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Friday, February 26, 2010
These New Puritans: "We Want War (SBTRKT mix)"
5:16 PM
my dude ish! was asking me about some as-yet-unavailable stuff from SBTRKT, and i had to confess that i wasn't familiar with anything he'd done.

so yeah, ish! basically got me started, and i did what i usually do: search my hard drive. weird, i know, but i grab so many tracks off blogs here and there that sometimes things slip through the cracks. turns out i had SBTRKT's "Timeless", a rework of Goldie's "Inner City Lights", laying on a drive.

last night i did more 'net-digging and turned up this thing:



It's SBTRKT's remix of "We Want War" by These New Puritans, and it is sweet -- just the right amount of deep and heavy, with a healthy dose of get-on-your-fucking-feet. I may be killing this one next time you see me (unless I'm doing a disco set, lol).

Check the original of the track as well, it's pretty pretty good. And check dude's soundcloud page for some upcoming releases and swell dj mixes.

*Definitely* on the "people to watch in oh-ten" list.

Thanks, Matty!

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Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Russians are searching.
1:46 AM
I was just randomly checking the search terms that brought people to my site.  This isn't a high-traffic site or anything, so I don't do it often.  Today I was surprised to see that so far in February I have had 27 search requests for this:

бивис и батхед mp3

Of course, I had to sound it out (I know most of the letters' sounds, at least), and once I did, I knew what brought them here

I'll bet they're disappointed.  :D

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DJ Empirical, Covers Mix for Bubbles in the Think Tank
1:18 AM
I uploaded the mix of cover songs that I did for Bubbles in the Think Tank a couple weeks ago.

Go check it.

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Monday, February 22, 2010
gotta migrate
10:44 AM
bah, i think today is the last day blogger will allow ftp. gotta migrate to something else (wordpress?) so you may not see stuff here for a minute.

update: actually now that i re-read the email, this week is the week their migration tool is available. the actual deadline is March 26th, so i can procrastinate a bit more. yay?

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Monday, February 15, 2010
DJ Empirical, "Party Like It's Before 1990"
12:05 AM
artwork for DJ Empirical, "Party Like It's Before 1990"




download: DJ Empirical, "Party Like It's Before 1990"
14 feb 2010



This is my debut release on AERO, the longform mix release sublabel of Race Car Productions. For this one, I'll let them speak for me:

DJ Empirical
Party Like It's Before 1990
released: 2010-02
catolog #: AERO 013

Stephen Boyd is a fascinating character. As DJ Empirical he employs his knack for obscure music collecting and correlating seemingly unrelated tracks just perfectly. Here we find him behind the wheels of a Delorean going back to where it all began.

To add to that, basically I felt like early techno and electro (as well as acid) was not something I was as familiar with as I should be. I figured that doing a set of those tunes would force the research I needed to close that gap a bit.

Enjoy! And visit the AERO site for more excellent mixes.

Tracklist:

Model 500 - Sound of Stereo (instrumental) [1987, Metroplex]
Hithouse - Jack to the Sound of the Underground [1988, CBS]
Rhythim Is Rhythim - It Is What It Is (Majestic mix) [1988, Transmat]
Armando - World Unknown (My Mixx Is Dunn) [1988, Warehouse]
Phresh Phantasy - Come on Acid [supposedly 1988, released 2005, Logistic]
Phuture - Acid Tracks [1987, Trax]
Virgo Four - In a Vision (808 State edit) [1987, Trax, edit 2008, Harmless]
Amnesia - Ibiza (Loco Acid remix) [1988, Indisc]
Jack Frost & The Circle Jerks - Shout (Ashley Beedle edit) [1987,
FLEX, edit 2008, Harmless]
Cybotron - R-9 [1985, Fantasy]
Juan - Techno Music [1988, Ten]
A Tongue & D Groove - Feel Surreal [1988, Ten]
Adonis - No Way Back (Greg Wilson edit) [1986, Trax, edit 2008, Harmless]
Model 500 - What's the Game [1988, Metroplex]
Rational Youth - Dancing on the Berlin Wall [1982, Yul]
Channel One - Technicolor (long mix) [1986, Metroplex]
Mike Dunn - So Let It Be Houze! [1988, Westbrook]
Forgemasters - Track With No Name [1989, Warp]

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Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Wesley Willis: Artist of the Streets
12:00 AM


Wow, this is a nice view of a much younger Wesley drawing in Chicago, before he started whipping llamas' asses with belts.

Wesley, we miss you.

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