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Santogold - Radio One - Sound Check @ WMC

Check, check, one, two, one two . . .

WMC - fun, but hectic! How many parties can you fit in during one week?!?!?

Santogold performed live on Annie Mac’s Radio One BBC show on Thursday, here is behind the scenes peek at sound check - 10:00 AM, not an easy one to pull off let me tell ya! She went live at 5:30pm later that day to quite an enthusiastic crowd : )

Santogold performing L.E.S. Artists Live

More Radio One WMC highlights & footage

Romanoff are back in Brooklyn after playing two shows in Rome and have set the wheels in motion for their NYC/European summer tour. As promised since the last feature, Beards, Balls and Romanoff, they’ve returned with their latest tune, “Zombie Bite” and tell us the “track is an homage to a 90s trance joint that we love”. I love the bit half way through where the music is going along, then they toss in that Waaoo! party sounding sample. Cool, I like this track, it’s a good time. If you’re in Brooklyn tonight and you fancy heading out for some action, stop by “Ohhhhh Snap”, where Romanoff have teamed up with a few other acts such as Loosh Shus and Neon Coyote. Addy: 3rd ward. 195 Morgan - Bushwik.

Romanoff - Zombie Bite

Photo from The 2007 Armory Show, credit: David Willems

Stuck in New York, bombarded by drunk text messages from Miami–what’s a party goer to do? Well, not to fear, WMC may have sucked a good number of the city’s DJs, promoters and speaker huggers down to South Beach this week–but there’s still plenty going on.

In fact, maybe you should give your ears a rest and check out the art fairs happening all over the city. You’ll likely catch me at the Carl Berg booth of the LA Art Fair to check out a couple pieces by my pal, the talented Francis Ireifej (he makes his pieces using lasers n sh*t–I’m serious).

If you still need a bit of music on the itinerary, check out some modern dance infused with traditional Japanese performance art by the Saeko Ichinohe Dance Company

As previously mentioned here on Trash Menagerie, Todos Santos is playing tonight at Savalas. They’ll do their live set in the earlier part of the evening, followed by DJ sets all night long.

Saturday night’s alright for scoring free wine at the Williamsburg Armory After Hours Celebration–where the streets of Williamsburg become flooded with art goers and alcohol as both flow in and out of the galleries in the neighborhood until 11pm.

After that, theDanger and friends will be throwing an afterparty at Supreme Trading. They’ll have some art-party elements you might come to expect–e.g., trapeze artists and stilt-walkers. But they’re throwing in an extra something for you music nerds with Vintage DJ (pictured above). The guy uses old record players as turntables, and plays a swell mix of classic funk, soul and rock n roll to boot!

If you can’t make it out to Williamsburg on Saturday, Passerby in Chelsea is worth checking out. Like all great, unpretentious bars in the city, it’s closing down to make room for some real estate development. According to NYHappenings, they’re opening up the back room and Rub n Tug will be DJing.

Beyond listening to the music that arrives to the Trash mail, I like reading the bio’s that often accompany it. Especially those sent from other countries where the translation is way off and sounds like a garbled mess in English. They make me laugh. Then you get the pretentious, tangled verbage that you can’t understand and don’t bother reading. Inject something like, “FEMME are definitely not pussies” and I’m kinda interested.

Formed about two years ago, FEMME have been playing sold out basements in their hometown of Montreal, and spreading their sound to Ottawa, Toronto, NYC and beyond. They describe themselves as, “electro-glam-rock that are quite in touch with their feminine side – A dark, romantic, twisted dancefloor blackhole, where Nine Inch Nails and N-Sync get it on and spawn a wild and fresh electro, rock infused jam”. Well I don’t know much about N-Sync – Clearly they’ve got their personal take on the eighties coldwave and boy-bands.

Their first EP release, “Bathtub Clashes“, out 22 of April on Saboteur Records, contains two original FEMME tracks, “Bathtub Clash” and “Crimes and Nightcalls”, plus remixes (and 2 exclusives to Trash!) by Cosmo, Rawalpindi and CFCF (+ CFCF Remixes). On “Bathtub Clash”, they sing about random, obscure things like giant bathtubs, placebos, infection, and black water. Nothing has to make total sense these days, especially when there is a nice vocal behind. Cosmo and CFCF give the tune two totally different sounds.

FEMME are currently honing their art with live sets in the U.S. and Canada, and are in the process of recording their first full album, set for release in early 2009 on Saboteur. We may never know if Julien and Sidney of FEMME really are pussies, but I like their attempt at showing their ‘macho’ side, “We’re NOT pussies!!!!!!” (Guaranteed they’re going to be hearing the pussy thing repeated to them over and over if that bit stays in the bio.)

FEMME - Bathtub Clash

FEMME - Bathtub Clash (Cosmo Remix)

FEMME - Bathtub Clash (CFCF Remix)

There are several reasons why I am quite fond of HEARTSREVOLUTION:

1. The obvious – Their unique D.I.Y. vision
2. They have icecream trucks full of delicious, international candy / mixtapes / icecream / tshirts!!!!!
3. After doing my 1st feature on them, Adventures with Heartschallenger, to show their appreciation, they sent me LMTD edition VINYL + stickers – Gasp!!!!
1 GLOW in the DARK split 6″ with Crystal Castles and a WHITE HEART shaped C.Y.O.A. single!!!
4. Their graphic designer, KATE MOROSS, is one of my favorites!!!!!
5. The 2nd write-up, I introduced the excellent, Heartsrevolution - C.Y.O.A. video! Shortly afterwards, they sent over their totally fantastic C.Y.O.A. tshirt + some cool REVOLUTION buttons!!!!!!!
6. Their “Switchblade” release out the 21st of April is a 10″ COTTON CANDY PINK VINYL with HOLOGRAPHIC LASER FOILED SLEEVE and NEON INNER PRINT!!!!!!! LMTD edition of 500!!!! (a must have)

HOW FUCKING ACE IS THAT?!?!?! Thanxx to everyone at HEARTSREVOLUTION!!!!

Finally, the anticipation is over!! The brand new HEARTSREVOLUTION - “C.Y.O.A.” EP on iheartcomix Records, will be available for ALL to get their hands on, the 15th of April!!! Once again, the 12″ includes remixes by Brodinski, Lazaro Casanova, CFCF, Lauren Flax and Dan Oh.

The Flossy duo out of the midwest, have remixed their version of “C.Y.O.A.”, as well as another superb remix that came out after the contest, by Local Hero and Angel Alanis!! It’s too bad this one wasn’t submitted in time, because I believe it’s one of the strongest out of the entire lot. I like how the focus wasn’t just on the vocals, rather the entire track. It’s got that extra bit of bang to it and totally kicks off at 1:29! Play it loud, play it on the dance floor, prepare for destruction and a HEARTSREVOLUTION TAKE OVER!!!!!

Heartsrevolution - C.Y.O.A. (Flosstradamus Remix)

Heartsrevolution - C.Y.O.A (Local Hero & Angel Alanis Remix)

“HEY YOU, YEAH YOU! I don’t give a FUCK what YOU do… What you do… I’m gonna do my thang and she gonna do her thang, we gonna do our thang, so FUCK YOU!” Nicely put, keeping to a calm, yet haughty demeanor – I like that.

If you’re one of the many that have escaped to Miami for the WMC, then you’ll have your pick of seeing either LE CASTLE VANIA at the JAKUL8 party tonight at Indra with DJ FUNK, DROP THE LIME, ACID GIRLS, OCELOT, LOCAL HERO, LADY FOURSQUARE, etc. or the URB party featuring, KILL THE NOISE, LA RIOTS, TOMMIE SUNSHINE, DJ HELL and more! Both parties have excellent lineups and chances are, you just might hear “HEY YOU”, in the mix!!

Dylan, Le Castle Vania, has been super busy touring around planet earth and continuously working on his masterpieces, including the upcoming “Bombs”, remixes EP, for London’s Scanners off Dim Mak Records. Whoever snagged one of the sampler CD’s at SxSW – lucky you!! He also has remixes for Treasure Fingers, Grum, Walter Meego, Shinichi Osawa (with Lies in Disguise), as well as an EP of originals in the works. Keeping to his signature dancey, grinding disco punk, catchy synth leads and electro style, LCV has remixed another solid tune by Kill the Noise, “Hey You”. Love the build up on this one – perfection!! Thx Dylan!

Kill the Noise - Hey You (Le Castle Vania Remix)

Hello Trash Menagerie readers! Welcome to my first post, in a series I’ll be calling, “THE MORE TRASH YOU KNOW“. I’m kicking things off with 80’s British Pop sensation, Dexys Midnight Runners.

Last week, I received an email from my friends at Buffet Libre asking me for a song suggestion for the next mix they were compiling, “Verbena Rewind 2 - Double Portion” (you can hear it on our mix page). They wanted a retro song, something from the 80’s, “totally awesome idea, like, oh my god!” I was all about it. Dexys Midnight Runners instantly popped into my head. I chose the band and their song, “Come On Eileen” for a few reasons. One - *where Dexys derived their name from, two - it was a big hit, and mainly, and most important - I LOVE their song and video for “Come On Eileen“. I posted a bit about them back in January - Monday’s - Blue, Happy, and Despised, where I was reflecting back to being a kid, what I went through to get tickets to go to my first concert (Duran Duran), how I discovered and was turned on to new music, and how I used to rip music off MTV using my “boombox.

“Come On Eileen” - Dexys Midnight Runners

Enter - “THE MORE TRASH YOU KNOW” . . .

Dexys Midnight Runners were formed in 1978 in Birmingham, England, naming the band after Dexedrine, a brand of dextroamphetamine popularly used as a recreational drug among Northern Soul fans at the time. * The midnight runners referred to the energy the Dexedrine gave, enabling one to dance all night. Their first single, “Dance Stance” was released on the independent Oddball Records and reached number 40 in the British charts, but the next single, “Geno” – about Geno Washington, released on EMI – was a British Number One in 1980.

Their debut LP - “Searching for the Young Soul Rebels“, was released in 1980 and became a massive success. Their follow up LP, “Too-Rye-Ay” was released in 1982. The first single, “The Celtic Soul Brothers“, was mildly successful, but “Come on Eileen” followed and became a number one hit, in both the UK and the US. Subsequently, “Come on Eileen“, went on to be the biggest-selling single of 1982, and in 1983, Dexys took home the award for “Best British Single” for the song at the BRIT Awards.

Their follow-up “Jackie Wilson Said (I’m in Heaven When You Smile)“, (Van Morrison cover) reached the top 5 in the UK singles chart. They performed the song on the UK cult comedy show - The Young Ones, (great freaking show) as well as BBC’s, Top Of The Pops. The Top Of The Pops performance, went down as infamous, as it’s broadcast live, and as a prank, one of the show engineers, put up a image of Jocky Wilson, a Scottish darts player, instead of U.S. soul singer, Jackie Wilson.

In 2005, Dexys said they were going back into the studio to make another album. And just as Homer Simpson predicted, in an episode of the Simpson’s, after beating them out and winning the Grammy, “You haven’t hear the last of them!” They’ve recently posted a new track on their myspace.

So folks, that wraps up my first “THE MORE TRASH YOU KNOW“, featuring Dexys Midnight Runners. If anyone out there wants to make me a graphic incorporating “Trash“, into the ““More You Know” bit posted above, I’ll send you something nice in the mail. You can send it to me via our Trash Menagerie Drop Box, attention: AUDIO PIMPSTRESS.

Now I’m off to pack for WMC and while doing so, I’m going to blast “Come On Eileen”. I hope you can hear it loud and clear, coming out of the speakers of my flat, where ever it is that you may be. (Or you can just listen and watch the video above, eh?

To LEARN MORE about Dexys Midnight Runners, visit some linkage:
Dexys.org
Dexys.co.uk

The Black Ghosts are truly a multi talented pair. They’ve demonstrated their aptitude as both an electronic and a rock act, a dance band and a sit-back-and-think band, and had success crossing over to just about every major genre short of mariachi. Now to place the cherry on top, they’ve released a mixtape, thoughtfully named “The Black Ghosts Mixtape” (sorry, not available on cassette….well… unless you record it to tape yourself for authenticities sake). To promote it they have provided us with a mashup taken straight from said mixtape worthy of 2 Many DJs best mashes. Taking Lindstrom’s “I Feel Space” and, as the kids say, “mashing it up” with ex-Simian frontman, Simon Lord’s fun-turned-ethereal vocal from The Black Ghosts laid-back jam, “Something New” (go to their myspace to hear the original). It’s really amazing how Lindstrom’s signature stratospheric sound completely alters the vibe of the original. After downloading this exclusive, be sure to venture out in the interwebs and grab yourself a copy of the mix where all fine digital musics are sold. Oh and rumor has it that the album will be released in July in the U.S. on IAMSOUND Records!

The Black Ghosts vs. Lindstrom - Something New (Galactic Version)