Monday, November 10, 2008

Scumcast! 10: Basswave Zero





BAH BAH BAH BUUUUMMMMMMM.... 10th Scumcast, how about that?

Oh we've come so far (only not really though). Still struggling with effective anti-marketing and the circumventing of necessary evils. Not exactly delusional about it anymore though, so I should be taking some steps to rectify that shortly...in the meantime, if you are here, thanks for listening. And again, please feel free to talk shit or say hi or whatevers. Feedback is pretty crucial for improvement/motivation/knowing what other people think about what you do.

Anyhow, the last couple Scumcast's have been pretty damn focused whereas the first couple were kind of a free for all. I enjoy both approaches so with this one I was trying to manage a best of both worlds type thing.

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DJ Scallywag-Scumcast! 10:Basswave Zero

1.Bass Clef-Welcome Back to Echo Chamber
2.Boxcutter-Windfall
3.Clouds-Elder (Rootah Remix)
4.Roommate-Rocksteady
5.Martyn-Vancouver
6.F-Phase One
7.The Bug-Skeng (Kode9 Remix)
8.DZ-That Bongo Dub
9.fliPPo-Techno Ghosts
10.Pinch-136trak
11.DJ Distance-Dark Crystal
12.Shackleton-New Dawn
13.Shackleton-shortwave
14.3RDEYE-Irish Wind
15.Bass Clef-One Hundred Point Three
16.Various Production-Thunnk
17.King Cannibal-Arigami Style
18.Aaron Spectre-Say More Fire
19.Chase and Status-Eastern Jam
20.Joker-Gully Brook Lane
21.Kosh-Funeral March
22.Ghislain Poirer-Blazin' (Modeselektor Remix)
23.The Bug-Jah War
24.Emalkay-Frequency
25.Emalkay-Gut Feeling
26.Coki-Spongebob
27.Benga-26 Basslines
28.Unknown Artist-Dead Letter Drop #2
29.The Count and Sinden-Stinging Nettle
30.Rusko-2NAQ
31.DZ-Down
32.TC-Where's My Money (Caspa Remix)
33.Caspa-Cockney Violin
34.Plastician-Japan
35.Various Productions-The World is Gone
36.Broken Note-War in the Making
37.Vex'd-Angels
38.Starkey-Angel
39.Radiohead-Nude (Eskmo Remix)
40.DFRNT-Aftermath



So this one is a dubstep mix, if you didn't notice. I've been meaning to do one for a minute and now seems as good a time as any, seeing how the genre has finally gained considerable footing outside of the UK and into slightly wider demographics. I started simply enough, but things got a bit interesting while trying to cram all the different variations of the sound into one cohesive statement. I ended up with a pretty thorough survey though, charting the heavily dub influenced stuff, the heady hypnotic strains, the rowdy floor fillers (both wif and wiffout wobbles), and my personal fave, the straight up devastating shit.

Oh...and I added a bunch of vocal snippets detailing how easy it might be to destroy the world instantly once we progress a bit further with certain technologies. Sorry bout that, kinda got inspired cause I thought McCain was gonna win when I started putting this together. But I kept it because it's still far off/out enough and I think it works well with the sound and the pacing of the mix; creates a cool little story arc, so to speak. Just know that the main narrator is one of the world's leading architects in computing and information technology, and not some internet crackpot (cough). I'd name names but I'm not so sure dude would appreciate me sorta demonstrating his point, if if only for edutainment purposes. But outside of the "PSA" framing, it's basically my best of dubstep mix that steers clear of only the most obvious hits (No Burial, No 'Night' no 'midnight request line' etc). Oh and the flow of the mix is loosely based on From Dusk Till Dawn and Pirates of the Caribbean (the actual ride, not the movies). :|

Anyway, I put a good deal of time and thought into this one, despite it clashing with my recent spike in hope regarding human destiny...so maybe think of it as a psychological thriller of sorts, relating some distant but inevitable paranoia. In the meantime, let's say we get together and try and fix all this other shit that is presently falling apart at the seams, yeah?

PS the more bass you employ, the better this sounds. thats just kinda how this stuff works ya know...play it loud.
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Friday, September 19, 2008

This is what happens when my immune system does not function properly :|


Well, here I am, wriggling around in a swamp of my own makings, just trying to convince my mind that we don't want to actively experience this icy hot mess of an existence anymore. (Not today, no sir...not in this state.) Still, can't seem to get the autonomics to cooperate right now, so tonight, I'm actually gonna humor one of the little bloglet dillys that tend to buzz around my periphery. I'm not exactly sure wtf that means or wtf a bloglet evens is (sounds kinda retarded to me)...but basically I know that they are made out of internet and they kinda feel like tiny gnats bouncing up against the back of my eyesockets. I catch em hovering around the outskirts of this old dilapidated cumberbun quite a bit these days. Couldn't tell you why either, I've had the wherewithal to keep the little bastards at bay for a good while now. I just have to assume that my weakened state has allowed some sort of leakage to seep through the anti-germination foam we use to plug the holes around the blood-brain barrier... because all the sudden its like, "dude! how am I NOT gonna post a youtube to every music video ever featured on Beavis and Butthead back in the day that I can remember and still appreciate...right???"

Anyway, that's the plan tonight. Looks like the hyperbole and the meta-wallowing are also making some fast inroads again, so before we start a tone war and threaten all the progress we've made in not blogging...let's just quickly point out that the hardcore reminisce that took place during that last mix must've spawned this. and that Mike Judge had dope taste in music and did a really good job of subversively exposing a lot of cool shit back in the day.

But enough!!! Let the embeddening...BEGIN!





So I've been on a big industrial kick lately. Since the advent of free everything, i've gone back and explored a fair deal of what I missed. As far as NIN I've been all about it since Pretty Hate Machine. Or at least I might I claim I was... I'm just realizing I totally wrote Trent off as too old in an arena rock kinda way after With Teeth. Its tough for shit to get under your skin when things get too anthemic and overproduced, ya know? I can get down with a little bit of his new shit though for sure...




Ministry. In case you didn't know, this song is siiiiick! The vid reminds me of the movie Hardware. It was this super awesome early 90's sci-fi horror flick starring D. McDermot and Burglekutt from Willow. They actually featured "Stigmata" in it as a music video, but put a Gwar vid as the actual footage. That gets my vote for illest mashup of 1990 easy. Historians take note.

oh shit, here's that clip!

Question: who had the cowboy/dreadpirate thing going first, Al Jourgensen or Rob Zombie???

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White Zombie-Thunderkiss 65

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dammit, i can't embed that. bitch ass universal music group disabling me by request...making my blog look all slapdash.

but anyway, yeah also still an awesome song. I can't answer my own question via teh googles so I'm gonna give the title to Rob, just because his get-ups are pretty much outta control. That one where he looks like a Gen X pod racer??? Yeah, I don't even know, i guess he's kinda got like a post-apocalyptic yet proto-hot topic thing going on??? ...but peep his dance moves like a minute in though. hahahahah i totally didn't remember it like that. XD



"Kill Everything. Kill Everything. That's not Enough..."

What do you think you'd be like if you had to listen to that sample everyday all the time? Also, it's pretty hard to deny the aesthetic simplicity of bold typography...did KMFDM influence the huge surge in loud block capital tees over the last two years? Also, you think Shepard Fairey liked this video? Hmmm?? Also, what if you had like a little side tv built in your vision and all you saw was clowns exploding all day non-stop? would you be able to deal?? i bet that'd be worse than having the hiccups forever. Anyway, art and animation by Brute.



Bizarro Alice Cooper named his band Alien Sex Fiend, and thats cool by me. Do you think dude liked japanese tentacle porn stuff? It feels weird to me that that concept is so old in my head. Like shouldn't I be worried that that doesn't even strike me as all that strange anymore, relatively speaking? I bet if I showed my poor grandma 1/100th of the shit I'd seen on the internet over the years, her eyes would roll into the back of her head and her soul would have no choice but to rocket out the back of her head. And then I think about all the shitty little myspace tweens who've seen the shit before me! THATS when I really start feeling zombified.



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I've seen a couple prominent culture kids about town bringing back the flipped Suicidal Tendencies brim. Gotta strike when the irons hot, right? Not hating though.



Rollins Band coming with the similarly bipolar song structure. LOVE THIS VIDEO. The sets, the colors, Henry Rollins getting progressively grimier throughout while busting out with the maniac eyes. Bonafide classic for both Headbangers Ball and the Alternative Nation.


grrr...another universal owned vid... Primus-My Name is Mud

this goes next because of the ill shots with the tree and the dead sky remind me of some of the colors in the last one. also cause les claypool nails the scumbag role.

the comments are pretty hilarious, too.

Dude 1: PRIMUS SUCKS!!
Dude 2: FUCK YOU! PRIMUS DOES NOT SUCK!
Dude 3: you fucking dumbass you didnt know that "PRIMUS SUCKS" is their motto. you don't know shit! fuck you turdfuck!
Dude 4: Actually, I'm a REAL Primus fan. I spend all my time reading Les Claypool interviews and happen to know he doesn't particularly care for the phrase "PRIMUS SUCKS" anymore.
Dude 1: I was there man! I keep it real! PRIMUS SUCKS!
Dude 5: FUCK YOU! PRIMUS DOES NOT SUCK!

X 100+ pages.




I vaguely remember Plant Man and thinking dude was awesome in a cracked out uncle kinda way. I didn't know he used to be the drummer for Pavement though.

Quoted from Gary Young's wiki:

The final straw came when Young allegedly pulled a gun on Malkmus. When Young ranted about how he’d survive a nuclear war by finding a way to cook dead animals that would eliminate the radioactivity from their bodies, Malkmus joked exasperatedly, “You’ve got to shoot them right between the eyes with a silver bullet.”

hahahaha...good shit plantman!



The beginning part with swami Ted Danson seems heavily influenced by the Church of the SubGenius. No mere blogpost could ever contain my reverence for the organization nor posit some sort of convenient explanation as to what it all entails, so I'll just leave you with THE LINK.

Give Me Slack or KILL ME!




One of my favorite really crappy videos ever. Maybe it's just cause I dig this song a lot but whatevers, it totally works for me. Just some slow mo illin' in the woods... doing crazy fresh hand gestures and thinking bout the end of days.



I grew up near Venice Beach, but I don't remember seeing a lot of hobo humpin' slobo babes around. Maybe they were just kinda slick about their hobo humping?? I don't know, I guess I was kinda oblivious as kid...like I didn't even realize Squints from the Sandlot was in the band. :|



never really conceived of detachable penises before I heard this song so I have to give King Missile props for opening some major doors for me as a kid. But they also paved the way for a bunch of other shitty rock bands where the lead singer just kinda talks and stuff (Cake, Bloodhound Gang,etc.), so I might have to take it back.



Remember that movie Posse with Mario Van Peebles? Yeah, I never saw it either but I assume it was a lot like this video.



I always had an affinity for the lead singers squinty eyes. he looks kinda damp too, doesn't he?

anyway, dope song. hard as hell on Guitar Hero though!



so I didn't really know shit about Ween when I saw this and pretty much assumed that the dudes at the shwarma shop recorded this blown out demo just so they could yell at some cameras. Then mtv caught wind of it and threw it on the television because they thought it was hilarious. hahahhah, what a lil dumbass I was...





I've been playing this out a lot over the past year. It doesn't even get a great response, a little bit of scattered acknowledgment that dies off fairly quickly, but hey...doing top 40 gigs, you have to find small ways to entertain yourself. this is one of mine. can't front on that simple organ progression.



wasn't exactly all about this one but it did manage to stick. now I kinda appreciate that how honed in they had the "nerd rock for awkward people" back in the day. i was more into stuff like sublime and beck and smashing pumpkins around that point though. weezer and they might be giants were as far as I got into dork jams. maybe if punk rock girl wasn't so busted?




oh and I was REALLY into Soundgarden. This was the one that got me hooked. Back when Chris Cornell's mane was wild yet intoxicating and Kim Thayil couldn't decide if he was a rasputin or a nordic frost giant.



Grace Jones was another one of those artists I can recall but didn't really get at the time. She was just that one weird terminator broad who looked like a mannequin. Now, while I'm not the biggest fan of all her music, I still gotta give her mad respect for being on her own shit. She's definitely got some jams though.



Can we ever get back to the point societally where this is prime time entertainment? Honestly, I don't think so. But at the same time, I wouldn't be surprised if there was blog house or bmore remix of this shit. <- a="" afraid="" br="" find="" go="" hype="" i="" if="" is="" it="" m="" machine="" me="" on="" out="" right.="" scares="" statement.="" that="" the="" to="" too="" true="">


Bauhaus. I always kinda equated Peter Murphy as the dude in the walls from People Under the Stairs because of this video. The guy who had no tongue and was also in that got milk commercial (ya know, Awwon Buhh...AWWON BUHH!)? But yeah, dude does a mean ass ziggy stardust.



Saw Gwar the first night I moved to NYC. It was everything I hoped it could be. Even got elbowed real hard in the face once I mustered up the courage to jump in the pit. We somehow wound up at the Guggenheim later and my roommate ended up stealing a bottle of vodka from the bar. She then proceeded to drop it out of her purse 5 minutes later while we were walking up the spirally part. Right in front the security guard. We all just kind of looked at the broken bottle, then at dude, then a the million dollar paintings, and then back at the bottle for what seemed like ages. Then our eyes all just kinda glazed over in unison and we awkwardly shuffled away. Didn't even get kicked out. Kinda wacky.



BONUS!: Oderus and Beefcake running circles around Joan Rivers on her show circa back in the day. Specially dig the part about self-destruction being a consumer need.



I'm not sure I've ever hinted at it on my blog, so I will do so now. Tom Waits has got to be one of my top 5 all-time favorites. He's one of those true artist types, who've fleshed out there range and depth over the years while still maintaining a certain mystique. From the beautiful booze-soaked piano ballads to his avant garde experimentalism, dude has done in it all with style and self-assurance. And now he is old as fuck but can get away with making albums where he just yells a lot while banging on pots and pans. That gets him awarded legendary status in my book.


K, looks like the sun is up and I officially can't think right anymore. Plus my keyboard is overflowing with snot rockets and I'm worried it might electrocute me. Sure I missed some crucial ones but no worries, this post is already significantly overboard so my job here is done. And the "bloglets" have retreated temporarily. they did hint at a stockpile of dope visual artists and how its been awhile since I went off about that so i don't know...

to blah blah blahg or not to blog...sometimes its one of those questions. :|
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Monday, September 01, 2008

Scumcast! 9: G-Willz Presents: Fly Like Junior High Vol. I

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DJ Scallywag-Scumcast!9: G-Willz Presents Fly Like Junior High Vol. I

1.Dr. Dre-Let Me Ride
2.Ice Cube-You Know How We Do It
3.Warren G-This DJ
4.Snoop Dogg-G'z Up, Hoes Down
5.Domino-Ghetto Jam
6.2pac-I Get Around
7.Twinz-Round and Round
8.Dr. Dre/w Snoop Dogg-Nuthin but a G Thang
9.Masta Ace-INC Ride
10.2pac-Bury Me a G
11.Mista Grimm-Indo Smoke
12.Above the Law-V.S.O.P
13.Mack 10-Nothing but the Cavi Hit
14.Dj Quik-Hand in Hand
15.Suga Free-If You Stay Ready
16.LV-Throw Your Hands Up
17.Dove Shack-Summertime in the LBC
18.Dj Quik-Pitch in on a Party
19.Bone Thugs-Thuggish Ruggish Bone
20.Bone Thugs-For the Love of Money
21.Nate Dogg-G-Funk
22.MC Ren-Voyage to Compton
23.Too Short-Gettin It
24.E-40-Captain Save a Hoe
25.Luniz-I got 5 on it
26.Kid Frost-Eastside Rendezvous
27.Cypress Hill-
28.Mc Eiht-You Can't See Me
29.Ahmad-Back in the Day (jeep mix)
30.Ahmad-Back in the Day
31.Ice Cube-It Was A Good Day

So I meant to have this done two days ago so you could have 3 separate days to potentially slap this while giving one last shout out to the summertime, but I lagged a little just to make sure everything was up to par. Sorry bout that, but anyway... so this is an iTape that I collaborated on with hands down one of the best dudes I know on all fronts, the inimitably fresh G-WillZ aka the G Willy Masta (always representing for $uper $tack Mode). Needless to say, I'm pretty damn satisfied with how it turned out. Basically, this one is 99.9% the result of being bored at work, being on gchat, and doing some real deal reminiscing. Like talking "Box Tops" for days, going on about how at first it was all about how you could see the blurred out hats and jerseys in all the videos, and then that one girls titties in Nuthin but a G Thang, and finally everything culminating (for a budding punk ass kid) with the video for Sir Mix-a-lot's Put Em On the Glass. Also how Ruthless Records ran shit on the Box while MTV held out forever...and how you could catch the video for Mother '93, Cotton Eyed Joe, and some Meatloaf in between all this. Yep, those were crucial times for a (dangerous?) young mind.

So anyhow, at first the idea was a smoothed out mid 90's summertime rap mix. Then the more we got down to it, the more we realized we needed to keep it west coast centric. It's not like I wasn't trying to fit in some fond memories of my older cousin blowing my little mind with his Geto Boys and Mobb Deep tapes back in the day, but at a certain point you just gotta simplify in order to get shit done. So the finished product is mostly LA/G-Funk centric with a small shout out to the bay. Oh and that Masta Ace track gets a pass because of the Delicious Vinyl connect. But all in all, while I'd say there was a tiny bit of digging involved, it's primarily a nostalgia-fest with a lot of bonafide classics, ranging from about when The Chronic hit to when DJ Quik started getting on that really clean Puff Daddy steez and was like half that, half G Funk.

Anyway, I KNOW you didn't see this coming, but I hope you enjoy it and hopefully it brings you back.

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tomorrow+you+sun+bbq+your iPod with this throwback rap tape inside it= B-) B-) B-)

oh and I made that gif at like 5 in the morning practically delirious and feel like I should at least get some images with the same resolution or dimensions, but idk, at the same time it's pretty unintentionally bootsy, so i kinda likes it.
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Sunday, July 27, 2008

Scumcast! 8:End of the World Party


Here again. Meant to return sooner but as per the usual, every piece of technology I own decided to break the fuck down on me within a three day span. I don't know why this in unison bs always happens to me. Granted, some of this had to do with me knocking my laptop off my bed after passing out drunk and cracking the screen (twice in a one month span), but still all the other stuff was pretty uncalled for, gawdammit. I'll spare you the details... but yeah, maybe it was more like a mix between a firestorm and my own personal shitstorm. O wellll....

But I hope you didn't go and get the idea that I'm all about <3-on-yr-sleeveyness and twirling around forevs and evs after that last one. It's all one giant see-saw to me and after that one I got the urge to balance the fucker out in a way I've been threatening to do for awhile now. Yeah that's right yall, it's time for another ELECTROINDIEBLOGHOUSEBNGATHON.....M0THRAFUGGZ0RZZ!11!!1

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DJ Scallywag-Scumcast! 8:ENDOFTHEWORLDPARTY

(Like how I followed every rule in the book with that art? I did right click save the zombie ravers from some unknown source, so if anybody knows who did that, lemme know...)

1.AGF-Presswehen
2.Free Blood-Never Hear Surf Music Again (ACTH Remix)
3.Microchip League-New York, New York
4.Egyptian Lover-Freak A Holic
5.Alter Ego-Why Not?!(Tim Deluxe Remix)
6.Workidz-Twisted
7.Hostage-Blackout
8.Machines Don't Care-Beat Bang
9.Top Billin-Breath
10.Kid Cudi-Day N Nite (Jokers of the Scene Remix)
11.Marc Houle-Techno Vocals
12.Midfield General-Disco Sirens (D.I.M. Remix-Von Party No Vox Edit)
13.SebastiAn-Motor Interzone (Clash the Disko Kids Edit)
14.Simian Mobile Disco-Hustler (Joakim Remix)
15.Crookers vs Salt N Pepa-Love to Push It (Ursula 1000 Edit)
16.Shadow Dancer-Poke
17. DJ Gero-Savate
18.Proxy-Dance in the Dark
19.The Presets-Kicking and Screaming
20.Math Head-Get Hype
21.Hostage-Mash Up The Speaker
22.HEARTSREVOLUTION-C.Y.O.A. (Dan Oh Remix)
23.Outlander-The Vamp (Kevin Gorman Remix)
24.Surkin-White Knight Two
25.South Rakkas Crew-Mad Again (Boy 8 Bit Remix)
26.Boy 8 Bit-Bulbs Burn Out
27.Drop the Lime-I Love NY
28.Pop It Off Boyz-Crank Dat Batman (Starkey Adam West Mix)
29.N.E.R.D.-Everybody Nose (Official Remix)
30.Lil Wayne-Milli (Say Wut Remix)
31.The Bug-Poison Dart feat. Warrior Queen
32.HEALTH-Triceratops (CFCF Remix)




Now before you start trying to think, let me say a few things about this one. First, I'd say it's probably my first ever "official" dance mix. That is, this is the first one where I stuck to my guns and didn't wander into heady territories or veer off course into experimentalism because I felt compelled to do so. Granted this has everything from old school industrial to street bass to techie minimal stuff...but the main gist of it is dark, hard, evil blog jams and heavy basslines galore. This is built exactly how I would want a dance set of this type to go energy-wise and as far as I'm concerned, I murdered it.

But anyway, I decided to do this mix for a couple reasons. For one, as far as I can see, the new electro movement has reached it's zenith. Like, I'd say pretty much everybody who is gonna know about Justice knows about Justice. And cause of the myspace and all that, the young ones are all about this shit. At the end of the day, you really can't argue with that. I follow everything I can because I can't really help myself and I have definilly collected plenty of jams of this variety over the past 3 years or so. So I figured my job here is to steer new dance fans young and old away from the mountains of god-awful hipster bullshit clogging the intertubes and towards the dudes who are really doing ill shit within this spectrum.

Also, I won't go and say that this is on some deep serato crates shit either. A lot of these are the big 'choons that you might've heard dudes like Erol or Boys Noize playing out. A couple are even probably a few weeks too old (gasp!). But as far as what I like and can get ahold of, this is a fairly thorough survey of the past couple months. Most importantly to me, it's mixed really fast and well and makes me think I could be rocking festivals or something. Sighhh, if only I was well connected and knew how to properly market myself... ::wamp womppppp::

But anyway, it's out there, right here at the high water mark, before the great electro recession of 2009 and all the impending devastation that will follow in the years to come. For more on that, consult the growing inkling that is worming around in the back of yr mind...or go and check out the makeshift gallery I put up within the shitty confines of the picture section of the myspace. I've been doing a great job of being brief and ominous over there, so hopefully you didn't come from there and are now reading my nerd out and are all bummed that I'm anything but vague. Be sure to check it out soon though cuz myspace doesn't seem to enjoy how deep my internet gets. They've already been pruning pictures left and right and threatening to shut me down. Thanx Rupert (OoOops, I mean "Tom")!

Anyway, I should be back with a whole new angle fairly soon (time frames are my own personal joke so im gonna stop alluding to them). In the meantime, go ahead and blast this shit when you need to wyle the fuck out like there's no tomorrow. Who knows...there just might not be :)
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Sunday, June 01, 2008

Scumcast! 7: Listen & Glisten


Time to get it going againnnn.


Whellp, I know I have been really shitty about the monthliness of these Scumcast dealies...but I did forecast that being the case...so props to me for making sure that all prophecies have been self-fulfilled. I plan on making amends by dropping no less than 3 over the next month's* span, followed by a big mix that I've been working on for a minute, which has also spawned several little splinter mixes in my head, so don't count me out just yet. I've still got a ton of jams that you need to hear, all I gotta do is line 'em up properly. Until then, I intend to keep you guessing a little bit. For starters:

Scumcast! 7: Listen & Glisten

1.Double- Woman of the World
2.Double- Woman of the World(Tangoterje edit)
3.Hercules & Love Affair- You Belong
4.Kelley Polar- Here in the Night
5.Neon Neon- Raquel
6.Jape- Floating (Prins Thomas 0.75 miks)
7.Cut Copy- Feel The Love
8.Ratatat- Shempi
9.Woolfy- Looking Glass
10.Diskjokke- Staying In
11.The Whitest Boy Alive- Golden Cage (Fred Falke Remix)
12.Daso- Meine
13.Cari Lekebusch- Shaded Compuphonic & Kolumbo Remix
14.FPU-Ocean Drive (Tiga's White Linen Vox)
15.Metronomy-Heart Rate Rapid
16.Santogold-Unstoppable
17.Feist-I Feel It All (Britt Daniel Remix)
18.Feist-I Feel It All (Escort Remix)



This is a spring mix that I made with females on the brain. Alls I'm gonna say is that yes, I took it there. It's pretty unabashedly poppy, but I stand behind all the songs on it. A few tracks are fairly obvious if you follow mags and blogs and all that, but as far as the vibe I was going for, I think I pretty much killed it. I figure if you manage to make this one the soundtrack to your lyfe for a quick minute, then you are doing pretty well for yourself. Oh, and here's some associational pickers to accompany. Enjoy things...we'll talk again soon.



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*or so... (failsafe asterix)

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Saturday, March 22, 2008

MODESELEKTOR JUST BLEW MY BALLS CLEAN OFF


TRUE STORY..SOOOOO HEAVY. AND I DON'T EVEN BLOG NO MORE. BUT DAMN THIS IS KINDA NECESSESSARY. OH AND IF YOU GO TO STUDIO B AND YOU DON'T STAND IN THE FAR RIGHT CORNER OF THE MAIN FLOOR (FRONT LEFT OF THE MAIN STAGE) THEN YOU ARE NOT EXPERIENCING THAT SHIT TO THE FULLEST. KNOW THAT THAT IS WHERE THE BASS IS. UNDERSTAND THAT THIS IS THE IS THE TOTALITY OF MY KNOWLEDGE.

PS. ON THE WAY BACK HOME ON THE SUBWAY, THIS RAT JUMPED OFF THE STAIRS GOING DOWN TO THE LOWER LEVEL AND HIT THIS POOR LADY RIGHT IN THE FACE! UNBELIEVABLE. I DIDN'T EVEN THINK THAT WAS POSSIBLE. SHE LITERALLY RAN AWAY SCREAMING! TALK ABOUT NIGHTMARES UNFOLDING BEFORE YOUR EYES... IF I WERE HERE I WOULD GO HOME AND PEEL MY FACE OFF LIKE THAT DUDE IN POLTERGEIST. AND DO YOU KNOW THAT MOVIE WAS RATED PG. WTF, RIGHT? HOW ABOUT YOU RUIN MY LIFE AT AGE 5, WITH THAT AND THE TREE AND THE CLOWN. MAYBE THAT'S WHY EVERYBODY IN THAT MOVIE DIED IN REAL LIFE,
INCLUDING YOU,
CRAIG T. NELSON.
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Wednesday, January 30, 2008

King of all Lollygaggers


O hai guyz...



Soo...looks like I'm peeking out of my fortress of lolitude a little earlier than expected this year....hope all is good with you and the stuff that you do...




First things first, a new Scumcast...


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1.Pilooski-Love Is Wet
2.AN2-Lazy Sun
3.Panthers- Goblin City(Holy Ghost's Disco Dub)
4.Sneak Thief- My Sullen Mistress
5.Michoacan-Sabor
6.Mekon ft. Rita Brown-Boy Bitten (Padded Cell Remix)
7.The Emperor Machine-Pop Goes the Spaceman
8.A Number of Names-Shari Vari
9.Black Devil Disco Club-I Regret the Flower Power
10.Tussle-Disco D'oro (Munk Mix)
11.Neighbourhood Romeo-Thighs
12.J.J. Fuchs-stick it in t' middle
13.Rework-Jogging Beat (Roman Fluegel's Tender Feet Mix)
14.Sharpe and Numan-Change your Mind
15.Metro Area-Erodyne
16.Dubious- Field Trip (Electronic Boogie Band Remix)
17.Elmore Judd-Disco in 4 Pieces
18.Kaos-Feel Like I Feel
19.Outhud-dad, there's a little thing called too much information
20.Invisible Conga People-Cable Dazed




Tried to stay thematic with this one. It goes back and forth between some ultra classy cocktail dance jams and some tripper disco stuff...hence the title. I've kinda been on a kick with this stuff as of late. 95% of the time, moving forward is just about picking up on the right point in the past at the right time, right? It's crazy thinking about how every little piece of cultural detritus has a relative velocity within the context of a given time period...and how when the climate is right, certain bits suddenly become primed for a major reinsertion into the here and now...whip up some minor repackaging, attach it to a currently buzzing cultural beacon (a person, a scene,a venue, a movie, 3 seconds of a drumbreak,etc.) and then bam...threads of stagnant thought-energy are flowing through networks once again ...and things manifest...


That being said, I'm really hoping the lens shifts away from all this electro-noise and bratty indie rock and stuff like this finally blows up on the same level. With DFA and now Italians Do It Better getting a lot of press in America, I'm getting the feeling that this type of vibe could finally creep out from the realm of the elite record nerdus and into broader stretches of cooldom.



Also...I've sat on a little top albums 07 list for a month now and it keeps reminding me that it needs to go somewhere where eyes might chance upon it. I actually ended up compiling my 2006 one in Mid-March of last year like that was somehow remotely acceptable behavior...so yeah, this is an improvement actually, even though I didn't get around to posting it until now. Again, I'm the first to admit that I've never been doing this "the right way" in the first place. Lord knows I would love to just launch into all of that for like 3 pages as usual, but as far as I see it, all the backpedaling in the dark doesn't help either so fuck it...it is what it is...an attempt at defragmenting my internal world by filtering yours. Just know that I wouldn't bother if I didn't have all kinds of tastemaker creed. Anyway, on with it.


Top albums of 07
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Reiterating what they already told you:


LCD Soundsystem-Sound of Silver
Panda Bear-Person Pitch
Caribou-Andorra
Burial-Untrue
Chromatics-Night Drive

Personal Picks:

Carlos Nino and Miguel Atwood-Ferguson-Fill the Cup Shaped Heart
Cinematic Orchestra-Ma Fleur
Efdemin-Efdemin
Eats Tapes-Dos Mutantes
Thomas Fehlmann-Honigpumpe
Kalabrese-Rumpelzirkus
Eluvium-Copia
Stars of the Lid-And Their Refinement of the Decline
Black Moth Super Rainbow-Dandelion Gum
Brother Reade-Rap Music
Modeselektor-Happy Birthday
Skull Disco-Soundboy Punishments
Victor Bermon-Arriving at Night
Starkey-Street Bass Anthems 2
L Pierre-Dip

Some names to watch for in 08:  Hudson Mohawke, Mike Slott, Invisible Conga People, Rustie

(BONUS!!!!)
Best Online DJ Mixes:

Starkey Dark Nights and Street Bass

Cut Copy So Cosmic

Jokers of the Scene-Disconnected 5

Rodion Lungomare Mixtape



SECOND BONUS! (The only two covers for singles that I can think of right now that were really doing it for me...)

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For the most part, I'd say 2007 fel like an extension of all the 2005 and in 2006. (edit:haha, wow...yeah, looks like I managed to sum it up better than I can ever thought possbile!!!) Basically, on the broader side of things, even more people know about Justice, Chromeo, MIA, LCD, Hot Chip, Diplo, and Animal Collective. My favorite trends were the 8-bit resurgence, stark minimal disco, and the street bass sound. I'm curious as to what's next. There's a push for early 90's type stuff but I feel it's too premature. There's a lot of forced early house stuff that still doesn't sound "hot" to me...however, incorporating the primitive drum machine styles from early chicago/detroit stuff IS really starting to catch my ear, after I've been fairly neutral to that sound all my life. The good stuff though like Kevin Saunderson or Mike Dunn; I'm hating on the La Bouche/Snap! sounding tracks. I'm still not a big fan of 8 minute long 303 workouts either, but if you layer that syncopation with something melodic and engaging then I'll bite. Then there's the 4X4 bassline stuff outta the uk...maybe that could catch on here more and bleed into other genres. And things could get interesting if mainstream rappers start doing their thing over 130 bpms rather than some dude on Ableton so we can get some official raverap. It's probably more likely that there's gonna be a lot more sampling of dance music for 80 bpms though. Anyway...speculating...but hopefully some kid who sayy, likes Modular, Tempa and Border Community in equal parts, finds some sort of seamless logical connection between them and keeps me stoked on new tunage for another 365.

Oh wait...like 330 at this point. Somewhere in there...boi-yoi-yoi-yoi-yoinggg...

Yeah, here are some of my favorite music videos of the year (that I didn't post at some point).






Liars go Mouth of Madness v Lost Highway in a deathrace for the disembodied. Directed by Patrick Daughters, who also directed all those dope one take Feist videos.






Black Dice with the meltiest mediascramble of the year. It's like someone made a TV Carnage vid outta those TV Carnage vids. Drain Bamage!






Cyriak is king shit of all things internet. He's responsible for a very significant portion of the animated gifs you see circulating the web. I'm pretty sure I've randomly posted some of his stuff before. His approach is fairly lo-fi, but completely legit because it's so awesome conceptually. You can tell he just churns this stuff out by himself too, like he's making a desperate attempt to keep up with his own mind. always a good look, imo.

Here's the video he did for what had to be the re-edit of the year. He manages to squeeze an entire world out of 5 seconds of old Frank Valli clips. Awesome. Someone needs to give this guy a studio with a budget.






Cross-cultural toobin' is a small passion of mine. Chinese auto-tune+power-up noises+magical glitter+lush space botanicals+Thing n'Co+eyeballs galore= yet more fantastical awesomeness of which I totally approve.






From even deeper in the interbutts.

So, back in the day, did you ever begin to think you could get this raw with yer Mario Paint? Naw, you probably drew a couple crude dicks, spent 5 minutes trying to make a song out of meow meows and tugboat noises, and then put that shit down forever because you thought "man, this game fucking sucks!"

Little did you know...it was YOU that was sucking all along...the least you could have done was like, suck as awesomely as these dudes.

Oh, and they're called Shit the Bed. I'm pretty sure they had that going for them before it became the hot phrase that it is. Double whammy.






more jokes...that last one reminded me of it...weezy and kanye made ridiculous, but definitely on point enough for it to really hit...too many retarded quotables to even list.






Alright, kinda got off topic. Back to real deal videos. I feel this one should have been made a long time ago, but maybe this x-ray camera deal is some sort of new technology? Regardless, it's utilized to great effect; this doesn't come off as gimmicky and it looks amazing.






Patrick Watson-The Great Escape.

this one does me in every time...

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Well, I'm spent...see why I don't blog?...I make it into an ordeal every time...plus I haven't done it for so long...I'm feelin mad outta shape here...anyhow...enjoy...I'm gonna go sprawl out on the bleachers and dream about Funyuns or something...see you next time I make an attempt at getting my shit together...
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