Word: becking
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After confessing his love (both explicitly and implicitly) for artists as disparate as Os Mutantes, Prince and James Taylor, Beck begins 2005 with a paean to…Nintendo? This 4-track internet-only EP (intended as a hors d’oeuvre of remixes before next month’s full length Guero) is singularly devoted to the noise of obsolescent gaming technology. The rainbow electronics and 8-bit rhythms back Mr. Hansen’s characteristic non-sequiturs, just like the chaotic but impeccably-produced sounds of his past ventures into noisy, guitar-driven rock (Odelay) and funk...
...you’ve ever enjoyed his work, you’ll no doubt savor “Hell Yes” and its garishly fluorescent video. An animated Beck dances awkwardly while singing about East L.A., anvils and skeletons, gleefully lamenting either lost love or the passing of Megaman...
...decade ago Beck played a song called “Mountain Dew Rock”, and despite making some spastic music in the past, only with this EP has he achieved something truly worthy of the moniker. Neon-green-tinted and jitter-inducing, the EP is like that oft-maligned beverage: the buzz fades quickly, but it may give you enough of a jolt to finally defeat Bowser --- or your Sea Change doldrums...
...artistically inclined, we journeyed to visual effects studio Entity FX, whose projects have included the Spiderman movies, The X-Files, and currently Smallville. The owner, Harvard alum Mat Beck ’70 said that he became interested in the field because of technology...
...You’re using the left and right sides of your brain,” Beck said. “You’re blending physics and drawing and sometimes making something more than real. A real bullet going through the air in slow motion looks fake; the way we create the special effect, it has to be almost hyper-real to look believable...