100404 The Illuminist interview and upcoming NVR-NDR projects!

Early sketch of NVR-NDR art by David Pursley.

As you can see, the art is looking great! David brought his friend Oscar Guzman on to color the artwork. Oscar has worked on a number of classic games as well, including Masters of Orion. Should be done soon! I can't wait.

So much going on! I am working on some NVR-NDR covers of anime and J-pop tunes for us to hopefully perform at the LA 2010 Anime Expo Battle of the Bands. We will be auditioning for that soon. Check out this new demo:

[tlr] - we will win (robotech cover) (100404) by [tlr]

NVR-NDR's trusty long distance guitar master, the Illuminist, will be interviewed live Saturday, April 10th @ 3:30 EST, 2:30 CST, on Chillin With Jeff and Kenny C. The show can be streamed online here. He will be talking about his upcoming album and working over the internet with NVR-NDR!

Meanwhile, the lovely Dj Ono-Sendai (Bjorn Littlefield-Palmer, a.k.a. KAWAIIETLY PLEASE) is preparing for the NVR-NDR show in Second Life, due for the end of May. Should be completely amazing.

I also started a new music download blog, where I am posting free and legal downloads of fantasy metal, happy hardcore, chiptune, and other music that sparks my interest. Follow with google or subscribe to the RSS feed for a steady supply of epic and magical tunes!

MAGICORE

Gameculture.com wrote this nice little blurb about NVR-NDR:


http://www.gameculture.com/2010/03/31/musician-offers-video-game-styled-album


Also, completely un-related to NVR-NDR, my girlfriend KtB and I had a lot of fun painting mannequins yesterday. ^_^





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100329 LA Weekly writes about NVR-NDR!

Thanks to everyone who made NEW AGE PARTY MUSIC (3/27/2010 at HM157) the huge success and amazing party that it was!!! I want to especially thank D. Bene Tleilax for curating the event and Katie Broad of Insidious Clothing for making my amazing Pizza Armor and being super-mega-supportive girlfriend powrarr 4eva. Also thanks Bao Vo, Daniel Ribiat and Nathanial Peck for helping me mix the tracks for the show. And of course TTMM, BASECK, WMX and PEMDAS, + everyone who made it out and danced like crazy!

Liz Ohanesian of LA WEEKLY wrote a totally kick-ass write up about the show. Check it out and leave a comment with your thoughts!

http://blogs.laweekly.com/westcoastsound/synthful/nvr-ndr-video-game-epic/

KtB uploaded these clips she took at the show:

More video coming soon!

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Insidious Clothing: Cybernetic Netherworld

I helped KtB put together this compilation album of experimental metal, dubstep, and breakcore. Download it for free and help spread it around! Featuring tracks from Johan Ess, Rabbit Junk, Cindergarden, the Tleilaxu Music Machine, and more, + a completed NVR-NDR track, "Be Who You Are". Also included is a rad art/story book by KtB.

www.insidiousclothing.com



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100122 NVR-NDR demo_4 & emily blong

KtB + I have been dancing our asses off as the nameless beasts for emily blong, aka my velcroe. Totally awesome. This picture is from her new music video shoot for her song "Fantasy's Gone"last weekend. The video was shot and is being directed by the talented Gil Nevo. He has a very cool project in the works called Goodsam & Max, check it out...

Working very hard to finish my set for the March 27th show at HM157. Just finished recording and mixing all the rhythm guitar for nvr-ndr demo_4. Check it out!!! Lead guitar by The Illuminist. Basically finished except for the vocals.

[tlr] - nvr-ndr demo_4 (1001222) by [tlr]

091214 Pizza Skirts and Omens

KtB has been hard at work on the pizza skirt for my [tlr] costume and its looking great! She really gave it her unique style and its looking amazing. I can't wait for it to be finished.

The stuffing for the crust is this weird crap from inside this racoon doll.

Here are some of the toppings:

Cheese, olives, mushrooms and green bell peppers. I decided on a veggie pizza, unlike the original sketch which is pepperoni.

As for omens...

I recieved a hat covered in eyeballs as a birthday present from my parents, shortly thereafter my ghost key chain figurine was replaced with an eyeball... I have always interpreted eyes to represent intelligence, entity, being, self, existence, so a ghost being replaced by a eye is a good thing in my book.

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