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Dec 26 2009 Happy Holidays

Happy Holiday period to the lot of ya.  I joyfully spent the last two days cooking over sized meals and sitting in front of the telly. Now I am preparing for our New Year’s eve gig…. We are supporting the excellent MSTRKRFT and Lotus in Philly, check out the video we made for the night. Wu Tang mixtape is done but we saving it for the first days of 2010.  In February I am gonna go hang out in LA for a few months. Still gonna be back to the East Coast frequently but gonna go chill my snowed in bones in the sun for a bit. 2009 has been ridiculous. The most fun year so far for the Method from the crazy features on the Colbert Report and CNN to jamming with Chuck D on stage in Toronto.  Thanks to everyone for making this year so fun for us.

Dec 24 2009 The Best & Worst of 2009

Eclectic Method _ The Best of 2009 from Eclectic Method on Vimeo.

Nov 28 2009 WuFuChristmas

We’ve been locked away cutting and collecting again. Most recently we went to Washington to play at the University then visit a frat house…. Also a brief jaunt over to San Jose where we met the Live Stream folk, San Jose show streaming here. We’re going to be doing Eclectic Method video streaming shows with LiveStream in the near future, they also have just launched their Iphone Streaming, which allows you to watch live streaming video on your Iphone over the cellular network.

Right now we are busy cutting at Kung Fu Movies and Wu Tang Clan and the movies relevant to the Wu for a forthcoming WuTang/Kung Fu mixtape. We are also working on a Christmas Video Mixtape updating our Haul The Decks mix from 2003.

Nov 12 2009 Cultural Funkin Overload

So for a long while I been thinking about the idea of a super band made up of musicians from many different bands playing major riffs. Jimmy Page, Slash, Jon Bonham, Kurt Kobain and so on all playing together. So we are developing this idea further but the first major attempt is now online:

Most recently we made THIS intro video for Phish’s 99 Albums Halloween show. Also check out this recent feature in our local Greenpoint Gazette.

Oct 29 2009 How To Remix Video

We get a bunch of emails each week asking us how we remix videos, what software we use, what’s the tricks and all that. Well basically we use Sony Vegas to remix videos musically and Pioneer DVJs and SVM Mixer to perform live. For the more obsessed of you out there we have made some video tutorials which are now finally online. We are gonna go into even more detail in future but for now he’s how to get cracking cutting up video:::

HOW TO Beatmap Using Acid & Vegas

HOW TO Beatmap Using Vegas

HOW TO Compose Musically With Video

HOW TO Remix Video

Ian could write a sizeable book about how to find and hunt content. 21st Century crate diggin techniques on how to get Motown Studio files or Acapellas from the Rolling Stones… Who knows we might talk him into it yet.