Get your boxing gloves on, Soundclash Championships (formerly “The Official UK iPod Battle”) are back and arming themselves with some serious players!! M.I.A. and friends currently hold the Official Soundclash Champion title, who will take the crown in 2009?!

8 teams – 8 MP3 players – 3 tournament rounds – 1 fighting cage – 1 decibel meter

Hosted and refereed by Teki Latex (TTC) and Marawa The Amazing (La Clique), Soundclash is set to take place on Tuesday 9th June, at the Bloomsbury Ballroom, with an amazing line-up ready to get the crowd cheering for their win!!

The way it goes down – Two by two, the teams enter the arena and battle head-to-head: 4 tracks per team, from their MP3 players. As the stakes get higher, so do the screams of the crowd. Judging is simple: the winning team makes the crowd scream loudest. The decibel meter decides. Teams can’t win without digging deep in the crates and thinking outside the box. Expect crazy hype, fancy costumes and high tension!!

LINE-UP –
Crookers & Friends
Sinden, Martelo, Toddla T & Oneman
Girlcore & Shingai (Noisettes)
Bugged Out! & Very Special Guests
Zezi Ifore (C4 / FBC), MistaJam (1Xtra/BBC), Raf Daddy & Brains
Todd Hart (Dalston Oxfam Shop) & Matthew Stone (!WOWOW!)
Skill Wizard & Shitting Fists
Nova Dando, Henry Holland, & Anna Trevelyan (Dazed)

DJ’s – Radioclit, Broken Hearts

Team Hostesses – Fancy Chance (Alternative Miss World 2009), Scottee, Alice W*A*M*P, The-O, Gateaux Chocolate + More

20% of ticket sales goes towards a charity chosen by the previous year’s winning team. This year’s Soundclash will go to Youth Action International, to help support the building of a much needed school in Liberia, as chosen by M.I.A. & Friends. Everybody wins!

Since it’s festival season all around the globe and we’re all about throwing FREEEEEE things at you, Trash is giving out tickets to 2 lucky winners. One for you, one for your guest!! It’s easy, just email us at: trashmenagerie AT gmail DOT com with Soundclash Champions in the subject line. Are you ready to rumble?!?!

CONGRATS to our WINNERS – Emily Goddard and Natasha Tan!!!

To get you geared up, Martelo sent over a mixtape he did for Trinotron back in January. Still a good one!!

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The Champion Mixtape — Martelo x Trinitron Volume 1

Info –
Tuesday, 9 June 2009
Time: 8pm – 2am
Venue: Bloomsbury Ballroom, Victoria House, Bloomsbury Square, London, WC1B 4DA
Tickets: £12 via Resident Advisor £15 on the door

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Late of the Pier & The Whip are giving fans 100 tickets to their Chicago show Sat, April 11th!

CLICK HERE TO ENTER & WIN!

Deadmau5, Crookers, Late of The Pier, The Whip Zebo, Willy Joy, Brad Owen, Loyal Divide, Noise/Floor Crew

Saturday April 11th 17+ /21+ to drink – 7:00pm – 3:00am $21.00 in advance Congress Theater 2135 N. Milwaukee Ave. – Chicago, IL

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Already a sensation across the Atlantic, The Whip have marked their destination for the US, swaggering over across the pond in true Mancunian fashion to release their debut album “X Marks Destination” March 3rd.  The  album is an incredible mélange of beats and melodies; The Whip craft songs with shimmering synths, clanging chords and lingering melancholy, but are also ready and willing to tackle prickly power ballads as well as the dance floor detonators.

In 2008, the band they have played some of the year’s biggest festivals worldwide,  including Glastonbury, Leeds/Reading, V Festival, Fuji Rocks, and Electronic Beats to name a few.  After a killer showing this past SXSW and CMJ, The Whip will be back in the States this spring taking by storm Austin, Miami’s WMC and every city in between, showing the US how Manchester parties.

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The Whip – Blackout – Ashley Beedle Remix

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The Whip – Trash – Crookers Remix

“Manchester outfit The Whip are redefining genres one party at a time.” – Nylon

“[The Whip] are the most authentically rave outfit I’ve heard out of this whole pseudo-movement. They anchor their spiky bleeps and strobing synths with a surprisingly strong rhythm section, consistently pulling the groove forward … Best song: “Blackout.” – Pitchfork

“Best Thing to happen to dance music….mutilatingly brilliant.” – NME

“The Whip certainly is great at what it does…they energetically raze your dancing ass with jacking beats carried on pop-perfect rock” – Filter Magazine

“X Marks Destination charges out of the gate with “Trash,” a snotty, exhilarating dance-rock rave-up”- SPIN

“If the White Stripes are the new Led Zeppelin, The Whip is the new New Order.” – Wired.com

“A band that puts out beautiful music… they whip out theinfectious dance-rock like it ain’t no thing, channeling all kinds of gritty and dirty in “Trash.” – CMJ

“While others in this evolving genre have failed to leave you with anything other than an electronic mash up of melancholic throwback 80ies crap, The Whip whips mainstream synth rock back into the sound of the future.” – BPM

“this record is a Joy Division/New Order-worshiping surprise that should have you dancing or nodding your head should it go near your club or iPod. Whip it good.” – Under the Radar

“The Whip are pros at getting a party started and fueling it to the late hours of the night.” – Tripwire

“The new Manchester is the old Manchester on steroids.” – SOMA

“[The Whip] have embraced flux as inspiration, moving between dark goth-pop-shard of which still linger in the ruffneck club hit “Trash” – and gritty proto-techno (on the exquisite album closer “Dubsex”) with astonishing ease.”-  Remix Magazine

“On X Marks Destination, The Whip combine jittery ballads with cathartic techno disco, gemmed up in blistering bass beats and biting acid sounds. Stadium rave rock is finally here and it all begs the question – should I hug or pummel my partner on the dancefloor?” – URB

“The Whip is a delicious foray into everything good about disco-infused, electro-rock” – YRB Magazine

“X Marks Destination feels like a discotheque found on a distant planet; wistful songs like “Save My Soul” and “Sirens” conjure the lost-in-space vibe of classic new-wavers” – Alternative Press

THE WHIP NORTH AMERICAN TOUR DATES

MARCH
20 Austin, TX @ SXSW – Filter Mag Party @ Cedar Street w/ Late of the Pier, Razorlight, White Lies
20 Austin, TX @ SXSW @ 508 House (DJ Set) w/ Rye Rye, Cool Kids, Late of the Pier, The Crystal Method, Michael Smith
21 Austin, TX @ SXSW – British Embassy Showcase @ Latitude 30
21 Austin, TX @ SXSW – Insiders Showcase @ La Zona Rosa – w/ Pendulum, The Crystal Method, Diesel Boy, Kaskade
24 New Orleans, LA @ House of Blues – w/ Pendulum, The Crystal Method
27 Miami, FL @ WMC – Ultra Music Festival @ Bicentennial Park
28 Miami, FL @WMC – Anthem Magazine Party @ Gansevoort Hotel
30 Atlanta, GA @ The Earl *
APRIL
1 New York, NY @ Bowery Ballroom**
2 New Haven, Ct @ Yale Afro-American Cultural Center**
3 Brooklyn, NY @ Studio B*
4 Philadelphia, PA @ TLA*
7 Washington, DC @ 930 Club*
8 Boston, MA @ Paradise*
9 Montreal, Canada @ Les Saintes**
10 Toronto, Canada @ Kool Haus*
11 Chicago, IL @ Branded – Congress Theater*
14 Seattle, WA @ Chop Suey**
15 Portland, OR @ Dantes**
16 San Francisco, CA @ Pop Scene**
19 Las Vegas, NV @ Hard Rock
20 Los Angeles, CA @ Spaceland**
21 Los Angeles, CA @ Cinespace **

*with DeadMau5 and Late of the Pier
**with Late of the Pier

http://www.myspace.com/thewhipmanchester

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Photo credit: RO

Two bouncing hours taking in Hip Hop, Dubstep, Italo-house, Fidget, Ghetto and Techno, from Italy’s Phra & Bot for Radio 1’s essential mix, 21 June 2008.

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Crookers Radio 1 essential mix

Betin Cocek – Intro Ca-Ca (PIC)
Erykah Badu – The Healer (Motown)
Nostalgia 77 – Seven Nation Army (CDR)
Dabrye – This Is Where I Came In (Ghostly)
Dabrye – Game Over (Flyin Lotus mix) (CDR)
Mr.Oizo – Z – (Ed Banger)
Portishead – Machine gun (Island)
Ratatat – Bird Priest (XL)
CSS – Lost (Dj Mehdi rmx) (CDR)
Syl Johnson – Different Strokes (Twilight Records)
Benga – Pleasure (Tempa)
Rusko – Mr. Chips (CDR)
Alter ego – F**kingham palace (Modeselektor rmx) (Klang Elektonik)
Radioclit – Secousse (Mental groove)
Radioclit – Secousse (Crookers Spino mix) (Mental groove)
Crookers – Il Buono (Mad Decent)
Tommie Sunshine – Limit Of Your Mind (Nic Sarno Remake) (CDR)
Crookers -Il Cattivo (Mad decent)
AC/DC – Thunder (CRKRS 10 min re-fix) (CDR)
Plastikman – Spastik (CDR)
Jape – Floating (D.I.M. Rmx) (CDR)
Chromeo – Fancy Footwork (D.I.M. Rmx)
Chromeo – Fancy Footwork (Crookers Rmx)
Boy 8 Bit – The Things That Freeks Are Made Of (CDR)
Kw Griff – The Force (CDR)
N.E.R.D. – Everyone nose – Phra re-fix
Outlander – Vamp (CDR)
Crookers – Il Brutto (Mad Decent)
Crookers – Il Brutto (Bloody Beetroots Il Bruttissimo rmx) (Mad decent)
Alan Braxe – Addicted (CDR)
AC Slater – Jack Got Jacked (Jack beats remix) (Palms Out Sounds)
Don Rimini – Let Me Back Up (Crookers Tetsujin mix) (Mental groove)
Crookers – Sveglia (Southern Fried)
Crookers – Knobbers (Southern Fried)
Duke Dumont – Hoy (Dubsided)
Math Head – Get Hype (Trouble and Bass)
Math Head – Turn the music up (Trouble and Bass)
Kid Cudi – Day’n'night (Crookers mix) (Fools Gold)
Busy P – To protect the entertain (Crookers mix) (Ed Banger)
Crookers – Big Money Comin’ (Southern Fried)
Yelle – Ce Jeux Acapella (CDR)
Foamo – Rockerman (CDR)
TJR – Sonic Chronic (Lee Mortimer mix) (CDR)
Bumblebees – Rio (Crookers mix) (Modular)
Crookers – Magic Bus (Southern Fried)
Crookers Ft Kid Cudi – Embrace the Martian (Southern Fried)

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PURCHASE HARD TICKETS

PURCHASE WILL CALL TICKETS

“BRANDED”
Deadmau5, Crookers, Late of The Pier, The Whip,
Zebo, Willy Joy, Brad Owen, Loyal Divide, Noise Floor Crew
http://www.branded-up.com

17+ /21+ to drink – 8:00pm – 3:00am
$21.00 in advance
Congress Theater, 2135 N. Milwaukee Ave. – Chicago, IL 60647
http://www.congresschicago.com
FULL TICKET INFO

Links
Deadmau5, Crookers, Late of the Pier, The Whip
Zebo, Willy Joy, Brad Owen, Loyal Divide, NoiseFloor Crew

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*All posts will follow the ‘TM Best of 2008 Readers Poll’, until it is over.

Trash Menagerie best of 2008 Reader Nomination’s are in, now it’s time to have your final say and vote on the top Artists, Tracks, and Events of 2008. Vote 3 times in each category, be sure to check back to see how the votes are being cast, poll’s close New Year’s Eve @ 12:00am.

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