Tuesday, December 17, 2013
Tuesday, November 19, 2013
DB LAST EU TOUR THIS YEAR 2013
We have been on tour since feb this year...its been a VERY LONG and productive year so far. We are all incredibly tired but also excited to play a newly arranged live set of DRIFTERS and instrumental improvisations for this upcoming EU tour. Can't wait to sit down at home and start working and recording on newer materials for 2014. Bernardino is now on his solo Femminielli Noir tour in europe as well with Jesse Osbourne so go check them out, real dark berlin techno stuff. Its really great.
We won't be playing live for a while after this tour, so come out to these shows if you can, you know we always appreciate it when the fans come out and show us love.
Shub has a solo album in the works, almost finished and we can't wait to share them tracks with y'all. I'll be working on some solo meditation music for 2014, mostly ambient instrumentals and more film score projects, and then regroup with Shub to work on more DB material later in 2014. Can't wait for the changes the new year brings.
LIVE LOVE DRIVE
Our EU tour dates are below:
Sat 16-Nov-13 Frankfurt Am Main Germany Staedel Museum
Fri 22-Nov-13 London UK Oval Space
Thu 28-Nov-13 Utrecht Netherlands Le Guess Who Festival
Sat 30-Nov-13 Rye UK ATP
Sun 01-Dec-13 Kortrijk Belgium De Kreun
Mon 02-Dec-13 Roubaix France La Cave Aux Poetes
Tue 03-Dec-13 Paris France La Fleche DOr
Wed 04-Dec-13 Bordeaux France Iboat
Thu 05-Dec-13 Joué-lès-Tours France Le Temps Machine
Sat 07-Dec-13 Metz France Les Trinitaires
Sun 08-Dec-13 St Gallen Switzerland The Palace
Mon 09-Dec-13 Zürich Switzerland El Lokal
Wed 11-Dec-13 Budapest Hungary A38 Ship
Thu 12-Dec-13 Graz Austria Orpheum EXTRA Fri 13-Dec-13 Bologna Italy Locomotiv
We won't be playing live for a while after this tour, so come out to these shows if you can, you know we always appreciate it when the fans come out and show us love.
Shub has a solo album in the works, almost finished and we can't wait to share them tracks with y'all. I'll be working on some solo meditation music for 2014, mostly ambient instrumentals and more film score projects, and then regroup with Shub to work on more DB material later in 2014. Can't wait for the changes the new year brings.
LIVE LOVE DRIVE
Our EU tour dates are below:
Sat 16-Nov-13 Frankfurt Am Main Germany Staedel Museum
Fri 22-Nov-13 London UK Oval Space
Thu 28-Nov-13 Utrecht Netherlands Le Guess Who Festival
Sat 30-Nov-13 Rye UK ATP
Sun 01-Dec-13 Kortrijk Belgium De Kreun
Mon 02-Dec-13 Roubaix France La Cave Aux Poetes
Tue 03-Dec-13 Paris France La Fleche DOr
Wed 04-Dec-13 Bordeaux France Iboat
Thu 05-Dec-13 Joué-lès-Tours France Le Temps Machine
Sat 07-Dec-13 Metz France Les Trinitaires
Sun 08-Dec-13 St Gallen Switzerland The Palace
Mon 09-Dec-13 Zürich Switzerland El Lokal
Wed 11-Dec-13 Budapest Hungary A38 Ship
Thu 12-Dec-13 Graz Austria Orpheum EXTRA Fri 13-Dec-13 Bologna Italy Locomotiv
Saturday, November 9, 2013
On the road to god knows where 4 EASTERN EUROPE 2012
on the road to god knows where 4 Eastern Europe 2012 from Alex Zhang Hungtai on Vimeo.
This was the tour that made us fall in love with Europe. We met so many incredible people and cumulated so many different experiences that will be forever framed in my mind. Filmed mostly in september 2012, now looking back these footages I can already see those feelings which later became Drifters / Love is the devil...
Tumultuous times. But tomorrow is always a new day. Start over. LEARN.
This was the tour that made us fall in love with Europe. We met so many incredible people and cumulated so many different experiences that will be forever framed in my mind. Filmed mostly in september 2012, now looking back these footages I can already see those feelings which later became Drifters / Love is the devil...
Tumultuous times. But tomorrow is always a new day. Start over. LEARN.
Friday, November 8, 2013
DB Men's style icon: Walasse Ting
Walasse Ting's paintings were a big influence on DB, but also the way he lived his life. Drifting from Shanghai to Hong Kong, paris, New York, Amsterdam, etc.
I especially loved the tropical birds and women paintings that were a popular motif in his work. Hyper neon romantic. One of the inspirations behind Drifters/LITD.
I especially loved the tropical birds and women paintings that were a popular motif in his work. Hyper neon romantic. One of the inspirations behind Drifters/LITD.
Sunday, November 3, 2013
Pre-Madonna
I finally found out that all my favorite Madonna songs were written with and produced by the same person: Stephen Bray. Below are some examples of his productions, and some early Madonna demos. ACE
its crazy to read about how many lifetimes Madonna lived through before she became the Madonna we all know in the 80's...
its crazy to read about how many lifetimes Madonna lived through before she became the Madonna we all know in the 80's...
Wednesday, October 23, 2013
USA TOUR 2013 COMPLETE
Post tour afterthoughts 2013 North America
First thing and foremost, right off the bat, Thanks to all the true USA/CANADA DB fans that came out to support us. We will keep growing, experiment with new sounds/ ideas and keep living life with engagement, and evolve and progress. Thank you Austin, SF, SD and LA for your amazing mexican food and all 4 sold out shows in a row. I got my fill of lengua and am a happy man now, was a pleasure to play for y'all. Thank you NYC for coming out to support us when Ariel Pink and Suicide were playing on the same night. Those were two names that I was compared to before, and I'm happy we have our own following to be able to pack in Bowery ballroom with such a crazy competition and that people think of us as a group thats evolving into our own terms, with our own identity.
Sometimes touring makes you feel like your doing the same shit over and over again and some people just shit on all your hard work, but its precisely times like this when a real genuine fan comes out and tells you how much they appreciate your work and evolution, and that they too, are evolving as individuals and listeners. Our work then becomes the soundtrack of their lives, at least, for this part of their lives, until they move on. But this particular period in time now, will be remembered forever. As it did with my life in my early twenties with the music that soundtracked those years. Those days will forever be embalmed in my memory. To even think or know that we can be capable of achieving this for other people, is an honor.
Turning 33 was weird, but I'm ready to go back home to Berlin to digest this crazy year. We are gonna take some time off this winter and record and realize some new ideas we have been DYING to work on, and to slow down and be human again, to buy groceries, cook for family and friends, to pay rent and taxes, and to not participate in the rat race in terms of music industry standards. We are gonna go at our own pace, and slowly build brick by brick our own identity. I don't want to hear Suicide comparisons anymore when I'm dropping piano instrumental EPs and Waterpark OST. Need time to distance myself from BADLANDS and retrieve all the music and identity I had prior to that one album and bring the last 10 years of music I wrote full circle and grow. I got lucky with writing an album(badlands) thats essentially an homage to my dad and all things I loved, conceptually, and musically, and copy and pasted a conceptual character study of songs that stole and borrowed heavily from the past and injected stories of my own personal struggle on the DIY scene and tour circuit. All that dead end, doomsday mentality went into that Rockabilly character. At most, to me personally it was a triumph, conceptually. Musically, not so much... Nothing frustrates the creator more, when they will be forever typecast for ONE THING they did in their entire career. Which is why the destruction of this character and image is very essential and vital to me and it took me past two years to figure my shit out and to build courage to come out and play as myself instead of hiding behind a character with a pompadour. Theres a lot of new music coming for 2014, and I can't wait to release them and share them all with everyone.
Lastly, a salute to DB Co-captain Shub Roy, homies Carlo Dellamotta, Michael Farsky, Pierre Guerineau, Sherry Leblanc and Kevin for housing us in their lovely home in Austin, ELL V GORE, Chasms, Sisu for being true homies /tour buds. Thank you Sandy, Nat, Cups, Javi, Brent (the best fucking driver I know) and Jules for letting us crash at their sweet home in LA, my lil sis Jess Labs in SF, so proud of you, Dean Hurley for helping me record a track over at David Lynch's studio, Uncle Mike Watt for taking me to Bukowski's grave in San Pedro, and everyone else that helped us overcome the hardships of this past year. Truly, Thank you. Viva La Familia. Nothing else matters other than your family and friends.
"Keep your powder dry!" - Uncle Mike
Yours truly,
Pacific boy.
Montreal, Oct 2013
First thing and foremost, right off the bat, Thanks to all the true USA/CANADA DB fans that came out to support us. We will keep growing, experiment with new sounds/ ideas and keep living life with engagement, and evolve and progress. Thank you Austin, SF, SD and LA for your amazing mexican food and all 4 sold out shows in a row. I got my fill of lengua and am a happy man now, was a pleasure to play for y'all. Thank you NYC for coming out to support us when Ariel Pink and Suicide were playing on the same night. Those were two names that I was compared to before, and I'm happy we have our own following to be able to pack in Bowery ballroom with such a crazy competition and that people think of us as a group thats evolving into our own terms, with our own identity.
Sometimes touring makes you feel like your doing the same shit over and over again and some people just shit on all your hard work, but its precisely times like this when a real genuine fan comes out and tells you how much they appreciate your work and evolution, and that they too, are evolving as individuals and listeners. Our work then becomes the soundtrack of their lives, at least, for this part of their lives, until they move on. But this particular period in time now, will be remembered forever. As it did with my life in my early twenties with the music that soundtracked those years. Those days will forever be embalmed in my memory. To even think or know that we can be capable of achieving this for other people, is an honor.
Turning 33 was weird, but I'm ready to go back home to Berlin to digest this crazy year. We are gonna take some time off this winter and record and realize some new ideas we have been DYING to work on, and to slow down and be human again, to buy groceries, cook for family and friends, to pay rent and taxes, and to not participate in the rat race in terms of music industry standards. We are gonna go at our own pace, and slowly build brick by brick our own identity. I don't want to hear Suicide comparisons anymore when I'm dropping piano instrumental EPs and Waterpark OST. Need time to distance myself from BADLANDS and retrieve all the music and identity I had prior to that one album and bring the last 10 years of music I wrote full circle and grow. I got lucky with writing an album(badlands) thats essentially an homage to my dad and all things I loved, conceptually, and musically, and copy and pasted a conceptual character study of songs that stole and borrowed heavily from the past and injected stories of my own personal struggle on the DIY scene and tour circuit. All that dead end, doomsday mentality went into that Rockabilly character. At most, to me personally it was a triumph, conceptually. Musically, not so much... Nothing frustrates the creator more, when they will be forever typecast for ONE THING they did in their entire career. Which is why the destruction of this character and image is very essential and vital to me and it took me past two years to figure my shit out and to build courage to come out and play as myself instead of hiding behind a character with a pompadour. Theres a lot of new music coming for 2014, and I can't wait to release them and share them all with everyone.
Lastly, a salute to DB Co-captain Shub Roy, homies Carlo Dellamotta, Michael Farsky, Pierre Guerineau, Sherry Leblanc and Kevin for housing us in their lovely home in Austin, ELL V GORE, Chasms, Sisu for being true homies /tour buds. Thank you Sandy, Nat, Cups, Javi, Brent (the best fucking driver I know) and Jules for letting us crash at their sweet home in LA, my lil sis Jess Labs in SF, so proud of you, Dean Hurley for helping me record a track over at David Lynch's studio, Uncle Mike Watt for taking me to Bukowski's grave in San Pedro, and everyone else that helped us overcome the hardships of this past year. Truly, Thank you. Viva La Familia. Nothing else matters other than your family and friends.
"Keep your powder dry!" - Uncle Mike
Yours truly,
Pacific boy.
Montreal, Oct 2013
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