“I grew up with bands like Beck and Sonic Youth and Nirvana-- it was cool to not care. But we live in a time period where you have to give a fuck. If we just allow the destruction of our lifestyles, our habits, our cultures, our movements, our environments, our relationships to other cultures-- it's going to be a time of dark ages. How are we going to stop that if we shrug our shoulders? That is insane to me. But I'm not going to be like, 'Hey, global governments and CEOs, end your love of greed and embrace the warmth of love.' They'd be like, 'OK, smoke some more weed you fucking hippie.'”
—Baltimore indie warrior Dan Deacon. Read the rest of the interview by Jenn Pelly here.
“To me, the biggest lasting influence Cage has is the idea that music is listening. That music isn't only the notes on a page that a composer puts there. It's the sound of a leaf blower; of the rain hitting the windshield coming out from under an overpass; the slowly developing choir of cicadas. It not only empowered composers to work with found sound and non-traditional sounds with greater freedom, but it also empowered the audience to find beauty in the chaos and noise of an industrialized world. Basically that anything can happen and anything is music.”
—Dan Deacon, 33 Musicians On What John Cage Communicates
Gangrimes Style
Dan DeaconDan Deacon | “Gangrimes Style” (Psy vs. Grimes’ “Oblivion” + Beach House’s “Myth” x Skrillex, Lil’ Wayne, and Nicki Minaj)
Gangrimes Style
Dan Deacon“Gangrimes Style”
Dan Deacon
Dan Deacon released a mash-up album. This, the first track, starts with a mash-up of Grimes’s “Oblivion” and Psy’s “Gangnam Style”. It gets more confusing and pleasurable from there on out. So you’re welcome.
The right way to use phones at gigs
hypebot.comI’m terrified by the idea that people aren’t really experiencing life firsthand, because they’re looking at it through a viewfinder. The theory is it means they can enjoy it later; in practice, it means they never fully enjoy it when it’s happening.
Dan Deacon fixes this. (link)
Snookered
Dan DeaconDan Deacon * Snookered
Been wrong so many times before But never quite like this
Of The Mountains
Dan DeaconOf The Mountains - Dan Deacon
Gangrimes Style
Dan Deacon - Gangrimes Style
from DAN DEACON’S MOTHERFUCKING MASHUP ALBUM (Wish Book Volume 1)
