It’s 6am and I have to be up for work in a few hours. I should be sleeping, but instead I’m up working on music for this film project thing someone hired me to score. Day job in 3 hours. This is really what it’s about, living in NYC with something like three goddamned jobs when you only really need two, and never sleeping. And just the other day I was unemployed. Funny how things turn out.

By the way, there’s no real purpose to this post. That’s the nice thing about having a music blog here on PCS. As long as I toss up a few tracks, anything can seem relevant. I’ll figure out which ones to put up with this post after a couple more paragraphs. Let it come naturally, you know.

Anyway, it’s an interesting exercise, I suppose, composing music for film. Definitely have to approach it differently than you might when making music that isn’t supposed to serve any purpose beyond making you think, “Shit, this beat I just made is dope. Maybe I should rap too.” I’m working with a lot of Brazilian samples now, but I think I’m about to head out to dig through my crates for something a little more, uh… orchestral, I guess. It’s coming together.

(Note: No, I don’t rap.)

Ten till six. Drinking Kirin Afternoon Milk Tea. It’s some good stuff. Really, I hate being caught home working on tunes without a decent sized bottle of Kirin Afternoon Milk Tea on hand. If I were to write a review of it, it would go something like, “Slightly creamy, smooth on the intake, and with a hint sweetness to caress your tongue, drinking Kirin Afternoon Milk Tea is like being wrapped in the embrace of an old lover with whom you’ve realized your life could never be complete without. Highly recommended. Shock Value: A+”

The song I’m working on needs more cabasa. Seriously. It’s the new cowbell. You heard it here first.

Anyway, here’s some Daedelus, off Daedelus Denies The Day’s Demise, because here I am getting no sleep on account of composing music for a film, and his tunes always have a cinematic quality to them. And I saw him play a show at Luna Lounge in Brooklyn with Flying Lotus the other week, and it was the shit (been meaning to write more about that). And hell, while I’m here, some El-P, because this instrumental was used during a really nice scene in Bomb The System, a movie about graffiti and New York and good music which I also highly recommend, maybe as much as I do the milk tea (although the movie isn’t really about music, just that El-P scored the damned thing so you know it’s pretty dope).

sawtooth_ekg.mp3
(download Daedelus’s “Sawtooth EKG”)

8_the_nang_inst.mp3
(download El-P’s “The Front, The Bush, and The Nang (Instrumental)”)

And hey, for some reference off the You Tubes, the trailer to Bomb The System, in case it seems like the kind of movie that interests you, and an older Daedelus track with Busdriver and Pigeon John rapping better than I can.

Alright. Now I really need some sleep.