Forrest Armstrong's Blog

I don't write in this blog anymore, but I'm busy as ever with music and art and crazy late night adventures in a Danish castle (NO JOKE). Keep in touch with me on Twitter and Soundcloud, my friends.

Bye!

Gasoline Monk mixtape #4. This is the last thing I made in the Boston studio before peacing to Denmark to get my elektronisk musik on. I got a Wu remix on there, a song with the incredibly gifted Boston emcee Avree Evans, recordings of a drunken party put in reverse, other things, and…. I actually make a Lil Wayne song GOOD! And yes, there is slow-mo Afrojack involved.

Tracklist:

1) Heartbeat or Shower Drain

2) Criminology (Gas Monk Remix)

3) Single (Gas Monk Remix)

4) Dreamin (feat. Avree Evans)

5) Not Stressin Shit

Download the mixtape here.

P.S. We actually had to learn how to say Gasoline Monk backwards to make the intro and outro. It sounds sorta like "K-gnome-eell-ah-saaaag."

I can't really call this a live set, because Pirate Cat Radio is based in San Francisco and I actually recorded this mix for them in Boston… but you know, it's me doing my hip hop thing on turntables. Which there's never been a recording of before. So definitely tune in at 8 PM West Coast time, 11 PM East Coast time, to check it out… fresh mixes of Ocean Telephones material with the kind of hip hop that makes you find you find yourself standing up on top of tables and shit, just rocking the fuck out.

The podcast will also be available after the fact, and I'll put up an uncensored version on my SoundCloud page then as well.

Fashionably late as usual, I'm in on the SoundCloud ruckus now. Starting with some shit you probably wouldn't expect – a ten minute blend of house joints. Kids in Boston know I've been DJing real busy nowadays, but this is the first thing I've put out for my universal peoples to hear. Check it out now.

Soon a hip hop mix of mine will be dropping on Pirate Cat Radio, blending shit from the well-known hip hop dudes like Biggie & Pete Rock, with a lot of stuff I had to dig deep for, plus handfuls of Boston joints and a lotta stuff off Ocean Telephones. But house's been amping me up, and I've been traveling all around scoping different clubs and DJs – Therapy in Providence where kids fuckin rage, basement parties in Burlington (there's so many talent up in this airtight little scene), the small but musically electic clubs in Cambridge and the hyperstimulation of downtown Boston.

I haven't been on the internet much lately, and sometimes that'll give people the idea that you're doing less of your thing, but it's just the opposite… I've been so monkish about this art shit I don't often step far enough out of my head to talk about. Music, words, food, shower, smokes, sometimes sleep….

Garrett Cook is a great writer of bizarro fiction; one of the best. So it's real cool to me that he said, "The best book I've read this year is Forrest Armstrong's The Deadheart Shelters."

If you haven't scoped the book yet, grab yourself a copy and see what all these vibrant heads are talking about.

Ocean Telephones has finally arrived – download it here. More dance-oriented than anything I've done before, but maybe more tripped-out too. Sort of a nightlife mixtape - the raw hip hop you bump harder than usual in the car, the four-on-the-floor dim lit room dance shit, & sketches of the vibes you drag your chemical-groggy minds through at 3 am… Shout out to Jase Daniels for the great cover art (as well as the noise he contributed as Vomitus Skink), and Jdubeats for working on two of the...

This is one of the nicest readings I've ever seen, makes me sad that I'm not in Portland anymore. Mike Daily getting poetic over a beat prepared by Jase and myself, then gets on his god damn bike and does a couple tricks. Just to make sure there's 0% chance of boredom! Hell yeah, real artists.

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I’ll be going back on Pirate Cat Radio again soon, only this time to DJ a set. So I’ve been digging like crazy to guarentee the music on there’ll be fresh. Just wanted to share one of the things I’ve found – been talking up this song hard to all my friends, because I think it shows something beautiful about hip hop and it’s pure unknown. Burnt Batch!

I'll be going back on Pirate Cat Radio again soon, only this time to DJ a set. So I've been digging like crazy to guarentee the music on there'll be fresh. Just wanted to share one of the things I've found - been talking up this song hard to all my friends, because I think it shows something beautiful about hip hop and it's pure unknown. Burnt Batch!

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The first two mixtapes took me only a couple months to do, Soundtrack maybe three, but this one's been looong in the works because it's going for something much bigger, and I think you'll feel that when you hear it. There's still a few days to wait, but seriously only a few… could even be done soon enough to cure some of that work week blues on Monday.

But I got the finished cover art from my main man Jase Daniels, who in the same package sent me the collabo track between himself and I...