Last month, Flaming Lips leader Wayne Coyne announced that the band planned to release a free new song every month in 2011. Now, Coyne tells Spin that the band has plenty of other cool stuff in the works this year.
First: A collaboration with chillwave don Neon Indian. Coyne tells Spin that the band is going to New York to work on tracks with Neon Indian and longtime producer Dave Fridmann, and they want to release the music as quickly as possible: "We're going to do two or three songs with him, and that shit should be ready to go pretty quickly. I have a couple of tunes that he's heard, and we'll just do that shit and fix that up and fuck around together." Coyne recently posted a demo of a track that may become a Neon Indian collab. Coyne also tells Spin that he'd like to record similar collaborations with bands like Deerhoof and Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffitti.
The band is also getting together a big vinyl box set, Heady Nuggs: The First 5 Warner Bros. Records, 1992-2002, hopefully out in time for Record Store Day. (The Flaming Lips Tweeted a photo of the cover earlier this week.) And even more excitingly, the band is working on a phone-based reissue of Zaireeka, the 1997 album that many fans have still never properly heard. Zaireeka was originally released on four CDs, intended to be played simultaneously on four different CD players. (Pitchfork's own Mark Richardson wrote a book about the record.) For the reissue, the album will play simultaneously on four different cell phones. Coyne tells Spin that the phone version of Zaireeka will be out in the next 10 days.
Below, Coyne and bandmate Steven Drozd demonstrate how the reissue will work, proving in the process that it could be even more difficult to cue the record up on cell phones as it was to get all four CD players playing at the same time:
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Quite stoned.
2/23/11
Zaireeka for Mobile Phones?
Last month, Flaming Lips leader Wayne Coyne announced that the band planned to release a free new song every month in 2011. Now, Coyne tells Spin that the band has plenty of other cool stuff in the works this year.
First: A collaboration with chillwave don Neon Indian. Coyne tells Spin that the band is going to New York to work on tracks with Neon Indian and longtime producer Dave Fridmann, and they want to release the music as quickly as possible: "We're going to do two or three songs with him, and that shit should be ready to go pretty quickly. I have a couple of tunes that he's heard, and we'll just do that shit and fix that up and fuck around together." Coyne recently posted a demo of a track that may become a Neon Indian collab. Coyne also tells Spin that he'd like to record similar collaborations with bands like Deerhoof and Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffitti.
The band is also getting together a big vinyl box set, Heady Nuggs: The First 5 Warner Bros. Records, 1992-2002, hopefully out in time for Record Store Day. (The Flaming Lips Tweeted a photo of the cover earlier this week.) And even more excitingly, the band is working on a phone-based reissue of Zaireeka, the 1997 album that many fans have still never properly heard. Zaireeka was originally released on four CDs, intended to be played simultaneously on four different CD players. (Pitchfork's own Mark Richardson wrote a book about the record.) For the reissue, the album will play simultaneously on four different cell phones. Coyne tells Spin that the phone version of Zaireeka will be out in the next 10 days.
Below, Coyne and bandmate Steven Drozd demonstrate how the reissue will work, proving in the process that it could be even more difficult to cue the record up on cell phones as it was to get all four CD players playing at the same time:
more..
Quite stoned.
