so the fine peoples over at cdbaby tagged my “Sarge Shukar Rough” album for a featured playlist on the homepage. The playlist is called “The Final Frontier” and I believe it has some tie in to the great hype of the new Star Trek movie. Its pretty funny cause the description of my album starts off with “While most musicians claim they herald from Outer Space, Elijah B Torn is not an episode of Star Trek”! Pretty cool that technology can work in my favor that way! Plus its playlist 33 which is a pretty rad number.

Also- I had a freaking blast playing with Hans Blix last week and in Ithaca last weekend. The ‘BLix rules and we played three tunes together. David Ezra Brown and Dj Laiki killed it real nice and got the Ithacans dancing! I got to bring out my midi controlled dinosaur for the first time too! Really enjoyed rocking the MIDI_EXP! You can read my full interview in the Ithaca times on their arts blog Popcorn Youth right here. Pictures and hopefully video to follow soon!

Also- someone just pointed out to me that Don’t Cry its only Sarge was a song of the day on Yes Yes Yall… some time back, awesome! click here

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hey everyone!

weather is changing, birds is chirping, sloths sez hai, turtles is breeding and I got TWO SHOWS this weeeeeeeek. I’ll be rockin with the bass, the loop and a whole bunch of other beat blipping nonsense both in the city and upstate! Rumor has it I might have some dinosaur midi-controllers floating around too!

I got TWO SHOWS this weeeeeeeek. I’ll be rockin with the bass, the loop and a whole bunch of other beat blipping nonsense both in the city and upstate! Rumor has it I might have some dinosaur midi-controllers floating around too!

quick news- a Public Service Announcement commercial I did at MassiveMusic was picked for Shoot magazine’s Music TOP 10. Check it out here.

Check out my interview in the Ithaca Times here! Big thanks to Natasha Li Pickowicz for asking such fun questions!

here are the shows-
Thursday May 7th - for those Downstaters in the City, I will be playing at the Tealounge in Brooklyn with Hans Blix. I will be performing at 9pm. Then Hans Blix and I will play together for a while. THEN around 1030ishhhhh Hans Blix will wow your socks off with all new tunes and all live electronicawesomisty!

Saturday May 9th - for the Upstaters, I will be playing at The Lost Dog in Ithaca for an End-of_Semester all out extravaganza. Mind-trippin’, luscious downtempo rocking Ithaca resident David Ezra Brown will kick things off, I will go on round xxx o’clock with Ithaca’s own DJ Laika and VJ Philosophia of will bring the house throughout the night. Show starts at 10pm.

can’t wait to see you all soon and happy day for all the Moms!

Elijah Bee Thorne

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On Thursday April the Second in the Year Two-Thousand and Nine, it was writ and entered into the annals of history that I won a composer award in the 10th Annual First Boards Awards for my work with MassiveMusic!

The First Boards Awards “celebrates the international industry’s top emerging talent from a series of categories including director, editor, composer, designer, animator and agency producer”. The event is hosted by Boards Magazine which is the leading industry publication about the international business of commercial production. Its read monthly by over 13,000 agency producers, creatives, production and post-production company executives, artisans, reps and I have an interview and profile in the April issue! You can read or download that here. The other finalists are some awesomely badass peoples including Director Nima Nourizadeh (Flight of the Conchords, ADIDAS House Party commercial(which MassiveMusic also did the licensing for), Trish Sie (who directed the Ok Go music videos on the treadmills) and a ton of other amazing Editors, Animators, and Graphic Artists! I am flattered and honored to be included in this group! (you can check out all the winners here).

A huge thank you to Boards Magazine, all of the judges, MassiveMusic and to YOU for reading this!

(a very thankful)

Elijah B Torn

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Hey Hey Everyone, hope you are have a Happy Sunday!

Whole bunch of (free) news which i have outlined for speedy readers on the go (more expanded details flow freely after)

1. new Hans Blix EP with an Elijah B Torn Remix/Dub all for FREE!!! click here!
2. Puremagnetik custom “Elijah B Torn” artist kit (for FREE download) click here to check that out!
3. Elijah B Torn song on Recessioned.com TV (watch for FREE!!!)
4. Whole big bunch of Shows Coming up! (some for FREE!!!) Brooklyn April 4th, Brooklyn May 7th and in Ithaca May 9th

the more detailed infos-

HANS BLIX is pleased to offer their new EP “State” fantastically recession priced at free. Please visit www.hansblixband.com and click “Download State.” The link will take you to a page with two high resolution formats to download and also to hear 2 remix tracks by Elijah B. Torn and Jon Sheldrick (Fatty Acid). We hope you enjoy! We hope you enjoy, and look for Blix next at the Tea Lounge with Elijah Torn in May and at several festivals this summer (more info to come).

Puremagnetik now has Artist Kits as free downloads on their site. click here to check out my “Manxome Chemtrails” drum patches. It includes 3 circuit bending, glitching and sonically scientific signature kits for Ableton Live. They all have plenty of tweaking capabilities and like the name implies slithy Grokking Good Times and grittiness! check em out and drop them in your beats! There are also kickass kits from such talented artists as Gregory Shiff, Kamoni and Neon Stereo. If you havent checked out my interview with Puremagnetik check that out here.

Recessioned- me Musics on another short film!
I gots a piece of music on the awesome new website from Gabriella Kessler and Bryan Carlin.
click here and then click on 64 bond st.
what is Recessioned?
Recessioned is a lifestyle magazine for the recession.
Recessioned is the place for practical advice on how to do things on the cheap.
Recessioned is the place you go to after you’ve received an email saying that this is possibly the worst time to be looking for a job.
Recessioned is the place you go to when it’s 1am and you’ve made the mistake of checking your bank balance and can’t fall back asleep.
Recessioned is a community for you and me and everyone else not covered by the bailout.
plus I think they coined the term “recessionista”!

and last but not least- come see me live at one of my…
UPCOMING SHOWS-
Saturday April 4th at TwentyFour/7 in Brooklyn 247 Stuyvesant Ave, between Putnam and Madison
Thursday May7th at the Tealounge in Brooklyn with HANS BLIX!! 837 Union Street FREE!!!
Saturday May 9th at the Lost Dog in Ithaca

all that a bag of chips, an album and your choice of fountain soda!!!

much love till my next visit to the grid…

Elijah B Torn

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“If you could invent something, what would it be?

I would probably want to invent some sort of amplification device using HyperSonicSound so I can broadcast my music directly into people’s minds. Maybe something that alters their visual cortex as well and creates visual hallucinations that are controlled by my music as well?”

read more here

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Two quick things-

FIRST: I will be doing a DJ set at APT on Thursday January 29th around 9pmish in the Meatpacking district of the NYC! woohoo! APT has been the home to DJ greats such as Bobbito, Ursula1000 and Chairman Mao. This event is hosted by the all mighty Dubspot.

For those of you who don’t yet know-DubSpot is a world-class electronic music production and DJ institute in New York City. Most importantly, DubSpot is a growing community of musicians, visual artists, DJs, audio technology professionals, industry veteran producers, and enthusiasts of all genres who all have one thing in common: a love for music. Basically- if you want start to DJ or produce electronic music or hone your skills of audio destruction- this is THE place to learn. they have awesome facilties, the most kickass staff you will meet and a cafe!

I will be Djng some hiphop, IDM, classic soul and reggae, jams, breaks, cuts, experimental nonsense! Click here to get listen to an idea of what I’ll be throwing down.

SECOND: I will be performing/playing the music of myself- WEDNESDAY- February 4th- It is the 3rd Anniversary of the Warper Party!!! This is huge!! 3 years!!! It’s back at the Delancey where it got itself named of TimeOutNY’s party MUST GO TO’s!!! The parties have only gotten more banannas and the community is stronger than ever!!

I will be performing/playing at 9:50 downstairs BUT the whole night is gonna be a combination of Warper All-stars and blazing new-comers! From “The Overclock Orchestra’s highly anticipated return to renowned Dj Shakey, the notorious- !nclude, the brains behind Hobo-tek- Jon Margulies as well as - Plus VJs’, art installations, light installations and other rawesome activities!

AND i have all my ducks in line so to speak! I have restocked my new “album” You Are Lucky I am Not a Vigilante in its duck form!@ so you purchase one (or two) up at the Warper! (also on iTunes- click the link on the sidebar=>

hope you are all having a lovely 2009 even though time does both exist and non-exist. anything is compossible!

Elijah!

check out warperparty.com for full lineup!

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Hey People of the Future!

2009 is all up on us and unless you are a Microsoft Zune than we are all recovered from eggnog-holiday gift-wrapped goodness and right back to work/school! So Let’s ring in the start of a new Year with some live music!

Saturday January 10th, 200Nine-
Spike Hill
184 Bedford Ave
Brooklyn NY
FREE!!!
8pm- Elijah B Torn (your humble narrator)
9pm- Gold Streets
10pm- Hans Blix

I have yet to see Gold Streets but apparently they kick much ass. I always love me some Hans Blix! They always kick ass live and you can purchase their album (that I mixed) or check out some of their new material here. kickass.

also- For “You Are Lucky I am Not a Vigilante”, I did chose NOT to make any CD’s and put my album on iTunes as a digital only release. However you can still pick one up at my shows in a very special form…

what is the best way to hide contraband?! in Toys of course!!

so….I chose to put my album as fully CD quality 16bit 44k aiff files on a 2GB usb mini drive INSIDE a special Elijah B Torn rubbery ducky! Since it is a harddrive with more than enough room this also has pre-ripped unlocked mp3s, the preview video, FULL quality artwork (so you can print it out and put it on your college dorm wall next to Van Gogh and Bob?) AS well as a super special old school interactive printout you can put in the MAILbox and send to people you love (to hate)! PLUS its a reuseable 2GB harddrive!!! all for the low low price of a CD!!! (cat not included)

it seems that NASA seemed to have a similar idea too….click here

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but i’m loud! i had a blast playing at the Tealounge last night!!!

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check it out everyone!! Matt Saunders has used GunMusic 3 from “You Are Lucky I am Not a Vigilante” on his newest animation- “A Conversation”! check it out and then check out some of his other videos on how he makes some of this badass and totally unique shorts!

A conversation from Matt Saunders on Vimeo.

woohoo!

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