Live ON Stage: Born Ruffians featuring The Paint Movement --- Mississauga celebration square

I must say the free concerts every friday in the celebration square are quite entertaining.

Lots of talent.

The Paint Movement

THE iDENTiTY CRiSiS - "She Just Wants Me For My Body / Let's Go to the Cougar Bar"

This is my boy Paul, getting down.
Directed by Mr Adam Schafer... lets do drinks soon!

Trouble Again (Droids Theme Song) by MEGASHAUN

From his website...

This is a cover of the theme song to the cartoon, Droids. According to Wikipedia, that Internet resource of knowledge that is never wrong*, the song was originally performed by Stewart Copeland of the Police and written by Copeland and Derek Holt.

I do not own the rights to the song, but hey, it's a cover!

I find this song a little hard to sing without using my "growly" voice so instead I opted to attempt some form of harmonizing.

I recorded this entirely on August 15, 2011 using my netbook, Reaper, a Korg Monotribe, Korg Kaoss Pad Quad, Korg Kronos Music Workstation, and a Samson Meteor Mic for the vocals. My band, Cobra, does a cover of this song in our live show whenever our guitarist breaks a string.

Yall need to check BONJAY!

I just discovered them as of last night, and I am really enjoying this sound and feel of music.
I have not been able to obtain enough information so I am hijacking their info from their facebook page...

"Drawing their name from spice island slang for "Good God!", Bonjay were born in a basement at Ottawa's legendary Disorganised parties. What began as a simple crowd pleasing party lark has developed into a serious commitment to songwriting and production, including remixes for labels like Mad Decent, Ninjatune and Ghetto Arc (XL Recordings).

With Alanna on the mic and Pho on beats & effects, their live performance is a high-energy sound system of bass and soul. Dancehall innovation, indie sentiments, and R&B hooks - these are the sounds booming out from the jeeps, towers and headphones of young Toronto, and Bonjay makes them their own."

My interview with Toronto electronic musician "Luna Seaux"

Keef- Please do tell us who you are and what you do?

Luna - I guess I could say that I am a pianist, composer, music producer, and student of music.

I am still studying and learning as always.

I started playing the piano at the age of 2, Beethoven and Mozart were my earliest favorites.

Mainly, I improvise a lot on the piano, and write piano pieces and I write my other stuff on my mac.

I produce and write my own music, but sometimes I help produce other musicians as well.

Keef- I have spent a while on soundcloud checking all your music. I especially liked "fate cheating ghost in the mirror" and "45kg of existence"

I find electronic music has way too many genres, its IDM, its breakcore, its glitch... forget classifying it, just describe to us what your music is and the sound you create.


  fate cheating ghost in the mirror by LUNASEAUX


  45kg of existence by LUNASEAUX

Luna- Thank you for checking out my stuff, I really sincerely appreciate it.

As I have mentioned earlier, I grew up with classical music, and when I was about 14 I fell in love with reggae and hip-hop,

I was also a huge fan of brit pop/rock. I used to break dance and tried to freestyle too. haha

Then I got into the whole punk/hardcore scene eventually. I taught myself how to play the guitar, and I got my first guitar

from a friend. It's a 80s Japanese metal guitar by Jackson. A lot people laughed at me, and most of people didn't take me seriously because I was a girl, and this offended me greatly. After playing a show at school as a bassist and vocal, I eventually got over Johnny Rotten and Sid Vicious, that's when I discovered "Atari Teenage Riot", a band I respect the most.

As I am answering this, I am listening to their legendary album "Live At Brixton Academy 1999". I first bought "60 second wipe out" and I was totally blown away, not only because I haven't heard anything like this before, but the noise production by Nic Endo   had such a huge impact on me. I eventually got to listen to her solo album "White Heat" and I discovered a whole new world. At that time I didn't know anything about electronic music at all, I didn't know how people created it let alone who else was making electronic music. Neither did I ever know I would be making this kind of music years later!

The reason why I am mentioning a bit of my music history here is because I am not into music for its kind, but rather for what it is. I do not classify between genres, let alone intend to make certain genre. I do sometimes think 'okay, I better add some rap to this one', but it has never turned out as a "hip-hop" or "rap" .

If I like what I hear, then it's great music- it's quite simple that way. sometimes I hear people telling me 'this sound like this' and that really surprises me, because I work with the sound and image that's in my mind and when the work is complete, I do not think about "okay, this is glitchcore" or something. I make what I make, and when it's done it's done.

I do make fun of my own music for not being able to fit into any genres actually.. some words I use to describe my music are "lunaticore" (because my name is Luna) "randomcore" (because I sample random noises and riffs and orchestrate them) or "yabaikore" (yabai means "radical" or "dangerous" in Japanese language)

Keef- How long have you been making music ?

Luna -I seriously can not remember how long I have been making music... I do remember quitting playing the piano when I was 13 but I have resumed my studies and practices about 3 years ago, even when I quit the piano, I still wrote songs on the piano, and sang as well.

As for electronic music I think it has been almost 4 years now. I started out when I moved to a small town, I was bored out of my mind and I had no friends whatsoever, so I started to play around with sounds and effects and eventually made my first song called "Infinite Zer0" 
  Infinite Zer0 (MRIC RMX) by LUNASEAUX



Surprisingly I got real good responses so, I started keep on making tracks, then I released my first album called "KAMIKAKUSHI" and an EP called "Prepared Razor". After that it became kind of my thing.

(Album art by "Christine Gho" http://sundaymorning13.deviantart.com/)

Keef -Where do you see your music going down the road, and where would you like to see your music go?

Luna- I plan to study and learn, I feel there is a lot of things that I don't know about. I am a very curious person, and I want to get to know all kinds of music that was ever made.

The two things in life, that I am mostly passionate about is music and film, I want to write film scores eventually. I also want to play the piano as well, and I have a whole stage set-up in my head already, but I'd like to improve myself further before I start. My goal is to become a versatile musician and work with various people from various industries.

I want to make music for films, animes, even soap operas, and also for fashion shows! I am not anti anything, I want to be involved with all forms of art.

Keef-What is the deal with Lativia?

Luna -I realized for a week or so, Latvia was the place where most of my listeners were from, so I started out saying I should tour around Latvia as a joke. It would be really cool if I could but as of now, I can't tour due to health and finance reasons.




Keef -Thank you for your Time Luna, I love what you are doing. I hope to see you opening for Atari Teenage Riot, or doing some music with Nic Endo in the near future.

CHECK HER WORK, WEBSITES... ALL HERE!

	http://soundcloud.com/lunaseaux http://lunaseaux.bandcamp.com/ http://www.youtube.com/user/LunaSeauxCha... http://www.twitter.com/lunaseaux http://lunaseaux.tumblr.com/ http://www.mixcloud.com/myrageincage/ http://mixi.jp/view_community.pl?id=4891200
	facebook.com/lunaseaux

Toot my own horn...

I made this song and video in about a day, just messing around with my mac.
I am planning on making a cd, a free download... enjoy.

HOLOGRAM STRIPPER from Keith Oman on Vimeo.

O.A.K. (Ontario Artistic Kinship)

This page has been created for many reasons, but most importantly is to give the artistic and creative people of Ontario exposure and to connect with one another. Creativity is the seed and it grows and branches out...

Welcome to the 1st post...

This is the blog known as ONTARIO - YOURS TO UNCOVER. We have so much talent in this great province and it needs to be known. We need to spread the good word of our artistic talents who live amongst us!

I have come across a lot of talented people over the years, everyone from screen printers, to turntablist, to comic book artist to video producers. They have done a lot for me, so why not try and give back to them.

I also want to give exposure to all the talent we have, if it helps people get noticed, if it gets more people to show up at there venue, if it gets people to download a track off itunes... here you go!

I like to call this lil movement O.A.K. (Ontario Artistic Kinship)

This blog is for announcements, up coming concerts for local talents, interviews, cd releases, profiles, art work, art shows, ... you name it. I love posting videos, so if you have one, let me know!

Now for the who's who on the title wall...

1st off top left hand corner -DJ LAW, he is one of Torontos best HIP HOP DJ's

his myspace link RIGHT HERE

I went to public school with LAW, we have been listening to hip hop since the early 80s man, no jive!

He always has dope mix tapes for you to bump... watch for them!!

On the top to your right is SKULLMAN from Boxwars! Boxwars is the next big thing, no wait it IS A BIG THING! You wear armor made of cardboard and you go to war bashing the shit out of each other!

I have met Skullman, and have talked to him more then once...Skullman is great in person yet a total destructive force on the battlefield!

Check SKULLMANS BOX-WARS LINK RIGHT HERE

The middle on the left is my good friend William Primrose of Rattailfilms along with video producer Phil Sportel. Will is co-owner of this company along with my girlfriend Cindy Choy.

The company has a great studio, and equipment to shoot everything from music videos to commercials and at a price that is very hard to beat.

They specialize in working with independent musicians and film directors.

Phil is a very talented director, he has made videos for Colin Munroe and Johnny Polygon and many more. He has had his videos play on Much Music, and were featured on Kayne Wests and Perez Hiltons blogs.

Please check RATTAILFILMS RIGHT HERE!

On the far right of the middle row is Brother Dalit aka Unknown Mizery.

This guy is off the chain, I love what he is doing!!

Get familiar with him, real hip hop!!

Check his page RIGHT HERE!

The bottom middle is Misty Rock n' roll, she chews bubble gum and kicks ass...and right now she is all out of bubble gum!

She is a DJ on CKLN, her show "The demons lair" is on every Wed night/thurs morn starting at 2am and ending at 6. Listen at WWW.CKLN.FM

She also kicks ass as a DJ, I have to see her spin one night...any girl that plays SURF ROCK is kick ass!!

Her page is RIGHT HERE!

Last but not least is "Just Gita" who I have met more then once and she is "Just fantastic!"

This girl can sing, she has performed several times at Toronto functions and she blows people away with that voice.

Check her webpage RIGHT HERE!

All respect due, I have a bunch of other people who may feel like I left them out...but I can assure you, you will be on this blog. I also plan to change the picture showcasing everyone about every 6 months.

So... here we go...