These last couple of weeks have been pretty hectic. Due to mix-ups, confusion, odd time restraints, and just for fun I have played a few sets that were 15 minutes or less. I forced myself each time to pack entire sets into this time. It was fun and I got a good responses.
Thus, as a tribute, this weeks edit is my first 15 minute mix. I got 12 songs on this one. Enjoy.
So as not to sound overly self-hype-y, the following is lifted directly from (and with the kind permission of) the fantastic Disaster from Missing Toof:
“This weekend it’s going down! San Francisco based ‘lectro rockers Luxxury have finally unleashed their long awaited ‘Sweet and Vicious, The Remixes’ CD (cover art work by me!). There will be two back to back record release parties starting this Friday.
First up, Friday, Lights Down Low vs Luxxury. Featuring live performances by Baron Von Luxxury & Johnatron of The Workout joined by the likes of Canada’s ‘All Night Dance Party‘. Special guest DJ Devin Dirt all the way from Brooklyn & of course resident dancefloor destroyer Sleazemore on the ones and two’s.
Michaela your fave door girl taking your money & your hearts. Photos by Vaindeer.
Then this Saturday in the South Bay, record release party #2 presented by Missingtoof! This rowdy bunch invades San Jose’s Johnny V’s for another night of disco debauchery. Live performances by Luxxury (Disco Version), ANDP & Devin Dirt. This time DJ Barbeau of Dirty Sanchez and Missingtoof’s own DJ Basura are holding it down on the decks. Photos will be taken by Chromesick.
Luxxury’s new CD ‘Sweet & Vicious, The Remixes’ is out now on itunes. If you haven’t caught their song ‘Drunk’ in the Pontiac/Transformers commercial peep the beats below. These tracks are guaranteed to totally mess up your parents car stereo speakers.
Sorry about last week. Won’t happen again. You can imagine what I got myself into with this weekly edit thing! I got other shit on my table too. Never the less, it does force me to turn out more work than I normally would. Here is an unfinished, but good dub of Newcleus’s “Jam On It”.
If for some reason you don’t know this song
1) Wierd. You should get the original too. It talks about beating up superman.
2) You have never seen Asian kids breakdance at a High School Dance.
Banger du Jour nothin’ – this is definitely Le Banger de la Month, and maybe even de la Year So Far. It’s on the upcoming Kitsune 4 and if you haven’t heard it yet you will be unable to avoid it as soon as it drops. I first heard this Australian band/production team (and yes, it’s yet another damn amazing group of electro-awesome Aussies with close ties to the Modular mafia) when I heard this Daft Punk meets synthpop ditty on the fantastic Fabric29 (Cut Copy) last summer:
One more for good measure: the track “45 and Rising” is available on vinyl here and features a Cut Copy remix. Listen here and then go buy the real deal.
(BTW I posted the original version of the Dragonette song last week. I think it’s pretty fantastic as well, but definitely more pop/radio than danceypants. Here it is again in case you blinked.)
The week ahead:
If you’re in the San Francisco Yay area, we hope to see you for THE WORKOUT on Thursday night, May 24, *and* at Sleazemore’s Lights Down Low at 222 Minna on Friday night for the debut of LUXXURY LIVE (ELECTRO VERSION)!!!!
Email us at theworkout at sablestarr dot com or send us a myspace message for free guest list spots!
…and then save a spot on your dancecard Friday, May 25, for the debut of Baron von Luxxury with Johnatron at Sleazemore’s Lights Down Low at 222! We’ll be debuting our new band, performing electro versions of the Luxxury remixes live! Two men, two synths, one bass guitar, one vocoder and one talkbox…come smell the magic!
Hey there homies…whoa, has shit been crazy lately, but not to worry, I got a bangin delivery for ya….. This friday, get off your ass and head over to the TL…this shit is gonna be fresh. History Invades is celebrating thier record release on Pish Posh (one of my favorite record labels), and alongside them will be All Teeth and Knuckles, Ghosts on Tape, UFO! and yours truly, PoziB! And it’s free! Pish Posh is notorious for throwing some of the best parties in the city, whether its a house party or club event…So unless you like your life under a rock, get out and see the freshness for yourself…
Heres a few tracks from Ghosts on Tape to hype you up…
So I recently got transfered down to the Haight Street side of the Shoe Biz world, which on most points kinda sucks…and here’s why:
1. Its uphill from where I live. I don’t like riding the bus, I like to ride my bike, but I don’t like to ride my bike uphill…booooo.
2. They have me working in the store with all women’s shoes. I like sneakers…i do wear the girly shoe occassionally, but selling them sucks. Girls come up to me with 7 different pairs of black flats, want to try them in two different sizes, then decide that none of them fit quite right and if i’m lucky, they walk out with a $20 sale shoe..lame.
3. It is way too close to all my favorite shops, so all the money that I made that day, I end up spending before I even get home…
Yeah, so #3 sucks cuz I spend all my dough, but I stay fly in my new threads and get to mob the record store every time I’m on a lunch break… Today I picked up some records from Ratatat…I really want thier new remix album, but alas it’s not available yet, so I got some older stuff of thiers..I quite like it, I must say. Got that indie rock feel laced with hip hop beats to keep you head knodding in your white belt… Thier new remix stuff is fresh though, I’ve been jammin it on the pod for days. Check it for yourself right here….Then, you can say thank you by sending me dollor bills in my time of need while I work on the consumer ridden Haight Street..word.
Yeah yeah yeah. It is late. It is a repost too. But, I like this one. I remixed it for Bird Peterson’s new album “Hot Noise”. You gotta get it. Bird Peterson is amazing.
How much love can a blogosphere give a ‘band’ with only 5 songs? Answer: a lot. And we’re not helping solve the problem, as we love these men with their dirty beats, funky basslines and porn sideburns as much as the next bleary eyed laptop jockey.
But as much as mon amour is pure and vrai, it feels a little pointless contributing what feels like yet another (and superfluous) vote for the already-elected. In a Columbia study published last year in Science, people were asked to listen to, rate and, if they chose, download songs by bands they had never heard of. Half the 14,000 participants were shown the prior download figures for the songs, while the other half were simply shown a list of titles.
The result was that in the first, or “social-influence” group, the most popular songs were much more popular (and the least popular songs were less popular) than in the independent condition. In other words, as The New York Times put it, in their piece about the study “the impact of a listener’s own reactions is easily overwhelmed by his or her reactions to others.”
The reason is that when people tend to like what other people like, differences in popularity are subject to what is called “cumulative advantage,” or the “rich get richer” effect. This means that if one object happens to be slightly more popular than another at just the right point, it will tend to become more popular still.
And there’s the rub: are we not subject to this same prejudice with every post we write, and each corresponding click we make selecting songs to download? Are we blogging about a band or downloading a song simply because we keep seeing it show up on so many damn “tastemaker” playlists, thus predisposing us to assume it’s good – or, worse, that we need to like it to be cool?
Are we listening with our eyes?
Ok, that conclusion was tongue-in-cheek-edly pompous. But it’s late and I am procrastinating sending out press packets of our new remix album. I HATE sending out press packets.
For now, my fellow francodiscophones, drop what you’re doing and add http://www.hatesomethingbeautiful.com to your bookmarkblogrollRSSnetvibes, because there are three new Justice-y things there now:
1. A new Uffie + Justice track, possibly an alternate version of a forthcoming track from the forthcoming Justice album, which drops July 10…
2. …and for which the magic geniuses at HSB have procured a tracklist, as such:
1. Genesis
2. Let There Be Light
3. D.A.N.C.E.
4. Newjack
5. Phantom
6. Phantom Pt. II
7. Valentine
8. The Party
9. DVNO
10. Stress
11. Waters of Nazareth
12. One Minute To Midnight
Also: nothing to do with Justice or HSB, but worthy of mention are a few cool traxx I found whilst trolling the world o’ electro bloggage recently. Enjoy. Back to stuffing envelopes for me. So very glam, this rock stardom thing.
Thanks to everyone who came out to the Arrow Bar for dancing and cupcakes last Thursday. If you don’t already know, the Arrow Bar as we know it is dead…thats right dead…so we are moving on to a new home. We’re packing up and taking the ruckus to Duplex at 11th and mission…So make sure to mark your calanders for May 24th. We got Barbeau from Dirty Sanchez spinning a set, as well as Devin Dirt (Black Van Records) coming all the way from Brooklyn to do a killer nasty live set. And yes, we will have even MORE cupcakes for yo ass, for sure.
So absolutely love getting mail filled with great music…makes my day. Pistol Pete so kindly sent me over a couple of his nasty hot remixes that’ll make ya pop that pussy in all ways good…
The first is a remix of Clipse’s “Wamp Wamp”, as if we didn’t already love the song…Pistol Pete twists it up with a nice fast synthed out beat…thank you very much, ready for the dancefloor…killin it…
Then we have “Shake it to the Ground”, a DJ Blaqstarr track featuring mic killer Rye Rye, both on Mad Decent. Dancefloor anthem of 2007… shake it muthaf#!@ers!!! Pistol Pete again dresses up this track with supremeness, minimal techy bass beat with a synthy twinkle…you can’t help but shake it..Play this shit in the clubs for sure…”I’m not a gangsta girl but I’m a ghetto superstar” – Rye Rye
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