Millennium Crux

New song, first mix

I live is this neighborhood near the Dallas zoo.
I love living over here!
It doesn't seem like Dallas to me, there are hills and trees and the architecture of the houses are really interesting.
I think it's the forgotten part of Dallas..
It's kind of a poor neighborhood, but it's beautiful.
There are flocks of peacocks and packs of pit bulls roaming free... it's an interesting place.

I started to write this song about this dude in the neighborhood who walks around (sometimes backwards) having arguments with people who just aren't there. He's yelling at someone that seems to be following him around, but it's clearly in his head.
Sometimes I can't stop thinking about him, I want to help, but what can I do?
My other neighbors tell me to just ignore him and don't make eye contact, but this seems like part of the problem- no one will talk to him or even acknowledge that he is there.

He is a really big dude that looks like a cross between Mike Tyson and Forest Whitaker.
He doesn't seem to cause much harm, other than random piles of broken rocks in front of peoples' houses, in the street.
Therefore, the police won't do anything about him.. so , he's just part of the charm of the hood.
I suspect he is the one that left the dirty Scooby Doo underwear in my yard.

Anyway, here is a song I am writing about him, this is the first mix,
you can hear an actual recording of him yelling in the distance if you listen closely:
Invisible Someone *test 02/13/11* by New Fumes

Clay Stinnett came over and laid some sweet traps on this one. He is a freak of nature.
I'm learning to record drums. I have two microphones.

Here is a link to get the record

http://www.goodrecords.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=1_6&products_id=4205

Get Em While They Are Hot

That Flaming Lips show was a Blast! And that snow! Crazy!
That morning and the previous afternoon, for me, was spent at the record plant putting colored vinyl chips and beads into the vinyl pressing machine.
I could have spent all day doing that! It was so fun to experiment.
I came out with some interesting results, i think.
The first 100 copies of the LP come with a CD of the music as well.
I just want to say that I have much love, respect and appreciation for Wayne Coyne and the Flaming Lips organization as well as Tim Delaughter and the Good Records organization... they have helped me so much and been so encouraging. Good and Funny people.. i love em!
You can purchase the LP here:

http://www.goodrecords.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=1_6&products_id=4205

New T Shirts and Vinyl

Nevada and I made 30 of these:


And we made 100 of these in these colors of the 12" vinyl covers.
We plan on having Yellow vinyl.
The first 100 of 500 will have a CD of the music in there with the record..

We hope to have all this available at the Flaming Lips show on Feb.3

Video Action

New Fumes- "Your Style Won't Save You Now" from daniel huffman on Vimeo.

New Fumes- "Teeth of the Sun" from daniel huffman on Vimeo.

Big Fun!

Wayne Coyne made 30 of these cool posters!

Finally!

Good friends at Good Records Recordings are putting my record out on Vinyl by February 3, 2011. It will be ltd to 500 copies with colored vinyl, so reserve your copy from them today.
Nevada Hill is screen printing the covers that will look something like this:


Big things coming from Good Records in 2011, Mark my words.

Your Style Won't Save You Now/ Your Smile is a Bomb Song

Sometimes I get into a flow and write two songs as if it were one.
I tend to look at it like an A and a B side of a single together as one track.
Silly? Maybe.
Here's one i have been sitting on for a while.
Sally Glass, Regina Chellew and Jennifer Billings were very kind in lending their voices to the second part of this one ( same group as heard on "Light is Light")
Have a listen!
Your Style Won't Save You Now/ Your Smile is a Bomb Song by New Fumes

I am opening for Octopus Project doing "Hexadecagon"!

So excited about this!
Not only that i get to play my music at an Octopus project show, but that i get to see them perform "Hexadecagon".
Thursday, November 18, 2010 at Southside Music Hall.
This should be very special.
check this out:

Hexadecagon Shows Trailer from The Octopus Project on Vimeo.

if you miss this, it will be a bummer.

Tapes and Shirts at Good Records, Dallas

There are only a few cassette tapes left and even fewer T-shirts.
A few of each can be found at Good Records in Dallas.
I have a couple of shows lined up for you, when all the details get ironed out, i will let you know.
Keep your eyes peeled here for the next couple of days. it should be exciting if everything works out the way i hope.
In the mean time, enjoy this track from my cassette album,"Bump and Assassination".
The track is called "Superglue, You can Join Our Band".
Superglue, You Can Join Our Band by New Fumes

SHIRTS

Nevada Hill made some shirts!
They look something like the one above.
There are are 29 of them in existence.
get one while you can.

coco rosie were nice

Hanging out back stage with Coco Rosie made me really want to speak French so that I could be shy in French instead of boring ol English.

I am excited to open for Coco Rosie!

I always loved that song "Techno Love Song" and was just thinking to myself the other day how i would like to meet CoCo Rosie. Then BAM, i just found out today i get to open for them!
SleepWhale is on the bill as well!
September 29, 2010 at Granada Theatre

New Fumes Photos by Sally Glass

From The Nightmare. July 9, 2010






Sally also sang on this song along with Regina Chellew, Jennifer Billings and myself.
Light is Light!
Light is Light (test) by New Fumes

Last Minute

I'm playing at the Cavern Tonight Aug. 19, 2010.
The line up is New Fumes, Yells At Eels, Blixaboy.
Yells at Eels aka Added Pizzaz (ARiel Pink collaborators) will make beautiful jazz.
Blixboy aka Wanz Dover will make beautiful a dubstep shoegaze combination.
I play first , that's 9:45- 10:00 start time.
this is going to be a good show.
I have cassettes!


here's a track from the tape:
Intrusion by New Fumes

please come say "hello".

Your Style Won't Save You Now

New Fumes- "Your Style Won't Save You Now" from daniel huffman on Vimeo.

THE FORT!

I'm really looking forward to this!

also, if anyone is interested, i have an "Experimental Birthday Band #36" playing this coming friday, July 23 2010 at Winedale Tavern.
the band includes myself on guitar and electronics/ video, Clay (ghostcar, black dotz, boom boom box) on drums, Jermy (telethon, mission giant) synth and electronic drums, Ross (black dotz) bass and maybe Chris (swirve) hopping in here and there on trumpet. Improv baby!
Winedale Tavern is located at:
2110 Greenville Avenue
Dallas, TX 75206-7126
(214) 823-5018

Pining (When We're Together)

this is an old song (1999) i decided to re-record. it's about pining for someone even when they are right there with you.
Pining (when we're together) by New Fumes

July 9, 2010 at The Nightmare (the lounge, but better) 2810 Elm st. Dallas, TX $5

Melting Season is Bruce Blay from MOM/ Sleep Whale. He gave me a CDR of his stuff at the last show, it's really nice and beautiful.
Some of the songs get stuck in my head. It's very organic and loose electro-folk kind of stuff...reminds me a bit of panda bear, but not ripping it off at all. It's all Bruce. Think of low riders in the hood with booming bass systems playing trippy, atmospheric tribal folk music (and still rattling your windows).
Diamond Age- fans of Heldon and This Heat will love it.
I will have cassettes of the entire "Bump and Assassination" album with a bonus track, Nevada Hill packaging, and smells from my house embedded in the paper.$8