Hey ya'll... whats new? Sorry about the slo-mo posting in the last couple weeks or so. I have started a new job which sucks 50-70 hours a week out of me right now. Not that I mind but there are really only so many hours in a week and subtract 70, there's not a lot left. So Friday June 20th is the next Balearia. I have switched the frequency to make it a monthly party right now for the summer. This allows me to focus on the musical content of the night and really have more fun myself as well as getting some unique local guests in there (such as Lucy Lux, this weeks guest). It's going to be the 3rd Friday of every month now, like whoa. SOOOOOOOOOO...
My homegirl Maya AKA Lucy Lux is djing this month/week... the 20th... tommorrow in reference to today, the day I am writing this. She is one of the coolest chiques in the Bean right now and has a smokin' hot taste in music. The mixes on her garagepunk.com page are really entertaining. This weekend she'll be djing some kind of tropical, exotica selections from her collection and we'll be meeting in the middle musically somewhere on Tahiti. We're doing half hour sets all night looong starting at 9:30 or 10 pmish. Lucy Lux - Apocalypstick DJ Set
Hella nice , as they say... this man is one of the hunblest and simultaneously talented people I have met this life-time... This is a track he sent me.... a "dj tool" if you will ;)
The illustrious Dompteur Mooner... and his merry band ZomboCombo will be in Boston Friday at the Squealing Pig.... ZomboCombo... kicks azzzz... serrrriously... check the link... www.zombocombo.com.. I just embeded it but I can't stress their website enough. Here's a TV bit on Zombocombo ALSO... The infamous Pollyester is in the band as well... she is quite accomplishedas well and she has tons of other projects with links embedded here: Kamerikino Platzmer Gun Mooner is mad infulential in the scenes that I run in and compiled the Elaste Vol. 1 Cosmic comp.which was seminally influential in the reblossoming cosmic scene. A scene that has been an undercurrent to the disco/techno/house music scenario since the early 80's. I am in terrible danger of digression right now so I'll just say that this friday at the Squealing Pig in Mission Hill, some of the most talented and innovating people in the Berlin music scene will be in Boston. dr. mooner - making a slip Kamerikino (Feat. Pollyester)- Finger Of Love (Original) Kamerikino (Feat. Pollyester)- Finger Of Love (Lefthanded)
Thanks to Chris at Another Night On Earth for the kind words to day in blog-land. It's really exciting to communicate with people from the other side of the globe that have such similar musical interests. For anyone linking in from A.N.O.E... I wanted to give links to my several myspace music accounts... Dances With Horses is the name for my remix/edit project even though I rarely use that name in reality. I also have a project with by boy Chas Bronz which we have titled Ranger Rick, there's only one track up there right now but people really seem to like it. It was actually a clandestine operation 'till about a month ago when somehow, the cat was let out of the bag. I probably had one too many at the club. You can also get information on A:Kult which is my monthly party with Brenden Wesley of Creatures of HabitHERE. We've had a slew of great guests @ A;Kult... the last of which was a tag team set from Brennan Green and The Bogman available below on the blog. Other guests have included Holy Ghost!, Lee Douglas, and Runaway. I plan to post their sets soon. We have every single A:Kult set EVER recorded digitally somewhere. I am trying to compile them all right now as they've not been organized in a proper fashion. This Friday night is the next installment of Balearia. The flyer is above if you didn't notice. I am posting an edit of little known Swedish pop group Ago by Ranger Rick, an original by Alan parsons Project and a track by one of my favs Akwaaba. Enjoy and I'll see some of you Friday night at The Pig.
..... great fun! Thanks to everyone that made it out last night. It was great to see so many new faces. There were actually only like twenty people there that I even knew which was a refreshing change. Not that I don't like seeing people I know, it's just quite refreshing. Sometimes I think that the Boston music scene is made up of the same 243 people. I was especially glad to have people coming up to the turntables with more than just the intention of staring me down until their ridiculously uninformed request appeared magically in my record crate. Some people have a really hard time wrapping their head around the fact that I don't collect rap-rock, bad folk music or top 40 (for the most part) and even if I did, the chance of me bringing the exact lame track they probably listen to on repeat for the intention of studging their I.Q. to below the down syndrome mark to the club is exactly .0%. Peanut Butter Wolf's" vinyl weighs a ton" but I think mine weighs a lot more, therefore I don't carry all 73 crates to the club three times a week. Actually had one chick that was straight off Hampton Beach acting ALL appalled because I didn't have the new Modisyahoo (i don't know how to spell that right, nor do I care to take the time to google it) to play at her behest, she stared me down for literally 15 minutes right as I got into the club and I had to set up the equipment with two beady hazel eyes, framed by greasy hair spray-head reaming a hole in my cerebellum. Convinced that I thought I was better than her, said she . Definitely need to keep my snickers to myself when people make atrocious requests. I laughed out loud and she hates me. Oh WELL! Some other guy requests"that Daft Punk song the world is round" and I laughed again... he didn't pick up on it though and he laughed with me, secure in his snuggly blankie of mis-knowledge that the mention of Daft Punk is a funny. The night went off great though. At one point there were 40 people in front of me on the dance floor literally jumping up and down, chanting in a yell "Go Dj Go Dj GO!"... That was special. The people that work at the Squealing Pig are all really chill ( props to Terence) and the clientele is very open to new music and really up to snuff on their knowledge there-of, someone actually knew who Leon Russell was when I played Carney. Damn Gina! This night is definitely going to be the new summer jump-off!! ! Rave-On! Anyways... I am going to post some music tonight by this African singer named Gifrants. I don't know anything about this guy except that I bought a cd off of him in the subway because his music almost made me cry tears of manic joy in front of total strangers and I like that. These songs are certainly in existence for the purpose of lulling feral wildebeasts to sleep. Taken from the album Vwa e Gita.
Yeah... whatever you say buddy. So a lot of people make music but not everyone can kick ass while they do it. M'man Spook Rock is fully capable of carrying out both typically unrelated processes in a simultaneous manner. You gotta love the interwebs because I come to find out Spook was living in Boston until just recently and we never met. You think a city like Boston is really small because most people run in the same little clique circles but then it jumps out and surprises you to find out that a talented cat like he was living right around the corner and we'd never met... so thanks Myspace, although you are a devilish invention hell-bent on creating a database of earthlings unrivaled by anything except for maybe the I.R.S. (sidenote... check America: Freedom to Fascism to get your conspiracy theory on. There are tons of other documentaries HERE but watch out, that Masonic conspiracy theory shit is a VIRUS for your soul) we love you and your information hording technology (I think I am in danger of digressing). Spook produces beats for Dr. Midnight as well as Arabella Disco which I am told is his new label set for launch any moment. All the music he has up is great by anyone's standards but he sent me a track a couple of days ago that really blew me away. BlackStar is a dub of a forthcoming Dr. Midnight track and it kicks my ass so hard that I have a wedgie. Having a hard time getting it out of my head which is funny because that usually doesn't happen with dubs (no lyrics and all). I have also been informed that Spook is, as we speak half in the bag sending emails to people which ask them not to tell the world that he likes gay house and sunsets :) No, but seriously, he's a very talented guy and surely will do some maximum dommmage.
I will now end this posting with a video of A Mountain of One. They have been a huge inspiration to me and if there's any hope for mankind they'll someday get the recognition they deserve as one of the best bands of the present decade. This song is obviously overdubbed with the studio version of the song (check out the woman singer) but hoo kares! I discovered AMO1 about 2 years ago when I started going through what has turned out to be a very extended rough oatch with my soon to be now EX-wife. Don't try that one out unless you have to. Anyways... AMO1 was there to caress my booboos and at the same time make me feel music taste superior to the ex-inator. THANK YOU A Mountain of One, there will never be need for another mountain. Not to mention they ushered in the new era of triangle flossing balearic bands. But that's another tale for another time. Wow, it looks like my blog was gotten on tonight I should have tooken it to the streets, but instead I tooked it to the screen. See some of you tommorrow night for Balearia at the Squealing Pig.
PS... My girlfriend Alexis looks really cute right now snoring next to me. It's not so much snoring as a sort of advanced clicking noise. Outstanding!
