All I have heard about this week is the godforsaken debate surrounding Rage Against The Machine and Joe McElderr-blah blah blah, who gives a fuck what I think? Even I’m beyond caring.

Here’s some stuff worth listening to:

1. Killing In The Name Of (SebastiAn’s Late Night Laptop Edit) – Rage Against The Machine

2. Knights of Cydonia (The Integrals Remix) – Muse

3. Obsessions (Gold Panda Mix) – Marina and the Diamonds

4. Where Is My Mind (Bassnectar Remix) – Pixies

5. The Geeks Were Right (Does It Offend You, Yeah Mix) – The Faint

6. Gimme More (Lazrtag Remix) – Britney Spears

Off we go!

80 The Breeders – Title TK (2002) (left) – I’ve forgiven Kim Deal for the bodily injury inflicted on me in 1994. I have also forgiven her for taking her time between Breeders albums. I think many people were disappointed with Title TK as it had no “Cannonball” and felt more like a home demo than an album 8 years in the making (well, it might not have been in the making for all those years).

79 Amon Tobin – Supermodified (2000) – I remember having a conversation with someone in 2000 about how electronic wasn’t just a flash in the pan but it was hear to stay. Sadly, looking back on that, it was sort of like Homer claiming that the height of rock and roll was Grand Funk Railroad. It doesn’t mean that the decade was bereft of excellent electronic, it just means that it quickly receded into the background (or hybridized effectively).

78 Passion Pit – Manners (2009) – Speaking of which, this might be a prime example of the electro-hybridization. There is a level of uncomfortableness in the album, maybe with the forced falsetto vocals or children yelling the chorus, but really, that is what made it so fascinating. Or maybe I just like music that makes me feel a little uneasy, much like …

77 Xiu Xiu – Fabulous Muscles (2004) – I give a lot of people a hard time for listening to bands that I consider, well, unlistenable because all they seem to do is f&%k around with instruments and suddenly get praised for their genius. Then I think that I might not have an appendage on which to stand because of my undying love for Xiu Xiu. Too bad, I’m going to go on living with this inconsistency.

76 The Faint – Danse Macabre (2001) - My friend Melissa, who seems to have vanished into oblivion, introduced me to the Faint in a record store somewhere in Cambridge. I probably spent a good part of the next year listening to this album.

75 New Pornographers – Mass Romantic (2001) (right) – I checked both Mass Romantic and Electric Version out from the Corvallis Public Library (nice job on the part of the music purchasers there), not really knowing what to expect beyond the fact that I had read “hey, the New Pornographers are good.” The last thing I expected was a pile of power pop that was like a lo-fi revival of the Cars (but better).

74 Hot Chip – Made in the Dark (2008) – Sometimes I think that Hot Chip will slowly climb into the top 10 of my favorite bands – sort of like a Pet Shop Boys 2.0. Made in the Dark did nothing to dispel that notion.

73 YACHT – I Believe in You. Your Magic is Real (2007) – I think this album is a fine example of what happens when a band that spent too much time dithering around on previous albums trying to be “experimental” sits down and tries to write pop songs. And yes, it works like a charm. Note to many bands: being catchy and succinct isn’t a sin.

72 Ratatat – Remixes Vol. 1 and 2 (2004/2007) – Maybe I cheated a little bit by including these unreleased (well, released briefly for free on the internet) remix albums on this list, but very few ‘mix tape’ adventures had as much of an impact on my listening habits as Ratatat’s. I eagerly await Vol. 3.

71 Tilly & the Wall – Wild Like Children (2004) (left) – I am a sucker for charming bands and Tilly & the Wall turned the charm dial up to 11. Tap dance percussion? Check. Mixed male-female vocals? Check. Songs about love? Check. They might be a little gimmicky, but you know, sometimes that AOK.

Here is your iTunes iMix for 80-71, which sadly lacks any of the Ratatat remixes and oddly, the Breeders (go figure, iTunes lacks Title TK). Thankfully you can find Ratatat’s remix of Allure on Youtube (audio only) and the Breeders’ “Huffer” (on Conan) as well.

Best of the ’00s Part 1: 100-91

Best of the ’00s Part 2: 90-81

I haven’t seen or heard much from this band for a long while, but I still love them.  Coyote Bones started in 2006 and has been road tripping since.  This band had originally formed to see friends and place music for them.  Coyote Bones then turned into a full fledged band that’s been recording and touring ever since. Their sounds are/were always evolving, the live show just kept getting better and better, and then they disappeared.  I feel the need to feature them because I miss seeing them live.  Their shows and music are very heartfelt, and they are the nicest people in the world.  I wonder where they vanished to?
Some bands that have influenced their sound are, of course, The Faint, Tilly and the Wall and other favorite locals such as Connor Oberst.
As far as I know they have no new shows coming up and I couldn’t even tell you the band members names because I can’t find any information about them anywhere.  If you know anything about them, send me a comment.
So checkout their videos and dance!:

Formed in Leeds in early 2006 by Owen Brinley (guitar/vocals/keys) and drummer Dominic Ord, Grammatics‘ have fused disparate musical and literary influences, to make cultured, artistic pop by their own elaborate rules.

With the dancefloor bass lines of Rory O’Hara and the cut-throat cello of Emilia Ergin, they fuse a love of classic British art bands like Blur, Pulp, Radiohead and Suede, with an equal fondness for acts of a heavier, dancier persuasion: The Faint, Hot Chip, Queens Of The Stone Age

After returning from the massive Bloc Party tour in October, Grammatics are about to embark on their own UK Tour, where they will be showcasing some new material.

Full dates as below:

TUE 1 DEC – GUILFORD – BOILER ROOM
WED 2 DEC – BRISTOL – LOUISIANA
FRI 4 DEC – PORTSMOUTH – DRIFT IN THE CITY
SAT 5 DEC – LONDON – PROUD GALLERIES
SUN 6 DEC – SHEFFIELD – THE HARLEY
WED 16 DEC – HUDDERSFIELD – BAR 1:22
THR 17 DEC – YORK – THE JUNCTION – XMAS SPECIAL
SAT 19 DEC – DERBY – THE ROYAL
SUN 20 DEC – MANCHESTER – DEAF INSTITUTE

Out earlier this year, the band’s debut album has already been hailed as one of 2009’s great arrivals.

Louis asked me to take photos at the Faint’s DJ set (Depressed Buttons) at Empty Bottle, and I immediately was intrigued.  Having heard The Faint’s music before, but not even knowing that they DJ’d as well took me by surprise, and I accepted the offer.   He also asked me to snap a couple of him and his partners in crime on the decks, and while I wasn’t terribly stoked on the set of photos I walked away with, I got a couple I liked alright.

Depressed Buttons:

Then Midnight Conspiracy:

Intermixed with Party!

You can view the whole gallery here!

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 Mirror Error by The Faint

2009 (6 tracks, 35:03)

dance/electronica

Esta es la expresion de alguien al que se le presentan tantos concietos y no tiene dinero para cada una de las entradas, pffff!!! esta es la guia de concietos para noviembre y diciembre de este humilde servidor.

Jueves 19 de Noviembrde 2009

Salon Covadonga

Boleto: $250.00 General

Este me emociona de sobremanera!!!! A-trak en el Velvet!!!

Buenisimooooooo!!!! El bailongo se va a poner gruesooo!!!!

Va a venir tambien Girl Talk para el 4 de diciembre, aun no hay flyer pero ya cuando salga lo pondre aqui ya que ese evento tambien esta recomendadisimo por este servidor.

A ahorrar culeros!!!

BOLETOS A LA VENTA EN:

Varsovia 53-Piso 1
Col. Juarez (Zona Rosa)
Entre Londres y Av. Chapultepec
De Lunes a Viernes de 11am a 5pm

500 días con ella

“This is not a love story”

Es una de las frases con las que acertadamente el director de videos musicales Marc Webb nos presenta su ópera prima. Alejados de los convencionalismos de las comedias románticas hollywoodenses, este realizador nos muestra una nueva alternativa de cómo contar una historia de amor o antiamor, según la percepción de cada quién.

La historia está contada en saltos durante los 500 días en los que Tom, representado por Joseph Gordon-Levitt (G.I. Joe, 2009), cuenta la forma en que surgió el amor y el desamor con su compañera de trabajo Summer, interpretada por la inexpresiva Zooey Deschanel (Yes man!, 2008). En la narración vamos del día 1 al 255, regresando al 133 sin un orden específico, que por medio del dibujo de un paisaje donde vemos un árbol en primer plano, podemos ver cómo estuvo el estado de ánimo de Tom en ese día: el árbol está verde y el día soleado cuando le fue bien con respecto a Summer o sin hojas y gris cuando ese día tuvo una jornada pésima.

Es así que por medio de brincos al presentarnos días independientes, el director Marc Webb hace uso de su experiencia como director de videos de grupos como My Chemical Romance, Hilary Duff, Hot hot heat o Fergi, haciendo de cada episodio un pequeño video musical que le da una gran agilidad y dinamismo a la película. Utiliza distintos tipos de fotografía durante el filme que va acorde a la situación que se narra, vemos extraordinarios momentos de felicidad así como falladas escenas de desolación.

Marc Webb nos muestra la forma en que la mayoría de las relaciones se desenvuelven en la actualidad, donde el miedo al compromiso es una característica principal. Por otro lado las actitudes de los personajes así como las situaciones en las que viven, ayudan a que el público se pueda identificar en algunas de las escenas. La situación es similar a la que noruego Joachim Trier presenta en su película Reprise (2008), donde nos muestra a la sociedad noruega común y corriente de la actualidad.

La música tiene un papel fundamental durante el filme, canciones de The Smiths, Regina Spektor, los Doves, The Faint y hasta de la primera dama francesa Carla Bruni, son afortunadamente acopladas a las escenas, dándoles a éstas un toque extra a lo que se muestra en pantalla. Los factores antes mencionados que utiliza el director, lo distraen de profundizar en los perfiles y sentimientos de los personajes principales. Solamente nos da un pequeño bosquejo de sus sentimientos y del por qué de sus reacciones, que se logran contradecir a lo largo de la película.Por otra parte hay un gran desperdicio y confusión al manejar los personajes secundarios, como la pequeña hermana de Tom que a sus 12 años se convierte en una consejera-psicóloga del amor.

500 días con ella es la película “indie” año, que al igual de Juno (Jason Reitman, 2007) innovan la forma en que se presenta una historia y crean con poco presupuesto una atmosfera confortante para el espectador, de la cuál muchas de las blockbuster de la comedia estadounidenses están alejadas.

Desde hace un año y medio vivo en la República Dominicana. Vine aquí, como saben quienes me conocen un poquito, desde Nueva York. Nueva York: Epicentro del consumo vínico, donde hay absolutamente de todo, por más “esotérico” que sea, y absolutamente todo encuentra demanda. Yo crecí en Santo Domingo. Aquí viví entre los 7 y los 18 años, cuando me marché a estudiar en Estados Unidos. En el tiempo transcurrido entre aquella partida al extranjero y ahora se ha desarrollado lo que cariñosamente llamo mi “enomanización”. Una inmensa parte de mi educación, pragmática y sentimental, la compusieron la gastronomía y el vino. Casi un cuarto de siglo se ha ido volando y yo he visto muchas cosas, a nivel personal y a nivel de los diversos mundos que me apasionan, particularmente el del vino.

No ha sido fácil la adaptación a Santo Domingo. Digamos que vine “dañado” por la hiperdisponibilidad en Manhattan de todo lo que se me antojase. Aquí he tenido que “relajar” un poco mis estándares en cuanto a vino: He bebido cosas que hace dos años ni remotamente hubiese considerado tocar, he revisado mi presupuesto, he aprendido a encontrar algún placer aún cuando tengo objeciones éticas y estéticas a algo–quizás placer dentro de las mismas objeciones… No estoy seguro de que esto me haya hecho una mejor persona. De hecho, quizás me esté perjudicando, minando poquito a poco mis facultades críticas y haciéndome olvidar lo que antes tenía claro.

Disculpen ustedes. Que me pongo un tanto sentimental. Un tanto deprimente. Y otro incomprensible.

La cuestión es que no ha sido fácil. Pero creo que contemplar el presente y el futuro d la cultureta actual del vino y, más importante, de la verdadera cultura del vino, desde este microcosmos caribeño me ha ver ángulos que antes hubiesen pasado desapercibidos en esto del vino. No deja de sorprenderme que en este país en que ahora habito haya la cantidad de vinos que hay. Si bien la mayoría proviene de un relativo puñado de entidades corporativas grandes (ojo, no me tomen lo de “entidades corporativas grandes” literlamente, hablo lo mismo de Concha y Toro o Kendall-Jackson que de una semimaginaria “Ribera del Duero, Inc” p “Albariñokaslimón International Corporation”). Que hasta aquí se haya extendido la cultureta, o sea, la moda global del vino es testimonio del poder de la cosa. Arqueo la ceja derecha cada vez que veo como reclamo comercial de algún “nuevo” producto vínico argentino los puntos de Robert Parker, el Wine Spectator o el Wine Enthusiast, ese esperanto espeluznante de la cultureta. Y sin embargo también me digo a mí mismo burlonamente: “¡Hay que joderse!”

Claro, estos enoproductos corporativos siguen siéndome tan repelentes como lo han sido siempre. La vasta mayoría tiene muy poco que ver con lo que verdaderamente disfruto en un vino: Elaboración natural, compatibilidad con una buena comida, honestidad y transparencia a su terruño, capacidad de ser refrescantes y de invitarlo a uno al próximo trago, capacidad de estimular mi intelecto más allá del más simple agrado o el más directo asco… Pero la presencia de estos facsímiles de vino aquí me hace pensar en otras posibilidades. E incluso en otras realidades.

He tenido la suerte de encontrarme un par de mportadores pequeñitos en Santo Domingo que tienen portafolios en los que aparece alguna que otra semblanza de vino de verdad. Intentando apoyarlos, les compro frecuentemente y los recomiendo a amigos y conocidos. Invariablemente, paladares acostumbrados a chilenitos químicos y riberones tabloneros tienen una revelación ante algún lagrein del Südtirol o un barberita piemontés que, sin ser tan-tan, sin embargo provocan a beber de una forma para muchos aquí otrora desconocida.

Lo que me lleva a una pregunta crucial para el futuro del vino, ya que tanto hablamos de eso últimamente: ¿Será que la expansión global del vino sólo puede ser lograda eficientemente en los mentecatificantes términos de la cultureta, o existirá una manera de expandir el alcance global del vino de verdad?

Estoy consciente de que es antitético a la naturaleza del vino artesanal el querer que exista a escala suficiente para cubrir el mundo entero. Una de las peores patologías de la cultureta actual del vino es que promueve un deseo en el entusiasta de “haberlo probado todo”, un imposible a nivel mundial aún con el vino de mayor producción. Anda por ahí el comentario mordaz de que en Las Vegas cada año se consume más Château Pétrus del 82 que lo que jamás fuese producido de esa añada en esa dirección. Extrapolen ustedes a su gusto.

Se habla mucho de “conquistar mercados” (adjuntar gentilicio que más les guste) y del “consumidor” en el abstracto, pensando en números mucho más que en individuos o grupos de individuos consumiendo vino, creando fidelidad al vino. Se habla de “conquistar” mercados y se apela a consignas del tipo “la unión hace la fuerza”, aunque dicha unión luego se compruebe que no es en el interés de quien en un principio se creía. Y tenemos lo que tenemos. Les ruego la paciencia para tirarnos un videoclip (disculpen, queridos amigos, que no pueda insertarlo, pero Vimeo no es tan generoso como YouTube para esos menesteres, así que hay que ir al sitio) muy ilustrativo de ciertas patologías de la cultureta actual del vino. Es un video que propone “soluciones” especiosas, basadas en un modelo bastante paternalista-proxenetista de las cosas, a decir verdad. Y ya sabemos como acaban las pobres putas que no traen al chulo el billete esperado… Pero quizás me queda un poco exagerada esa imagen. Lo dejo a juicio de ustedes.

No que en ese video sea todo desperdicio. Muy bien está lo de hacer un esfuerzo comunitario para sacar a flote una comarca, una denominación, un país productor, incluso. Pero ya es hora de comenzar a darse cuenta de que ciertos modelos están un poquito gastados. “Consolidad marcas” en el portafolio de un megaimportador sólo rinde beneficios para el pequeño elaborador de vino hasta un punto. Y el sacrificio en cuanto a las idiosincrasias de la tierra y el elaborador mismo pueden ser grandes. Muy grandes. “Acuérdate del alma dijo el gordo vendedor de carne”, iba una canción del gran Sabina. Eso.

La internet del vino ha tenido un efecto muy salutario en la medida en que ha abierto la posibilidad de disentir de los gurús, los hacedores de gusto, los marketeros y tantos otros entes prepotentes y deprimentes de la cultureta. Cada día surgen blogs como setas después de un incendio. Se hacen contactos entre individuos que discuten sobre aquello de que supuestamente no se discutía, sus gustos, que establecen micromercados a los que elaboradores, importadores y otros comerciantes del vino pueden y deben apelar, sin tanto mediador, sin tanto filtro, sin tanta dictadura.Cada quien ha de evaluar, siendo profunda e implacablemente realista, lo que le conviene.

A propósito de nada y todo, un par de notas de un vinito sabroso que compré y bebí aquí en Santo Domingo recientemente. Uno de esos importadores pequeños  de los que les hablaba más arriba trae cositas interesantes (si bien no de productores tan artesanales como quisiera yo, en la muchos casos). Lo que le compro queda testimoniado por la cantidad de etiquetas italianas que aparecen retratadas en estas páginas. Vinos de diversos puntos de Italia se han vuelto la opción para aquellos en este pequeño mercado participante en la dinámica global que necesitamos salirnos un poco del mismismo riberesco-napachilenista.

Es casi cómico: Aquí decir “vino español”, por ejemplo,  es decir una tremenda cantidad de vinos perfectamente intercambiables, comprados “en paquete” a megabodegas multirregionales. O a bodegas que aspirarían a serlo y siguen el modelo “trajeado” del “wine business”. Hay sus honrosas excepciones, pero no muchas. Si uno busca algo de originalidad y autenticidad, hay que inclinarse a italianos. Irónico, ¿no? Antigua colonia española, donde el castellano tiene ventaja implícita por herencia y por pura conveniencia. Y sin embargo…

En fin, que una botellita del Nino Negri, Rosso di Valtellina DOC 2007 me pareció un soplo de aire fresco. Color fresa-granate transparente, brillante. Aromas de hojas secas, azúcar prieta, fresa, cereza y ciruela frescas y humo. Limpio, sencillo y alegre, con muy buena persistencia en un posgusto de acidez viva que me recuerda a naranja rubí. La cuvée es de nebbiolo, prugnola, rossola y pignola, envejecida en inox y en roble de formato grande. Un tintito de buen precio, ideal para una tarde tropical desenfadada con amigos. No es para tirar cohetes ni tampoco algo que pondría yo como ejemplo irrefutable de mis ideales vínicos, pero en realidad no es que la cosa aquí esté para ponerse demasiado exigentes en cuanto a motivos de alegría. Uno al que recurriré de nuevo en el futuro, conociéndome.

¿Tengo que decirles que esto es una metalección en los orígenes de la demanda?

He intentado hacer hoy una de esas entradas nutritivas. Me voy a Nueva York mañana temprano y lo único que publicaré en los próximos seis o siete días será esto y la encuesta de la semana mañana. Les dejo hoy con música. Una de The Faint, cuyo título, con suerte, será lo que los libros de historia dirán sobre nosotros…

My homie down in L.A.  Danny -Printer/Designer/Professional Pro just posted some recent work on his site ohdanielsan.com
Here’s some of his goodies:

The Naylor News bags

ohdanielsan.com

che che che che check it out:

He’s done some really great work for some amazing artists and bands. He even did the shipping bags for yours truly. The bags for my shirt project The Naylor News came out great and Danny’s been a really good friend for a long time. His special lady Lauren Noble is also a good friend and an awesome photographer.

Danny and I use to play in a band together. In fact our tour along the west coast is what introduced me to the radness that is PDX and served as a basis for us following the Oregon Trail.

Side Note:

I meant to mention this but a couple weeks when I was driving and I saw this:

Ok, So this wasn’t the plate that I saw but the photo I took came out like crap, so this is just an example. It made me chuckle that Idaho settled on the slogan “Famous Potatoes”. Not trying to harsh Idaho’s potatoe buzz or whatever, but it got me thinking about other possible plates.

So I threw a couple together. I’m just waiting to hear back from their respective DMVs for approval. Wish me Luck!

Cheers,

I’ve always wanted to see a show at Cafe Eleven in St. Augustine. It just seems like a great venue with a cool group of people who support them.

I missed two shows last year that I’m really kicking myself for, Vampire Weekend and Against Me! Now is the time to redeem myself. I plan on seeing Junior Boys in October and Elvis Perkins in November.

I have found that October-November are the months to catch good shows in North Florida. Last year I got a chance to see The Faint w/ The Show’s the Rainbow and then followed it up the next day with some Portugal. The Man.

Junior Boys 10/27 $12

Elvis Perkins in Deerland 11/6 $10 -

Karen Kurycki of CMYKaren.com, Dog & Pony ShowPrints Collaboration - Elvis Perkins in Deerland

There is another show I would love to go see, but I’m not sure I can make it out. I had never heard of them until I saw this YouTube video on the Cafe Eleven website, BLK JKS. I could listen to this all day and I can’t figure out what it reminds me of, but I love it.

Gossip Girl is not, as you might predict from the title, a “chick flick” tv series.

It’s similar to The OC in that it’s about wealthy upper class privileged teenagers with problems, and in that both series were/are created by Josh Schwartz. I watched The OC fairly avidly but I was never a big fan. I found that often issues would be closed off in a matter of episodes (before any full ramifications could be explored), leaving little room for character development.
I’ve always liked Schwartz’s “No heroes, no villains” approach to the creation of his characters, but it always seems inevitable that some characters will be favoured over others. Case in point, The OC’s Julie Cooper did some heinous things to her daughter and right before Marisa was offed the red-headed minx apologised for not always being “the best” mother. Sure, not “the best,” just cruel to the point where it’s nearly considered criminal!
Fortunately Schwartz has learnt a few lessons the hard way since then and there are marked improvements in his second television show, Gossip Girl. Namely there are characters we all hate (there’s a reason why Vanessa should never have much luck climbing the social ladder) and that’s okay. They’re not “villains” but we’re allowed to hate them anyway. Thankfully Vanessa hasn’t done anything too outrageous and then turned around and swept it under the rug with a throw-away apology.
And cleverly, Blair, who has a reputation for being “the crazy bitch in town” is ultimately the most loved character. She’s viewed as honest and hard working as she blackmails her way to the top.

And with the exception of a few episodes (re: the episode where Serena supposedly “kills” someone (she didn’t) was a complete premature ejaculative let down) plot lines take the characters in new and believable directions.

As Gossip Girl follows the story of upper East side New Yorkers, the glamorous outfits, parties, and fit outs also make for palatable viewing. And watch as fans clamour over each other to buy items like the signature “Chuck Bass scarf.”

Season two racked up some substantial hot goss surprises! A late seasonal shift in the dynamic (Blair “rooming” with Georgina at NYU; Blair and Chuck… DATING???!; Serena and Eric have a Dad??!) promises a solid third season, which kicks off in the US this Monday 14 September!!!

The Faint – Mirror Error

LCD Soundsystem – New York, I Love You

Like the weather this past weekend, San Diego Street Scene was on fire! The two day spectacle hosted artists such as MIA, Black Eyed Peas, and Chromeo just to name a few. It also attracted people from all over California, and they all came to do one thing… PARTY. Check the pics and videos of performances after the jump.

For more pics from this amazing event, click here! Also, here’s another link with A LOT MORE PICTURES – CLICK HERE!

We’ll be posting vids of performances daily, so check back often!

Here’s one of MIA performing BOYZ!

You can tell I'm stuck for names when I go for lyrics as the title

After last weeks mixtape, I’ve had sort of a natural step away from electro, and have been listening to a lot of indie music as a result. That’s one of the benefits of being into different sorts of music, it gives you a chance to take a breather and enjoy the new stuff more when it comes along.

Parisian-based Phoenix have sort of broken through with their last album Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix, and whilst songs like Lisztomania and 1901 are essentially pop-orientated, there’s some more interesting stuff beneath the surface, and as a result I prefer their last album – It’s Never Been Like That. Here are two songs by Phoenix, one from each of the aforementioned albums.

Rome – Phoenix

Courtesy Laughs – Phoenix

We Are Scientists released their second album towards the end of last year, and I was a little disappointed by the sudden change of direction, and in a desparate attempt to re-live the enjoyment of their first album, With Love and Squalor, I got a hold of a copy of their collection of B-sides, Crap Attack. Whilst some B-side compilations justify the choice of tracklist for the album, and some of them show a band’s greed, this one showed two entirely different things. Firstly, that the album should have been longer; at 12 tracks and roughly 40 minutes long, I can’t see many reasons for leaving the two tracks below from it. They may well have made more successful singles too. Secondly, beyond these two tracks, and possibly Ram It Home, We Are Scientists didn’t have much else in their locker at that point, there’s nothing much else of note, even the cover of Hoppipolla is laboured. However, I positively adore these cast-offs.

History Repeats – We Are Scientists

This Means War – We Are Scientists

I somehow missed out on this next track when I first came across it, but after re-visiting The Faint in general, it’s quite a good one, and I am making up for lost listening right now.

Paranoiattack – The Faint

All of the songs from this post have been on heavy rotation on my iTunes, but I’m fairly sure that only one of them will last any length of time, and it comes from The Horrors’ new album, Primary Colours. It’s heavily influenced by Ian Curtis, and it’s joyfully (no pun intended) dark. I love the build up in this track, and whilst it’s not as cutting edge as Joy Division, nor does it have the lyrical genius, it is musically what I would like to think to be the direction that JD would have taken, especially the second half.

Sea Within A Sea – The Horrors

I didn’t expect to be cranking out so many mixes this year but after positive response to the Summer Bumber and Beach Bump mixes I was urged to do another summer-themed mix. Because it’s always summer in California getting into the groove of partytime was easy for this one. Be Here Now demands your attention for a rump-shaking party groove and 60 minutes of push and pull mixing. House vibe, tech sounds, funky bass, big drops, nasty samples and lots of groove.  Hope you dig it..

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1. Tony Lionni – Golden
2. We Can Do It – Morrison Barbecue (We Can Do It)
3. Dany Rodriguez & Davy Dee – Emotion 1 (Dimitri Andreas Remix)
4. Soul Clap – Beauty Sleep (Sergio’s Bassline Mix) (Airdrop)
5. Nima Gorji – Japanese Sword (Tsuba)
6. Luna City Express – Rough Neck (Matthias Tanzmann Remix) (Moon Harbour)
7. Shonky – Mama Queen (Contexterior)
8. Nalepa – Fresh (apendics.shuffle Remix)
9. Anthony Collins – Over the Top of My Shoulder
10. Hot City – Sweat (Hot City Bass)
11. Brooks – Iwanchu
12. SMD – Audacity Of Huge (Maxime Dangles Remix)
13. Coyu & Edu Imbernon – El Baile Alema¡n (Liebe Detail)
14. Goldfish, Der Dulz, Karolin Mu – Freak In The Presence Of Beaut
15. Christian Burkhardt – Powder (Oslo)
16. Christian Burkhardt – Lipstick (Nouveau’s Re-Edit) (Oslo)
17. Shonky – Carnage (Freak n Chic)
18. Sascha Dive – Jed Clayton (Samuel Davis Dark Beat Mix)
19. Christian Burkhardt – Eye Shadow (Oslo)
20. Dusty Kid – Kiln (Boxer)
21. Dany Rodriguez & Davy Dee – Emotion 1 (Dimitri Andreas Remix)
22. Riton – Sounds of the Studio
23. The Faint – Machine in the Ghost (Dj Endotronic Remix)
24. Skream – Midnight Request Line (Switch Remix) (Tempa)
25. Biovoices – To The Beat (Dyno Remix)
26. Claude Von Stroke – Aundy (Dirtybird)

Music emotionally engineers me to feel whatever it wants every time I listen to it. I really have no control over it, regardless of how intensely I’m into a project or consciously trying to ignore it. I suspect it comes from being an auditory learner – there’s really no way to shut off your ears without earplugs! Anyway, I have a bunch of geek music I’ve collected over the years and I think it’s time I share it with the world

So everything I could find on the Amazon MP3 Store, I’ve linked to here in the playlist because the truth is: geeks are a very small clique that simply doesn’t generate as much income for the artists as your normal, run-of-the-mill boring pop culture radio blether. So please, support the artists – they really need your help!

Geekster Rap

Much of the great geek music collection here owes much to the underground Nerdcore subculture. But I’ve classified the music even further by distinguishing the vulgar, testosterone-infused vulgar Geekster Rap (which is almost a direct parody of classic Gangster Rap) from the rest of the Nerdcore scene.

Monzy

Monzy: So Much Drama in the PhD [NSFW]

This was a Stanford grad student’s masterpiece – it’s *FILLED* with algorithms and terminology we’re all so familiar with from CS core classes. NSFW! Download mp3 (Free)

My flow is so intense that I will overflow your buffer,
Corrupt your stack pointer makin’ all your data suffer.
I’ve got saturated edges but your flow is sparser,
Real gangstas sip on Yacc; instead you generate a parser.
While you’re busy poppin’ stacks I’ll pop a cap in your skull,
While you smoke your crack pipe I’m gonna pipe you to /dev/null.
I may not have a label but I rap like a star;
I’m an unsigned long int and you’re an 8-bit char.

Your mom circulates like a public key,
Servicing more requests than HTTP.
She keeps all her ports open like Windows ME,
Oh, there’s so much drama in the PhD.

I run gmake and gcc,
And I ain’t never called malloc without calling free.
I’ll beat your ass until it’s colored like a red-black tree
‘Cause there’s so much drama in the PhD.

(Ode to the DEFCON) Badgez

DEFCON 15’s Badgehacking Team Winner, Team Osogato, went all out on their badgehacking submission: they got a friend-of-a-friend (The Brothers Grimm) who was a Nerdcore rapper to create a rap from the poem Joe Grand wrote in the DEFCON schedule booklet that year. It sounds really great too! Download mp3 (Free)

Secrets From the Future Album

Secrets From the Future

MC Frontalot is probably my all-time favorite Nerdcore Rapper. He’s got an exquisite sound and an intuitive sense of (geek) culture in his music. His track, “Secrets from the Future” has a god-like quality to it: I think it was even composed at DEFCON? Man I would have killed to see him at DEFCON. Anyway, lyrics are here. And also, Download the mp3 (Free) from his website. Or, do the right thing and buy the entire album!

Anti-MPAA Sticker of My Youth

Fuck the MPAA [NSFW]

Oh yeah, back when I was in 6th grade the cool thing to do was post those bright yellow “STOP THE MPAA” bumper stickers all over town. Several of the payphones at school had those bumperstickers plastered all over them (I can neither confirm nor deny placing them there). The Futuristic Sex Robotz took it to a whole new level of cool with this song. Oh and pretty much anything by FSR is obscenely vulgar (but awesomely geeky), so obviously nowhere near safe for work: Download mp3 (Free)

Partytron (Electronic)

The Geeks Were Right & The Conductor

The Faint has quickly become one of my favorite artists of all time. They’ve got this grungy, industrial sound plus kickin’ bass beats: I dub this new genre… Partytron! “The Conductor” is about the conductor of an orchestra, stepping up to the stage and taking control of the music. “The Geeks Were Right” is all about the Sci-fi Prediction that we’ll all become robots someday actually comes true. The Faint gets a HUGE less-than-three from me

The Geeks Were Right

The Conductor (Thin White Duke Remix)

8-bit Remixes

So, this is probably the most represented genre of the geek music I listen to. Everyone and their mother has probably heard a video game theme remix somewhere along the lines. So I’ve decided to focus on only the *good* ones, lol.

RAC's Nintendo vs. Sega EP

RAC’S Nintendo vs. Sega EP

I can’t pick my favorite from this album: EVERYTHING is great. RAC is pretty much the crowned king of video game remixes in my world. Sonic and Mario getting together on the weekends for an 8-bit Party? Oh YEAH! The Remix Artist Collective Agency (RAC) is a group of artists that remix all kinds of popular music: I pretty much read (RAC Remix) next to any song as (Eff-YEAH Remix). Download zip of entire album (Free)

Anything by EEPROM

EEPROM is pretty much the God of Leah’s Musical World. Everything he touches turns to gold – I honestly haven’t found any song that he’s created that my mind hasn’t been blown countless times over.

EEPROM Remix of Weezer’s Say It Ain’t So: mp3 Download (Free)

The Beatles’s Lonely People (EEPROM Rigby Remix): mp3 Download (80¢)

EEPROM Remix of the Safety Dance: mp3 Download (80¢)

EEPROM Remix of Human Robotics: mp3 Download (80¢)

EEPROM Remix of OneRepublic’s Apologize: mp3 Download (80¢)

EEPROM Remix Rick Astley’s Never Gonna Give You Up (Rick Roll): mp3 Download (80¢)

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Do álbum de 2008 Fascinatiion, o 8º da banda.

Aqui fica o tema The Geeks Were Right. (and so we are!)

Outros destaques do mesmo trabalho: Forever Growing Centipedes e A Battle Hymn For Children… check it out!

why the hell didn’t anyone tell me the faint released a video for “mirror error”?

oh well. fasciinatiion was incredibly underwhelming anyway.

- panda

Boys noize annonce officiellement son nouvel opus “Power” qui sortira en octobre.

Tracklist:

Le +

Boys noize July Top 10 on Beatport :

1. Housemeister – What is the Boy? ****
2. Siriusmo – The Univinted Guest
3. Boys Noize – Jeffer
4. Feadz – Lissborg Error
5. Dustin Zhan – Stranger (Len Faki Podium Mix)
6. Felix da Housecat – Elvis
7. The Faint – Mirror Error (Das Glow Remix & Boys Noize Edit) *****
8. Robert Hood – Museum
9. Untold – I Can’t Stop This Felling
10. Deuce – Twerp Wiz

Le ++

Pourquoi s’en priver?

• De Grote Vinnie, Donnie & Sjakie Show – Day n Nite (acapella version) *****

• De Grote Vinnie, Donnie & Sjakie Show – Pon di Floor (acapella version) ***

• Mr Oizo – Positif (Sawgood remix) ***

Et parce que l’album sort bientôt!

Enjoy yourself!

Another game to get your greasy little hands into….

http://www.dropkickthefaint.com/

Yet again this game is pretty self explanatory (just follow the instructions) and if you happen to be a fan of The Faint then you’ll enjoy the game and if you happen to hate The Faint then you’ll probably love this game.

Personally, i love The Faint but at the same time i also love dropkicking them off a stage and onto the pavement outside.

If they’re new to you have a listen and feel free to download….

MP3: The Faint – Dropkick the Punks

MP3: The Faint – Dropkick The Punks (Someone’s In The Wolf Re-work)

*just click on the MP3 once to open in new window then click again to download*

S.I.T Wolf x

Пожалуй, один из лучших чартов, что мне приходилось видеть на beatport.com, Алекс не изменяет себе и откуда-то достает такое на грани idm прыгучее техно, что впору говорить о новом тренде.
Большинство треков вы уже слышали, Housemeister и Jeffer – убийственные хиты на танцполе, а вот долгожданный в свое время Mirror Error оказался не очень, но все равно его люблю за отличную обработку вокала и крайнюю необычность. Прослушать можно здесь на beatport.com.

Не забываем следить за мной, обновлениями и прочими музыкальными новостями на TWITTER.COM/YESNOMONKEY.

01. Housemeister – Who Is That Boys? (alt)
02. Siriusmo – The Uninvited Guest (alt)
03. Boys Noize – Jeffer (alt)
04. Feadz – Liisborg Error (alt)
05. Dustin Zahn – Stranger To Stability (Len Faki Podium Mix) (alt)
06. Felix Da Housecat – Elvi$ (alt)
07. The Faint – Mirror Error (Das Glow Remix) (alt)
08. Robert Hood – Museum
09. Untold – I Can’t Stop This Feeling
10. Deuce (Marcel Dettmann & Shed) – Twerp Wiz (Original Mix) (alt)

in anticipation of the release of the half blood prince, i recently reread harry potters mark vi and vii. i wonder what music harry and chums would listen to, apart from the weird sisters of course. he spends a lot of his time confused and unhappy:

he feels pain and anger so he probably would listen to some whiny emo like a proper angry teen – and i’m not the one with the knowledge on that front. but given the anger and pain and fear that permeates the last three books i would imagine he’d need a driving beat to keep him going while he’s on the run.

something like:

or

or maybe even

but at the end of the day, he has a power the dark lord knows not:

i know this has been a silly post, so forgive me.