Tonight everyone needs to come out and see this guy. His productions are amazing. He’s apart of the Dim Mak label. He’s going to tear up the dance floor using only his ableton and his midi. Be prepared you guys. Lets go now!

Here is some footage from Taiwan

We have a pretty sweet artist coming down to Houston this week. He’s playing at Boondocks this Friday. His name is Chris Rose aka “Car Stereo (Wars)”. He’s from Austin, TX. He has an album out titled The Bandit. He’s known for his mash ups and live performances. He was kind enough to send us a few of his productions. And btw he is the only artist from Texas that is playing at the Lollapalooza Music Festival this year in August. Here’s what one person had to say about him

Car Stereo (Wars) interview in Austin American Statesman

Joe Gross at the Austin American Statesman wrote this really cool little article about Car Stereo (Wars) here

also posted below:

In the clubs with: Car Stereo (Wars)
By Joe Gross
AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF
Thursday, October 25, 2007

Chris Rose, also known as Car Stereo (Wars), almost doesn’t consider himself a DJ. The 23-year-old has been playing records in public for only about two years. It’s only now, with the release of his debut album, “The Bandit,” on local label Artifact Workshop, that he feels like he’s finally figured out what Car Stereo (Wars) is.

“It’s evolved a lot,” Rose said. “It started out as this DJ night at Plush. Not all that serious. Then it evolved into learning how to beat match and become a more serious DJ, which evolved into working on a lot of stuff on my computer, learning how to cut up and rearrange stuff. Now I’ve decided to stop DJ-ing entirely in order to concentrate on the mash-ups.”

“Mash-ups” are, of course, the result of combining the recorded versions of two songs in new and (it’s hoped) interesting ways. They were a genuine fad a few years ago. Now they feel like another arrow in a good DJ’s quiver. Rose is good at them.

Live, Rose likens Car Stereo (Wars) to a puzzle, all of the pieces on his laptop. “I have things divided into one- and two-minute sections,” Rose said. “I have a bunch of stuff to pick and choose from. Ultimately, I want to do less of it through the computer and pick up a keyboard and drum machine.” Yes, kids, he does all this with just a laptop and bits of other people’s music. Is this a great country or what?

As DJ Spooky once said, “Give me two records and I’ll give you a universe.” Car Stereo (Wars) is Austin’s one-man Big Bang, building up and breaking down multi-verses with ease. And a laptop. For now.

Watch yo self. Avoid the piggies. So sad, I love bacon in the mornings….

Symptoms:

• fever

• cough

• sore throat

• body aches

• headache

• chills

• fatigue

• diarrhea

• vomiting

*In severe cases*

• pneumonia and respiratory failure
• deaths
• underlying chronic medical conditions

LOLZ.

Are you ready for this?!!! October 2nd – 4th 2009!!!

Check out the lineup for this year’s ACL Festival:

NICELY DONE.

and it’s been pouring off and on, also a thing that made me chuckle a bit earlier was when I was driving to the bank and it was pouring 5 feet away from me. How weird hahaha, I almost wanted to drive into that spot. Anyways it’s been a crazy weekend, felt hella long but in a good way. I’m still recovering from it slowly. Sooooo I have some new music for all you readers to start off the week. I’m going to keep this post short and to the point, so how about we start off with the slow and then move towards the fast and hard beats? Sounds great.

First off I have this one track from Bat for Lashes, this girl is way cute. She’s got this 80s throwback sound; a sexual ghost voice— very Kate Bush and I can’t help but fall in love with her voice, in a way she’s soothing. So now I introduce to you Natasha Khan of Bat for Lashes. Fall fall fall for it.

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Bat for Lashes- Daniel

Up next is Flashmen, if you went to SXSW this year and attended a Famous Friends party I’m sure you heard one of the members of Flashmen spinning. Daniel E and Bradley D have joined forces and made Flashmen, a dreamwave of layered synth disco beats. They’re pretty self explainatory and I’m sure we will hear more from them. Get ready to dance!

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Flashmen Theme

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Flashmen – Little Wildkat

Last, I know all you are well aware of Datarock. Well they’ve just put out a new EP called Give It Up, I’m enjoying it so far. I totally danced to this Saturday night while on my way to a psychedelic adventure. And I only hope you all will do the same when you hear these guys.

My favorite one is the Weird Tapes Remix.

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Give it Up (Radio Edit)

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Give It Up (Kissy Sell Outs 44 Cello Mix)

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Give It Up (Chateau Marmont Remix)

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Give It Up (Weird Tapes Remix)

You got to live by the game

You got to live by the rule

You got to know your means

and moves – Datarock

Safely? Rave it up in the rain while you drive home!

San FranDisco was bomb dot com and I was sad to leave, but I’ll be back there for sure! I’m back in Hellston and ready to jump back into the festivities. It already started last night when we got off the plane and headed straight to Treasure Fingers. It’s nice to come back to lovely faces and see everyone shakin it on the dance floor. Will update more on Treasure Fingers later. Starting the weekend off tonight, there’s a lot going on. You all remember the post about Joystix and the all you can play vintage video games? Well tonight’s the night, 1820 bar and Joystix will open their doors to tonight for all night game playing. $15 gets you in and you can go pinball crazy. Also there’s a Lonestar sponsored art party at A-Front, that’ll be starting at 6:30 pm and ending at 10:30 pm. Perfect timing for some Joystix action.

Tomorrow (Saturday) the annual iFest is happening on 16 acres of the downtown area 12:00 pm to 10:00 pm! WHOOAAAAA! If anyone is unfamiliar with the iFest, it’s the International Festival, an event that shows you culture from all over world, including: music, foods, fine arts and crafts!!! Exciting and a fun time I tell you. So definitely a day time event you should attend. For information on what you can find there, admission, and set list of performing talents go HERE. After the iFest is over, head over to the Do It Anyway You Wanna party on 2301 Commerce St. (above the Booker T’s gym) Jep will be spinning along with G-Wizz. Or you can go to Block 21 for the DIRB Block Party. Your choice or do both! Also, HAPPY BIRTHDAY JAMA BABE!!

Last but not least, I have a little bit of new music for you all. Now we’re all familiar with Ra Ra Riot and Vampire Weekend… Well Rostam Batmanglij of VW has joined forces with Wes Miles of RRR and made Discovery. I can only find two songs for now, but I’m diggin it since I’m a fan of the two bands above. Orange Shirt sounds more of Ra Ra Riot but I get a little R&B feel through the vocals, and Osaka Loop Line sounds more like an equal amount between the two artists.

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Discovery – Orange Shirt

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Discovery – Osaka Loop Line

Have a wonderful weekend and stay dry!

So this past Tuesday at Dim Mak Tuesdays they celebrated Busy P’s birthday. The entire ed banger crew was there. captaingann told me he Thomas of Daft Punk did a surprise 3 song set at the end of the night which blew the crowd away. Captaingann you lucky bastard. Here’s a video from the night. From what STEREOGUM says “people jizzing in their pants”

Thomas Bangalter of Daft Punk!! from ViDoL on Vimeo.

Yo yo yo while I’m still in the Bay Area. You all should go to Austin. Because it’s awesome and it’s the reggae festival this weekend.

here’s all the info you need:

The 12th annual Austin Reggae Festival brings thousands of reggae fans to Auditorium Shores for two days of music, food, arts & crafts and fun. The event celebrates the loving spirit of Bob Marley, whose message of peace, tolerance and non-violent change continues to build global momentum even twenty years after his death. Enjoy the unifying power of music on April 18 and 19 while you support the Capital Area Food Bank, an organization that brings food to thousands of Central Texas families each year.

Performers on Saturday, April 18 include:
Channel One (12:30)
Subrosa Union (2:00)
Bandulus (3:30)
Mau Mau Chaplains (5:00)
Grimy Styles (6:30)
The Skatalites (8:00)

Performers on Sunday, April 19 include:
The Reddies (12:30)
Don Chani (2:00)
Radio La Chusma (3:30)
Tribal Nation (5:00)
Los Skarnales (6:30)
Wailing Souls (8:00)

Tickets are $10 in advance and $15 at the door. For what you can and cannot bring go here.

Goodnight/morning from the Westcoast!!!

Hearthugs,

AZNATK

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Here we have Tiga, an amazing dj/producer, his freashest essential mix for you readers today. He runs Turbo Recordings. He’s from Montreal. Here is what others had to say about him.

The citizen may take a bride, but it is the rifleman who takes a lover. Ultimately we all must choose either the myth or the mountain.”

The origins of Montreal born DJ-producer-incipient Teutonic legend Tiga lie to the vague and troubling East, where he was weaned on the nefarious milk of the notorious 1980s Indian club scene. “To the unforgiving eye,” he says of the sybaritic night-kingdom, “a world of filth and decadence is revealed. For example, I’m fairly certain that more than a few club owners had an unsavory arrangement with the man who brought the folding chairs. I was at once appalled and enraptured. After that, I had no choice in the matter.”

By 1990, Tiga had returned to Montreal, prodigiously night wise and unsatisfied with the existing local club scene (calling it “the plumage of a bird I cannot bring myself to want.”) With the help of a core group of friends, he began to throw a series of small parties infused with the sense of dead-eyed ennui gleaned from a past littered with acid whores and crazed Indian gamblers. Other innovations which Tiga introduced to Montreal party culture include guest DJs, intense street promotions featuring rival gangs of street acrobats, color flyers, multi-dj sets, and leading the supplicant crowd through the innermost corridors of one’s soul.

It was this heady time of dizzying innovation and ravenous sexual ambition which culminated in the birth of 1993’s “Solstice,” generally considered to be Montreal’s first genuine rave. (A year earlier, a hyper-prescient Tiga staged “Eclectricity,” the first online rave, a project whose utter failure remains a source of bafflement: “It broke my heart, given my views on diversity. . . I am, I feel, a very interactive person.”) Tiga has since helped to orchestrate no less than ten major events, including “The Orb Live,” “Pure,” and the very first North American appearance of continental illusionist Jean-There.

In 1994, Tiga bought DNA Records, a small medical data concern, and parlayed it into Montreal’s premiere electronic music boutique. “We’ve always believed in putting the customer first, from helping you find that one minimal house record that will make your collection to offering concerned looks as you wade through the enormous backlog of test results to discover if you are in fact afflicted with a congenital disease.”

In 1996, Tiga mourned the death of actor and poet Tupac Shakur.
That same year, the Montreal dance community found a haven for the boldest feats of dance, where fools are in love with mystery and sex-valor is prized above all else. Sona (meaning literally ‘Liar-dancer’) was initially conceived of by Tiga and his two partners as “a perverse, jeering monolith, because nothing is sacred anymore” but it has evolved into much more. In addition to its place amongst the pantheon of urban groove centers, on weekdays it rents out its facilities, at a very reasonable rate, to a local program dedicated to teaching homeless men to dance properly (“I just think it’s an important project,” Tiga said at the time).

In 1998, Tiga started Turbo Recordings as an outlet for his wildman organ escapades but he soon found a host of other artists who were willing to be paid to record for him. Turbo has released over 20 albums, 2 samplers, and 12 vinyl twelve inches as well as secured global distribution with Prime, Intergroove and Caroline. Notable releases include Peter Benisch’s “Soundtrack Saga,” Christopher Handlebar’s “To a Time of Asia” and Tiga’s own “Mixed Emotions” and “American Gigolo”

By last year, however, overwork and media saturation began to show their strain, as evidenced by Tiga’s hysterical outburst at a fashion photographer during a promo shoot:

“I’ll sit for your venal cigarette pictures, but I will not indulge you in your game of ‘Eyes! Lies! Surprise!’ I dare you, coward– call out your cloakmen! What are you waiting for? The truth?!”

Following a month spent riding horses and caring for his voice, Tiga entered the studio with producer Zyntherius “Jori” Hulkonnen and a singular vision: “electro, but mainly about my eyes.” The result, a searing rendition of his former Mother Mio bandmate Corey Hart’s solo smash “Sunglasses at Night,” challenged dancers and seduced critics alike, yet Tiga is coy when asked about its impact, particularly in Germany: “’Sunglasses’ is a sinless child, a gleaming medallion. But is also a trick, a trick of memory. You must understand– on a whim, we revealed the hidden fire of Europe.”

But fires need tending and lumber. And so be advised of the onslaught of Tiga-powered releases, both recent and forthcoming. They are his craft, his life, his fire:

The immense success garnered by “Sunglasses at Night” was just one facet that catapulted him into the international feeding frenzied world of other electronic music notables. Tiga has remixed for the likes of Martini Bros., Alpinestars, Linda Lamb, Crossover, FC Kahuna, Cabaret Voltaire, Telepopmusik, Felix da Housecat, Fischerspooner, FPU, The Devils (Nick Rhodes), and Danni Minogue. As if this wasn’t enough, he also produced remixes for City Rockers, and singles for Turbo Recordings, Intec, Drumcode, and Electrix all under his TGV moniker, which is his collaborative effort with Mateo Murphy.

2003 was the year that Tiga released his mix CD on !K7 for their DJ Kicks series. His take on Nelly’s “Hot in Herre”, released for the DJ Kicks compilation, became a huge success and resulted in it being licensed in the UK by Skint, as well as the GAS region by Warner Music. The video, which can be seen at http://www.eyeballnyc.com/, features a sardonic view of the hip-hop world through some clever puppet wizardry from Tiga’s brother, Thomas (aka Lord of the Marionette).

Tiga has also lent his vocals to Richard X’s debut album on a track titled “You (Better Let Me Love You X 4) Tonight”. Most recently, Tiga has remixed Alex Kidd’s “Come With Me”, Neon Judgement’s “TV Treated”, Scissor Sister’s cover of Pink Floyd’s “Comfortably Numb”, Junior Jack (feat. Robert Smith)’s “Da Hype”, and Peaches’ “Shake Yer Dix”. Already gaining massive rotation amongst club DJs, Tiga’s latest single, “Pleasure from the Bass” is being released on the Belgian imprint PIAS. His first full-length original artist album is due within the year.

As he prepares for his impending world tour, Tiga is weary but undaunted: “We live in the Age of Cruelty and every day I struggle to find my place in it. All I know I can offer the world is a thousand more adventures through dancing and light.”

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Tiga Essential Mix

Air Liquide – ‘The Increased Difficulty of Concentration’ (Smile Communication) Telefon Tel Aviv – ‘The Worst Thing in the World’ [Gaiser's Possibly the Universe Remix] (Bpitch)
Sei A – ‘Smile For Me’ (Missive)
Arnaud Rebotini – ‘Decade of Aggression’ [Jesper Dahlbäck Remix] (Citizen)
Tiga & Zyntherius – ‘Sunglasses at Night’ [Konrad Black Remix] (Turbo Recordings)
Sei A – ‘My World’ (Missive)
The Mole – ‘Like the Way’ (Wagon Repair)
Seth Troxler – ‘Face Tribute to Head’ (Wagon Repair)
Depeche Mode – ‘Wrong’ [Magda's Scallop Funk mix] (Mute)
Plastikman – ‘Risk Assessment’ (Minus)
Yo Majesty – ‘Club Action’ [Stanton Warriors' Mo Bass Remix] (Wax)
Sydney Samson – ‘Riverside’ (Sneakerz Music)
Tiga ‘Shoes’ [Mr. Oizo Remix] (Different)
Zoo Brazil & Adam Sky – ‘Circle Jerk’ [Bloody Beetroots Remix] (Turbo Recordings)
Tiga – ‘What You Need’ [Proxy Remix] (Different)
The Dove – ‘My Album is Complete’ (CDR)
Housemeister – ‘Beef Jerky’ (Boysnoize Records)
Moby – ‘I Love to Move in Here’ [Proxy Remix] (Mute / Turbo Recordings)
Housemeister – ‘Who is That Boys’ (Boysnoize Records)
I-Cube – ‘Supernovac’ [Live at the Lanchonete Version] (Versatile)
Donato Dozzy & Giorgio Gigli – ‘Real Love EQ – Italy’ (Wagon Repair)
Mike Mind – ‘Acid Machine’ (Turbo Recordings)
Tiga – ‘Overtime’ (Different)
Matias Aguayo – ‘Walter Neff’ (Kompakt)
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion – ‘Mars Arizona’ [DFA Remix] (Mute)
Sei A – ‘This Is’ (Missive)
Peaches – ‘Lose You’ [Matt Walsh & Alex Jones Remix] (XL Recordings)
Tiga – ‘Mind Dimension’ [Ben Hoo's Mind Die Menschen Remix] (Different)
Zombie Nation – ‘Worth It Pt. 1′ (UKW)
Zoo Brazil & Adam Sky – ‘Circle Jerk’ [Milano 309 Remix] (Turbo Recordings)
Mr. Oizo – ‘Steroids’ [Mr. Oizo Remix] (Ed Banger)
Tiga – ‘What You Need’ [Zombie Nation Remix pt. 2] (Different)
Marco Carola – ‘Ninety’ (100% Pure)
Guy J – ‘Shaman’ [Cari Lekebusch Remix 1] (Turbo Recordings)
Fever Ray – ‘Triangle Walks’ [Tiga's 1-2-3-4 Remix] (Rabid / Mute)
Cage & Aviary – ‘Television Train’ (DFA Records)
MGMT – ‘Electric Feel’ [Prince Language Remix] (Columbia)
LCD Soundsystem – ‘Too Much Love’ (Capitol) Tiga – ‘Love Don’t Dance Here Anymore’ (Different)