it was about this time last year
April 23, 2008 | Filed Under music, photography | 3 Comments
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It was about this time last year when I was fanboy-izing over the eminent Justice LP release.
Spring brings
Ed Banger flings.
It’s about that time again, and for their 5th year in existence, they’ve decided to put together Ed Rec Vol. III.
Yeah, it’s pretty good. More of the same guys, making some exquisitely new sounding shit and it’s just loveable.
Disco metal champion, Mr. Flash, goes “Over the Top” and it’s, ummmmmm pretty unbelievable/awesome/proper/tally ho.
Get the teaser mixed by Feadz over at missingtoof
When this track first breaks the main rhythm transition into the guitars I get retro metal shivers!!! (chivers?)
Mr. Flash - Over the Top
more ‘australia on australia’ love making
April 17, 2008 | Filed Under music, photography | 4 Comments
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So I’m over here in the United States, totally not having an awesome time, because the Australians are hogging all the good artists and hoarding them!!
It’s like those old fucking vietnamese ladies at the super market hoarding all the 50 pound bags of rice because of the ‘rice shortage‘
But whatever, thank GOD Al Gore invented the internet, because without it, I wouldn’t be able to feast my ears on this sinfully delicious audio porno as soon as I would like to.
Harking back to my (unnoticed) return to blogville where I outlined why I love australia; I mentioned only a fraction of what completes the awesomeness that is Australia. The other parts to that pie are still waiting to be blogged, but here’s another tiny slice.
For some reason, I’ve never mentioned Miami Horror. Probably cause everyone else blew their wads over them for the last 5 months….non stop. Quite unnecessary to add to the sludge fest… so I’ll just go ahead and assume that you know the know.
And here they are, once again, adding to the ‘big gay circle jerk‘, remixing Midnight Juggernauts - Road To Recovery.
Miami Horror knows what’s good. Don’t fuck with a masterpiece. So they didn’t. They threw some clean synths, some tasty bridge edits, some cuts here, some cuts there, added a sample or two, and DESTROYED THE FUCK out of it.
Midnight Juggernauts - Road To Recovery (Miami Horror Remix)
thank you, may I have another?
…why YES YOU CERTAINLY MAY
This time, Miami Horror’s victim is Datarock who strangely isn’t from australia??? WTF>>> Nope. Norway. Fuckin norway..
Datarock - Fa Fa Fa (Miami Horror Remix)
thanks, Miami Horror, for breaking the incestuous australian circle jerk and branching out to Norway. The future of the world is probably safe now.
PS: I’m pitching a tent in my pants over the new Presets LP, Apocalypso. Buy it as soon as humanly possible. On amazon if you want.
PPS: Does anyone know Lang Lang personally? Does anyone know what makes him so bad ass? Does anyone know why he can levitate? Does anyone know why Lang Lang has a name, then another name?
WHO IS HRO?????? WHO IS TUFTY?????????
April 14, 2008 | Filed Under exclusive, music, photography | 5 Comments
I rarely get short and sweet fan mail. The messages I usually get are long winded, full of unanswerable questions, and usually end up with me in tears.
Here’s one unlike the rest:
…but wait… another message from Elle Estrange??
This was a most unexpected twist…
Elle Estrange, do you have more in your life than blogz?
The latest in Blogville scandals: WHO IS HRO??? WHO IS TUFTSMANIA?????IS HE/SHE/THEY ONE IN THE SAME? DO THEY TRADE BLOGS BI-WEEKLY??? DOES CARLES LEAD A SECRET LIFE?? IS TUFTSMANIA SKITZO??
Scenario Rock - Skitzo Dancer (Justice Remix)
this is why lithuania will kick your ass
April 8, 2008 | Filed Under day to day, photography, tuftsmania exclusive | 3 Comments
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I’ve been following Metal on Metal for quite a bit now but it’s been a chore trying to get into contact with them. Luckily, I have good friends in Lithuania hooking me up… you know who you are!
“…We don’t like this new act, called Nicolas Sarkozy though, he talks too much.” -Metal on Metal
Previously known as Nesakyk Mamai! or Don’t tell your Mom, Metal on Metal has been steadily infiltrating the ears of people all over europe. Why the HELL, don’t they get more love over here beats me. I seem to be interested in all the wrong bands??? (hellz no) Their originals and re-works are really something else and lately, they’ve been getting straight up grips of remix work on their plates. Just look at the hit list on their myspace.
I’m sitting on a most recent commissioned remix of Blood Red Shoes, which is a heavy track on its own, but with the MoM touch… fucking insane, no questions asked.
I’ll be over there. Blasting everyone’s brains out with this track. No big deal.
It seriously gets hectic, and I’d have it no other way. What? I can’t hear you, my ears are bleeding.
Blood Red Shoes - I Wish I Was Someone Better (Metal On Metal Remake) *tuftsmania exxxxxclusiveeeeeee <3
Keep checking their myspace for their latest EP, Slaughterhouse, full of original sounds, to be released in the future! You can bet it will be covered here as well.
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there has to be something more… i know it’s in there
April 6, 2008 | Filed Under music, photography | 4 Comments
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Say hello to my old friend, Bloody Beetroots. I’ve been like, jizzing myself about them for the past… oh, year.
The Bloody Beetroots can throw their ’signature’ bass drum + snare + plucking synths + distorted/reversed vocals + stutter tracks on ANYTHING and make it sound gold, but is there anything beyond these sounds with the masked (all day long) italian producers?
Don’t get me wrong on this one, I’m not complaining, but let’s hear what you can do using something outside the box of beetroots.
Here’s a fairly recent remix of Secret Handshake. This band is part of a very…. interesting movement… which I like to call the emo-fag-failure-vocoded-electro movement popularized by the likes of Muscles et al. (who’s not gay –australia factor/remixed by gods –circle jerk effect).
There are a number of other land locked-united states ‘outfits’ not unlike these who have a cult following of teenage guys. I get depressed looking at their myspaces so I’ll leave the search up to you.
Vocoding is pretty gay, (used every day by akon and t-pain - very important that you click). Let’s leave the vocoding to Cher.
Sorry, derail, back to the track. Again, classic BBs sound (that’s short for Bloody Beetroots, yeah, acronyms.) The intro starts this track so well and builds it up into a string quartet, electronic blow-up.
touche my italian friends, touche.
Secret Handshake - Summer of 98 (The Bloody Beetroots default layers remix)
BONUS!!!! we’ve got the EP version of ‘Butter’ due out on the EP from dim mak soon! Assuming most of you have heard the draft version of Butter, and this is a prime example of ‘outside of beetroots box’ territory. Still has some vintage flavor but a slew of new and welcome sounds.
Watch for stateside releases of Bloody Beetroots LP/EP from your most well known ambiguously feminine asian w/ facial hair label mama….Steve Aoki, Dim Mak -reaping the benefits of music blogville since, forever and signing the bands. amen.