Black T-shirt

Awesome

2009-08-04T15:07:00.001-04:00

I can't stop watching this....

Kasumi/Ken Rei/Kramer @ ingenuity

2009-07-23T23:30:00.002-04:00

kitao shot the video .. kasumi did the edit..

Going Back To Bass

2009-07-23T22:03:00.002-04:00

I can't get this track out of my head. Otto and the boys got a hit on their hands.....

if you liked

2009-07-16T00:48:00.003-04:00

thisthan you need to wacth this.

this is one of the best things ive seen in a while..

Ken Rei vs. Kasumi at Ingenuity Fest

2009-07-13T13:34:00.004-04:00

Last Saturday night saw Ken Rei playing alongside Cleveland video artist Kasumi in a parking lot downtown. The show was part of Cleveland's Ingenuity Fest which - other than this event - was terrible.

The collaborative A/V overload took the form of a gigantor projection (prolly like a scun-ed feets) and the band's usual piles of wires and speakers. Kasumi's imagery-bombardment fit really well with Ken Rei's, um, music and I for one thought that shit was toight.

Action Jackson

2009-07-12T13:37:00.005-04:00

A lot of things have been flying though the air in the past few days.

Cleveland's Natural Resource

2009-07-01T22:44:00.006-04:00

I've been sleeping on these for a while...from a warehouse mission Irsten and I went on with Dino when he was in town. Here's they's is:

providence

2009-07-01T14:40:00.010-04:00

providence was weird .. we played this awkward skeezy gay bar called wheels . people there were not trying to hear us .. the promoter noah .. from paint it pink productions put us up for the night . cool ass dude . weird ass city!! all sorts of crackys and sketchy bums asking to buy all of dinos merch .. idunno.

muscle music

2009-06-28T12:16:00.000-04:00

Ken Rei needs to enlist this guy...

Cake Shop 6/24/09

2009-06-26T10:37:00.007-04:00

big city lights

Heal the World

2009-06-25T23:32:00.002-04:00

That sucks about Michael Jackson. Here is some really, really weird shit from the Neverland ranch.

La Manzana Grande

2009-06-25T16:57:00.004-04:00

I'll let the Ken Rei folkies give you the lowdown, but for now I'll just say that the show last night at the Cake Shop was a blast. Dino's set especially blew my mind and it was awesome to see the "Great Dudes" rockin out at a cool venue in New York. I got a ton of super dope pictures, which I'll post in the next day or two. Here's one for the road, from the road (I'm on a bus as I type this).

Speaking of New York, if you're looking to kill some time on the Internet (and who isn't these days?), check out this amazing multimedia photojournalism work from the New York Times.

day off

2009-06-23T18:55:00.010-04:00

we were supposed to have a show in Vermont .. but that fell through .. then we were supposed to get a show in Boston .. . but that fell through as well . so we had the day off in Salem Massachusetts. crazy Scottish homey named Scott(ironically) . showed us around town ..on some straight astro travelin.. he took us to a well needed trip to the beach.. although it was a huge tease seeing there was swell .. and not being able to get in.. salem mass. is a super sweet city . . hopefully we'll be back someday ..

mark took us to this crazy arcade .. and next door there was this chinese joint that sold chicken chop suey & noodle sandwiches ..

strange maine. .

2009-06-23T18:30:00.009-04:00

we arrived in Portland Maine .. and got to the venue spot .. it was like a little record/book/comic/vhs/old video games/tape/crazy bric-a-brac store.. it was real awsome but it was real tiny .. so we were a bit skeptical how many people could fit in there.. but the show was super amazing .. and dino;s set turned into a straight up dance party.. plus both the other acts were real tight. .

computers at sea was the headliner .. so much crazy circuit bent gear .. plus dude was scratching on an old belle & howell reel to reel..
homeboy mark AKA moon climbs the wall . had a dope noise set . with some dirty beats and super spaced out distorted rapping .. he also hooked us up with a couch and an inflatable mattress that kept deflating in the middle of the night.. ha ha h... it was super chill though .. thanks again mark!!

sashay shante

2009-06-22T21:51:00.001-04:00

jamestown

2009-06-22T15:17:00.008-04:00

we played in this weird coffee/book shop with a bunch of acoustic acts .. it was ok . some of the kids there were pretentious hipster doofuses, but the dude that played after us rocked his laptop qwerty keyboard super hard .. thanks to the promoters who got us the show and hooked it up with the $$$$$.

back on the road

2009-06-22T15:14:00.004-04:00

first date in jamestown NY.

damn!

2009-06-22T14:57:00.004-04:00

so technically our tour started this past Wednesday . .when we left for Montreal to play with DAT politics.. but we had a few technical difficulties getting in . we were told by multiple people that you need a work permit to play shows in Canada. .and that work permit costs $450 ,, so we thought we could just tell border patrol that we were going to record., everything was going well in the interrogation process, until the officer said "i took it upon myself to find the real reason for your Canada trip, and i found this" she pulled out a print up of our myspace with our complete tour scedule.. " i also to the liberty of calling the venues you were supposed to play and they are still expecting you to play, so we know you lied to us.. therefor we are giving you a one way ticket back home..no canada for you!!" FAIL!!

luckily we got super homeys in cleveland like mike filly and jeff K. from B-sides .. and they got us, dino, and smokescreen a last minute show .. everything went tight .. thanks to everyone who showed up.

Amanda Blank

2009-06-21T14:20:00.005-04:00

So Amanda Blank, the latest girl rapper phenom hailing from the M.I.A./Santogold/Spank Rock camp, came to Cleveland last week and played a show at the B-Side. She was all about the sex sells approach, and it was more of a stage show than anything else. The music itself is dancey, dirty, and catchy - a win/win combination. After the show I talked to her for a good half hour before she was whisked away from me...but I definitely would have liked her better if we slept together.

bastards

2009-06-18T08:58:00.002-04:00

tilt/shift timelapse on rails...whaaaaaa?

2009-06-15T20:00:00.002-04:00

So it looks like I'm the newest contributor on this Black T-shirt blog...besides offering better grammar and punctuation than Irsten, I'll be sharing some of my photos and other goodness. For now, here is a suuuuuuuper sweet video, made by a guy I've been following on Vimeo for a while. I'll spare you the nerdy photo talk...suffice it to say that his stuff is on another [focal] plane. And play your own music because dude's taste isn't too great.

Bathtub V from Keith Loutit on Vimeo.

new shirts

2009-06-13T01:29:00.001-04:00

sprayed some new shirts today .. if you want one hit us up . or just bring by a shirt of your own and i'll do it up .. ken rei styley

dino missions

2009-06-13T01:19:00.004-04:00

dino has been in town for the past week. .. watching adrians dogs while he is on his honeymoon .. we;ve been taking dino around on some warehouse missions and to a couple shows at the grog . i have a few pictures but weller has more .. and i gave him posting permission ..so he;ll post the real pictures soon .

TKO

2009-06-04T12:09:00.003-04:00

don't start shit you can't finish (even if you are Danzig). this shit gets me every time...

How To Start the Dance Party

2009-06-04T09:51:00.004-04:00

so, to start a huge dance party, you gotta dance like this guy.... (keep watching until the end, shit is nuts)

Be a Fake-Ass DJ

2009-06-03T20:10:00.004-04:00

Guitar Hero is the lamest shit ever and it's just been one-upped by the same assholes. This makes me wanna puke. Somebody drop a bomb on Activision HQ.

Surprise

2009-06-03T19:46:00.001-04:00

watch the bottom right

Put the Bottle Down!

2009-06-03T19:23:00.001-04:00

In the year 3000......

2009-06-03T11:35:00.002-04:00

Cross Bent Craziness

2009-06-02T21:40:00.001-04:00

Why Can't This Be Real???

2009-06-02T21:31:00.001-04:00

Call Any Vegetable

2009-06-02T21:09:00.000-04:00

yes

childhood dreams

2009-06-02T14:24:00.003-04:00

i guess they are working on this new controller free system for x-box. .. it looks pretty crazy . i like how interactive it is . . but whatever happened to just sitting in one place for hours.. moving ONLY your thumbs?

rollin' stock

2009-06-02T01:33:00.004-04:00

i haven;t been feeling any of the new kidrobot shit lately .. but i;m all about kid acne and this colabo that he did with KR.. this "rollin' stock" series is super fresh. check more out here

sleepy fart dance

2009-05-28T22:07:00.001-04:00

ha ha h haa .. after watching the leg pit fart video ... it recommended this to us..

leg pit

2009-05-28T22:04:00.000-04:00

adrian just youtube searched leg pit .. and found this

are these guys serious?

2009-05-28T16:11:00.001-04:00

yes .. serious as a heart attack!

REviseddd TPC part from matt mckeen on Vimeo.

we can get together

2009-05-27T13:36:00.001-04:00

i'll post some live shit later .. watch this for now

what the hek?

2009-05-26T23:48:00.004-04:00

if you live in cleveland . .. you MUST see this! or this
ha ha h ah ha ha

side hack

2009-05-26T23:36:00.002-04:00

imagine rollin to the bars with one of these..

jump on it

2009-05-26T23:15:00.002-04:00

Battles, Tonto from United Visual Artists on Vimeo.

if you get a chance to see these dudes live .. DON'T SLEEP ON IT!

Healthy Synth Club

2009-05-26T12:22:00.004-04:00

yo! check this health club site out. super fresh synth werk. check the audio sample a lil' bit down the page. i want some....

For Real?!

2009-05-25T22:34:00.002-04:00

no joke. this is a japanese show where they make insects fight to the death. wow.

Black Nice

2009-05-25T22:05:00.003-04:00

black dice is one of my favorite bands to see live. bjorn copeland did a stay @ CIA a year or two ago and we got down on mad trees. cool kids for sure.

You Don't Know Zappa

2009-05-25T21:17:00.004-04:00

i'm a zappa fan since birth and for good reason. all the dude cared about was music and how to keep making it better. i'll be posting lots of live vids by various acts so i hope you folks get down on my selections.

Buy My Bent

2009-05-25T21:07:00.002-04:00

i bent this toy guitar and put on a killer paint job. so buy it and impress your friends with your hot licks.

pul-sew-idth

2009-05-25T15:14:00.004-04:00

adrian showed me this shit a while back .. but it;s super fresh .. i want an MPC one! go here if you want to buy one,.

think outside the bun

2009-05-25T15:02:00.002-04:00

Richie Jackson from ian on Vimeo.

Erik Elstran - April 2009 from North of Ten on Vimeo.

these dudes have the crazy super styley .. soo good though

boom ... . . . boom .. kat

2009-05-25T02:18:00.002-04:00

remember this gem?

crazy japanese wii game

2009-05-24T22:40:00.003-04:00

this looks like the craziest wii game ever... someone tell me the name of it .. please!.. oh bare with the lame intro ad. .. its worth it

On the Road Again....

2009-05-21T22:00:00.004-04:00

that's right kids. us and dino felipe are crammin' our asses into the van again for round 2 of june madness. at the end the summer, all 3 of us ken rei dudes will be living in different cities and working on our new tracks long distance. so DON'T MISS this chance to see us this year. the dates are on the right.

Great Dudes in Black T-Shirts

2009-05-21T21:21:00.009-04:00

"What the fuck: an all-around sterling split from these two. Recommended if you're into the electronic thing. Or even if you're not. Walls will pulse and drip" - Foxy Digitalis

if you haven't copped this disc, here's your chance. ken rei and dino felipe roaming in dark territory. 8 bucks gets you an hour mind-bending found sounds. check out reviews of the disc here and here.

Triple Speak + Sequencer

2009-05-20T23:49:00.004-04:00

we met this dude asmo at bent fest this year. he was running a workshop on building dub sirens. as you can see from this video, dude knows what he's doin'. check more of his vids out to see some fresh electronics.

Filth

2009-05-20T21:57:00.008-04:00

if you haven't heard of v snares yet, you must be living under a rock. us ken rei dudes were lucky enough to share a bill and a green room with him, otto von schirach, and cyrusrex in chicago last june while touring with dino sally pants. this dude is on another level and his newest album, filth, delivers on the sick production you've come to expect but also gives us acid heads a boner with plenty of 303 bleeps and squeals. this album is out now planet mu.

i'd punch an old lady for this

2009-05-20T19:43:00.003-04:00

ken rei needs this so bad .. how much do you think this costs?

act like you know

2009-05-20T01:13:00.002-04:00

ACT LIKE YOU KNOW. from ACT LIKE YOU KNOW. on Vimeo.

i know nobody is going to watch all 20 minutes of this.. but these dudes are from akron/cleveland .. and are crazy good. so it;s worth flipping through to watch these dudes kill all the local spots.. i already spotted hights highschool, coventry, tri-c metro, W.25th, bum park, and hella downtown spots.. can you find anymore?

get bent

2009-05-20T00:17:00.003-04:00

if you're into circuit bending . or synthesizer modding poppycock. .. then you have to check out this dudes site .. casper electronics .. he's got some of the craziest bends i;ve ever seen. . . plus we saw him perform at this years bentfest .. and he straight killed it!.. oh and if you;re ballin .. some of his new stuff is for sale.

p-p-p-p-pushin buttons

2009-05-19T14:41:00.003-04:00

got what it takes to be in Ken Rei? .,, test your skills and kill some time here.

throwwwwwback!

2009-05-19T14:35:00.002-04:00

i can't believe i found this.. check out adrian getting deebo'd by iyan!!

Monotone Sun

2009-05-18T21:51:00.002-04:00

it's hard to sing monotone.

Wearing Sweatpants

2009-05-18T21:04:00.002-04:00

we're gonna put 40 more ken rei "wearing sweatpants" discs together since the first edition went so fast. the disc was compiled by irsten and is a mash-up of ken rei tracks, ideas and offshoots.

SEGA Synth Sauce

2009-05-18T08:18:00.005-04:00

controlling old skool console sound chips??? sign me up...... this dude little-scale is on some other shit. he's got his techno fingers in all sorts of goods. he helped me with my arduino project's code which i put some little tweaks on and made a killer polyphonic little synth based on this original design.

set it off on the left .. . . y'all

2009-05-18T00:33:00.003-04:00

Werd.. so this is the first post of our new shee-aht. I;ve been wanting to start a blog for a while now. . i just haven;t found the right sort of focus or glue to hold all of my posts together.. and i always thought the best blogs have a main idea or theme to revolve around. Well i figured it out .. sort of. . i mean.. this blog is going to be centered around Ken Rei. . but by no means is it all about Ken Rei. We will post all the latest Ken Rei news, shows, songs, etc. but also everything else that is keeping our interest at the moment. . art/design, music, movies, bmx, funny fail videos, vidjya games, whatever.. so follow, read, watch, love, hate, comment.. just enjoy . .oh .. and try not to get too hung up on my busted ass typing style. . i spent alot of time IM chating with people when i was in New Zealand . . so when i type . its sort of how i talk. .. when i pause to think or don;t have anything to say i fill the gaps with all these .. . .. blips .. and bloops. or whatnot .. so unless i;m writing an english essay, i don;t pay too much attention to proper grammar . .. so just deal with it!