COLT 45 & VICE PRESENT: “The Tales of Colt 45 Tour” featuring / DROP THE LIME

VICELAND TALES OF COLT 45

Monday June 2 – Los Angeles @ King King
Wednesday June 4 – Atlanta @ Drunken Unicorn
Thursday June 5 – Chicago @ The Hideout
Friday June 6 – Philadelphia @ The Barbary
Saturday June 7 – New York @ Glasslands

Drop The Lime/Curses! Live @ Coachella 2008 Photo: caesarsebastian.com

Bolt for a Colt, and get ready for NYC Bass Heavy Champion, Luca Venezia aka Drop The Lime aka Curses! to hit a US city near you. And catch him while you can, as he’ll be dashing off across the pond for a summer filled with dance floor madness, that includes the UK Festival circuit. With remixes dropping on Mad Decent, Greco Roman, Savant Guard, and collaborations with the likes of Herve, Sinden, Switch, Trevor Loveys & Fake Blood as the collective “Machines Don’t Care”, we’re delighted to nab a track to share with you from Luca’s upcoming “Like Thunder EP”, dropping July 4th on his very own “Trouble & Bass” imprint.

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Drop The Lime – I Love NY – Trouble & Bass

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It wasn’t until recently that I discovered the impressive MIT, out of Deutschland. The Cologne based three piece has been around for three years and recently released their debut album, ‘Coda‘, 17th of March on Half Machine Records.

MIT consists of three bright players (Edi Winarni, vocals, Felix Römer, drums and programming, Tamer Özgönenc, additional drums) producing a wide range of beats. Their music is hard to encapsulate, as it encompasses a noisy post-punk, electro-tinged, minimalistic, futuristic sound that is simply fucking good. So good that it doesn’t matter that you won’t understand what the hell they’re singing about (unless you sprechen zie Deutsch).

The gates of opportunity for the young group appeared not far from their hometown, in the United Kingdom. With the usual progressive attitude, the UK have welcomed MIT with open arms and heightened their visibility, playing more frequently in and around London vs their own city. The guys have toured alongside several groups including the short-lived UK band Test Icicles, Jeans Team out of Berlin and recently wrapped up touring with UK favorites, Hadouken.

MIT’s music commands you to go beyond the lyrics and cross the language barrier. You’ll end up on the other side – right where they want you. Have a listen to more from MIT at their MySpace and pick up their excellent debut LP, ‘Coda‘!

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MIT – Park

An older video of their track “deine eltern”, when their music was a bit ‘harder’. Taken from their 2007 7 inch ‘goodbook‘ (Japan only), via Rallye/Klee.

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Once again, Weezer raises the bar for pop culture-relevant music videos–this time paying grand homage to the biggest and brightest Internet celebrities with their video for “Pork and Beans.” Among what the band describes as “familiar YouTube faces,” include Tay Zonday, Daft Hands, Harder Bodies, Coke/Mentos lab guys, and (my favorite) the Peanut Butter Jelly Time banana. According to NME, it was directed by Mathew Cullen. I’m still trying to figure out whether or not Miss South Carolina’s lip movements are CG…posted just a couple days ago, it’s already gotten well over 2 million hits–I wonder if anyone else is wondering the same thing.

Weezer’s new Self-Titled “Red Album” goes on sale June 3rd, 2008.

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If you haven’t been checking our MIXES section, GET ON IT!! New mixes up by UK’s Andy George, as well as a fantastic JOTS mix – both courtesy of No Love Lost Records!! Things must be good if the smiley man himself, Mr Kissy Sell Out tracks you down outside your party (see above video and BBC censoring the ‘Fucked From Above 1985′ tshirt worn by Jaymo). Nice one boys. Also, two mixes from Berlin’s Lars Moston were posted!

Speaking of good music, here’s a mish mosh of a few things I’ve been enjoying lately… Erhm, the UK, they’re just so fucking ON IT. Seriously. I was about to begin a rant about the music that prevails in the US, but I’ll save it cause you already know. A bit of Australia thrown in for some added goodness!

The latest Foamo remix of Primary 1’s “Hold Me Down” really hits the spot. “Very Vampyr” by Australia’s teenagersintokyo does as well. Partyshank bring plenty of scream, bleeps and blips – more please. The greatest thing I’ve come across lately is a superb German trio, MIT. Excellent, excellent!! Where have I been?! More on them later. Drums of Death is truly fascinating – you can read more about Drums of Death in a feature done by one of our new contributors, Terence Teh on Dazed & Confused. We can’t wait for him to get down!!

Speaking of new contributors, we’ve added on Sirhan who made his debut, “Charly Greane” a few posts down. Love it or hate it. We also snagged Lee of No Love Lost Records who is posting under the alter-ego, BristolBoi – makes sense as that is where he’s from! So yeah, loads of good and exciting things ahead, along with a full on Trash Menagerie party coming to a city near you!! Have yourselves a great drunken bank holiday weekend!!

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Meet Lars and Duncan. Like most twenty-somethings with a dream, these two came together in the 24-hour party capital of Berlin, exploring and making music come alive in the quintessential heart of Europe.

Lars Moston was born near the city, with German and British parents. He has impeccable English. As well as DJing weekly in Berlin’s finest clubs, Lars produces under a few collaborations: one half of Moston & Malente and one third of The Killergroove Formula. His style ranges from loud banging techno to unabashedly kicking electro.

Duncan Whiteley, who goes by many names, was born near Manchester and spent a lot of time recently living and falling in love with Berlin. By day, he’s busy managing a well-known record label, by night he’s DJing (most recently with RZA & Cut La Roc) and pursuing his own, more avant-garde electronic music under this moniker, leaving his real name quite alone. Scary, fearless music with a penchant for the darker sensibilities.

Together, they’ve kicked around a few tracks and the results are rather interesting to say the least.

The boys peel off the distortion from the Raveonettes “Dead Sound” until you hear only the lyrics. Take away the scratchy pedals and the humming-bird insistent drum machine, and you’re left with a sweet song. Not what I’d normally expect, but it’s better than the original!

Going for a deeper vein, the guys dangerously fool around with Finnish grindcore Huoratron’s “$$Troopers” and the outcome is more what I expect from these two: squelchy arcade game blips and heavy beats produced with a common love of twisted, fucked-up dance music.

It’s early days for this production duo but I’d say the early signs are good ones and I’m definitely looking forward to the rest of the tracks I know they have hiding underneath the Chinese carpet in Lars’ living room.

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Huoratron – $$ Troopers – Lars Moston & Duncan Whiteley Remix

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Raveonettes – Dead Sound – Lars Moston & Duncan Whiteley Remix

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Is this an Italian or Tronik Youth takeover? Must be both. In a quest to saturate my brain of all things Tronik Youth, I came upon yet another take on “LaughCryLiveDie“, by Italy’s EATER. If, like me, you are yet to tire of it, then your ears should be pleased.

Eater began making music when he was about fourteen. He played bass in a punk/hardcore band, switched to guitar and picked up some speed. As all ‘kids’ should have the joy of experiencing, Eater went on to discover ‘raves’ and electronic music. Fascinated by the sounds, he was led to try his hand at MIDI sequencers, eventually remixing and production. He’s on a fast track heading to your player, so stay tuned for more Eater, as we’ve got new music sent over by our dear Swiss friend Stefan, who helps keep us on our toes!

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Tronik Youth – LaughCryLiveDie (Eater Remix)

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