Don’t miss our boyeees from Tanlines at Santos Party House on Saturday, not just because they are cool dudes who will make you dance your face off to electro-soca-tropicalia-dub, but also because they are playing with Zizek, the seminal Argentinal electro-cumbia outfit.
Ok, backing away from our tropical fiesta of the last few weeks, we bring you this cheesy, wonderful pop-fuck-electroblog bit from Futurecop!.
Futurecop! - Transformers [ysi]
Absolute gem here: Kwasa House from Skeat (pron: Skee-tee). It’s House Kwasa (Kwasa House?), thousands of miles away from Cape Cod and certain Bloodsucking Weekends.
yesterday, TMYLM spent lots of time being outraged, shocked, and variously consumed by dreams of cannibalism. as letters to aig provoke strong reactions across the aisle, we got to thinking about the holiday of passover thats a-coming up for us jews. if we can argue that pesach represented a perfect embodied example of proletarian revolution: the leaving in the dust, literally, of the accumulated capital of the egyptian empire and rising up in a strike to cross the river where labor was not converted to surplus value (hence the unleavened bread), we may offer in rejoinder: where’s our embodied revolt? the perfect thing about pesach was its insistence on the non-ethnic divide of the egyptians and hebrews (remember that moses was, early 90s multiculti speaking, an egpytian although by blood a hebrew!) but rather class divide - class that could only be experienced through slave labor. in every other biblical story, it’s an ethnic problem that causes bloodlust and suffering. in todays america the raped, however, the sitch is quite different, but bodies and slaves are no minor players in the creation and growth of the credit market. We must reconsume the credit markets, for their speculation consumes us all.
Upstairs: Patti Smith singing “You Light Up My Life” on the perfectly named show, “Kids are People Too.” Love the riff on punk not being a commodity. Hee.
Yes, it’s intrepid friend Andy Blumpkin’s birthday, but differently-named and unarguably much more tasteful Uproot Andy has put out a effing bangin new mix titled Guacharaca Migration. You should go to his myspace to download the whole thing, but here are sum tasters: