High Fashion Crime Scenes

You know how it is. You're inside working late and need a little visceral jolt to the brain (either for a quick inspirational injection or purely cathartic release). i could definitely use both as i'm going through and editing some vocal parts i recorded earlier that, honestly, i'll probably delete tomorrow upon hearing them fresh. So for me and for you, wherever you are, get those synapses firing with some gorgeous imagery from Melanie Pullen HERE. A friend of mine recently turned me on to her work and i love it in all it's vivid stillness...hard.





bret

Disembodied Bondage Face Is Watching You Read This.

Last weekend i went to a killer exhibition at the Cpop Gallery in Detroit and had to refrain from soiling myself in absolute glee from the all the amazing, eye-sexing works on display. Everything from traditional paintings to mixed media, even dresses made of pig gut suspended from the ceiling. All of it provocative, dangerous and inspiring. Loved that little place so much i wanted to take up residence in the duct system (because i can fit), surviving on a stash of discarded half-full bags of Doritos and prison wine. i snapped a pic on the phone of this large sculpted face that i thought was cool as all merciful hell, and reminded me of friends from back home. This sucker would NOT fit in my car (and i was asked to stop trying)



This little expedition into awesome got me thinking, i'll bet the people reading this page have some impeccable taste when it comes to art (but they listen to Blue Stahli anyway). So let me know in the comments, what is some of the most inspiring, interesting, stimulating, shocking, touching, etc. art to YOU?


bret

New home and Race To Witch Mountain

-After much debate, a full on "dot com" blog has just been set up for me! The debate being "Should they even DO this? Would i just post things like telling people that if they subscribe and give me their credit card info that i'll take my shirt off? Possibly offer to dance for them?" That's a valid fear...but i *already* run around in various states of undress for free, so with the worry of solicitation out of the way bluestahli.com is active as all living hell!




-i was just informed today that my track "Leadfoot Getaway" from the Antisleep Vol 01 album will be in the new trailer for Race To Witch Mountain! i was *huge* fan of the original and pretty much wore out at least one VHS from watching it a bit too much, resulting in the cassette looking like a prop from Videodrome. Afterwards i was convinced that i could give any random Winnebago the power of flight using only my mind. Turns out i'm not that bright and am also not a character in a Disney movie. i was a little worried when i heard they were remaking it, but after seeing the theatrical trailer, i can safely say that i'll be seeing the hell out of this mofo when it comes out. Got a little something for everybody. Adventure, a cool robot-thing, explosions, chase sequences...The Rock will most assuredly punch something or someone at least once.

BT Remix!!

-Earlier on, i teased about having some cool big news soon. i tried to draw out the tension by leaving clues and riddles written on walls around the city. Didn't quite work. Not only because the 3 people that listen to Blue Stahli don't actually live in Detroit, but as a passerby pointed out to me there were 2 things wrong with what i was doing:

1. Tagging a wall with crayon is not considered "hardcore".

2. Crayola Brick Red does NOT show up on a brick wall.


Fine. Since this is announcement day, here's the ending to the big tension campaign: Bruce Willis was dead the whole time! . . . Sorry, that was the Shyamalan twist . . . the ACTUAL news is that Klayton and i were approached by BT to do some remix action. i dig BT's stuff quite a bit, so to get the opportunity to tear it apart, run it through distortion and jack my guitars and bass to 11 and attack it like i caught it breaking into my house is pretty freaking exciting!

The name of the track i'm doing is "Feed The Monster" and i have one of my favorite things in the world to play with...sassy female vocals. i love sassy female vocals more than oxygen (which ive been told i need to live...i didn't say it was an entirely healthy love). i got to listen to what Klay had rocking on his remix yesterday and HOLY CRAP...it's freaking sick! It *instantly* makes you need to move upon hearing it. Klay asked why i was violently spasming during playback. i replied "That's how i dance, fool!" So there's your warning, Klay's mix WILL make you want to simultaneously shake your ass and bang your head. Check out more details from him at his blog HERE.

What does my remix sound like? Hopefully like every Jason Statham movie condensed into a double barreled blast to the face while careening through downtown on a nitro powered bulldozer.


-Oh, and for those of you into the whole micro-blogging Twitter thing, i should be consistently making an ass out of myself over at
http://twitter.com/bluestahli


bret

Bitch Slap!

-Now THIS is exciting... 'Kill Me Every Time' and 'Scrape' (both from my upcoming album) will be featured in the new movie "Bitch Slap"! It looks like a hellspawned rollercoaster ride of sex, violence and snappy dialogue...so they managed to combine all of my interests into one film. This thing screams 'Tarantino/Rodriguez wet dream' (and i'm actually shocked those guys aren't hiding in the background), but the filmmakers of this might be claiming that throne. This will be one of the *greatest* things put to celluloid.

Here is the Red Band trailer in HD. Your first warning is to prepare yourself, because this is an onslaught of carnal radness and badassery. Your second warning is that if you're unfamiliar with the term "red band", it means the actual *interesting* trailer featuring more sex, violence and saucy language than normal watered down TV trailers. If you are easily offended...why the hell do you listen to this music?]:



Go to the official website HERE and take a look around. This is going to be fun...


-On the new music front...there's a lot going on that i can't wait for you guys to hear! the next song ULTRAnumb was completed just before the end of December and is waiting to be mixed and released to you guys. Another song "Throw Away" just needs some finishing tweaks (that one is more on the downtempo side), and i'm working on something right now with chainsaw guitars, slamming beats, searing synths and should be the equivalent of of drinking 80 bottles of those 5-hour energy drinks. As always, as each song is finished, it gets posted up here and released through FiXT so you can have it "right-freaking-now". There is a LOT of new music coming your way! Stay tuned...

bret

Intervew & Mashups

INTERVIEW (NO...NO VAMPIRES, SORRY)
-For reasons i can't quite figure out, the people at Sphere Magazine wanted to ask me a few questions (aside from "what the hell is wrong with you?" and "why don't you stop this?" or the typical "why does your hair look like a melted pile of My Little Ponies?"). You can check it out HERE

MASHUPS BY AGGRO1
-It should be noted that i love the high holy hell out of mashups, remixes and anything involving cutting/splicing/hacking/slashing (that's why i always watch the surgery channel in my underwear in a darkened room). Aggro1 Is one of the reigning kings of the mashup action [go ahead, click that little link and find out]. Recently i stumbled across a few mashups he did of a few Antisleep Vol. 01 tracks, so i thought i'd post 'em here for you guys to snag. Pass 'em around to your friends, post on blogs, get inspired to do your own (and don't forget to drop by Aggro1's site and show him some love [as long as you buy him dinner and a movie first]).

Here's my favorite one:
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HERE is a little slice of Korn vs. Blue Stahli

And here's some Soundgarden action (leading to a Reeses commercial i'd like to see "You got your Jesus Christ Pose in my High Heeled Low Life..." and so on).

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i think this stuff is cool as all living hell. i hope more people jump on this, i love hearing it!

Oh, and by the way...the next single is called "ULTRAnumb" and is ready to be mixed and then will be up in the player ASAP. Have to say again, i'm really excited to be able to let you guys hear the songs for the official debut album as soon as i write them...it would kill me to have to wait. i'm partway through another song right now that should be perfect for long drives into oblivion... stay tuned

bret