fiddle with the volume

sorry for the lack of posts recently, been crazy busy at work and had the folks in town this weekend. luckily, i had time to pick up killa season yesterday. i've only had time to listen to it a few times, but even though it doesn't jump off like purple haze did there are still plenty of bangers on this one. i bought the record off of itunes and it was priced at $9.90 - wonder what coolfer will have to say about this digital pricing move...

cam'ron - white girls
(i know this has been floating around the internet for a while, but the beat is crazy)

cam'ron feat. hell rell - he tried to play me

check out this article on sohh.com about cam's most ridiculous outfits

dipSET.

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my admiration for peter saville's work is pretty well documented, so is it any wonder that i've been salivating over these kicks for the past week or so? seriously, someone please buy me these shoes. thanks.

if you're around brooklyn on thursday don't sleep on this one - party at the old domino sugar factory featuring larry tee, the rock steady crew, the turntables on the hudson guys, and dub trio. sure, it's sponsored by red bull, but it's gonna be massive. (event info from flavorpill)

we had a promise made

anyone go to the white rose movement show last night at the bowery ballroom? i couldn't bring myself to trudge out there, because i was tired and have seen the 5 o'clock heroes too many times and heard mixed reviews of wrm live shows.

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while fluxblog tosses out phenomenal song recs on an almost daily basis, i usually try to abstain from reposting tracks on my site right after they pop up there. but i just can't help myself on this one.

the knife - we share our mother's health (trentemoller mix)

not only does this mix up the driving ante of the original, but i think it really understands where silent shout was coming from in terms of vocal tweaking and reappropriating almost trancey elements. fuck. i dare say i almost like it better than this classic knife remix:

the knife - heartbeats (rex the dog remix)

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is this going to be the summer of timbaland? first there was that nelly furtado banger, and now this? i'm not a big lloyd banks fan, but anyone who uses "i'll jack you" lyrics is ok in my book

lloyd banks - my house

i snagged this from the out of control forum on low budget's page

when i come around

as soon as erol stepped up to the decks on wednesday night at don hill's, i felt like i was transported straight back to trash. jdh had ended with the romping soulwax mix of "dare", and erol proceeded to completely flip the script with a one-two punch of "all nite disco party" and "standing in the way of control". fuck. the energy was also super high in no small part to the $2 sparks (!) pluses that the bar was featuring...

gorillaz - dare (soulwax mix)

brakes - all nite disco party

the gossip - standing in the way of control

i ain't got none but i'm planning on growing some

i hate to say it, but i had a great weekend up at dartmouth. all the work shit went well and it was nice to get out of the city for a few days. fuck, i even played some touch football. the hotel we were staying at was also across the street from the tip top cafe in white river junction vermont - the place where i had my first ever paid dj gig. this was the first song i played that night:

ladytron - seventeen

and this song totally cleared the dancefloor on the same night:

adam and the ants - goody two shoes

it was also really nice to drive again, especially on the crazy winding country roads up in nh and vt. some songs that i used to have on permanent rotation in my car during school that i wished i had with me this weekend:

alec empire - suicide

low - dinosaur act

blonde redhead - missle

drunk off of five dollar liquor

i'm going away through sunday for work.

two gallants - steady rollin

to the middle of nowhere in new hampshire.

nick cave and the bad seeds - where do we go now but nowhere?

which happens to be the same place where i went to school.

the panthers - theory is famous

i'm kind of dreading it.

see you on sunday!

when your complexion dries

i'm super excited because erol alkan is coming to don hill's next wednesday. erol has been holding it down at trash in london for years now, and has been one of the best - and most reliable - remixers on the indie dance scene since its inception. while i have quibbled with his extended remixes on several occasions, his dj'ing is pretty much stand alone. i was in london in the fall of 2002 doing a study abroad program in college (read: smoking too many cigarettes and spending too much money at rough trade), and went to trash every monday night while i was there. if i was someone else, i would say that the highlights were the live shows i got to check out in an intimate club environment: lcd soundsystem, suicide, fesit, gonzales, midnight mike. but for me, the real highlight was dancing with a topless courtney love. surprising fact: she's the best smelling person i've ever met. looks like a total junkie, but smells like an angel.

anyways, here are songs that erol would play every monday night in the fall of 2002 (for real!)

the pixies - bone machine

duran duran - my own way

the faint - agenda suicide

david bowie - moonage daydream (this is the song i danced to with courtney!)

and a recent-ish remix:

death from above 1979 - romantic rights (erol alkan's love from below mix)

####at the end of last year i was sick and watching daytime television. now, i don't have cable, so that means my options are ridiculously limited between the hours of 11 am and 5 pm. i stumbled upon starting over. at first i couldn't figure out what the show was about. it felt a little bit like the real world, but with a "cast" of middle aged women. and life coaches would flit about in the background. and when a woman would do a confessional segment to the camera, there were enigmatic captions such as "ELISSA - running away from her past" or "LISA - blaming herself for mr. internet". needless to say, i was hooked. i kept my fascination with this bunim-murray project for the aging set a secret, both because i rarely had the chance to watch television at noon during the week, and also because i was ashamed. fuck, if someone i knew told me they about this show i would smack them in the mouth while giggling. several months ago, however, a co-worker let it slip that she too was taken in by starting over's mysterious appeal. and then it happened. it seemed like the show was always coming up in conversations - i would mention it at a brunch where i didn't really know anyone and make instant friends, i would make allusions to it around friends and everyone would know what i was talking about. now this article in nerve. how much longer before there are sparks-sponsored viewing parties at union pools? fuck, i'm there.

even though i'm a disgusting, coughing, sickly mess today, i'm sure as hell excited to turn on nbc at noon.

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one last note for the day. i hesitate to mention it as i've been geared up to see them a few times before and they've always cancelled, but disco-not-disco faves white rose movement are scheduled to play the bowery on the 12th. have yet to pick up a copy of kick, but check out the review at playlouder

white rose movement - girls in the back

i don't care what the captain said

(photo from gothamist)

i woke up at 5 am this morning with a fever of over 102, and i haven't been back to sleep yet. not only do i feel like shit, but the fire at the terminal in greenpoint has totally enveloped my neighborhood with thick, black smoke. it's finally starting to clear at this point, however for hours i couldn't even see across the river.

ugh.

adult. - nausea

m83 - don't save us from the flames

don't fight it, feel it

update: delia and gavin song deleted as per the request of dfa records.


and check out a video of tim sweeney tweaking the song live here

i was going to post another couple gonzalez & russom tracks, but unfortunately they've become standbys when i dj and i left all my gear and music at work. y'alls just gonna have to wait.

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so apparently the place where i had linked the momonga picture i was using as "my photo" on blogger no longer exists. anyone have a suggestion for a new pic i should use? i can't decide if i want to stay in the realm of cute, exotic animals, or maybe move on to something more like this.

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the one thing that i really love about itunes is the ability to stumble onto a track that you haven't listened to in years, and probably would never have sought out had it not been right after something else. this happened to me yesterday when i was furiously download all the plastic little tracks i could get my grubby mouse onto. what should follow these philly MCs? just a banging plastikman track, of course.

plastikman - spastik

(and it's from an old jockey slut comp, no less!)