Hey Everyone.
As I have sold out of physical copies of my last album, COMMUNICATION, I am making available here as a FREE download for the next two weeks. Enjoy, and share with your friends.
COMMUNICATION features my singles NO TEXTING ON THE DANCE FLOOR, Cocaine, Love Is a Form of Mental Illness, and Wesley Snipes, plus six other stellar songs.
Here is what some critics had to say about COMMUNICATION
"ZAS has some musical genius that is so far advanced, it just sounds like noise to the mere mortals who review it. Perhaps he is a perfect being sent from a distant galaxy to probe our puny human minds with his synths. Whatever the case, he has become a legend in and of himself . I'll tell you why- he is a genius. Love him or hate him, he got your attention.I will continue to avoid texting on the dance floor, and I will forever be on Team ZAS."
-Melt Magazine (Abby Miller)
" ZAS's new album COMMUNICATION....FUCKING GENIUS."
-The Other Paper
"Just in time for Valentine’s Day, Zachery Allan Starkey has seen fit to release the timely single “Love Is a Form of Mental Illness.” It’s another slice of post-Euro-weenie-electro-pop with Daniel Johnston/Wesley Willis-like vocals by the Man Who Would Be Mr. Gaga."
- The Other Paper (JP)
“ Starkey's Cocaine, it is brilliantly called—brilliantly titled, brilliantly executed, brilliantly everything...I predict it will become an international hit and on corporate mall playlists everywhere, like Forever 21..Girls react to the Richard Simmons-style aerobics disco beat—they dance. Bottomest of bottom lines: You need to hear this."
-The Other Paper (John Petric)
"Cocaine" is sleek and sharp. And though Starkey's vocals are still an acquired taste, he does a pretty good LCD Soundsystem homage here. That Casio drumbeat and those skittering keyboards make good bedfellows."
- The Alive! (Chris Deville)
“The first taste of the new Starkey is his new single, "NO TEXTING ON THE DANCE FLOOR". The song tackles technology's strange effect on interpersonal communication. Matched with synthesizers and drum machines played by hand, Starkey is using mixes directly from co-producer Bryan Moss' four-track and eight-track machines. The result is raw, lively recordings that verge on outsider art but definitely capture Starkey's intended vibe…meet Zach Starkey 2.0.”
- The Alive! Newspaper
“Upbeat electro-dance tunes with wry, and possibly ironic, commentary on the club and social scenes.”
- The Columbus Dispatch
“What is there to say about Zachery Allan Starkey that hasn’t already been said? Musically, he’s somewhere between Depeche Mode’s Martin Gore and a troll doll. Still, you’d be hard pressed to find anyone in the music scene with greater determination or brassier balls than Starkey. Hiis new single “NO TEXTING ON THE DANCE FLOOR” is worth a spin.”
- The Other Paper
Here is the link (copy and paste it into your browser):
https://www.yousendit.com/download/MzZGMFhwMHdoMlZjR0E9PQ
Thursday, February 17, 2011
Friday, October 15, 2010
Ever Get the Feeling You've Been Cheated?
Subcultures in the past that have been music or art based in some way, such as Swing Kids, Mods, Rockers, Punk, Goth, Hip Hop, ect, all came from the street and grew organically. "Hipster" culture since 2000 is a subculture created by strategic marketing experts and focus groups, who give people an entire lifestyle, a way to dress, live, music to listen, causes to support, and the people who buy into usually have no idea that they have been bought.
Everyday, I read blogs and hear people talking lovingly on the subway about the products they buy, as if their purchases define their identity. There is now a whole generation of early twenty something who have grown up being overly saturated by mass marketed media designed to give them their subculture credentials. Instead of being inspired by DIY, thru a strange combination of Post-Modernism and crass commercialization of underground cultures, they've been spoon fed their identities and somehow think this makes them outside of mainstream culture.
Ten years ago, artist Shepard Fairy hit near mainstream success and recognition with his OBEY series. Now Urban Outfitters is selling an OBEY Fashion line, which is worn by kids here in New York who have no idea who Shepard Fairy is.
Everyday, I read blogs and hear people talking lovingly on the subway about the products they buy, as if their purchases define their identity. There is now a whole generation of early twenty something who have grown up being overly saturated by mass marketed media designed to give them their subculture credentials. Instead of being inspired by DIY, thru a strange combination of Post-Modernism and crass commercialization of underground cultures, they've been spoon fed their identities and somehow think this makes them outside of mainstream culture.
Ten years ago, artist Shepard Fairy hit near mainstream success and recognition with his OBEY series. Now Urban Outfitters is selling an OBEY Fashion line, which is worn by kids here in New York who have no idea who Shepard Fairy is.
Saturday, May 22, 2010
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