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Pulse Oregon Daily Emerald Thursday, January 20, 2005 “Thank God, I’m still an atheist. ” Luis Bunuel | Director about copyright laws &y and mixing < v % Dan Rather * with AC/DC Sammy Davis Jr., Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass, Public Enemy, Dan Rather and AC/DC. Separately, these cultural icons bear little resemblance to one an other. In the hands of Evolution Control Committee mastermind Mark Gunderson, tiney become the raw material for a new and creative form of social com mentary. Mixing sounds from a wide and disjointed range of audio material, Gunderson and his collabora tors have taken the basics of musical sampling and twisted them into new forms. ECC has courted college radio successes as well as some pesky, though public ity-bestowed, lawsuits. Recently, Gunderson took some time from touring to talk to the Emerald about his work, his music and his views on the current state of American copyright laws. Emerald: Your music is based very heavily on sam ples. How do you make that interesting in performance? MG: Excellent question, and one that has been hot on I VOLUTION liitje 11 ■ In my opinion RYAN NYBURG BUDGET RACK Celebrity fixation exposes greedy nation I have to admit, I truly delight in the miseries of the rich and famous. Class warfare, envy, shadenfreud celebe, call it what you will. I take few simpler pleasures than that of the humilia tion and loss of those more popular, talented and financially endowed than myself. Brad and Jen break up? Good, screw 'em. Prince Harry gets a picture of himself dressed as a Nazi plastered all overthe tabloids? Ha! Stupid up per-class twit. Britney gets married and knocked up? Excellent, no more albums for at least a year or two. To be honest, I have come to truly despise these people. It might be odd for me to say that because I don't personally know any of them, but then again people fall completely in NYBURG, page 12 PULSEMUSIC PULSEMUSIC Jerel, "Jerel": The new four-song, self-titled EP from the Seattle band Jerel takes up the forgotten form of swamp rock and mixes it together with an eclectic list of influences. Featuring plenty of metal crunch and some chilling bass work, the band manages to carve some interesting music out of its basic rock lineup by adding banjos, keyboards and harmonicas for the occasional flavor. The EP's firsttrack, "Garden Eve," starts things off right with a groovy bass line underpinning some bluesy southern rock, ft's a sweettrack and a definite pick should the band come by the funds for an album anytime soon. "Jimmy Maug" adds a nice hard guitar crunch to go along with the distorted vocals—very Alice in Chainy in a Lynyrd Skynyrd kind of way. The Skynyrd influence really comes through on the ballad "Underground." It's a little cheesy, but it ends on a nice note. The follow-up and EP closer, "Heat Her," is a nice finish to a delightful 12 minutes of music. Based on what sounds like a converted Pink Floyd (sounds a lot like "Money"), the song is a sweet little piece of blues groove. Overall, this is a fine piece of work. Let's hope the band gets it into their heads to pull out something longer in the near future. Word on the street is that they will perform atthe Samarai Duck on Feb. 3, — Ryan Nyburg INSIDE PULSE Sam Bond's Garage brings a wide variety of people together for its interesting music. The University's Repertory Dance Company heads into its seventh year with style. Check out this week's edition of the Emerald's new comic strip, "Heads Up Penny." Thursday: Kinnie Star, Sam Bond's Garage, 9 p.m., $5 Trip-hop Friday: "Benjamin Smoke," DIVA, 8 p.m., $3 to $5 sliding scale Documentary about an underground musician Saturday: Dirty Digits, Black Forest, 11 p.m.,free Rock'n' roll show Sunday: Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art reopening, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, 11 a.m.,free Reopening featuring Andy Warhol exhibit TOP 5 MOVIES 1. "Coach Carter" 2. "Meetthe Fockers" 3. "Racing Stripes" 4. "In Good Company" 5. "Elektra" NEWYORKTIMES BEST-SELLERS 1. Dan Brown, "The Da Vinci Code" 2. Mitch Albom, "The Five People You Meet in Heaven" S.TerryGoodkind, "Chainfire" 4. Michael Crichton, "State of Fear" 5. W.E.B. Griffin, "By Order of the President" BILLBOARDTOP 5 1. Green Day, "American Idiot" 2. Eminem, "Encore" 3. Lii' John, "Crunk Juice" 4. John Legend, "Get Gifted" 5. Ludacris, "The Red Light District"
