These ladies are awesome, beautiful and incredibly talented. Help them record a fifth album so that I can listen to it ;p
God’s Robots
Janaka’s new project! J provided almost all the music for Hoop Technique.
The seamless blend of catchy English lyrics, classical Indian instrumentation and underground rhythms defines the unique Gods Robots sound. It is the sound of an infinitely interconnected world where borders are becoming increasing meaningless. Gods Robots exciting stage show highlights their dynamic blend of cross cultural songwriting, energetic and infectious performance using cutting edge technology and old school musicianship. Elements of drumstep, dubstep, hip hop, dub and even drum n bass shine as singer Taamara effortlessly moves from soulful and bluesy English lyrics to classical Indian vocal melodies. Their upcoming album especially produced for Bittorrent features virtuoso Sarod player Alam Khan in a rare non-classical Indian music context and Mike Pipes on flute and guitar.
Their radio release song STAY garnered the attention of BBC Radio 1 host Nihal who described the song as the “most exciting” pick out his top 5 songs, and that Gods Robots is the sound “to watch out for”. [Courtesy: BBC World Wide Service; The Strand]. They are also regularly featured on a number of BBC Radio 1 and Asian Network shows.
Championed by Rolling Stone India, Gods Robots is been featured 3 times in articles that discuss their 2010 India tour, their use of technology to create music whilst the two core band members reside on different continents and producer Janaka Selekta’s critically acclaimed album ‘Pushing Air’.
Check out Gods Robots here: http://www.facebook.com/godsrobots
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NOELTECH#30: Monkey Hooping with Simon Purdie
The Hooping Life Playing Cards
I actually haven’t even seen these yet but I’m excited to get a set. Apparently I’m the King of Spades. Hah. I’m such a dark character! Ahhhh haaa haaa ha!!! jk :)
As far as I know Philo is the Jack of Diamonds, Khan is the Jack of Hearts, Spiral is the Queen of Spades, Michelle Clark is the 7 of Clubs, Kamala Mathis is the 9 of Hearts, Deanne Love is 7 of Hearts and I have no inside info on this but I’d bet just about anything that Stefan is one of Jokers if not both. I can’t wait to see them all!
The Spin Cycle Hoop Jam 2011 – Nick
This clip opens with Nick killing it at our annual hoop jam. I love making this event happen :) We had Ill Gates and Sidecar Tommy from Beat’s Antique DJ for us this year. Who will we have next year? I have no idea.
Making the hoop jam happen has been a labor of love. It’s a lot of work. I’ve hunted down CDJs (which are like gold on the playa), I’ve purchased turn table coffins on craigslist in order to protect DJ equipment, we’ve toasted thousands of dollars of sound equipment do to unexpected playa problems… but we’ve held a vision though out that the hoop community should be considered a significant community, worthy of top tier DJs. Every year Grant and I (with the help of many others) have advanced this a bit. It’s been a wild ride but we love doing it and can’t wait to step it up even further next year.
Our hope is to fundraise enough cash to build the sound system up. We’re looking to raise about $8k to purchase 4 new subs and towers. Our current sound system is awesome, and very high fidelity, but we’re pushing it to the maximum with the size audiences we have had in the last two years. If we want to keep this going, we’re going to become a small sound camp, even if only for one night on the playa.