440R DJs : Summer Aint Gone

Tonight, Mac (no.1) and Jef (Mark E. Moon) help tear the lid off:



THEN, tommorow night, Big Diggy's tight homies from Los Angeles, Captain Ahab are performing at the Milky Way, in JP for FREE.

Ahab literally have the l.a. diy dance thrash scene on lock: they invented their own genre of music called Ravesploitation (way before the terms like "neu-rave" were en vogue), they sell out fabled clubs like The Smell on the regular, they had a song on the SNAKES ON A PLANE soundtrack, and they had a song featured on The Office. Yes all of those things are true. Kinda wild considering they sound like dancing hugging hypermachines that ate way too much frosted flakes with Coke for breakfast.

Their appearance on thursday is in association with one of the last (sadly) ever Aquanet dance nights. As an added bonus, TD and MAC are also "special guest djs" for the night.



**p.s. the above flyer should say "Aug. 30th" not "Sept. 30th" of course

Tibetan Jam of the Summer 2007

The man to the left was THE hottest act of the summer in Lhasa.

His VCD-- the preferred format for music in Tibet, with videos accompanying each song-- features none of the convenient English subtitling of the other hot acts of Summer '07, like Drigung's "Pleasant Song", Pema'z's "Dream Lover", or Phurbu T. Namgyal's "Love Story", so I have no idea what his name is, or what the songs are about, but give it a listen and you'll agree it doesn't matter too much.

The man who I've labeled "Mystery Tibetan Superstar" in my mp3 tags owned the airwaves for the three weeks we spent there, and the song below was the main reason why (though he has others too...)

It starts out with some traditional drum and clang before quickly getting into it-- a club beat, some cheap synths, and a killer "rapping" section where our hero does some kind of background Tibetan yodel that sends chills up my spine. The overall effect is one of horses, horses galloping through the club.

The best conditions under which to experience this track are this:
Find a mini-bus full of chain-smoking Tibetans who know all the words, then find a crazy driver who speeds up the side of mountains on skinny roads with no railway, then crank it over blown out speakers as you pass a car around a blind curve, thinking, "This is it, the last song I will ever hear!" Yesss!

http://czekaj.com/plunge/AVSEQ04.mp3

(thanks for the hosting jef)

Foot Village +Tussle Collabo

short clip of Foot Village jamming on stage with Tussle



oh, and homey Brian Miller is rocking a fresh Big Digits' t-shirt yall!

maybe i'll start posting comics here?