Zombified

Okay, here's a weird, roundabout one.

On Friday, while walking to work, I snapped what I considered to be a cool, atmospheric picture of the Empire State building from Madison Square, almost completely obscured by snowfall.

Yesterday, I posted that picture here. In due course, my comrades over at This Isn't Happiness paid me a high compliment by considering said picture worthy of inclusion on their terrific Tumblr.

Shortly after that, evidently J. Yuenger, -- music producer and formerly hirsute guitarist of White Zombie -- must have spotted it there and put it up on his weblog -- which is weird, as I'd only just been listening to White Zombie the other day, inspired by bassist Sean Yseult's new book, "I'm in the Band," which my friend Drew gave me and looks like entirely required reading if you're a fan of the band.

Intrigued, I popped over to J.'s site and found all sorts of cool stuff, not the least of which being a post featuring the isolated guitar track of East Bay Ray from the Dead Kennedys' seminal classic, "Holiday in Cambodia" (not unlike that post of mine from a little while back that featured isolated tracks from the Rolling Stones' "Gimme Shelter"). It makes for fascinating listening.

I followed the link from J.'s page to the source and discovered Studiomultitracks.com, which features a slew of similar finds, not the least of which being the keyboard/vocal track from my beloved Killing Joke's "Requiem." Whatever your taste, however, there's a lot of fascinating stuff to be heard there. Go check it out.

I was going to write a lengthier post about White Zombie who started off as East Village regulars back in the 80's. I used to frequently spot them around Avenue A (their bedraggled ragamuffin aesthetic was hard to miss). They used to play at places like The Pyramid Club and the Lizmar Lounge. Who knew they'd go onto become stadium-fillers? But that's a post for another day.

In any case, check out J.'s blog and enjoy Studiomultitracks. Cheers.