O.B.A.M.A.....Say It!

I want all of you swing-state DJs playing this loud all weekend!

Daft Punk - "Aer Obama" (Daft Punk vs. Adam Freeland)
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EDIT 1/26/09 Thanks Brooklyn Dan for the lead to this video, thanks Obama for being awesome.

Daft Punk vs. Adam Freeland - "Aer OBAMA" from Gold Greendot on Vimeo.

DJ Falcon back in New York!

Wow, did I ever pick an awful weekend to go to Oklahoma (Boomer Sooner).



Just got confirmation in an email that Falcon is coming back to the Big Apple next saturday night, @ Le Poisson Rouge. If you're a regular reader of this blog, you know how great my fandom of Falcon is, and he's one of the most entertaining DJs around. If you are around, PLEASE DONT MISS THIS ONE. And if you are there, give him a high five for me!

SGB

PS: If any of you find out about some other DJ Falcon shows elsewhere in the states, please let me know. I'm gonna be in California for a week starting on 11/2, and I'd love to catch him if he's out touring.

New Raw Man: Bank Rape

A new track for the first time in a while from our friend RAW MAN.

Raw Man f/ Blanche: Bank Rape
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Cristian Vogel and Jamie Lidell Live @ Tresor 5/25/2002

WARNING: Really Poor Recording Quality!

Still, i think this live set is absolutely incredible, and it makes me very upset that i missed Super_Collider's North American shows years ago. I've had this set for a while now, but know very little about its origin. Sounds like someone recorded a board feed and had the trim set too high, so the bass is pretty blown out. However, give it a chance, i promise its worth it. It sounds to me like an Ableton Live set, but 2002 would be pretty early to be using Ableton, and after seeing both of these gentlemen in the last year, it seems like Vogel uses MAX/MSP in his live PAs, and Lidell some kind of hardware system. If you have further info, please leave it in the comments, and if anyone has a better version of this and feels like passing it along, I'll put up the better version.

SGB

Cristian Vogel and Jamie Lidell Live @ Tresor (Berlin) 5/25/02
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I'm back, yo.

Hey internet friendos!

I'm back from my self-imposed Summer vacation. I'm starting slow, but hopefully i'll get SGB up and running like it was back in the day.

Just wanted to pass along a link to you Daft Punk fanboys out there. Scion/Vice Records have a website set up, with a "radio station" set up, and currently they have a 3 hour loop playing, allegedly with with interviews with Fred Falke, Todd Edwards, and the drummer from the Boredoms. Click this link, and then click Scion Radio 17. I'm listening to Todd Edwards talking with a great think New Jersey accent about the making of "Discovery", definitely interesting stuff. Unfortunately this doesn't seem to be downloadable, so if you're missing this, I imagine you could hear it again around 6:20PM EST.

Hope you're all having a nice day!

e.

PS: I'm sorry to those of you who sent me emails/music over the past couple of months, I really intend/intended to answer all of you, but the letters just kept piling up and I got overwhelmed. I'm really a bad blogger, but hopefully you can bear with me, and if there's anything you want me to know about, once again, email me. SGB

Fred Falke played Tribeca Grand!

Kristin from Showtrotta sent me an exciting SMS on Saturday afternoon, that Fred Falke would be DJing @ FIXED's party @ the Tribeca Grand. Unfortunately i wasn't able to post info up here on time (as i mentioned earlier, dead computer sucks), but I hope that any of you that may have come were given a similar heads up.

I usually love parties at the Tribeca Grand, as its a very swanky change of pace from Studio B and the like, but it was a little bit of a bummer this time. They seemed to have the A/C turned off in the back room, which made the whole thing a bit draining (especially when its Fred Falke, playing those huge Epic Tracks). Adding to the strain on our senses was the sound system dying about 20 mins into his set, likely due to the rediculous heat in the room. This REALLY sucked as Fred was absolutely tearing us up (he seemed absolutely Livid--in a subdued French kind of way). They managed to fix it about 10 minutes later, with the aid of an oscillating fan borrowed from the kitchen.

I'm never really that good at summing up DJ sets, so I'll leave it to Kristin to describe the events more thoroughly, but I will say that it was one of the more inspired performances I've seen in a really long time. From moment one, when he pulled out a Fender jazz bass to play basslines from his Music For My Friends EP live (and yeah, thats him playing those nasty rhythm tracks on those Falke/Braxe tracks) we all knew we were getting something a little out of the ordinary. In general, he stuck to his own tracks, along with those with his production partner Alan Braxe, but he managed to do enough little tweaks and stutters in Ableton to keep us on our toes (even fanboys like myself who could practically sing along to all the anthems he dropped).

Needless to say, I was wiped out when all was said and done, but thoroughly satisfied, and left feeling quite good about music, for the first time in a long whle.

"Logic Board"

My computer is in the Mac Hospital, i'll be back soon!

e.