So my friend Statue of Liberty just sent me Die Antwoord. It absorbed 2 hours of my life straight.  Statue of Liberty said she screamed for 3 hours.  I am in love.  Yo-Landi Vi$$er is my new obsession.  She is a straight rave rat.  I was calling her a rave rat, being an old rave rat, and then she was holding a bunch of rats.  Her voice is fucking like eating a candy necklace.  Living in otherworld rave collective in Oakland, I saw these rave rats, that just seemed to be from no where and end no where.  It was like if you licked them it would be cotton candy and 2cb at the same time.  Her voice is 2CB.  Die Antwoord maybe have perfected club rap with grime culture.  South African accents are so fucking crazy.  Game changers…everyone step aside .  My hard drive just got wiped.

Just watch.

Listen to Die Antwoord first album here.

Here are some mixtapes.  For your stereos.

Download here at Mixtapeclub.

Download Mean Red Productions mix tape.

Have a new song I am very excited about.  Peter and I began the song in an awesome manner.  We both just stopped talking and started to make beats.  They were both in the right vein.  So we took my beats and ran it through this ipod speaker thing.

1976 vs. 1990

Lush the Robin Guthrie (Cocteau Twins) have been been one of my favorite pop bands from the 1990’s.  They were extremely naive and great with melody.  I also like how Robin Guthrie took their rawness and produced them into a far away sheen.  After parting ways with Robin Guthrie, they never sounded like their classic records (Gala era).

Love their cover of Hey Hey Helen makes me feel like a morphine drip.

Check out the lyrics:  Total 2nd wave feminism.  I love them.

So at last you’re free
It’s the way you wanted it to be
And the price you pay
To become a woman of today
Is it worth the pain to see the children cry
Does it hurt when they ask for Daddy

Hey hey Helen
Now you live on your own
Hey hey Helen
Can you make it alone
(Yes you can)

So you’re free at last
And beginning to forget the past
Does it make you sad
When you think about the life you had
But you’re right, you had to take a second chance
So you fight to find your freedom

Hey hey Helen
Now you live on your own
Hey hey Helen
Can you make it alone
Hey hey Helen (hey hey Helen)
What’s the matter with you
Hey hey Helen (hey hey Helen)
Don’t you know what to do
(Yes you do)
(Ahah, yes you do yes you do)
(Ahah, yes you do yes you do)

Hey hey Helen
Now you live on your own
Hey hey Helen
Can you make it alone
Hey hey Helen (hey hey Helen)
What’s the matter with you
Hey hey Helen (hey hey Helen)
Don’t you know what to do
Hey hey Helen (hey hey Helen)
Now you live on your own
Hey hey Helen (hey hey Helen)

This month’s FADER Bowl is bringing the future-party noise of Restless People (featuring members of Tanlines and Professor Murder) and MNDR

Check out Brooklyn Bowl website.

What the hell?  Thank you again Canada!

I was thinking of records that really changed my perception of experimental pop music.  I was trying to recall records that effortlessly staddled both genres.  Then I remembered this cassette tape that my Triangle band mate (Brian Tester) left in my vehicle.  I would lose it in the vortex of the unknown in the subaru and then I would find it and leave it in my cassette player for monthes.  This record is OMD’s Dazzle Ships.  OMD’s Dazzle Ships (1982) is a concept record that includes pop perfection along with music concrete influenced sound scapes.  This complete work is a comment on The Cold War and Eastern Bloc politics.

Then after giving this record to Peter in the studio, he actually knew what a Dazzle Ship meant.  Dazzle painting, developed by marine painter Norman Wilkinson, was a style of geometric shaped camouflage painted on war ships in WWI and WWII.  This style of camouflage was not meant to hide the ships, but to disorientate the enemies perception of the ships direction and speed.

Also, I just discovered there were two different covers for this record.  Also, OMD is not just a prom dance.