Morguefest 2010

Here's a few clips from my friends at Morguefest, Whale Zombie, Valley Boys and Millions of Michael Jordans... and my new light setup outdoors.

Franklinstein Party

6pm-4am DJ Anlog and Delurium (Columbus) will be rocking electronic beats tuned to bass-heads. October 29th, 8 Franklin Ave, Athens, OH.

Update: DJ Franklinstein (Anlog) on the wheels of steel.

Dark Sesh

The dark side of sesh.
Dark Sesh by DJ Anlog!

Chill Sesh

Andrew Logan/DJ Anlog - Chill Sesh EP.

New Funky Pyramix!

This is the first mix I've put out in a while and it's a good one!
DJ Anlog's Classic Funk vs. Old School Hip-Hop
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Spacement Relic: Whale Zombie Guestlist Video

Video keeps rolling out of The Spacement despite the fact that... we don't live there anymore. Here's the ACRN guestlist with Whale Zombie shot in The Spacement in late May (early June?). Chris Lute muses on the importance of playing with other groups, recording an album and not sounding like The Postal Service...
Thanks to Paolo, Joe, Dani, Alex and the rest of the ACRN Crew!

Guest List Episode 11: Whale Zombie from ACRN.com.

Animal Magazine EP

Joel, Mike and Justin from Animal Magazine have spent around 30 hours this week recording and mixing their nine track EP at my studio in Alexandria. Here's a preview: Nosferatu in Colonial Williamsburg.

Where is Facebook's Support Staff?

Let me start from the beginning, I work for Yoshitoshi Recordings, a DC-based record label that markets extensively using social media sites like MySpace, Twitter and Facebook. Recently one of our Grammy-winning artists logged into his Facebook account while touring in Europe and was locked out for security reasons. He was asked to flawlessly identify 8 photos of his 5,000 friends…er…fans. Obviously this is an impossible task so we contacted Facebook’s customer support team. We clicked the “Help” button in the lower right hand of the screen, we filled out an “error” report, we attached a screenshot, and then we waited. And waited. And waited…
After a week of missed messages, correspondences from friends and fans, and lost marketing opportunities we found Facebook’s phone number using Google. We pressed 1 for customer support and were told:
“Unfortunately we do not offer phone support at this time, answers to most user inquiries can be found at the help center by clicking on help at the bottom of any Facebook page. The help center includes information on the site’s functionality as well as contact forms for issues that require further support from Facebook. Thank you.”
So they don’t take support calls from users and they don’t answer support inquiries via e-mail but I thought surely at least one of the company’s 1,400 employees handles customer support so I started dialing extension numbers at random. Facebook’s phone system pre-screens callers by name before connecting them to an individual or their voicemail so I had to sound particularly desperate to convince anyone to pickup. It took about twenty tries; her name was Michelle and she informed me customer support was “not her department” and there was nothing she could do for me. She refused to transfer me anywhere and when asked if there was anyone at the company who conducts customer support via phone she stated simply “I don’t know. Not a lot of people here have phones.”
We’ve been locked out for almost a month without a single correspondence from Facebook’s support team. I’ve accepted there’s nothing we can do about it; other frustrated users on the web suggest it’s best to just abandon the account and move on. Public outcry on numerous web-boards show thousands of Facebook non-users are being impersonated by others online and, stifled by Facebook’s support team, their assumed identities continue to slander and defame them.
It’s easy for Facebook to hide behind their curtain while countless users flood their inbox with problems but someday they will have to hire a team that can support their user base. For myself and thousands of others I hope they do it soon.

Update: I sent this article to Facebook’s press team asking for a fact-check and our account was unlocked the next day. Unfortunately it has since been relocked, this time for malware, and we are effectively back at square-one.

Beats from Planet Agria

Play it at PlanetAgria.com. Also, Agria is Runner Up GRID Lab Game of The Year!

Lobsterfest Afterparty

I'll be spinning some deep funk to open the Lobsterfest Union Afterparty with Barticus and Self Help Saturday, 10PM.

Spacefest Recap

Saturday we held the first annual Spacefest, a day-long celebration of Athens independent music. The final lineup cut short by the police was:
Sneaky Mister
The Squeaky Chairs
In Silent Movies
Manor Animals
Valleyboys
Spooktober
The Gender Bending Fender Benders
Mr Leg
Millions of Michael Jordans
The Pleasure Domes
Blithe Field
Whale Zombie

My apologies to the artists who were unable to perform, especially Brother Tiger, Shapeless Shadow and DJ Delurium.
You can read more about the festivities in this brilliantly conceived article by Dani Purcell. [via ACRN]

Skeetones Rage The Spacement

Last Friday the Cincinnati jam/electronica group Skeetones played a great show in the Spacement. Despite the loss of our air conditioning duct and my wallet everyone had a great time. Beatz ULTD, Delurium and DJ Max were all great. Here's some video:

Duperman and Dr McBad's Mutant Goo

A student film I scored for my friend Sam. Max from planet Agria did some fine graphicals.

Karate Coyote and Walk The Moon

A few Spacement videos from March 6. I was able to put these together with the help of Evan Mitchell, the result is a few fairly interesting two camera edits of varying quality, bounciness and aspect ratio. The first set is of Karate Coyote, the last is Walk The Moon.

G20 Transparency Petition

I scored the music for this video:

Sign the petition here: http://www.g20transparency.com/

Agria

Agria is the game design project I'm doing audio and music for this year. Check out the video and more at PlanetAgria.com.

Barz N Tone

D Jones, the rapper, teacher, and documentary film maker, is undoubtedly one of the most interesting and talented people I've met at Ohio University. He got me the gig spinning hip-hop shop and this weekend we hosted the Spacement's first hip-hop show.
DysFunktional Family, Doxcity, SSTRES, Jean P and DJ Shadowcat were all in attendance. Great Lakes Crew couldn't make it. Here's some amazing video by Sixseed:

Spooktober Doc

There's some great footage from the Spacement as well as some shots of my unattended DJ rig in this minimentary about Athens band Spooktober.

A great video of my Mom, Gloria, painting. Check it out!

New Whale Zombie Videos

Whale Zombie - from last night's show with Karate Coyote, Walk the Moon and Spooktober.
Whale Zombie LP!

Also wanted to share this excellent photo of Spooktober by Cameron Stevens.

DJ Workshops

Presenter: Patrick Giguere and Andrew Logan
Dates: March 4th & 12th
Times: 1:30 – 4:30pm
Location: 227 Putnam Hall

Synopsis:
Over the past 4 decades DJing has evolved from simply playing records over the airwaves to an internationally recognized art form. From turntablism ( using a turntable as an instrument by manipulating records in a way that creates percussive elements and other sounds not present on the record) to creating mash-ups ( i.e. Girl Talk) this practicum will give students the opportunity to learn about the cultural history of DJing while providing a hands-on environment to learn the essential skills of DJing. From set-up and signal flow to scratching and mixing, we will cover and practice all the various types of DJing elements. Some of the equipment and programs used will be turntables, mixers, CD tables, Kaoss pad, Traktor, Reason and Ableton Live. Come experience the culture of DJing with Pat the Cat and DJ Anlog.

[Via Ohio University's @Lab]

A Pity Party

Friday The Spacement hosted a benefit for Haiti, raising $115 for Doctors w/o Borders! Five Deadly Venoms, Spooktober, Sandcrawler, The Professionalisms, and the BustedBASS afterparty were all incredible.

Spacement appears in Backdrop Magazine

The Spacement appears in the winter issue of Backdrop Magazine, an OU student publication. The first shot is Alex Douglas from She Bears, below him is Bobb Hatt, "The Bearded Genius" who has also performed at our house on several occasions. There's no mention of our venue specifically though it is eluded to by DJ Shadowcat (a.k.a. Pat the Cat) in the second to last paragraph.

More Space-Themed Show

I guess I should have posted these last week when they were relevant, but we had two fantastic space-themed at my house last weekend. Here are the flyer designed by yours truly, video coming soon.
Oh, and Friday we're having a benefit for Haiti, The Professionalisms, Sandcrawler, Spooktober and the Five Deadly Venoms will be playing. I will DJ. You should come.

Beats Unlimited

The last two Thursdays I've been playing the hookah bar with drummer Stephen Swabek as what we call "Beats Unlimited." Check it out.

Beatz ULTD from Andrew Logan

3-Day DJ Stint

Tonight I'll be DJing at The Pigskin with Active Chainsaw, Madhat and Empty Cups, some other members of my ACRN Mobile Dept. 10pm-2am free, 21+
Thursday I'll be back at Athens Pyramids Hookah Bar with drummer Stephen Swabek for Beats Unlimited, a highly improvisational DJ/Drum combo that will rock your socks. 11pm free

Friday I will be spinning at Jackie O's for Brazilian Dance Night. 9pm 21+/$3 under/$5

Rubber Tree Quartet

Had a hella fun time recording these guys with my MDIA 414 class last quarter, check em out: rubbertreequartet.com

The bassist, Addi Somekh, has a solo project that's also awesome - free album download here. (Number 8 mixed by Scientist!)

Blithe Field @ The Spacement

Last Saturday this dude played the Spacement for the second time this weekend and he's easily the best downtempo act I've heard in Athens. Here's the first Spacement performance along with Shapeless Shadow's amazing light setup on Electronica Night January 16th.

Blithe Field @ The Spacement from Andrew Logan.

Whale Zombie rejuvenates Athens with lucid riffs, optimism

This article by Dani Purcell was published February 4th on ACRN.com. Excellent coverage - ACRN's editorial staff definitely has its finger to the pulse of the Athens music scene.

Baker Rollerjams

Here's a great video Kramer shot of me spinning 45s at the Baker Center rollerjam last Tuesday. The track is A Roller Skating Jam Named "Saturdays" by De La Soul.

Rollerbowl from Andrew Logan.

Studio C Videos

Here are a couple videos Sixseed produced of me spinning in Studio C.

Eightfold Path

The Spacement was featured in Vandal Production's Eightfold Path, a film made for Ohio University's 48-hour shootout!

Birthdayfest Footage

From my roommate Jansen's 22nd Friday! General Sherman and the Fried Peaches!

Daron DiSabato shot this amazingly.

More Spacement Video

I'm dedicated to catching up on Spacement video this week. To start here's Mr Leg and Shapeless Shadow's performance from electronica night 1/16 and Jay Harmon and The Francis Bacon Band from the night before!


Mr Leg @ The Spacement pt. 1 from Andrew Logan.

Shapeless Shadow @ The Spacement from Andrew Logan.

Jay Harmon & The Francis Bacon Band pt. 2 from Andrew Logan.

Spacement Dance Party

Friday is my twenty-second birthday, The Spacement is having a DJ Dance Party to commemorate.

Saturday we're having Manor Animals, She Bears, Grade School, and Monolithic Cloud Parade from Columbus, 8p-12a.