GIGS // BLOT @ Manre / 11 September 09

MIXES // Listen to the BLOT August Mix Right here >

Misadventures of Pushpa & Praveen : BLOT. by blot

PIXELS // Parallel Dimensions Chapter 1

Check out some pictures from our gig at the Lodi last week in collaboration with Sattyananda from Audio Aashram. This was chapter one and from the looks of it, this could be a great collab for the future. The plan here was to isolate ourselves inside a cubical volume of mesh screens..something I have been wanting to do for a while but the venue and situation was never right. I enjoyed the night exactly the way I always imagine it..one my own in my studio with some good company and great, impactful sounds. Having the screens was a nice way to block off the audience a bit and make it an extremely internal experience. We played together in bursts of extreme focus and enjoyment, chilled a bit, talked about what we want to do with this and life in general..very different from a techno night when there is hardly any time to soak it all in sometimes. More to come! The night was also great cos we figured out a new collaboration with a bunch of designers who would rather be known as Part-Art .. more on them soon.

PROJECTS // BLOTSQUAT PREVIEW 1

So if all goes well and if everyone helps as they should :-) then we should have our little weekend pad and BLOT Store and mini-cafe up and running in Hauz Khas Village. Sick of spending all our time in Gurgaon, Thiruda and Funny Feral left on a mission one evening to find a place with the same view as Gunpowder (the new place to eat in town, run by folks just like us :-) and somehow we actually did..sealed the deal in 2 days and now we have an abandoned empty room with an amazing view and a lot of promise! The plan is to spend all of september making it cool for us to work out of on weekends..and then populate it with art, music, film, photography, apparel and toys that we make. There is a little balcony to sip on some ginger lemon tea on beautiful Delhi winter days (with a bit of cake yes sir)

More than anything else, its a place for us to escape the fucked up city we are in right now. And this is a very small price to pay for something as important as that.

GIGS // Nathan Flutebox Lee + Friends / London / 25 SEP 2009

So we are doing visuals for the amazing Nathan 'Flutebox' Lee in late September. We got noticed on this very blog for our videos and got a call sometime back. Very little time left and lots to prepare for. There is 3 rehearsals before the gig, which should be a first for us :-) Check out nathan in these wildly popular youtube videos >>

GIGS // BLOT + DJ Krick (Berlin) @ Insomnia 28.08.09

GIGS // Back to Kolkata / 4 Sep 09

ARTWORK // SweatShopMan 01 / This is not my story

So Funny Feral is up to no good I say :-) We are starting a new project called 'SweatShopMan' which are artworks conceptualized by Funny Feral, and remixed / relooked by Thiruda and then back again if need be. (check out funnyferal.com) The first one is the one FF sent me, and the second one is my interpretation. FF is also the brains behind our earlier 'I Like Small Stamps That Taste Funny' set and artwork.

PROJECTS // BLOTSQUAT! >> Coming Soon

Artwork // Creature Discomforts No. 3

Still trying to figure out the right aesthetic for this set... its getting better bit by bit, but still a while to go...i think the issue is where the mind interferes and wants to see anatomy the way its used to seeing it, especially since these are basically photomontages of existing animal and human anatomies. I realize that the mind also wants to see balance and physical possibility intuitively. So bit of a challenge also because I am running out of resources, but thats the challenge too I guess. More soon!

ARTWORK // Creature Discomforts No.2

GIGS // PARALLEL DIMENSIONS / Chapter 1

Thiruda and Sattyananda from Audio Aashram are teaming up for a series of nights at the Lodi starting 21st August 09. Expect layers of projections under the night sky with pysbient, meditative and chill-out electronic music. Expect Parallel Dimensions to bring a new experience and rhythm to the nights in Delhi this winter. We hope to experiment with the set up everytime like we always do with BLOT. Aesthetically, this represents a new direction for us, and something we have been meaning to get into and this was just the perfect opportunity. If you have heard Sattyananda's music (or been to his studio like we have :-) you would realise the space and time that his music exists in, and we hope to capture that through the visuals and vice versa.

SOUNDS // TECHNO / 'TSUKI'

Listen to the new BLOT audio track 'TSUKI' right here >>

TSUKI (Original Mix) by blot

Tsuki (突き^?), is the Japanese word for "thrust", coming from the verb tsuku (突く^?) Tsuki is one of the five target areas (datotso-bui) in kendo (along with men, do, hidari kote and migi kote).^[1] It is a thrust of the point of the shinai to the throat, intended to cut a carotid artery. In combat with a sword, the opponent would then bleed to death. Unlike most other martial arts that use this term, in kendo, tsuki is a comprehensive term for the movement and the target. (Source: Wikipedia of course)

ARTWORK // Kapil Dev Saves the Day!

Anyone growing up in India in the 80s would have seen this ad for BSA SLR bicycles with cricket star Kapil Dev making it to the stadium just in time (all thanks to the bike of course) >> came across it on a blog and couldn't resist.

ARTWORK // Creature Discomforts No. 1

ARTWORK // To The Circus I Say!

Some more explorations of tiling, multiplicity and the use of photographic elements. More importantly, a sunday very well spent > 2 hours at the Empire Circus in Hyderabad, with Russian dancers, African acrobats, Indian jokers and 2 elephants. Small film coming soon! > watch this space.

ARTWORK // The Perils of Tight Underwear

ARTWORK // Tiger Tiger Blottin Bright

Didnt turn out exactly as I wanted..will work some more..thanks Funny Feral for the excellent observations and pictures yet again. You are a star! (see www.funnyferal.com)