TOP BILLIN - PLAYBOY ANTHEM

So we just recently did a remix for our Finnish pals, Top Billin. You can scope the details here . There's a vocal and a dub, so buy 2 of each.


Also, my pal Jer (who claims to have once bought a pack of Willy Wonka Bottle Caps , and got all fucking root beer ones. I call bullshit.) put me on to a wonderful Shit Robot mix for xlr8r from back in the summer. It's super groovy. Grab it here .

Tracklist:

01 Shit Robot - "Simple Things (Work It Out)" (Todd Terje remix) - (DFA)
02 Chicken Lips - "Feast of Freaks" (Kotey’s Tape Edit) - (Lipservice)
03 Suburban Knight - "The Groove" - (Transmat)
04 Black Meteoric Star - "Death Tunnel" - (DFA)
05 X-Ray - "Let’s Go" - (Transmat)
06 Crazy P - "Love on the Line" (Unabombers Remix) - (20:20 Vision)
07 Bangkok Impact - "Premature Ejaculation" - (Crème Organization)
08 Joris Voorn - "Sweep the Floor" - (Rejected)
09 Cobblestone Jazz - "Traffic Jam" - (Wagon Repair)
10 Crazy P - "Stop Space Return" (Unabomber Dub) - (20:20 Vision)
11 Shit Robot - "Simple Things (Work It Out)" - (DFA)

Euro Tour Recap

Holy moly - what a time. Mike and I went to do some shows in Europe & the UK at the end of November, and Dawn came with us! It was a big success.

We got in to Paris on Thursday with a night off - and our homies Nadastrom were playing in town that night with Brodinski, Primary 1 and Boombass from Cassius & La Funk Mob.

It was great to see Dave and Matt tear up the club in Paris, and also Boombass who has been a hero of mine forever. He played a classy and fun set and the Parisien kids were going off.

The next day we met up with DJ Ayres (Quasimodo) who was playing with us at Casino Noveau that night, and went walking around town. We headed for the APC store and bumped into Mehdi of Ed Banger:

Looking super French.

This is where Ayres (the hunchback of Park Slope) lives:
It was nice of him to let us see his house.

That night at the club was so much fun. The Beat & Juice crew took great care of us. And the club was jamming. Thanks Paris!


Next it was off to Helsinki, where we basically headed straight to the club - we were playing at Siltanen with Fiskars, Flipperi, J Laini, & TaneLee. It was part of the Lifesaver Records 10 year anniversary - and one of the funnest nights we've had in a long time. We felt really honoured to be a part of it. They were all playing awesome vinyl, so we felt bad playing Serato but oh well.


"My brother Fiskars" - that sounds like the name of a sitcom.


The next day the homie DJ Anonymous took us too see Helsinki, and eat some Finnish food. I had herring:


And I also ate Reindeer! Santa's sled might be a wee bit slower this year.


Ayres & Nadastrom kept following us around:


So after the great time in Helsinki we headed to London where Jo met up with us and we had a couple days off to check out classy things like museums & art:


We felt really lucky to be back at Fabric on Friday night again, playing with Ali B & Mat The Alien. The Alien killed it and we got to play afterwards - it's such a legendary club that it's surreal to play there even the second time. In the booth:


Then we got to play the legendary funk night on Saturday at Paradise. A ton of Calgary folks came down - it was so awesome.


Maya!


Claire!


We had the best hosts in London: Ali, Dre & Dee - and it really made all the difference. THANKS GUYS! So that was the trip! A total blast and I can't wait to go back. Until then I leave you with this:

FIREFLY - 3

Firefly had a billboard disco hit with their jammee called Love Is Gonna Be On Your Side This is their 3rd album, and it's fuckin' so good. It's kind of on a funky italo tip, with the exception of may favourite track, "Don't Be A Fool", which is a feel-good synth-poppy duet, with bad English.

Check it out for sure: Firefly - 3 (full album)

"A UNICORN IS NAUGHT BUT A RAVER IN A DUNCECAP"

I think it was Soren Kierkegaard* who said that. Or Peter Sarsgaard? Old gaard/new gaard? Either way, it was someone for sure. And with that, I'd like to call your attention to a picture of our very own SweetCityWoman:


She thought she'd be funny, or whimsical, or some fucking shit, and dress as a unicorn for Halloween. Instead, she came out looking like if the Tickle Trunk exploded at Hullabaloo. Way to go, Nols. Although, it's better than the time she dressed as me. That was fucking terrifying.

So listened to a radio interview on the internet about how to get abducted by aliens. It gets dark at 5pm now, and today it got colder than a witches tit. Might be nice on a spaceship. Fuckin' flying around, eating fruit-rollups, drinking Tang and shit. Aliens, pick me! They probably won't. They don't care. Anyway, here's some spacey shit to bring if they pick you.

Harry Thumann - Underwater

Ganymed - It Takes Me Higher

Azoto - Exalt Exalt
Space - Magic Fly

Dee D. Jackson - Automatic Lover


*Nols's joke. I know, right?

MOAR BEST RAEV EVER!

Since this has basically become a video blog, I'ma toss up another. This one goes out to all you Shambhalowlifes that didn't get enough hippyrave in August. It's some more video from Shambhala, and will have to tie you over. It's only footage shot from the Living Room, which the stage overlooking the beach, and features the homeys Vinyl Ritchie, and JonH and Steve of Fort Knox 5. It was shot and edited by our pals Amy and Simon, who, in my esteemed opinion, did a bang-up jobby. The catchy-as-all-hell tune that it's set to was done by our pals, Hoola and Soup

The Living Room from Simon Slade on Vimeo.

I'm gonna take a break from the videos for a bit and should have some music to post this week. Also, Mike and Pete are back from Europe, so come down Thursday to welcome those 2 dicks back.

Holy fuck, it's December.