Merry (Daft Punk) Christmas!

Here's some after party pics, as usual there's more to come...



Did you can spot half of Daft Punk. lol.

Merry Christmas (or Merry whatever you do/don't celebrate)
This Non-Denominational Blog is brought to you be the letters
D.G.I.U.

Daft Punk Sydney!

I finally found some sort of way to describe just how awesome the Daft Punk experience is, it goes "I found found $15 on the ground, and that was probably the worst part of the day". Simple, yet effective. If finding money is the worst thing to happen, you can only begin to image how much better it got.

Here's some vids to tide you over as I put some other thoughts / uploads together, Flickr photos etc. I was in the D barrier, which for those who don't know is a barrier shaped like a 'D' that helps the people at the very front, like my old mate (been mates for one day now) Joe who flew from Los Angeles to see Daft Punk in Sydney!, only get squashed by about 4 thousand people instead of 24000. I was about 5 people back and to right hand side at this gig, so no dead centre at this gig, but a hell of a lot closer.

Anyways heres some vids...

Daft Punk (Part 1 of 2)



Daft Punk (Part 2 of 2)



I had to split it because it was too long for youtube as a single vid. 13 mins in total.

Here's DJ Falcon from the after party at the Metro, which was awesome btw.



Enjoy.

Grafton Horror!

Daft Punk will have left the building this time tomorrow, well actually, hopefully they won't have, hopefully they'll be at the after party with me at the metro. But alas, if they are not I will definitely be coming home content after seeing them strut their stuff all over the Sydney Showground. Stay tunned...



I caught Grafton Primary here in the gong at our local gay and lesbian friendly (not only!, although they do have a rainbow flag behind the bar). They went off pretty well, the crowd was pumping, not sure if this was due to their music or the camera crew they had walking round the joint. The original duo of Josh and Ben Garden from Sydney, added Robbie the drummer to help reproduce their sounds on the stage. Which they did pretty well, although I must say, I was disappointed they didn't crack out the keyboard axe.



Check out their track relativity and the Tommy Trash remix:

Grafton Primary - Relativity (zshare) (ysi)
Grafton Primary - Relativity (Tommy Trash Remix) (zshare) (ysi)

Also check out their interview with JJJ where they they discuss their interesting take on how each generation of musicians takes in the lasts and outputs it in a different way, and how each generation should try to appreciate the similarities and embrace the music.

I grabbed a copy of their EP after the show, which they were selling out of the boot of their car for $5 (which is pretty cheap), if you wanna pick it up check at itunes or jb-hi-fi.

The DJs on after Grafton were pretty regular, and by regular I mean I went downstairs so I didn't have to listen to them, which is pretty unfortunate considering the DJs were Miami Horror and they were (practically) the 'headliners' of the night. Before heading downstairs tho, they played one of the shittest mixes of Daft Punk's 'One More Time' I've ever heard, which still managed to get people dancing, tho the original, or probably any other mix in the world would have done so more. So that was kind of disappointing, but I'm not closing the book on them yet, as most of their own remixes are pretty damn fine. I'll post some later, at a time when I'm not going to a festival in 8 hours and dancing for 14 after that, now tho, it is time for sleep.

Do You Feel Daft, Punk? Pics / Vids / And... Semi-Unrelated Mixes

Sorry about the lack of coherent-cy in this post, but thats how it is when your running on no sleep and a high from a concert that was days ago... so here are some random topics / paragraphs / pictures and videos...

OK

So I just decided, in an attempt to make some coherent-ness out of this post, to create a sort of content list so you know what to
expect from the post. Hope it helps...

Text - Intro to Daft Punk
Pre-Hype - Pre show vids/movies
Pics - Slide Show (Photos from the day before, to on the way home)
Vid - Presets New Untitled Track
Vid - SebastiAn & Kavinsky with Busy P up to mischief
Vid - Daft Punk Robot Rock
Post-Hype - Arf-tar-part-ey
Text - DGIU's Final Thought (for now...)
Mixtape - Bang Gang DJs (Grey Disc)
Mixtape - Busy P (Let's Get OZ)
Mixtape - Boys Noize (21 Minutes To Know)

So read the other day that the Daft Punk got their name from a NME review that ripped into their old band. The review was from their endeavor as Darlin' which along with Thomas Bangalter & Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo the 'Rock / Surf / Soul' group also featured Laurent 'Branco' Brancowitz (now) of Phoenix fame (com | myspace). The review called Darlin' Daft Punk'. And hence the bohemoeuth began...Man, I want to thank that reviewer!

Check out Daft Punk is screening at my house! for Electroma & Interstella 5555 & lotsa music vids. HERE.

Flickr pics

The Presets

Along with 'My People' The Presets also debut another new track. If you ask me, they played this track to test everyone's reaction, as it's so similar to My People! At the start Julian shouts something to the tune of 'When I was young... I collected (?) my hero'. 'My hero' sounds exactly like 'My People'.

I honestly think they were seeing if they would be able to get away with releasing this track too. And I think they could...

Still too early too tell which is better, having only heard it properly once. It sounded so familiar tho, and I couldn't tell if it was because of my people or because I'd heard it before.. which apparently would have been impossible, because as you can hear in the video, "This one's never been heard before, by anyone, except by us two... so we hope you like it..."

Check it out for yourself:

SebastiAn & Kavinsky, with Busy P



Daft Punk



Maybe more vids later...

I don't know if it was because it was Melbourne or because it was Daft Punk (or if it was just for me), but the crowd was great. And I mean great. Sure, some people trying to get closer, but after they realised you weren't letting them through, did they stay and kick you in the ankle? Or give you elbows in the ribs? Nope. They just moved on. Everyone was there for the great time so they didn't was any of it being bastards. Another thing I noticed was the mass of random hugs, hi fives and they like going on on the walk out. Daft Punk just left everyone in the best mood. And so would this...

Daft Punk is having an afterparty! HERE.

Only heard this last night that there were 3 Overdoses At Daft Punk (ninemsn news (look at the title. A 'rave'?) | yahoo news) | the age news), 30 people treated all up, which in my opinion seems pretty low, seeing as there were 13,000 attendees, many of which had been anticipating the even for literally years. Shit thing is, the event co-ords (emails: modular & michael coppel) said NO to an offer of an onsite ambulance. WTF!

Besides the whole drug-dose thing, and I don't know if it was because it was Melbourne or because it was Daft Punk (or if it was just me), but O thought the crowd was great. And I mean great. Sure, some people wore fluro (not many tho), some people tried to get closer, but after they realised you weren't letting them through, did they stay and kick you in the ankle? Or give you elbows in the ribs? Nope. They just moved on.

Daft Punk-ness over and out. For now. For 6 days!

Float my boat.

Here's some stuff that got me going whilst I was trawling the sphere after a week off, some of them have been around for a while, some not, all good...



The GREY Disc is finally up for those that don't have it yet...

Thee Bang Gang Deejay's - Light Sound Dance (Bone-us Grey Disc) (zshare link from Bang Gang Podcast Site)

Tracklisting

01. The Eternals – Wrath of Zeus
02. Dj Mehdi – Signatune (Thomas Bangalter edit)
03. Yuksek – Break Ya
04. Sinden – Beeper
05. Bobmo – Home Alone
06. Mr. Oizo – Patrick 122
07. Riot in Belgium – La Musique (sinden remix)
08. Data – J’Taime Pas le art (Data remix)
08. Nicky Van She and Dangerous Dan – Around The World (The Death set remix)
09. Os Magrinhos – Japonesa
10. Bonde Do Role – Office Boy (CSS remix)
11. Da Hool – Met Her in Baltimore (Elroy’s edit)
12. TTC – Travellier (Orgasmic remix)
13. Bag Raiders – Nil by Mouth
14. Fesit – My Moon My Man (Boys Noize Classic remix)
15. Cyndi Lauper – When You Were Mine
16. Boys noize – Let’s Buy Happiness
17. MSTRKRFT – Bodywork / Paul Woolford – Erotic Tool
18. Yuksek – Dirty little trip (vicarious Bliss remix)
19. Duke Dumont – Pop That Pussy
20. Klaxons – Golden Skans (Switch Unreleased remix)
21. In flagranti – Genital Blue Room
22. My Cousin Roy - Bobbi’s Back
23. Beatles – Day Tripper
24. Radioclit - Nelly Ti Picou
25. Bondo do role – gasolina (Buraka Som Sistema Remix)
26. Mystery Jets – Diamonds In The Dark (Tapedeck remix)
27. Mr. Oizo – Stunt
28. Justice – Let There Be Light (Dj Funk remix)
29. Fat Joe – Make It Rain (Remix)
30. Starski n Clutch - East to west
31. Ying Yang Twins – Peanut Butter Jelly Time (remix)
32. Claude Von Stroke – Peanut Butter Jelly time (Claude’s Miami Doodoo bootleg)
33. Trevor loveys and Sinden – Organ Grinder
34. Teki latex – disco dance with you (Para one remix)
35. Whirpool Productions – Disco to Disco (LRD remix)
36. Louie Austen – Im a Disco Dancer
37. Hedman – On and On (Zombie Nation remix)
38. Muscles – Sweaty
39. Midnight Juggernauts – Nine Lives
40. Westbam and Nena – Old school baby (Piano mix)
41. Franki Valli – Beggin (Speaker Killer remix)

Better than the other discs if you ask me.

NEXT UP...

A mix from Busy P / Pedro Winter / Daft Punk's Manager / Ed Banger Record Label Owner, whoever you know him as, the mix is still the same.
And its good.
Reminiscent of his Parklife Set.
Here's the lowdown from the man himself (from the cover)...



...which I believe reads something like:

This mix was not prepared nor computered. It's all about
playing some cool records in my basement to listen in your car.
All the bad mixes are not made on purpose, sorry... But the
NOISY PARTS, YES! Recorded at the Ed Banger Studette in
Paris, Semptember 07. Shout out to mingus 4000 @ Fuzzy for
Bringing Ed Banger crue at ya! This CD is 1 of 300.
www.myspace.com.busyp. Gribouillage by So-Me.

Thanks to blendtrend over at the E.R.O.L. Forums, as he's how I found the mix.

Busy P - Let's Get OZ Mixtape

Approximate Tracklist:

01. Jean Michel Jarre - Zoolookology
02. Calvin Harris - Merrymaking At My Place (Mr Oizo Remix)
03. Justin Timberlake - Lovestoned (Justice Remix)
04. DatA - J'aime pas l'art (2007 Remix)
05. Stakker - Humanoid (Feadz Remix)
06. Curtis McClaine & On The House - Let's Get Busy
07. The Bucketheads - The Bomb
08. Chemical Brothers - The Salmon Dance (Herve Remix)
09. Proxy - Decoy
10. Larry Tee ft. Princess Superstar - Licky (Herve Remix)
11. Scenario Rock - Both Gotta Move On (SebastiAn Remix)
12. Robyn - Konichiwa Bithces
13. Kraftwerk – Boing Boom Tschak
14. Todd Terry - Can You Feel It
15. Yuksek - Kontraul
16. Justice - Phantom Pt II (Soulwax remix)
17. Bumblebeez - Dr. Love (Think Remix) ????
18. djedjotronic - ghetto girl
19. Dizzee Rascal - Pussyole (Old School)



Get yourself a copy at Fuzzy for $20!

NOW...

For some Boys Noize (com | myspace),
Recorded on the 16th Nov.
On BBC Radio.
On In New DJs We Trust.
With Kissy Sell Out.
And Boys Noize
Found on Facebook of all places.
Duration due to bonus tracks from the next set, and despite the title, is 27 minutes of pleasure.
Enjoy.



Boys Noize - 21 Minutes To Know

Tracklist (according to BBC)

01 - Boys Noize –‘Lava Lava’ [Intro] (Boysnoize Records)
02 - Boys Noize – ‘Shine Shine’ [Boys Noize Cabrio Mix] (Boysnoize Records)
03 - Boys Noize – ‘& Down’ [Siriusmo VS. Boys Noize Remix] (Boysnoize Records)
04 - Boys Noize – ‘Lava Lava’ [Feadz Aval Aval Mix] (Boysnoize Records)
05 - D.I.M. – ‘Is You’ (Boysnoize Records)
06 - Boys Noize – ‘My Head’ [Para One Remix] (Boysnoize Records)
08 - Justice – ‘Phantom’ [Boys Noize Turbine] (Ed Banger)
09 - Strip Steve – ‘You & I’ (Boysnoize Records)
10 - Das Pop – ‘Fool For Love’ [SebastiAn Remix]
11 - Crookers – ‘Love To Edit’ (White)

There.
Done.
Done.
And Done.
You miss me?

Daft Punk Melbourne!

Okay........ these next words describe the concert:





Yep, your correct, there are no words there, i.e. there are no words.

Stay tuned for a (compressed) 2GB flash card worth of awesomeness from the first Daft Punk concert in Aus ever! OMG. If you weren't there you missed out! I don't know if I'll be able to wait know what is coming up while I wait for the Sydney show.

Interestingly enough there was no 'big screen'. There are similar photos (at the very bottom) as to what I'll be posting tomorrow... If i make the flight... which is in a good (bad!) 6 hrs. Which means I have to be there in 5 hrs. Which means I have to leave in 4 hrs. Which means I have to leave in 3hrs... I should have gone to the after party... Busy P was at the gig tho... he got up to some antics...

Anyway... check back tomorrow... or the next day... or the next day... etc... etc... etc...

Peace, Sleep, & Daft Punk!

Romanoff Spitzer: Keepin' It In The Family

It may sound like some fucked up cocktail, and it probably would be if they ever collaborated, but for Romanoff and Spitzer are two (separate) duos I've really been digging lately.

In the spirit of alphabeticalness, firstup is Romanoff

Romanoff

So is was going to say I couldn't remember how I found out about these guys , and how it could have been from any of these on-top-of-it sources from my blogroll... versus / radio sidekick / attorney st / phase02 / get weird turn pro ...But then I remember it was them that found me!

They befriended me on myspace, and after seeing their background picture...



I knew I had to check them out, how could I not?! So I did and they were cool...

Romanoff consists of two cousins (keepin it in the family y'all!) straight outta Brooklyn, NY. Their live shit is off the hook (you can see that from their pics) and besides NY they have already spread their balls of destruction all over Europe, with more coming up soon.

What do you want me to do about it I hear you ask? First of all you've got to check out the one and only Romanoff's myspace, it'll have you fist-pumping your balls into an epileptic fit. It's seriously one of the best myspace pages I've seen, none of that clutter up the page shit, it's so bare that all you can find is their music! How crap is that! And then once you've said 'fuck it, i supposed i'll download their shit if i have too', you find out they've gone and given it to you for free at 320kbps, like the highest quality possibly, just another punch in the face!

Seriously though, after some tough investigative journalism, I did find one piece of information on their myspace, and that is that they call their music 'Thrash / Tropical'. I'd say it was more Punk-Rock, Thrashed up the arse of an Electronic Elephant from the Tropical regions of Russia. But thats just me. Check it out for yourself after the drop.

Romanoff - Stupider Bananas (at least I think thats what it's called, filename says one thing, tag says the other, website says one thing, myspace track player says another) (zshare) (ysi)

And now for...

Spitzer



Once again, this duo is keepin' it in the family, comprising of French brothers Damien & Matthieu and they also found me, sending me their stuff to enlighten my ears. The info they gave me said, and I agree, that they produce Electronic music using computer machines. They want to make you dance and they don't listen to Christian Rock.

What more could you ask for?

Several things actually:
Ask if they can remix your tracks
Ask if they can play your club
Ask them for more tracks / when their 'Roller Coaster EP' is coming out

How?

Find out on their myspace

Now for the audio goodnesss that is Yatch Club. If this duo put any more brotherly love into their tracks I'd be calling the police! It's also their longest track so you can enjoy the love for longer.



Spitzer - Yatch Club (zshare) (ysi)

On another note:

BOOYAAA!

is now coming at you inside the hype machine (if I can be bothered to YouSendIt or direct host the tracks I blog) I'm also pretty proud that my first track up there was The Presets - My People, check it out yo.

That's me out out for a while, as I'm off to Melbourne for the start of what shall be known as Daft Punk Christmas!


(Click for hugeness)

The counts at 3 sleeps for their very first show in Aus on Dec 13th at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl in Melbourne (tickets still available, last time i looked, check out for yourself here), then 9 sleeps after that for their very last show, not just in Australia but of their whole freaking world tour! on Dec 22nd at Sydney Olympic. Should be freaking awesome. If I don't hit you up with more bangers before Daft Punk Christmas Show #1, then when I do, I'll also have some fresh Daft Punk fotos/footage!!

(btw awseome does not even begin to explain how this show will make me feel, Daft Punk alone would be better than awesome , but this is a fucking festival!)

Can't wait eather? Get a fix...

Daft Punk - Technologic (Peaches No Logic Remix) (zshare) (ysi)
Over & Out.

Kitsune Maison Compilation 5... Finally

Although it may have taken me several days of trawling Japan, well all the Japanese web pages at least, thanks to Google's ever so grammatically correct translator. Finally I stumbled upon some info about the next edition of this wonderful compilation that is Kitsune Maison.

Various Linkage:
Maison Kitsune
Kitsune
Myspace


(The cover, in all it's low quality, is courtesy of The Resident Advisor)

Eagerly waiting and searching for the new 17 track compilation from Kitsune definitely paid off. To be released on the 10th of December, it is on par, if not above that of the previous four efforts (which if you have missed for some unexplainable reason, you can pick up here).

As I mentioned above, it's getting all the hype over in Japan at the moment, it being the lucky country being treated to the release parties. With 2 from 6 parties down, there is still plenty of time to get in on the action. So If you're in Japan and reading this, first of all, your awesome for finding this blog, and second of all hit up one of the these parties below:

Dec 12th - Unit, Daikanyama
Dec 14th - Proppeller Drive, Fukuoka (Info on: 092-715-6322)
Dec 15th - Sound Lab mole Sapporo
Dec 16th - Womb Cruise, Ving Et Un, Tokyo

It's graced with tracks from Cazals, Late Of The Pier, KID, The Teenagers... Remixes from CSS, Digitalism, Vicarious Bliss, DatA... actually why don't you just check out the tracklist I found:

01 - Fischerspooner - The Best Revenge
02 - Late Of The Pier - Broken (Fairy Lights Mix)
03 - Alan Braxe - Addicted
04 - David E. Sugar - To Yourself
05 - Cryptic - Pin Me Down
06 - M.I.A. - XR2 (Silverlink V Kicks Like A Mule Aka 92juk)
07 - The Teenagers - Homecoming (Gentelmen Drivers Rave Mix)
08 - AutoKratz - Pardon Garçon
09 - Digitalism - Pogo (Digitalism's Robotic Remix)
10 - DatA - Aerius Light (Kitsune DJ Friendly Edit)
11 - Does It Offend You, Yeah? - Let's Make Out (Extended Mix)
12 - Rex The Dog - Circulate
13 - Bitchee Bitchee Ya Ya Ya - Fuck Friend (CSS Remix)
14 - Friendly Fires - On Board
15 - Big Face - I Wanna Be A Style Crusader (DatA Remix)
16 - KID - I'll Never Know
17 - Cazals / Yelle - To Cut A Long Story Short (Vicarious Bliss Mellotron Mix) / A Cause Des Garçons (Tepr Remix)

Sound awesome? Yes Indeed.
Here are two of the tracks I'm really loving:



M.I.A. - XR2 (Silverlink V Kicks Like A Mule Aka 92juk) (Removed At Labels Request)



KID - I'll Never Know (Removed At Labels Request)

If anyone has any info on this last track, hit me up, wanna know it, I came up with nada from myspace, last.fm, all of Japan etc... This guy's voice will never stop reminding me of the postal service, compare it yourself with the tracks on their space.

And track 17, 'Cazals / Yelle'... no words... (in a very very very good way.........BUY IT)

Get your hands on this CD as quick as possible and you won't regret it.

Did you know I can go to Japan? Well I can, and so can you, get your order on here:
Amazon Japan
HMV Japan

And Back! I'm sure you could get it from Kitsune (along with the last four comps) after Dec 10:
Kitsune Record Shop

If you keep you eyes peeled, using my rss feed, and you'll be seeing a lot more stuff coming soon, including up-comers Spitzer & Romanoff!