Live at Hi Tone, Memphis

So we (bb&mp) thought we’d commemorate our recent US tour with Deerhoof, with a little release.
We had an awesome time in the states and hope we can come back and do some shows soon!

Thanks to Ben, Greg, Satomi, Ed, John, Don & Joe from Memphis and everyone who came out to our shows!
Feel free to re-post anywhere.

so we just did 5 weeks of shows in the US, with deerhoof. so awesome! thanks to everyone who came out. video to follow!

ben butler & mousepad - infinite capacity (for love) feat. the niallist by loafrecordings

Infinite Capacity

 

  
Debut Ben Butler & Mousepad EP, available to download now!
Including vocals from The Niallist, Remixes by Fulgeance, Eero Johannes and Dam Mantle, and artwork by Rasmus Svensson.
Buy Download Here

We went to Belgium to play at OUAF and Sonic City. Both great festivals but the journey home was 'intense'.
Thanks to Wassim (for giving us a lift to Belgium, we wouldn't have made it without you!), thanks to Charlotte from OUAF for helping us out with travel stuff, thanks to Tom from De Kreun for help and enthuisiasm, thanks to Deerhoof for being the nicest and most enthuisiastic hosts! Hope to see you all again soon!

and the follow up....

Ben Butler And Mousepad - Perform With Star6! from Star6 on Vimeo.

An Evening With Star6 - Berlin (Compilation) from Star6 on Vimeo.

Tonight - Star6 demo at la terrasse (maria)

get down to maria's (hopefully) sunny terrasse for some short *live* star6 based sets tonight, from Jackson, Guido Mobius, Kiki Moorse, Jason Forrest, Song Band and Ben Butler & Mousepad....

if you don't already know about star6, check it out!

Star6 Introduction from Star6 on Vimeo.

Norway - Last minute shows this weekend! *EDIT - FULL DETAILS!*

Everyone knows I love Norway! who wouldn't when you plays shows as awesome looking as this???

So I'm playing two last minute parties in Norway this coming weekend -

first off - Friday 21st august @ Kunsthall, Bergen - a phonofestivalen show, starts around 21 hrs

Then -

Saturday 22nd of August, Oslo
9 pm - 10 pm
BEN BUTLER & MOUSE PAD at STRUTS (Møllergata 47 A)
cc: 40 kroners

Then -

Saturday 22nd of August, Oslo
3.30 am - 5 am
BEN BUTLER & MOUSE PAD at Radio Nova (Chateau Neuf, 4th floor, call kjetil at 0047 90182833 to get in)
no cc; but donations are welcome

come say hello and party!

joe / BB&MP

Happy 100!

To help us get in the mood to celebrate, here's a new mix I made for Diesel U Music in London.

Download Here / Tracklisting Here

I suppose there's a couple of repeats but it IS for the real-life radio and I figured you'd forgive me, considering that there's no Michael Jackson on it, anywhere.

Talking of Radio, I made four jingles for Max Tundra's Rotogravure, my pal Ben's excellent show on Resonance Fm. (actually, their website seems a bit buggy right now, best head to london to tune in on 104.4fm). Anyway, I'll hopefully be repeating this feat every week until the close of the series - so listen out for them, Saturdays 2.30pm G.M.T.

PPS there's now a little widget on the top right of the blog (underneath dancing snoopy) that lets you listen to and indeed purchase THRASH'R by Germlin. If you're feeling flush and want to show a little bit of support for all this occasional free stuff, click download and choose your price. Thanks again to everyone who's bought a copy so far.

rehearsal

remix! - Cut Dick

Mr Oizo - Cut Dick (Bean Butler Judaisco edit)

I couldn't resist doing a disco re-work of this track, partly 'cos it was asking for it and partly cos its one of the stand-out tracks on the new Oizo record, Lamb's Anger, which doesn't fall into the Justice / Ed Banger trope which is so prevalent and boring!
More to follow!

remix! - Love Lockdown *edit*

I read this article in the guardian last week, regarding Kanye West's new album and how his ambition has transcended hip hop, heralding the birth of a new musical genre, "pop-art".
Now, while not being a huge fan of Kanye, I think he's generally got the right idea this time - Its awesome to see a big name star of his status, openly calling for progression and change in both the hip hop and indeed pop music communities. 95% of UK and US top forty singles are pap nowadays, so this can only be a good thing. Let's hope it provokes a bit of competition too - If Kanye is aiming to be the noughties Phil Collins, maybe 50 Cent can get way into world music and take on the mantle of Peter Gabriel.

To get 'em started, here's my remix of Kanye's Love Lockdown.

oh, and re: Tom's question, I'm not convinced that mr West has what it takes to single handedly pioneer a new genre, nor do i think hip hop particularly needs saving - Maybe Kanye's statement can be seen as challenge or a catalyst to others, to keep striving for originality and keep creative. Whatever grandiose and inflated opinions K. West might have of himself, its nice to see pop music holding a mirror up to itself again.




p.s I tried to make it sound like Alexander O'Neal.

MUSIC WEEKS

Sorry for being so slack at updating! I've been able to stop procrastinating this afternoon, after sending away a huge envelope of receipts, travel documents and police reports to my insurance company. More about that later.

Firstly, I spent some time today updating the Last.fm page for Ben Butler and Mouse Pad today, there's a bunch of songs and some better info up there now!
Click the photo above (taken by Martin D, thanks buddy!) to go there!

Oh, there's also a few new tracks for free download from Germlin if yr into that sort of thing.

Oh, and to celebrate, here's some mixtapes (Not from me, my Ipod got stolen along with a lot of other important stuff in france, i'm still building up my collection of tracks from scratch pretty much, yikes).

MAX TUNDRA RADIO MIX
A promotional mix by Max Tundra (and G£nuin£ Guy to celebrate the release of his new album, 'Parallax Error Beheads You', out on Domino.
Poached from the ever wonderful20 Jazz Funk Greats.

The Very Best Mixtape"
Awesome mixtape by Radioclit and Esau Mwamwaya, Great Dubplates and sweet, sweet vocals.
Poached from the reliably awesome Lower End Spasm

BEAN BUTLER

I'm starting a new band. Its called 'Ben Butler and Mouse Pad'.
check it out here
fanks.
from Joe.