NeverEverLand Again

Looks interesting... what can top last years tho...

One word... (repeated nine times... and some links)

The best thing I've heard in months, and they sound even better live!

WOW - No Aspirations (YSI) (MF)

WOW - Icy Cold (YSI) (MF)

Note: Both tracks are 'HQ' Myspace Rips.

Get their EP at Itunes

Park + Life = Fucking Awesome

I was gonna but some in bold, but then i thought which would i leave unbolded?!
Fuck it. I'm bolding them all!!!!!!

GOLDFRAPP
2MANYDJs
PLUMP DJs
XXXCHANGE
METRO AREA
YUKSEK
FAMILJEN
BOY 8-BIT
SOULWAX
DIZZEE RASCAL
DIPLO
DOES IT OFFEND YOU, YEAH?
ELEKTRONS
VAN SHE
BAG RAIDERS (live)
GRAFTON PRIMARY
PEACHES
MARTIN SOLVEIG
JESSE ROSE
BLACKALICIOUS
DRAGONETTE
SLYDE
AJAX
VAN SHE TECH + many more

Bringing back all those memories? I found these at jimps blogspot a while back:

Live sets from parklife last year. Recorded by good old aussie Triple J:

Digitalism - Live At Parklife 2007 (zshare)

Goose - Live At Parklife 2007 (zshare)

Only one more exam left bitches, i'm done in 20 hours 45 mins! wish me luck.

On an important note

I know I haven't been doing much for quite a while now but more is in sight...

Uni is over in one week
Exams are over in four weeks
The Teenagers & The Presets are during or soon after that
Then I'm turning 21 and going skiing in July
Giddy up.

So expect me to have more offerings for you all after exams, cause I'll have had time to catch up on the endless (5000+) rss posts that have been made bloggers around the sphere this semester. Hopefully I'll start catching up in just under 48 hrs, when my last assignment will have been submitted.

On a serious note, everyone who hasn't already (it's two years old...) should educate themselves by watching this video (the 'funny to length ratio' runs out just after the kid mentions chillin' alot):

Chill

New vid for an awesome track

Check it :)

The Presets - Are You The One (Lifelike's 1 Serious Remix) (mf) (ysi)

Very trippy.
Giddy up!

Or as our boy from Modular says:

"A technicoloured trip through crystal cities and swirling universes, this new video for The Presets is a snapshot straight from the mind’s eye of some of Australia’s premiere creative gurus. BMW + Modular approached Jonathan Zawada and Shane Sakkeus (alongside the production brainiacs at Collider) to create a new video algorithm to solve the age old problem "what do you get when you cross Presets + BMW + LifeLike + Zawada + Sakkeus + Collider? The answer; a joy ride of the imagination that results in pure optical bliss. Traversing through parallel worlds of rainbow moon rocks, pyramids, and cosmic clouds, THE ONE(s) navigates the heavens and the earths alike. Ecstasy to the eye. Drink it in people."

John Mayer is pretty funny...

...and Kristen Bell is pretty hot.

La Grève Générale mix it up in Copenhagen

If you haven't heard of these guys you must check them out! Everything I've heard by them I've loved, they hit the right level of rock sockingness each time they mix it up. Enough said. Get on the DL.

Tracklist:

01 - Does it offend you, yeah? - With A Heavy Heart (I Regret To Inform You)
02 - Klaxons – Atlantis to Interzone
03 - 2 Live Crew - Shake A lil' Somethin'
04 - Danger – 11h30
05 - Missy Elliot - We run this (Duke Dumont remix)
06 - Sebastian - Ross Ross Ross (Iggybabys Fuck Me Harder Edit)
07 - AC Slater – Bassline time
08 - The Presets – My People (DIM remix)
09 - Cajuan – Dance Not Dance (Digitalism Unreleased Remix)
10 - Dead Prez - Hell Yeah
11 - Thomas Bangalter – Spinal Scratch
12 - Alter Ego - Why Not
13 - Bone Crusher - Never Scared
14 - Shitdisco - I know kung fu (Goose Remix)
15 - Mylo - Paris Four Hundred (Etienne De Crécy Remix)
16 - Cut Copy - Light and music
17 - Daft Punk - Around the world (Kid Dub Remix)
18 - Pete Rock - Warzone
19 - Daft Punk - Television rules the nation
20 - Duke Dumont - Pop dat poosay
21 - MSTRKFT - Street justice 07 remix
22 - Roman Salzger - Lollipop Machine
23 - Refused - Liberation frequency (LGG's Rough Club Edit)
24 - Hot Pink Delorean - Played out
25 - Plimsouls – Rebecca (re-edit)
26 - Armand Van Helden – NYC Beat
27 - K.I.M. - Fistogram (DIM Remix)
28 - Tegan And Sara - Back In Your Head (RAC Remix)
29 - B Rich – Dirty dirty
30 - Ghislain Poirier - Blazin (Modeselektor Remix)
31 - Cadence Weapon - In Search Of The Youth Crew
32 - Whitenoise - It's What We Do
33 - 2 Live Crew – Face down ass up
34 - Teenage BadGirl – Hands Of Strangers (Yuksek Remix)
35 - The Smiths - How soon is now
36 - Dizzee Rascal – Sirens
37 - Rage Against The Machine – Bombtrack
38 - Notorious B.I.G. - Party and Bullshit (Ratatat Remix)
39 - The Whip – Divebomb
40 - Ghosts on Tape – Ice blood
41 - Bubba Sparkxxx – Heat it up
42 - Siriusmo – Wow
43 - Positive K - I got a man
44 - Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Gold lion
45 - Apparat ft Raz Ohara - Holdon (Modeselektor Remix)
46 - Abstrackt Keal Agram – Bad thriller
47 - Freeform Five – No more conversation (Mylo Remix)
48 - Donovan – Yo
49 - Feist - 1234 (Van She Technologic Remix)

Once again, link I feel with all the mixes that I post, the tracklist with leave you breathless and wanting fucking more, but having no idea what esle they could have possibly but in...

La Grève Générale – Vice Copenhagen Live Set [DS]
(link via sbc & la Générale's themselves)

Enjoy.
And pic up every other mix of theirs you possibly can.

Robyn is Hawt! // I <3 (fetish) Bears

So Fucking Pimp: Did I Mention that I Spit the Dopest Rhymes?

After seeing Mr Hype himself post this the other day I had no choice but to post this. Monzy is a West Coast Nerdcore Rapper, or to get all genre specific, he is a Computer Science Gangster Rapper. He is also single handedly responsible for "Hooray, Brussels Sprouts!" giving a result when searched in google, not to mention his toilet machine (which I will mention later). So being the core of nerd that his is, he doesn't have a myspace, but a blog, that he started in 1998! Did someone say old school???



Check out this latest video he did for his track "So Fucking Pimp" and you'll see what I mean.



Now pick up the battle rap "So Much Drama in the PhD" that Monzy wrote almost 3 years to the day ago. His hilariously good attempt at starting a West to East coast beef by dissin' MC Plus+, creates an atmosphere; "This young fellow certainly knows how to induce me into raising my hands upward in a motion that makes me think 'I just don't care.'" And has other commenter's out of his 20 thou of listener's on his last.fm page sprayin all sort of code/linux jargon. "Kill -9 forever"! Haha.

Pick it up:

Monzy - So Much Drama In The PhD [YSI] [MF]

Several random hilarious quotations:

And bitches dereference my pointer for free.

What's wrong MC Plus Plus, am I making you nervous?
Even skanky fat hoes give you denial of service.
You'll probably go to jail before you write your dissertation
So prepare your asshole for some internal fragmentation;

My flow is so intense that I will overflow your buffer,
Corrupt your stack pointer makin' all your data suffer.

While you're busy poppin' stacks I'll pop a cap in your skull,
While you smoke your crack pipe I'm gonna pipe you to /dev/null.
I may not have a label but I rap like a star;
I'm an unsigned long int and you're an 8-bit char.

Your mom circulates like a public key,
Servicing more requests than HTTP.
She keeps all her ports open like Windows ME,
Oh, there's so much drama in the PhD.

By the time you've rhymed one line, I've already busted ten;
You rap in exponential time and I'm big-O of log(n).

I run gmake and gcc,
And I ain't never called malloc without calling free.
I'll beat your ass until it's colored like a red-black tree
'Cause there's so much drama in the PhD.

Oh and i forgot to mention this Computer Human Interface video/paper he wrote in 2003. The CHI system he and his fellow researcher developed was called the 'You're In Control' (Yes! It is a play on words) Here's an exerpt from the paper:

While urinating outdoors is playful for many people, bathroom sanitation requires a serious focus and conformity. You're In Control encourages cleanliness while reintroducing play to the act of micturition.

It is (HGHLY RCMMNDD) you click the link:

Link

Feed on Modular

This...



And especially this...



Are why I have the ModBlog Feed on my RSS Watchlist.



Mr G. - Naughty Girl (Jessica's Addiction Remix) (YSI)

Watch the video before you download the song, or don't be pissed off at me when you get round to listening to it, fucking hilarious.

Ed Banger, Tease!

The new volume Ed Rec from Ed Banger is due for release on the 26/05/2008.

Mouth watering tracklist is below:

TRACKLISTING :
01 - Mr Oizo - Yves
02 - Busy P - To Protect And Entertain ft Murs
03 - Mr Flash - Over The Top
04 - SebastiAn - Dog
05 - Uffie - Robot Oeuf
06 - Justice - Stress (Auto Remix)
07 - Mr Oizo - Minuteman’s pulse
08 - Dj Mehdi - Pocket Piano
09 - Krazy Baldhead - No Cow, No Pow
10 - DSL - Find Me In The World
11 - Feadz - Back It Up ft Spank Rock
12 - So Me - Decalcomania

Should be interesting to hear So Me's stuff considering he is predominantly a graphic artist.

Pick up the teaser below, and be warned, this ain't no shitty 30 sec teaser, it goes for a good 10:30.

Ed Banger Crew - Ed Rec Volume III Teaser (YSI) (MF)

Also, check out some of the art by So Me the graphic artist I mentioned before who designs all that is Ed Banger. The link mentions the inspiration for the D.A.N.C.E. Video came from wanting to pull one over the French TV censors after they blurred out some 'product placement' in the 'I Am Somebody' Video. Well done to the censors who failed to realise every t-shirt in the DANCE video was by So Me and for sale. Ha.

Radiohead, Nude Hipsters?

If you haven't heard Radiohead are having a remix comp, you can buy & download the individuals tracks that make up their song 'Nude'. It's really amazed me lately just how much coverage one of the remixes has been getting. Reminded me how cool and close the blogging community is. If you haven't guess yet it's the remix by Carlos from Hipster Runoff. It's fucking gorgeous. It's a really great and original concept, which is shown by the amount of votes it has received out of the 1038 remixes total there are atm. And did I mention it's fucking hilarious!

Radiohead - Nude (Hipster Runoff Remix) (YSI) (MF)

After you've voted for HRO, go and check out some of the other remixes, by the likes of Holy Fuck, RAC, AmpLive & Andrew Muary

Horny Teens, Spank Rock & Chemical Brothers Sexuality ???

Title confuse you?
ake you say WTF?!?
Good, we're feeling the same then. Check these out and you might even be more confused.

Horny Teens

First up out of three headlines I first assumed to be fake is the song in this clip, entitle "Teen Horniness Is Not A Crime" as sung by Sarah Michelle Gellar...



So first up I called bullshit. Sarah Michelle Gellar. Singing about teen horniness! Come on, yeah sure she was Buffy, but she was also in Scooby Doo... 1 & 2! So I downloaded it anyway. Listened, and was surprissed to here what sounded legitimately sounded like SMG. So next step was google, which tunred up a movie (and soundtrack) directed by the director of one of my favourite fucking cult hits Donnie Darko. The movie's entitled Southland Tales, surprising thing is, it came out last year and I've never heard of it.



If you wanna check out SMG singing about the level of teenagers hormones and it's lack of criminalitiy, use the linkage below, if your tentative, make sure you check out the premise of the movie.

Sarah Michelle Gellar - Teen Horniness Is Not A Crime (YSI)

Sexuality

The next thing that got me confused was an announcement over at RA about a certain someone, whose Sexuality (the link's at the bottom of the page) was released to the world, entering the Eurovision Song Contest. WTF! I thought that thing was for kids? Australian comedians find it a great source material.



The video's below:

Here are two fine remixes of the track, ones been around for a while the other one is fresh of the press:

Sebastien Tellier - Divine (Midnight Juggernauts Remix) (YSI) (MF)

Sebastien Tellier - Divine (Night Facilities Re-work) (YSI) (MF)

MySpaces Linkagers: N.F. // M.J. (dot com)

Spank Rock & Chemical Brothers



This one is my favourite of the three, the premise 'Chemical Brothers & Spank Rock', as soon as I saw that headline, BAM!, instantly thought would could be better then the two!

It took a while to grow on me. My imagination ran wild and I think I had some impossibly high expectations, that would have only been met through some sort of magical mash-up, as opposed to an official collaboration. Once I got into it, DAMN, it's good!

You can find it on the soundtrack to the also awesome television show Heroes.
Check it out.

The Chemical Brothers - Keep My Composure ft Spank Rock (YSI) (MF)

Sorry about the wait, 5 uni subjects & other shit excuses...

The Presets Apocolypso Australian Tour Dates

Yes, it's The Presets again, and yes, I'm still as excited about it, If you're annoyed about the obsession you can blame them for so efficiently releasing tracks and news in drips and drabs so I have to post about it all separately.

Anyways, I hadn't seen anyone post their Australian Apocolypso tour dates (which I found via their myspace) so I thought I'd let you all in on them. I also found this cool picture of The Presets, whilst trawling google images to find one to go with this post. Looks fair old to me.

So the dates The Presets will be rocking your socks are as follows:

June 12 (Thursday) – The Roxy Hotel, Parramatta NSW -BUY FROM ticketek. com
June 13 (Friday) – The Enmore, Sydney NSW -BUY FROM ticketek. com
June 14 (Saturday) – The Tivoli, Brisbane QLD -BUY FROM ticketek. com
June 19 (Thursday)– The Metropolis, Fremantle (Perth) WA -BUY FROM heatseeker. com
June 20 (Friday) – HQ, Adelaide SA -BUY FROM venuetix. com
June 21 (Saturday) – The Forum, Melbourne VIC -BUY FROM ticketek. com

Tickets on sale Monday April 7

In other Presets news since my last post about them...

Here's the Apocolypso Tracklist:

01 - Kicking and Screaming
02 - My People
03 - A New Sky
04 - This Boy’s in Love
05 - Yippiyo-ay
06 - Talk Like That
07 - Eucalyptus
08 - If I Know You
09 - Together
10 - Aeons
11 - Anywhere

Here's a video

It's a compilation from their gigs at NEVEREVERLAND (if you don't know what that was you missed out).

Right Click Save As (10MB): The Presets - My People (Semi-Live - Video, Not Audio - From Sydney Nevereverland Daft Punk Show)

Also last...

But definitely not least is the another track from the album, that was on their 5 track sampler. I think it almost got lost among the other tracks from the sampler. It's the slowest of all the preview tracks as of yet. Definitely a different track from most of thier hits, but reminds me of some old tracks. It builds at the 40sec mark and drops at the min. It seems to have more of a story, more meaning, it's not just a song drunk people will dance too. Seems like a angry love song between a man/woman who's boyfriend cheated on him with a woman... with a lyrics like "I hope I never have to / Go and explain / Explain it again / Boy that it all started / Found you in the arms of another girl..." It's quickly growing on me and becoming a fave.

The Presets - I If Know You (YSI) (MF)

And for a free M.O.M remix of My People and tour info from the presets themselves head here

If you can't tell, I have started boycotting zShare. Fuck. I. Hate. All. Those. Ads!!!

Hope you like it.

Buy the album ($20 / It's SIGNED! / Out 12th April)...



I noticed even The Presets themselves, on their myspace, have started linking to JB-Hi-Fi (who I'm not to happy at, at the moment!), as the mod shop is all out. (BTW there are 7 links to 'you know whos' myspace in there, see if you can find them all)

The Prodigy. What The Fuck Is Their Album Called???

This one comes from The Prodigy, one of my all time favourite bands. You couldn't name a track of theirs that I don't love. That includes this one, that was put up by the band on their official dot com, then blogged by Consequence Of Sound (who I hadn't found before, very cool).

Although, in my opinion, a buzz track, it's a good one at that. I don't think it's been logged in at the mega-database of the blogosphere that it the hype machine, but it's only time. It's a three minute instrumental that is meant to get you pumped about the new release that is due from the band this year, as early as May, it's been said. Although unlike what was said there, over here it was said that there is a name and artwork but it's being kept tightly under wraps. Anyway here's the track, is it on the album? is it a single? or is it a buzz track to get us all talking about The Prodigy's new album? And who the fuck is Eddy Cochran? Who cares right? It's a great track, DL it, then buy the album when it's out.

The Prodigy - Who The Fuk Is Eddy Cochran (ysi) (MediaFire)

BTW, I got some more posts coming your way soon...




Horny Teens / Spank Rock & Chemical Brothers / Van She / Sexuality

I was going to photo shop all of these wonderful people into one big happy snap, but I couldn't be fucked. Enjoy the wait.

Offended?, By The 60FT Lesbian Octopus? Why?

In an attempt to stop looking like I'm a one band blog, here's something besides The Presets that I've really been loving. It's the new album from electro rocker quartet 'Does It Offend You, Yeah?'. The title, 'You Have No Idea What You're Getting Yourself Into', is a true summation of the album. It has hits like Weird Science, Let's Make Out and We Are Rockstars.

For you I have an expeience like no other, the 2 minute 'interval-like' track, that is crazier, heavier and all round, more spectacular than any interval-like track you've ever heard.

Enjoy, what is, the attack of the 60ft lesbian octopus!

Does It Offend You, Yeah? - Attack Of The 60FT Lesbian Octopus (YSI)

If you love the interval that much how good will the rest be! It's out on the 24th!!

As per usual, support the band, buy the album (it comes with a free EP!), check out their myspace here.

Tracklists in the comments.

Kick & Scream Bitches

Bringing back memories? This is a ridiculously low quality camera phone picture from when I saw The Presets on the Love Boat in '06. What a great fucking day that was. The Presets have been epically awesome from the first time I head them and they're only getting better. It definitely shows in the first two tracks that have been released from their second album Apocalypso. And they've keep it coming!

Y'all might remember that I posted a live recording of The Presets playing the 'Kicking & Screaming' track way back when at Never Ever Land. Well, the album version is out and it is H-O-T.

It will be as big, if not bigger, than any of their other tracks to date. Or that's my prediction anyway.

I got hold of it via STAIII and my new rss feed demon program that tells me when I should be in the know. It has also just told me that it's now on at least one other blog. Awesome. Check 'em out.

Oh, but before you do that, go and pre-order the album like I have told you oh so many times. And I'm thinking most of you listened because the Mod Shop says they are out of stock, so head over to JB. You'll be Kicking & Screaming if you miss out. Ahh. Had to be said. Here it is.

The Presets - Kicking & Screaming (YSI)

You can check out their other newby 'A New Sky' (which although I don't think has as much bangage potential, its still up their with all that is the quality of The Presets music) on either of the other blogs I linked to above.

Enjoy.

More Presets

There's a new video and track to be found from The Presets, with plenty of remixes to follow in the coming weeks.

The video is below, it seems to flow on from the video for My People, very dark and dingy, and also some other themes that seem so prevalent when looking at The Presets. It has lots of symbolism.

And the vid must only just be out, it only has 78 views on youtube, and was a world premier when it was shown on the j's apparently.



To catch the track, I'll send you over to WavesAtNight who I first glimpsed from. Cheers.

Chemical Beats

Check out My YouTube for videos from the Sydney Chemical Brothers show. I decided just to do some montages, so I didn't waste my dancing time just holding the camera still...
They are uploadin now, they'll be up by morn.
Even though it's already 4am.

Here the results:

Part 1



Part 2



Part 3



Freakin Awesome night, even the train home (and thats not sarcasm), thanks to the group next to us who sang, danced, pill popped, vandalised, screamed, water fight'd, relationship tif'd... was like a concert on a train. Maybe that could be a movie. 'Concert On A Train' - "We need to get this concert off this freaking train". Haha.

Flikcr Photo's Soon...



Galvanise.



Two People.



Clown. The creepiness of this clown will never be able to be judged by what it looks like in photos or videos.



Tiger.

Going Off!

Was just checking out what was up and coming in the little town of Wollongong and it seems to be going off at the moment.

In the next month all these acts will be in town:

2008.02.28

Fresh on their Cat & The Eye Tour (which starts tommorrow (21st) in Melbourne), Van She, accompanied by Ghostwood (formerly called something else, completely unrelated to wood)
are playing at the Wollongong Unibar on the day before the day that only occurs every once in a while. Should be good. Tickets.

2008.02.24

There's a weird Bicardi 'win your tickets' event, which funnily enough isn't the reason it's weird, but it's because it's on at midday. If that turned you off, this might turn you back on, the line-up in my re-arranged order is: Pnau, Bumblebeez, Bang Gang DJs, then Scribe and Faker

2008.03.06

THIS

UOWs legendary annual party is back in 2008 with a stellar line-up of Australian musical acts including: Gyroscope, The Cops, Grafton Primary, The Bustin’ Crew DJs, Ras Gong Guerrillas, & Reason Strikes. Tickets / info.

OR... on the same night is also:

THIS

Datarock supported by Mission Control

From moshtix:

"Norwegian disco popsters Datarock, a.k.a. Fredrik Saroea and Ketil Mosnes... with their questionable leisurewear and propensity for writing songs about robot sex and the possibility of women having man parts, you could consider them as the new rave equivalent to Goldie Lookin Chain. Musically, though, they’re completely different, favouring an impossibly nagging car crash of the most basic electro-pop and addictive Parliament-style funk, all done with a Talking Heads sense of style that’s both noxious and compulsive... Catchy lyrics, taken from 80s pop-culture films has Datarock fast turning into pop music’s most aggressive sect since The Polyphonic Spree."

2008.03.18

A collection of artists set to perform under the banner of 'Union of Soul' at the Wollongong Botanic Gardens (subject to venue approval, although it pretty much has to happen now doesn't it?, now that they've told everyone, how pissed of would poeple get at those who deny permission). Althought I'd be going for Gotye and staying for... Gotye, the other acts (John Butler Trio, Clare Bowditch & The Feeding Set and Lior) would be alright if your in the right mood. Tickets.