ECC News
One Less Cat: It'll
Friday, 10 September 2010 06:24
It is with great sadness that we must announce the death of It'll, the cover cat of ECC's Rocked By Rape 7" single and an all-around awesome studio-wrecker of a feline.
Like Venetian Snares and many other digital music makers, we're quite fond of our cats and this is a big blow to us. It'll (yes, the contraction for "It Will") had massive paws, with seven claws on each of her two front paws. This gave her nearly-opposable thumbs and an <ahem> evolutionary advantage as a DJ, which made her the second ECC cover cat (after our first cat Haven't, who made the cover of our Whipped Cream Mixes 7" single). Her unique look was furthered by her "lazy eye", the result of an eye infection as a kitten, but it was her eccentricitiies that really made her memorable. Many ECC studios visitors will remember her scaling up a six foot high carpeted doorframe to look you in the eye, or drinking her water scoop-by-scoop with her paws. Her curiosity was frequently encouraged, and she took full advantage of it.
It'll was 14 years old and leaves tough shoes to fill, no matter how big the paws. Rest In Peace, It'll.
This Week's Radio Guest: Wobbly
Tuesday, 03 August 2010 10:17
Our guest for this week's Sound Of Plaid radio show is Wobbly (aka Jon Leidecker).
Wobbly has had a long music career as a musician equally adept at sampling versus non-sampling music. Recent work has focused more on collaborations, including some with The ECC such as the Beatlerape Live show, and a new album on Illegal Art collaborating with People Like Us. Wobbly is also a frequent DJ, flaunting a wikipedic knowledge of music at events often in galleries/museums. One such museum asked him to go further, and the result is Variations, a five part (so far) series of one-hour podcasts exploring the history of sampling, collage, and the general concept of remixing. Impress in both scope and detail, It is quite possibly the most in-depth series of its kind.
On this week's show, we talk to Wobbly about Variations and listen to some of the incredible and rare music from it.
Many chances to hear the show, and if you can't make the times below, you can hear it at The Sound Of Plaid Archives later in the week.
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ECC on ubRadio: "Digital? DIG-IT-ALL!"
Wednesday, 28 July 2010 10:14
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ECC/Bran Flakes tour photos
Friday, 09 July 2010 16:02
Thanks to everyone who made it out for our shows in Seattle, Portland, Eugene, and Olympia! We'll return soon... hopefully early 2011.
Until then, enjoy some photos we took during our travels, with lots of us on stage with The Wheel Of Mashup at Rotture in Portland. View the gallery at TradeMark's photo gallery, or as part of the ECC Facebook page.
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