Our newest spiritual kin, Los Minstrels Del Diablo [a.k.a. Pete Coe and Jason McCombs] are performing their multimedia spectacular spectacular tonight at the Painted Lady in Hamtramck, MI. [Think Emergency Broadcast Network meets early Wax Trax!, filtered through Detroit Techno and tainted by Survival Research Labs and B movies... in skull masks.]
We had been planning our night around this, but just moments ago Dethlab was invited to play some music as well. Expect chaos!
Los Minstrels Del Diablo - The Invassion [live, 2006]
Friday, October 31, 2008
Los Minstrels Del Diablo tonight!
Wish we were in Mexico City.
Sometimes I can be kinda slow. We knew ADULT. was playing a Halloween show in Mexico City tonight, and yesterday our friend Bryan informed me that Douglas McCarthy [you know... Nitzer Ebb...] was DJ'ing there tonight as well. I thought, "Wow, it sure would be cool to be in Mexico City for Halloween!" Seriously, who does Halloween better than Mexico?
It occurred to me only moments ago to check airfares - which are absurdly cheap! Trouble is that the last flight leaves... right... about... now. [Damn!]
We'll be in Ferndale, MI tonight [apparently the depraved Marxist hub of the Midwest] kicking ourselves and handing out candy to grubby little goblins with the following on repeat:
Fixmer/McCarthy - Join in the Chant [live, 2007]
ADULT. - Inside [2008]
Next year: we'll be in Mexico for Halloween.
[Heck, we might be there a lot sooner if the theological oligarchy Palin Mandate wins Tuesday.]
It's The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year
We're still finding fake blood and Jell-O brains in strange places form this past weekend's Theatre Bizarre - possibly the most fun we've ever had on and off stage in one night. Check out some great photos from Amy Hubbarth and from Brett Lawrence.
That however, was just the start. Here are two essential Halloween parties coming up fast:
Everything's gone black and blood at Ghostly dot com in anticipation of TONIGHT's Halloween bash in New York City, featuring Audion [live], The Rapture [DJs], Danny Wang and more.
Back in Detroit is the 8th annual Interdimensional Transmissions Samhain party on Saturday night with DJs Mike Servito, Patrick Russell, BMG of Ectomorph, Carlos Souffront and more.
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Christopher Hitchens at his feisty finest
From Slate:
In an election that has been fought on an astoundingly low cultural and intellectual level, with both candidates pretending that tax cuts can go like peaches and cream with the staggering new levels of federal deficit, and paltry charges being traded in petty ways, and with Joe the Plumber becoming the emblematic stupidity of the campaign, it didn't seem possible that things could go any lower or get any dumber. But they did last Friday, when, at a speech in Pittsburgh, Gov. Sarah Palin denounced wasteful expenditure on fruit-fly research, adding for good xenophobic and anti-elitist measure that some of this research took place "in Paris, France" and winding up with a folksy "I kid you not."
It was in 1933 that Thomas Hunt Morgan won a Nobel Prize for showing that genes are passed on by way of chromosomes. The experimental creature that he employed in the making of this great discovery was the Drosophila melanogaster, or fruit fly...
Read on: Sarah Palin's War on Science
Saturday, October 25, 2008
Theatre Bizarre Tonight!
It's once again time for Theatre Bizarre: a Detroit institution on par with automobiles, ginger beer and French city planning. If you've never been, imagine if Survival Research Labs ran the Coney Island Freak Show... or Burning Man without all the hippies and a lot more blood and gasoline. Few things represent the punk rock ethics and DIY ingenuity which defines Detroit so well.
Dethlab+1 is delighted to performing this year in the new Theatre Bizarre Scaredy Cat Club. Zombie JFK [yours truly,] Jackie O [David Blunk II] and Marilyn Monroe [Ms. Toybreaker] will be playing all new edits and mash-ups from 10:20PM-11:10PM + custom visuals by Detronik.
It's been sold out for more than a week, but if you're one of the lucky few with a ticket, please come by and see us. We have some extra special theatrical elements just for tonight.
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Let's feel bad together.
We had been anxiously sitting on this one to let Adam and Nicola announce it on adultperiod.com: there is a brand new ADULT. EP out NOW on Ersatz Audio and exclusively through Beatport - Let's Feel Bad Together. It's equally dancefloor friendly and anxiety inspiring... rather, "dancefloor anxiety inspiring"?
Here is ADULT.'s brand spanking new video:
ADULT. - "Inside" Music Video from Danny Kim on Vimeo.
Also, our dear friend Gregory De Rocher a.k.a. Lowfish has a brand new LP out on Noise Factory Records. Frozen and Broken is featured on the front page of Beatport right now.
We've been sitting on this for months and still owe our readers a review. Here's the gist: Frozen and Broken is certainly the darkest and most complex Lowfish record to date. Considering it took Lowfish over three years to produce the brilliant Burn The Lights Out, Frozen and Broken came as a surprise a few months later. This is Lowfish's "punishing analog electro and catchy melodic electronica" at it's finest, but with a level of broody introspection and emotional urgency we have not seen before. Powerful stuff.
Preview Frozen and Broken right here.
It feels like a Casiotone kind of week.
Wonderful cover, and I love the little distortion jam at the end:
Casiotone For The Painfully Alone - Streets of Philadelphia [live, 2008]
We've posted this one before, but it's such a great clip for such a great song - plus you can really see how busy Owen is with all his little boxes:
Casiotone For The Painfully Alone - Young Shields [live, 2007]
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
*contains dancing cat
Casiotone For The Painfully Alone - White Corolla [2007/video by Julia Pott, 2008]
See more work by illustrator and animator Julia Pott.
+ CFTPA has a new EP out (15 songs in 22 minutes!) Town Topic is the soundtrack to the indie film Stay the Same Never Change. The EP features a combination of new material and re-works of older songs, similar in concept to one of my other fave soundtracks, Einstürzende Neubauten's score for Berlin Babylon.
Monday, October 20, 2008
Second best track of the year
The first is Traffickers by The Reflecting Skin. I have a long post in the works about The Reflecting Skin and Ricardo Tobar, but until I finish it, enjoy this: Fairmont - I Need Medicine (Ricardo Tobar remix)
Sunday, October 19, 2008
Dogs of Lust
[I'm clearly on a The The kick tonight.]
The The - Dogs of Lust [1992]
[Again, YouTube embedding disabled for no good reason.]
Is it just me, or does Matt Johnson look strikingly like our very own Grant Aaron here?
I Saw The Light
The The - I Saw The Light [1995]
This is one of my favorite music videos of all time. For whatever reason, the YouTube author has disabled embedding - which is is about the most annoying thing ever. Why?? Stupid.
Anyway... I love this video to death. I never noticed the guy in the latex zipper mask before though. [Maybe that didn't make it through the MTV/Christian Coalition filter?] Either way, Matt Johnson looks freaking awesome in cowboy boots combat boots and a cowboy hat 900 feet above Manhattan!
If Johnson is the fabulous queen I think(?) he is, he could have talked guitarist Eric Schermerhorn into playing a stylish black on black Fender Jag instead that obnoxious red Flying V. How gauche.
Also, I had speculated before that parts of this video were shot on a sound stage. Watching it again and considering the miniscule budget allotted to a band like The The, I'm pretty sure Matt was out there in NYC skyscraper winds - which makes it that much more awesome.
Detroit, welcome back the 'Ambient Pimp'
Name anyone in techno with a better collection of titles than Sebastian Meissner, who, as Klimek, has produced odd, soaringly beautiful pieces with names like 'For Michael Gira and Vladimir Ivanovich', 'Standing on the Beach (Gun in My Hands mix)', 'Let the Snakes Crinkle Their Heads to Death' and 'Ruined in a Day (Buenos Aires)'. We dare you.
But this is not techno as you probably know it. Meissner calls his "violently sad-sounding music" and "melodramatic popular song," not exactly kin to typical runaway train Detroit-style 4/4. But Klimek loves the D, played here in 2006 at a Movement Kompakt showcase (with Markus Guentner and Mikkel Metal), spun a crazy, unpredictable DJ set at Paris '68's 'Summer of Love', and spent the rest of his time here roaming the ruins with his camera.
Anticipate Recordings and Kompakt artist Klimek performs at Cranbrook Art Museum, Friday Oct. 24, 8 p.m. The Berlin-based electronic musician will do a live audio set with video elements as part of the Andy Warhol: Grand Slam exhibition. Museum admission is $10, $4 for students.
On Saturday, Oct. 25 Proper | Modulation hosts Klimek at Oslo (1456 Woodward Avenue). Doors are 10 p.m. Admission is free until 11 p.m. and $5 after. Also performing: Aran Daniels v. Metaphaze, Steve Wickham and nospectacle.
Friday, October 17, 2008
Thursday, October 16, 2008
Hooray for Mr. Yuk!
No, not this Mr. Yuk, this Mr. Yuk:
[Ms. Toybreaker is digging up all kinds of awesome on teh YouTubes right now for our Theatre Bizarre show. More soon...]
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