12/11/08
Added the track, "Quiet Echos Left"
08/22/08
Brand new site design! Things were getting mighty stale looking there for awhile. Pixeldusters dropped this at the doorstep this AM.
The latest stuff is mostly remixes of yesterday's gems: Welcome to Banares, A Little Sugar, and So Whatcha Want are all worth a download.
Bigside Left has been cooking funky breaks with red meat and heartburn-inducing spices since 1995. Accessible and upbeat melodies pulled from every edge of terra firma, Large (yes, with a capital fucking L) funky breaks and your mother's best a capellas all tied up together: that's Bigside Left... some genuinely tasty shit.
Bigside Left strays from traditional arrangement in favor of loose compositions, which quickly jump from one aesthetic to another. Most music under the same color umbrella relies on repetition, and so too does Bigside Left, though the left-shit breaks the monotony so often employed by similar artists through contrasting wildly divergent perspectives under the consistency of a common breakbeat. While maintaining a constant groove, Bigside Left will flip the listener's expectation, mixing together easy-listening melodies, jazzy stand-up bass lines, sci-fi narratives, and ethnic instrumentation in rapid succession.
The eclectic mix that makes up a Bigside Left track is a refreshing postmodern recipe best served on a 1200 platter next to a tall glass of beer.
WB Television's "Pix at
Night" Promo using some of the Bigside track, "Jennifer"
WMV1
What's On Your Mind
WMV
Doin My Thing
MPEG
Within Earshot (collaboration
with Trancenden)
MPEG
So What (Remix) "The Night of the Living Dead"
is a fantastic movie and was recently moved to public domain. It gets
the Bigside Left treatment with a remix of Ministry's "So What."
MPEG
RCA Turntable Commercial Remix
Sorry, source files have disappeared, thus all you get is realplayer
stream:
Realplayer
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percussive prowess?
Send flowers? Pay millions for your new Volkswagon commercial?
Perhaps you'd just like to mail some protest feces... Whatever the case,
you can get in touch with Bigside Left in the following ways:
Email
ryan@squidattack.com
Phone
718-857-5596
Quiet Echos Left
Something relatively different from most tracks listed on this page. Dub elements and robots converse re: spacetime continuum.
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Welcome to Banares
Remix of Ustad Vilayat Khan's Arrival In Benares (From Merchant Ivory's Film The Guru)
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A Little Sugar
Another remix of magic from the past... This one is based on Sugar Shack. There's also a version with The Beastie Boy's "So Whatcha Want" accapella on top (following track).
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Beastie Boys - So Whatcha Want
Remix (A Little Sugar)
Same track as above with Beasties vocals.
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Sitting All Alone
Standard Bigside Left Meal with some fun samples to point out: The Swingle Singers' - Bach's Largo from the Harpsichord Concerto in F minor and Don Covay's - Come See About Me
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Black Eyed Peas vs. Perez Prado
Mash-up
My Humps over Perez and some breaks:
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The Lennon Sisters - Where Have All the Flowers Gone
Remix
Lawrence Welk Classic gets an update:
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Yeungling Remixes
Remixes of Yeungling (see original farther down the page) by Tal M. Klein,
Skizzo Franick, and Prehensile:
MP3 Skizzo
Franick - Yeungling
MP3 Tal M.
Klein - Yeungling
MP3 Prehensile
- Yeungling
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Winter Compilation 2005-2006
Eight and a half minutes of last year's goodies... Includes Whiner,
the Pass the Dutch remix's beats, and much more.
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420 Blackbirds (We've Had Our Share)
This short track is a total oddball. 3/4 breaks carry Bo Duke's sad guitar through the curves and round the bend.
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Deuente - Multi-Panel
Remix
The Netherlands' Ludo Maas aka Multi-Panel does some really cool folksy-lofi-electronica goodness. His track, "Deunte"
gets the remix treatment with the horsie breaks:
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Pass the Dutch - Missy Elliot Remix
Missy and all the asian goodies. This instrumental is part of "Winter Compilation 2005-2006"
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All Lifestyles - Beastie Boys
Remix
Shortie Remix of the Beastie Boy's track with asian Bach loops. Reappears in Winter Compilation 2005-2006
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Whiner
This one's got all the regular bigside spices and a few leftovers from
the freezer. Reappears in Winter Compilation 2005-2006
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Horseback Riding Techniques
Vol. 2
More of Vol. 1
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Horseback Riding Techniques
Vol. 1
Hammonds, Horsies, and LARGE breaks-GIDDYUP!
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What's On Your Mind
Belly dancer's rhythms with some good ol American blues...
Don't miss the video.
Stream / MP3
Yeungling
Fussing with the past results in something else. This got remixed several times, the results of which are posted above...
MP3 | Cover Art | iTunes store linke to AYB compliation
International Bankin
Lots of beats from percussionists around the world. This one
made an appearance on Aniligital's All Your Beats Are Belong To Us compilation.
Stream | MP3 | Cover Art | iTunes store link to AYB compilation
Next Level
Eastern winds and strings float alongside heavy break
and deep analogue thumps.
Stream | MP3
Short Stories
Just as the name suggests, several different themes are crammed
into one package. These six minutes of random thoughts also appeared
on the AYB compilation. Nick Zlonis on the tables
Stream | MP3 | iTunes store link to AYB compilation
Doin My Thing
Western funk essentials baked with middle eastern vocals. Check
the video too.
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Scientists Discover Jesus In Hawaii
A group of nerds in the 1950s found Jesus H Christ himself
chilling on the beach in Hawaii. JC haunts with steel guitars and hula
girls.
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Travel Far
Ode to the flying bars of yesterday. This track starts off with a filtered sample of Todd Rungren's Hello and quickly falls into middle eastern oddities accompanied by disco synths.
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Voice of Truth
Bigside Left says "fuck off, Mr. Bush" with organs
and traps.
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Jennifer
For a lovely lady who goes by the name Jennifer. Cheezy organs
over... you guessed it, hard breaks... what else?
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Auctioning My Notions
Another political track put together shortly after Bush's initiation of the "War on Terror"... Mechanical rhythms and southern cattle auctioneers support eastern melodies.
Bass provided by Dexter Methorphan.
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Hula Girl
(Mercurial Remix of the original ether-floating Bigside Left track)
This one was initially just a few loops and a flash movie...
Nate turned this into something MUCH more than it was initially. Vocals are
by Michelle Maslen.
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A Good Listener
Fun one: learn to listen and avoid "production breakdowns."
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Cha Cha
Happy go fucking lucky, short romp into the cheeziest dimension
of the universe.
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Armenia
This is the oldest track posted here; done in 98 or 99...
The first of many tracks with the middle eastern vibe. A friend brought
back lots of recordings from a Peace Corps trip to Armenia and dropped
them in front of the sampler.
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