobbledigook





Saturday


Dan Deacon
19.45-20.45, Little Big Tent

Mister Deacon is a favorite round these parts, and his Saturday evening set has got to be considered one of the Picnic’s unmissable events. Famed for his maniacally enjoyable live show, Dan’s unique approach to a live show has a touch of ‘kid’s birthday party’ about it, albeit a party soundtracked by insanely eclectic electro. Do not miss this, it could well be the hour during which your ticket price is justified.

Mp3: Dan Deacon- Okie Dokie




The Breeders
5:00 - 6:00 Electric Arena
New album called “Mountain Battles” out now , what more can be said about the Breeders other than walking legends

The Breeders - Walk It Off





Ra Ra Riot
4:00 - 4:45 Little Big Tent
Formed at Syracuse University in January 2006, Ra Ra Riot is an amorphous blob that consists of seven highly dedicated individuals, each bringing her/his own experiences as both people and musicians to the metaphorical table.They are dedicated to moving people physically and mentally as a means of affecting positive micro/macro cosmic change

MP3:Ra Ra Riot - Dying Is Fine


The Faint
17.15-18.00, Little Big Tent

One of our all time favorites finally makes it to Ireland, and with a stunning new album to promote. The Faint are have somehow managed to remain relatively under the radar for ten years whilst all the while releasing some of the most adventurous and visceral albums of their type. Having mastered the electro-rock genre well before it became fashionable the band have over the years furthered their repertoire by incorporating punk and classical music seamlessly into catchy, dancey tracks. Top all that off with a live show that’s so damn good it’s got me flying to Manchester tomorrow specifically to see them play in a club… and you’ve got the makings of a
surefire festival highlight.

Mp3: The Faint- In Concert



George Clinton & The P-Funk Allstars
00.00-2.00, Main Stage

George Clinton is possibly the funkiest man who has ever lived. He is considered one of the most sampled musicians of all time, has worked with everyone from Snoop Dogg to the Chilis and in the 60’s worked as a staff writer for Motown records. In short, he’s a legend. Gaining much of his notoriety by bringing funk to the masses through bands such as Parliament and Funkadelic, Clinton took what James Brown started, threw in a dash of Hendrix and turned up the bass. Expect much dancing and yelling of refrains such as ‘WE WANT THE FUNK!!’ (and, if you’re really lucky, a giant funk-fuelled UFO landing on stage).

Mp3: Parliament- Flashlight



Sunday


My Bloody Valentine
9:20 - 10:50 Electric arena
Sweet sweet lush noise let it wash over you another one really not to be missed

MP3:My Bloody Valentine - Sometimes

Foals
18.00-18.45, Crawdaddy Stage

Having come out of the gate with a series of kickass adrenaline-driven-yet-intricate math-rock tunes, Foals surprised all by ditching them for their debut album and instead going ‘a bit weird’. Not in a bad way, but in a ballsy, experimental ‘let’s get the dude from TV On The Radio to produce us’ kinda way. Don’t worry- the singles (Hummer et al) are still staples of their live show- a show which is quickly gaining notoriety for being both captivating and frenetic (just ask anyone who caught them in the Academy…). Perfect for a good ol’ mosh, and one that avoids unnecessary smelly-metal/hard-rock clichés. Woo hoo!

Mp3: Foals- Mathletics


Pivot
2:30 - 3:00 Little Big Tent

Pivot is equally influenced by Synthesizer luminaries Vangelis and Jean-Michel Jarre, Warp label mates Autechre and the post-punk new wave of Talking Heads. Comprised of Sydney’s brothers Pike, Laurence and Richard, and Perth electronic wunderkind Dave Miller.

MP3:Pivot - Fool In Rain


The Roots
7:00 - 8:00 Main stage
With there heavily jazzy sound and live instrumentation and known to put a skip in your set, with newest album ‘Rising Down’ song being predominant in the set but im guessing some gems off other albums as well


MP3:The Roots - i can't help it (featuring malik b & p.o.r.n.)




Stephen Malkmus
7:15 - 8:15 Crawdaddy Stage
Former member of the bands Pavement, Silver Jews, and the Crust Brothers, Most recently Stephen Malkmus released the Jicks’ latest album, Real Emotional Trash

MP3:Stephen Malkmus - Baltimore


Grinderman
7:35 - 8:35 Electric Arena
The story of Grinderman begins within the working processes of another band: Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. At the start of 2004, when Nick Cave took a small team of Bad Seeds members - violinist Warren Ellis, bassist Martyn P Casey and drummer Jim Sclavunos - off to the tiny Misère studio in Paris, France for a songwriting session, they effectively established a new working process.

MP3:Grinderman - No Pussy Blues

Irish Acts you'd be a fool to miss:

Warlords of Pez follow last year's Sunday Mass with a well deserved Saturday evening slot... Jape get amazingly dancetastic and meloncholic at the same time... pure unadulterated fun & drum-machines from Hybrasil... A post-choice award, pre-remix album Super Extra Bonus Party are sure to be class as always... Giveamanakick promote their excellent debut Welcome to the Cusp... Top quality Indie-Rock from Large Mound... last but far from least, Halves will be treating folk to their beautiful orchestratic electronica.

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A few more Leccie Piccie acts have been announced including Joan as Policewomen, Booka Shade, Deadmau5, the awesome Dan Deacon and Grace Jones!!!

You may remember Grace Jones from "A View to a Kill" aka "The Bond movie where it got painfully obvious that Roger Moore was too old to play Bond but thankfully it was his last anyway" and in fairness thats pretty much the only place that I know her from as well but apparently she played music too and was pretty successful in the 80's which also happens to the be the decade in which her last album was released. She's got a new one of new shit coming out but in the meantime you can check out her natty cover of Joy Division's "She's Lost Control" in the read more

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New Foggy Notions festival- line up via On The Record

Thursday June 12 - Matmos and Si Schroeder - Andrew’s Lane Theatre

Friday June 13 - Low, Atlas Sound and The Holy Roman Army - Andrew’s Lane Theatre

Saturday June 14 - Dan Deacon, Jape, White Williams, High Places and more - Vicar Street

Sunday June 15 - Bonnie Prince Billy, Baby Dee and Paul Curreri - Vicar Street

Sunday June 15 - Metronomy and Spilly Walker - Andrew’s Lane Theatre
live videos for some of the acts in the read more


Matmos - Roses and Teeth for Ludwig Wittgenstein


Atlas Sound: live @ The FADER/AT&T Sideshow


White Williams - Route to Palm


Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - "May It Always Be"


Metronomy - Heartbreaker

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This week's special guest for the egoeccentric Hangover Mixtape is none other than Sonic Warrior Dan Deacon.

Prepare for the madness.

Tracklisting and download link in the read more.

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01 Tonight You Belong To Me- Bernadette Peters and Steve Martin
02 Out on the Weekend- Neil Young
03 Love Hurts- Roy Orbison
04 Radio Music 1956- John Cage
05 Thirty Seconds (of silence)
06 Imitating the Sounds of Birds- Robert Filliou
07 Booji Boys Funeral- Devo
08 Suzanne- Weezer
09 Sabilulungan- Suara Parahiangan
10 Waterloo Sunset- The Kinks

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Check out Dan's soundtrack to fellow Baltimore resident Jimmy Joe Roche's crazy Arnold Schwarzenegger video-art-piece here.

Dan and his already legendary live show are due to return to these shores in the coming months for Foggy Notions' brand new summer fest, which is absolutely not to be missed.

Stay tuned, we'll keep you posted.

Dan Deacon on myspace

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Dan Deacon: Okie Dokie


off Spiderman of the Rings LP. Don't mess with Dan he has a rattlesnake gun
(via Pitchfork TV)

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Jim Caroll has got me salivating with this little nugget of gossip:

Future Days... A Hard-Working-Class-Heroes style festival set in various venues around Dublin this June, the brainchild of the always excellent Foggy Notions heads, featuring Bonnie Prince Billy, Dan Deacon, Baby Dee & more.

So I may get to a festival this year after all...

All the speculation & inside scoop here.

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Dan Deacon is giving away some of his song of his old albums for free on his site which can be found..................here
so click download and be happy
seen like a good a reason as any to post the brilliant clip of Dan on NBC Coastal Sunrise morning news show

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And I want to cry.

Here's why: Click.
(I can barely read it...)

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Nearly forgot to update with the status of Dan Deacon's return to Ireland. It's soon- next sunday, to be precise. That's the 2nd of December, and in Whelans.


Buy tickets for 17.45 here.

Remind yourself why you should be going here.

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Seeing as there are quite a few gems coming up I figured I'll knock together a 'High Fidelity-esque' Top 10. Then I realised I forgot one, so it became a top 11. Deal with it.

11. Radio Soulwax- Ambassador, 26th Oct.

At this stage everyone should know what Radio Soulwax is: 2Many DJs, mash ups, dancing and general merriment. For some odd reason despite the fact that 2many DJs seems to play here every 20 mins or so, I've still never seen em. Hopefully this time round. It's one of several gigs on this list that'd be perfectly matched with a crazy night out on the tiles.


10 Messiah J & The Expert- Crawdaddy, 21st Nov.

Messiah J is an anomaly. An Irish MC rapping about (amongst other things) Irish stuff, and not being a complete disaster. Far from it in fact- MJ&tE's recent album 'Now This I Have To Hear' is sample-iciously good. I saw the guys perform in Whelans in support of it's launch and they put on a great show. Something different from the Irish scene, and definitely something worthwhile. Here's the video for the 1st single from the album, 'Something Outta Nothing'. Enjoy.



9. Hot Hot Heat- The Village, 11th Nov.

There was a period of time for me when going out was just not as crazy unless preceded by listening to HHH's 'Make Up the Break Down' in full. It's exciting jumpy rocky guitar pop at it's very best. Checking these guys out in the Village is gonna be sweet, and I'd imagine, a rare opportunity for me to get my mosh on. Here's 'No, Not Now'.



8. Les Savy Fav- Crawdaddy, 27th Oct.

This is a Ste Foy tip, which makes it reliable. These guys are insane, and quite good too, which helps. They're promoting their third album 'Let's Stay Friends' which I haven't yet heard, but am very much looking forward to. Here's them being odd at the McCarren Park Pool Fundraiser (imagine this kind of carry-on in Crawdaddy...):



7. CSS- Olympia, 10th Dec.

One would think with the pure unbridled greatness of Cansei De Ser Sexy's debut album AND the fact that this December show will be their 3rd in Dublin this year that everyone in their right mind will surely have seen them live at this stage. One would be wrong. Mercifully, the Brazilian funk-rockers are gracing us with one last show in 2007 so these early non-believers can wipe the egg off their faces. Another entry that falls under the 'Party' category, if you're going make sure you check out the after-show shindig, which rocked last time.


6. Vic Chesnutt Band- Button Factory, 1st Dec.

Vic Chesnutt is a paraplegic alt-country musician whose backing band includes members of Fugazi, Godspeed You Black Emperor and The Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra. Wow. How is it going to sound? I don't know. Quite good, I'll bet. Imagine this kinda thing:



crossed with this kinda thing:



5. The Good Life- Crawdaddy, 2nd Dec.

The Good Life is a Saddle-Creek band (one point) and a side project of Cursive's Tim Kasher (ten points). I love it when Saddle Creek bands come to town, as they're responsible for some of the best performances I've seen on Dublin stages. Also, Kasher is a bit of a genius; and although The Good Life's material is less (pause) 'intense' than Cursive's, it's no less kickass. I will be there with bells on. Here's a taster:



4. Dan Deacon- TBC, 29th, 30th Nov, 1st Dec.

Pure madness from Eletro-Punk DJ with stellar live reputation. Previous holder of the 'damn I wish I'd been to that gig' award. See here for my more detailed recent post on this series of shows.



3. Fujiya & Miyagi- Button Factory, 16th Dec.

'Transparent Things' is easily one of the albums of the year. It ticks so many boxes on the 'what's required to make a great record' form that one might reasonably start to question how exactly they managed it. But who cares, the bottom line is that it's blissful. Their show at Electric Picnic was fantabulous, so it's not unreasonable to expect the same again. It's also stinkin cheap. Do it!



2. Justice- Big Top, Phoenix Park, 1st Dec.

Justice are this decade's Daft Punk. At least that's what it says on the promo stickers for the album.....and it's not far off. Apart from the fact that it's a fairly lazy comparison (dj's, french, two of em) it's kinda on the ball. The production values are equally amazing, the beats phenomenal, and the poppy glee is there in spades. If the big top turns out to be even a half decent venue then this is THE dance gig of the year.



1. Arcade Fire- Big Top, Phoenix Park, 24th Oct.

Big surprise at number one. Arcade Fire initially made a name for themselves by being a mindblowing live act, and thanks to Ireland's exemplary network of touting scumbags it's thusfar been damn near impossible to get to any of their shows. The Big Top gigs and their increased capacity have finally turned fantasy into reality, and for the first time I can say that I will be there. Nobody needs to be told of how amazing this band is. It's so undisputed over all levels of society that it has become a scientific & mathematical fact (Arcade Fire=Great). I'm more than a tad excited. Here's them with David Bowie, who clearly has good taste:



PS...just as a heads up- there is one particular show that as of yet is still in the 'rumor' department, but if confirmed will jump straight up the list to number one with the greatest of ease. Anyone paying attention will know what I'm talking about. Fingers crossed. I'll keep you informed...

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So many people have claimed that Dan Deacon's recent crawdaddy show was either the greatest gig of the year and/or their lives that it's hardly worth mentioning how jealous I am that I wasn't there. Fortunately that raging jealousy has been pacified (for the time being) with the announcement of three (count em) Irish dates in November/December.

Details are sketchy at the moment, but I shall keep you informed as it becomes clearer.

(By the by, I know very little about Dan Deacon except for the legend of this gig. I believe he's classified as electro-punk)

Needless to say, everyone at the crawdaddy show was having way too much of a good time to make a decent video, so all we have to go on are snippets of madness like this:



And this well shot oddity from Nialler9:



You can read Nialler9's mouth-watering review here.

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