30 June 2006

i tried and failed

I spent most of my morning trying to find the Carl Craig remix of Throbbing Gristle's Hot on the Heels of Love. And needless to say, I had no luck (so if anyones got it, can i please have it?). Anyways, I did happen to get ahold of carl craigs remix of Poor People Must Work.

Rhythm and Sound - Poor People Must Work (carl craig remix)

Some other notables:

Pound for Pound has Loose Joints - Tell You. Go download it.

Also between now and tuesday a variety of things are going on such as the following:

My boss gave me monday off along with the fourth which means Ive got a 4 day weekend. I'm off to enjoy it.

29 June 2006

numbers

ive been slacking, i know. and i am going to continue to do so until monday probably. in the meantime...songs by artist with numbers. whatever. here you go.

Reverso 68 - Piece Together
Putsch 79 - 1300

27 June 2006

memo 2


i feel like its been a while and perhaps I am making the choice to slack off today but i have no desire to write much nor look for songs to post and therefore i am leaving some Hot Chip for you in the meantime. Tomorrow I'll do some research and leave something worth the wait. promise.

Max Sedgley - Slowly (hot chip remix)
Hot Chip - Strange
Hot Chip - Hittin Skittles

23 June 2006

national bring your dog to work day

I have a hard time writing these editorial type things about artist. Obviously, it can be assumed that if it is posted here I probably like it, if not think it's close to great. It's not to say that I lack the educational side of music, the history behind the artist. It's just plainly my lack of attention span, my lack of desire to sit for 20 minutes and craft together some clever, wordy post about why Serge Santiago is amazing, radioslave only so-so, and then come up with some not so obvious way to write a track listing, and so forth.

With that said, you can find out all you need to know about Serge Santiago HERE and the go by some of his records HERE. And in the meantime download some tracks here:

Serge Santiago - Atto D'more (i love this song)
Serge Santiago - Take the Journey (original)
Planet Funk - Stop Me (Serge Santiago House Mix)

If you have more Serge Santiago stuff, email it to me......please. I want it all!


This also should be noted:


P.S. Be sure to stop by Pound For Pound. There is a Trax 20 year anniversary post with some awesome tracks for you to download

21 June 2006

sex you up


what can I say, I like them. There 3rd album, "Impeach My Bush" is due out in on July 10th/ 11th and with songs title "Tent In Your Pants" one can assume the album has some potential. They did manage to write such songs as "Shake Your Dixs," "Lovertits," "Fuck the Pain Away," and "Diddle My Skittle." Some interesting names to appear on the album - Joan Jett, Josh Homme, Beth Ditto. Get more information at Peaches Rock.Com. And for now here are some songs off the upcoming album:

Peaches - Get It
Peaches - Boys Want To Be Her
Peaches - Slippery Dick

p.s check this out

so sweet!


NEWs: Very Important News:

Liquid Liquid is doing a DJ set at the Mezzanine, SF on July 22nd, 2006. If this doesn't excite you, I don't know what will.

I'll post music later today, but I was rather excited about this upcoming show and needed to share it.

20 June 2006

making list, making changes


I got this comment a while back about how my blog tends to be about my personal life. The comment made me laugh, because it is totally true. I can guarantee what is to follow will be way more on the personal life side of things than the music side,you might want to skip to the end and just grab the songs if you aren't up for some reading.

Anyways, I thought about that comment and figured that in my opinion people enjoy certian music because of their background and life history. What people, places, and things we have been exposed to directly relate to what music a person comes into contact with; therefore, music will always be a personal thing directly related to ones personal life.

With that thought out of the way, Its been a rough two weeks since my return from Washington, DC. Generally when life becomes a little confusing, frustrating, and exhausting I tend to do some thinking, a lot for that matter. Thinking generally leads to some soft of life analysis and for me I end up making various list. About four days ago I decided I wanted to start doing more things that I like and enjoy. Simple or complex, I want to start enjoying things again. With that idea, I decided to make a list of all the things I enjoy doing. The list is way too long to post the whole thing (you can read the entire list at HERE. Just click the most recent blog posting...)so I'll only give you a taste:

Taking baths
Drinking double espressos and eating scones in the morning
Sitting outside in the sun
Watching A's baseball
The way I feel when I wear expensive clothes
Reading magazines at coffee shops late at night
Record store shopping after 7pm
Conversations that start with, "remember the time..." or "did you see..." or "I cant wait..." or "I have to tell you..." or "this is good..."
Random conversations with knowledgeable people
Browsing at H M and it taking over an hour due to piddling
Buying cheese and crackers or chocolate at novelty grocery stores and eating it soon after
Leaving the windows open
Buying new plants, potting them, and watching them grow
The rare times I scrapbook
The way I feel after a work out with sweat
Editing photos and making something with them
Organizing things
Adding new post to my blog and searching for songs at the same time
Road Trips
I miss writing and doing it well
Conversations about mere opinion
I like busy work, occasionally
Editing other people work
Drinking cocktails at fancy bars on off nights
Dancing to good music

Taking the list into consideration, there is always music to express the mood.

Bloc Party - Uniform (Live Coachella)

Whitest Boy Alive - Don't Give Up

I promise tomorrow I will post a massive list of more dance oriented songs.

19 June 2006

day - off


I'm taking the day off from writing an extend blog to do some thinking. Heres something to listen to in the mean time:

James Figurine - All the Way to China (featuring Erlend Oye)

16 June 2006

the devil wears prada...

San Francisco sucked last night. What is it with "way too cool kids" who show up at obviously dance oriented shows and all the do is fucking stand around. I thought they were kidding when they stood motionless through Solvent and Ectomorph but then through MSTRKRFT. It wasn't a concert or some rock star performance, it was a damn dj set idiots. Wait i forgot, you all were way too concerned with how your knock off prada bags were looking to pay attention to the fact that MSTRKRFT only played one song of there own. Note to self: when a performer plays more songs written by Tiga then themselves that generally means it not a fucking show.


Anyways, i did have a rather lengthy conversation with the American Athlete about why Detroit house music is more talked about in the mainstream society compared to Chicago. My reasons focused on social factors surrounding those listening to Chicago house while the American Athlete centered on the fact that Detroit House music is still being created while those who were making Chicago house music are pretty much all deceased. Either way, it was an interesting conversation. I can guarantee far more interesting then what the other 99% of the crowd was discussing.


With that said, more Chicago house music for you:

Tyree - Acid Crash

The Sweat Boyz - Do You Want to Perculate?

15 June 2006

2 part post

PART 1:

MSTRKRFT
w/ Solvent
and Ectomorph
June 15, 2006 - TONIGHT
10 bucks, 9 pm
@ Mezzanine, San Francisco


The dance party is tonight and I will definitly be in attendance, drinking and dancing like crazy. You can get a good history lesson over at American Athlete but while your here pick up these tracks....

Some songs to carry you over until tonight:

MSTRKRFT - Work on You
MSTRKRFT - Neon Nights
MSTRKRFT - Shes Good For Business


PART 2:

I promised Jordan over at The Demolished Man that I would post these songs for him. They've been working there way on to a variety of blogs and its not hard to understand why.


Dinosaur - Kiss Me Again 12" Version
Dinosaur - Kiss me Again

13 June 2006

white boys

I was some-what (not much) disappointed when I heard Erlend Øye's Berlin based project Whitest Boy Alive. Its been said that his intent with the project was to make it a "dancier" version of Kings of Convenience. I don't think this was achieved and to me it is a slight let down. But thats not to say the Whitest Boy Alive doesn't produce.It's still good music. Like most I think, I love the music Erlend Øye creates. His vocals are one in a million and when he and Morgan Geist put out (i.e. Ghost Trains) greatness is achieved. So anyways, here are some tracks to listen to. You can also go to The Whitest Boy Alive and watch a video. The album "Dreams" is due out the 21 of this month but not in the US (as always). Enough said.

Whitest Boy Alive Inflations
Whitest Boy Alive Figures

12 June 2006

i'm a robot

So I tend to be a little late on things. Perhaps its the fact that I am picky or maybe it just takes me some time to come around. It took me over a year to committ to New Order, 3 or 4 months for Lindstrom, and just recently Booka Shade. Perhaps that is why it has taken me so long to listen to the I Robots comp and actually really like it. I've liked Spacer Woman for a while now, its undeniably awesome. But here are some other songs that I found just as great on the CD.


Sphinx - Collision (remixed)


Peter Richard - Walking In The Neon


I also found THIS SITE for more information on Italo Disco.

09 June 2006

Only for Today


T A P E did it and so am I....

DOWNLOAD:
Delia Gonzalez & Gavin Russom - Relevee (DFA Remix)

You hella want this.

lets talk DC

Alright lets talk about DC...
When I was thinking about posting some of my favorite bands to come out of DC (and no I am not talking perhaps the best but certainly some of them are), the first band to come to mind was Q and Not U. The band was around for almost to seven years and with 3 full length releases and two singles, I can't honestly think of a band that did it more "right". From punk to dance punk, whatever you want to call the end result, Q and Not U was fucking awesome. Needless to say, when I heard of their break up last year the world stoped a little. Actually for the entire car ride down Westlake ave. The American Athlete and I sat quite and contemplated the option of crying.

Anyways, with the break up came Ris Paul Ric and Georgie James and President. You can read more about all of this at the Dischord - Q and Not U page or at Q and Not U myspace page.

But for now, 2 of my favorite songs, one of the old and one for new.

Q and Not U - Wonderful People
Q and Not U - Wonderful People - President Remix

07 June 2006

im back



I'm back. A bit lagging behind, tired as hell, but alive. Lets recap the places I have been in less than a week. Chicago, IL, Lewes, DE, Kansas City, MO, Somewhere in Viginia, Somwhere in Maryland, Washington, DC and back to California. That equals 6 states, one district, and a shit load of time spent up in the air and in airports for lay overs. Aside from the fact that now I want dinner at 3 in the afternoon, the trip was good. Lots of walking and picture taking and hanging out with grandma.

In honor of my trip to Washington, DC I've decided that between now and friday I will be posting some of my favorite bands that have come out of DC. Don't get upset if the majority happens to be on Dischord. Its not my fault the label did it RIGHT. Anyways, look forward to that. And until then this non-related, "i had no other music on me right now so I found this one on a blog sometime last week" song will just have to do.

Lindstrom - A Blast Of Loser (MJS 9406 Mix)