heartbeats live at the middle east upstairs

heartbeats live at the middle east upstairs from Electric Laser People on Vimeo.

Demis Roussos - We Shall Dance

I heard this song at a gas station in Redondo, Portugal, while piled into a car with several of my best friends, trying to find a tiny restaurant in a town where English wasn't spoken.

We got there, thanks to a very friendly local gas station attendant, who was blasting this track on his boombox that warm summer night.

Learn how to play some ELP

New Song (Demo)

Evacuation Day by electriclaserpeople

elp INFLUENZA @ Great Scott, May 28, 2009

Oh really, Swine Flu? Nothing stops the INFLUENZA*. Leave your face masks at home, because the only thing contagious at Great Scott on May 28th is the neon dance party. This is the electro-pop edition of the series. Check out the lineup below...


ETHER FIELD (members of Matters & Dunaway)
Technical yet groove-able, Matters & Dunaway layered vocals with dreamy languor reminiscent of New Order awash with reverb and stab the comfort with vibrant noise. After several solid albums of acclaimed releases these Bostonian gents cranked out tunes equally suited for break-up mix tapes or a dance floor throwdown. Ether Field is this new musical project by André of Matters & Dunaway. Not to be missed!


LOVEWHIP:
Lovewhip is dance music. The Boston Globe exclaims “Lovewhip has a celebratory and upbeat feel that has kept crowds dancing everywhere they play!” Lovewhip creates a live show that is rooted in fun with the passionate vocals and dance moves of the “soulful electro-rock diva” (says the Boston Phoenix) Erin Harpe a.k.a. Empress Erin. The project of frontwoman/guitarist/singer Erin Harpe and bassist Jim Countryman combines multicultural influences ranging from Jamaican reggae and dancehall to Nigerian soukous and highlife, afrobeat, and retro 80’s electro. “The overall concept has always been to lift people out of their daily drudgery and get them dancing and feeling good,” says Harpe. And that’s just what they’ve done, touring regularly around the country to great reactions and dancing crowds.


ELECTRIC LASER PEOPLE:
This is smart, fun music for smart, fun minds. The band is made up of MIT graduates who work in bio-instrumentation, prosthetics engineering and robot-building. Singer/bassist Dan Paluska is the co-creator of the Fotron2000, a robotic sketch artist, and created a "Holy Toaster" (a toaster that stamped an image of Christ on slices of bread) for Collision Collective, a group of artists from MIT and the Boston area exploring new technologies (http://collisioncollective.org/) Dan also helped build Totemobile, a 50-foot-tall, 11,000-pound robotic sculpture -- a giant transformer that unfolds from a car into a totem pole. They play moody synth with heavy influences of rock and hip-hop a la BEASTIE BOYS and new wave, art school neurotics like the TALKING HEADS.

And guest DJ’s for the night…

BODEGA GIRLS:
Hedonistic purveyors of Soul, Afro-Beat, and Electro

As always, Influenza is sponsored by Powderfinger Promotions and Northeast Performer Magazine!

Tickets are $10, and this is an 18+ show. Doors are at 8:00.

* INFLUENZA = Boston's best bands playing 1/2 great original music, and 1/2 covers of the songs that they find most INFLUENtial.

Breaking out in song

Singing feels good...

That's why we've been asking everyone to join us in song at our last few shows.

Down by the Riverside at the Lizard Lounge from Electric Laser People on Vimeo.

Sing Along: Machine and The Cop Song from Electric Laser People on Vimeo.

Live at the Lizard Lounge, May 1 w/ Stephanie's Id

May Day (a.k.a. International Workers' Day) falls approximately halfway between the spring equinox and summer solstice.

Traditionally, it's been an occasion for popular and often raucous celebrations, regardless of the locally prevalent political or religious establishment.

This occasion promises to be no different.

So, gather your compatriots, your fellow labourers, your lovers, and your friends;

Come help us make things raucous and popular.

We'll have our Electric Laser Hymnal, our tambourines, and more on hand so be ready to participate as we continue to experiment with ways to bring this crowdsourcing phenomena to the stage. We need your sound and vision.

We will be joined by our good friends Stephanie's Id on tour all the way from their hometown of Asheville, North Carolina.

They're out supporting their new album Warm People (officially out May 19) which is already being hailed as "world class music...at turns hypnotic, anthemic, and contemplative" - Blurt.

Last May when we played with Stephanie at Lizard, we sold the place out. Let's do it again!

Friday, May 1, 2009
Electric Laser People (Cambridge, MA)
Stephanie's Id (Asheville, NC)

@

Lizard Lounge
1667 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA
8:30pm-close
$10 / 21+

proudly presented by:
http://www.ninemilerecords.com/

*** PLUS: We have a NEW music video!!! Check it OUT ***
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAYEmF5u1hE

electric laser people‘s UPCOMING SHOWS:

Friday, May 8, 2009

for the CNC Music Marathon

All Asia Cafe
334 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA
9pm-close
$7 / 21+ after 10pm

Thursday, May 28, 2009
"Influenza" presented by Powderfinger Promotions - a new monthly show featuring half cover songs & half originals
w/ Giantess and Lovewhip
Great Scott
1222 Commonwealth Ave, Allston Rock City
9pm-close

The Electric Laser Hymnal

We've begun our songbook project as an open google doc. You can always see the latest version here and it will update as we edit it.
We'll always plan on bringing a few copies to shows so you can follow along. Feel frint to print and bring your own if you wish. Chords are included as well if you're interested in playing things at home. We're also including several traditional songs we'll be introducing in our live shows. We look forward to engaging our audiences more in the future.
The document is a living thing. The current version is boranj.

http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dcpfp46j_83hhxk73hh

Disco 3000: Official Music Video!!!

Behold, the first official music video from our debut album,
Straight Talk on Raising Kids.
It features our original song "Disco 3000."

First we painted some walls green:

above: painting walls with green paint, circa June 2008

Then, some raw video footage was filmed by our good pals the Awesome Brothers at our space in South Boston during the summer of 2008.

above: The Awesome Brothers (Ashleigh @ left / Luke @ right)

During the cold dark months that followed, the dynamic digital dream duo that is the Awesome Brothers lovingly and painstakingly manipulated each individual pixel with an uncommon meticulousness.

Now it is spring, the tulips are peeking through the soil, and it is once again time to rock with the ones we love, to share our creative inspirations, to get down, and to boogie.

Enjoy!

Copying is fun!

copying isn't theft
stealing a thing leaves one less left
copying it makes one thing more
that's what copying's for

copying isn't theft
if i copy yours you have it too
one for me, one for you
that's what copies can do.

if i steal your bicycle
you have to take the bus
but if i just copy it, there's one for each of us

making more of a thing
that is what we call copying
sharing ideas with everyone
that's why copying is fun!!!!

via boingboing. then a couple other links too.