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speaking of djs, i saw dj assault + dj funk at primavera last week. for those who dont know, they are pretty much the biggest names in ghettotech. alan braxe (who co-produced ‘the music sounds better with you’) was overrunning by about 10 minutes after several requests by dj assault to cut the record. alan braxe continued to ignore him, so dj assault walks over, pushes him into a speaker stack, and then grabs the mic and shouts “IM FROM DETROIT HOMEBOY”. the crowd cheers, onstage scuffle ensues, and then assault comes back and drops some 150bpm techno with songs about licking pussy over the top.

jergins, Thursday, 12 June 2008 23:06 (fifteen years ago) link

cross-post on "there's no need to ask how this dj got his name"

lxy, Thursday, 12 June 2008 23:08 (fifteen years ago) link

http://www.beigerecords.com/media/images/assault/marqee.gif

amon, Friday, 13 June 2008 00:32 (fifteen years ago) link

ahaha

jergins, Friday, 13 June 2008 00:37 (fifteen years ago) link

http://media.thedailyswarm.com/images/headlines/bonnaroo-lsd-bust_top.jpg
Murfreesboro police arrested a man they believe intended to sell 1,000 tabs of LSD at Bonnaroo, which started Thursday.

jergins, Friday, 13 June 2008 18:02 (fifteen years ago) link

LAME

jergins, Friday, 13 June 2008 18:02 (fifteen years ago) link

lol murfreesboro. my grandmother used to go there all the time why i don't know.

lxy, Friday, 13 June 2008 18:06 (fifteen years ago) link

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3055/2576669252_6f4dfc37f6.jpg

jergins, Saturday, 14 June 2008 19:11 (fifteen years ago) link

ok not new news but i like this excerpt

Just after 9 p.m. on a hot and muggy night in late July 2005, a pair of chartered tour buses pulled up to Vision Nightclub & Lounge on Atlanta's Peachtree Street for a party celebrating the release of Young Jeezy's major label solo debut, Let's Get It: Thug Motivation 101. Yet when the bus doors opened, it was not Jeezy who emerged but members of the storied ATL street crew Black Mafia Family (BMF).

Dressed in head-to-toe black, the hundreds-strong posse strode toward the megaclub in almost choreographed unison. "They moved like one mass, one organism," remembers one of the party promoters. "I had never seen anything like that." The club had expected BMF in force—they were even comped on the guest list as "+100"—but it was not prepared for an army. Panicked promoters hustled BMF through a special side entrance, VIP treatment that even Jay-Z, Ludacris, Fabolous, and Slim Thug did not receive.

Once inside, BMF awed partiers by tossing fistfuls of cash as they awaited Jeezy, who, though not officially a crew member, was considered "family." And by the time he arrived, just after 1:30 a.m., the crowd was stoked and ready to receive him as A-town royalty.

jergins, Saturday, 14 June 2008 19:19 (fifteen years ago) link

snoop's wife got a dui

jergins, Sunday, 15 June 2008 07:44 (fifteen years ago) link

she looks like bettie lennox

jergins, Monday, 16 June 2008 06:43 (fifteen years ago) link

music business types go to school in Murfreesboro

step hen faps, Monday, 16 June 2008 06:56 (fifteen years ago) link

YOUNG BUCK MORELIKE YOUNG BROKE

dude even cried on the phone to 50 cent

jergins, Wednesday, 18 June 2008 21:49 (fifteen years ago) link

there's gonna be a gish tour where they play all of gish and i'm going to have to go

jergins, Thursday, 26 June 2008 18:58 (fifteen years ago) link

I am checking in on the Dorothy Doring CD, Southern Exposure. Has it made its way to your desk and have you had a chance to review the CD? If so, does it fit your programming?

Vocal jazz with a strong supporting structure doing a nice mix of styles and eras that results in an enjoyable listen.

Learn more and hear a sample at
http://www.karionpresskits.com/dorothydoring/dorothydoring.html

C. Michael Bailey, All About Jazz

The keys to the success of Southern Exposure are right there from the start: Torkanowsky deft arrangements, his light touch accompaniment on piano, combined with Doring's smooth, crystalline vocals with some occasional bluesy grit—that get to the emotional core of a bunch of familiar tunes. Bluesy grit? Doring's take on Joe Greene's “Don't Let the Sun Catch You Cryin’” is about as soulful a sound as you'll hear. For contrast, “A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square” features Doring's voice with a lighthearted bounce, with tenor saxophonist Derek Doucet blowing like an extremely cool cat over guitarist Steve Masakowski's crisp comping. Gershwin's “Nice Work If You Can Get It” bubbles and pops with Michael Skinkus' percussion behind Doring's straightforward vocal treatment of the tune. “What the World Needs Now,” from the Bacharach/David songbook, is given a modern sparkle and insistent drive by Torkanowsky, and, again, a soulful delivery by Doring. The set closes with Abbey Lincoln's “Throw It Away.” It's a dark, late night sound, a artist alone as the crowd thins, singing accompanied by a plaintive saxophone from somewhere deep in her heart. Beautiful!

Thank you for your time and let me know your thoughts on the Dorothy Doring CD, Southern Exposure

step hen faps, Monday, 30 June 2008 14:57 (fifteen years ago) link

Rick Ross Denies Foxy Brown Engagement Rumors: 'I'm Married To The Money'

jergins, Thursday, 10 July 2008 23:22 (fifteen years ago) link

i figure yall have been following the young berg story

the mother of his child writes:
The update on the child support issue is that, no, I have not received any child support as of yet. He is now in the rears of $28,157.66.

btw http://www.mediatakeout.com/ u are a treat

jergins, Wednesday, 16 July 2008 20:30 (fifteen years ago) link

Jessica Simpson Booed By Country Fans, Who Don't Buy That She's 'Just A Girl From Texas'
"Just because she's dating Tony Romo it doesn't make her country," Mike Rodriguez, 31, told the paper. "She doesn't fit in with country, and I'll have to drink a lot of beer to sit through her concert."

jergins, Monday, 21 July 2008 19:26 (fifteen years ago) link

Fergie cast as prostitute in musical: 'I'm definitely going to be a sponge on set'

jergins, Thursday, 31 July 2008 18:28 (fifteen years ago) link

linky

jergins, Thursday, 31 July 2008 18:29 (fifteen years ago) link

two months pass...

mia's ovaries work fyi

jergins, Monday, 13 October 2008 16:51 (fifteen years ago) link

i would impregnate all of them

jergins, Monday, 13 October 2008 20:23 (fifteen years ago) link

wait, not the guys

jergins, Monday, 13 October 2008 20:23 (fifteen years ago) link

what was the question?

jergins, Monday, 13 October 2008 20:24 (fifteen years ago) link

which is pregnant?

lxy, Monday, 13 October 2008 20:39 (fifteen years ago) link

maya arulapragasmatic

jergins, Monday, 13 October 2008 22:01 (fifteen years ago) link

wait how'd you do that you didn't even see her the last time she was in town

lxy, Tuesday, 14 October 2008 00:48 (fifteen years ago) link

http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e160/lupinesoul/lupeYedmore.jpg

jergins, Tuesday, 14 October 2008 00:52 (fifteen years ago) link

beyonce wants to be known as sasha fierce now
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2008/oct/24/beyonce-sasha-fierce

jergins, Friday, 24 October 2008 19:43 (fifteen years ago) link

is that her tranny name or what

jergins, Friday, 24 October 2008 19:44 (fifteen years ago) link

four weeks pass...

Loverboy Inducted Into Canadian Music Hall of Fame

jergins, Sunday, 23 November 2008 23:58 (fifteen years ago) link

two months pass...

coachella lineuup announced. here are the best of the three days

FRI
gu boratto
m ward
morrissey

SAT
hercules and love affair
calexico
glass candy
tinariwen

SUN
my bloody valentine
M.A.N.D.Y.
senastien tellier
jr boys
supermayer

jergins, Friday, 30 January 2009 18:32 (fifteen years ago) link

good ol senastien tellier

max max max max, Friday, 30 January 2009 19:22 (fifteen years ago) link

dont forget http://i41.tinypic.com/ngvh48.jpg

max max max max, Friday, 30 January 2009 19:23 (fifteen years ago) link

i want to go

lxy, Friday, 30 January 2009 20:41 (fifteen years ago) link

most of those people should come up our way

jergins, Saturday, 31 January 2009 06:00 (fifteen years ago) link

tinariwen in the desert would *--~~magical~~--* though

jergins, Saturday, 31 January 2009 06:00 (fifteen years ago) link

good ol senastien tellier

― max max max max

i just wrote good ole lingbert on another thread and now i see this,
!!!

estela, Saturday, 31 January 2009 13:52 (fifteen years ago) link

that's not even true, i wrote dear ole lingbert.

estela, Saturday, 31 January 2009 13:56 (fifteen years ago) link

subtract!!!

estela, Saturday, 31 January 2009 13:57 (fifteen years ago) link

ole!

Lingbert, Saturday, 31 January 2009 16:18 (fifteen years ago) link

also, tinariwen sound great while driving around seattle in the snow on your way to lxy & jergins' house

Lingbert, Saturday, 31 January 2009 16:19 (fifteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

Maya Arulpragasam, aka M.I.A., and her fiancee, Exit frontman/Green Owl Records founder Benjamin Bronfman (formerly known as Benjamin Brewer), who welcomed their first child, a boy, into the world on Wednesday, February 11, 2009. Naturally, M.I.A. announced the birth via MySpace:

T O F A N S F R I E N D S O N F A M I L Y . M Y B A B Y I S H E R E
HAPPY VALENTINES!

SUNDAY NITE I CA M E HOME FROM THE GRAMMY'S STILL IN THE MOOD TO PARTY , I COUDA EASILY GONE OUT BUT I WENT HOME INSEAD , LUCKY I DID!! COZ MY EARLY STAGE LABOUR KICKED IN AROUND 2 AM .

MY BABY WAS BORN WEDNESDAY , HE IS HEALTHY , FINE , BEAUTIFUL AND THE MOST AMZING THING EVER ON THIS PLANET, OF COURSE IM HIS MUM!!!

ME AND BABY ARE PUTTING OUR TOUR DATES FOR 2010 TOGETHER
AND MAKING MIX TAPES
AND FIGURING OUT A WAY TO BREAK OUT OF THE HOSPITAL !

HOPEFULLY THE WORLD IS BEEN TICKING ALONG AND I AINT MISSED MUCH!

C U SOON ,

AND MY BABY BOY SAYZ HIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

jergins, Sunday, 15 February 2009 09:43 (fifteen years ago) link

three weeks pass...

"Music's not bad, you know it's a mood thing you sleep to, til she opens her fucking mouth."

!!!

lxy, Thursday, 12 March 2009 03:33 (fifteen years ago) link

that's the kind of old person i'm gonna be

lxy, Thursday, 12 March 2009 03:33 (fifteen years ago) link

haha so lolsome so awesome

jergins, Thursday, 12 March 2009 03:45 (fifteen years ago) link

one month passes...

The Breeders are striking out on their own. No longer signed to 4AD, they'll self-release Fate to Fatal, their new limited edition EP, on April 21 (with a Record Store Day pre-release). It's a completely D.I.Y. affair: The band members did everything themselves, from contracting with the vinyl pressing plants to hand-screening the covers.

http://pitchfork.com/news/35091-kim-and-kelley-deal-talk-new-breeders-ep-self-sufficiency-and-the-pixies/

lxy, Saturday, 18 April 2009 02:57 (fifteen years ago) link

Cómeme is a label with its working base in Buenos Aires, founded and run by Matías Aguayo and Gary Pimiento. Starting with spontaneous and itinerant parties on the streets of the argentinean capital, parties called "bumbumbox" (which later would travel through huge parts of latinamerica), Gary, Matias and their musician, dancer and dj - friends felt the necessity of running a label that represents the sound that resulted from this way of partying. The sound they created, in collaboration with friends from Buenos Aires, Santiago, Asuncion, is a result of collective work and a common esthetic search between different cities...

http://kompakt.fm/blog/ANFjoqNoSLtZ

lxy, Monday, 20 April 2009 19:11 (fifteen years ago) link

bumbumbox:

Matias Aguayo, Eugenia Caloso, Pablo Castoldi and Gary Pimiento do the bumbumbox in the city of Buenos Aires, and sometimes abroad, takin their boomboxes to a public space where together with invited friends and passer-bys a spontaneous party is celebrated. The music comes from an mp3-player connected to the soundsystem. It features dj sets from friends all over the world, who prepare their short sets at home and send them to us via internet. these sets are placed in the heart of our party. Each boombox, loaded with 10 batteries, the adventure of taking a public space, makin friends thru dancing and enjoying music are the ingredients of these parties, which celebrated in daytime or during the night, take place beyond the entertainment business. Some of the bumbumbox sets were done by: Dj Máximo Bondino (Noruega), Christian S. (Cologne), Matías Aguayo (París – Buenos Aires), Vicente Sanfuentes (Chile), Djs Pareja (Buenos Aires), Diego Morales (Santiago, Chile), Korkut Elbay (Cologne), Mikhail (París), Mauricio Rebolledo “Alvin” (playa del Carmen, México), Roccnes (Hamburgo). And we have also featured sets by classics such as Ron Hardy, Daniele Baldelli, Larry Levan, Bobby Q, Steve Hurley, Timmy Regisford, Grand Master Flash, Alexander Robotnic, Bobby Konders which we have selected.

http://www.myspace.com/bumbumbox

(it's the best myspace i've seen. not saying much, i know, but still.)

lxy, Monday, 20 April 2009 19:16 (fifteen years ago) link

sounds neat. i want a spontaneous party w/ matias aguayo.

jergins, Monday, 20 April 2009 19:30 (fifteen years ago) link

i know me too!

lxy, Monday, 20 April 2009 19:33 (fifteen years ago) link

http://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idUSTRE53M20B20090423?feedType=RSS&feedName=lifestyleMolt

TOKYO (Reuters) - Media helicopters hovered overhead and photographers camped out in front of Japan's top talent agency on Thursday after one of television's cleanest-cut stars was arrested for public indecency.

Tsuyoshi Kusanagi of the pop group SMAP was found drunk and naked in a public park in Tokyo in the early hours of the morning, his agency said in a statement. He was alone and shrieking at the top of his voice, media reports said.

"What's wrong with being naked?" he demanded of a police officer who tried to question him after receiving a complaint about the noise, Kyodo news agency said.

Kusanagi, 34, shot to fame almost 20 years ago as a member of SMAP, the popular boy band whose five members have gone on to monopolize Japanese TV screens in everything from drama to variety and even cookery shows.

The slender Kusanagi is seen as perhaps the most serious of the five, known for his acting skills and fluency in Korean, which brought him fame in South Korea.

"He has such a clean image," one woman told commercial broadcaster TBS. "He doesn't seem like that kind of person."

But Thursday's incident risks damaging the commercial juggernaut of SMAP, whose members, especially heart throb Takuya Kimura, are popular with advertisers.

Corporations including Toyota Motor Corp said they were pulling commercials starring Kusanagi.

Even Communications Minister Kunio Hatoyama expressed anger, because the actor was the face of a government campaign to get the public to switch to digital television.

Kusanagi's agency, Johnny & Associates, a big name in the Japanese entertainment world, issued an apology.

"We apologize deeply for the trouble and worry caused to everyone, especially his fans," the agency said in a faxed statement, adding that it would make a further announcement on Kusanagi's future career.

Tokyo police declined to comment on the case.

jergins, Thursday, 23 April 2009 22:34 (fifteen years ago) link

we could probably find some good listening here

http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/SV

lxy, Friday, 24 April 2009 22:41 (fifteen years ago) link

http://kompakt.fm/blog/M7gvOkf7YUnM

lxy, Wednesday, 29 April 2009 20:03 (fifteen years ago) link

good catch. i always forget about RA podcasts. i should just sign up and get them auto

jergins, Wednesday, 29 April 2009 20:17 (fifteen years ago) link

ya, and/or subscribe to kompakt's reader

lxy, Wednesday, 29 April 2009 20:19 (fifteen years ago) link

mixtapes: http://noncollective.com/

lxy, Sunday, 3 May 2009 22:54 (fifteen years ago) link

http://soundcloud.com/robbabicz/babicz-news2009-mix

lxy, Sunday, 3 May 2009 23:38 (fifteen years ago) link

justus has a new release: http://kompakt.fm/releases/don_t_go

Oops he did it again... following his very own tradition of creating one modern disco monument after the next, Köhncke again does the splits between past and future, kitsch and avantgarde, German precision and total lunacy. "Don't go" is nothing short of another instant classic. The highly infectous hook, the breakneck bassline and these mind-boggling moments, when you can feel Justus' fingernails gently scratch your cortex... 
On the flipside ex-Closer Musician Dirk Leyers surprises us with a deeply pounding remix of "(It's gonna be) Alright", one of our big faves off Justus Köhncke's recent album "Safe and Sound". Leyers slingshots the original in the middle of the mainfloor without giving up a cent of the originals' soul. 



lxy, Monday, 11 May 2009 19:29 (fourteen years ago) link

look at this list of mutek podcasts

http://www.mutek.org/podcast

lxy, Sunday, 17 May 2009 19:54 (fourteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

another article about matias aguayo's new label and his bumbumbox parties, plus i'm downloading the mix right now.

maybe it'll be better than the last one.

http://www.factmagazine.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2655&Itemid=98

lxy, Tuesday, 2 June 2009 18:18 (fourteen years ago) link

can we listen to that tonight?

this band wavves, i'm not into them, but i guess they played a terrible show at primavera sound in spain last week. well now the truth as to why has come out:

"I'm sorry to everyone who has put effort into this and to everyone who supported me. Mixing ecstasy, valium and xanax before having to play in front of thousands of people was one of the more poor decisions I've made (duh) and I realize my drinking has been a problem now for a good period of time."

jergins, Tuesday, 2 June 2009 23:29 (fourteen years ago) link

yes, it's all loaded!

whoa.

lxy, Wednesday, 3 June 2009 00:51 (fourteen years ago) link

http://dossierjournal.com/music/the-freewheeling-of-yo-la-tengo-in-paris/

lxy, Thursday, 11 June 2009 02:06 (fourteen years ago) link


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