Didgeridoos from space and the porn machine.

This is the current working title of our newest project. We were calling it Jetstream, but decided that too many people have done that and it’s lame. We’re not sure if we’ll keep the title but the same basic feeling is there with the music I think. We’ll have disks to pass out at the shows over the next two days.

Austin Java tomorrow March 18

Metropolis Pool Party tomorrow March 18

Metropolis Pool Party Friday March 19

Come out and see us, if you’re on our facebook you’ve been invited to these things, if you’re not ADD US ON FACEBOOK http://www.facebook.com/iokmusic.

We’re also almost everywhere else on the internet you can think of, just google I ok.

So we’ve released another song in the grouping rounding everything out to 4 so far. Hear and download them while you can here. Once everything is finished and packaged as a whole these songs are no longer free.

Also we still have our album Teleport for sale HERE! We’ve decided to offer it for free in celebration of our first SXSW experience. For the next 2 days March 18 and 19 you can download Teleport in it’s entirety HERE!

Remixes, a Bloody Knife for your ear.

We’ve been remixing our friends Bloody Knives for the past month. It’s only 3 songs, and we’ve been heavily busy with I ok, so it took us a while. So I worked on them all night the other night, now Matt and I gave them some more time the other day to finally round them out.  Then I became dissatisfied with one of them and messed with it for another week and a half. They’re a great band, and I just wanted to be able to like the remixes as much as I like the originals. Also I’m a crazy perfectionist that’s willing to do something extremely tedious, and minor just to achieve something I’ve decided I need.

You can hear one on our Soundcloud

If you don’t know Bloody Knives, think back to last year when The Joy Bus was playing a lot of shows in San Antonio. Did you see The Joy Bus? Well if you did and you liked it Preston Maddox (the singer), and Jake McCown (the drummer) have been working on Bloody Knives since about last year. They’re starting to play out more so go see them if you can (The Joy Bus is no longer together). Also check them out Bloody Knives  here and add them. Also we just appeared on the Jesus in space 2010 Compilation from killredrocket records with them.

Soon we hope to have them remixing some of our tracks. It would be the first in the countless times we’ve mixed other people where someone actually returned the favor.

Teleport got it’s first review!

Here!

The lyrics to our album Teleport.

A few people have asked about them, so here they are in order in their entirety. Again it can be downloaded for free here until this Thursday, so please tell your friends.

Machine

Awake alone, we let machines breathe for us. Don’t know where I am, but the machines are glorious. We let them work, do what they can. You’ll survive. So long ago, the crooks and thieves had left us. We had nowhere, but the machines protect us. We bite our nails, we bury our heads, and we lie. And we lie.

Leeches

I believe it’s broken. I’ve never seen a sky look quite like that before with my eyes wide open. Tonight we’ll show them, and do all the things we never thought we could  before without those cold hands. We grow like old friends. We’re satisfied like leeches subsisting on your fluid heart. We swell and inflate in your heart. Tonight this parasite is welcomed to the dream.

Deadly Aria

Malevolent, haunting, and feared.  Depression shivers shuddering to the centers of ours and yours. The pessimism pushes me to action. Unconscious reveries of our golden melodies, it powers on. And so we went. Banished by peers. If we had our livers we would follow to the letter these simple chores. The cataclysm delivers us to passion. Responsive cavities, we are drunk on programming, we power on the dead.

Teleport part 1

We’ve got to teleport. It’s our last resort. Got no life support. Visions aren’t metaphors. I crawled for thousands of miles just to be with you. Falling out of the sky is always difficult. We’ve got to teleport. It’s our last resort. Think I’ve bled before. The taste of dirt and my stomach is getting cold. Visions I recognize. Computerize myself just to make it home. Crawling into the fire is always ritual. We’ve got to teleport. It’s our last resort.

Info War

We stitch the mechanical babies with our digitized labour force. Mechanize, synthesize our own dysfunction. Schematics take hold of your digital implant. Your memory. Satellites make their rounds. Info war encroaches with it’s techno toys. Geneto boys in leisure suits and style. Tracking devices and celluloid life.  Cardboard images make great pets. Your megalomaniacal genetecised global empire will implode. Floods in market trends, and WTO electric cars. Kill yourself or your boss. Satiated we are no longer violent. Drugged and whimsical. Our cubicles chain us to our deaths. Satisfied with our material excess, the psychopomp shall taste our will  in a menagerie of light and sound. Floods in market trends, and WTO electric cars. Kill yourself or your boss.

Windmills stationed on Mars

Windmills. Scatter documents. Venom filled toxic wasteland. Scatter ashes. The victims. Mistakes were made. Prices paid. Consequences. Windmills.

Radio Capillary (my thermo-nuclear heart)

It’s out, we better get out of here. Cause I built something better here. It burns the sky at millions of degrees. We run, my blood’s burning everything. We run. We’ve seen it grow we see you love the risk. We’ve had our time we’ve had our love of this. Then why did you leave us like hollow fists? Why did you never believe in love? Why are we falling in emptiness? We burn the sky at millions of degrees. We run. My blood’s burning everything. We run. Why do we live as masochists. Run.

Energy

See our places in the sun. We remember every single time. When the people told us if we were boldest. They took their faces off. I remember when we were in love. I took her body every single time. And the creature told us. If we were boldest. That we would never die. Is all you’re energy gone? Not for long. There have been times when I believed, my life was all the things that I could see rather than what I know it as. This parlor trick it starts to get real old. I never face the life that I can see next to all the things I know. If we don’t have a reason, it’s cause we don’t have the time. Is all you’re energy gone? Not for long.

Someone

Who are you, to me? Who are you? I cut myself and lay down in the grass.  Now who the fuck are you? Who? I’ve sacrificed my answers. Oh well. They’re fake just like the others. The others in this world are all empty. All empty. I’m late, to cut myself and lay down in the grass. Yeah who the fuck are you? Who?

Plight of an Iraqi

See through my sleepy eyes and the painful things you see, jump off the walls at me.  As I close my eyes, explosions faintly. They’re screaming things at me. All will be all right, their bullhorns say to me, as I’m left lonely. Lonely. As my small world sleeps they’re bombing everything. Like flashing lights to me. I had hoped that they would see an end to everything. A way out for free. All will be alright, their bullhorns say to me. As I’m left lonely. Lonely.

Books not bombs

I believe, and I tell everybody else, that we are machines. We are mechanically built. It’s what we were needing. Just bundled wire and distant shells of lives we were leading. Up until I power on. My bloody face and flower heads, they line up in rows. So there is no effective defense. Just be on your toes, you can tell they’re coming by scent. But not with your nose. It’s your self. I believe.

A new time to shine (chasing happiness)

Free machine. Make me a wonder. Make me happy. Free machine. Don’t let the wonder go with a whisper. Free machine. Make me a wonder. Make me happy. Free Machine.

For one week only

This week we’re giving away our album Teleport. It took us 3 years to make, and we’d rather everyone have it and listen to it than have your money for it. We’re no longer performing it live, and we’re working on a new release currently. This is (again for anyone who’s known us a while) the OLD us. We hope you enjoy it.

here.

Thank you everyone for being into what we do.

Fuck iTunes.

Jim

A repost, a story.*

*portions of this are copied from the original myspace blogs AGAIN!

In 2009 I (Jim) stopped playing guitar (mostly). This wasn’t a decision that I made, but a symptom of a larger problem. Matt’s car got robbed. I lost most of my worldly possessions then, and was personally crushed. Matt lost some very important things too (and personally crushed as well I’m sure as he lost a car window and was the person whom they had stolen from), but I was out more monetarily. Most of his stuff happened to not be in the same place luckily because it’s what we’re using now. Unfortunately one of the things Matt had stolen was nearly IRREPLACEABLE and very expensive! Here’s the blog we posted on our myspace when it happened.

The robbery
Current mood:  catalyzed
Category: Life

So last Saturday on Mar 28 2009 we played the best show EVER at a great place that we will be playing again called Club Wax Lounge. It was super awesome, I recommend that everyone who likes us really try to make it out to those ones. It has great sound, a great atmosphere, and great drinks. I recommend the vodka tonic!

Anyway so we leave for home. One of us with the gear, the other with the light table (you have to see it). The one with the gear fell asleep without unloading and BAM!

Everything was gone.

We’re trying not to let it bother us.

We’ve had to cancel 2 shows, and that will be all the cancellations. The Hyperbubble, iLL Prospekt, Scorpio Rising, Midi Fister show will be the triumphant return of  I ok to our rightful place on the stage. The Blue Bubble Ballroom Robo Disco Party is going to be awesome. If you’ve never seen us before you need to make that one, we’re going to be wound up…..

There are rumblings about a special show the day after, more details later.

Currently watching: Religulous Release date: 2009-02-17

Some back info on everything. We lost a Godin freeway bass, a Godin guitar, a Hartke bass amp, a Digitech vocalist vr and an Alesis Quadraverb inside a double rack mount case, our glockenspiel, my notebook, and the irreplaceable item a Digitech RP 12.

Also, we don’t play in San Antonio anymore, but Wax Lounge was always cool and the owner Gina is very nice and may drink with you if she likes you. I highly recommend.

Oh yeah, and don’t you HATE the crap that myspace does to their blogs? How are you feeling (smiley face) what are you doing (watching a whatever Bill Maher movie)…. I digress.

We tried to keep a good attitude about it. So our plan at the time was to just replace what we could muster, and try to find adequate temporary replacements for other things that would be harder to get. This proved a foolish idea. We immediately realized it was serendipitous of us to even run across an RP 12. Digitech made it in the early 90′s. It’s one of the main processors on the The Smashing Pumpkins album Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness, and it had become an integral part to the way Teleport sounded when performed. We ended up playing a few shows with a terrible replacement for what we’d lost (an Rp 6) and we sounded terrible as a result. We were distraught. Then someone whom we knew from playing shows offered to help us. Check it.

Monday, May 04, 2009

IT WORKS! Thanks Wordofmouth Telleveryone Records Current mood:  thankful Category: Life Some people who say they’re doing something are actually doing it. Come as a surprise? It should. In today’s world it is staggering the number of people you meet who say they do one or another thing, and they do not. Whether this is being a competent and interesting musician, or even something as simple as being a safe and courteous driver. People rarely do what they say they are going to do. This is not the case with Wordofmouth Telleveryone Records…. Some of you may remember we were robbed of nearly everything we use to play live a few weeks ago. We’ve been slowly trying to acquire all the comparable equipment, but it’s been a really hard and expensive process. The stuff we’re using isn’t made anymore, but I don’t need to go that deep into what was lost. We’ve been lucky to have good friends who have been letting us borrow some things (thanks Travis), but this leaves us with A. the burden of not having certain qualities that our particular instruments had and B. the burden of worry that we will somehow harm this piece of valuable equipment. Needless to say we haven’t gotten everything back. We’ve been at a workable medium. To that effect we want to thank Wordofmouth. Wordofmouth shows (for those not in the know) are not paying gigs per se. The money generated is going to funds for emergency situations in the larger music scene. Robbery, accidents, wrecks, etc. Like a band insurance agency, if you play these non paying shows with the agreement of non payment you are part of the umbrella of the services Wordofmouth provides. The project was started by Chris and Lin out of sheer kindness, respect, and love of art. Chris has told me he felt called to do this for everyone. Most bands hopefully will never have to go through any of these unfortunate circumstances, and so will not ever be eligible to be claiming any portion of this said fund. But the knowledge that you DO have SOME safety net SOME kind of cushion, makes you feel a little better. AND IT’S TRUE! They actually helped us. It was VERY helpful. We’re VERY thankful. We want EVERYONE to know that this actually happens, it’s not bullshit. PLAY THEIR SHOWS CAUSE IT COULD BE YOU SOMEDAY! I think if everyone in San Antonio, and even Austin networked with them, and made the fund a bit more money we’d have an even better safety net, one with fluffy pillows, and pretty people helping you off. The nice thing is even if you never benefit, at least you helped everybody else. Currently listening: Simple Man By Klaus Nomi Release date: 1990-02-12

He gave us the case back, and the glockenspiel. We had already acquired a vocalist vr and the Quadraverb. About a week or 2 later Matt got an Rp 20. The Rp 20 advertised as better. It wasn’t. Sending Matt on a crazed search for the Rp 12 which he found, but in the process learned an ebay lesson and pissed of a seller righteously.

Unfortunately Wordofmouth are not booking shows anymore last I heard. I don’t know if it was lack of support, or just that they were starting a family and went on to do that. Chris and Lin are 2 of the kindest people we’ve ever met, and the fact is that no one really supported their events. Maybe it’s because they weren’t ruthless unscrupulous money hungry whores. Chris once told me the reason he did the fund was because Jesus told him in a vision to do it. That’s drive no matter what you believe in, and maybe that will again spark into a larger flame.

Anyway I was writing this because I’m bored. Now I’ve bored you too, so there. You deserved it anyway. You didn’t support the man driven by God.

Thank you Chris and Lin.

Help us out

We’re putting the word out now. We will be touring this summer. To give you an idea of how far we’re trying to tour we have a place to book in Chicago California and Florida, places to stay in Oregon and Washington, and both of those things in Louisiana. But we haven’t yet asked anyone on our blog for help!

Do you like I ok? If so we’re looking for  places to book. Any bands on this list who’d like to play with us you could book us with you (we can reciprocate if you’re touring as well). Any people willing to let us sleep on their floor or possibly better. Or even just information on the clubs in your area where you think we’d fit in that we could contact ourselves. As you can imagine actually finding out if the club is cool from hundreds of miles away is a task. If anyone could help us along with any of this we’d be eternally grateful.

We’re also looking for another label to put out our next record. If anyone has anything there give us a shout.

If you can help us with any of these things please respond with your # where you are and what we can do together, and we’ll call or text you at the earliest opportunity.

We’re trying to get a list of contacts together for a real tour. We’ll be starting in Texas in the spring.

Also  through February any merchandise sold on the internet by us, meaning on our zazzle or from any online music sales, the entire proceeds that we gross will be going to the Red Cross for Haiti relief.

New music

Finally after a few weeks of practicing and writing we have some pieces of a demo. Jet Stream is what we’re calling it. Here’s a link to listen.

The Jet Stream  tune pack.

We will be working on more videos and some pictures once we’re finished recording. We’ll keep you posted.

Some videos

Our uStream went pretty well. We didn’t record it so great, and we had a few audio snafus that carried a little throughout. NEXT TIME it will be much better. We’ll be doing it again this Sunday @9 central. Check it out.

That said heres a link to the videos. If I post them here they auto play, and no one needs that…..

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/iok-party

Again we were redlining a bit, and this will be remedied next time. We had 2 cameras going on the actual feed too. Next time we’ll try to record both.

JESUS IN SPACE!

Jesus in space compilation 2010

Killredrocket records has recently released Jesus in space compilation 2010.

Heres what they had to say about it.

“Killredrocketrecords Presents
The Jesus in Space Compilation

Space Jesus is here to save you from lame generic garbage music by taking you on a musical journey into the farthest regions of SPACE! Here you will find a diverse collection of the newest sounds of Shoegaze, Psyche, Electronica, Noise, Lo-Fi, Punk, Rock, Ambient Indie music from around the world here to save your musical soul! Space Jesus is here to spread the gospel of good music to the universe, and encourages YOU to do the same! Tell all of your friends the saviour has arrived and it is a time of jubilation and redemption! 2010 will be the year of our lord!!!!!!!

PRAISE SPACE JESUS!!!!!!!!

Music from: Ceremony, Screen Vinyl Image, Bloody Knives, I ok, Laserz, Me You Us Them, Sixteen Deluxe, True Widow, House of Dolls, A Death Cinematic, Stellarium, Crash City Saints, SPC ECO, Ribs and MUCH MUCH MORE!!!!!!!”

This is from the killredrocket records blog which can be found here.

It can be downloaded at the blog by going here.

We are very proud and excited to be on a comp with so many great artists. Hopefully we can network together to create more of a community between each other. Go give it a download and enjoy it.

We will be VERY SOON NOW posting a blog about the remixes we’ve been working on for Bloody Knives, an artist from the killredrocket records roster and the Jesus in space compilation 2010. We’ve been working on them a long time, but I am a perfectionist and I keep finding problems with one and working on it over and over. Bloody Knives is a great band and they deserve nothing less.

The show we played last night at Thunderbird Coffee was pretty much a bust. We for some reason were double booked with an art show that didn’t want music inside at first. So we just set up outside then they brought us the pa we were using. In one trip, a tiny toy like pa. They said it was small I guess, whatever. So we played to Synesthesia who we were playing with, and his 2 friends. Inside we watched as about 40 people (give or take) milled around in the warmth and didn’t pay us a bit of attention. One guy came out, but we’re not sure if he enjoyed it, or electronic music so much, because he left without saying anything at all. So we stopped early and just passed it off to Synesthesia. He got to play inside, but quietly. Our music sounds less good the quieter it gets, so it ended up being a good thing. Had we been made to play quietly it would’ve sounded horrendous. As it was we played pretty well with our new setup and new material. The 3 people who were there seemed to enjoy it. Synesthesia sounded good at lower volumes, though it obviously would’ve been better had he a real pa. And while we listened to Synesthesia some old friends showed up, unfortunately they missed our set, but it was good to hang out. An altogether decent night I guess. Beats sitting at home playing MW2 on PS3. But I’m pretty sure that’s the last time we’ll be playing Thunderbird coffee. We’re playing @ Plush February 11 so come see us.

Btw if you’re on PS3 add me, JimMoon.