Disco Horror

Beards, birds, and breezies. First things first, tonight is THE ACID TEST! Beards of a Feather’s new psychedelically flavored disco night with Erik and yours truly manning the music machines and bringing you your beardo favorites mixed with psychedelic tones and krauty jams. The facts:

Place: Poleng Lounge (1751 Fulton)
Time: 9-2
Price: FREE
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THEN! Disco Horror is going statewide!  This weekend if you happen to be in the Southern California region, I will be DJing my friend Randell’s “Get Down Saturday Night” at the Kava Lounge San Diego! It will be disco, house and debaucherous in the usual cosmic beardo style so if you are in the area come on by! Randstrom and Combaticus will be opening the party up and I will be closing it out so come and let’s let things get a little crazy. The facts:

Place: Kava Lounge (2812 Kettner)
Time: 9-2
Price: $3 cover
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And to continue our summery stretch of tunes here is something you should have been familiar with all summer, but just in case you missed it, here it is: Glass Candy’s summer jam that is pure bliss. Alluding to/sampling Geto Boy’s NY gangsta rap classic “My Mind Playing Playing Tricks On Me” which samples Isaac Hayes “Hung Up On My Baby”, the track has a crispy light thump to it that’s perfect for sunsets at the beach or cruising through the city. Jewel’s production continues to amaze me. Don’t miss the 12″ out now with several versions of the track along with another beautiful track “Animal Imagination”.  Get it at the IDIB store!

Glass Candy – Geto Boys (Vocal)

An interesting thing happened yesterday, I had a track taken down and Blogger sent me a notice saying it had been in violation of the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA). The track was Tom Croose‘s edit of Fleetwood Mac’s “Never Going Back Again.” I don’t know what brought this on, whether it was the Fleetwood Mac tag or what, and the file was removed from divshare too so I guess it wont be up anymore. But in the process of figuring out what was going on I contacted Tom Croose and he said it was totally cool that the track was up (he seems like a really nice dude too). He ended up sending me a few mixes and said more remixes and edits are on the way. Here is a link to his Stoney Baloney Mix recently posted at ISO50 and he is also one half of Worst Friends, a tropical balearic group with a Studio-like feel. I will be sure to keep you informed if his current projects as I find out.

Today we have a track from the first Bumrocks LP, El Bum. Bumrocks is the wonderful site hosted by two Chimneys out of NYC, Andre and Jeremy (one half of Tropical Computer System), that posts obscure gems regularly while hosting tracks from a very respectable list of guest bumrockers, the most recent being the UKs Phoreski. Their new LP features many mysterious tracks and reworks by a number of people ranging across proto-techno, disco, and more ambient downtempo textures. Our very own local vinyl guru The Beat Broker appears on the LP so I only found it fitting to share with you his masterful dub of Jeanne Shy’s “Night Dancer“. Enjoy this and check out the album here or I’m sure they have it down at Amoeba, it’s worth every penny for those of you with a taste for the obscure.

Jeanne Shy – Night Dancer (Beat Broker Dub)

For a change of pace I’ve been listening to a ton of Italians Do It Better recently because Johnny Jewel is truly a genius with the production skills. Maybe it’s because it’s the perfect soundtrack for my walks to the train every morning in the melancholy San Francisco weather. Either way I have two tracks for you today from IDIB and you can track down a third soon-to-be-released dark synth masterpiece on ARAWA by newcomer Twisted Wires here. For now I have new/old Glass Candy off their new Deep Gems: Singles, B-sides, and Rarities which is basically some unreleased tracks, but mostly remixes/alternate versions of tracks off of their amazing album B/E/A/T/B/O/X. If anything this release is rather dancier than their other stuff, but Ida No’s haunting voice and lyrics still keep the mood wonderfully dark. This is the most dancey of the tracks and sounds similar to the vibe Gang Gang Dance achieve, but Jewel keeps it in his own style. I cannot force I cannot fight, the beat’s alive.

Glass Candy – The Beat’s Alive

Taking it down a knotch on the energy level, I picked up this 12″ the other day of another IDIB project, Nite Jewel, aka Ramona Gonzalez out of Los Angeles. I heard this a little while back and it spurred me to purchase the 12″ when I saw it. It’s a slow mover with a similar feel to Glass Candy, but a charming walking bassline that keeps your head bouncing. Enjoy!

Nite Jewel – What Did He Say