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Système-D (my little fun barely-have-time-for-it project) released a new podcast last week, titled “All Good Things”.

The reception has been good so far. Oddly enough, I enjoy listening to it – even though usually when I’m done with a podcast I’m so sick of it I don’t listen for months.

The pic above is of my trusty Behringer control surface. It has been put away for a while, because once I’m knee deep in a set there’s a lot of fine editing that has to be done, so I usually just dig in with a mouse and keyboard. But I’m excited when I get to brainstorm a new set (like now), or on rare occasions perform live, because I get to whip this puppy out and jam with it.

I started producing on hardware, and although most of my kit has moved to software now, it’s still so much more fun to connect some control hardware to the computer and tweak things that way.

Head on over and check it out, or check your podcast subscriptions in iTunes for a new track if you subscribed previously. If you’re not a member of the secret club that has a username and password, let me know and I’ll see what I can do.

Charlie recently jumped onboard with Midnight Spaghetti as their bassist. They have a remake of Daft Punk’s Around the World that absolutely destroys.

Hey Kanye West. This is how you do Daft Punk.

Going back and forth on a new music debate with friends (you know who you are) – I brought up Björk’s new one (which I sadly am not too enamored with yet). Jeff then pointed us to a clip of her singing a 2Unlimited track drunk, which was surreal and brilliant. (Search for it on YouTube if you’re interested.) But of course I kept digging, and eventually came upon my favorite video of hers.

It’s an amazing treatment of “All is Full of Love”, done back in 1999 by Chris Cunningham, who has stunned me silent repeatedly thorough the years with his videos for artists like Aphex Twin, Portishead, Autechre and Squarepusher. His range is great as well. Though evoking cold beauty here, his disturbing images in the Aphex Twin videos make Chris Cunningham the reason many people are scared shitless of Aphex Twin.

Hoping you enjoy it as much as I do.

Jeff pointed me to this article the other day:

“Adrian and Beth joined Geoff onstage and blew all our collective brains to s***,” the Grumpy Man DJs said on their Web site.

In the reclusive band’s first live appearance since 2005’s Tsunami Benefit Show, the trio performed their classic track “Wandering Star” before jumping into a new song.

This is way overdue – it has been so long since I got that pit-of-my-stomach anxious can’t wait feeling for a new bit of music. But here it is again. Welcome back knotty stomach, welcome back.

Someone caught “Wandering Star” on video, but unfortunately stopped before the new track.

This means, of course, that I have to break out the old teeshirt:

Update: Here’s footage of probably the best version of “Strangers” ever recorded – complete with orchestra and horn section. Circa nineteen-ninety-something at Roseland Ballroom in NYC. There is no better example of Portishead bringing down the house. Jeffy, weren’t you at this show?

My little music project has released its 4th full podcast this weekend. Visit Systeme-D.org for details. It’s a fun 23 minutes of new twists on amazing songs.