| Feb 2, 2010 |
After a long break from web updates, I'm pleased to break infosilence to report that our little gallery in Brooklyn, NY, Devotion Gallery, has had a mention in the New York Times. The show mentioned is part of the Unsound Festival, which the article goes on to discuss. If you'll be in NYC from Feb 4-14, I strongly recommend checking out the festival. I'll play with Konque on Feb 13th as part of the Bunker's "BASS MUTATIONS" show. We will be playing with 2562, Untold, and Pole, which I'm happy about. Pole and Konque both played at Communikey Festival two years ago, and his live set was absolutely insane at that time! |
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| Oct 4, 2009 |
NEW RELEASE on our little electronic music label Konque, "Frozen", by Morgan Packard! Beautiful non-genre electro-acoustics. Enjoy! |
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| Oct 1, 2009 |
Created audio for a new website by my stop-motion animation friends GwaGwa from Tokyo. Please check and enjoy their site. You can see our childrens' animations here: DoReMi Piyo. |
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| Sept 14, 2009 |
New shoe art pieces coming soon. Some are for "Worn Again" 99% recycled materials sneakers series. Some are custom pieces for hire. Pictured below, a pair of non-recycled Adidas sneakers customized for a friend in Kingston Jamaica.
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| Sept 9, 2009 |
Downtempo LIVE SET posted at a great site, Percussion Lab.
A fantastic place to download live sets by favorite electronic music artists. My live set is part of a focus on NYC electronic music, "New York State of Mind." |
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| August 29, 2009 |
pictured: Dan Tesene, Untitled. Rapid prototyping sculpture Special preview opening of Devotion Gallery in Williamsburg Brooklyn, tonight. Public opening October 31, 2009. Tonight's show "Secret Devotion." Artists: Stephen Cardinale Sougwen Chung David Last Phoenix Perry Matthew Radune Philip Stearns Dan Tesene RJ Valeo |
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| July 10, 2009 | WRITE UP for Musically Massive album at Exclaim Magazine. | |
| June 20, 2009 | A nice review of the new album Musically Massive at URB Magazine. | |
| June 10, 2009 |
Full-length album | CD / MP3 DAVID LAST vs. ZULU "MUSICALLY MASSIVE" Staubgold 95 Released June 9, 2009 A mutant digi-dancehall album. Available on Amazon (CD and mp3) and iTunes (mp3). Vinyl EP still available if you Google around a bit. Boomkat had it for a while, but their listing currently says they are out of stock. Reception to the album has been especially good before the release with radio. It charted on CMJ at #1 in overall RPM adds, and #2 in World. So far it has hit #36 on the CMJ top 100, and the trend is upward. |
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| June 10, 2009 |
MUSICALLY MASSIVE
CD Release Party in Chicago at BOUNCEMENT! FRIDAY JUNE 26, 2009 @ LAVA 1270 N Milwaukee Ave. Chicago |
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| April 10, 2009 |
Review link: BIG UP MAGAZINE
The reviews have begun to come in for the new album on Staubgold. That's "Musically Massive" CD & download, artist is David Last vs. Zulu, it's Staubgold's 95th release. It will be available in the USA on June 9. In Europe, it will be available in a little over a week. Vinyl 12" EP of clubbier tracks is still available. |
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| April 2, 2009 |
REMIX for Praveen & Benoit's Songs Spun Simla. You can download my mix HERE from RCRDLBL, or the whole release at iTunes.
I was a fan of the album, so it was satisfying to remix. |
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| March 30, 2009 |
My video works will now have a home on VIMEO.
Pictured: "Play It Kershaw" Video for a track by Someone Else |
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| March 3, 2009 |
Getting my grubby paws on some shoes made of recycled materials, to do a limited edition. More info later! Music-wise... just played the first show with a new project. Psych-dub-rock-y stuff. Nice to play drums again, and great to play with these guys... TYME (Tatsuya Yamada) is in town & we played with my long-time music friends Yusuke Yamamoto and Takuya Nakamura at Studio BPM. CHECK IT OUT! |
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| Feb 23, 2009 |
If you need a little pick-me-up, cruise on over to check out my friends GwaGwa. They're animated film makers from Tokyo. I have been doing soundtracks for their animated childrens' films. There will be more news about new films coming, but for the moment, there are two films we collaborated on, on their site.
Coming soon, the full-length CD of Musically Massive on Staubgold label! Expands the 6 tracks from the vinyl EP to a full 14 tracks of krazy dancefloor dancehall reggae music. |
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| Nov 5, 2008 |
"People People we gotta get over before we go under!
Hey country, you didn't say what you meant! You just changed! A brand new funky president." -James Brown, "Funky President (People It's Bad)", 1974 This is not an ordinary day. As I walk around NYC, I see smiles on peoples' faces. I know a single event can't solve the problems we face. But here and there, there are black people grinning with pride and accomplishment. I have seen people of every race excited in conversation with one another, talking over political issues and looking forward to the future. I never would have believed this possible. To see this kind of open discussion of real issues, and fearless interaction regardless of race would have been a rarity even a few months ago. But something has united people, at least for today. That unifying factor is the idealism of Mr. Obama. Today, it looks as if people in this city are trying to "imagine all the people" as one. I'm going to enjoy it while it lasts. Just before the election, some of my cynical friends told me Obama would never be elected. They are now telling me Obama will never make a difference. Everyone is entitled to their opinion. I can't see the future. But I do know that if we don't try to rekindle our hope for a better world, our heavy words will surely drag us down, and pave the way for opportunists to assure our failure. I will not stop fighting, I will not stop smiling, I will not stop hoping. Much love on an amazing day. |
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| Oct 5, 2008 |
Out Now in Europe on Staubgold:
David Last vs. ZULU: Musically Massive EP Formats: Vinyl 12", Digital Download Hypesheet: Taking a break from the daily grind of New York City last year, beatmaker David Last (The Agriculture, Goosehound, Foundsound) found himself living for a few weeks near a beach in Sydney, Australia. Having spent two years making club music almost exclusively, he was ready to lay back into the influence of dancehall reggae's slower tempos. Vocals were a natural choice. For several years now, MC Zulu's unique dancehall vocals have been gracing tracks by the likes of Kool Keith, DJ C and Ghislain Poirier. A referral from grime-bounce mashup king Jake "DJ C" Trussell led to an email exchange between Dominique Rowland aka MC Zulu in Chicago, and David in Sydney. In 14 hours, David and Zulu had completed their first track via email. The track was good enough that there was only one thing to do - make a whole album. The Staubgold label, having hired David to remix the Kammerflimmer Kollektief two years previously, listened to the new project, and within 24 hours it was moving forward at full speed between Chicago, Sydney and Berlin. Like its birth, the sound is also distinctly international. Funk without borders. It is influenced by both electronica and by reggae music, but it is officially neither. It feels like pop, but it blazes new ground in its rhythms and arrangements. "Musically Massive" is the first of two vinyl eps. The second vinyl with remixes and a full-length cd will follow this winter.  |
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| Aug 28, 2008 |
The hot "gimme a cold beer" days are turning into beautiful cooler days. My favorite part of the year is here! New releases on KONQUE label, since last post. Check out new release by Alka Rex called "DUSF," and my recent release "BounKs." Also, you can check out a newly uncovered piece of music now at MODYFIER. This is a fantastic music blog where a unique visual artist invites sound producing friends to add entries, which she illustrates in her own style. My entry is beautiful and abstract and strange music, I hope you'll enjoy it. I literally collaborated with a houseplant to make this music. You'll have to read the blog entry to make sense of that. :) Visual news: I have begun work storyboarding a music video for the band ELYSIAN FIELDS, one of my favorite New York bands. Hand drawn animation and beautifully sad gorgeousness is coming right up... |
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| Apr 28, 2008 |
Back from hibernation with new news... There were no updates during the cold months. During the cold, it's time to stay in and get some work done. So there's lots of new plans and new things happening.
"Musically Massive EP," a new vinyl with Zulu, will be coming out next month in Europe on Staubgold label. Dancehall influenced, but not really downtempo, this release is set to justify its vinyl form factor with 6 solid tracks for club DJs. Alternate versions of these tracks plus other (less DJ centric) tracks will be available in September on the full length Musically Massive album, which will be out on CD and MP3. There will also be a remix vinyl at that time. Other big news! Started a new record label and music project called Konque, with the guys from Russian techno outfit Alka Rex. Konque as a label is starting off as straight-ahead as oddball leftfield techno gets. The tracks we've been making (and looking for from other producers) are funky and yet quite strange. They will probably be good for DJs or listeners who are fans of labels like Foundsound or even Perlon. The film soundtrack mentioned first a year ago is still progressing, the computer animated IMAX film is in its final stages of animation, and the soundtrack is in its rough form and being crafted in line with the animation. Recently played a set with Konque at CMKY Festival, a brand new festival that has sprung up in Boulder Colorado. It was great fun, and I was privileged to share a stage with folks like Caro, Smirk, and Bruno Pronsato. |
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| CHOICE LINK | FUDGE FACTORY COMICS has scans of lovely little hand drawn 'zine style comics. Highly recommended. | |
| Nov 19, 2007 |
Get a bottle of whiskey, or phone your girlfriend to come over, 'cause yer gonna need something to keep you warm tonight! Two words for those who hate November through February: Southern Hemisphere. Would like to be in Buenos Aires or Sydney at the moment. Still and all, I've been quite happily plugging along. Film soundtrack is swingin', some new sketchbook styles are hap'nin'. Had been a bit burned out on making dance music, but have been rescued from this gravity by Alka Rex... we have started making a couple of tracks together, and they are sounding good to me. Very excited about this. Happy holidays... Holiday season gig news: If you live in SAN FRANCISCO, come on out to Filter on Nov 30. If you live in NYC, come on out to The Bunker on Dec 21. If you live in BOULDER or DENVER, come on out to COMMUNIKEY NEW YEARS EVE party. For more info on these gigs, check my MYSPACE. |
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| July 24, 2007 |
This post written to you from a stately Old School All American hotel room in Troy New York (it's near Albany, the Capital Region). Troy has a real Old Style vibe, and this room piles it on thick. There are watercolors of New England mansions with horses outside, some kind of replica of some sort of tool-bench used in southern cotton plantations (??nostalgia??), needlepoint of a flowerpot containing the herb sage (I know because it says "Sage" on the bottom), and a photo of a half-completed Eiffel Tower.
In this idyllic setting I am working on the soundtrack for an Imax film. A 3d CG cartoon that takes place enirely in the "nano" world of molecules and atoms. All the characters are talking atoms. A good excuse for a lot of wowee zowee CG animation of molecular physics, projected huge... should be fun to watch! It's also fun to score music for an 18 piece big band orchestra, which is how the music is being handled. Will report later on this project. Have recently completed a remix for techno artist "Someone Else" to be released on Foundsound Records. The track is called "Funky Fromage" and it's from Someone Else's recent full length CD "Pencaps and Colored Pencils". Also working on a music video for Foundsound, which should be finished soon. It will be available on iTunes music store. And last but not least, if you pick up a copy of XLR8R this week, the accompanying CD has one of my tracks on it. I was honored that they liked it enough to make it the first track on the disc. It's Royale's remix of my trak Bubble Tea. (Bubble Tea is available from Dope Recordings!) |
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| May 26, 2007 |
Summertime, and U.S. troops are gathering near Iran... and the Supreme Court has been infiltrated by appointees who are unfit to hold the bench. Yes, I'm one of those crazy people who "follows the news," instead of reading about football. This movie has turned into what would be a dark comedy... if there were anything funny about the situation.
Despite all this, I've been having some lovely summertime days, catching up with a few friends. And working as well. I've been doing some soundtrack work lately... soon I'll begin work on the soundtrack for an IMAX movie about molecular chemistry. Really looking forward to it. ...and looking forward to checking out MUTEK next week. NEW RELEASES! In the rest of 07 and in 08, there'll be a lot of music coming out. I've just had a release on Osaka label GeometricDeck, called "KRUST EP." If you like techno, please check it out. Also out now, a new release on the Dope Recordings label, "BUBBLE TEA." Again, it's a techno release. Both of these releases have great remixes as well and are available on Beatport (see links above). Coming up, more dancefloor tracks, and some reggae-influenced tracks with genius ragga vocalist ZULU... it's sounding good! |
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| March 25, 2007 |
As I write, there's some kind of Australian swallow singing a song I've never heard before, in the trees just outside my window. This is because I'm in Australia for a short time following some work in Europe. It's pretty beautiful here and the seafood is outstanding.
I'm primarily out here to work up a new CD of dancehall influenced tracks. Vocal duties are mostly being taken care of by dancehall genius ZULU. Good stuff on the way. In other news, new techno trax will be coming out on Beatport label Geometric Deck soon, I will post an announce when it hits. |
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| Feb 1, 2007 |
photo by Marshall Demeranville in Boulder Colorado, live at CMKY |
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| March 27, 2006 |
Winter begins to wear out its welcome, and war news can wear you down. Spring is just beyond the next hill, so close you can almost smell it. Maybe we're all ready to move on into new and warmer terrain. In this spirit, here's the first listen to a new live band I put together to play crazy outerspace reggae music. We played live at BPM in Williamsburg recently, and here is a nasty lo-fi bootleg style recording of part of that show. Solids (MP3, 11.4mb) David Last: Drums and Laptop Yusuke Yamamoto: Drums and Percussion Paul Grimstad: Guitar Matt Pavolka: Bass Dub Echoes Mix by Mari |
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| April 22, 2005 |
 VIDEO! Pedestrians + Mini-Tek = Hypnosis. See Unfoundsound. See also Masamichi Shimada. |
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