Was it me, or was this weekend the first warm spring weekend of the year? Either way, I spent a lot of time on patios with drinks, listening to tunes. Warm weather just calls for new stuff... so here's some new stuff for yr walkman.
adventures in fake dj'ing: fake dj battle edition...
Carpet flew in to visit us a few weeks ago. Not surprizingly, a sizable strip was torn off Vancouver and things were generally bonkers. One afternoon, the girls went out and did some wedding related shopping, leaving me and Carpet back at the apartment... we did the only sane thing we could think of: opened a couple bottles of wine, and started to collaboratively fake dj on the laptop. The premise was that we'd take turns mixing... one of us would select the record for the other to play, and then we'd rotate. This started out all well and good with some old school hip hop, but then we started trying to make things challenging for each other by introducing some sickly sweet pop music. After realizing we were yelling at each other about which Britney Spears track was most appropriate for our mix, we agreed to class up/round out the later half of the set with some delicious French house. The result, shockingly, is a pretty solid please-all party mix, (fake) battle scars be dammed.
Whoomp, here's the set list:
Wrecks-N-Effect - New Jack Swing Armand Van Helden - Hot Butter The Beatnuts - Watch Out Now M.I.A. - Come Around Janet Jackson - So Much Better De La Soul - A Rollerskating Jam Named Saturdays Alan Braxe and Fred Falke - Intro Crystal Waters - 100% Pure Love Rihanna - Please Don't Stop the Music Britney Spears - Piece Of Me Ready For The World - Oh Sheila (T-Wrecks Remix) Count & Sinden - Beeper (A-Trak remix) The Knish Hit Squad - Modjo vs 90210
This is kinda awesome, in a lo-fi sorta way. Note: you've got to hit the ENTER to pick - and - hit the number keys at the same time to play notes. Kinda frustrating if you don't.
How retarded meta would it be if I played the tiny this version of Guitar Hero on the Wii web browser?
Whoa... whoa... whoa, internet tastemakerz. Can we please stop with all the comparisons of Santogold to M.I.A? Aside from collaborating with the same group of musicians/producers and their mutual love of bad, ill-fitting, 80's inspired neon fashions, they're nothing a like. It's a lazy comparison and it's gotta end. Especially considering how not so great M.I.A's last disk was.
If anything, Santogold's sound is reminiscent of Karen O with hints of No Doubt-era Gwen Stefani (weird, I know). The dancehall/electo stuff that everyone fixates on is fairly limited on her brand new s/t disk. So please get over it, and actually start listening to the album... because it's really good.
Hi, I'm not dead, just exhausted... thus, the temporary lack of posting.
Not sure what's killed me, either JWC 2008 (7 courses of food!), or this nasty flu I'm battling (not being able to hear at all in one ear = awesomeville). Either way, I've got a few mixes, a new mixtape, and bunch of poorly edited musings to post, but for now I nap and you watch Radiohead on Conan earlier this week. I realize that since this clip is over 24 hours old THE ENTIRE INTERNET has seen it 5 times, but I can get over how wonderfully sublime the performance is. Choice.
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