tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73785245675326591952024-03-05T12:20:59.885+02:00So Many Animal CallsBen Rauschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18064818373006759509noreply@blogger.comBlogger763125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7378524567532659195.post-41434193396004391602024-02-06T21:50:00.000+02:002024-02-06T21:50:09.587+02:00Bionic Bliss and the birth of Team Lazerbeam.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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music band puts out songs, we'll put out games. Short, fast, loud
games. <br /><br /><b>Team Lazerbeam are:</b><br /><br />Jason Sutherland : Tunes and Sound<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNbTbD_GA-vkeH_AOXQi99IbwbvWm7l2KB0BkCF7w6p13VlqQ500WCbypnrAjqfa04knZ7-lfVfBQPzS0nj2F8X71I-U0Xsn98g3SXL-GCEgzPxU5vI_b4Uod8bn5OY0uHcEkVdvEK4aE/s1600/09+jaysong+poolside+2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNbTbD_GA-vkeH_AOXQi99IbwbvWm7l2KB0BkCF7w6p13VlqQ500WCbypnrAjqfa04knZ7-lfVfBQPzS0nj2F8X71I-U0Xsn98g3SXL-GCEgzPxU5vI_b4Uod8bn5OY0uHcEkVdvEK4aE/s1600/09+jaysong+poolside+2.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />Richard Pieterse : Code and Feel<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiL3VPRqT8VUgZS5OJTltGDrg3s2SLcYhebUV6iwdv4vTe9L2MyKCi4Kk5rXOrK4rITXhr4BqxKREh2rZM5JaGivLPfn9CluhGHIEfFXoD_X7jmXQUNmFHTodkr1JEXZGK66wR4jDrFdng/s1600/00+richard.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="425" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiL3VPRqT8VUgZS5OJTltGDrg3s2SLcYhebUV6iwdv4vTe9L2MyKCi4Kk5rXOrK4rITXhr4BqxKREh2rZM5JaGivLPfn9CluhGHIEfFXoD_X7jmXQUNmFHTodkr1JEXZGK66wR4jDrFdng/s1600/00+richard.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />Moi : Art and Words<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgecH3LrwAuGKc8g4ZFQyKULOWDjJSP_bj8VJ3JZb3hs5sq9Va2WNbK3MPZ72dJdDbTUFMn6Ou4UmFJjTRb2wApC05RfnkrCZYXp1XQGwOzlJ3q1W7RqJY00HqQz8B-nw-uW8wNcpU10qo/s1600/02+laying-it-down.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="502" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgecH3LrwAuGKc8g4ZFQyKULOWDjJSP_bj8VJ3JZb3hs5sq9Va2WNbK3MPZ72dJdDbTUFMn6Ou4UmFJjTRb2wApC05RfnkrCZYXp1XQGwOzlJ3q1W7RqJY00HqQz8B-nw-uW8wNcpU10qo/s1600/02+laying-it-down.jpg" width="640" /></a><br /><br /><br /></div>
Jay, Rich and I linked up as Team Lazerbeam to jam out a game over Ludum Dare.<br /><br />We made a cyberpunk service game. You work in the phone support department of a cybernetics company. We called it Bionic Bliss.<br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Walking down the road from the Free Lives house, seeing the sunrise lighting up the sky, it was one of the best moments of my life. The joy of having started this band, at having made our first game together, it felt like the electrical, magical feeling I get from the best shows.<br />
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And the game turned pretty cool!<br /><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipsUYDaGkCw_wEkQwcKXOr0IFdv-6HPRZexvqTHRP-b-3jiMmFMF9tzuOowRcfuKe5POxkZ8nhmflv2SqWKPaIDpqhfzi5A2iU45ZayvSi7PzTBfLOAeW7OC_a6-F7e4EdLlCR-yvyHDk/s1600/Progress+boot+up+copy.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipsUYDaGkCw_wEkQwcKXOr0IFdv-6HPRZexvqTHRP-b-3jiMmFMF9tzuOowRcfuKe5POxkZ8nhmflv2SqWKPaIDpqhfzi5A2iU45ZayvSi7PzTBfLOAeW7OC_a6-F7e4EdLlCR-yvyHDk/s1600/Progress+boot+up+copy.jpg" width="640" /></a></div>
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Ben Rauschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18064818373006759509noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7378524567532659195.post-84423854950245704672015-05-25T12:24:00.001+02:002015-05-25T12:26:41.317+02:00You are invited: gateway Drugs Farewell<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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This weekend I'll be playing a pretty special show; one where we'll be saying farewell to one of the best musical projects South Africa has seen over the past few years. <a href="https://www.facebook.com/gatewaydrugsss">Gateway Drugs</a>, The Cape Town kings of synth-pop, are calling it a day.<br />
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This is pretty heavy news. The Drugs have soundtracked some of my favourite moments over the past few years. From that time I used their song in <a href="http://so-many-animal-calls.blogspot.com/2012/08/soundtrack-to-home-movie-factory-trailer.html">that Michel Gondry video</a> to the time they turned me into <a href="http://so-many-animal-calls.blogspot.com/2013/02/good-weekend-gateway-drugs.html">a sweaty mess on the Kitchener's dancefloor</a>, these songs and I have had some grand times together. I'm pretty grateful that I get to be around on the night where they're played for the (let's hope not really) last time.<br />
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The farewell gig should be a pretty great one, with support from some of the best DJs the city has to offer. I'll be playing some records as Sassquatch, and playing some visuals with the band. Shit's gonna get emotional.<br />
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Ben Rauschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18064818373006759509noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7378524567532659195.post-52393867857755775472015-05-21T11:09:00.002+02:002015-05-21T11:12:51.210+02:00SMACM012: Birthday Girl - Rituals<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Yesterday SMAC music launched <a href="https://smacmusic.bandcamp.com/album/rituals">"Rituals"</a> our twelfth release, and the debut EP by Cape Town Trio Birthday Girl. It's a really fantastic, diverse collection of songs. Truly original, I won't even hazard a guess at what genre's I might be able to attach to the EP. Instead let me just direct your ears to the links below so you can have your own hard time trying to find words that match these sounds.<br />
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For easy repeat listens, head over to<a href="https://smacmusic.bandcamp.com/album/rituals"> our bandcamp</a> and download the EP. As always, the digital release is out on "pay what you want" model. Some kind of interesting physical release is on the cards too!<br />
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Birthday Girl are celebrating the launch of Rituals with their first live show on Sunday the 31st of May at Straight No Chaser. after many months of rehersal, it's going to be fantastic to see the guys unveiling thier live show - I think it's going to be something very special.<br />
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Ben Rauschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18064818373006759509noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7378524567532659195.post-58051995745786640002015-05-14T14:07:00.002+02:002015-05-14T14:07:39.449+02:00Birthday Girl unveiled!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Let's quickly address the fact that this place is a ghost-town. The reasons are way to complex to quickly unpack here, but if you've wondered what's happened to me, I'm investing most of my free time and energy into making games, and <a href="https://nomagicjustmagic.wordpress.com/">blogging about it here</a>. After months of tumbleweeds, if there was something that could bring SMAC back from the grave, it would have to be great music. As luck would have it, that's exactly what we have right here.<br />
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/birthdaygirlband">Birthday Girl</a> is the freshly unveiled, new musical project of Daniel Breiter (Fun Toy, HOOM), Dean Berger (Bateleur co-Founder) and Glenn Stein (Los Tacos). Late last year the guys handed me a collection of songs, that I swiftly found myself completely in love, and totally obsessed with. Many months, lots of hard work and much planning later, and we're all incredibly proud to be working together to bring these songs to The World in the form of Birthday's Girl's debut EP, Rituals.</div>
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Ben Rauschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18064818373006759509noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7378524567532659195.post-59397901694111994582014-10-14T14:21:00.000+02:002014-10-14T14:42:03.813+02:00All the dates of Johnny Foreigner's "Trip Over Timezones 2014 South African Tour"<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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My brain is currently struggling to process how awesome life is going to get in a few days. On Saturday, some of my favourite humans will be closing the 14,661km distance currently standing between us. A few days later, I'll join them in doing the thing that makes the five of us most happy in this life; falling around a stage and singing and screaming and smiling together like five felines that broke into a catnip silo.<br />
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Looking forward to this tour, it hit me recently; Johnny Foreigner are the one band that I've (by far) spent the most time with. This is both on stages and off of them. This sounds insane for a dude from Pretoria and a band that live on the opposite end of the world, but it's true. Between two trips across the USA, a quest through Europe and a tour of the UK, I've easily played more shows (and covered more ground) with Jo Fo than I ever got to with Kidofdoom, Eyes Like Mirrors and Johnny Neon combined. I hold my travels with the band as some of my most treasured memories. And it's an adventure that started at home, with the string of dates that formed the band's 2010 SA Tour.<br />
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Four years on from that, I'm ecstatic to be getting the band back this incredible country. They're pretty pleased about this too. To put this tour together, I teamed up with one of my other favourite humans (hi Henk!) and together, we've arranged a pretty stellar set of shows (if I do say so myself!). Jo Fo will be playing some of my favourite spots, sharing stages with a truckload of other favourite humans (hey everyone!). Here's a breakdown of how Johnny Foreigner's "Trip Over Timezones SA 2014 Tour" will be playing out...<br />
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THU - 23 OCT<br />
STELLENBOSCH - BOHEMIA<br />
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FRI - 24 OCT<br />
CAPE TOWN - THE ASSEMBLY<br />
with The Dollfins, Sakawa Boys, Yndian Mynah & Super Friendship Arcade!<br />
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SUN - 26 OCT<br />
PRETORIA - PARK ACOUSTICS<br />
with Van Coke Kartel, Le Voyage and many more!<br />
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THU - 30 OCT<br />
JOHANNESBURG - KITCHENER'S<br />
with Plaat Japie & Rosie Parade, Nathtan Scott Phillips & Calamity Jane, Sassquatch & Nanna!<br />
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FRI - 31 OCT<br />
PRETORIA - ARCADE EMPIRE<br />
with Desmond & the Tutus, Shadowclub, Hello Beautiful, penthouse and many many more!<br />
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We've poured our hearts and souls into making this tour happen. If you're reading this, it means we'd love to see you at one (or all) of the above dates. We're well aware that we're doing something pretty niche here, but I believe in this band and what we're doing with every molecule of my being. If you'd like to help us in this crusade, please spread this ghostly gospel far and wide. Tell you're friends, scream it while suspended from rooftops, scribble/ stick up/ spraypaint ghosts everywhere; Johnny Foreigner are coming back to The Promised Land!<br />
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Ben Rauschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18064818373006759509noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7378524567532659195.post-28304777280651190012014-09-29T09:29:00.001+02:002014-09-29T09:33:14.900+02:00Drift Prism debut EP is out!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2FQUm9BtdpXez4nUyQwZNmJXcAIkhOgrUuxTWZdMRf6u_Vvspl14u-_ZG1jiSDE3hK_52SnuzgRPB-hzYDskbEUweye5IyeVWUjJSDrJS4jvwWnHtycnyupWS07Vo_WOV1Cvhp4GyNpk/s1600/jOHNNY+FOREIGNER+TRIP+OVER+TIMEZONES+WEB+BANNER.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0000ee;"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzodSxEeNYb4l1tGINscZIxTKTuKtTxZQ2FZRJVh7YOTiLg2wwtQOFEJBI5doDeXorMTeWB944W8OoDGuzrmgEH4G-I82ynI6rgHIh5ZbB1Vs-bOxpyCbksF_HpfMgriaCXnOKsWeA2N5H/s400/Hooray+for+humans.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5449865103445183634" style="display: block; height: 130px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></span></a><span id="goog_384602801"></span><span id="goog_384602802"></span><span id="goog_384602803"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 100%; font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0000ee;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0000ee;"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOfofCJEsJqCB_PdlsXNeQe_MJBJ-95VF8ZGuAhEG2hI3w0qnoInyUsVmwzdAfRn_dLwjOu-iTPnn8u2nAYPrGngyoDcvFR4azJfSXloZuJOExuJBMAtaMu-BZe_LbV6dkJU9TAXRGR4yU/s400/So+Many+Animal+Calls+Music.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5577154424833209938" style="display: block; height: 130px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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</div></div>Ben Rauschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18064818373006759509noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7378524567532659195.post-58950249627850595172014-09-25T13:11:00.001+02:002014-09-25T13:11:48.123+02:00TBT: the golden age of dance punk.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Tonight <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/843593092340427/">Hi5 is hosting a family reunion</a>.
We're re-assembling a gang of DJs and dancefloor-enthusiast that used
to get together every Thursday night between 2005 and 2007 (maybe into
08?). I, for one, can't wait to have the family back together. In
preparation, I trawled through some old photos, and found a bunch of us,
doing what we did best during those days. This is only 9-7 years ago,
but it feels like a very distant age...<br />
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If you wanna relive this magic, join us<a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/843593092340427/"> tonight!</a><br />
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Ben Rauschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18064818373006759509noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7378524567532659195.post-83641919591091204392014-09-23T16:38:00.001+02:002014-09-23T16:44:53.858+02:00Dune Rats at Hi5 - episode 2!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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For Hi5 13, we were really stoked to have Australia's <a href="https://www.facebook.com/dunerats">Dune Rats</a> make their return to our sweaty little dance party. Joburg band <a href="https://www.facebook.com/themothssurf">The Moths</a> got things started. Awesome times ensued. Shot by Hi5's own <a href="https://www.facebook.com/plaatjapie">Plaat Japie</a>, here's what we have to show for all the carnage...<br />
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Ben Rauschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18064818373006759509noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7378524567532659195.post-26018109785193388842014-09-19T10:27:00.003+02:002014-09-19T10:27:51.969+02:00Drift Prism EP on it's way.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Drift Prism is (in my books) the most exciting new face in South African electronic music. I've been lucky enough to see this fantastic monster growing for the past few months and now, a debut 5 track EP is being released next week. A teaser video's been put together to give you a taste of what you can look forward to:<br />
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Ben Rauschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18064818373006759509noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7378524567532659195.post-20528581285995781652014-09-18T12:37:00.000+02:002014-09-18T12:43:21.539+02:00Hi5 present "An Indie Thursday Throwback"<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Next month will mark Sassquatch's 9th birthday. Almost a decade ago, Ri and I teamed up to play our first set as Sassquatch and Data Takashi at "The Secret Pirate Party".<br />
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We quickly found ourselves very happily involved in the musical adventures of the phenomenal little scene that The Secret spawned. Most notably, we landed a weekly residency playing Tokyo Star on Thursday nights. <br />
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Playing alongside The Klassikist and King of Town, Ri and I had the best possible time on these Thursday nights. Fueled by adoration for the wave of new bands (LCD Soundsystem, The Rapture, !!!) re-inventing dance music, classic bands who'd created the blueprints (Gang of Four, Talking Heads, A Certain Ratio) and cheap alcoholic frozen-ice beverages, these nights were, week after week, pure magic. Alongside the music and slush that made these times so great, the final ingredient was the people involved. Wits students that wouldn't miss a night, young professionals in business wear turning into sweaty messes, Pretoria kids that would drive all the way to Melville to dance with us; week after week, the people that packed out that tiny venue made us the happiest guys in Joburg.<br />
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The scene would inspire a whole generation of new DJs (Brother Grimm, Nathan Scott Phillips, Kodiak and so many more joining our ranks) and surely had a heavy hand in how night-life changed in the years since. But, like all good things, the nights would come to an end. Tokyo Star would leave Melville, along with it's lack of dress-code, alternative spirit and our ragged gang of DJs and dancers. I focused more on throwing parties in cities beyond Joburg. Ri would land up creating multiple alter-egos (Data Takashi, Plaat Japie, Danger Ingozi) for his expanding musical tastes. Kids grew up and time moved on.<br />
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Now, we're casting our gaze back to this golden era. Ri, Cam and I are throwing one of our Hi5 nights next Thursday, with a classic lineup and cheap alchoholic frozen-ice beverages in tow. We're mega excited to put on "An Indie Thursday Throwback" and can't wait to get slushed with all our old friends!<br />
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Ben Rauschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18064818373006759509noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7378524567532659195.post-20415255604471801082014-08-28T13:04:00.000+02:002014-08-28T13:09:14.542+02:00Good Weekend: Star-crossed Lovers was born.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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It's been more than a year since <a href="http://so-many-animal-calls.blogspot.com/2013/05/smac-comics-08-oh-boy-oh-boy-oh-boy.html">the last time</a> I got one of these <a href="http://so-many-animal-calls.blogspot.com/search/label/good%20weekend">"Good Weekend"</a> posts out. In the time since then I've had some pretty dam righteous times, all un-blogged about. So many excellent shows and DJ sets and out-of-town adventures and chill-sessions and moments I've loved and surely should have written about but didn't. So what did I do this past weekend that's got me amped enough to do another one of these? I made alien planets smooch.<br />
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Yeah, I've started making games now. There's a long winded life-chaning-event catch-up blog post somewhere in there (it can get in line alongside other fine installments like "I turned 30" and "I moved to Cape Town" and "I adopted tiny kittens").<br />
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To quickly summarize as best I can: <br />
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1) <a href="http://coolyourjets.co.za/">Matt and I</a> simultaneously realised we should be making games and set up Token Games as an interactive sister-company to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyfIku2M0FY&list=UUXbubb0OsKw8xaf58t8y7tg">Cool Your Jets.</a><br />
2) There's an <a href="http://makegamessa.com/">amazing community</a> of people making games in this country.<br />
3) I've met some members of the Cape Town contingent of said community. They proved to be welcoming and excellent beyond my wildest expectations and I've enjoyed some grand adventures hanging out with them and (here and there) making things together. <br />
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This swiftly bring us up to last Friday, where Ryan (one of my excellent new game-making friends) asked if I had plans for the weekend and if I'd like to join him in creating something for the Ludum Dare 72 game jam. Considering my plans included just staying home and teaching myself Game Salad, this sounded like a far better option so I said "Uh. Yes!" I roped Jason in on music and sound duties and Team Perfect Match was born!<br />
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<a href="http://www.ludumdare.com/">Ludum Dare</a> is an international game Jam, primarily focused on individuals making games in 48 hours or teams doing the same in 72. The theme for this past one went live at 3AM on Saturday morning. It was "Connected Worlds" which made us think of a planet-hopping space imigrants, inter-stellar delivery men and dimension-shifting paper-boys. Ultimately we went with the concept that made us laugh the most - a dating show for lonely planets.<br />
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Star-crossed Lovers surely won't go down as one of the greatest games created during Ludum Dare 30, but we had mountains of fun making this thing. Reactions from the LD and MGSA communities have also been super encouraging and we're toying with the idea of taking this concept a bit further than the jam. But enough talking about it, let me rather just say;<br />
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CLICK <a href="http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/2014/08/23/big-bang-this-is-how-an-inter-planetary-dating-game-is-born/">HERE</a> AND<a href="http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/2014/08/24/24-hour-countdown-to-cosmic-love/"> HERE</a> FOR MORE WORDS ABOUT MAKING THIS BABY!<br />
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Ben Rauschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18064818373006759509noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7378524567532659195.post-88500975277691626522014-08-20T15:06:00.000+02:002014-08-22T09:57:08.471+02:00Cool Your Jets 2014 update!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I feel I owe this old blog an extensive apology for my absence this year. Unfortunately, I don't really have time for that. And I guess that's really a huge part of this forthcoming extensive apology; I'm very busy. Busy with what? Cool your Jets!<br />
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Things have been going pretty great for our little animation/ illustration factory. In the past year we've landed our biggest jobs to date and done a bunch of work we're very proud of. We've collected all this into a shiny new website and fun showreel for 2014. And now, for your viewing pleasure, here they are!<br />
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Ben Rauschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18064818373006759509noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7378524567532659195.post-1451845821299689282014-08-14T12:18:00.000+02:002014-09-01T18:21:20.504+02:00JOHNNY FOREIGNER ARE COMING HOME!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I'm incredibly happy to announce we'll be adding to this list of adventures. Jo Fo are coming back to SA in October, aptly in time for Halloween. In putting the tour together, I've teamed up with my super-pal Henk from <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/NOT-BAD/495419273892304">Not Bad</a>. We've got a really fantastic set of dates lined up, and everyone's understandably mega-excited.<br />
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Ben Rauschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18064818373006759509noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7378524567532659195.post-71179277650160304422014-08-13T11:25:00.001+02:002014-08-13T11:32:33.363+02:00SMAC 750!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Well, this is it, my 750th post on my dear old blog.<br />
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I've been watching this milestone approaching for months. In May I posted animal call 749. From there, I planned a super elaborate 750th post, catching you up on the massive new developments in my life over the past while. It's been a crazy time this past while, with a lot of big stuff happening, so much in fact that I never did get through that monster "this is my life now" post between May and now. Now, with massive news on the horizon, I just have to get past this milestone so I can share that in SMAC 751!<br />
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So yeah, happy 750th post to me! Thanks to everyone that's been along for the ride at any point over the past 7 years, it's been swell! And now, let me leave you with this single update from Bensville:<b> </b><b> </b><br />
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Ben Rauschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18064818373006759509noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7378524567532659195.post-86373292779042350442014-05-16T12:21:00.000+02:002014-05-16T12:21:02.965+02:00The Batelur Moves On!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Joburg's (absolute) finest, The Brother Moves On, are making a trip down to Cape Town. In turn, The Mother City's (scientifically-proven) greatest band, Bateleur have invited TBMO to team up with them in ripping apart the the fabric of reality at Manilla Bar next Friday. Supporting these guitar-wielding titans, a lovely sellection of support acts have been assembled in the form of Cutting Gems, Seferino, Haus DJs and your friendly neighborhood Sassquatch. Needless to say, this is going to be sheer magic.<br />
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Ben Rauschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18064818373006759509noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7378524567532659195.post-69047794749392691392014-05-15T13:33:00.000+02:002014-05-15T14:09:11.478+02:00Days Like Television: Beach Party - I Want To<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The Cape Town awesomeness-generating wonders known as <a href="http://so-many-animal-calls.blogspot.com/search/label/Surfing%20Looser%20Space%20Cult">Surfing Looser Space Cult</a> have done it again! The gang's latest creation is a major double whammy; a stellar new Beach Party song and an ace-as-all-hell music video to accompany it. <br />
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The song is produced by The Cult's Andrew Esterhuizen (Gateway Drugs, ex-Beach Party). In my books, it's the best sounding thing he's done with Beach Party over their (soon to be) three album career. "I Want To" is the lead single off Album 3 "Ribs or Death" which SLSC will be dropping within the month. Based on how awesome this first song is, I think it's safe to say that I'm more than a little excited to hear what the gang have put together this time around. <br />
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In the video, it's great to see the band teaming up with Dylan Culhane again. The results of Dylan and Beach Party's previous adventures were <a href="http://so-many-animal-calls.blogspot.com/2012/03/beach-party-water.html">plain awesome</a> and things are no different this time around. The piece is edited by Beach Party's drummer and The Cult's resident moving-image-machine Xander van der Westhuizen. An incredibly beautiful little journey, this video too might be a highlight for Xander who's previous creations with SLSC have been solid gold<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-w5NWOZQoc"> time</a> and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5ddIcO0_Q4">time</a> and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPBfBfS4si0">time</a> again. <br />
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A literal Beach Party featuring parallel-universe versions of a gang of Surfing Looser Space Cult members, the show is frequently stolen by Rocco (of The Dollfins family), but before I get too caught up in talking about puppies let me just present to you: <br />
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Ben Rauschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18064818373006759509noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7378524567532659195.post-2916835546007797632014-05-14T15:17:00.002+02:002014-05-14T15:17:50.994+02:00Dune Rats UK/ Euro tour 2014!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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This is pretty long overdue, but I guess it's better late than never right?<br /><br />Following on their most excellent tour of South Africa, Australia's Dune Rats made their way North for a string of dates across The UK and Europe. I was asked to do a poster for the tour. I had tons of fun putting something together for this and here's how the it turned out.<br />
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Uping their game yet again, the next DDM will feature not one, but two international guests! America's Justin Miller and The UK's Tyson Ballard have both released music vie promising young lable <a href="https://soundcloud.com/haktrecordings">Have A Killer Time</a> and now, both will be gracing the Disco De Moda dancefloor!<br />
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In anticipation of the show, Chris Keys has done a killer poster and Data Takashi has put together a stellar mix. And now for your audio visual pleasure, here they are:<br />
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As I'm slowly penning my recap of our recent adventures through The UK, here's a little prequel to set things up...<br />
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In anticipation of Seafox and I joining Johnny Foreigner to launch their 4th album, the band sent along some questions about what exactly I'd be doing. In classic Ben-style, I carried on for ages about shooting light of a keytar. Here's what I had to say:<br />
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<b><b>-</b>Can you describe via a pictorial diagram, what you'll be doing onstage with us?</b><br />
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<b><b>-</b>So all you need is a trigger right? What made you use a keytar for that, instead of a sampler or a nokia n-gage, or an actual taxidermied fox with switches?</b><br />
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One fateful day in 2005, on a shopping trip for cowbells and shakers I saw a keytar on display. I rember thinking, if you combined it with key-mapped visuals it would be pretty righteous. And so started my long quest for a keytar. When I heard that the Roland AX-7 (then the last keytar still in production) had been discontinued, I had a renewed sense of urgency to complete said quest. It was a long and frustrating process that took two years, until I finally found her (my Seafox*) - I ordered her through this music store, and went to go pick her up one afternoon. When I got there, it turned out that she had been snatched up from under me by a sneaky store employee who happened to play for quite a famous south african rap metal band. It took a few months for him to realize that Seafox and I belonged together and sell her to me. So I feel like this is all fate somehow, I’m sure a taxidermied Fox might have had a cooler backstory, but that’s just not how it played out.<br />
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*A nickname that transpired after Kelly misheard me saying “synth-axe” as “seafox” and it just stuck.<br />
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<b>-How did the idea for doing this crazy come about?</b><br />
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As well as enjoying it, I also spend a lot of time thinking about guitar music and what makes really great rock ‘n roll. When I was a kid I was really excited by the idea of people who had actually pioneered the hardware - electric guitars and amps, and then eventually distortion pedals and effects - it must have been such an exciting time! Being able to confront people with something so completely new and weird that they didn’t actually understand! Being able to amplify a tiny bit of electricity that existed in the humans behind the guitars and transfer into humans on the receiving end of the amps! I really lamented, in a way, not being around in that sort a time. Already by the time I was a teenager there was nothing necessarily shocking or dangerous about an electric guitar (or anything short of marilyn manson really). <br />
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When I was a bit older I realized that there were, in reality, great possibilities for using new technology for this rock ‘n roll purposes; many people (The Faint!) had already been doing this to great effect. <br />
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I don’t know what initially got the idea into my head, but once I started pondering using projection as a rock ‘n roll weapon, I got really (REALLY) excited by the possibilities. Although people had been VJ-ing digitally for years and with analogue hardware for even longer, I hadn’t seen anything of people performing visuals the way that people perform music. It just seemed really exciting; taking sound into me and turning it into light and doing it in a way try challenge what the point of a performance should be.<br />
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<b>-What do you do when you’re not being a dancing vj keytar man? </b><br />
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<a href="http://www.coolyourjets.co.za/">I make images move with my best friend.</a><br />
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<b>- What kind of imagary and animations can we expect? Is there still lazer cat vs bon jovi?</b><br />
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Every band that I am properly involved with, I’ve got a completely different visual language that I try to work with. Johnny Foreigner’s languesage has always been a tapestry. A collage. A giant katamari ball picking up pieces of me and Lewes, Lex’s helicam, Anja’s sketchbook, Jun’s photographs, Philadelphian basements, gifts from strangers, drawings from friends, slow-motion swiss landscapes, mobile phone clips, merch crafting sessions or whatever we run across. <br />
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It’s a language that’s a perfect fit for Johnny Foreigner. It’s really just another way the band does what it does all the time, but there’s something pretty magical about it in my eyes. Like, for example, at our last show in Chicago, our friend Henry brought along this ghost painting he’d made for us. I spliced it up right there and put it into the visuals for the evening. I got to give Henry his painting back in a different form that night. Now every following night I play with Johnny Foreigner, the audience will get that bit of Henry echoed back to them. This idea is something really beautiful to me. <br />
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We’re back to the guitar and amplifier thing. This time it’s a far more intricate, time-bending, multi-layered way, but it’s the same thing. Taking the moment where something was created, then putting own energy into animating it, or simply feeding it into my system, then beaming that back out at an audience in a whole new moment. Just hoping for a burst of energy from one body to the next.<br />
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So to answer your question, Bon Jovi and the laser kittens aren’t going anywhere, but there will be new fragments our katamari: YOU CAN DO BETTER! There’s obviously a bunch of new imagery to work into the mix, plus who knows what adventures await once the tour starts. I know that on the first dates we’ve got an exciting collaboration with Mel Reeve. One word: plushimation! <br />
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<b>- You’ve been in our band so long now that when we play overseas and you’re not with us it feels wrong and empty. But this whole time you’ve only done like, 3 shows in the UK with us. Why do you hate England so bad?</b><br />
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EastEnders<br />
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<b>-Who is your favourite member of johnny foreigner?</b><br />
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I know it’s cliched and everyone probably says this…but Johnny is my absolute fave!<br />
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<b>-Isn’t it true that all the UK indie bands that do South African shows these days are just copying us?</b><br />
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Yes. <br />
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<b>-What’s happening now?</b><br />
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I’m ending my interview, which I’m dictating to Anja, while I’m laying on the couch. Next on the agenda: we have our daily 16:20 joint sub-committee meeting to discuss our adoption of two kittens on my return from our tour.<br />
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Ben Rauschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18064818373006759509noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7378524567532659195.post-65435233723584705502014-04-25T18:18:00.003+02:002014-05-07T12:57:47.807+02:00You are invited: Dune Rats South Africa 2014.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Last year a friend asked me to design a poster for <a href="http://so-many-animal-calls.blogspot.com/2013/05/you-are-invited-dune-rats-1st-south.html">an Australian band who would be visiting South Africa</a>. The resulting tour saw The Dune Rats initiate South African audiences to their specific brand of chaos in the coolest way. For their return tour this year I was pretty damn amped to draw more sandworms and rippers. Here are the results:<br />
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I highly recommend you catch any/ all of these shows if you can!</div>
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/713687308681437/">Cape Town - RSVP here!</a></div>
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Ben Rauschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18064818373006759509noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7378524567532659195.post-59814465064628717022014-04-25T17:27:00.000+02:002014-04-25T17:36:27.229+02:00UKDB00 - YOU CAN DO BETTER!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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As the backstory of my forthcoming UK Do Better tour diary, here's the album that the tour centred around. "You Can Do Better" is Johnny Foreigner's 4th album. Hearing it for the first time I was really stoked on the new direction the band was following. I was also incredibly excited to play these news songs live with the gang.<br />
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The album dropped through Alcopop! on the 10th of March. <a href="http://www.thefourohfive.com/review/article/johnny-foreigner-you-can-do-better">Heaps</a> and <a href="http://www.thisisfakediy.co.uk/articles/albums/johnny-foreigner-you-can-do-better/">heaps</a> and <a href="http://musicalmathematics.co.uk/album-review-johnny-foreigner-you-can-do-better/">heaps</a> and <a href="http://www.thelineofbestfit.com/reviews/albums/johnny-foreigner-you-can-do-better-147622">heaps</a> of people wrote really nice stuff about "You Can Do Better". It was<a href="http://www.nme.com/reviews/johnny-foreigner/15191"> too fast for The NME</a>.<br />
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Ben Rauschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18064818373006759509noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7378524567532659195.post-27429470541213424032014-04-23T16:48:00.000+02:002014-04-23T16:50:36.546+02:00Dune Rats return to Hi5!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Last year, at one of our first Hi5 nights, we hosted an Australian band, playing their first show on Africa soil. The resulting show was pure carnage of the most excellent variety, and the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/dunerats">Dune Rats</a> went on to enjoy much more of the same across the rest of their first tour of South Africa.<br />
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As I write this, The Rats are floating above the surface of the earth, hurtling towards us at phenomenal speeds. Tomorrow night they'll be making their return to Hi5 and we couldn't possibly be any happier for it. Supporting The Dunies, we have Joburgs own prog-surf dynamos; <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Moths/272514386093541">The Moths</a>, plus DJ sets from Hi5's 3 dads, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Nathan-Scott-Phillips/163926495367">Nathan Scott Phillips</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/plaatjapie">Plaat Japie</a> & <a href="https://www.facebook.com/sassquatch.roars">Sassquatch</a>!<br />
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Ben Rauschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18064818373006759509noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7378524567532659195.post-54413937156758293192014-04-23T13:58:00.000+02:002014-04-23T14:09:22.482+02:00UK do better 01 - the tour in posters.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<a href="http://so-many-animal-calls.blogspot.com/2014/04/im-back.html">I mentioned yesterday</a> that I've recently come off a tour, playing bits of the UK with Johnny Foreigner, touring the band's 4th album "You Can Do Better".<br />
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As with pervious adventures with the band, this journey stands as one of the best things I've done with my time on this planet of our's. The shows themselves and the spaces in-between were pure magic. Totally ace, smile-inducing, mind-braking, life-affirming stuff. Much like our ghostly 2012 tour of the US (and nothing like our highly blogged about <a href="http://so-many-animal-calls.blogspot.com/search/label/We%20pray%20for%20moments%20like%20this">SA 2010</a> & <a href="http://so-many-animal-calls.blogspot.com/search/label/Jo%20Fo%20Euro%202011">UK 2011</a> tours) I didn't post anything about this round of life-changing exploits. This was a dead blog after all.<br />
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But, if SMAC is back from the grave, then there's surely little more worthy of reflecting back on than this tour. Without biting off more than I can chew, I'm hoping to assembly a bit of a posthumous tour diary. Luckily we crossed paths with some people that did lovely jobs of photographing, shooting and chatting to us, so with that to link back to, here's hoping I can get through this thing!<br />
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To start (something I should have posted before the adventure even kicked off) here's our tour in posters!<br />
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Ben Rauschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18064818373006759509noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7378524567532659195.post-48070006090213694942014-04-22T12:08:00.002+02:002014-04-23T13:51:48.915+02:00Dune Rats 2013 tour video!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Last year South Africa recieved a visit from three dynamos collectively known as<a href="https://www.facebook.com/dunerats"> Dune Rats</a>. What followed were some really <a href="http://so-many-animal-calls.blogspot.com/2013/05/smac-comics-08-oh-boy-oh-boy-oh-boy.html">excellent</a> adventures, <a href="http://so-many-animal-calls.blogspot.com/2013/05/you-are-invited-dune-rats-1st-south.html">awesome shows</a> and <a href="http://so-many-animal-calls.blogspot.com/2013/05/this-week-in-sass-ville.html">stellar<i> high</i> jinx.</a><br />
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Anja managed to capture many of these excellent adventures. With the band about to return to Mama Africa, it seemed fitting that we make a small video that captured just how awesome that last tour was and get people stoked for the next one. Shot and edited by Nanna, with bits of animation by your humble narrator, here's our video for The Dune Rats 2013 South African tour!<br />
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Ben Rauschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18064818373006759509noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7378524567532659195.post-87237453756761734862014-04-22T11:41:00.002+02:002014-04-22T11:42:49.926+02:00I'm back!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I'm back!<br />
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It's been a (long) while. For the past two weeks I've been wanting to make my return with a post that would have started like this:<br />
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"I'm back! Just got home after touring the UK for a month with Jo Fo and boy have I got some stories for you!"<br />
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From there I'd make excuses for the fact that I disappeared for as long as I did. Then I'd go on to chat about this last tour with the band and how it's changed the way I'm thinking about all the business this blog has been built around.<br />
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But right here, right now, none of that is going to happen, because I've pretty much got to jump into chatting about what comes next. So ja, let's just leave it at this;<br />
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I'M BACK!</div>
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