This is not a dance floor banger, but simply put, this track is stunningly gorgeous.
I am really just in love with it, i’m feeling the emotion.
I hear Fleetwood Mac in there.
Really bummed Erol canceled Coachella, who does that anyway, eh?
What do we have to do get that man across the pond?
Maybe he’s afraid he’ll drop Midlake?
Yeah, that was pretty bad, I know, but its late at night, i’m reaching to entertain you guys, I think ill just let the music do the talking . . .

Erol Alkan remix of Midlake

Erol Alkan Remix - Midlake

Trashy likes Sleazy, this is a great fit!

Sleazemore - Dyslexic Disco V.2

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Daft Punk - Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger (Jess and Crabe remix)
Does it offend you yeah - We are rockstars
Tepr - Minuit Jacuzzi
Fox n’ Wolf - Young alcaholic (Ettiene De Crecy remix)
Dj Fame - When I hear music (Duke Dumont remix)
Felix Cartal - Moss-vs-Tree Griff & Booman
Pick em’ up Naast - Mauvais Garcon (Yuksek remix)
Armand Van Helden - the Boogie Monster
Kool Uncle - Big and Dirty Dreams
Utah Saint - Something Good (Van She tech remix)
the Teenagers - Homecoming (Guns n’ Bombs remix)
Speedcats - Speedcats Les Rythmes Digitales - from Disco to Disco Buraka Som Sistema - Yah Freeform Five - No More Conversations (Switch remix)
Mikael Weill - Silmarions (Claude von stroke remix)
Vicarious Bliss - Limousine

WE HAVE PODCAST!

I am still amazed that I was able to configure this, and now that I have, i’m gonna go podcast crazy, I can feel it.

Ok - so here you go, this is a mix I did a few years back, when i still had tables - RIP tables : (
Maybe one day ill have them again, and I can start playing my own records, instead of someone else’s, really badly, at 5am.

Audio Pimpstress - “Back When I Could DJ” Mix
March 28, 2005

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1. Mazi & Joshua Collins “Basic Analogue” /Gourmet
2. Martini Bros “Big & Dirty” (Tiga Remix)/Turbo
3. Adonis “No Way Back” /Trax
4. The Glass “Won’t Bother Me” (Original Mix)/Fine
5. Jake Fairley “Cold World” (Trance-Rock Mix)/Sender
6. Michoacan “2 Bullets” /Grayhound
7. !!! “Hello? Is This Thing On?” (Thomas & Eric Dub)/Touch and Go
8. Magik Johnson “Roller Girl” (Mazi & Joshua Collins Rmx)/NRK
9. The Rapture “House of Jealous Lovers” /DFA
10. DJ Buck “Make It Hot” /Siesta
11. LCD Soundsystem “Beat Connection” /DFA
12. Justus Kohncke “2 After 909” /Kompakt
13. Jake Fairley “Cold World” (Original Mix)/Sender
14. Nathan Drew Larsen f. Black Pearl “Standing Still” /Gourmet

Chaki and Emi are ripping Tokyo dancefloors to bits. Known as ‘The Lowbrows,’ they play one of the hottest soirees in the city, ‘Linda,’ which takes place at La Fabrique, Shibuya. (the original is near the Bastille in Paris)

In a neobaroque fashion capital, Linda brings a lux mix of Tokyo’s finest sugoi kids, that seem to have a deep love for Ed Banger Records and like-minded imprints such as Kitsune, Boyz Noise, Citizen and Archibell Recordings. Not only for the French, The Lowbrows continue on with the new breed of twisted/hard/distorted/thrash/
bass/electro producers that we’re all absolutely loving these days!

The boys have given us a peak into their electroshocking debauchery with some party snips as well as their track, ‘LINDA is tonight,’ that plays throughout the video. Another killer on the dance floor!!!!!! Oh and I must add that all cool graphics as well as ‘Linda,’ is the creation of their dear friend, Yoshiro.

Here’s a mash up of a few of their tracks created esp for Trash Menagerie! xx

The Lowbrows - Medley

Check out their newly released 4-track 12″ Ep on Delicatessen-Recordings, direct from Japan. Music love to your ears. Stay posted for another 12″ as well as a CD album.

Oldie but goodie from summer 2005
Found this while rummaging around on my computer, too much fun to keep to myself.

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THRONE OF BLOOD

Vonnegut’s Blues for America

by Kurt Vonnegut

No matter how corrupt, greedy, and heartless our government, our corporations, our media, and our religious and charitable institutions may become, the music will still be wonderful.

If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph:
THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED
FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
WAS MUSIC

Now, during our catastrophically idiotic war in Vietnam, the music kept getting better and better and better. We lost that war, by the way. Order couldn’t be restored in Indochina until the people kicked us out.

That war only made billionaires out of millionaires. Today’s war is making trillionaires out of billionaires. Now I call that progress.

And how come the people in countries we invade can’t fight like ladies and gentlemen, in uniform and with tanks and helicopter gunships?

Back to music. It makes practically everybody fonder of life than he or she would be without it. Even military bands, although I am a pacifist, always cheer me up. And I really like Strauss and Mozart and all that, but the priceless gift that African Americans gave the whole world when they were still in slavery was a gift so great that it is now almost the only reason many foreigners still like us at least a little bit. That specific remedy for the worldwide epidemic of depression is a gift called the blues. All pop music today – jazz, swing, be-bop, Elvis Presley, the Beatles, the Stones, rock-and-roll, hip-hop, and on and on – is derived from the blues.

A gift to the world? One of the best rhythm-and-blues combos I ever heard was three guys and a girl from Finland playing in a club in Krakow, Poland.

The wonderful writer Albert Murray, who is a jazz historian and a friend of mine among other things, told me that during the era of slavery in this country – an atrocity from which we can never fully recover – the suicide rate per capita among slave owners was much higher than the suicide rate among slaves.

Murray says he thinks this was because slaves had a way of dealing with depression, which their white owners did not: They could shoo away Old Man Suicide by playing and singing the Blues. He says something else which also sounds right to me. He says the blues can’t drive depression clear out of a house, but can drive it into the corners of any room where it’s being played. So please remember that.

Foreigners love us for our jazz. And they don’t hate us for our purported liberty and justice for all. They hate us now for our arrogance.

When I went to grade school in Indianapolis, the James Whitcomb Riley School #43, we used to draw pictures of houses of tomorrow, boats of tomorrow, airplanes of tomorrow, and there were all these dreams for the future. Of course at that time everything had come to a stop. The factories had stopped, the Great Depression was on, and the magic word was Prosperity. Sometime Prosperity will come. We were preparing for it. We were dreaming of (more…)

Lollapalooza
Aug 3 - 5, 2007

It’s officially announced tomorrow, here it is, one day early, go Chicago!

Pearl Jam, Daft Punk, Ben Harper, Muse, Iggy & The Stooges, Modest Mouse, Interpol, My Morning Jacket, Satellite Party, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Snow Patrol, The Roots, Patti Smith, Kings Of Leon, The Black Keys, Regina Spektor, Spoon, Lupe Fiasco, TV On The Radio, Pete Yorn, G. Love, Paolo Nutini, Amy Winehouse, LCD Soundsystem, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Silverchair, Femi Kuti, Yo La Tengo, Hold Steady, Jack’s Mannequin, Stephen Marley, STS9, MIA, Slightly Stoopid, Blonde Redhead, Sparklehorse, Sean Lennon, !!!, Blue October, Son Volt, Motion City Soundtrack, Polyphonic Spree, Peter Bjorn & John, Silversun Pickups, CSS, The Rapture, The Wailers, Roky Erickson, Tapes N Tapes, Heartless Bastards, The View, The Cribs, The Fratellis, Ghostland Observatory, Tokyo Police Club, Rhymefest, Soulive, Cold War Kids, Annuals, Fields, Electric Six, Jim Noir, Elvis Perkins, Sam Roberts, Black Angels, Charlie Musselwhite, Aqueduct, Juliette & The Licks, Dios, Viva Voce, David Vandervelde, Los Campesinos!, Chin Up Chin Up, Ryan Shaw, Colour Revolt, Satin Peaches, Illinois, Arckid, Mickey Avalon, The 1900s, Bang Bang Bang, Bound Stems, High Class Elite Carey Ott, Matt Roan

I’ve managed to wade through the allergenic haze that generally envelops me around this time of year to hopefully make a cogent post. If it turns out that I’m writing nonsense I blame the histamines.

One of the things that lulled me out of my fog was the strikingly hard driving rhythms of Surface2Air. You might have caught one of their remixes in a previous post covering the SXSW hijinks of the brilliant Le Castle Vania. I’d love to tell you more about them but little can be divulged about this LA duo without severe retaliation. I know they are closely associated to the infamous Le Disko in LA. I know that they have junglistic roots which are clearly apparent in their drum programming skills. If I say any more I risk a strategic missile strike on my apt here in Chicago. You’ll just have to wait til the next time they bestow some gold on the ménage, to learn more. The fine gentlemen were kind enough to spare me so that they could send us not one but two excellent and exclusive sources of massive distortion. Let me warn you that these aren’t doodley disco wanks; they’re 10 megatons of immense stomping beats that should only be used while wearing proper safety gear.

This first track is so new and exclusive that didn’t even have a name when it was sent it to me. And much to my surprise, they put me in charge of naming it!! So I’ve now listened to it all the way through roughly 40 times to try and gather what the tune is all about. As I listen, I imagine myself in a party wit huge anti-aircraft guns perched atop 30 ft. tall stacks of speakers surrounding the DJ booth and mortar shells are exploding all around me every time that kick drum hits. People are dropping left and right and the earth is vibrating to the point where I can barely hold my footing. Suddenly, a chunk of smoldering flak catches me right in the chest (right around the 3 minute mark) and knocks the wind out of me. Thankfully I’m wearing my FLAK JACKET. So, yeah, that’s what the tune is about.

Surface2Air - Flak Jacket

The second track, “Bully”, is a driving yet melancholy electro stormer that resolves with a nice little chopped up string quartet breakdown. I’m not sure where this one will fall in my set yet and that’s the reason I really enjoy these guys. Their tunes aren’t just formulaic, peak time pop anthems. They really make an effort to combine elements to create unusual melodic interplay but manage to avoid making the tunes too complex for the floor.

Surface2Air - Bully [mp3][track] *sorry guys, no more download. The tune is gunna be signed.

PS I’m well aware that Flak generally explodes in the air and that Flak Jackets are generally worn by pilots but historical accuracy is not a necessity on a fucking music BLOG.