Clean up that mess !




It's summer, and it's getting hot in Paris, and that means it's time for me to talk about (as usual)... MUSIC !
what's the link between 'summer', 'hot' and 'music' ?
Well: it's summer, it's hot and, as usual, my (small) room is a complete mess, and as usual my urgent need to clean the whole mess happens on a summer night at 1 AM !

Ahhh what should I do ? I don't need all this stuff !
But at the same time, I love all that...
should I go 100% digital, buy iPods and stock all those CDs ?

Do I really need all those Cornelius releases ?


And how am I supposed to sort things out ? themes ? countries ? names ?


And what about...DVDs ???

ahhhhhhh......

I will keep you updated on the situation...

Look at us, we formed a band !

I want to form a band.
Digiki all stars !

Vice go Japan

Vice magazine+Japan=? hum....

David writes:
bringing VICE to japan is like bringing democracy to iraq
We'll see what happen...

From the Village Voice:
After the magazine's original backer, a dotcom millionaire, pulled out, they found a flush new investor in Montreal businessman Patrick Lavoie. According to Canada's National Post, Lavoie envisages Vice as "an aggregation engine," mining Europe and Japan for "nuggets of cool" (street-credible clothing companies, hip independent labels), then branding them with the Vice logo. "This has got the flavour of multi-media, the flavour of content," Lavoie enthused, projecting gross revenues of up to $70 million from the Vice empire.

Enough said.

digital plans
Le Corbusier's new archive for digital viewing
From the Japan Times

A massive, 16 DVD, complete collection of all Corbusier works is set for release in 2005. Waoo, impressive.

mind tunes

One thing I really like about blogs is to read about the author current state of mind and what he/she is listening now.
I often find strong links between people when it comes to their music selection... for example the fact that Momus is also listening to Deer Hoof in Tokyo is not a real surprise to me :) ah, friends...

I know some scripts or templates exist to post your current 'sonic' state of muind (song, playlist etc) but I don't want to have something like that here, and I'm listening to too many things anyway, so the playlist would change too often !
No, what I need is some kind of 'song in my mind' playlist, which is far more interesting (and reveals a lot more). For example, here's a list of songs I had in mind the past days; what's interesting is the mix of real songs, and songs about to happen:

Mondo Grosso - Everything needs love (Cornelius remix) (almost every morning, in the shower)
Momus - Artist overwhelmed (dgk mix) (each time I hear the original song)
Halcali - Tandem
Marxy - that Beach Boys style vocal segment keeps playing
songs from the Black Album - Jay Z (very often)
Digiki - Pancaked (with MC Cat Genius) (can't stop thinking about what's going to happen)
Toog - just his voice, anything can happen
Hypo - random Random Veneziano sounds
O.Lamm x Sutekh - its massive progression, waaaa...
TTC - Dans le club (random lyrics, and this synth !!!)

I'm sure we all have songs and fragments of sounds that keep playing in our heads. What about yours ?

between old and new...

the old comment system is back, and all past comments are still here.
I was already tired of the need to log to comment on Blogger... we have already too many occasions to log in to get information on the web (see this article in Wired news).
So all comments are back, but I can't find a good solution to get automatic notification when someone comments one of my post... the service I use is OK (and free) but it looks like I have to pay if I want mail notification (or maybe install Movable type ?). Anyone ?
I really need mail notification. For example, browsing through my past entries I read a comment posted by David on me in Relax magazine a few years ago :) funny story btw !

ah blogging...

On a side note, I need to fix some pictures that appeared in past posts.

TTC vs. tes pieds

The TTC shoes are coming !!!



Now, I really need to work on digiki merchandising !

Deerhoof



I know I'm supposed to post a playlist for summer soon, but I just can't resist to tell you how good is Deerhoof new album Milk man. I met DJ Chien Loup last week end and he gave me this record, amazing album.
Elements of rock mixed with noise, very good beats, great.
It reminds me of...well, lots of things I like !
I've never heard this band before but apparently they've been around for quite some time...
check out their website with free mp3s.

Atom site feed now available

Seems like my sudden need to blog isn't stopping anytime soon !
Atom feed is now available for this blog in the menu (about +digi nikki+) on your right.
has anyone tried FeedBurner ?

More updates and stuff soon maybe :)

Woven bleeps

... is the name of one of my track on Kitchen, and as I was re-reading the track-by-track commentary I did for the release, I thought I should add that the bleep part of the name is also a reference to all kinds of bleep music I love, from The Micronauts to early Warp records.
As a matter of fact, I started the day thinking about bleep music in the shower this morning (yeah I know, strange place to think about that) and I was looking for the name of that guy who's almost the inventor of bleep music, and Arthur Russell kept popping in my head, I don't know why ! The name I was looking for is Daniel Bell, whose Blip, Blurp, Bleep contents some gems like Goodbye a beautiful track I wanted to use as the closing track for "You should play this".

You don't need to, Emerge from nothing

Fischerspooner (yeah the same Fischerspooner as in let's make some cash with our art project and let's pretend we are EXPENSIVE !) have remixed... (hold on...) the Pink Panther theme !!!!! no way !! The result sucks, but I have a strong respect for the fact alone of having "Pink Panther" and "Fischerspooner" in the same track title on an OFFICIAL MGM release !
(link to the website from the great Chipple Agenda :)

Friendster wins Top AO Awards

No big surprise here, but great to see it happens anyway.

AO/KPMG Analysis: Venture capitalists have pumped more than $200 million into so-called "social networking" companies, and the hands-down leader in terms of brand recognition and total members so far is Friendster. If the company monetizes the traffic its nine million-and-growing membership base is creating as we expect, we estimate that Friendster may be the social networking website most likely to follow in the successful footsteps of Yahoo and Google.

Digiki Analysis: with the growth of high speed internet connection in Japan and the current developments in mobile to web services, Mixi is a company to watch. A japanese Friendster ?

just my two cents ;)

in case you haven't noticed, the blog is back in a new form. This is the first update of diginikki since its start. I hope you'll like it.

A need to blog

I don't know about you, but for me blogging (ie writting about what's happening around here) has become some kind of a need. It's pointless I know, because this blog belongs to the boring look at me I'm so cool this is my life type but that's the way it is.

So what's news since the last time I seriously blogged ?
Nothing much of course.

I've been busy with other things as Channing nicely wrote on his site, which means, busy with Kitchen (yes ! that Kitchen CD I did last year !), and at last the Japan edition is completed. And there are some small changes. More on this soon.
Other stuff I've been busy with...well, nothing really ! no one asks me anything, I got two remixes to do but so far I came up with nothing interesting and I don't want to rush things. I don't think there's any deadline for those tracks anyway (right guys ?). So the Digiki schedule looks more like: 2004: 1 new track, 2 remixes, 1 anti-mix CD and that's all ! Is rare a good description of my work ? I know lazy is a more obvious one.

Yesterday, I went to the celebration (I like this word, it has that club / party cliché meaning: let's celebrate !! ooh !) of Toog's own magazine called TO. I should do a magazine too...It was fresh (random old skool word dropping) to see (and hear), and a perfect introduction to summer (yes I know it's already July but...). I'll buy a copy soon.
After the party, I went to a nice BBQ outside Paris with school friends, and suddenly everyone seemed to realize that I'm doing something next to my marketing work, which is: music, baby !

me: it's good to be here (while making a vodka-apple juice)
them; soooo you're a DEEJAAAAAY !!! we didn't know !!
me: well, yeah, in a way, you can call me a DJ but...
them: NO WAY !!! that's so COOOL ! and you're a STAR in JAPAN !!
me: hum no, no, not really, I've been there, and I did some stuff that's all...
them: that's so COOOL !
me: yeah sure...

see? nice people. No embarassing "oh you should play THIS!!" moment.

I should change my DJ name to DJ Low Profile. DJLP ?

On my way back to Paris in a Smart car, talking about fashion magazines.

Is The Prodigy new album the worst album ever made ?

A good playlist for summer is on its way.

party animals

Yesterday in Paris

Today:

saw the M. Moore 9/11 movie with Roddy
ended up talking about family and I gave him a copy of my digiki set of rules

bought some great records (12'!) including the best single of the year (you guessed it), Dans le club!
The DJ Shadow DVD looks impressive.

Current state of mind

I'm furious.

Have you ever feel that you are invisible and that no one sees you and exciting things keep happening around you BUT without you ?

not to self: cut all remaining contacts

Mail from Kazuya Ishigami, cool cool guy

The Institubes newsletter: a model of fun and informative contains. best french label now ? Party tomorrow night at Tryptique. I love you guys !

Collected fragments from digi nikki drafts

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Living in magazines

As I've written many times before here, I don't have any knowledge of the french/parisian music scene, and I'm not part of any group/movement/label/circle whatever, which I realized, is not necessarely a bad thing.

But the funny thing is, I'm learning a lot on what's happening in Paris reading japanese magazines such as OK Fred or Atmosphere ! (thank you Roddy for delivering them to Paris)
On my way to school, I read in the subway great interviews of JCDC, O.Lamm, Hypo, Domotic, Event10, Teki Latex etc and it was kind of strange to learn more about them, their work and tastes, thru a japanese magazine. An interesting experience.


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"We're trying to create an environment that encourages people to express themselves creatively without fear of failure," Channing says.


5/12/2004

It wasn't mean to be the last song
If you suffer from depression we can help

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yukata
sailor fuku
dress codes
cosplay

recontextualise everything
Rafe Needleman
Mixi vs. Friendster

5/30/2004
So, where have you been ?

visited my 90 year-old grand parents, it was great

marketing, university, classes, presentations: the usual

started recording elements for Darsh new album, very exciting stuff

played GTA a lot, watched 24 second season, started the third one

met Hypo, bought his album

made plans for a new summer release ?

no new Kitchen remixes (but more people involved), a new Eric Ker track about DOS Brothers

tried new software and FX for a possible Japan mini tour in August: more live, more fun

learned that Daft Punk are back with a remix of Franz Ferdinand Take me out

Momus used sounds Roddy made for a possible collaboration together and I'm sure he doesn't know my voice is a background sound
who cares ?

art of invisibility


6/18/2004

Tired, obviously tired. Even if the music sucked (despite DJ Falcon+Pedro+Etienne D Crecy if I'm correct) it was nice to talk briefly with Teki Latex about upcoming TTC second album, out soon (and now completed). Surprisingly enough he knew digiki and/or this website.
Anyway, I guess I have enough of this straight house/ 90s filtered stuff, it's not even funny, they're still really into this kind of sound, so I left early (Teki wasn't around).
I like to party, but with a good music. At least the people and the place was super cool, as usual. So no regrets (they don't work / they only hurt), I like the act of going out to see what's (still) happening, it gives me ideas.

A good day (I got my plane tickets, Japan here I come ! you can mark 13-31/8 on your agenda) and a fun night too. Tired I am.

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Taiwan ? Jean Snow
GMail / web domain
Sakamoto interview / Undercool

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iPod potential options:

textures playlists
mp3 segments / random-sampling
ability to surprise
fast search interface (wheel?)


5/7/2004

(while reading Eno one year again)
defining rules for project / ways of doing things

7/6/2004

long mails, interesting discussions (Channing, Midori)
headphones vs. speakers: Fantasma was sold with headphones
excited about Japan (again)



7/7/2004

note to self: 10 000 hype 'n' roll bands

chicks on speed
sex in dallas
franz ferdinand
the strokes
?

redesigning castellane: what do we really need ?


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