01 February 2010
Brodinski Dropping A New Gingy Track
On Saturday Brodinski came through Toronto and showed the city a good time. Listen to the vid on the left for a little preview of the Gingy and Bordello track “Vaporizer.”
(Probably a better audio experience than visual. I can barely tell that the lens cap is off.)
19 January 2010
More Proof 3 Year Anniversary Party Videos
For those who couldn’t make it or missed out, I had the opportunity to capture a good portion of footage at the 3 year Anniversary Party. Good vibes all around with great people. For those of who made it out on Friday night, you may see yourself being caught on video where I’ve posted a bulk of footage here
11 January 2010
Pixel Force: Left 4 Dead
Well folks, after 20-plus years of faithful service, my beloved NES has finally broken down. Fortunately, I can still keep my Nintendo-thumb strong through the reams of new games being developed by the small but dedicated 8-bit community. The latest to come to my attention is Pixel Force: Left 4 Dead, which re-imagines one of the biggest games in recent memory as if it had come out in 1986. Needless to say, I’m addicted.
Get it here.
05 January 2010
In The Garage: T.E.R.
In just two short years, Toronto garage punk label Telephone Explosion has made quite the name for itself, releasing records that combine the raw, primitive 60s sounds of garage bands like The Seeds and The 13th Floor Elevators with the raw, primitive 80s sounds of punk bands like The Cramps and Pussy Galore.
With releases from Holy Cobras, Teen Anger, Ty Segall and the mighty Demon’s Claws, the label’s discography reads like a “what’s good” (as opposed to “who’s who") in underground rock, but my favorite release of theirs comes in the form of a 7” from Quebec-ers Le Kid & Les Marinellis, which in a perfect world, would have a place in every jukebox in town.
04 January 2010
Videodrome #12354:Tippen Ein
Crap on these kids all you want, but my high school had the same audio/visual equipment, and I never made anything as awesome as this video.
(Thanks Alex)
02 January 2010
2010: The Year We Made Contact
It’s 2010, and once again music has become ghettoized. Rock is rock, House is house, Noise is noise, Pop is pap and Hip-Hop was garbage this year.
In the early part of the decade, I had high hopes that the word “genre” would be eliminated from the dictionary, and for a brief couple of years, it seemed as though it had been. The good news is that we have another early part of a decade upon us. As someone once said at another beginning of another decade, “Let’s Push Things Forward”.
16 December 2009
RA podcast: Guillaume & The Coutu Dumonts
The ex-pat Canadian Guillaume, now living in Berlin (heard this story 1000 times?) is the latest to take a spin on the Resident Advisor podcast. Interestingly enough, Guillaume is not a DJ in the traditional sense, and usally only performs his own songs in live sets. This being a wonderful exception. Check out a very interesting look into his roots as a electronic house/techno producer.
RA.185 Guillaume & The Coutu Dumonts
Guillaume & The Coutu Dumonts - Night in Kage MP3
via (Curb Crawlers)
11 December 2009
Dré-Bans: Outsider Mix
In anticipation for Saturday’s More Proof party, here’s a little mix from Dré-Bans.
Download here:
Dré-Bans — Outsider Mix MP3
Tracklist:
CFCF - Letters Home
The Clash - The Call Up
Trus’me - W.A.R. Dub
Cazals - Life is Boring (Runaway Remix)
Spoon - Don’t You Evah (Dré-bans edit)
Soundhack - Plage
Bronnt Industries Kapital - Objects & Purpose (M.A.N.D.Y. & Booka Shade Remix)
Pixies - Wave of Mutilation
DJ. T - Dis (Solomun remix)
Flora Cruz - Let the Sun Shine out (vocal dub)
Fred Falke - Chicago
Eli Escobar - Glass House
04 December 2009
Creative Use: Beam Me Up
Let me be real for a second: I’m kind of a bad blogger ‘cause up until now, I’ve been saving all my best tunes for myself to DJ. Well, maybe it’s just the holiday season, but I feel like being less of a Hoarder from now on. Here’s an edit of Raymond Scott that came out early in the year on the tiny Creative Use edit label release thing. Look forward to more stuff from me in the new year.
