Charlie Olvera: A Blog

skeetonmischa:

“I Love Your Mary Jane” by Sonic Youth & Cypress Hill from the Judgment Night soundtrack

This is THE unlikliest of collaborations.  That does not make this bad, though.  Not in the least.  I guess it truly marks me as someone who grew up in the 1990’s that I have a completely irrational love for Cypress Hill.

Jonas Reinhardt- Modern By Nature’s Reward

This is basically Zombi, which, for those of you who are uninitiated, means that it’s synthy and awesome.  Enjoy!

BTW, if you AREN’T listening to Zombi, do yourself a favor and find a vinyl copy of “Surface To Air”.  Listen to it, alone, at night, on vinyl, with headphones (and your favorite listening refreshments), and see if you don’t have the absolute best vinyl listening experience of your life.  I dare you.

yousoldtheworld:

absurdlakefront:

robgonemild:

Snake River Conspiracy - “Lovesong” (Cover of The Cure)

While we’re on the topic of great covers of great rock songs from the 1980’s, dig this sweet cover of “Love Song”.  Totally sultry and sweaty: prime listening for summer nights.

bryanmckay:

Xiu Xiu, “Under Pressure” [ft. Michael Gira]

Loving this today.  Between Michael Gira (Swans alumni are ALWAYS welcome on Zombielectroniq) and the awesome Albert Ayler-esque sax freakouts in the background, this captures the frenetic, barely-held-together qualities of life that the song’s lyrics describe and that so many of us live on a day-to-day basis.  I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: “Under Pressure” is one of the top five rock and roll songs ever written, in my opinion.  Simply perfect songwriting.

RUSH and road trips-always a good choice (this post brought to you courtesy of this blog and theartabove.tumblr.com, who are currently rocketing through the hills of West Virginia in a brilliant Red Barchett- umm, Civic).

After a glut of contemporary art music posts, and as part of my ever-expanding effort to reduce my Tumblarity metric (not like it needs any help to constantly decrease, no matter what I do), I would remind everyone that it is, in fact, Metal Monday, and, as such, I’m obliged to put metal up on here.

So, without further ado, here’s some more metal for you.  I’m especially proud of this one: I learned to EQ (well, sort of)!  Plus, not to toot my own horn or anything, but there’s a hell of a guitar solo in this.  And a clean guitar part (note: I think this makes me not as metal anymore, which probably just means that my Tumblarity is going to decrease exponentially)!  If you like Gojira, Atheist, Cynic, or early Meshuggah, this is probably for you.  If you don’t like these bands, you should listen to it anyways, even if it means pausing your Matt and Kim or your Magnetic Fields or your Animal Collective or whatever the hell you kids listen to nowadays while Tumblin’.  I mean, it IS Metal Monday.  It’s sort of like a holy day, y’know.  

This is the finished version of the tech death song I posted a couple days ago.  I think it’s pretty killer: there are some sweet slam sections in there and a riff at the end that I think sounds like old-school Entombed or Dismember (which is, ideally, what I’m going for: a hybrid of old-school Swedish death sounds with tech death riffs).  I’ve said this before, but I love projects like this because every time I record something I get better at recording.  I’m still nowhere near perfect, or even good, but I think that my ears (and my hands) are getting better, and so are my recordings.  I’d like to try to release a full death/grind album this summer as one of my many summer projects: no promises, but we’ll see how far I get.  So far, so good!  Please let me know what you think (if you’re a metal kinda person, or even if you aren’t)!

deliciouslydelightful:

Bon Iver covering “Your Love” by The Outfield

What’s going on here? Oh, you know, nothing much.  Just reblogging Bon Iver because I like Bon Iver more than just about anything, that’s all.

I am compelled to give equal airtime to contemporary art music and death metal on this blog, so, after uploading two different “classical” soundbites, I’m going to balance things out a little with the Slayer song I reblogged from Bryan and this little guy here.  This is a technical death metal thing I started working on last night.  It’s nowhere near its finished conception, but it’s still rifftastic and I wanted you guys to hear it.  As always, let me know what you think!

Oh man, here it comes.  This is the premiere performance of “Modifiers #1” from Thursday.  I spent a few minutes mixing it, and I think it sounds pretty good for a board feed with two drum overheads and a kick mic.  Let me know what you think, and thanks to all to attended/watched online!

bryanmckay:

Slayer - “Raining Blood”

I refuse to accept your opinion that this song is anything less than awesome.

It isn’t enough to have a “like” button for this.  I need at least ten “like” buttons to communicate how much I like this song (although, it’s no “Show No Mercy”).