UV Protection record release Saturday/Don't Sleep on the Openers

Not sure if they are going to post about it here (one day we will get Karen to post) and since it always easier for someone else to write the hyperbole for you let me say this:
THE UV PROTECTION CD RELEASE PARTY IS GOING TO BE OFF THE CHAIN/HOOK/RACK/PLANET.


You see, not only will UV be releasing their long in the coming 2nd cd “clean. modern. comfortable.” (although spies have spotted the cd already for sale at Twisted Village and Honeyspot), not only is the event sponsored by Redbones (free BBQ) and Harpoon (free beerz), not only are there rumors of moving projection screens, but it also represents the return of a couple my favorite out of town/almost never plays bands that I’ve seen in a while: Longknives and Awesome Brothers.


Very few times am I left dropjawed by a band to the point that I cannot come up with coherent sentences to describe them, this happens every (and by every, I mean both and I’m pretty sure that they have only played three times) time I see Longknives. Instead of racking my brain for the correct syntax to put something somewhat educated together, I will just throw out some words/terms that I associate with Longknives: three piece, lights, smoke, loud, keyboards, gasmask, heavy, Tyler from Ho-Ag. So check out the music from the web and the track below (thanks Mac) and be prepared.


Unnamed Longknives track



On a less heavy but certainly just as audio/visually apropos note, are Providence’s Awesome Brothers. I had the luck of playing the last night of their month long Flavor Cave residency in Providence and got to see how much this band has developed over the last year or so (the last time they were in town). Their videos, already a strong presence in their live show, have gotten better and still display a deadpan humor/playfulness with social conventions that is too often lacking in most performances. The music has also picked up a tightness in technicality without losing energy and spontaneity and gaining confidence. They just put out their first cd “300%” (co-produced by Jim Drain) that you would do well to match with your UV cd purchase at the show. Check out their theme song below.


Awesome Brothers- Awesome Brothers Theme


Here are the details:
UV Protection CD Release Party
"Clean Modern Comfortable"
Sat. Feb. 3, 2007, Doors 8:00PM,
@ Art Interactive, 130 Bishop Allen Drive, Cambridge , MA
corner of Bishop Allen & Prospect in Central Sq. $10, ALL AGES (must be 21+ to drink)
8:45pm Awesome Brothers
9:30pm Longknives
10:30pm U.V. Protection
11:00pm DJ RNDM & VJ Robotkid IN VIDEOSCOPE!!!

10 Things To Look Forward To In 2007

f*ck a year end list. it's all about the future. The following is ten music related items I can't wait to experience in 2007:

10.) The Pack. Big ups to Marya of 280 Studios who tipped me off to the burgeoning phenomena that is The Pack a few months back. Now that they're on Jive/Zomba, I expect big 'tings from them this year. For those unfamiliar, The Pack are a band of high school skater kids in Berkeley, CA who got together and wrote a song in tribute to their favorite shoe brand: VANS. Picture 4 Pharrell juniors, with bay area hyphy sensibilities, and a youthful, playful innocence that is lacking in modern hip-hop today. Plus they just might be the missing link that will unite skate punks and hardcore hip-hop heads. Skate, thrash, mosh, and wear ice that'd make a yeti jealous.

The Pack - Candy

and their van's video




9.) Von Sudenfed. Ladies and gentlemen, a supergroup is in our midst. Mr. Mark E. Smith has partnered up with the oh so formidable, yet strangely forgotten about in America, Mouse On Mars to create a three-headed beast James Murphy is gonna wish didn't exist. They got two streamable songs up on their myspace. One is super dope and the other is just okay, but I'm looking forward to see where this project heads in 2007.

8.) M.I.A. It's about time for a Galang follow-up, and this is the year. Rumored to be titled "Power Power", M.I.A.'s future release will feature production work by mostly her (huh?) but may incorporate the work from Three 6 Mafia, possibly Diplo, and possibly Timbaland.

7.) Doom and Ghost, Finally? Swift and Changeable, the heavily anticipated, and annoyingly delayed collaborative record between Ghostface Killah and Doom (no "MF" anymore although he still rocks the metal face) is supposed to finally come out, perhaps as early as next month. Lex Recordings will handle the UK distro duties and Nature Sounds will keep us warm on the home front. Read the exclusive interview MassAppeal copped over here.

6.) Crimp Yr Hair DJs. For those of you sleepin', Philadelphia is quickly becoming the Ibiza of the Northeast Corridor. Dave P, has str8 up turned Philly into a destination for Europe's electro no_wave/neu_rave elite. The likes of Digitalism, Data Rock, Boys Noize, New Young Pony Club, and Simian Mobile Disco filter in through over-the-top monthly parties like [click] on a regular basis. The scene has changed remarkably since the days when Hollertronix ruled the party culture with an iron fist. Plus, local upstarts like the Crimp Yr Hair dj krew are quietly mashing out their own original redos and edits, while carving out a niche of followers of their own, hosting new monthly parties such as The Re-Up.

Check out CYH's Justice edit

5.) Squids back in the studio. It's going down, cousin. Retreat style. February. In the woods of Upstate New York. The end result will be brilliant, I'm sure.

4.) Timbaland Presents: Shock Value.

Maybe I have way too high expectations for this, but i think this album will be dope. Guest appearances by JT, Nelly Furtado, Jay-Z, Dr. Dre, The Hives, Bjork, and Elton John, to name a few.

3.) This year we'll be able to understand crystals. Crystal Understanding's debut LP, Hold the Gem, will be released this year! It's a promise. March-ish is the word on the street and will feature the recording, mixing, and mastering work of uber-producer MicL PTVN.

2.) UV Protection. UV's killer follow-up Clean. Modern. Comfortable. gets a proper release on Feb. 3rd, with a huge party to celebrate. Here's the deets:

February 3rd
Art Interactive - 130 Bishop Allen Drive (Central Sq. corner Prospect and Bishop Allen) - Cambridge
$10 | All Ages | Must be 21+ to drink alcohol

Awesome Brothers 8:45pm
Longknives 9:30pm
UV Protection - Accompanied by Dave Levin & Jon Bernhardt 10:30pm
DJ RNDM 11:00pm - Midnight
Video DJ Robotkid

1.) New WU-TANG ALBUM!!! I am so unbelievably stoked for this. Wu Fam is back again. Read the official myspace post about it:

Wu-Tang Clan's reunion with Loud Records founder Steve Rifkind is official, as the group has announced a new album titled 8 Diagrams, which will hit stores this summer on Rifkind's SRC label, through Universal Records.

8 Diagrams, which is named after a Kung-Fu epic, is the the first new album from Wu-Tang Clan in six years.

The album will feature RZA, GZA, Method Man, Raekwon the Chef, Ghostface Killah, Inspektah Deck, Masta Killa and U-God, all original members of the Wu-Tang Clan.

The new album will also contain an unreleased performance that will show fans why deceased group member Ol' Dirty Bastard "was considered one of the illest MCs ever," before dying of a heart attack in Nov. 2004.

“This is the perfect time for us to come back, the stars are aligned,” RZA said. “It’s like when we first started with Steve. We put out real hip-hop at a time when it was turning into pop or R&B. We brought the focus back to the music in its rawest form, without studio polish or radio hooks.”

RZA founded the group with GZA and the late Ol' Dirty Bastard, who is memorialized on the song “Life Changes."

The group has released several groundbreaking albums including Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) (1993), Wu-Tang Forever (1997) and 2001's Iron Flag.

According to the RZA, the new album will be a "conjunction of creative and corporate thinking by the whole group.”

“People want something that gives them an adrenaline rush,” RZA continued. “We’re here to supply that fix. How could hip-hop be dead if Wu-Tang is forever? We’re here to revive the spirit and the economics and bring in a wave of energy that has lately dissipated.”- written By Nolan Strong


The "oh sevs" is our year people. let's make it happen!

-mac

Hello Police State

Shit is fucked.

"Vice squads" taking down mixtape crews?!? WTF?!

Bloggers next....?

Step into the Village

As the weather turns the thermostat up and the activity level down, some of us here at 440 turn to thoughts of cleaning and california. The convergence of these wintery ideas brought me a 7 inch that I got the first time Big Digits went out west (and also found while cleaning what was a total disaster of a room) by the ear wrecking Foot Village. Foot Village is a four piece all drums/shouts outfit out of the underrated/overhated realm of Los Angeles and my favorite of all of Brian Miller(head of Deathbomb Arc)'s multitude of projects. Not loose enough to be a drum circle but not tight enough to be a marching band, Foot Village plays a multi-use drumkit pictured above that allows for reverbiration of sound (and pattern) throughout all the players. It is awesome, and it will help you clean and stay warm.

(apologies to Ken Avery at WMBR for playing the wrong side of this 7", the one with all the swearing, on his show and thanks to the FCC for not busting him/them/me)

Foot Village- Mexico

Beaches, Part I

This is the first song off of the upcoming BEACHES mixtape.

Tastemakers, please pay attention:

A Phil Collins remix.

2007=soft rock 4 eva.

-Mark E. Moon

PS I promise I'll stop using that Pitbull handclapping sample after this song.
PPS Greg Gillis stop IMing me.

2007 is looking better

i woke up on the first afternoon of the year and felt like absolute shit. i've been sick since, i've been flat broke, my best friend ibook is broken., and my middle finger is fucked, but apparantly not broken. anyway, things are on the up and up.

the first sign of saving 2007 came to me in the form of a child's drink: juiceboxxx at hearthrob. along with (what looked to be his dj) dre skull, they absolutely killed it at middlesex. on "stage" (which was a cocktail table at the time) he announced he would have his new cd "tomorrow". which sucked. the old CD was no where to be found either, except maybe over at oink, of course. anyway here's the new track for ya (via fluo kids)

juiceboxx - sweat

ever get psyched for an LP that you want to like yet you kind of know it is probably gonna suck? it is called myth takes by !!!. i dunno maybe it is ok, i'll come back to it, but for now i've found my !!!/outhud fix through a canadian band called shout out out out out. it's no streetdad, but a lot of vocoders, and many band members, who seem to all play drums sets, basses, and keyboards all at the same time or something. i hear they kill live.

shout out out out out - procrastinaator's love song

and if you've kept up on this space, you probably know how much i cant' stand that reggae stuff or whatever it is on the teddybears record. from what i understand, they are pushing one of those tracks as a single. puke. until i found the robyn version. saved. she's buddies with these guys, maybe she's trying to hint to them to ditch that shit?

robyn - cobrastyle

ps: anyone know of a decent part-time job for me?

Fumbling Towards XTC

to tell you the truth, i don't even really remember making this mix. i think i probably threw it together while preparing a new year's eve set. anyway, no grand mission statements on this one; no newest of the new; no bloggiest of the blogs. it treads on much of the same grounds as my 'last nail in the coffin mix'. just a bunch of songs, heavy on the hits, with some cool transitions. if you put this on at a party, people will dance to it.

also, interesting: it comes up on itunes as sarah mclachlan's fumbling towards ecstacy live. well, it did until i changed it.

trax: laid back.ride the white horse/justin timberlake.sexy back/missy elliot&eurhythmics.sweet shots/lil kim.the jumpoff/yaz.situation/pitbull.ay chico/michael jackson.don't stop 'til you get enough/lady sovereign.love me or hate me (remix)/depeche mode.just can't get enough/cornershop.brimful of asha/sean paul.temperature/madonna. get into the groove/i don't know the name of this track/rick james&dj magic mike.supa bounce/fannypack.cameltoe/bonde do role.melo do vitiligo/eddie murphy.party all the time/britney spears.toxic/cyndi lauper.she bop/ciara.get up/m.i.a. xr2/mark e. moon.boom i thought you were my boyfriend

Fumbling Towards XTC

-m. e. moon

(new year's eve JP basement photo by shintopia)

what i listen to at home

sally shapiro. another euro-pop princess. so smooth and disco. this week chez potvin it has been all sally and kylie. guilty pleasures. sally has finally dropped her LP, and here is a track from it. keeps reminding me of "easy lover" for some reason, i think there is a similar chord change in there

sally shapiro - find my soul

Juiceboxxx is God

ALL WORSHIP HIM

TUESDAY NIGHT!!!!!
Big Digits, HEARTHROB, and the Middlesex Lounge present:

juiceboxxx and dre skull

special live performance.

positivity! rhymes! beats! DANCING!!!

check out this awesome video for a perfect preview:



no cover
9pm
at middlesex (321 massachusetts ave., cambridge, ma)

juice and dre play early in the night so be there to be there!

[posted by mac]

(photo credit: djpinksweatshirt)

dig it

i hope you enjoy my new dance mix: two-thousand-mix

complete with tracklisting (for once):
the sunshine underground - you never party
lcd soundsystem - us vs them
simian mobile disco - tits & acid
shiny toy guns - le disko (boys noize vocal mix)
TEPR - coke and cream
peter, bjorn, and john - young folks
nesakyk mamai - no front teeth
uffie - ready to uff
the rapture - wooo alright yeah uh huh (simian mobile disco remix)
test icicles - what's your damage (digitalism remix)
klaxons - gravity rainbow (van she remix)
the valentinos - kafka bag raiders (how d ya like it at five remix)
sebastian - ross ross ross
dj mehdi - hot-o-momo
simian mobile disco vs cristine - i freak
mstrkrft - community revolution in progress
crystal understanding - timmy and tammy (no-noise mix)
alex gopher - motorcycle (wet clutch short edit)
the whip - trash
the chemical brothers - the golden path
kleerup- with every heartbeat
numero - chewing gum fraise

-ptvn

YummyBack

Gwen & Pharrell on a Timbaland beat, with a Neptunes/Clipse beat thrown in for extra special pleasure.

"YummyBack" - no.1

[posted by mac]

ptvn's year end list

ok so this is a bit later than everyone else's lists, but i'm one-upping it and gonna provide download links! anyway i'll cut to the chase:

this is my list of albums (and other stuff) that rocked me this year. most of them probably came to the surface during 2006, but not all. in no specific order: (i'm gonna keep the rants short, you can read about all these artists/albums all over the internet)

teddybears - soft machine: this is an amazing album, but not all the way through. my problem is the with jamaican/reggae-style vocals on some of the tracks. i'm not even sure what to call them. but i can't get down with those tracks. the rest rule. (update: some of the older teddybears LPs are awesome. many of the same tracks, with earlier versions that are funkier and more experiemental. newer versions are more stripped down to the pop formula, also less reggae junk)

datarock - datarock: awesome LP all the way through. found these guys through a mixtape mac made back in april.

lily allen : my kind of album. busts through barriers while being a completely easy-to-digest pop album.

gil mantera's party dream : cool record, a fun listen. i love it because i hate it. (see em at PA's lounge january 12 with 440R bands cassette and plunge into death)

robyn - robyn: i'm gonna keep my mouth shut and just say: it came out a couple years ago but i just got into it this year. so into it.

the blow - paper television: what i'd expect from the blow, but better

peter bjorn and john - writer's block : first listen of this stuff i couldn't figure out when it was from. turns out it wasn't even out yet. (turns out their old albums are really good too, vocals sound familiar, maybe dopo yume can't place it right now though)

mystery jets - making dens: weird londoners made a weird record that is very well written.

worst album of the year: dj shadow - trust me and don't bother even downloading it. save the room on your HD.

song of the year: justice vs simian - we are your friends : again, not from this year, but this song just rocked my summer so hard. (if you don't already have this, please turn off your computer and get out there)

d00ds that rocked my year:
ed banger records - justice, uffie, dj mendi, mr flash
kitsune records - amazing comps and 12"s
mstrkrft - a couple killer remixes and some nice LP tracks doin it
simian mobile disco - see mstrkrft
david day, eric pearson, and the thunderdome krew - great to meet these guys this year, thanks d00ds!

last minute addition: kitsune maison 3

side note: turns out teddybears is fronted by 2 brothers. 1 is the guy from the band caesar's palace (known as caesars in USA) and the other produced the robyn album mentioned above.