Spring has sprung and apparently spring fever has been scientifically proven. I'm down. Oh and listening to the Blaqstarr videos has got me ready for sure.
Um, wow. Being upfront when Plastic Little was on, I almost got crushed. I definitely did have lots of PBR spilled or poured on me. One of the most incredible shows I've been to in awhile. At first I wasn't sure Broadzilla was a good idea because its usually packed on a normal nite. I think it was worth it. Photos by Yap Snaps.
Every last Wednesday, Josh Wink has a monthly at Fluid that he actually plays at. Its incredible. It continues tonite with Mr. C from the world famous club The End in London. Mr. C also runs the club night and record label Superfreq. Listen to Mr. C dj at The End's 11th bday party here or just down the page at his own night.
The long-standing Space 1026 tradition, which has been in hiatus since 2003, re-emerges with their 2007 Food Show: Kingdom of Magical Extinctions!
Date: Sunday, April 1st, 2007 Time: 6 pm Where: Space 1026, 1026 Arch Street, Philadelphia, PA
In the spirit of a vegetarian chinese restaurant, whose menus are still broken down into categories such as "mock chicken" and "mock beef" at the Kingdom of Magical Extinctions all are invited to participate by making a magical or extinct creature out of food, for display and/or consumption. "Mock Unicorn," "Mock Smurf" "Mock Pterydactyl Wings with Chefs Special Sauce"; the possibilities are endless!
Those interested in preparing dishes for the event are asked to email cperkins[at]space1026.com so she can add your creation to the "menu". And everyone is welcome to experience the spectacular spectacle that awaits!
The Space asks those not contributing a piece to the show to donate 5$ to help cover the costs of the event. Proceeds from the will go towards the on-going development of the Space 1026 Mummers brigade – The Vaudevillains.
To Broadzilla on Thursday at Upstairs at Sals. Doors open at 9. Plastic Little starts at 10, Bonde Do Role goes on afterwards. $1 PBRS 9 - 11. Special surprise guest that will have people bugging out but they're not mentioning who until Thursday. Also, entrance is now $5 instead of the $7 it would have been at Danger! Danger!.
RSVP now by subscribing to the magazine and then filling out the RSVP form. $20 gets you six issues, entrance to the party, free drinks and 100% goes to one of 12 charities of your choice.
I am pleased to report that the Plastic Little video shoot was a blast. Running around in an old hospital is the jump off. Meanwhile there was choreographed dancing, a bit of nudity, pink nurses, lager and even calculus homework. Talking to Max from Free News Projects, he let me know that the video will be ready for release when it hits Japan and he mentioned that the ultimate goal is to have a video remix for each of the tracks on She's Mature. We will be sure to keep you informed of any upcoming video shoots. For now, if you haven't yet, pick up the album at your favorite music store including iTunes and eMusic. Also don't forget about The Remix of The Remix of The Remix, the Plastic Little x Turntable Lab remix contest.
Also, the real point of this post is to mention their show this Thursday at the Danger! Danger! house in West PhillyBroadzilla at Upstairs at Sals. They will be playing with Bonde Do Role, Dave P, Pinkskull and more. For those of you not familiar with Danger! Danger! and the on again West Philly diy house party scene, 34th Street did a recent feature on them.
Located in a quaint residential area, the Danger! Danger! house seems unremarkable on the corner of 47th Street and Warrington Avenue. But behind the unassuming facade is one of the most popular venues of West Philly's burgeoning house show scene. The seven residents, whose history together stretches as far back as middle school, have become seasoned concert promoters. . .
Russell Brodie, unofficial house spokesman and member of in-house band Grandchildren, spearheaded this ambitious project. "I just started inviting bands that I had been hearing a lot about," Brodie said. "It was like trying to put together a regional showcase.
Tickets are only $7, show starts at 8:30 and is all ages.
If you happen to read the Philadelphia Weekly, you will have noticed Jayson Musson's (aka Pack of Rats) new column "Black Like Me". Jayson has a unique writing style and humor that usually has me laughing out loud when I pick up the paper. His humor was responsible for Plastic Little being banned in Vice (temporarily), much of the press releases for Plastic Little and the Too Black for BET series. Here is a snippet from his past column
Listen. R. Kelly can't do no types of wrong. R. Kelly can pee on a thousand little girls on their way to a thousand little Girl Scout meetings and he'll still be a saint in my eyes. If I had a daughter, I'd let him take a shot at her, maybe hoping it'd help me win the Powerball or something. “Go 'head, Kells—aim for her bigass forehead! Don't worry—I'm not going to sue you, dawg. I love you, nigga!” I mean, if Catholics eat Nilla Wafers and claim it's the body of Christ, why can't R. Kelly's piss be of spiritual significance? I'm a flirt.
Check out the first edition of Too Black for BET and his illustrations at his website. Read "Black Like Me" over at the PW, read more ramblings from Musson, Kurt, JonThousand and Amanda Blank at"Fuck Your Blog, Son" (currently NSFW) then head over to the store and choose either Too Black for BET, individual posters from TB4B II, or even receive a daily life affirming quote or haiku.
UPDATE: Plastic Little and Bonde do Role have been moved to Upstairs at Sals for currently unspecified reasons. According to the 34th Street article above, there has been a crackdown by L&I on house party venues. No current facts yet, so we can't quite blame everyones favorite fun smasher.
New video for the Timbaland produced Put It Down featuring Don Vito, Brick City, Shots of Cuervo fucking up my liver, The Naked Cowboy. Yo Philly, You know what it is, Holler at your boy. Redman - Red Gone Wild (Thee Album) out today. Get it at Amazon for 9.99.
You know whats fun? Getting updates from Jay Simplefly and Tommy Up partying on a yacht in Miami saying how much fun they're having eating chicken satay and empanadas while DJ Haul spins and Jazzy Jeff is up next. I'm not mad, its cool. I was just outside without a jacket and it wasn't really that rainy. Oh and at first I didn't think anything was going on, right about now I can't keep up. Plus BaltimoreClubTracks.com mixes are killing it right now.
New video shoot for Plastic Little. Check the press release
Hey friends! On March 25th we will be shooting a music video for the Philly based rap group Plastic Little. The song we are doing is called "Dopeness" which you can listen to hear here.
WE NEED YOU to play a PARTYING HOSPITAL PATIENT!
The basic premise for the video is that, Kurt Hunte, one of PL's MC's is a doctor who dances and raps while making his hospital rounds. We are doing it in the style of an old musical. At the end of the video the patients all come running out and have a dance modern dance party in the halls that ends in a big musical-style pose finish.
We are shooting on SUNDAY March 25th at the Women's Medical College in Roxborourgh. START TIME: 4:00pm END TIME: 9:00pm.
If you are interested please respond to the producer, Duncan Frazier: duncan.mccloud@gmail.com.
We need to know ALL names so we can let the security guards know you are coming.
This is an abandoned hospital facility that is owned by the state and is in various states of disarray. We have permission to be there and it is safe but you still need to be careful.
COSTUME:
Please bring fun party clothes. You will all be wearing hospital gowns over your clothes but certain articles of clothing may make an appearance so please bring your own fun outfits.
DIRECTIONS:
Our location is the Medical College of Philadelphia Hospital 3300 Henry Avenue in Roxborough. We are shooting on the 6th floor. There will be signs marking the way.
Car: It is approximately a 25 minute drive from Center City under normal traffic conditions. There is a parking lot at the hospital to the right of the building we are using.
1.) Take Rt. 76W 2.) Bear right at Roosevelt Expy/US-1 N toward Roosevelt Blvd. 3.) Take the first exit for Wissahickon Ave/S.Hunting Park Ave. 4.) Make your first right at Stokely St. 5.) Go down 1/2 mile to Roberts Ave. and make a right 6.) Turn right at Henry Avenue. 7.) The Women’s Medical College is the second complex on the left 8.) Turn left into the complex and park on the right 9.) The building is ahead on your left.
Public Transportation: The 32 bus goes directly from Center City to the hospital itself. There are stops at Broad and Washington, 15th and JFK, and 27th and Poplar among others. Here is a link to the online pdf schedule
Give yourself about 45 – 60min, of travel time depending on traffic. On Sundays the bus runs every hour.
Cousin Cole & Pocketknife EP: Tougher Than Featherz
Cousin Cole and Pocketknife present Flagrant Fowl 002 "Tougher Than Featherz". We've been continually impressed with Cousin Cole's remixes and mixes and this batch of remixes is no different. You should recognize "Atlantic Records, TI Clearance" right away as this was everywhere way back when all we had was a leaked version of "My Love". Continuing with the rnb flips, there are not 1 but two remixes of Kell's "Ignition". Pocketknife introduces the Pied Piper to Tone Loc with great success on "Wyld Ignition Thang". Meanwhile Cousin Cole's "Ignition Remix Remix" is a Bmore club floor filler that will make you bounce, bounce, bounce. For all the rock fans out there I've heard Jesus & The Mary Chain are reforming, well Couin Cole has brought them to the dance floor with his "Just Like Honey". For these two I'll let Pocketknife explain them "The rework of Suicide's "Ghost Rider" feels like something Carl Craig could have created. On "She's the Star," Pocketknife takes one of Arthur Russell's more subdued cello and voice compositions back to the disco." Listening to all seven tracks and knowing the M.O. of this blog, you would already know that "Bam a Lam" is my favorite track. Cole remixes Ram Jam's "Black Betty" into a Bmore banger that has been killing it in the hands of Scottie B, Cosmo Baker, Sinden and Catchdubs. All in all a fine, fine product that is limited to only 600 vinyl copies. Get yours quick because I heard they're selling fast. PS. You already heard "Bam a Lam" and "Just Like Honey" right?.
Brand new J Dilla tribute mix featuring all Dilla all the time. 20 tracks of nothing but killer Dilla tracks. Far and away, my favorites are the two Ghostface tracks. He was made for those beats. (Whip Me With A Strap was originally called "One for Ghost" on the Donuts album.) Course picking your favorites on this album is like picking favorites when you have kids.
You can determine the fanciness of a hotel by the variety of caution signs it possesses.
Caution: Undergoing maintenance. Please excuse our appearance. Caution: Wet Floor. Watch your step. Caution: Daylight. Avoid looking directly at the sun.
The five star hotels on broad street have caution signs for events that are inadvertible.
Caution: Falling Ice.
There's not a lot of use for that warning. I don't care what kind of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon skills you've got, you're not going to dodge a block of ice falling above your head.
I think the sign should be of a more explanatory nature. It should say:
Double L & El Professor Present Home for Carnival 2
Double L & El Professor are back again with Home for Carnival 2. They've upped the ante from Home for Carnival with over 50 of the hottest soca tracks this time. From El Professor:
If you scored the first one and you think you know what to expect- you have no idea what you are in for and basically how bananas #2 in the series is. The first jawn SOLD OUT at MixtapeOne.com, Turntable Lab, as well as a number of online web sites. Six months later our first mix is still alive and well, as it is currently being bootlegged on eBay and in Japan and Australia and doing business in other countries not in the Western Hemisphere. Given that Soca is a very annualized sound, Double L and I put this mix together AGAIN to represent the best of Soca over the past few years. Nothing less than the biggest tunes here- right up up up to di time. If you don't know much about it, and are looking to get into Soca- this is a great time to get up on some game with a tight mix (for cheap!).
Check the full tracklist here. In Australia available from Jimmy Sings. In Tokyo, available from Moonwalk records. All others Paypal $5 ($7 outside of the US) to ADobson302 {at} aol.com. Both prices include shipping at no additional cost to you- so don't sleep! Please include name, shipping address, and quantity. Prompt shipment is guaranteed.
Pick up Ruff Draft today. Download the 2 x CD / 2 x LP or buy the product and receive a limited edition 45. Philly you can get it at Cue Records. Rest of the world check the stores here.
Films you might want to consider possibly watching
I am not qualified to recommend films. I do not have a certification in recognizing good art. I like weird films. I think films in foreign languages are superior because they have subtitles. I think films based on comic books tend to suck. I think films laced with drugs tend to kick ass. I like hiphop, sexuality, and people getting shot in the head. I think Asian actresses look amazing in pretty much any lighting. And I think that Borat has already been made; there's no reason to keep making comedies.
Alright, that's a long enough disclaimer.
The Philadelphia Film Festival is one of the most culturally significant local events that happen all year round. This year, from April 5th to April 18th, there are around 300 films to be enjoyed, contemplated, and savored. I am going to unceremoniously cut this list down to a small fraction of its size. Hey, obviously not ALL of them are going to be savored.
I've been watching trailers, reading summaries, doing all the dirty work for you. Here's what you should go see.
This director made the film Last Life in the Universe, one of my favorite films. Alright, so theres a pretty good chance that if you saw that film you wouldn't like it. Maybe you shouldn't see this film. Forget it.
The description says this is a comedy, but after checking out the trailer I'm going to disregard that entirely. I think this is going to be fucked up a film about relationships, trust, and identity. I think the girl gets her plastic surgery to change her face in order to find out if her boyfriend would cheat on her, and then shit goes wrong from there, as it usually does when you try to alter your identity to see if it fucks up your own relationship.
Day in the life of a suicide bomber. The last day.
Why you should go see it:
Not many movies ask you to empathize with a suicide bomber. You gotta be curious to know if they can actually pull this off.
Side Note:
I'm sitting in a cafe and this white girl is complaining about being at an airport and standing in line behind someone who "looked like a terrorist," yet she was stopped and for an hour and interrogated. "If you're going to racially profile, at least profile the right person! I'm white! He's the one who looks like a terrorist!" Her friend is doing a very good job at hiding her mortified expression.
It's a film about a German graffiti crew who decide to bomb(tag) a whole train. If thats not a good enough reason to see the film, I can't even talk to you.
WTF is up with this weather? 70 2 days ago and this ice/rain/snow mix now??? Spring is coming soon, spring is coming soon. Saturday is going to be off the hook regardless. Being Irish myself, St. Patricks day is great. Everybody wishing they were. Philly actually has the largest population of Irish descendants in the country. But please, please, please no green beer. Green beer is not Irish, I find it disrepectful, we make quality beer, Guinness, Smithwicks, Murphys, Beamish etc. Pouring food coloring in your Bud Lite still means you have shitty beer, its not Irish. If you pour Jameson in it, instead I might forgive you, but probably not because you're now spoiling your whiskey. [/rant]
Friday
Art show at Fuel with Philly Slick, Drake etc has been canceled!
Hands and Knees - week in and week out, free sparks and pbr early, Jhn Rdn, Ian St. Laurent - M Room (Frankford & Girard)
AJ Ready Right at 700 Club - shelltop hip hop, devo etc at 700 Club (700 N. 2nd)
Zodia Pisces Edition = Classic hip hop + dive bar - Medusa Lounge (21st and Chestnut)
Sex Dwarf - New wave disco at Fluid (613 South 4th Street)
Saturday
Erin Express - I know, its still fun though. Plus its a reason to drink during the day.
Grasshopper 1 day sale - Prefer shopping over drinking? At least 20% off everything (727 Walnut)
Funkshun 5 Year anniversary party at their new space Vacuum.
The Vacuum is a two story building in the Fishtown area with an enclosed courtyard and a spacious, conceptually constructed interior that can provide two rooms of (newly upgraded) sofund, and a third outside area weather permitting. This is our lasting home, where the imaginings of f(x) event conception approach full realization and the heart and soul of the project will be spoken and heard with vivid clarity. first on Saturday, March 17th and again on May 5th
If you haven't heard Mad Decent Radio #14, you definitely need to. It features Blaqstarr mixing it up with real, hard hitting Baltimore club. Listen to it here and subscribe with iTunes here.
Blaqstarr's Supastarr EP available now at iTunes and on wax at Turntable Lab.
Holla! Nappy just hit me off with a brand new thugstep mix. Turn the bass up! Tracklist:
01. young jeezy - take it to the floor f. bonecrusher (nappy vs tes la rok dubstep mix) 02. big kuntry king - throwback f. ti (nappy vs. reform dubstep mix) 03. slim thug - like a boss (nappy vs vex'd dubstep mix) 04. slim thug - diamonds (remix) f. young jeezy, sick pulla, killa (nappy vs emelkay dubstep mix) 05. jase - go hard 06. boss-n-over - self made f. bun b (nappy vs skream dubstep mix) 07. lil wayne - go dj (nappy vs benga dubstep mix) 08. big cas - check my feet (nappy vs. hijak extended dubstep mix) 09. allstar cashville prince f. yo gotti - tear it up (nappy vs el rakkas dubstep mix) 10. brisco - opa-locka (feat. rick ross) 11. 8ball - anotha level 12. riskay - dope girl (nappy vs. reform dubstep mix) 13. the game - dreams (nappy vs paradigmx dubstep mix) 14. 2vm - placita 15. the twilight singers - love
One of the greatest of all time was shot and killed 10 years ago to the day. Sadly he left us with only two albums with one being released nearly two weeks after he passed. Today we are celebrating his life and his incredible body of work.
March9RIP.com posted up a 40 minute snippet of their upcoming mixtape.
Yes! Yes! Yes! Sinden is going to be at Fluid tonite. Which is incredibly awesome but sucks that its the same night as Simian Mobile Disco. Its cool, Making Time is open late so Making Time, Fluid, Making Time I think. Meanwhile back to what matters, Sinden has blowing up the airwaves lately with his track Beeper. Actually, everything he touches turns to gold. Check out Beeper, Hustlin remix, Mekon ft Roxanne Shante baile funk remix and Ghetto Bitches Juke remix all available on his MySpace page at http://www.myspace.com/graemesinden. Meanwhile he holds down a weekly radio show at Kiss 100, launched Counterfeet with Dave Taylor aka Switch, a residency at Fabric in London and formerly was resident DJ with Basement Jaxx in Brixton. If you want the full bio, holler at his MySpaz.
Courtesy of Mad Decent Blog where you can peep the tracklisting, I have two of Sinden's radio shows from Kiss 100.
DJing at Making Time tonite with Crystal Castles, it's Simian Mobile Disco. SMD broke out on the scene last year with their hit Hustler. Simian Mobile Disco is back with It's The Beat, a surefire club banger. It also works well as an alarm clock ring.
For those of you familiar with the Philadelphia Weekly, one of the features is "Whats Up With?". Its usually a local musician or at least one living in Philly. Sometimes they stretch as far to Baltimore for cats like Rod Lee. This week's feature is on DJ duo and recent Philly transplants Caps & Jones.
Veteran DJ duo Will “Honorable Caps” Creeley and Brian “Pandemonium Jones” Curtis are having more fun than you are. After making a name with their debut mix CD Bouillabaisse and influential follow-up Moving in Stereo, it’s safe to say C&J are in the building. Imagine a rap fan’s journey through the cosmos with Carl Sagan and The Big Lebowski’s Dude. If there’s a genre titled “no genre,” this recording is the benchmark.
“If we didn’t make the music we wanna hear, nobody else would,” says Creeley, 26.
You can download their mixtapes Bouillabaisse and Moving In Stereo among others at CapsAndJones.com. And, I forgot to mention this in the White Tees post but Caps & Jones & Emynd & Bo Bliz will be tag teaming at the M Room on St. Patricks Day March 17th!!!
What I just sent... Is it true that you automaticly get to dj in Ibiza after doing one of these?
Thats XXXchange after having just sent Fabric Live 33 master to London on January 29th. Fabric Live members will have received this on Saturday, UK retail gets it next week but the US won't get it until the 24th. For now just marinate on this:
“I came up with the idea that every person that does a mix after the last person always has to start with the song that the last one ended with. So that last song, the idea was we were gonna put it at the end so you listen to ours and it ends, and you listen to Diplo’s and that’s what it kicks off with – so they all have a connection together.” – Ronnie Darko
And the result is Fabriclive 33, a statement-making mix bursting with personality. From the dialogues in the intro and outro (which Alex secretly recorded before their performance on the Jimmy Kimmel show) to their secret sound effects to their debauched singing to just the quick draw, short attention span levelling of genres, if this mix asks a question, the answer is downright hilarious. Tricks are for kids and don’t you forget it.
“The thing is, we fuck around a lot, all the time…and I think a big part of the aesthetic of our performances and how we roll, as far as making the party, is debauchery and fun. And if something’s sloppy, you kind of own that a little bit, you know? So we just sort of carried that over into the fabric mix, we thought maybe it would be good to have a little bit of humour in it. And there’s some other stuff – we did a lot of recording, we made a lot of sound effects. For example, there sounds on there that sound like bombs dropping, which we made by mic’ing the sound of us picking up amplifiers and dropping them. There’s little stuff in there that took a while to make, and yeah…there’s some stuff in there you gotta check for. It was really fun to make.”- Chris Devlin
Tracklisting
01. Intro 02. Kurtis Blow – The Breaks – Universal 03. CSS – Let’s Make Love And Listen To Death From Above (Spank Rock Remix) – Sub Pop 04. Mr Oizo – Nazis (Justice Mix) – F Communications 05. Dominatrix – The Dominatrix Sleeps Tonight – Stuart Argabright 06. Yello – Bostich – Universal 07. Zongamin – Bongo Song – XL 08. Kano – I’m Ready – Antibemusic 09. Daft Punk – Technologic – Virgin 10. Switch – A Bit Patchy – Data 11. The Contours – Do You Love Me – Motown 12. Mylo – Drop The Pressure – Breastfed 13. Yes – Owner Of A Lonely Heart – Rhino 14. Para One – Dudun Dun – Institubes 15. Best Fwends – Myself (XXXChange Remix) – Moshi Moshi 16. KW Griff – Good Man – Morphius 17. Uffie – Hot Chick (Feadz Edit) – Ed Banger 18. Metro Area – Orange Alert
