Here are a couple of fine events happening this weekend that you should check out….
Tonight, Friday the 6th ::
HOTwired at Noc Noc
Girls vs Boys with 3 first-time 2×4 combinations
LARA vs. SPEC
KRISTINA CHILDS vs. LOCUS
CORAL vs. BRIAN ENOCH
9pm – 1:30am
$5 before 10pm, $10 after
Saturday the 7th ::
Bizarre Bazaar: Alternative Marketplace at the Church of Bass
The Bizarre Bazaar is a community-supporting Alternative Market and Visionary Art Opening, featuring a variety of distinctive products created by local artists. We are turning the Transcendent Church of Bass into a market filled with art, crafts, clothing, and other epic loot.
Check this album demo out. It’s from chiptune band Anamanaguchi. The chiptune genre is not my favorite, but the geekery and nostalgia involved certainly gives it a leg up on many other genres. This flash-based album demo is ridiculously awesome, though. What a great idea! I’m sure this is being posted all over the net right now and for good reason. Hopefully this is a trend that catches on.
Due to the potential annoyance factor of the visuals, I’ve put the demo behind the “read more” link. Check it out and be amazed!
(I really wish there was a way to stop it, though. Refreshing the page works.)
I love the blossoming genre of ”ambient” games. To quote this page, “Growing out of ideas in ambient music, ambient gaming is defined as “ignorable as it is interesting” after Brian Eno’s description of ambient music.”
Enter Blush from the fine game developers at Flashbang Studios / Blurst. While Blush doesn’t fully fit within my understanding of the ambient game genre, it certainly hits close enough to mark that I find it interesting. It is a fantastic Unity game the seems to be part Snake, part Osmos and a dash of something new, so it’s a bit more active and competitive than a true ambient game. You play as a translucent, neon jellyfish, trying to survive in a translucent, neon deep-sea scape. By whipping your tentacles around you collect the eggs of other sea creatures, and deposit them in specific locations to power-up your jelly vessel to take on larger sea creatures. The controls are dead simple, the game physics are smooth, and the visual style and effects are serious eye-candy.
From Blurst’s blog:
Blush is a free game about the underwater exploits of a physics based squid (or Crystalline Attack Sperm, depending on who you talk to.) As you collect eggs and return them to the various glowing catchers, your tentacles grow longer and your speed increases. By the end of the game, you’re brawling against some rather sizable critters. We’ll let you discover just how large and how many for yourselves!
The best part about all this is that it’s free! Give it a play over at http://blurst.com/blush/. There’s lots of great making-of posts on the Blurst blog, so check that out as well, if you are into such things.
Like the soundtrack? dB Soundworks has made all three tracks used in the game available for download here.
Holy chillout, Batman! Huge success! Fantastic sets by all our lovely DJs, 3 screens of eyecandy, and more than twice as many attendees as the previous show all made for a truly enjoyable night.
What a fantastic night! When we started the Chillography series, we were chasing a vision that very much resembled the reality that was 103. Thanks to everyone that came out to be a part of something that’s attempting to a bit different than the typical electronic music event. It was a real pleasure to see and meet tons of new people. I hope you all enjoyed yourselves and will join us again at Chillography 104, sometime in the Spring.
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Now for some specific shout outs:
Geminitrix, Lara, Coral and Jenna:: You all spun beautiful sets that created one of the largest chillout dancefloors I’ve ever seen. Nicely done. I recorded the whole night, so in the near future we’ll be able to share your sets with those that couldn’t make it or would like to hear is all again.
Julirama:: Your three screens of visuals, plus the Buddha Tank, significantly added to the beauty of the night. It was a pleasure to collaborate with you on this event.
Hendrik and Adrian:: Chillography would not exist at all without you. Best partners in chill ever.
Isaac and your Elixir Bar:: Your tasty and refreshing elixirs were a delicious hit.
The door, set-up, and clean-up volunteers:: I didn’t get to meet you all, but you provided some much needed and truly appreciated help that was vital to the success of the night.
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Photos and recorded sets will be posted here and at chillography.net when I’ve had a chance to process them.
Until I get my photos up, here is Lara’s great photo set of the night.
