Booty Flava Friday #3

Shake what ya momma gave ya, even if you got a baby daddy…

Mp3: Thats Just My Baby Daddy – Uncle Luke

Lets get spooky…

Allright, here’s a little dose of The Black Ghosts  for ya, …all remixes from some noteable players, but the originals are definetely worth checkin out..so just go buy em here and thank me later.

Mp3: Anyway You Choose To Give It- The Black Ghosts (Boy 8-Bit Remix)
Can you say WOW? Love it!  Boy 8-Bit, one man and his computer making dope remixes with a healthy dose of old school video game sounds, but with the grimyness that make my heart skip a beat, I think I’m in love.  Go to his myspace and buy all of his tracks right now!!!

Mp3: Any Way – The Black Ghosts (Fake Blood Remix)
Fake Blood…I can’t find anything on this guy…but the remix is great..he just surfaced on myspace, so keep your eyes out for more from this guy.

Mp3: Face – The Black Ghosts (Teenagers Remix)
When The Teenagers aren’t making songs about thier many love affairs with women from all over the world, they make dope remixes…this one had been floating around for a while now, but it is a great one…this one is featured on the Face Remixes 12″. Buy it…

and stay tuned, cuz booty flava friday is coming up shortly….

Johnatron’s Edit Wednesday #2

This one comes from our friend Busy P, (we like him, he doesn’t know us).  If you don’t know much about him, you should know that Ed Banger is basically his baby.  He makes music too.  He is French and has long hair.

In this edit, I chopped it up, make it faster, added a lot of effects.

MP3: “Rainbow Man” (Johnatron Edit) – Busy P

Be sure to check out the Kraftwerk remix on his myspace as well!

Ed Bang *This*

Photo: LastNightsParty.com

Where were you last Saturday night, dearest SF electrokids? My guess is you were at the Mezz, checking out the insanely blogaliciously bloghouse-ariffic lineup of Justice, SebastiAn, Dj Mehdi, Busy P, and local boy Sleazemore.

Go check out Missing Toof’s recap and corresponding video here to see what you missed. And what’s that classic jam opening the YouTube video clip of the show, you say? That’s where The Workout comes in to provide you with the info. Got questions? We have answers. It’s what we do.

The first track in the video (mixed in with Justice’s latest single D.A.N.C.E, which is *this close* to being a shark jumper) is a frigging classic, and it warms our hearts to see the hippest of the hip are never too hip to play timeless jams like this Alan Braxe and Fred Falke’s 2000 anthem, the doesn’t-do-it-justicely titled “Intro.”

MP3: “Intro” – Alan Braxe and Fred Falke

This song still destroys about 80% of the new stuff I’ve been hearing.

P.S. Come to The Rickshaw Stop on Saturday, it’ll be the last Luxxury show for a while…

P.P.S. Breaking news that’s just a little bit too damn ‘The Workout’ to be ignored. A new compilatio for WESC clothing has 12 — twelve; 10 + 2; a dozen — covers of Olivia Newton John’s classic ode to humping during The Workout: “Let’s Get Physical.” Go back yet again to freakin’ Missing Toof, where you just were, for a couple of sample tracks. Damn you, Disaster, I’m gonna have to take you off my RSS feed if you keep doing this!

Booty Flava Friday #2: Front, Back, Side to Side…The New Electric Slide

Allright, so normally when I’m in the club, if i hear the same song twice, I get a little annoyed, and only so often will I let it slide. Well, a few weeks ago, I was getting drunk on a bottle of Bacardi at the rave cave (Arrow Bar) at Frisco Disco (R.I.P. and thank you for your many nights of ass shakin’) and I hear this fantastic track bumpin the bass…”Front, back, side to side”, yeah, so good i made up my own little dance to that and had the whole crew doin it to…Then, like two hours and another trip to the liquor store later, the DJ drops it once again. I have never been so happy to hear a song twice in one night EVER! We busted out with the dance and even threw in a few classics like the shopping cart and chainsaw…rockin’ it…but really The Pack is rockin’ it on this one! Hailing from Oakland and barely out of highschool, they killed the billboard charts and airwaves last year with thier super catchy “Vans” song. But in my opinion, this is the real killer. And yes, in case you were wondering, I will offer my dance expertise to anyone wanting to learn the official “Front, Back, Side to Side” dance…

Mp3: Candy – The Pack

Johnatron’s Edit Wednesday #1

This is an exciting day! Every Wednesday I will bring you a new edit. This is a large undertaking, but I may get some help from some heavy hitters later on. For now, I got it covered.

This edit is a blend of Dj Assualt and Erasure.

MP3: “Who Needs That? (Johnatron remix)” – DJ Assualt and Erasure

It was almost a blend with Soft Cell. That would have had a better/worse name .

In other exciting news, as many of you have not heard/don’t care about, my girlfriend and I are having a baby! It has been 3 months and is doing well. Guess what the sonogram proves? NO TAIL! WOO! (I would’ve loved it with a tail anyway but I would rather not have to buy my child special pants.)

Wait for tommorow

Tonight I have some good stuff, but tommorow marks the first day of JOHNATRON’S EDIT WEDNESDAY.

The newest Kitsune release. Blahblahblah. You know that everyone will post this. Might as well get it here. It almost makes me angry that everything on this label is so good.

MP3: “Drugs in My Body” – Thieves Like Us

Again, in a similar vain, here is a new Sebastian track. It is on the new Ed Banger compilation, which like Kitsune, basically rules every mp3 blog. Also, Sebastian, is one of those guys that is constantly too clever.

MP3: “Greel” – Sebastian

ALSO: Please, please, pleeeeeeaaaaaseeee add us on myspace. We are still starting out and we need to get word out about our blog and our night which will hopefully blow up really soon. It is also true that we will start to have exclusive tracks available for download on there. If you don’t want to get left behind, add us

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Booty Flava Friday!!

I almost forgot! Until, by some divine internet stumble, I was reminded that it is, yes indeed, Booty Friday!!! Every week my friends…right here at The Workout.

so, here’s this fridays booty track This one’s for you P-Diddy!

Mp3: Booty Flava – Tim Schreiber

I have no idea how i found this or where it came from, but enjoy…silly ass shit.

No pun intended…AHHHH..so bad that its kinda good:0

The Girls, The Girls Are Lovely

 Mad props to these homegirls who have been reppin’ hard lately! Both from the land of philly, party queens with mad rhymes…look for them in a town near you.

Mp3: Take it Easy – Amanda Blank feat. MIA

Mp3: DJ Play That Shit – Amanda Blank

Mp3: MYOB – Roxy Cottontail

Mp3: You Don’t See – Roxy Cottontail 

Both these chixxx are on an album called Blow with Aaron LaCrate, featuring production from the likes of Aaron LaCrate, Debonair Samir, Scottie B, 45 King, DJ Equalizer and Low Bee. The CD is out, but the vinyl is to be released..get on the wait list here for this one homies, cuz its hot…here’s a sneak peak of one of the tracks.

Mp3: Oxy Theme – Aaron LaCrate with Roxy Cottontail

Happy Friday Homies!!!

Daniel Ash Wednesday

Ash Wednesday three weeks ago would have been the perfect time to post this piece and use the punny title. But I’m Jewish, and I always forget about these events until I see people walking around with gunk on their foreheads, at which point I invariably think: “Right, I almost forgot about Daniel Ash!”

Best known for being a founding member of seminal post-punk outfit Bauhaus (notice I didn’t dare say “Goth”, though I suppose I have now…oops), Ash has arguably made his best, and certainly most diverse music in the, er, wake of that band’s, um, ashes. (Sorry, I really am trying to avoid the “G” word, but the puns are damn inescapable).

“Bela Lugosi’s Dead” is a fantastic song for which the lyrics were written as Peter Murphy read randomly from the newspaper. But you already know that one, so here’s my favorite goth/dub reggae jam, “She’s in Parties.” I think Ash’s playing on this song is probably the single biggest influence on me as a guitarist. Not that you asked but…it’s not your damn blog, is it?

Mp3: “She’s in Parties” – Bauhaus
Official site: http://www.bauhausmusik.com
Buy music and DVDs by Bauhaus on Amazon

Ash’s most commerically successful band was Love and Rockets, who had a huge hit with the inescapable (in 1989) guaranteed-to-separate-the-old-fans-from-the-new-fans 120 Minutes-pandering radio-friendly single “So Alive.” Here’s a far, far better song from that album, a glam stomper about his love affair with a machine:

MP3: “Motorcycle” – Love and Rockets
http://www.loveandrockets.org
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But Ash’s most criminally underrated band was the utterly fantastic Tones on Tail, an experimental electronic-pop band he formed with Bauhaus’s drummer Kevin Haskins (brother of bassist David J) and their roadie, Glenn Campling. The band only lasted about 2 years, just after Bauhaus ended and before Ash and Haskins reconnected with J. to form Love and Rockets. During this time they recorded about 25 songs, most of which were released as singles and EPs. While they never quite got as big as the bands which precedeed and followed them, Tones on Tail did have one fairly successful single, “Go”, which is still being played in clubs to this day. Apparently Moby sampled it on his track of the same name, but I’ll never know for sure as I have a pretty strong “no Moby” policy and I don’t intend to change.

Going with the lesser-known tracks again, here is my favorite song in the T.O.T. oeuvre, the Moroderriffic “Performance” (a.k.a. “Shakes”).

MP3: “Performance” – Tones on Tail
Buy the aptly titled “Everything” by Tones on Tail from Amazon

Ash has been making solo records as well for the past 15 years or so, which you can check out here. I, however, need to get some work done.

And even if you don’t like his music, you really need to give it up to a man’s having such amazingly consistent hair all these years.

The Official Daniel Ash site.
Buy Daniel Ash solo music from Amazon