I know, I know, I can’t stop writing about these guys, but they’re MY BABY! (read: my conflict of interest.) They’ve got a brand spankin’ new video that just debuted on p-fork, and I think it’s pretty great. Here’s the Pitchfork link, but I’ll go ahead and embed the video here too: [youtube Q7zRSdk6u2E]
Category: Music
RIP Tim Haslett
Back in the mid ’90s I used to go to parties where the Beyond the QE2 crew would be throwing down, and they’d always play an inspiring mix of IDM, techno, jungle, house, rave, etc, in addition to a new sound out of Baltimore that they called Baltimore breaks. I loved this Baltimore sound and couldn’t understand why it was…
Tipsy: Bass For Your Waist, 3/27/08
Empire Liquors, Chicago, Thursday, March 27, 2008 DJ C | Whoa-B | Jeekoos dubstep, bassline, grime, UK garage, global ghetto-tech, blog trax, and genre blends DJ Mixes DJ C; Mashit Mix for Samurai.fm pt. 2 -> [audio:uggc://jjj.znfuvg.pbz/nhqvb/Znfuvg%20Zvk%20sbe%20Fnzhenv.sz%20cg.%202.zc3] Tracklist -> Jeekoos; Destroyer.net 07/07/07 -> [audio:uggc://jjj.wrrxbbf.pbz/nhqvb/frgf/Wrrxbbf_CGFEnqvb_qrfgeblreQbgArg_07-07-07.zc3] Whoa-B; Welcome To Grimerock -> [audio:uggc://jjj.jubn-o.pbz/nhqvb/jubn-o_-_jrypbzr_gb_tevzrebpx.zc3] Empire Liquors 1566. N. Milwaukee, Chicago, IL No Cover, 21…
Speaking of Cumbia
The sounds of Central/South American cumbia have become a bit of an interweb phenom over the past year. This is no doubt due in large part to the extensive coverage on /rupture’s Mud Up blog. There’s now a steady stream of underground, electronic-dance-music influenced (less folk/traditional instrumentation) cumbia tracks bubbling up, and the Buenos Aires, Argentina-based crew Zizek Urban Beats…
The Cool Kids (ba)Rock
I like the Cool Kids and I like Barack Obama so I really like this picture (from Gorilla Vs. Bear). Watch Cool Kids Black Mags video: [youtube b34U3-CutuU]
Track of the Week: “Somebody’s a Flirt”
I wanted to have some new music for the FlosstraPROMus party; something at least slightly Valentine’s Day themed since the party fell on Feb. 14 (pictures here and here). What better combination than some adrenaline infused bassline-house with local Chi-Town hero R. Kelly’s vocals on top, I though to myself. Perhaps the lyrics to I’m a Flirt don’t capture the…
Ghislain Poirier, DJ C, Murderbot, Zebo @ SubT, Chicago
Ghislain Poirier (Ninja Tune, Montreal) Saturday, March 8 @ Subterranean With DJ C, Chrissy Murderbot, and resident DJ Zebo Here’s what the press are saying: Canadian beatmaker Ghislain Poirier offers music to suit many tastes, but whatever he touches ends up with overflowing bass and plenty of bounce in the rhythm. Hailing from the musical incubator known as Montreal, he…
Happy 15th Birthday, Jungle
I was just checkin’ out this site called Golden Era Jungle and realized that this year marks the 15th birthday of Jungle. There are a whole bunch of 1993 mixes by DJs like Krome & Time, Remarc, and the one below by Dr. S Gachet. In Gashet’s 1993 mix you can still hear a lot of early hardcore rave music…
Track of the Week: DJ Flack “That Sound”
DJ Flack and I often reminisce about the era when 2-step garage was pop music in the U.K., and though many of the big hits there were on the R&B side of the fence, our faves were the ragga and dub influenced tracks like the ones on the 2001 compilation Garage Dubs — an obvious precursor to what would become…
Murderbot ’90-92 Rave Tape
Hi all–here’s ANOTHER mixtape (and this time it’s an actual tape, as in two sides, totalling 90 minutes) that I made for a Dutch mixtape blog called ‘t Nieuwe Werck…it’s a bunch of Hardcore Rave choons from ’90 – ’92. It’s primarily Belgian tunes, but on second listen there’s a fair amount of US & UK material, and even some…