Brooklyn to Baltimore courtesy of Stephen Key

Nuff said, bra.

A Foggy Notion: Pre-show festivities begin @ Iggy's

Those of you familiar with the condition "tonite-iss" may also be aware of it's more potent and nefarious cousin "Outoftown-osis". A dangerous affliction; OTO leaves the sufferer believing his or her known tolerances are conveniently governed by geographical boundaries and thusly do not accompany the physical body beyond "state lines". Sadly, this ailment spread quickly through the close quarters of Blue Steez and soon spilled onto the sidewalks of Ludlow St., Manhattan. This photograph clearly illustrates Dream Sanitation is what the medical community commonly refers to as "Patient Zero".

Blue Steez

A brief lil' photo diary of our recent tour up the East Coast, from the eye of Dookie Platters: Blue Steel, the lovely ship that sailed us up I-95, came well equipped. Much like the on-stage synth console piloted by Dream Sanitation, this van's dash contained many of Noot d' Noot's vital supplies: fresh fruit, duct tape, Emergen-C, stacks of cash, lighters, and multiple cassette tapes.



Efectiv all smiles after smashing one of our many on-board freestyle battles. Blue Steel Airways provides many wonderful amenities, and insane lyricism is only the tip of the iceberg. Arriving in New York, bumpin' "Jiggle City", and geeked up on adrenalin. All of this faded pretty quickly as we exited the Holland Tunnel and realized what navigating a 16-passenger van through the Big Apple was all about.
Two shows down, some of our boys share a gangster lean against B'more bricks.

Crab Louie and Skins look a little out of place in the sports bar. But hey man, Noot d' noot is a squad of versatile motherfuckers.
A pre-show run to the liquor store led Dookie and Dream Sanitation straight into Baltimore's Red Light District. Never dissuaded, the brothers emerged unscathed, bottle in hand, and even got a chance to document things from their own syrup-induced point of view.

If you want pictures of the shows, I'm sorry, most of us were a little busy up on stage and couldn't stop for snapshots. But be on the lookout for more Noot d' noot adventures above the Mason-Dixon.

My White Sugar Bicycle

For our first installation of free out and alt takes from the Goofer Dust LP, we'd like to present the demo version of Sugar Bicycle.  Collaborating is one of Noot's favorite pastimes, and we were enthralled to have Jason Dean and The Options come thru and bless this track.  This is the demo we gave Jason to work out some vocal ideas.  So here you have a stereo mix out of the MPC into garageband with a coupla passes by Dream Sanitation on the SH-101.

Strangely, there is a clarity to this demo and a little more bass response than on the album.  The reason being, at the time the album was mixed and mastered (spring '07), only one company was making analog tape.  So at this time Noot would like to extend a two finger salute to the one and only RMG International, responsible for more tape shedding than any other analog tape manufacturer in history.  Your bullshit product has the noisefloor on two of the songs we mixed to your tape well above every other sound in the song.  Due to our label's incredibly small budget, we were not able to remix these tracks.  But you know, what's done is done, and we on to the next song anyhow.  Please learn from Noot's mistakes and do not purchase RMG tape.  You now have an option, and ATR is the way to go.

Without further ado, take a ride on the Sugar Bicycle.  And be sure to check out the incendiary debut single by Jason Dean and the Options available on Solutionist Records now!

Noot Invasion 2008

Attention Noot d' Noot fans of the Northeast corridor - we will be showing you what real entertainment is all about this week. Here is the info:

Thursday September 18 - Piano's Bar http://www.pianosnyc.com/
158 Ludlow StNew York, NY 10002(212) 505-3733

Noot hits the stage at Midnight. Come and stay up late with us. We'll have a slumber party (actually if you have any place we can stay, we would really appreciate it ... thanks).

Friday September 19 - Public Assembly (Brooklyn) http://www.publicassemblynyc.com/events
70 North 6th St. in Williamsburg, Brooklyn 718-384-4586

Noot goes on at Happy Hour (i.e. 7 PM). Get your weekend started off on the good foot.

Saturday September 20 - Noise in the Basement Fest at Sonar in Baltimorehttp://www.sonarbaltimore.com/
407 East Saratoga St. Baltimore, MD 21202

Do not know our set time at this event, but the whole thing looks to be quite the party. Keep your eyes open for an appearance by living legend Jason Dove at this one.

So around 7:30 PM tonight, Blue Steel will be heading up I-85 on the path to the glory of Noot. Pray for our lost adventurous souls.

More pictures and stories to come.

R.I.P. Richard Wright

Set your controls for the heart of the Sun.

Sweet Thangs

bout 1970 or 71, Ginger Baker took a land rover from the Mediterranean down thru the Sahara Desert into Nigeria just to hang out with Fela and soak in some Yoruba rhythms. Along the way, he came across some very interesting local musicians and up and coming afro-beat groups. The Lijadu Sisters make an appearance as well as Segun Bucknor, whose live set featured here is unlike any of his available recordings. Baker got some pretty amazing footage of Bucknor's group which comes across as thrash-metal afro-beat in these clips, propelled by the mad abandon of his dance troup, The Sweet Things. This brings up an interesting point to all the haters who wanna know why Efectiv doesn't sing every song in a Noot set. Did it ever occur that you've missed the point?



it may even be sweeter in 6/8....as for efectiv, you'll be able to hear more from them when their debut single drops this fall on Solutionist.

Friday Nite in the Universe

You ever heard these cats?  Good Friday Experiment was into celestial navigation at a time in Atlanta musical history when graph calculators were required to write songs.  The earliest incarnation started up towards the tail end of 98.   Interestingly, 3 out of 4 members from the classic mach 2 line-up are known Noot conspirators, while the 4th is alleged to be the group's personal engineer on the 2" reels.  If interested, The Living Room studio is available to all who may need to store information on magnetic reels......

As can be imagined, rehearsals were comprised of deep explorations in the mind via unadulterated improvisations...just how many of these were captured?  Not enough, but there are a few.  How 'bout this piece from the mach 3 line-up circa April 2006?  This was picked up on that tiny lil' mic on yr g4 and just as the band hits full tilt, the shit overloads.  Alas, the measurements of a Good Friday trip remain uncalculated.........more later.

The Noots Come Out at Night

Perhaps you made it to the jai alai soundfest superbowl earlier this summer at Whirlyball.  Noot d'noot, Dark Meat, and Diplo all joined forces for a Chunklet throw-down.  The folks over at Mad Decent created a visual record of the Diplo/Dark Meat seven-inch born of this celestial marriage.

Check for close-ups of the perpetually gorgeous girls from Efectiv, and an interview with Dr. Kinje, all around the six-minute mark.

Diplo + Dark Meat | 40 Watt & Whirlyball from jason miller on Vimeo.