Beautiful Losers Premiere at The London Film Festival
The London Film Festival premiere of Aaron Rose’s Beautiful Losers documentary. Arguably the most important/most inspiring North American art culture/movement in the last 15 years. The after party features art and photography from Cheryl Dunn and for the UK – Ben Drury, Will Barras, INSA, James Jarvis and French, music line-up – Squeak E Clean, Nosaj Thing, Take, Patchwork Pirates, and Vamanos, exclusive extra screenings from the Shepard Fairey vs. N.A.S.A Project (Squeak E Clean and DJ Zegon) ‘Money’ video, other N.A.S.A collabo videos from their forthcoming album ‘The Spirit Of Apollo‘, extra rare BL film footage, a stills room soundtracked by Money Mark’s BL score, and giveaways from RVCA and ANP Quarterly.
Tickets for Beautiful Losers premiere here.
Tickets for after party here.
As mentioned, one of the artists involved in the London Film Festival screening of Beautiful Losers, is Nosaj Thing – the moniker of L.A.-based producer Jason Chung. Producing since the age of 13, he got his start working off a “hand me down” archaic PC, that struggled even with word documents. With a “donated” copy of Reason, a demo version of Ableton Live and a computer mouse (he couldn’t afford a MIDI controller), Nosaj Thing began making music.
Proving, when your focus is strong, all you really need is a machine that works.
Now 22, Nosaj Thing creates beat driven, experimental electronic music, and has received Artist-to-Watch accolades from XLR8R, remixed Daedelus and Elliot Lipp, won Plastic Little/Turntable Lab’s remix contest featuring MF Doom, and won L.A.’s prestigious Project Blowed beat battle.
Comparisons run along with Ratatat, DJ Shadow, and Boards of Canada. A survey of his record collection will turn up pieces from Aphex Twin, Stereolab, Radiohead, Daft Punk and Eric Satie. Nosaj Thing has been kind enough to share some music with us. Check out the tracks below. They are masterly crafted, intricate layers, of gritty, yet warm beats, beautiful synths, techy tweaks . . . i’ll go as far as saying they are down right sexy. Nosaj Thing is without a doubt, one to keep your eyes and ears on!
Nosaj Thing’s self-released EP, “Views / Octopus,” is now available on iTunes.
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Wow, all 4 of these songs are suburb and beautiful! It’s nice to not listen to remixed pop songs or a club bangers 24 hours a day, haha.
Comment by KColl (smile for camera) — October 15, 2008 @ 2:40 pm
Erik Satie?! Ahahaha
Comment by DaftMonk — December 22, 2008 @ 10:03 pm