I’m really loving a lot of acid house revival stuff coming out of Chicago right now (as well as France, Belgium, England…)
Of particular interest is a new 12″ featuring a Johnny Fiasco Remix of the never-before-released 1988 acid classic “Don’t Take It” by the late, great Armando Gallop. It’s out on a label called (get this) Let’s Pet Puppies. Peep!
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Download: Armando; Don’t Take It (Johnny Fiasco Mix)
Ok, here’s a big post–I’ll try to start at the beginning. I’ve started a new label (a sister label to Dead Homies), called Sleazetone Records, specializing in all the kinds of music that you’d assume a label called “Sleazetone Records” would trade in. The first releases are a CD & 12″ by a group called Ssion–they’re a Kansas City-based art collective fronted by Cody Critcheloe (graphic designer for Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Scream Club, & others). They’ve toured with YYYs, the Faint, Black Dice, & Liars, and they sound kind of like the Pet Shop Boys meet the Dead Kennedys meet Hakan Lidbo.
I’m really not the first person to write about these guys (they’ve been getting a lot of blog buzz lately–see Better Propaganda, Big Stereo, Fluxblog, Gorilla vs. Bear, Imageyenation, Missing Toof, Music For Robots, Palms Out Sounds, Paper Thin Walls, Pitchfork, Pop Tarts Suck Toasted, RCRD LBL, Slutty Fringe, Stereogum, Pitch Weekly, GBH.tv, Pensatos, XLR8R, and forthcoming reviews in Ghetto Blaster, Vice, & Urb), so I’ll skip the press talk–suffice it to say that I feel REALLY strongly about these guys (otherwise why would I have signed them?)–like, I think this new CD is literally one of the best things I’ve heard in years and I’m thrilled to be involved with it.
Anyway, here’s the news, with a few free mp3s for good measure:
Continue reading ‘SSION News: New CD, 12″, & Tour Dates!’
Hi all, sorry it’s taken me so long to get around to writing on here…things have been super-busy. I’ll be on more often in the near future–promise!
Anyway, today we have two new mashup’s of Starkey’s “Corner Store” feat. Xploder (get the original here). This first one is Corner Store + Ginuwine’s “Pony”:
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Download: Starkey vs. Ginuwine; Pony Store (M’Bot Blend)
I played it for Starkey, and he’s like “hey, I’ve got a Corner Store blend myself…” So now I present Corner Store + Missy Elliott’s “Lick Shots”:
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Download: Starkey vs. Missy Elliott; Corner Store/Lick Shot (Starkey Blend)
Excited to see this happening. Legendary Miami Bass label Cut It Up Def is apparently back in business (as “Cut It Up Def v2.0“), and has re-released the seminal “Miami Bass Jams” comp as a digitally remastered CD & 2LP. The tracklist on this thing is seriously amazing. Like, WOWIE WOW guys. Here are a couple of mp3s:
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Download: Jock D; Partytime ’91
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Download: Splack Pack; Shake That Ass Bitch
Now here’s an up-and-coming visual artist of whom I am incredibly fond. Her name is Magda Boreysza, she lives/works in Scotland (although she’s originally from Poland), and I just adore her stuff. ADORE!
She’s the one who did the really slick Cuddling Lion of Judah images for the Murderbot digital release (if you haven’t bought it yet, what’s the hold-up?), and a lot of people have been asking me about the art so I figured I’d give her some blog time. In addition to smaller illustrations she does murals and puppetry. She’s currently in the process of tying up the loose edges on her website, magdaboreysza.com. More links and another bit of art after the break:
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Just copped these guys today: super-limited Serato Scratch picture disc controllers designed by San Fran-based illustration superstar (and Aesop Rock collaborator) Jeremy Fish. Apparently limited to 500 2×12″ sets (retailing at $50), they were up on Turntable Lab for a super-short while until Rane caught wind of it and made a big stink. Everything is the same as a regular Serato record, except they’re puuurdy.
First off, my apologies to everybody for being out of commission for so damn long on this blog. School / work / music / running a record label / making holiday plans have had quite the effect on my blog volume over the past month, but soon I’ll be back to my old, prolific self!
So…for my first entry of the post-finals season, I figured I’d alert all the Chicago heads to an arts event going down this weekend: the Renegade Craft Fair Holiday Sale! It’s basically a big grouping of fantastic local artists & crafty-types offering goods ranging from super-hip avant-garde art pieces to good ol’ fashioned mittens and such. It’s a great way to get some seriously unique xxx-mas shopping done, and best of all, I’m Playing! Come catch your close personal friend Chrissy Murderbot on the decks from 4-6pm, Saturday.
Renegade Craft Fair Holiday Sale:
December 8/9, noon-8pm
Pulaski Park Fieldhouse, 1419 W Blackhawk (near Division & Ashland)
I am absolutely LOVING this mix. Willy Joy is a MPLS-to-Chicago transplant playing basically all the stuff that we here at Mashit hold dear. The tracklist is absolutely nuts on this one—some seriously clever curveballs thrown in the mix and recontextualized in some fascinating ways. Here’s the audio, then the tracklist. (ps: thanks to Mireya Acierto for the photo.)
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Download: Willy Joy – Fly By Night Vol. 1
Tracklist after the break…
Continue reading ‘Willy Joy Mixtape!’
Today is the 25th anniversary of the death of one of my heroes (and another one of those dance music legends suffering from a SERIOUS respect defecit), Patrick Cowley.
As much as Giorgio Moroder, Cowley introduced electronics into a genre that had been until-then composed primarily with traditional instruments, in effect inventing electronic dance music.*
Born in Buffalo, NY in 1950, Patrick moved to San Francisco in 1971, where he began studying synthesizer at the City College of San Francisco. Though he was originally more interested in prog rock and the like, he soon found himself immersed in San Francisco’s disco scene: he began working as a lighting tech at the City Disco on Montgomery and Broadway, and soon he was running lights and playing organ for up-and-coming disco legend Sylvester. All the while he was working on quirky synth projects in his spare time, and eventually he played some of this stuff for Sylvester and the rest of the band. Sylvester’s pianist (and sometimes Cowley rival) Michael Finden:
“He had a tape which he let us hear and Sylvester became very intent on somehow integrating this synthesized music into our basically R&B sound at the time. It was really quite astonishing to hear his work at that point in time because he really created a whole new sound and technique which was very fresh for 1978.”**
Continue reading ‘R.I.P. Patrick’
For those of you in the Chi, I encourage you to come out to Funky Buddha Lounge tonight to peep me, Zebo, & Flufftronix @ Outdanced! This is by far the most happening Tuesday weekly in town, and is definitely worth checking in on. Funky Buddha is at intersection of Grand, Halsted, & Milwaukee. See you there!
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