What can I say, I went from SB is aight...to... they suck (post Coachella 2010, not a great sounding show), to... OK, I'm kinda down (post Coachella 2011, stepped it UP).
Had a conversation w/ one of their music placement reps, who was at our studio last fall, in which she told me she had just been with them in an old NYC gymnasium they had rented to get clap and stomp sounds...these ones obviously.
Chemical Brothers, Daedelus, CSS, Cut Copy, Ratatat, Empire of the Sun, DFA 1979, Monarchy, Gogol Bordello, Bloody Beetroots/Death Crew 77, Skrillex, Boys Noize, OFWGKTA, The Radio Dept., Robyn, Yelle, Health, Two Door Cinema Club, Ellie Goulding, Delorean, Nosaj Thing, Sleigh Bells, The Drums, The Radio Dept., Delta Spirit, Chase & Status, Duck Sauce, Animal Collective, The Arcade Fire, Mumford & Sons, Gayngs, Scissor Sisters, Erykah, Naaaazzzz....and more I can't even remember right now. & more I couldn't see just because of the laws of physics. They all killed it. Cee Lo, well homie got killed kinda. But I still love the closet freak.
Friday lays it on thick. Here's how I envision it, chill til about maybe 3 (its gonna be a long 3 days, I'm not gonna rush in, although I wanna see Tokimonsta!!), head in to see Skrillex (& maybe Cold Cave?). Its non stop from there. My girl is gonna hate me from here on out! Ha. Seriously though, I am gonna wanna run to the Drums, back to OFWGKTA, then over to hopefully catch Cee Lo do some OLD tracks (hopefully), lose my shit to A-Trak for a sec, then run to freak out w/ Ariel Pink, while checking in on Tame Impala & Afrojack! Sleigh Bells I would see maybe, but they sucked last year so fuck em. Really would love to see Marina & The Diamonds for a bit, but that puts me in bad crowd pozish for the heart break of the weekend for me : The Black Keys and Cut Copy on at the same time. Ah well, there's no time to wast b/c Crystal Castles Monarchy and the Aquabats are all coming on followed closely by a (must not miss) Nosaj Thing timeslot. Chemical Bros., Boys Noize, Gayngs and Flogging Molly all end the insanity.
Besides having the desire to see, simultaneously, Lil' B, Laidback Luke, Elbow and Yelle, Saturday should be chill, with my biggest conflict being Animal Collective and Paul Van Dyk. What can I say, the 16 yr old me who had just found trance, after just finding, well, trance, wants to see the Van Dykster for at least one transition or two. We'll see what happens. Glasser, Gogol Bordello, Empire of the Sun, The Twelves, Rye Rye, Cults, Raphael Saadiq, Daedelus, and some band called The Arcade Fire should all be at least okay.
This, I believe, is a Van Dyk remix of BT, and was the first track I heard in which he was involved.
I'm kinda kidding on the Van Dyk thing here too...kinda.
Sunday has another big head to head for me in the Ratatat/Chromeo area. By Sunday, after seeing Twin Shadow, Menomena, Delorean, Caspa (maybe), CSS, Nas & Damian, Ellie Goulding, Tinie Tempah, and Death From Above, followed by either Duck Sauce or Duran Duran, I'll just be happy to not be going to see The Strokes. Kanye or the Presets?? BIG LAFFS.
Of course none of this is going to happen as planned, and plenty will be missed, while not missing other things. So fuck planning.
Death From Above 1979 reunion show at SXSW 2011 at Beauty Bar on March 20, 2011 at 1am .
This was the first song in their set. Fans who were unable to get inside were still able to see through a chain length fence in the alley, but eventually tore down the fence multiple times until police officers began using pepper spray and tazers. The venue only held around 200 people.
What can I say I can be sucker for Deadmau5 and his awesomely simple ass tracks (that's not a diss!) once in a while. I DO sometimes wish that all that build up lead to something a bit more 'blow the top off the place exciting'...but I guess he does pretty good. Ha.
Seriously though the guy is an amazing producer, and he has just dropped a couple new'ns on his soundcloud w/ some interesting names, the first one is actually named after the north star, and comes in at a whopping 10:49. I know everyone's favorite is Strobe...I'm the same. This one seems to be a bit of an answer maybe?
Here's that track, his other latest post, "Bleed", and a couple other faves....
Deadmau5 - HR 8938 Cephei
Deadmau5 - Bleed
Btw this track live @ Coachella last year was fucking amazing. And I don't regret missing the Beyonce apperance w/ Jay for it at all!
I think that's my hand you can see...haha. Kidding. But I was just a bit in front of this person....
, Daedelus
, CSS, Cut Copy, Ratatat, Empire of the Sun, DFA 1979, Monarchy, Gogol Bordello, Bloody Beetroots/Death Crew 77, Skrillex, Boys Noize, OFWGKTA, The Radio Dept., Robyn, Yelle, Health, Two Door Cinema Club, Ellie Goulding, Delorean, Nosaj Thing, Sleigh Bells, The Drums, The Radio Dept., Delta Spirit, Chase & Status, Duck Sauce, Animal Collective, The Arcade Fire, Mumford & Sons, Gayngs, Scissor Sisters, Erykah, Naaaazzzz....and more I can't even remember right now. & more I couldn't see just because of the laws of physics. They all killed it. Cee Lo, well homie got killed kinda. But I still love the closet freak.
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