Monday, February 28, 2005
I've been too busy to post much lately, but we do have some important Dorkwave news for you:
This Wednesday night Team Dorkwave and Friends will be taking over the Garden Bowl at Detroit's Majestic Complex for the Metro Times BlowOut preview party. We're very flattered to have been asked, and promise to deliver a true Dorkwave experience... Guests to include Mike Trombley (The Sights), Sam Consiglio (Tamion 12 Inch), Jimmy Edgar (Warp Records) and more!
We'll be back on Friday night, DJing in support of Esquire at the Magic Stick. This should be quite a hoot.
Finally, the Les Infants Terribles Anniversary Party has been postponed until April due to a fire at Corktown Tavern. Our best wishes go out to Tom and the staff at our favorite bar, and hope to see the joint re-open soon... so we can get back at it, and finally bring you a live set from Goudron...
Friday, February 25, 2005
Intelligent MIDI Sequencing with Hamster Control
This project was initially fueled by the desire to explore the MIDI protocol. It was decided that this would be accomplished by building a MIDI device. I also aimed to make something novel that had never been done before.
Wednesday, February 23, 2005
I've never heard of Fiat Lux before recieving this comp.
I've never heard of any of their artists.
But this is a damn good label..
Tuesday, February 22, 2005
Deitch web site: now up.
It's about time! (Really nice work though.)
On a slight tangent, I just got an adavance copy of the new Fischerspooner LP at the Lab here. (Thanks, Ryan!) Too soon to give it a fair assesment, but I'm thinking Warren has been either listening to a lot of, or hanging out with Bitshifter, eh?
Bleep, bleep, bloop.
Friday, February 18, 2005
Cooper-Hewitt Proposes $75 Million Expansion
The National Design Museum has outgrown its home, but where to go without major alterations to the Carnegie Mansion or the lovely garden? Build three floors for gallery space, exhibition preparation, conservation and a restaurant under the garden, of course.
Thursday, February 17, 2005
HELL
the "Let's Fucking Rock" tour
with Mr. O (aka Traxx) and Decoy
Saturday, Feb. 19
Oslo
Detroit
An innovator in the truest sense, having begun his mixing career while still a teenager, Hell has moved through punk and new wave to electro and hasn't stopped since. He has been DJing around the world for ever it seems and has produced some of Techno's most memorable tracks & owns one of the most important & influential record labels ever, International Deejay Gigolos. Gigolo is more or less the birthplace of modern electro, and has launched the careers of many artists such as Fisherspooner, Miss Kittin & The Hacker, Tiga, David Caretta, Vitalic, Zombie Nation, & Crossover, to name a few... Hell returns to Detroit for the first time in 5 years. This is going to be big.
...more great stuff happening in Detroit:
Tamion 12 Inch and Les Georges Leningrad
TONIGHT at The Magic Stick
Ryan Elliot presents VAULT wsg Matt Dear
Friday night at Oslo
Wednesday, February 16, 2005
just getting back from one of the best live shows i have seen in a while: -m-, who i mentioned a week ago...huge in his native france but unjustly unknown otherwise. think jeff buckley mixed with french kitch. grab his record if you find it.
tomorrow in barcelona is the punk-alt-noise-rock band girls against boys
KGB
alegre de dalt 55
21.00
Tuesday, February 15, 2005
i have no money but i am foolish enough to be going to amsterdam this friday to see the digable planets...they better be f***ing good.
not to step on his toes by saying this first, but i have to inform burnlab and its loyal peopleship that burnlabber tony saracino has made the leap and will be marrying his love rachel...ah the beauty of love. (sorry tony but i couldn´t help it!)
als0...a friend, chris hrabalec, will be unveiling his showcar in the geneva autoshow this march. the amazing thing is that he is still in school. besides being a student at london´s royal college of art, chris is also the owner of the largest collection of the amazing lancia stratos and is still in his mid twenties...check out his website
Sunday, February 13, 2005
Last night's Les Infants Terribles Valentine's Ball was absolutely ridiculous. Many thanks to Panic and Burgundy of Pas/Cal for DJing, bringing carnations and helping decorate, Lauren Casteel for baking delicious cupcakes, Dorkette and team for the fabuously over-the-top decorations, gift bags and treats, and to everyone who came out and danced. It was our our biggest night yet and a ton of fun... even crazier than Dorkpol, if you could imagine. The comment was made this morning, "You know that you and Jon have created a whirling dervish here that's out of your control." Perhaps. :)
If you missed out or just can't get enough, we have two big events planned for March:
Dorkwave and Friends will be hosting the Metro Times Blowout preview party at the Garden Bowl in Detroit on Wednesday 3/2/05, with guest DJs Mike Trombley (The Sights), Sam Consiglio (Tamion 12 Inch) and more.
Saturday 3/19/05 is the Les Infants Terribles One Year Anniversary Party at Corktown Tavern. The multi-tallented Ron Zakrin will be performing live as Goudron for the first time in nearly a year. We're working on a few other surprises to celebrate a year of great muisc, building bridges, making dancing fun, keeping everyone guessing, and instigating the kind of good natured debachury that myths are made of. Info at Dorkwave.com
Saturday, February 12, 2005
Friday, February 11, 2005
Thursday, February 10, 2005
Our good friends at Motor City Rocks point out what may be perhaps the most embarrassingly bad headline the Detroit Free Press has ever printed... and the Freep is infamous for bad headlines:
Coffeehouse brings New York style to Taylor
Taylor is a nice enough place, but about as mundane a suburb you will find in the midwest (internet cafe or not,) and "New York style" is a phrase that instantly induces nausea in NYorkers... and just about anyone who has actually been to New York.
(Also see "...it's just like New York.")
Wednesday, February 09, 2005
Dorkwave receives a nice mention in the San Francisco Bay Guardian:
"...at Dorkwave's Les Infants Terribles party (yes, they know it should be "Enfants," but "L.I.T." looked better than "L.E.T.") at the Corktown Tavern - a place thick with smoke, heavy on electro and synth pop, but content with its tight, friendly vibe - I finally feel like I'm home again."
"Oi! What's this new wave bullshit?"
The boys from Nebraska encourage you to give them a dropkick to the head.
[via Voltage]
Tuesday, February 08, 2005
DesignBoom reports from the Cologne Furniture Fair. Hella is always an inspiration, and wacky Luigi Colani is up to some new tricks.
Monday, February 07, 2005
To counteract the cold grey raininess outside, I'm doing some research on J. Otto Siebold for work (seriously.... this is a good job), listening to Saturday, and feelin' kinda Pumpernickle.
Design Within Reach opened its first Detroit area retail store last week, appropriately just a hop, skip and a jump down the road from Cranbrook.
I can't think of a better way to start the week: February edition of the Daniel Miller Hour.
Thursday, February 03, 2005
Considering the Last Romantic, Ayn Rand, at 100
Happy (posthumous) birthday to one of the greatest voices for individual liberty and the human spirit of the 20th century.
Wednesday, February 02, 2005
PAS/CAL - Detroit's dapper, quirky and epigrammatic purveyors of pop have a lovely new website well worth your perusal.
Oh, and PAS/CAL's Richard Panic and Nathan Burgundy IV will be our very special guest DJs at this month's edition of Les Infants Terribles!
Until I finish the Dorkwave version of the flyer this evening, enjoy this one from Richard and Nathan:
