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Trash Menagerie
Revolution Number 9

This is what Trash Menagerie was throwing down during the month of September. Features, interviews, parties, and plenty’a mix and MP3 download. We’re snuggling in for the busy month of October. Have you started thinking about your Halloween costume yet? We’re looking for ideas, so please hit us up and let us know if you’ve got any. Last year we gave you a heads up on how to MAKE YOUR OWN DAFT PUNK COSTUME. Hipster Runoff offered up a bit of inspiration, “WTF SHOULD I B 4 ALL HALLOW’S EVE”, But is it “ok” to be a Justice this year, if you were a Daft last year?

A truly scary option, the United States Vice Presidential Republican
Candidate and current Governor of Alaska – Sarah Palin.

Hmm, I guess she didn’t get understand the memo regarding last year’s Halloween Party. It was a Nordic theme. Looks like she still won anyway, even though she didn’t really come close to qualifying.

Sarah Palin 7 Months Preggers “I can hide my belly in a sexy, yet sophisticated, little black business suit.”

Goodness, her belly is HUGE, she looks like she’s going to pop any day now, right?

This is what Demi Moore looked like when she was seven months preggers . . .

Photo: Vanity Fair

Sarah Palin’s Witch Doctor . . .

Other potential options – “Sarah Palin Mayor of Meth”, “Sarah Palin Miss Alaska”, “Sarah Palin Soccer Mom”. Wow, and to think, the election isn’t even over yet, we’ve still got a few weeks to go . . . goodness, i’m sure we’ll have so many more choices to choose from. Maybe i’ll pull off one of those “couple costumes,” and we can go together as “Foreign Palin Policy“. One of us will be Russia, and the other Alaska, and we’ll stand on opposite sides of the room and say “I can see ya over there, behave yourself!”

“Sarah Palin Miss Alaska”

Anyway, Sarah, this song is dedicated to you . . .

Disco Villains – Move Bitch
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TRASH MENAGERIE SEPTEMBER FEATURES

NEW MIX – TALIESIN “VIRTUAL LIGHT”
2008 End of “Summery”
Division Kent – Gravity in Your Face
Dskotek Emerges From the Rabble of LA
Why Republicans Should Go Down!!!
Bloggers Beware!
Bass Welterweight Kanji Kinetic
Revolver Disco
On A Mission
ROW ROW FIGHT THE POWAH
London Airwaves Festival Line-up Announced!
The BOX is ON
This Juan’s for You
Sarah Palin Beauty Queen
Diesel 30th Anniversary Parties!
Mystery Jets – Half in Love with Elizabeth – Delorean Remix
The Presets & The Aria Awards – They are like . . . GRAMMY’s, YO!
Midnight Juggernauts – Into the Galaxy – DANGER Remix
Charlie Ash
Miss OddKidd – Don’t Be Afraid To Sweat – Remixes – Drop The Lime & Goldielocks
Salem – Dirt Video
Rewind Chicago 1990’s Rave – Hardcore Jungle
Uproot Andy-The Great Migration
Spitzer’s – Rainy winter in Sydney
New Madlib Album & J Rocc Podcast on Stones Throw
Death Set Live at Studio 1087 pt 1 of 2
FOOLS Remixed GOLD
The Rapture !K7 Mix – Unmasterd
Crying Blood Ties in VV Brown, Holland, Weatherall, Death In Vegas, !!!
Little Boots – Meddle – Designer Drugs Remix
Yo Majesty Makes it Clap
Hold On! Hot Chip Touch Too Much
PLAYBACK – Episode 1 – Andy Butler – Hercules and Love Affair
Krudmart-Steve Kream’s Autumn Love Mixtape
Hey! Hey! Its Hey Champ!
MSTRKRFT – Fist of (oh my) God Tour
Micachu live at DURRR
A Black Hole is Opening
Bang! Bang! Eche!

TRASH MENAGERIE SEPTEMBER MIXES

Bite This! Robotic Mix From Montreal’s DJ Spaz
Little Boots – Computer Fairyland Mixtape
A Very Vanilla Mix from London’s Lesser Panda
4AM Jess vs. Proper Villians
Ruffneck DJ Set @ Brockout! Chicago, 1995
DJ Trace w GQ & 5-0 @ Psychosis – Chicago, 1995
Uproot Andy – Guacharaca Migration
The Toxic Avenger Live at Piknik Electronik – Montreal
Jon Hillcock Xfm Mixes

TRASH MENAGERIE SEPTEMBER LISTINGS

NY’s New Favorite Place to be on Friday’s
N.A.M.E. festival 2008 – Edition n° 4 – France
NewPop + Dj Mehdi, Local Hero – Chicago!
MSTRKRFT Fist of God Tour
Somewhere In The Universe There Must Be Something Better Than Man’ 2nd Birthday – Brighton
Sinden at LOVE 9/20/08!
POP MONTREAL 2008 FINAL LINEUP ANNOUNCED
Atmosphere on Tour & on Kimmel
2008 DECIBEL FESTIVAL : FULL LINEUP & PROGRAM ANNOUNCED
Italian Invasion – LA

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MF Doom photo credit: XXL Magazine

The new Madlib record is due to drop week, its been eagerly anticipated by many, on a couple of tracks, he collaborated with MF Doom – identity unknown, because he wears a mask, yo. Mind you, he was wearing a mask before Toxic Avenger and these other various electro guys. Why do artists wear masks? Are they superhero’s or evil villains? Are they hiding? Or making an artistic statement? I suppose they each have their own reasons. Me personally, I would not wear a mask, Especially if you’re DJ’ing, one, it would get really hot under there, and two, it would be really difficult to see the knobs and sliders on the mixer. (Or the keys on your I-Pod or computer.)

Madlib also collabed with J Rocc on the record, and J Rocc just did a new podcast for Stones Throw, you can check out here – J Rocc Podcast.

Mos Def & Madlib – collabing in ‘09 on “Ecstatic”

Toxic Avenger – MASKED
Bloody Beetroots – MASKED

David and Giulio of Pulling Teeth hit me up sometime back in February with their track “New Era“. Needless to say I had been slammed with so much music, I completely forgot about it! Well time has passed and I’m glad they gave it another go and sent over their latest tune “Mask“.

Birthed in the summer of 2006 in the city of Milan, Pulling Teeth describe their style as “a mix of hardcore heavy ’stumpers’ and electro giant distortions all fucked up with fidget bass monsters and hand clappings,” adding, “after 2 years of distortion disco we needed to express ourselves through our own songs, even if we didn’t know how the fuck a multi-tracker worked, but we kinda managed to learn and this is the result.”

And a fine result it is. “Mask” delivers with the perfect amount of bounce and some bloopy bass that leads into an excellent guitar break along with the THX sound – which I recognized from the intro of “19H11″ by Danger. I had no idea what that specific sound was called until I asked my acoustician bf who gave me the answer straight away. Certainly comes in handy.

As Pulling Teeth continue to produce and Dj around Europe amongst friends who’ve all found their way into the spotlight – The Bloody Beetroots, Crookers, 3 Is A Crowd and Congorock – the time has come for this duo to shine!!

Pulling Teeth – Mask

The much hyped ranks of hard electro continue to swell with fresh talent eager to join the brigadiers of the new noise (see: BOYS NOIZE, SEBASTIAN, JUSTICE, THE BLOODY BEETROOTS, THE TOXIC AVENGER, CHARLIE FANCLUB, LILLICA LIBERTINE, THE PROXY, CHEWY CHOCOLATE COOKIES, BUSY P, FELIX CARTAL et al) who continue to purvey their head-banging dance music to an increasingly evangelical congregation of binary head-bangers. One such new talent seeking to preach the hard electro gospel is 23 year old Adrian Glen, aka ADO! of Dundee, Scotland.

Sighting the release of the seminal PRODIGY album “Music For The Jilted Generation” in 1995 as probably the single most important influence on his musical tastes, Adrian has been in hardcore music making mode ever since. He got his hands on his first pair of decks at age 16, blagged a loan to get his first laptop at 21 and now 2 years later the first clutch of raucous ADO! atom bombs are ready to drop and they are nothing short of incendiary.

But, the proof of the pudding is in the eating as they say, so sample on us the living dead stomp of “Ctrl*Alt*Defeat” and serrated disco ball miasma of “Shit Talking DJ’s“, both available for download below. Currently back in his sweatbox home studio slaving away on more ADO! carnage, this August Adrian will also launch ‘Ctrl*Alt*Defeat‘ the club night at Dundee’s Reading Rooms. When asked who he’d most like to collaborate with Adrian mentioned those BLOODY BEETROOTS, so if you’re listening boys…

Ado! – Ctrl*Alt*Defeat

Ado! – Shit Talking Dj’s

Ado! – Flash

Ado! – Red Pepper

The Bloody Beetroots and Crookers aren’t the only stars to come out of Italy these days. Milan’s 3 IS A CROWD are quickly creating a buzz with their production, as well as edits and remixes for the likes of Crookers, Congorock, Fagget Fairys, Yelle, Armand Van Helden, Amari and others. Things are lookin’ mighty good for them as they’re currently collaborating with Larry Tee, Bryan Cox, Chew Fu Phat and have several releases due to come out on a few labels!

Consisting of three members, Alberto, Francesco and Ivo, 3IAC are influenced by just about everything that is good in music today – house, fidget, crunk, electro, funk, breaks, broken beat and jazz. If you spend your time watching the music that is covered on the blogosphere, more than likely you’ve heard past 3IAC remixes for Congorock, “Exodus (3IAC Back to Home Remix)”, as well as the Fagget Fairys, “Uzela (3IAC Crunch My Crunk Remix)”. Both caught my attention and are fine examples of the kind of work these guys are making. Their latest, “Take It Back”, proves it!

So what is in the pipeline for 3IAC? Francesco clued me in on the latest happenings, along with how this Italian trio came to be and two of their latest remixes.

“News about us: We are finally about to sign a contract with RuNT Records for a release; the name of the EP will be “Amarillo EP” and will feature 3 tracks. We have received a proposal for a couple of releases on A New Hope Records; We still have to release our EP for Italian Indie label Mozzarella Records (this release will feature our tracks “Bullshit”, “Guns”, “Almighty Vibes” and a remix) and of course we are waiting for our remix for Bryan Cox’s “Where You At?” to come out on his Crux Records label. We are collaborating with his blog Crux Da House as well and we are working on several tracks including a remix for Larry Tee!

About gigs: We’ll be playing alongside Congorock in Rome the 23rd of May, with the Crookers the 1st of June and in Berlin the 6th of June and we have a gig in London in July that still has to be confirmed.

Start of 3IAC: “In 2004 we started the project 3 Is A Crowd as a dj collective where we could express ourselves and our different musical tastes both in djing and producing electronic music. We used to play different styles on the decks including techno, electro, hip hop, breakbeat and some drum ‘n’ bass too!

Things began to change after a Crookers Edit we made in 2007 that made us become a little bit popular in the blog world. So at that time we were interested in this new sound clash between house, hip hop and techno and that’s why we started working hard on our own tracks as well as remixes and edits: we started to rework different acts and artists such as The Chemical Brothers, Fagget Fairys, Congorock, Yelle, Amari etc.

We believe that every remix we have done so far has its own personality and a “3IAC” flavour: We are trying to make our production recognizable but at the same time we are putting different ideas around to make people enjoy what we do. The Tamborzuda remix we made starting from the original acapella, received compliments from Daniel Haaksman from Man Recordings. Other supporters of our music have been Drop The Lime/Curses!, Dj Fame, Dj Orgasmic, Dj Donna Summer, Scuola Furano, Blatta & Inesha, Bryan Cox, Larry Tee, amongst others.

“Now we are trying to get inspired from other styles: One of our two new remixes for the Italian indie rock band, “Perturbazione“, (”Nel Mio Scrigno Pianissimo Remix”) is showing our interest for a clash between electronic music and real played instruments that we would like to develop in the future, alongside our dance production. Anyway, we hope that we will make people dance and bounce around the globe! Make sure to check our MySpace for more news and don’t forget to take a listen to our special mixes!”

older, still a favorite

Congorock – Exodus (3IAC Back To Home Mix)

3 Is A Crowd – Take It Back

Alphabeat – 10000 Nights of Clubbing (3IAC Remix)

Perturbazione – Nel Mio Scrigno (3IAC Fortissimo Remix)

It has been a while since the last feature on The Toxic Avenger and the timing couldn’t be better as he has sent over his latest grinder of a track, “Defeat!“, as well as some exciting updates!! To say that the Toxic Avenger has been working, would be an understatement. He has been relentless at gigging in the U.S. and Europe and still finding time to create new music, remixes and prepare for his forthcoming EP and LP.

Having just finished off 2 new remixes, Ladytron’s “Ghost” and one for South African group Playdoe, (side project of Spoek of Sweat.X + Sibot), Toxic is set to release his EP, 26th of May on Boxon Records. The EP will contain 4 brand new songs. “Bad Girls Need Love Too“, with remixes of the track by Les petits pilous and Leonard de Leonard. The 4th song is titled ” __________”. (that is the name) For now, you can have a listen to all of them at Toxie’s Myspace.

With a cast of talent collaborating on the video for “Bad Girls Need Love Too”, it looks to be a visual masterpiece! Styled by esteemed Parisian fashion designer, Jean-Charles de Castelbajac, (also known as JC/DC), who has dressed some of our favorites, including M.I.A. and Yelle, we can expect to see some colorful pop art inspired fashion!

The above image is a video-clip of The Toxic Avenger – “Bad Girls Need Love Too”, created by Mathieu Danet of the talented Born To Film team. The video was shot in Paris on 7th of April, and is due out at the beginning of May. The EP photo cover was created by Hélène Giansily and the cover design by Anem. The model in the video is a young French girl named Solweig.

Toxic is also working on his LP, which he is hoping to have out sometime in late 08′ off iheartcomix. If you happen to find yourself hanging out in Aix, South of France, the 28th of June, festivities will ensue with the likes of: MSTRKRFT, The Bloody Beetroots, Vicarious Bliss, Les petits pilous (LIVE), Toxic Avenger, Strip Steve, Uffie (LIVE), Paraone (LIVE) and ER2 (LIVE). Looks to be a swell time!

The Toxic Avenger – Defeat!

Our favorite Felix Cartal is back (has been back but delayed on getting this up) again cranking out yet another blistering remix of an equally blistering tune from Nordic sensations, Mr. Miyagi. The original is a chunky, driving banger which bears a striking resemblance to some of Boys Noize’s best. Upon hearing the original some time ago, I wonder how one could improve upon it, but Felix took it to the next level of rawness adding a more driving drumline and sliding, distorted leads. This one is a necessity in any of your traditional distorted electro sets.

And for all of our Chicago readers, be sure to check out the free Scion show this Wednesday the 23rd at my favorite club, Smartbar featuring the likes of Felix Cartal, LA Riots and The Bloody Beetroots. Be sure to RSVP here and get there early. If you can’t get enough of Felix he’ll be back in Chicago again in less than a month to play the venerable Dark Wave Disco.

Mr. Miyagi – Pick Your Poison (Felix Cartal Remix)