Eclectic Method

SXSW – 9 Show Epic Run

Justin — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:30:58 +0000

AV STORM TO DESCEND UPON AUSTIN

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
(Austin, TX, March 10th, 2010) British-born, Brooklyn-based audiovisual pioneers Eclectic Method are gearing up to take the 2010 SXSW Conference by storm with nine high-profile showcases, once again re-confirming their role as the leader among live performers who blend social media and cutting edge and classic dance music.

The group’s one-of-a-kind live sets slice and dice custom beats with film, television, music and video game footage to produce a party experience unlike any other. With events scheduled at the biggest and best events in all three categories of the conference; Music, Interactive and Film, Eclectic Method will be the talk of SXSW.

Eclectic Method live audiovisual DJ Performance Schedule:

Friday, March 12th: UStream Live w/ Gym Class Heros and Pete Wentz @ The Phoenix

Saturday, March 13th: Tumblr/ Kickstarter/ Soundcloud Party @ Emo’s

Sunday, March 14th: Shhhh @ Shhhh – Top Secret Party TBA Day-of on Twitter

Monday, March 15th: Thrillist vs. Downtown Records @ Stubbs BBQ with Kid Sister

Monday March 15th (Late-Night): Copyright Criminals Screening Afterparty @ The Mohawk

Tuesday March 16th: Ticketfly Party @ Clive Bar

Wednesday March 17th: Bitchslap Screen Afterparty @ The Pure Volume House

Thursday March 18th: Lose Control 2 vs. Hype Machine @ Vice

Thursday March 18th: Late night set @ The Music Gym

Check http://eclecticmethod.net for additional details and times, and http://vimeo.com/eclecticmethod for more audiovisual madness.
Stay tuned for more dates in the coming weeks featuring showcase performances at Miami’s
Winter Music Conference and the summer’s premier festivals.

For media requests and/or additional information, contact Manager Justin Bolognino

Contact: jb@themetaagency.com :: o.718.388.2858

San Francisco

Jonny — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 00:14:41 +0000

On way back from San Francisco on a plane, yey onboard wifi. Just been having an excellent few days in San Francisco with JB and my good friend Sharri. Also I have only recently passed my driving test so it was my first trip around Cali and SF in a car with me in control. Wish I had had a camera in the car to capture Justin and Sharri’s shocked faces as I learned the intricate ways of getting a car up a 45 degree angle. On our first day Open Video Alliance invited us to give a talk at Stanford University, we gave our talk directly after Lawrence Lessig gave his talk from Harvard all streamed live on the interweb. Had a great time at Stanford before rushing to In & Out Burger to get our fill, been time since i had In&Out. Saturday night we played the Bootie party at DNA Lounge. It was our third time at Bootie and it just gets better every time, DNA was packed and the audience were mad up for it. Thank you so much San Fran!

Things are quite hectic right now. During March we are heading to Mexico, Miami and a full 10 days at SXSW in Austin. I think we are playing about 42 times at SXSW. On top of all that I just moved into a new apartment and am getting a grand total of 5 days home this month, although escaping the winter wonderland that New York has become is no bad thing. You might have seen we recently put out Rock & Remix 2, Jersey Shore and Computer On. Computer On is part of a bunch of interactive remix toys we got in production can’t wait to talk more about it but i presently banned from saying any more then that…. watch this space. We also working on a track with Chuck D, a new mixtape and as usual a million things in the pipeline. Tomorrow night we are doing a party with Adrian Grenier in NYC before heading to Mexico City. Also wanted to say a mad thank you to Rob Da Bank for repeatedly representing for and supporting the Method in the UK.

Rock&Remix2

Jonny — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 06:04:52 +0000

You can download the mp3 here.

TRACKLIST::::::
Method Man Intro
Guns & Roses : Welcome To The Jungle
Bingo Bango – David Cross, Josie And The Pussycats
GrandMaster Flash DJ Hero Count
Public Enemy : Shut Em Down
The Daily Show
Obama Counts
Eclectic Method: James Earl Jones, Sesame Street
Blur : Song 2
Kanye West : Touch The Sky
Basement Jaxx : Where’s Your Head At
Nirvana : Teen Spirit
Cypress Hill : Insane In The Membrane
Alanis Morissette: You Oughta Know
Bob Dylan: It’s Alright Ma (I’m Only Bleeding)
Soundgarden: Black Hole Son
Supremes – Stop In The Name Of Love
T Rex: 20th Century Boy
Kanye West: Golddigger
Stetasonic : Talkin’ All That Jazz
Vanilla Ice: Ice Ice Baby
Lords of the Underground : Tic Toc
Stephen Colbert: Jaw Droppin
Beyonce : Single Ladies
Ram Jam : Black Betty
Big Joe Williams
Lady Gaga :Bad Romance
Public Enemy : Rebel Without a Pause
David Bowie : Rebel Rebel
Pink: So What
The Breakfast Club Remix
Creedence Clearwater Revival : Susie Q
Queen : Bohemian Rhapsody
The Rolling Stones : Gimme Shelter
Pink Floyd : Money
We’re in the Money from Gold Diggers of 1933
Wu Tang Clan – C.R.E.A.M.
ODB Feat Kelis: Got Your Money
Stranger Than Fiction
Dire Straits: Money for Nothing
The Police: Roxanne
The Rolling Stones : Satisfaction
Wu Tang Clan : Gravel Pit
The Kinks : You Really Got Me
Kid sista : Pro Nails
Donovan : Season Of The Witch
The Doors : Break On Through
Notorious BIG : Party & Bullshit
Red Hot Chili Peppers: Give It Away
Jay Z : Death of Autotune
Wu Tang Clan – M.E.T.H.O.D. Man
Chuck D: Video Remix DJs Eclectic Method
Is that an idea whose time has come or what?

Copyright Criminals

Jonny — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 04:39:10 +0000

The Copyright Criminals Documentary is about to be released on DVD. Also this Tuesday 19th Jan 2010 it’s showing on PBS and to celebrate both those facts we are playing the launch party at the Brooklyn Bowl.

“…an amazing documentary on the history of sampling” -Rob Sheffield. Contributing Editor, Rolling Stone

USA Today calls Copyright Criminals “…a compelling and insightful documentary illuminating both sides of a hotly debated issue.”

Copyright Criminals features a bunch of interviews with legendary sample/musical cuttery folk like Matt Black, Mix Master Make, Hank Shocklee and DJ Qbert. It also features interviews with some people who have been notoriously sampled like George Clinton & Clyde Stubblefield. Also we did a interview about what we do in terms of video remixing and made a bunch of video remix segments for the documentary.

Here’s one of the mixes we made for Copyright Criminals:

And here’s the trailer...

Copyright Criminals Spreading Cross The Web and shit

Jonny — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 22:48:20 +0000

Wow, i love the internet, love love love it. Just under 24hours from putting our Wu Tang Clan video mixtape online RZA himself has tweeted it to the masses.

“Art creates Art. Check this great piece on the Wu. http://vimeo.com/8670418 BONG BONG”

Also just for fun I have to whip out this quote from U-God about Eclectic Method from a piece we did together in 2008:

“This blew my motherfucking head off!! I’ve never seen nothing like this… this is some NEW SHIT!!! Kids is gonna love this…”

Also y’all gotta check out this Copyright Criminals Video. It’s the intro to the Copyright Criminals Documentary which is out soon, as well as televising on PBS this month in the states. We appear in the documentary as do many other top top remixers and samplistas like Coldcut, Chuck D and Q Bert to name but a few.

Shaolin

Jonny — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:52:01 +0000

Thanks to everyone who came to NYCWTF on saturday, was an excellent party. We finished the Wu-Tang Clan Mixtape. We been planning and thinking about this for a while. Me and Ian have spent the last few months chucking back and forth intricate cuts of Wu Samples. The mix features tons of Wu Clips from music videos, interviews, films they’ve appeared in but we also cut up the kung fu movies that wu sampled into the mix. Not just the spoken word bits but also making beats out of the fighting. I’ve been super obsessed with the idea of beats, rhythm made of kung fu fighting for a long long while now. Wu was the perfect mixtape to match up the sick hip hop with the sick fighting beats. Anyway all this got me thinking about the fighting remixes we’ve done over the years and so i tried to locate some of them on the interweb:

Kung Fu Beats

Streetfighter Jam on SVM

The one i can’t find right now is the Bruce Lee remix we did an age ago. Man I love kung fu movies!

Wu-Tang Clan

Jonny — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:17:17 +0000

We loves us some Wu-Tang. We been working on this a while now. It’s a mixtape dedicated to the Wu. Featuring wu music videos, interviews, live performances, clips from the kung fu films the wu sampled, beats made out of the kung fu and even a scene where Rza, Gza and Bill Murray kick it in Jim Jarmusch’s “Coffee and Cigarettes”. It all ends with a special dedication to the ODB. Shaolin!

DOWNLOAD MP3 OF WU TANG MIXTAPE

NYC WTF Photos

Justin — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 13:16:02 +0000

CHECK OUT MORE PHOTOS

Photos from NYC WTF events past, including the most recent get down at Public Assembly on Saturday, January 9th.

#RequestTheMethod on Twitter

Courtney — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 22:58:16 +0000

@EclecticMethod is looking to their Twitter followers for their next Mash Up! From Slash/Barak/Britney/RoboCop Super Group Mash Up to The Best of Tarantino Remix, Eclectic Method is remixing one of their follower’s favorite moments in music, television, politics, celebrities, and social media! @EclecticMethod will pick the BEST request remix suggested by one of their followers on Mon, Jan 25 and release in the following weeks! Stay up to date with all the mash ups requests on Twitter searching #RequestTheMethod

Want Eclectic Method to video remix your ideas? On Twitter, send your 4 Favorite people or moment requests to @EclecticMethod with the trending topic #RequestTheMethod

Here are a few examples

@EclecticMethod Lady GaGa/Madonna/Blondie/Britney (my 4 favorite blondes!) #RequestTheMethod

@EclecticMethod I want to see Jimi Hendrix/Janis Joplin/James Brown/James Taylor #RequestTheMethod

@EclecticMethod Remix my favorite TV shows!! Mad Men/Intervention/FlightoftheConchords/Dexter #RequestTheMethod

@EclecticMethod The Best Horror flicks! Silence of the Lambs/The Shining/Children of the Corn/Halloween #RequestTheMethod

Happy Holidays

Jonny — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 19:39:24 +0000

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.