Pampelmoose is a music and MP3 web site covering the eclectic independent music scene. We stay clear of major labels and their artists to avoid having the Web Sheriff gallop through our offices. We are indie at heart so we support all things indie – in all its shapes and forms.
Dave walloped the bass strings and is a founding member of the highly influential, post-punk band, Gang of Four. With his business partner, Ned Failing, he started Pampelmoose in 2005. We love music and we love the way the internet leveled the playing field for all artists.
Josh Kneedler is a highly experienced interactive designer. He began working in online media in 1997 at the birth of the interactive world, a world we now take for granted, one that has become as common as the utilities we use at home. His skills consist of design, programming, and creative direction. It’s an eclectic mix, but one that is vital to pursuing new ventures where traditional broadcast media rules do not apply. Josh understands that music artists no longer need traditional record labels. A consumer in Japan may never have heard of our local Northwest music scene so local bands need a different way to promote their independently produced CDs. Josh has the necessary skills and experience that highlight innovation over imitation to tackle contemporary challenges in the world of interactive programming, design and creative marketing. Some of Josh’s work can be seen on his web site: http://www.joshkneedler.net
Shugo Tokumaru, the Japanese noise-pop purveyor, will release a new album ‘Exit’ stateside on September 2nd, 2008. That might seem a ways off so to help you with the wait here’s a cut from the album, ‘Parachute,’ that shows off the organic/electronic elements of Tokumaru’s work – almost-latin rhythms, dueling acoustic guitars, xylophone and hand [...]
Another one in, hopefully, a long line of future electronic submissions, i.e. no brown package in the mail. The Moose, single-handedly saving trees one post at a time. Computer Vs Banjo’s debut CD is out now. Official site and their MySpace.
Computer Vs Banjo – Magazine Queen (Ninja Simone Remix)
01. Au Revoir Simone “Oh! You Pretty Thingsâ€
02. Heartbreak “Loving The Alienâ€
03. Kelley Polar “Magic Danceâ€
04. Leo Minor “Ashes To Ashesâ€
05. Carl Craig Presents Zoos of Berlin “Looking For Waterâ€
06. Drew Brown “Sweet Thingâ€
07. Matthew Dear “Sound & Visionâ€
08. Susumu Yokota “Golden Yearsâ€
09. The Emperor Machine “Repetition”
10. Joakim & The Disco “A New Career In [...]
The Tower of Babel
Cities live and breathe. As I wrote in a post last week on Social Media, cities are no more artificial [technological] than the hives of bees. As we go about our daily lives [mostly unconsciously,] we psycho-drift from block to block through neighborhoods that we know well, in amongst communities that have [...]
Sad news today. Bo Diddley, a rock and roll pioneer who helped transition blues to rock, passed away at his home in Florida, he was 79.
Forget about the iPhone G3, this year’s gadget of the year is what I like to call the ‘scratchula‘. Not only does it’s metallic chrome flat surface flip burgers (or veggie burgers) like a normal spatula, it also has jagged sides for scratching and scraping the grill AND a lil’ slot for popping the [...]
About twice a year I find myself at a random party overhearing the same conversation: “What happened to good song writing? What happened to the song?” It’s at that point names like Elvis Costello, Burt Bacharach, or Roy Orbison appear and I head back to the keg. I mean, how the hell [...]
Vacuum State of the Art Conference and Show May 24th – 26th, Vancouver, WA. As the name implies what we have here is a show that celebrates the vacuum tube driven amps over their solid state second cousins. [Audiofiles will get that last part.] I’m a supporter, give me a record deck and a tube [...]
