MY BIKE!

Oh luck, you crazy jerk!

So today I decided to take out this bike I've found about a year ago. I mean look at this thing, why WASN'T I tearing up the suburbs with this guy?! Today I went out, got some great ankle socks, got a bike pump and popped on my best headband and shorts.

About less than a block away, the bike tire's tube popped OUT of the tire and wrapped around the spokes. It's really sad that the majority of sweating I did today was walking the bike back home in shame.

Comedy Central Presents?!

Today I went to a taping of Comedy Central Presents for Anthony Jeselnik and Doug Benson! So go check it out!

I am also testing out some mobile blogging from my iPhone!

Fold your t-shirts like a ninja!

You'll never need a chip clip again!

AND IF YOU LIVED IN SHADOWS BEFORE...

I know it's electro crunk week on the blog but I've had this song stuck in my head when I randomly played it while I was DJing last night. This is one of my favorite tracks from Digitalism (Myspace) and it makes me want to do the little dance that Jermaine from Flight Of The Conchords does in the opening of their show. (The one with the shoulders!!!) Get you some good German electro rock!

Digitalism - I Want I Want

BEATING THE BEAT UP.

This is hands down one of my favorite hip hop electro remixes ever.

MEMPHIS BLEEK - Alright (RATATAT remix)

WE'RE GOING OVERSEAS FOR THIS.

Maybe one of the most unlikely pairs in electro ever, but... it works? See for yourself!

MSTRKRFT - Bounce (featuring N.O.R.E.)

THUNDERHEIST.

I've been loving all these sassy ass electro crunk songs coming out as of late. Even better are all these great remixes of all of them. Montreal's Thunderheist (great name by the way!) get the funky electro remix action courtesy of fellow Canadian Wax Romeo.

Thunderheist - Bubblegum (Wax Romeo Mix)

Download.
Get crunk.
Party up.

G-UNIT.

Yup.

I was one of the few nerds lucky enough to get their iPhone 3G on day one. (And it only took me an hour to get it activated in store! So I was up and running playing stupid YouTube clips in the store and pissing off other customers at 9:30am EST!)

I'm still getting used to the keyboard (and wondering how the hell I am ever going to text with this thing when I am drunk!) and I'll be posting a review of the experience so far in about a week. I'm still in the process of testing out all the apps (mostly the free ones) and seeing how they affect my life. I've had big plans of how the iPhone can change my life so I'm curious to see how having an iPhone for a week and using it's functionality to the fullest will be come 7 days of usage.

D-A-N-C-E

SEX ED. PART TWO

BECAUSE YOU'RE IN 8TH GRADE.

3G.

Here's a short little guide for all you jerks getting the new iPhone 3G!

Here's a clip that AT&T put together for new customers coming their way for the iPhone. Check it out so you know what to bring this Friday!

Too lazy to watch the video? Here's a quick text post on TUAW.com with the same info.

Here's Apple's Guided Tour for those who just want an update of what they are getting with the new iPhone.

And here's a website guide that you can instantly bookmark on your iPhone just in case you need a guide that you can access any time. (And the website is formatted like the iPhone UI!)

BILLION DOLLA.

Have you ever been hit in the head with an object out of nowhere? Remember how much it sucked? Well now imagine if it was awesome and that the object was these two remixes by the UK's Billion Dollar DJs. I've never instantly fallen in love with a pair of remixes like this before. The MIA one especially reminds me of all the best bits of the Streets Of Rage soundtracks.

CSS - Alala (Billion Dollar Djs Bombosity Remix)
M.I.A. - Bucky Done Gun (Billion Dollar Djs Remix for Kicks)

SEX ED. PART ONE.

HEY PIZANO.

USA USA USA.

http://jefframos.blogspot.com/2008/05/i-cant-wait-until-4th-of-july.html

I remember making this post a while back but now we can celebrate it!

USA USA USA USA!!!

IT'S SAD BECAUSE IT IS TRUE.

Thanks for ruining my life Mark Pilipski!

BREAKDOWN.

Maybe the best on TV breakdown ever.

CSS x THE BREEDERS?

Looking at their Myspace update, seeing them update their player with a song called "Cannonball," I didn't think CSS would've actually covered the 90s classic (remember how awesome it made this skit from MTV's "The State?!"), but it seems CSS did!

Check out this preview from the B-side of the UK only single for their track Donkey.

CSS - Cannonball (preview)
The Breeders - Cannonball

KENTARO.

Japan's DJ Kentaro is so good that I'd even go as far to say that he's "one of the illest DJs I've seen" (on Youtube). I think I am going for a hip hop flavor this week and between some good rap battle videos I'll be posting later this week and Mr. Kentaro, it'll be a good week for your Pumas.

For now, check out Kentaro beat juggling some electrohouse. I mean, when it comes to hip hop, the dude has crazy skill, but I've never seen anyone take the hip hop DJ approach to electrohouse. Crazy!

TITS AND DISCO

Cerrone is the man.

Minus the luchadore masks, this is almost a perfect music video.

SIMPLY THE BEST.

This is probably hands down one of my favorite remixes EVER.

The original:

Armand Van Helden - You Don't Know Me (1999)

and the remix:

Comes from the UK's Grum. He has nice shoes and does some killer remixes. Here's all the proof you need:

Armand Van Helden - You Don't Know Me (GRUM remix)

Again, it's really one of my favorite remixes ever.

RAP BATTLES.

This one is incredible.
(I promise to post a real one tomorrow. Since I do love great battles.)

KLAXONS REGGAE?

Golden Skans - Klaxons Reggae Cover
Uploaded by pvnova

It's quite good!

BLOWJOBS.

MO' BLACK KIDS: BEIGE REEEEMIX

Today on Black Kids Week: a remix of one of their tracks by Beige. Let's have a listen!

Black Kids - Hurricane Jane (Beige remix)

EMBRACE THE DASH

http://www.youshoulddoitnow.com/

sure this message is an advertisement to sell a show, but it's quite good.
and although I try not to inject any of my personal feelings into this blog,
it's something I needed to see.

it's something you should check out to.

71 YEARS OF GENIUS.

May 12th, 1937 - June 22nd, 2008

I feel terrible. Just last night we were jokingly mocking your brilliant stand up comedy. I hope your right ear wasn't ring a few hours before you passed. You're one of the last legends people with a sense of humor had.

No one could ever fill your shoes.

Herald News article.

BLACK KIDS WEEK: Lykke Li remix

Every so often, I am going to feature a different musician and some work they've done. Last week was sort of Justice week. This week, I am going to be talking a lot about The Black Kids.

Just who are they? Well, you could always Google them, in the mean time, check out this great remix:


Lykke Li is one of those extremely cute and talented chicks you meet in school but feel intimidated by. Not so much because you think she's more attractive than you but because she has cool parents, lived in tons of cool countries and can sing her ass off. And she's younger than you.

Check out her great vocals on this Black Kids remix.

Lykke Li - I'm Good, I'm Gone (Black Kids remix)

SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT

Listen: If I can't have dinner with my family at 3pm and call it the night time and talk to my boy about monsters and transvestites, then what kind of father am I?

THE END OF THE WORLD

Comedian Patton Oswalt has a great part in his stand up where he talks about wanting to die "in the mother fucking apocalypse." I sometimes cannot agree more. Recently Chile experienced some awesome natural disasters and I hope that when I die, it's when the world ends and it looks about 100 times more awesome than these photos.

FREE RIDE

This two lovely humans are doing a free show tonight in the equally lovely Brooklyn this evening. Since most of you are missing out on it, come check out an older post I made about them, download some tracks, watch a video and dance in your underwear.

LA CHOY

Slightly racist nevertheless amazing Jim Henson commercial from yesteryear.

TONY JAA

I've never wanted to Space Jam someone's power more than his.

That Ol' G.

2010.
Green Hornet movie.
Seth Rogan as Brit Reid / Green Hornet.
Stephen Chow as Kato.
Yes, this is real.


Thanks for the incredible find Victoria!

SHUT UP

The Ting Tings - Shut Up And Let Me Go


They are at it again. Are they not the cutest band ever?

ORE

Now here's an interesting weekly webcomic from my best friend, Ryan VonFischer. I actually have no idea what the story is about so this is a great thing to check out every Wednesday.

RHJ

Anthony Kiedis rocking a Justice shirt during the NBA finals a few days ago.

LAZRTAG

Lazrtag is one of my favorite new remixing/DJing teams. They have great taste in who to remix and I can't wait to hear more original jams from them. Get more downloads from them at their Myspace

Heartsrevolution - CYOA (Lazrtag remix)
Crystal Castles - Crimewave (Lazrtag remix)

SPLISH

I wonder why I have not picked up a Colorspash camera from the good folks at Lomography yet. (I do own some of their cameras already!)

GUYVER

The Guyver was one of my favorite movies. I don't know if this changes my opinion for the better or for the worst.

MGMT - Electric Feel

What I like about MGMT is that they seem to be reviving a genre music I'd normally not give a shit about. But there's something extremely fun about it. I guess it helps that this Justice remix was one of the first things I've heard from them.

MGMT - Electric Feel (Justice remix)

JUSTICE - Sure You Will

This one came out of nowhere. A track for 2003 featured off of a French electro/pop compilation album. This is a great surprise from the past and yet, still a great track for summer drives!

Justice - Sure You Will

Kobe Vs. Snakes

Not content with jumping over Aston Martins, Kobe Bryant decides to get some help from the Jackass crew and jump a pool of snakes.

DVNO at a roller disco.

If you don't know who DVNO from Scenario Rock is, check out the track he did with Justice:

Here's a great remix of one a Scenario Rock track that reminds me of a super fun roller disco. Not one from the past, but one that might be happening right now. In the year 2000.

Scenario Rock - Perfect Love Antidote (BoBmo First Remix)

This is seriously why I need to get back into breaking...

Does life not get any better than this?

MORE TIME LAPSE: Rinpa

Rinpa is a Japanese crew of graffiti artists that do these great time lapse animations. This is my favorite by far:

BETTER THAN YOU: Blu

I heard of Blu, the wall painting animator a while ago. I saw this video and was completely floored by the effort and the creativity.



And then, there was this:


For me the leap into seeing only these two videos was like witnessing Michael Angelo Batio being born and then a few months later, seeing this:

DAFT PUNK x ALPHABEAT

France and Denmark making some digital love.

Alphabeat - Digital Love (Daft Punk cover)

NEW TRACK by The Vodkadets

My band The Vodkadets uploaded a new song! Please check it out here!

La Pequeña Campaign Trail

I'm trying so hard not to make a "thank the little people joke" right now.

THE TING TINGS: Streaming the new album!

MTV and VH1 are now streaming their new album! Check it out now before you push old women out the way at the record shop to get it when it drops next week!

LADIES AND GENTS: The Ghost Frequency

It's very rare that a band comes out of nowhere and kicks my ass. It's a very welcome sensation and The Ghost Frequency (Myspace) will do it with a smile and then invite you over to watch a zombie movie. Speaking of which, give the fellows an add on Myspace. They make the general band posts and every so often they even post a favorite monster movie clip. Oh, and they also make music fusing a great mix of dance rock elements, synths and flesh eating.

The Ghost Frequency - Nightmare
The Ghost Frequency - Money On The Fire (demo)

FAVES: Enon

Enon (Myspace) has to be one of my favorite bands ever. They have that sort of fun indie rock attitude that would make you want to beg them to play all your house parties. Also, I've never been more infatuated with just a woman's voice before but then I heard Toko Yasuda. Can you marry someone's voice? I wonder. (Their male singer John Schmersal is also very awesome!)

Enon - Daughter In The House Of Fools
Enon - Utz
Enon - Knock That Door
Enon - Tilt You Up
Enon - Disposable Parts
Enon - Mirror On You

Johnny Lee does it again.

The man is a brainiac. The concept of automatic projector calibration may not immediately seem like that profound of an idea, but keep tuned to the video. It has some mindblowing applications.

GTA4 on SNL?

It happened!

Grand Theft Auto 4 vs. New York City

More here!

Ladies And Gents: teenagersintokyo

Call me a sucker for a good old Australian girl dance rock band. Swing by their Myspace, buy their ep, look at their cute pictures and just keep dancing.

teenagersintokyo - Ended It Tonight

NATHANIEL: Greatest kid ever.

I swear, this kid needs to be in The Jabbawockeez.

MORE TECH GENIUS: The Adobe Light Field Camera

Adobe (the guys you steal Photoshop from) are now venturing into something you can't download. Their multilense camera enables users to have "the sharphest shooting camera ever." The multiple lenses focus on EVERYTHING all at once allowing the user to adjust their focus in post production, rather than prior to their shot. More here.

Mind = blown.

Johnny Lee is a (Wii) genius!

Johnny Lee (website) is a young tech student with some brilliant ideas. When he's not making giant paint balloon slingshots or low cost brain-computer interaction software, he's playing with his Wii. Johnny reversed the intended purpose of the Wiimote to figure out how to make a low cost head tracking VR display for less money than that new t-shirt from Urban Outfitters.

And while Johnny's Tony Stark genius may impress young fellows like you and I, he was asked to show off some of his new hacks and ideas at TED 2008 Conference (what's TED you ask?) Watch as Johnny blows the minds of the attendees of this year's conference (most of whom are probably twice his age.)



God bless people who use their brains for good. Let's just hope Johnny never moves over to the side of evil!

I <3 Mac OS

Great video for The Bird and the Bee (Myspace) by Dennis Liu utilizing all of the fun stuff that makes up Mac OS Leopard.

I never lose.

It's a comic. But it's a blog too!

http://tower-quest.blogspot.com/

VERY interesting concept. A page-per-post blog that is more blog than comic. It just started so bookmark and read on. More goodness from Lamar here.

Muxtape.com

http://jefframos.muxtape.com/

This may be the best website ever.
This month's muxtape: Dance Rock!

Words can't describe.

No... nooo noooo.

My name is Nathaniel

I sometimes cannot wait to have a child.

Imagine Brad Pitt played Alexander The Great

Tadanobu Asano is Japan's answer to actors like Brad Pitt. Unlike the male half of Brangelina, Asano takes on all sorts of roles from being cast in odd movies to major productions like MONGOL. Asano and award winning Russian Director Sergei Bodrov take on the story of Genghis Khan to illustrate his life not that of a war crazy general, but an inspiring and influential leader. As one of the greatest leaders of all time, it's set to be a pretty epic tale focused more on his life and the events that shaped him into the great leader he became.

SAMPLES: Justice + Mr. Oizo + Daft Punk

After my post about the video for Stress by Justice, I did a little more browsing on Youtube for any other great videos for Justice. Me being the fiend for finding samples, I stumbled across some great ones.

Justice - Phantom
Goblin - Tenebre

This is one my friend Chris actually came across a few weeks before the Cross album came out. He was on Netflix looking for some old horror movies to rent and he came across the video preview for an old Dario Argento movie called "Tenebre." He immediately heard the reference and he had to add it to his queue!

Justice - New Jack
The Brothers Johnson - You Make Me Wanna Wiggle


This is one I came across on Youtube and it's great. I absolutely love funk songs that sound like this. This reminds me of another amazing funk sampled in an french electro track...

It's crazy to know that one of my favorite Mr. Oizo (Myspace) tracks is less of a remix or sample of an old school disco track, but more of a retooling of it. The sample comes from Gary's Gang, a band that was famous around the time of American Bandstand. How many people in their early 20s actually know what that is?



Mr. Oizo - Patrick122
Gary's Gang - Do It At The Disco



And of course, there's this classic Daft Punk sample video

VIDEO: Justice - Stress

justice stress (official video)
by 75_prod

I'm quite glad that Justice made this video the way they did. While all the bubblegum teeny boppers got their kicks enjoying the fun time dance party that was "D.A.N.C.E." Justice decided to reinform the general public that their music is not for you. They are not your friends. They don't want to be on your top 10 video programs and they don't want to advertise your shitty TV network. Either get on the dance floor or get the fuck out of their faces.

I love them for making this video. Also, does anyone else think those crosses are done in CG?

Here are some more Stress related treats:

David Shire - Night On Disco Mountain (2007 Remastered Saturday Night Fever LP Version) (Stress sample Origin)
Fucked Up - Stress (Heavy Metal Cover)
Justice - Stress (Autoremix)

I can't wait until the 4th Of July

I am going to get this tattooed on my chest.

But what is this from you ask? " Maritan Shuchu Drill Kaihei 3nenseiyou" is sort of a US Marine's speak primer for Japanese nerds.

“If You Say It to Americans, for Sure, You Will Be Beaten if Not Killed”

- Anastasia Moreno, USA Marine Corp

Even better is that the book passes itself off as a workbook filled with cute characters with supposed real world terms that our very own Marines use! Check it out more here!

Hey, I remember: Millencolin

As far as rock music goes, most of my favorite stuff comes from Sweden. And when I think about it, among the giant list of bands from the land of Swedes, Millencolin (Myspace) was the first.

Millencolin was one of my first tastes of fun loving punk rock music. Back in the day when Minidisc players were as cool and chic as the first week when iPhones came out (before everyone got one!). Millencolin hits all bases for your general punk rock anthems: friends, family, love, having fun, growing up and buying awesome mopeds. Unlike Piebald, I'm glad one of my old favorite bands are still kicking it.

Millencolin - No Cigar
Millencolin - Penguins and Polarbears
Millencolin - Man or Mouse
Millencolin - Kemp

More Dark Knight

This one can't come out soon enough. Check out the new promo posters.

Ladies and Gents: The Young Punx

Dancey electro house is an odd beast. For a genre meant to make you want to get up, get down and have fun, it has run itself into a bit of a problem. Once one too many producers figured out just how easy it was to copy those simple, yet infectious grooves, the genre became stale. Soon all the funky basslines, guitar riffs, vocal samples and synth chord progressions became commonplace and it became hard to give a shit about new house tracks.

While The Young Punx (Myspace) aren't reinventing the genre or revolutionizing it, they are bringing the cheeky fun of dance music back to the floor. They are keeping their kick drums heavy, their guitar riffs funky, making sure the bass is going to shake plenty of hips and pitch shifting their vocal samples up a few octaves. It also helps that The Young Punx get most of their tracks remixed by some great producers giving their tracks and even stronger boost in the fun department.

Even people who write in "magazines" love these guys. Look at some words they wrote:

"Future superstars" - Galaxy FM
"Essential" - DJ Mag

The Young Punx - Dance With Someone Else (Phunk Investigation remix)
The Young Punx - Fire (Phonat Mix) Web Promo Version

You can also get a tons of free MP3s from the fellas at their website.

I CALLED IT: The Ting Tings

While I didn't go out of my way to say these guys would be the next big thing, I knew The Ting Tings (Myspace) would get big at some point after I posted about a while ago. Now you can see them in the new iPod ad and during this week, they are also a part of iTunes USA's single of the week!

LADIES AND GENTS: VHS or BETA

Call me a jerk but who knew Kentucky could rock like this? VHS or BETA (Myspace) mixes a bit of rock, new wave flavor and a hint of that Kentucky accent into one super fun electro rock package. Even if that's not enough for you to be impressed, these gentlemen have been remixed by Midnight Juggernauts, Tommie Sunshine, LA Riots, Cut Copy and one of my personal favorites: Surkin. They've even done shows with Kool Keith, Duran Duran, The Hives, Stereo Total and Fatboy Slim!

Give the boys a listen. You'll feel as excited as the picture above! Maybe even more so!

VHS or BETA - Burn It All Down
VHS or Beta - Burn It All Down (Surkin Remix)
VHS or BETA - Night On Fire

The most beautiful animated short ever.

Really.

They make name dropping sound good...

Murs and Busy P on the new Ed Banger Records compilation. C'mon!

This song is so crazy because it's detailed snapshot of the club scene going right now. Although it makes me wonder am I cool because I know just about everyone and everywhere Murs mentions in this song or does that mean that these people and places have become so commonplace that of course if someone says "Ron's got his camera all in my face," we all know what that means like if someone said something about "Britney" or "Posh and Becks?"

But for what it's worth, I wish your crew wrote this song. I may recognize the names and places mentioned in this song, but these guys lived these lyrics.

Busy P featuring Murs - To Protect and Entertain

HOLY SHIT: Richie Jackson

I had no idea it was possible to be a hippie, a skater and a ninja all in one.
Thanks for proving the possibility Richie Jackson!

April House Party Mix CD PREVIEW!

So, like last party I threw at Lounge Zen, this party will make a new mix CD release! This one will be a huge mash up house party! Want a preview? You look like you do!!!

DOWNLOAD HERE!

The levels are all off and some of the vocals are a bit off time. This is just a simple preview. I am going to redo the entire CD at this point. I just would like some feedback, ideawise!

ANDROSS EVERYWHERE: Dammit, China!

click to enlarge

CHAPTER 2

Andross finally makes it to China and the self deprecation begins. Close friends would tell you that Andross' love for travel is only rivaled by his extremely lack of what most would consider a normal sense of direction. For an amount of times too embarrassing to count, Andross gets lost in downtown China yet again.

If you missed the beginning of this photo series, please click here!

OTHER BLOGS: The Wolverine Daily

"My friend Chuck made me draw Wolverine, so I did it and made him a mountain and an animal rights activist. One claw at the ready to slay those who would trespass upon his mammalian brotherhood. I guess it fixed or broke something in me cause now I can't stop drawing Wolverine."

Why don't great things like this happen to me?
http://wolverinedaily.blogspot.com/

FLIPBOOKS

For the longest time, I used to think this is as far as we all got with how awesome flip books can be. Naive me. Then of course, my small little mind was opened to great things like this:



Masashia Kawamura's Rainbow in Your Hand

And the amazing video for "Squeeze Me" by Kraak & Smaak

The FIRST official LOVE and BEATS mix CD!

THE PARTY IS TONITE!
But you can get the mix CD NOW!
DOWNLOAD IT HERE!

Track list:
1. The Young Punx - Fire (Phonat Mix) Web Promo Version
2. Hong Kong Blondes - Frisbee
3. Kap10Kurt - Dangerseekers (Original X10ded Mix)
4. Surkin - Radio Fireworks
5. Armand Van Helden - You Don't Know Me (GRUM Remix)
6. MSTRKRFT - Easy Love
7. Danger - 11h30 (Original Mix)
8. Digitalism - Idealistic
9. Ghosthustler - Someone Else's Ride
10. Shinichi Osawa featuring Au Revoir Simone - Star Guitar
11. Datarock - Fa-Fa-Fa

The entire CD was my first attempt at a pre-arranged set made entirely in Ableton Live (every other set I've ever put online were live recordings of impromptu DJing.) The entire CD is completely mixed harmonically so hopefully it'll sound that much better to your ears! I will be using this mix as my "business card" for the next few months so let's see what happens and I'd love to hear what you think about it!

www.myspace.com/loveandbeats

Three great things in one!

1. Being drunk
2. Apple computers
3. Jeff Goldblum

(Of course he is not drunk. The creator of this video slowed it down 50% but the audio effect of Goldblum's speech is great.)


- Thanks for the tip ENZO.

Ugh. Blog down time.

So let's have blog sexy time!

Sorry for the down time. I am prepping for a big DJ set and I haven't had time to get back to blogging. To remedy this, I'll give you two great tracks that will hopefully spark some fun in those nether regions of yours!



Convinced Simian Mobile Disco knows how to work sex appeal? Thought so. Get more at their Myspace.

Simian Mobile Disco - I Believe

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I'm also convinced that putting Teki Latex (Myspace) in ANYTHING will make it sexy. I know if you've never heard of him you probably do not believe me at all. But watch what happens when Teki gets on a remix of this Gonzalez (Myspace) track.

Gonzalez featuring Teki Latex - Slow Down (remix)

Oh, need more proof Teki has the touch?

This time Teki gets down with Devin The Dude and the slick bastards that are 33hz.

33hz featuring Teki Latex and Devin The Dude - Paris, Texas (Sentinel Mix)

LADIES AND GENTS: The Vodkadets!

So I started a new band with my friend Victoria. Our philosophy is very simple:

- Write songs about getting drunk and getting laid
- Be so hot that people will be jealous that we might be doing each other (like The White Stripes but dirtier)

Simple enough. Check it out.

http://www.myspace.com/thevodkadets