M is for Myg

October made it out last week and kept me company. We had an excellent convo about her circuit bending exploits and the x0xb0x she built.

I’ll be spinning glitchy electronica and ephemera again tonight from 7-8 p.m. SL time at Clockwork in Topgol (225, 143, 54). The past couple of weeks have been great (DesertWolf brought the noise again last night to a growing fan base of hard rockin’ avatars) and the roster of DJs is expanding and more slots are getting filled in the schedule. Tomorrow from 4-6 p.m. SL time, Callie Carr will make her Friday debut spinning a range of danceable rock tracks. Stay tuned for details about other additions and special events.

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DJ keTchUp spins in the beer locker at Clockwork

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Before you hear this week’s podcast, you need to know about what happened Friday:

A disturbing incident occurred in downtown Philadelphia last week when an unidentified gunman injured two of Topgol’s chief architects.

“I was building and he landed next to me with a gun and said ‘Hi,’” said Sable Slade. “I said Hi back. He said something about a house in the sky, about a friend shooting him, sending him up in the air. He was leaving when Diane showed up. He flew away…and she got shot — and there was another bomb behind her…”

Little Philly resident Esteban Moody, who arrived on the scene shortly after the shooting, described the gunman as “a kind of trenchcoat mafia furry with a pirate mask and a shotgun.” Moody also recalled that the assailant had a “big-ass raccoon tail.”

“It was a landmine,” reported shooting victim Diane Zinner, “and then the bombers came! Sable and i had to duck fast…we were running, bullets flying everywhere! Sable took one in the leg, and I helped her into a building…the landmine didn’t go off…there was fire and smoke - and that’s when he shot me. He shot me in the back. I was in bad shape. Sable should be up for the silver star — valor in combat, right? — she pulled me through.”

The three locals then followed the shooter to a distant hideout.

“The dude was incoherent,” said Moody. “At first he says he’s a hitperson or somenthing — at least that’s what I think he was saying — but then he starts apologizing, like it was all some mistake — Diane was just an innocent bystander. Apparently, he’s part of a secret ritual society that worships a giant Mexican ferrett.”

Local police are continuing the investigation.

The good news is that both Sable and Diane were recovered enough by Monday night to shake their booties along with the rest of Topgol! Did you miss it? Do you want it again? Funkify your life by hitting the “play” button or downloading the podcast.

Thanks as always to everyone who came out! More pictures here.

funk for the masses | 13 Aug 2007: podcast.

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Set list:

Nortec Collective: Funky Tamazula
The J.B.’s: Givin’ Up Food For Funk (Part 1)
Royal Rock: Can’t Fade The Funk
Kool & the Gang: Funky Stuff
MC Solaar: Funky Dreamer
Cameo: Funk Funk
The Meters: Funkify Your Life
Brand New Heavies: Put the Funk Back In It
Dayton Sidewinders: Funky in Here
My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult: Do You Wanna Get Funky With Me
James Brown: Funky Side of Town
Calypso King & The Soul Investigators: Gator Funk Pt. 1
Tower Of Power: You Got To Funkifize
Parliament: Give Up The Funk
Arthur Conley: Funky Street
James Brown: Every Beat of my Heart

dinee and Veyron are making the mothership connection during Esteban’s set last night, and I’m either shakin’ it or scratchin’ it there in the left background.

Here’s last night’s set, without the skipping and dropouts that were provided courtesy of some evil harddrive/network confluencies. Click the arrow to stream or right click and “save link as” to download:

(n)eXt podcast from 13 August 2007

Trans Am – First Words (4:14)
Bloc Party – Waiting for the 7.18 (4:15)
Raising the Fawn – Gwendolyn (4:28)
Goodbooks – Alice (3:38)
The Mary Timony Band – Sharpshooter (3:00)
White Rabbits – The Plot (3:31)
The Enemy – Had Enough (2:40)
Tokyo Police Club – Cut Cut Paste (1:46)
Pinback – From Nothing to Nowhere (3:27)
Stars – Bitches in Tokyo (2:50)
Art Brut – Nag Nag Nag Nag (3:03)
Revolution Mother – Come On (2:10)
Idiot Pilot – Elephant (3:45)
Rilo Kiley – The Moneymaker (2:52)
God Love You For a Liar – The Guest (4:30)
Okkervil River – No Key No Plan (3:00)
The National – Apartment Story (3:34)
The Real Tuesday Weld – Last Words (4:54)

And some good photos of the action from Esteban’s Flickr stream.

Discussion and links–including new purchase and download options–after the jump.

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Here’s what I need you to do right now: download Monday’s ultra-funky funk for the masses podcast into your ipod or whatever meat device is the rage this afternoon and let the true funk shake the real you out of your meatskin into a consciousness of the Glorified Life which has been lost to us. Got that? If even for a minute you remember the world that once was, it will be a step toward our eventual emancipation. What demonic force stole from us our rightful inheritance I do not know. I know only that the answer lies somewhere within the funk.

Special shout-outs to Romana (we missed you, honey!) and Posh and Clip for their housewarming party last night!

Click on Tiana’s exquisite visage for pics of all the gang gettin’ down on Monday.

funk for the masses | 6 Aug 2007: podcast.

set list:

Mighty Imperials: Jody’s Walk
Mary Jane Hooper: Don’t Change Nothin’
The Coup: Ride the Fence
Fatboy Slim: Gangster Tripping
X-Ecutioners: ILL BILL
Crystal Waters: 100% Pure
Heather Small: Proud
Diana Ross: I’m Coming Out
Junior Senior: Move Your Feet
Ozomatli: Saturday Night
GrandMixer DXT feat. Jerome “Bigfoot” Brailey And Jah Wobble: Cut Transmitter
Propellerheads: Take California
Ike & Tina Turner: A Fool In Love
Sharon Jones: How long do I have to wait for you

Myg looks like she’s workin’ it, but actually she is in the middle of slipping on one of the banana peels Esteban left laying on the floor during last night’s (n)eXt new music Monday set.

If you missed it or just wanna hear it again, click the arrow to stream or right click and “save link as” to download:
(n)eXt podcast from 6 August 2007

Here’s the track listing:

Scout Niblett – Dinosaur Egg (2:35)
Bat for Lashes – Horse & I (3:04)
Illinois – Alone Again (3:11)
Young Folks – Peter Bjorn and John (4:36)
The New Pornographers – My Rights Versus Yours (4:17)
The Thrills – Nothing Changes Round Here (4:12)
The National – About Today (7:08)
Editors – An End Has a Start (3:47)
God Love You for a Liar – Holding You is Like Keeping Water in My Hands (4:00)
Aesop Rock – None Shall Pass (4:03)
Nova Robotics – Retox (5:23)
The Red Romance – You’re So Cold (3:45)
Foo Fighters – The Pretender (4:28)
Against Me! – Piss and Vinegar (2:27)
Revolution Mother - Above the Crawl (3:02)
Kinski – Punching Goodbye Out Front (2:39)
The Go! Team – Grip Like a Vice (4:01)

More links and descriptive banter after the jump.

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Anonymous behind my shades, I surveyed the scene: bodies again, bodies in motion.

Funk is the music of determination. What else is there? The mechanistic drill of techno, the chilled beats of trip-hop? Funk is hard work and sweat. The body has to move, full of life, imposing its will upon the world. That’s all there is: what it is is what it is; it’s the beat; it’s being in time because time has come today, my friend. Are you with me?

Clockwork was hopping on Monday night. I’d tell you who was there, but who wasn’t there? — you know what I mean? But we’re there to bust a move, not make the scene, ya dig? Our minds tell us it’s Monday, that our meatpersons are back at work, but truth lies in solidarity: we don’t believe in the meatworld. We believe in life.

Can you feel it?
‘Cause I can feel it.
Can you hear it?
‘Cause I can hear it too.
Can you touch it?
‘Cause I can touch it.

Did you miss it? Do you want it again?

funk for the masses | 30 July 2007: download the podcast [set list after the break]

Yet, even as my head nodded to the funky beat of the Dynamites, I knew something was wrong… Read more

Does that look like I’m looking back to last night’s awesome party or just some poseur trying to show his “good” side? Don’t answer that.

Here is the podcast and setlist from the new music hour:

(n)eXt | 23 July 2007: Right click here to download the podcast.

Interpol – Mammoth 4:13
The National – Mistaken for Strangers 3:21
Battles – Atlas 7:07
Your Black Star – The Break 4:38
Holy Fuck – Lovely Allen 4:29
Para One – Midnight Swim 5:02
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah – Satan Said Dance 5:32
LCD Soundsystem – Someone Great 6:26
Spoon – Black Like Me 3:26
Les Savy Fav – What Would Wolves Do? 2:57
The Moths – Games 2:46
Kings of Leon – My Third House 4:03
Christopher Roberts – Blood on Our 4:02
Tranzmitors – Plastic Genocide 2:52
The 1990s – See You at the Lights 2:55

Jump below the fold for some ridiculous commentary on each of these newly minted tracks.

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Thanks to everyone who came out last night for the kickoff of (n)eXt and big ups to Esteban for getting on the decks and turning out the funk for the late crew. Jump below the fold for the podcast, set list, and synopsis of what was served. We’ll be back next week at the same time slot (7 p.m. SL time) at Clockwork in Topgol [SLurl]. Watch this space for the growing schedule of great music at Clockwork.

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