Sup Kids,
Happy New Years folks

Until further notice…Build128 has ceased to be
no more breakcore out of me for a while
been holed up in a cave developing super secret new kung-fu subwoofer techniques
got some new new freshness to drop on y’all soon
do peep the myspace for a full report and fresh new songs
check the quitter page for a nice suprise too

big <333
-Jasper

Th’ Mole has holiday gifts for you: a freshly souped-up version of his 2005 smash hit “Merry Xmas I Have No $” and a re-mastered version of “Dreidel” (featuring the voices of Demune, Platelunch & Tang Li Wheebs, from 2002).

Th’ Mole “Merry Xmas I Have No $” (MP3)

Th’ Mole & Friends “Dreidel” (MP3)

And for nerds/dj’s/producers:
“Merry Xmas I Have No $ (Acapella)” (256K MP3)

Yes, as promised, Daly City is, once again, offering to save some of you poor, unfortunate wretches from the doldrums of society by propelling you into glamorous stardom where you can bask in the limelight alongside Mochipet, Warrior Queen, DJ Amazing Clay and Th’ Mole!

Whoever makes the bestest remix of Th’ Mole’s “Heart Phire” song will be prominently featured on a super-cool free maxi-single hosted by Daly City, and whoever makes the most beautifulest cover art… you guessed it – they will be featured on the cover. Runners-up may also be included on the single or future releases.

Download the acapella vocals here (right-click or ctrl-click…) [130 bpm wav 17.8 MB]

Listen to the original version here Th’ Mole “Heart Phire” (snippet). (From the forthcoming album, Greatest Hits (Ha Ha Ha) Vol. 1, on Daly City Records February 2009.)

Guidelines:
-Post MP3’s or graphics as comments or e-mail to jonah[dot]themole[at]gmail[dot]com by January 20, 2009.
-Winner/s will be chosen based on Th’ Mole’s personal judgement. Points will be earned for balance of extremes, unpredictability, and goodness. (To really understand what rocks Th’ Mole’s ear and eye, check out the Whirled Fusion mix/thing.)
-Remix winner/s will eventually be asked for high quality versions of instrumentals and vocals as separate files – wav or aif.
-If desired, cover art may include some variation of the title Th’ Mole “Jump Jack (Mochipet Remix)” featuring Warrior Queen …or simply Jump Jack.
-Also for cover artists, the theme of the title song relates to jumping around, freaking out, and having a good time despite whatever heckish situation one may be in. And it relates to the virtues of physical exercise.

The Honey Badger (Mellivora capensis), also known as the Ratel, is a member of the Mustelidae family. They are distributed throughout most of Africa and western and south Asian areas of Baluchistan (eastern Iran), southern Iraq, Pakistan and Rajasthan (western India). It is the only species classified in the genus Mellivora and the subfamily Mellivorinae. They have been named the most fearless animal in the Guinness Book of World Records for a number of years.

This little guy wanders around aimlessly looking for something to eat. He lives off of the scraps of other animals. He does this until he finds his Honey Guide.

Honeyguides are named for a remarkable habit seen in one or two species: they guide humans, and possibly other large mammals (such as the Honey Badger) to bee colonies. Once the mammal opens the hive and takes the honey, the bird feeds on the remaining wax and larvae.

This little bird waits until she sees a Honey Badger near by. Then she swarms on him, flying around his face, bothering him greatly. He tries to swat her away but she doesn’t give up. Eventually a natural instinct kicks in and the Honey Badger decides to follow the Honeyguide. She leads him to a bee hive.

The Honey Badgers hide is impermeable to Bee stings. His only vulnerable area is the tip of his nose. So the Honey Badger can easily rip open a Bee Hive and have a sticky lunch. But he never forgets to pay his Honeyguide. He leaves her a well rounded meal in return for her discovery.

You can watch the whole thing go down here in my new favorite movie, Animals are beautiful People.

Here it is, Mike:

The Casio MT-46 circuit bent for Quell, features:
– Installed optical “theremin” with accompanying blinky light
– mute/mod switches for Hi-Hat sounds
– 4-way glitch joystick with alien filters and harmonies
– 3 body contacts for bitcrushed BROWN NOTES, special for the Reverend Moquell

There were times I thought this whole thing was wrecked. Up until the last minute, half of the keys weren’t even working. At one point I was getting no audio at all — fearing that I had crossed something hot and blown out a chip. I spent more time fixing things I’d snapped, unsoldered and burnt than I did adding new features! I couldn’t resist adding the blinky opto-theremin thing either. The idea is to reflect the blinking *LAZERBEAM* back onto the photocell to make it freak out more.

SO MIKE — the deal is, you have to post some freakout acid jams for us now. Maybe you can finally record the soundtrack to that new Unicorn-Cardiologist-Outer-Space-Western cartoon drama you’ve been working so hard on!

I was recently given the gift of a photo tour at the San Diego Wild Life Reserve where I got to feed the Giraffes. My favorite animal, a dream come true.

A photo has surface of Justice performing with the controller run by Gaspard clearly not plugged in. The photo has no date, but it is presumably from their recent US “DJ tour” where URB saw them using this set-up at HARD Haunted Mansion. Of course, you can see the USB cable lying next to the controller….

Why do electronic musicians need to fake it with some little buttons and knobs? And why does the audience need artists to be doing something anyways. Honestly everyone? Do most people who go to shows even know what the fuck the artists are doing on stage anyways? wheather with a turntable or some little box with buttons and sliders? It’s just a fasaude. “act like your doing something please” or I don’t feel like I’m getting my money’s worth. Let’s all be fake to each other and everything will be fine I guess… What a strange world we live in.

AND WHY DO THEY LOOK LIKE MOTORHEAD’S ROADIES? WONDER HOW LEMMY FEELS ABOUT ALL THIS?

…here’s my brand new homemade analog synth, inspired by the Thingamagoop, but designed from scratch by Zippy. It’s controlled by three mercury tilt-switches and of course, buttons-and-knobs. Fun to play! The sound changes as you rotate the thing. It’s brain is seven square-wave oscillators: three for the “notes,” three for the blinky lights, and one for the “tremolo” mod. The whole thing mounts on a round, blank circuit board and fits inside this acrylic rocks-glass I got at Lucky’s!!!! 1/4″ output also installed to crank-it-up and annoy the neighbors.

This was a big one. Took me about a month to finish, doing a lot of testing, learning, ordering wrong parts and re-ordering… It took a lot of science to make this happen!

Ya boy builder gets a nice lil’ feature on Media Contender complete with a ton of free downloads

expect some big big thangs from daly-city in 2009

And this guy would know…