Experiments

Here in the Experiments area you'll find all the brow-furrowing, chin-stroking activities that The ECC has been up to. Mischievous MP3s, vituperous videos, cued and ready for instant consumption and sardonic satisfaction.

Note the categories to the left. If you want only music, click MP3s. If you want only videos, there's that too. You can also peek into our Testing Area to hear beta tests and unfinished experiments that we're playing around with.  And if you're wondering just what the hell we were thinking when we made those experiments, you might find the answers in our blog.  Recent additions to all four categories are listed below.

FBI Warning - Exercise Your Copy Rights

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Testing

Thursday, 27 December 2007 17:20

When copying DVDs with DVDShrink, one great thing you can do is save disk space by substituting a still image for a video segment. It's great to take out that irritating FBI scare tactic that clogs up the first minute+ of your DVD, not to mention also removing the user-unfriendly restriction on skipping the track. But sadly DVDShrink can't change the length of that portion -- if you substitute it with a black screen, you still have to look at a minute+ of a black screen. So, I made this improved (and educational) version.

 

Altered FBI Warning

 

Text (for you search engines... and the blind):

FBI WARNING

Copyright owners, and not the FBI, include these
warnings of severe civil and criminal penalties to
scare you. In real life, you've probably already
committed dozens if not hundreds of copyright
violations. Has the FBI busted you yet? No.
In fact, you can legally reproduce copyrighted
materials, without permission, in cases of Fair Use.
And you're allowed to make one backup copy of
this entire DVD if you purchased it. Legally.
Did they tell you any of that? Of course not.

EXERCISE YOUR COPY RIGHTS

   

Sound Of Plaid Archive: Special Guest JASON FORREST

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MP3s

Monday, 11 August 2014 09:26

Jason Forrest

We've been fans of our next special guest for years.  In that time Jason Forrest has been active under many incarnations: from host of WFMU's AD&D show under his ill-fated DJ name DJ Donna Summer (seems there was already a famous Donna Summer; who knew) and on to starting the Cock Rock Disco and Nightshifters labels and even his own TV channel, the incredible Network Awesome... he even developed his own app.

Download the episode, or listen to it now:

Band: Song:
Donna Summer Steppin' the Fuck Out
Jason Forrest Crushed Pop
Jason Forrest Why I Love ELO
Jason Forrest My Favorite 36 Punk Songs
Jason Forrest Pragues Not Dead
Jason Forrest New Religion
Donna Summer vs. Ove-Naxx Disco Satan
Jason Forrest Iggy and Bowie on Dinah
Jason Forrest War Photographer
Jason Forrest Biker Movies
Jason Forrest Gold Bluff
Jason Forrest Archive
Donna Summer TV Star
Donna Summer Antonio Sant'dlla
DJ Donna Summer Intro
DJ Donna Summer Jump
Donna Summer vs. Ove-Naxx Vibration
Jason Forrest Dreaming and Remembering
Jason Forrest Vader Over Me

Want more?  Pop on over to The Sound Of Plaid archives where you can find over a hundred full episodes of our radio show, ready for you to download or listen to whenever you want.  Free.

   

TradeMark interview by Scott of The Spo-Its

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Videos

Tuesday, 29 March 2011 05:28

A few days after Mardi Gras, The ECC's TradeMark G. was interviewed by Scott Corkern of The Spo-It's.  For Scott's upcoming movie "Big Time Nobody" he wanted to get TradeMark's memories and stories about performing a few shows with the Spo-Its well over a decade ago.  In spite of Spo-It's sexploitational and dangerous performances, TradeMark's tales were light on detail.  Luckily Scott kept going with discussions on music, extreme performance, plunderphonics, and much more.

Thanks to Scott for driving so far to make this happen, and good luck with the movie!

Part 1:

Part 2:

Part 3:

   

Love Theme Chop Shop

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Testing

Sunday, 14 November 2010 22:27

Was trying out some granular synthesis plugins and ended up producing this strangely hypnotic 3-speed collision of this love theme by Willie Hutch from the Foxy Brown soundtrack:

   

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