Showing posts with label diy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label diy. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 25, 2015

Dispatch 11: El Pipe's Back to the Business!

El Pipe(far left and fuzzy) with Zoe' at the Fox Theater in Oakland, Ca. Fri Nov.20, 2015
Dispatch 11: We were really stoked last Fri night to head out to see our old pal and fellow rhythm man Felipe El Pipe Ceballos and Zoe' play to a sold out house at the Fox Theater in Oakland. Great to see a few old faces (Rob, Danny) and a few new ones (Leticia, Greg). Niiiicely played!
  We are also stoked to be making available in early 2016 a new 3 song closetLames EP produced by El Pipe! Best part is he plays la bateria (drums) on it too.  The rocker Back to the Business, the so moody Dreamin' (not the Blondie tune) and Using You (a true story about you know who) are the cuts slated for that one! Look and listen for it soooon!! Let's go!

Monday, November 23, 2015

Dispatch 9: SOLAR MAX super cool collabo with DS Peligro!

Dispatch 9:(From Oct.12,2015) We are really excited to get our Collaborations Series of tracks with some of our friends and fellow artists off the ground.
We have wanted to do this for a long while and finally we have our first offering. We sent a song down to lofi nofi experimentalist David Spero, aka DS Peligro in LA. We met on soundcloud, found his sonic art to be really really cool and offered up a track and he agreed. The above track is the result. UFOs Are Real! The first in many. Hope you dig, we sure do!

Dispatch 8: Her Majesty TheE Spleen "Head Master" Freakout!!

Dispatch 8:(From Nov.20,2015)  Her Majesty TheE Spleen is a music co-op based outta ACME House of Music in Oakland Ca. Sammy plays bass in this thing. Some heavy sh*t, man...

Dispatch 6: FIRST SOLAR MAX ALBUM AVAILABLE DEC.8TH!

Dispatch 6: (From Nov.18,2015) Just in time for the holidays, the digital version of our new album
Soundtrack Event I: Uranian Fire will be available at our Bandcamp page on Dec. 8th.
Experimental psychedelic. Ambient. Raw. Atmospheric. Recorded live by us at MCLscreenworks earlier this year. You can check out the tracks A Man Haviung Overcome his Passions Ties the Song Together  and No Horizon(Cupid Knocks on the Door of a Human Heart) from it at our soundcloud page.
 The 12'' vinyl version should be available sometime mid 2016. Those will come in jackets we've designed and will hand print in-house at MCLscreenworks. Sweeeet!

Dispatch 5: SOLAR MAX Featured at Caliper Music Blog

Dispatch 5: (From Sun Nov.15,2015) We are really stoked that our SOLAR MAXIMUM video for the song called Inner Minute E4M2 is the feature today at the experimental music blog Caliper Music. We would like to extend a big thanks to Matt over at there for this. We are in very good so head on over and check out out sometime.
http://calipermusic.blogspot.com/

Sunday, November 22, 2015

Dispatch 4: We also screen print! MCLscreenworks is us.

Dispatch 4:  When I'm not busy - according to the kids, "making weird music"- I'm busy in our indie screen print shop called MCLscreenworks, printing for music and  non-music related clients.
 We started designing and printing t-shirts, stickers and fliers for our band Leather Pills in 1999 and soon began to doing it for friends and associates. Nowadays we also have our BigCartel store called HANDPRINTED! where you can find our band tees and more. Come by and check it out sometime. Here are a couple examples of designs you can find there.

Dispatch 3: SOLAR MAXIMUM now at Bandcamp!

Dispatch 3: (from Nov.13.2015)We are pleased to announce that our solar maximum tracks called Circular Logic and Inner Minute, both for listen at soundcloud, are now available for purchase and download at our bandcamp page. These two tracks are really great examples of the space that Heather and I are inhabiting thru our music. Experimental Psychedelia Sammy and Heather style. This is great driving music, or music to ward off evil spirits. Its your call.

Dispatch 2: We Got the Airwaves! SOLAR MAX on SineFM 102.6

http://www.sinefm.com/a_z_of_shows/electronicDispatch 2: (from Nov.11,2015)  Simon Thomas will be spinning us TOMORROW Nov.12 , 2015 on his radio show called Electronic on England's SineFM 102.6 radio in Doncaster, So.Yorkshire, England! The show is broadcast live and online Thursdays at 10pm ( UK winter time), which is 2pm Pacific time.  Simon spun our track called No Horizon last thursday and gave us a really nice plug! There is a listen again function at the website to hear that show anytime you want. But if you can, listen in tomorrow at work, school, nursing home, prison or wherever! Today the UK, tomorrow the world! Thanks!

Dispatch 1: We're Back, Baby!

Dispatch 1: (from Nov.11,2015) Hello world. You might remember us from such fine musical acts as Leather Pills and closetLames and now solar maximum. Welcome to our official label blog site. We will be letting you in on all MCL happenings, especially our music related ventures but also stuff going on at our screen print shop MCLscreenworks and our t-shirt label called HANDPRINTED! We will announce re-releases of our Leather Pills and closetLames recordings in both digital and physical versions, as well as new material from closetLames and our newest venture solar maximum, all through our own bandcamp page as well as the usual online digital music stores. We will be posting articles and interviews with and about some of our musical and artist friends as well as older stuff from the the MCL archives. Lots of goings-on with us right now and we are excited to share some of that with all of you. Seeya.