electric laser people blog

the money keeps rolling in...

noreply@blogger.com (inha leex hale) — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 15:30:00 +0000

We made an album in 2006/7 or so. We printed 1000 copies and sold some through cd baby. We still get small bits from digital distribution. It probably cost us near 10K for all the artwork, cd printing, recording, promotional stuff, etc. And lots of labor hours. Of course it was all for the love, but it's interesting to look back at the numbers. It's clear to us the future of making money through music is not in the sales of copies.

CD Baby sent you a payment!
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The direct ACH deposit was to pay you:
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ELP @ Rosebud, 26 March 2011

noreply@blogger.com (gkristo) — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 00:57:00 +0000

We had a blast playing at Rosebud with Eksi Ekso, St. Helena, and KNTRLR last Saturday night (March 26). The night was a ton of fun, and we have a nice recording of our set for your listening pleasure on our Soundcloud site. Click above (or here) to listen.

Thanks so much to everyone for coming to the show. It's always a pleasure.

forgetting is useful, and other love poems for the planet and species...

noreply@blogger.com (inha leex hale) — Mon, 24 May 2010 23:10:00 +0000

for the public domain.

see also
http://electriclaserpeople.bandcamp.com/track/forgetting-is-useful

live recording from elp at the middle east upstairs, 2010-05-15

noreply@blogger.com (inha leex hale) — Mon, 17 May 2010 13:57:00 +0000

thanks for coming out! it was a great show. we had a blast.
thanks to blackbutton for inviting us and all the bands for great music.

shopping for rocks

noreply@blogger.com (inha leex hale) — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 16:07:00 +0000

you need to imagine a science/nature/new age store in a suburban shopping mall. gifts, games, gadgets, magnets, new age cds, rainsticks, puzzles, and rocks, colored, crystals, etc.

now check this track out:
http://electriclaserpeople.bandcamp.com/track/shopping-for-rocks it's a long one. vox at 8:40.

the cop song (at tt's) and voltron (at practice)

noreply@blogger.com (inha leex hale) — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 15:20:00 +0000

the cop song live at tt the bears. (thanks everybody for coming out)

i'm a cop and i went to cop school and i graduated
i'm a cop and i tried to choose public service but i had to learn this....
do you any idea how fast you were going?

and

voltron (song in progress) live at practice. a small snippet in this movie.

this modern world

noreply@blogger.com (inha leex hale) — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 10:43:00 +0000

this modern world, live from a reverb heavy warehouse in south boston.

We won an award!

noreply@blogger.com (gkristo) — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 17:02:00 +0000

Check it out at Boston Band Crush:

Boston Music Awards Crush: Boston Band Crush Style

Recent live recording and videos.

noreply@blogger.com (inha leex hale) — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 15:46:00 +0000

here are some recent live recordings and music videos.

ELP live at obriens, 2009-10-15 - electric laser people

don't cost nuthin, live at the warehouse from Electric Laser People on Vimeo.

machine from Electric Laser People on Vimeo.

thanks!

Tomorrowland Portal :: As Seen @ Disneyland

noreply@blogger.com (gkristo) — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:54:00 +0000

Look closely...

"You know it's Disco 3000... everyone is beautiful... and they're owned by Monsanto."

October ELP Shows in Boston!

noreply@blogger.com (gkristo) — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 21:26:00 +0000

Well it's been a while, and boy-oh-boy how we've missed you!! ELECTRIC LASER PEOPLE will make up for this perverse dereliction of duty by rocking the snot out of October.

How's that for making amends?

First up - -

This Saturday, October 3rd ELP joins St. Helena, Ghost Box Orchestra and I Have Ears at the famed Cantab Lounge in Central Square. We are delighted to have Ted of The Highway as our guest drummer for the evening, filling in for Cullen who is currently exploring distant galaxies in his SpaceDrumRocketMachine.

Sat 10/3

The Cantab Lounge (Central Sq.)
738 Mass. Ave., Cambridge, MA

$8, 21+

9p - I Have Ears
10 - Ghost Box Orchestra
11 - St. Helena
12 - Electric Laser People

Next up - -

Thursday, October 15th ELP, Wildebeet and The Highway take over O'Brien's Pub in Allston Rock City. On drums, Captain Cullen returns from his space odyssey, with his moon rock collection and tales of other worlds.

Thu 10/15
O'Brien's Pub (Allston Rock City)

3 Harvard Ave., Allston, MA

$7, 21+

9p - The Highway
9:55 - Wildebeet
10:50 - Electric Laser People
11:45 - TBA
12:00 MIDNIGHT - LadyLazerJ completes one more life cycle by officially turning 32 years old! She expects everyone to do a birthday shot with her, no exceptions. Her parents will be in attendance, closely monitoring to ensure everyone's participation in the birthday shot exercise.

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www.myspace.com/electriclaserpeople
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heartbeats live at the middle east upstairs

noreply@blogger.com (gkristo) — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 03:00:00 +0000

heartbeats live at the middle east upstairs from Electric Laser People on Vimeo.

Demis Roussos - We Shall Dance

noreply@blogger.com (gkristo) — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 04:33:00 +0000

I heard this song at a gas station in Redondo, Portugal, while piled into a car with several of my best friends, trying to find a tiny restaurant in a town where English wasn't spoken.

We got there, thanks to a very friendly local gas station attendant, who was blasting this track on his boombox that warm summer night.

Learn how to play some ELP

noreply@blogger.com (gkristo) — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 15:36:00 +0000

New Song (Demo)

noreply@blogger.com (gkristo) — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 23:28:00 +0000

Evacuation Day by electriclaserpeople

elp INFLUENZA @ Great Scott, May 28, 2009

noreply@blogger.com (gkristo) — Wed, 20 May 2009 17:24:00 +0000

Oh really, Swine Flu? Nothing stops the INFLUENZA*. Leave your face masks at home, because the only thing contagious at Great Scott on May 28th is the neon dance party. This is the electro-pop edition of the series. Check out the lineup below...

ETHER FIELD (members of Matters & Dunaway)
Technical yet groove-able, Matters & Dunaway layered vocals with dreamy languor reminiscent of New Order awash with reverb and stab the comfort with vibrant noise. After several solid albums of acclaimed releases these Bostonian gents cranked out tunes equally suited for break-up mix tapes or a dance floor throwdown. Ether Field is this new musical project by André of Matters & Dunaway. Not to be missed!

LOVEWHIP:
Lovewhip is dance music. The Boston Globe exclaims “Lovewhip has a celebratory and upbeat feel that has kept crowds dancing everywhere they play!” Lovewhip creates a live show that is rooted in fun with the passionate vocals and dance moves of the “soulful electro-rock diva” (says the Boston Phoenix) Erin Harpe a.k.a. Empress Erin. The project of frontwoman/guitarist/singer Erin Harpe and bassist Jim Countryman combines multicultural influences ranging from Jamaican reggae and dancehall to Nigerian soukous and highlife, afrobeat, and retro 80’s electro. “The overall concept has always been to lift people out of their daily drudgery and get them dancing and feeling good,” says Harpe. And that’s just what they’ve done, touring regularly around the country to great reactions and dancing crowds.

ELECTRIC LASER PEOPLE:
This is smart, fun music for smart, fun minds. The band is made up of MIT graduates who work in bio-instrumentation, prosthetics engineering and robot-building. Singer/bassist Dan Paluska is the co-creator of the Fotron2000, a robotic sketch artist, and created a "Holy Toaster" (a toaster that stamped an image of Christ on slices of bread) for Collision Collective, a group of artists from MIT and the Boston area exploring new technologies (http://collisioncollective.org/) Dan also helped build Totemobile, a 50-foot-tall, 11,000-pound robotic sculpture -- a giant transformer that unfolds from a car into a totem pole. They play moody synth with heavy influences of rock and hip-hop a la BEASTIE BOYS and new wave, art school neurotics like the TALKING HEADS.

And guest DJ’s for the night…

BODEGA GIRLS:
Hedonistic purveyors of Soul, Afro-Beat, and Electro

As always, Influenza is sponsored by Powderfinger Promotions and Northeast Performer Magazine!

Tickets are $10, and this is an 18+ show. Doors are at 8:00.

* INFLUENZA = Boston's best bands playing 1/2 great original music, and 1/2 covers of the songs that they find most INFLUENtial.

Breaking out in song

noreply@blogger.com (gkristo) — Mon, 04 May 2009 14:05:00 +0000

Singing feels good...

That's why we've been asking everyone to join us in song at our last few shows.

Down by the Riverside at the Lizard Lounge from Electric Laser People on Vimeo.

Sing Along: Machine and The Cop Song from Electric Laser People on Vimeo.

Live at the Lizard Lounge, May 1 w/ Stephanie's Id

noreply@blogger.com (inha leex hale) — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 20:54:00 +0000

May Day (a.k.a. International Workers' Day) falls approximately halfway between the spring equinox and summer solstice.

Traditionally, it's been an occasion for popular and often raucous celebrations, regardless of the locally prevalent political or religious establishment.

This occasion promises to be no different.

So, gather your compatriots, your fellow labourers, your lovers, and your friends;

Come help us make things raucous and popular.

We'll have our Electric Laser Hymnal, our tambourines, and more on hand so be ready to participate as we continue to experiment with ways to bring this crowdsourcing phenomena to the stage. We need your sound and vision.

We will be joined by our good friends Stephanie's Id on tour all the way from their hometown of Asheville, North Carolina.

They're out supporting their new album Warm People (officially out May 19) which is already being hailed as "world class music...at turns hypnotic, anthemic, and contemplative" - Blurt.

Last May when we played with Stephanie at Lizard, we sold the place out. Let's do it again!

Friday, May 1, 2009
Electric Laser People (Cambridge, MA)
Stephanie's Id (Asheville, NC)

Lizard Lounge
1667 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA
8:30pm-close
$10 / 21+

proudly presented by:
http://www.ninemilerecords.com/

*** PLUS: We have a NEW music video!!! Check it OUT ***
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAYEmF5u1hE

electric laser people‘s UPCOMING SHOWS:

Friday, May 8, 2009

for the CNC Music Marathon

All Asia Cafe
334 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA
9pm-close
$7 / 21+ after 10pm

Thursday, May 28, 2009
"Influenza" presented by Powderfinger Promotions - a new monthly show featuring half cover songs & half originals
w/ Giantess and Lovewhip
Great Scott
1222 Commonwealth Ave, Allston Rock City
9pm-close

The Electric Laser Hymnal

noreply@blogger.com (inha leex hale) — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 03:37:00 +0000

We've begun our songbook project as an open google doc. You can always see the latest version here and it will update as we edit it.
We'll always plan on bringing a few copies to shows so you can follow along. Feel frint to print and bring your own if you wish. Chords are included as well if you're interested in playing things at home. We're also including several traditional songs we'll be introducing in our live shows. We look forward to engaging our audiences more in the future.
The document is a living thing. The current version is boranj.

http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dcpfp46j_83hhxk73hh

Disco 3000: Official Music Video!!!

noreply@blogger.com (gkristo) — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 15:26:00 +0000

Behold, the first official music video from our debut album,
Straight Talk on Raising Kids.
It features our original song "Disco 3000."

First we painted some walls green:

above: painting walls with green paint, circa June 2008

Then, some raw video footage was filmed by our good pals the Awesome Brothers at our space in South Boston during the summer of 2008.

above: The Awesome Brothers (Ashleigh @ left / Luke @ right)

During the cold dark months that followed, the dynamic digital dream duo that is the Awesome Brothers lovingly and painstakingly manipulated each individual pixel with an uncommon meticulousness.

Now it is spring, the tulips are peeking through the soil, and it is once again time to rock with the ones we love, to share our creative inspirations, to get down, and to boogie.

Enjoy!

Copying is fun!

noreply@blogger.com (inha leex hale) — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 23:56:00 +0000

copying isn't theft
stealing a thing leaves one less left
copying it makes one thing more
that's what copying's for

copying isn't theft
if i copy yours you have it too
one for me, one for you
that's what copies can do.

if i steal your bicycle
you have to take the bus
but if i just copy it, there's one for each of us

making more of a thing
that is what we call copying
sharing ideas with everyone
that's why copying is fun!!!!

via boingboing. then a couple other links too.

Extreme LED Sheep Art

noreply@blogger.com (gkristo) — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 16:11:00 +0000

Emris, Gerry, Rob, and Bernard make me rather proud to count myself as 1/4 Welsh

Can't sleep?
This is significantly more fun than counting sheep.

What I want to know is, how long did it take to get all those sheep into those LED sweaters?

How do we make models of sharing more successful than models of hiding?

noreply@blogger.com (inha leex hale) — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 04:02:00 +0000

are some dreams more valuable than others?

George Washington's Teeth and Theme Song

noreply@blogger.com (inha leex hale) — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 18:05:00 +0000

His teeth:

His theme song:

George Washington, Michael Phelps and the Defenders of Freedom from Electric Laser People on Vimeo.

Thank you. That is all.

Art of the video remix

noreply@blogger.com (inha leex hale) — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 23:23:00 +0000

If you pay a lot of attention to the internets, chances are someone has sent you the Kutiman Thru-You videos. http://thru-you.com/#/videos/
If you haven't seen them, definitely check them out.

Thought it would be nice to compile some of the other examples of this artform.

EBN hit it big (U2 used vid on tour) with a remix of We will rock you using snippets of George Bush Sr.

Lasse Gertsen was the first youtube one that really grabbed me. He is creator of both Hyperactive and Amateur.

This is also a video mashup which is more similar to Kutiman's use of youtube as a sample source rather than your own footage.

Here is Cory talking about the project.

And here's one from Adam Pelling-Deeves that has some similarity to Lasse's work.

Beats Of Boredom from Adam Pelling-Deeves on Vimeo.