moriddim

sometimes you get bored and you create the universe. i mean, if...

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 02:47:04 -0500

sometimes you get bored and you create the universe. i mean, if nothing good’s on tv.

News: It’s been about 3 months. I’ve written a new...

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:24:00 -0500

News: It’s been about 3 months. I’ve written a new song which can be heard below. Pelting hamsters with eggplants is the new Tamagotchi.

latest tune. a day’s work. recorded with built-in Macbook...

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:20:00 -0500

latest tune. a day’s work. recorded with built-in Macbook mic. no MIDI controller. frustrating, but it would have been more so not to create something today.

PS It sounds WAY better with headphones.

Hi everyone. This will be my last upload for a while. I am...

Sun, 09 Aug 2009 15:14:47 -0400

Hi everyone. This will be my last upload for a while. I am moving to San Francisco to study counseling psychology. That doesn’t mean I’m giving up on “moriddim.” It’s just going on hold for a bit until I am grounded and up for some more writing.

This track was produced for my very good friend. She’s made my transition so enjoyable and visceral that I had to put all those feelings into something creative. I chose the relatively obscure Coldplay track “See You Soon,” for its obvious message and also because of it’s beautiful melody & lyrics.

Playback availabe below this post.

Coldplay - See You Soon (moriddim’s “no really, i...

Sun, 09 Aug 2009 15:09:25 -0400

Coldplay - See You Soon (moriddim’s “no really, i will” mix)

Here’s a small bit of an unfinished gem. I collaborated...

Sat, 11 Jul 2009 14:59:00 -0400

Here’s a small bit of an unfinished gem. I collaborated with a friend a while back and we came up with this club-ish yet intelligent work. I would later adapt the vocals into the song I submitted for the Punisher OST competition.

moriddim v Panteaze

Sat, 11 Jul 2009 14:53:09 -0400

moriddim v Panteaze

Today’s listen is an old interlude I put together last...

Thu, 09 Jul 2009 18:51:19 -0400

Today’s listen is an old interlude I put together last year. It’s got a bit of Nine Inch Nails to it (which I’m proud to say) and even has a bit of a Linkin Park quality to it (which I’m not proud to say). It’s spooky. It’s onto you. Hide your children.

Hip-Hap (interlude)

Thu, 09 Jul 2009 18:47:45 -0400

Hip-Hap (interlude)

Propellerhead FTW

Sun, 05 Jul 2009 16:07:11 -0400

Propellerhead FTW

I was chosen to be a beta tester for Propellerhead’s new...

Sun, 05 Jul 2009 16:06:00 -0400

I was chosen to be a beta tester for Propellerhead’s new “Record” software which is actually really cool. I never thought I’d find so much utility within one program. Propellerhead sticks to what they do best and that’s making your home recording/mixing experience feel like a hi-quality studio substitute.

By the way, this track is mental. I’m not well.

moriddim is a sexy dude. it’s been proven.

Wed, 17 Jun 2009 21:40:53 -0400

moriddim is a sexy dude. it’s been proven.

They’re real and they’re spectacular.

Mon, 01 Jun 2009 22:31:13 -0400

They’re real and they’re spectacular.

I’ve been working on about 4 or 5 “remixes” of...

Sun, 31 May 2009 16:19:53 -0400

I’ve been working on about 4 or 5 “remixes” of Yeah Yeah Yeah’s “Hysteric.” This is more or less a rough cut of the more straighforward mix.

See player below to listen.

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Hysteric (moriddim ‘Straight’ mix)

Sun, 31 May 2009 16:16:00 -0400

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Hysteric (moriddim ‘Straight’ mix)

moriddim unveils first full-length original work. pigs also seen...

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 21:59:00 -0400

moriddim unveils first full-length original work. pigs also seen flying.

My first uploaded original full-length work here “Otario Fonton.” It’s a piece about injustices and human struggles in Zimbabwe & Nigeria. Samples were gathered from various interviews on BBC Global News. Keen ears will hear influences from Orbital, Autechre & Chemical Brothers.

(See the following post for playback)

In depth:

This is the first in a series of original works that I will be uploading for all to hear. Since 2004, I’ve been writing music like this but I was too afraid to share it with anyone. So I’d hide behind cover songs and remixes (which I still intend to share). Now with an album and performance aspirations coming to fruition, I feel compelled to get over this trepidation and show you’ve all what I’ve been toiling away with for the past 5 years or so.

This piece is called Otario Fonton. The title does not have any special significance other than that it represents something unfamiliar and alien - a sentiment I had felt overcome with when listening to more of BBC Global News podcasts towards the end of last year. As an American, I certainly have the world at my fingertips, yet I often find myself consumed with all sorts of nonsense with hardly a significant concern for the enormous world of people around me. With these podcasts, I was presented with all sorts of daily atrocities of unspeakable horror and I felt a compulsion to piece together some of the more emotional responses I could find from immensely talented BBC reporters. Their pathos was always authentic and poignant in such a way that can only be “heard,” in these particular instances.

Otario Fonton collects pieces from various interviews concerning desperate situations in Zimbabwe, Nigeria, and Cuba among others. It is a piece meant to incite concern, inspire optimism, and above all percussively destroy a tepid state of over-saturated gluttony for distraction that I’m certain we’ve all felt now and again.

I hope you enjoy it.

moriddim - OTARIO FONTON

Fri, 06 Mar 2009 00:14:00 -0500

moriddim - OTARIO FONTON

moriddim yodels - Chris Isaak shakes his head in dismay

Sat, 14 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0500

you’re not seriously going to upload that, are you?

hahehehahah….why?

Sebastien Tellier with Chris Isaak on piggyback meets moriddim in a dark alley with a knife and a slab of butter. COM’IN’GIT’RRRRR.

(Click on the Flash player below)

In depth:

Another inductee into the Honors Hall of Fame of moriddim covers of illustrious infamy and entropy. This time its Chris Isaak’s ”Wicked Games,” the seminal tune that we all remember from one time or another that would’ve either gotten your girlfriend outt’ve ‘er drawers or beckoned great grandma to crank it up some more. It’s got that same bluesy, country lull and lang but with a newer, aqueous nü-soul infusion a la Sebastien Tellier and one of his ingenious, simple-icious instrumental ballads dubbed“Le Long De La Riviere Tendre.” Whether it was his intention to borrow from this tune or not, I will never know. But that’s not what’s important right? Come and play and cry your Venereal Day woes away.

Chris Isaak - Wicked Games (moriddim...

Fri, 13 Feb 2009 02:46:00 -0500

Chris Isaak - Wicked Games (moriddim “Yodel-Lay-With-You” remix)

moriddim saw Cat Power kissing Santa Claus and it felt...

Fri, 26 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0500

moriddim saw Cat Power kissing Santa Claus and it felt icky.

Merry Christmas.

I spent most of the early morning and late afternoon finishing this cover of a cover of a cover of a…you get the picture. This is an old ditty, but the one that inspired me to do my own version was that of Cat Power’s. You can listen to her version here: http://snurl.com/944p7

My version was inspired my mid-90’s hip-hop and freestyle with a touch of MIA’s “Paper Planes” thrown in. It’s got a real Christmas spirit feel to it. So much so, in fact, that I dubbed it “the wintergreen remix.” Hope you like it. It’s pretty happy all around.

(Playback enabled below)