Happy Valentines day to all of you lovers and haters-of-love out there. Here’s a special little mix we made a couple of years ago just for this occasion, aptly called “The Mouth is for to Fuck”. Clicky clicky the lovely ladies below to download the mix, and printable PDF valentines we made just for you. Any man or lady or plant or animal will be sure to swoon:
Also, this Saturday (February 18th) at Cheer Up Charlie’s, we’ll be teaming up with Leisure Tourniquet for a special post-valentines day variety show of music, dance and et ceteras. We’ll be DJing, Little Stolen Moments will be performing, Willow House (some members of My Education and friends) will be playing covers of the best break up love songs, plus much much more. Click the image below to go to the event and for more information.
Recspec loves you long time. Don’t ever forget that.
I don’t think we’ve ever written about it here, but one of the best and most fun events in Austin right now is Exquisite Corpse, a monthly party for witches, held on the First Thursday of every month at the Swan Dive. The inner goths in all of us get to come out and be spooky and I know there is a great many of us who needed that sort of thing here in Austin. Recspec handles the video projections, DJ Pasht is the amazing DJ, and its all brought together by the divine Angeliska. If you live in Austin, you should come sometime — even if you aren’t darkly-inclined, there’s great people watching, delicious drinks, and delightful dancing to be had!
Here’s some photos that Angel took at the last one with our camera. The theme was Vote for The Goat — a celebration for the Capricorns out there + Angel’s own birthday.
Be sure to also check out the amazing photos by Devaki Knowles (Recspec’s photographer bad-ass of choice) for the photobooth, here! She does the photobooth every month and its always perfect.
Merry Happy Holiday Christmases, everyone! We’re about to depart on a journey to East Texas (also known as the land of no internet) for a few days, but wanted to share these AWESOME photos by Devaki of Fun Loving Photos from our Christmas Sweater Champagne Jam last week. Here they are! The above polaroid was taken by her as well, and is our impromptu sort of Christmas card this year.
And our wonderful (and handsome!) hosts, Lee Roi and Kon Karne
Be safe and have fun this holiday season, everyone. We’ve got some exciting stuff to share with you in the new year, but until then, have a cookie, won’t you?
It’s that time of the year again — when we don our ridiculously ugly holiday sweaters and play the smooth hits of the 70′s and 80′s… Its the Recspec Annual Christmas Sweater Champagne Jam at Beauty Bar! This is actually our fifth year of doing this party in Austin, and its always super ridiculous fun. We’ve also been doing it longer than anyone in town, so don’t accept any substitutions!
When: Friday, December 16th.
Where: Beauty Bar Austin
How much: 2$ for Party People in Christmas Attire / 5$ for Bah-Humbugs
This year our friends from Zorch are going to do some Live Improve Holiday Karaoke, so come ready to sing your favorite holiday jams with them. Our very own DJs: Kon Karne, Lee Roi, and Butcher Bear will be playing the smooth hits and hot jams before and after karaoke, there will be champagne, and a FREE photobooth from the lovely Devaki at Fun Loving Photos. She’ll also be taking and selling beautiful black and white polaroids for only 5$ each so you can immortalize your ugly sweaters forever!
Here’s a few of our favorite photos from the past four years. Hope to see all of you local Austin folks there!
Our good friends Zorch (who we’ve blogged about before) have a tendency to (sometimes drunkenly) make up fake bands with various friends and musicians in the Austin area. These fake bands, it seemed, all just existed as jokes, nothing that would ever amount to anything — until they started actually making them all become reality. Thus, Raw as Fuck was born, a website dedicated to their side projects and experimentations (like, for example, their Rod Stewart cover band: Raw Stewart).
One of the many band of lore is called Edgar Allan Slow, comprising of a near super-group set of musicians. Recspec’s own David Milner as the front man, R. Lee Dockery plays bass, Henna Chou on guitar and gong and soundscapes, Zac Traeger on keys and soundscapes, and Sam Chown on drums. The concept is simple, yet brilliant: Doom metal with set to Edgar Allan Poe lyrics.
The band was actually formed once the Austin HQ of The Onion asked Zorch to play their Halloween Party at Club de Ville. Zorch suggested Edgar Allan Slow to play instead, and so it came to be!
Here’s some photos from the night, and a video that you can’t see much in, but can hear at least a bit of the performance. The whole set was recorded, so hopefully we’ll be able to post it soon as well. My favourite part was the Tell-Tale Heart, which was ferocious and awesome in its epicness. More to come soon! And you never know, this fake band could end up being a real band after all (or at least every Halloween, or perhaps even, once upon a fortnight)…
“It was night, and the rain fell; and falling, it was rain, but, having fallen, it was blood.”
Happy Halloween to all you ghosts and ghoulies out there.
This past Sunday was the Fall seasonal KSE show, Melting into The Movement with ST 37, Unmoor, R. Lee Dockery and Bill Shute, Smokey Emery and Book of Shadows. It was an amazing evening of experimental and psychedelic music, that we were so pleased that we could be a part of. We did projections throughout the night for all of the acts, ranging from scenes from Judex to classic psychedelic oil footage.
Doing projections for experimental and abstract nights like this is always a treat because we can use strange and odd footage that wouldn’t work for anything else. Some photos from the night are below (more can be seen here):
Thanks so much to Bill Shute, all of the performers, ND, and Kendra Steiner Editions for such a wonderful event.
We’re super pleased to announce our next collaborative event with Kendra Steiner Editions: MELTING INTO THE MOVEMENT - KSE Fall 2011 Psychedelic Disaster Whirl, coming up on Sunday, October 16th.
Bill Shute runs and operates Kendra Steiner Editions out of San Antonio, and releases a wide array of wonderful poetry chapbooks and original CDRs from artists both local and on the other side of the world. We were asked to do projections for his last KSE event in Austin held at the Salvage Vangaurd Theatre and celebrating the 5th anniversary of the label, and we’ve worked with Bill to put together this upcoming fall show with our friends at the ND.
kendra steiner editions presents
MELTING INTO THE MOVEMENT:
KSE FALL 2011 PSYCHEDELIC DISASTER WHIRL
with ST 37 / UNMOOR / R. LEE DOCKERY & BILL SHUTE / SMOKEY EMERY / BOOK OF SHADOWS
Poster and visuals by Laurel Barickman of Recspec.
SUNDAY 16 OCTOBER
doors 7:15, show 8:00
admission $7
Hope to see you local Austin people there! Here’s a video from the last KSE show, with us doing projections for our good friend R. Lee Dockery. Can’t wait for the next one!
We’ve been awfully silent lately, but there’s a reason for that — we’ve undertaken one of our biggest projects yet — the opening of a restaurant! We’ve teamed up with our good friends at ND Austin (whom we have designed logos, websites, and other goodness for) to create Tamale Molly, a new eatery that will be serving food into the new smaller bar attached to ND, The North Door!
Here’s a poster we’ve created for our big Grand Opening party happening on Wednesday August 31st, so if you’re in the Austin area, please do come by! It’ll be free, have lots of surprises, and really really fun.
Naturally, we are also designing all of the collateral for our brand, opting for a vintage Mexican pin-up feel, but also bringing in the bright CMYK colours to balance the black and white out. Follow us on Facebook and Twitter for updates, and check out our menu on our website:Tamalemollyatx.com!
We’ll be posting a breakdown of all of the design elements for the brand soon, so keep an eye out and stay tuned.
Summer is here! And we’re working on a ton of great projects and new endeavors, but we’ve manage to fit in a couple of fun DJ nights next month between the craziness. We’d love to see you there!
The first is on Monday July 11th, where we’re playing with a few friends and co-horts for a sort of free-form DJ night at Beauty Bar. Come by and check out whatever music tickles our fancies, have a drink, and just hang out (facebook event). The lovely miss Honeybee is coming all the way from Houston to play with us as well — check out her awesome music site at Sucks My Brain Radio.
Then, on Saturday July 16th at The Volstead, we’ll be playing the best of the darker side of soul, funk, and country. Dark 50′s and 60′s pop, doo-wop, and other b-side gems. Music for gunmen and harlots (facebook event). We’re hoping to make this a semi-regular night, so please come out if you’re in the Austin area and journey to the Badlands with us.
Tonight is our monthly night at Rio Rita and our very own Mr. Kon Karne put together a hot little podcast as a preview for the night. Apologies for the radio silence on ye’ old blog – there are many new Recspec ventures and projects afoot that are currently in completion and thus taking up 99% of our time. We can’t wait to tell you about them! But until then, here are some steamy + sweltering jams.
Have we mentioned that its hot as hell in Texas? Literally. Like the surface of the sun.
RECSPEC is an Austin, Texas based art and design studio founded by Laurel Barickman and David Milner. Besides design, we also specialize in video projections and production, show promotion, and DJing.
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