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

!!!

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

haha so lolsome so awesome

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/

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

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.)

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

i know me too!

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.

we could probably find some good listening here

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

http://kompakt.fm/blog/M7gvOkf7YUnM

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

ya, and/or subscribe to kompakt's reader

mixtapes: http://noncollective.com/

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

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. 



look at this list of mutek podcasts

http://www.mutek.org/podcast

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

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."

yes, it's all loaded!

whoa.

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