September 7, 2010
Paisley Babylon is about the unleash Beautiful Chaos upon the great city of Chicago. Beautiful Chaos is Paisley Babylon’s electronica/live mashup multi-media happening–five turntables, five echo boxes, two mixers, video and a whole lot of retro/future sounds mashed up live for a full consciousness reboot.
Details are being finalized for three shows in the Chicago [...]
September 6, 2010
Paisley Babylon has been getting much more active in the last few months and it's high time the regular updates started. After all, you don't want to miss a single hallucinatory moment…do you?
August 1, 2010
The Paisley Babylon show Beautiful Chaos is now available for booking at art galleries, in-stores, venues and performance spaces. Beautiful Chaos operates in a twilight zone between art, music, DJing and performance art. Every performance is different, combining the best elements of live performance, DJing, multi-media barrage and dance party.
Beautiful Chaos features five turntables hooked [...]
August 1, 2010
Paisley Babylon is in the studio rehearsing for a multi-media performance to be announced soon. What you’re about to hear is an hour’s worth of sonic weirdness–live mashups and mixes using a variety of sources including three turntables all going at once.
It’s a sound collage, music mix and live mashup being rehearsed in preparation for [...]
July 24, 2010
Join me tonight (Saturday July 24) at 9PM at Lucky Number Grill for a full evening of disco fever, with zombie make-up done on location and all the boogie-down you can stand. I’ll be spinning the mirror-ball madness from 9 til 2. Come out for some DJ Paisley Babylon fun and a GREAT crowd of [...]
July 22, 2010
Guitar Hero for the Commodore 64 computer system? Some kinds of madness transcends both the medium AND the message of the presentation. This is all at once the most pointless thing ever done and the coolest. Why would you want to play Guitar Hero on the C64? For the same reasons people climb Mt. Everest–just [...]
July 21, 2010
Now THIS is some serious retro video. Andy Warhol typified so much of every decade he was active in, from the 60s to the 80s. Warhol is one of those public figures that fascinates even as you wonder what the big deal was all about- a combination of sophistication and blinding simplicity.
The greatest thing about [...]
July 20, 2010
I love retro drive-in culture. Especially grindhouse trailers. Here’s one in that classic 70s tradition for They Came From Within, which is actually pretty good. Sometimes the trailer is the ONLY entertaining thing about drive-in grindhouse flicks, but this time that is DEFINITELY not true. This is the first of many many 70s drive-in trailer [...]
July 20, 2010
This most excellently retro album cover from 1965 comes courtesy of the delightful LP Cover Lover, which is a favorite of mine. One of the awesome things about this particular look is the “future now” vibe. I’m a sucker for those squeaky-clean whites and the rounded corners that let you know this girl just might [...]
July 19, 2010
Adventures in Retro isn’t just a catchy slogan round here…I’m a huge fan of culture artifacts from the 60s through 90s…including this deliciously cornball commercial from the America Dairy Association. Look at this stuff–the design, the music, that eye makeup! We laugh at this stuff now, but it was cutting edge in its own time, [...]
