NWA - CIA

1984 Dre was on the decks for World Class Wreckin Cru and Cube was in High School.
Cube had just formed the group CIA (Cru In Action) with 2 others K-Dee & Sir Jinx.
1986 CIA recorded a 3 Track 12" with Dre producing.

It was released in 1987 just after NWA had formed.

Download the 3 tracks here:
1. My Posse
2. Jus 4 The Cash$
3. Ill-Legal

sneak

Sneak preview of the new Lick It poster...

bar=fa

Lachy aka ERA.Culprits has put up his photos from our little photo mission on Sunday..
check em out here.

Photos

Photos from the last few months.

Used fuji pro film and andre gave us a good tip about cross processing. Brings out the blues/reds/magenta in fuji film. Didn't really touch these up much with photoshop at all.

burrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr-up

(click to enlarge playas)

I Don't Know...

Anyone remember "You Can't Do That On Television"???

or am i really showing my age...

crack

yo mummas on crack rock

Smoking....

la-di-whoreee-k

Ladyhawke is over in the UK recording her album. sweet.

and whats even sweeter is she has thrown up some tracks on her myspace... I'm unsure if these are just old demos or what... they sound tight though.


this world would be a better pplace if everyone listen to Ladyhawke.

oh has anyone seen cut/copys new clip? average is it so i'm not going to even bother posting it.

GALVATRONS

The Galvatrons have posted their debut single "When We Were Kids" on their myspace.

Go and check it... its pretty amazing.

myspace.com/thegalvatrons

I LIKE TURTLES

ak47 eggs

Gangsta gangsta...want some eggs biaaaaaatch?

100 hottest?

So i decided to vote in the hot 100... and here is my shortlist.

Aesop Rock - None Shall Pass remove
Arcade Fire - Keep The Car Running remove
Architecture In Helsinki - Heart It Races remove
Bag Raiders - Fun Punch remove
Bat For Lashes - What's A Girl To Do? remove
Bit By Bats - One Six One remove
Bjork - Innocence remove
Bluejuice - Vitriol remove
Bonde Do Role - Office Boy remove
British India - Tie Up My Hands remove
Chk Chk Chk - Must Be The Moon remove
Crystal Castles - Crimewave remove
CSS - Let's Make Love & Listen To Death From Above remove
Cut Copy - Hearts On Fire remove
Cut Off Your Hands - Oh Girl remove
Cut Off Your Hands - Still Fond remove
Cut Off Your Hands - You And I remove
Foals - Hummer remove
Ghostface Killah - You Know I'm No Good remove
Ghostwood - Red Version remove
Go! Team - Doing It Right remove
Go! Team - Grip Like A Vice remove
Goose - Bring It On remove
Hard-Fi - Suburban Knights remove
Hives, The - Tick Tick Boom remove
Hot Chip - Ready For The Floor remove
Hot Chip - Shake A Fist remove
I Heart Hiroshima - Punks remove
Kaiser Chiefs - Ruby remove
Kasabian - Shoot the Runner remove
Kate Nash - Foundations remove
Klaxons - Golden Skans remove
Klaxons - It's Not Over Yet remove
Knife, The - Like A Pen remove
LCD Soundsystem - North American Scum remove
LCD Soundsystem - Someone Great remove
Long Blondes, The - Giddy Stratospheres remove
Lost Valentinos - 17 Deaths remove
M.I.A - Boyz remove
M.I.A - Jimmy remove
M.I.A - Paper Planes remove
Maximo Park - Our Velocity remove
Mickey Avalon - Jane Fonda remove
Modest Mouse - Dashboard remove
Muscles - Ice Cream remove
Muscles - Sweaty remove
New Young Pony Club - The Bomb remove
Plan B - More Is Enough remove
Pnau - Baby remove
Pnau - Wild Strawberries remove
Pnau - With You Forever remove
Presets, The - My People remove
Punks Jump Up - Dance To Our Disco remove
Queens Of The Stone Age - Sick, Sick, Sick remove
Regina Spektor - Real Love remove
Rufus Wainwright - Going To A Town remove
Regular John - Who We Are remove
Scare, The - Eighty Eight remove
Shins, The - Australia remove
Shout Out Louds - Tonight I Have To Leave It remove
Shy Child - Drop The Phone remove
Soft Tigers - Karate remove
Sparkadia - Animals remove
Sparkadia - Morning Light remove
Stars - Take Me To The Riot remove
Talib Kweli - Listen!! remove
Teenagers In Tokyo - End It Tonight remove
Tokyo Police Club - Nature Of The Experiment remove
Trentemoller - Moan (Remix) remove
Tegan And Sara - Back In Your Head remove
These New Puritans - Colours remove
White Rose Movement - Testcard Girl remove
Wu-Tang Clan - The Heart Gently Weeps remove
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Down Boy remove
Young And Restless - Police Police remove
1990s - See You At The Lights remove



My friend Yimmy has a blog! check it out right here. Full of beautiful images and soon (hopefully) some of his work. WORD.

what what?

Bravo

Could this be the Ok Go clip of 2008?

NAIVE NEW BEATERS "LIVE GOOD"
Uploaded by djtoncar

Naive New Beaters

REP YO HOOD!

Looks like Spiderman and Batman have joined forces.





Keeping our cities clean from dirty punks.

Cut/Copy

So cut/copy have made their So Cosmic mix available for download. The mix was originally released and given away on the recent Daft Punk tour.


cut/copy - so cosmic.

tracklisting:

aphex twin - on This is one of Aphex Twin's classics, and I've always used it as an intro to our DJ sets. I'm a big fan of looped piano riff (two other faves of mine being mike oldfield's tubular bells or DJ Shadow's building steam from a grain of sand). It's almost hard to imagine this is the same guy who wrote come to daddy.

cut copy - so haunted (knightlife end edit) Our mate Knightlife called me up when he heard 'so haunted' on the radio and asked what happens after it fades out. He was imagining this sun soaked disco reprise so we gave him the parts and two days later we had our hands punching the air listening back to it.

panda bear - bros This panda bear record is without a doubt my favorite of 2007. For me it's like paul simon graceland era meets animal collective meets the avalanches. Some of my favorite shit.

popolice - (edit) Popolice is a one man my bloody valentine - it's a trick because whenever I close my eyes at his shows you can imagine a whole band with wailing guitars and heartbrakingly beautiful textures and harmonies. A bit of an underground favorite in melbourne, he's played with us and become a mainstay on the cut copy stereo.

delia & gavin - rise For me this song reminds me of driving at dusk, or perhaps it's the sound of the world as it was being created. I've only seen them play once but they had me transfixed for the 25 minutes that they played, with no gaps or talking. amazing.

Elitechnique - fingerfood (major swellings mix) There's a touch of herbie hancock in all of us. And I must admit I remember seeing the electronic saxophone on a show called 'beyond 2000' when I was a kid and badgering my parents to buy me one. They never did.

nu musik - warp This song is incredible to me. It's one of those tunes that transports you; from chicago house to blissful acoustic guitar, sounding like one of the best remixes you've heard. I was staggered to find out it's actually from 1982 and the original version of the song.

panthers - goblin city (holy ghost! dub) Holy ghost! seem to be one of the heroes of DFA's new wave of talent. This mix of panthers is as good as many of the DFA's own. I cant wait for more.

alan braxe & fred falke - horizon This track appeared on the promo for Rubicon a number of years back but (perhaps due to it's length) has remained a tantalizing piece of braxe/falke magic. I love it every time I hear it, but never manage to listen to it long enough to get over it. pure bliss.

bell x1 - flame (chicken lips dub) This mix is a bit like a modern pop interpretation of the anthemic white-funk of talking heads. One my favorite chicken lips remixes for some time.

giorgio - knights in white saturn This is one of my favorite giorgio tracks. I love this era of his music where in parternship with pete bellotte their songs build and deconstruct themselves piece by piece over a whole side of vinyl. This particular one is a cover of Justin Hayward and spans three disco interpretations of the song. The cover is also absolutely genius.

aeroplane - aeroplane Aeroplane is my new favorite artist. This track comes like a contemporary version of the songs that inspired the new cut copy record 'In ghost colours'. Not out of place next to Jean Michel Jarre's 'Equinoxe' or PIL's 'this is what you want, this is what you get'. An epic soundtrack to... well... something.

fleetwood mac - never forget 'Tusk' was an ambitious double-album and although it probably didn't scale the heights of 'Rumours', it has some truly heartwarming/breaking chords and melodies.

lifelike - so electric Like alan braxe and daft punk, lifelike seems to be at his best when his tracks stumble upon some sort of shared musical consciousness; a melody seemingly from the past which takes hold like a fond memory of childhood. 'So electric' is simultaneously triumphant and nostalgic, and for me an instant classic.

saturn 5 - oscillations pure kraut. It goes to show you dont need more that one chord (or even one note for that matter) to write a compelling tune.

International Music System - runaway (edit) A lot of the time in writing our second record was spent researching and listening to music from the past, making connections between our modern favorites and those that inspired them. To me almost like a proto-alan braxe blueprint. Unfortunately it's incredibly difficult to get information about many of these italo artists so I know precious little about it. It's good though.

cut copy - lights & music This song was written from two ideas and then joined together. The chorus began as an dubby electronic disco number I wrote and the verses from post punk inspired jam that Tim and I recorded on bass keyboard and drum machine. It's also our next single.

Jean Michel Jarre - equinoxe (edit) What more can be said about Jean Michel Jarre? He's a hero. For the tech heads, he has put the Yamaha CS60 and 80 into our hearts forever.

harmonia - deluxe (drum edit) Harmonia was the all-star 'dreamteam' of krautrock. Michael (Jordan) Rother from Neu on guitar combined with the Cluster pair and Roedelius (AKA Shaq) and Moebius (not unlike the silky skills of Clyde Drexler). Seriously though both the harmonia albums are masterpieces. Over the last couple of years I've listen to these records countless times for inspiration.

The bells - target group (C90 mix) C90 seem to have emerged as blog favorites for many people. This is my pick of their mixes.

holy ghost - hold on I cant say enough about Holy Ghost! This record is a hands down classic for me. From the throbbing staccato synth of the verses to the soaring clavinet piano of chorus. This the Cut Copy 12" anthem of 2007. When are these guys going to do a remix for us already? DFA, you've done it again...

bagraiders - nil by mouth Bagraiders have emerged along with wunderkind Knightlife (who also remixed this particular tune) as part of the new wave of Australian electro producers. For some reason more than most other countries this scene has really taken hold here when only a few years ago it was Jet and their rock revival clones that seemed to rule the bars and clubs.

space - save your love This is an instrumental edit of Space's 'save your love'. Not be confused with the KLF/Orb collaboration also called 'Space' this is more than remeniscent of Daft Punk's Disovery era.

inflagranti - additional alpha blocker I my opinion these guys rarely put a foot wrong. And even when it is wrong, goddamn it - it's still so right. This track almost goes into transcendental chicago house territory. I cant wait for their next 12.

oran juice jones - the rain An 80's underground soul classic.

cut copy - hearts on fire (a cappella)
cut copy - hearts on fire (joakim mix) Joakim is someone who I've followed musically over his career and have always been surprising and inspiring. His most recent forays into mixes seem to have been his most successful in terms of club play and he seems to be really hitting his stride. This version of our tune came through to us when we were at DFA recording our album and was a soundtrack for that period. Hands in the air!

Ka-babeh

So i just made myself a kebab for lunch. it was amazing... but i left out the most important ingredient ... CHEESE! i only noticed after half of it was already in my belly.

So Vanilla Ice just toured... from all reports he was shit and i've found some youtube videos that prove just that.

Run forest!

RUN WITH US (Group Exhibition)
A collection of new works by Murdoch Stafford, Elana Mullaly, Sofles, Joel Birch, Luke Dyms and Mikel.

When:
Opening night: THIS Saturday 12th January @ 7pm.
Exhibition continues 13th January.

Where:
S&M Studios, West End (Cnr Beattie and Skinner)

Run With Us is a collection of new works by Murdoch Stafford, Elana Mullaly, Sofles, Joel Birch, Luke Dyms and Mikel.

The show encompasses a broad range of artistic styles including pen and ink illustration, watercolours, graffiti, photography and hand drawn typography.

Coming from the dingy underworld of hip-hop and punk rock, the artists revel in their influences creating lowbrow artwork for the masses.

www.thekingdomofsadmachines.com

www.myspace.com/sandmstudiosbrisbane

my last album was...

The Outposts presents ~ THE CHRONIC.

An installation of artworks by Mark Drew: Co-director of Sydney art institution China Heights gallery, creator of The End label and the Making Ends design studio.
Producing zines for nearly 15 years, his work exudes the grime of an old photocopier, and constant references to the past.
This collection, produced specially for The Outpost, centers around miniature limited edition screenprints.
Please join us for opening drinks with the artist, Monday 14th of January, from 6pm. Installation in store through to February 14th.

The Outpost
5a Winn St, Fortitude Valley
www.chinaheights.com | www.makingends.com | www.myspace.com/theoutpoststore

remember

remember lil bow wow before he was bow wow? well i found this kid bustin out lil bows "whats my name" on some tv show.




my kids are going to dance like before they can walk.


weng weng

2007

Happy New Year!!!!! but for now... my best of 2007...

Top Shows:
Daft Punk @ Riverstage, Brisbane
You were all there so you all know how good it was. If you weren't there and didn't see my videos. Go here.

Klaxons @ Tivoli, Brisbane
I wasn't expecting anything from these guys. i was seriously expecting some really amature performance by a band that was just another victim of the hype machine.... but no... these guys deserve all the hype they have been getting.

Arrested Developement @ The Lair, Sydney
I knew i was seeing them but i didn't care... until they dropped Mr Wendal 2nd song in. I forgot that was even a AD song.

Grillz @ Empire, Brisbane
I danced like i'd never danced before. Sunday night at Empire was perfect for this event. Didn't have to deal with your normal valley crew just good tunes and good crowd. Perfect.

Hot Chip @ BDO, Gold Coast
BDO blows, but too many good acts all in one day to miss. Seeing Hot Chip was worth putting up with the Gold Coastians, sun & long food/drink lines.

Snoop Dogg @ Good Vibes, Gold Coast
I've waited years to see him and even though he performance was as good as a skinny rapper standing on stage could be, I was still stoked and blown away. Did he get his Visa? anyone???


Top Albums
1. Muscles - Guns.Babes.Lemonade
2. Klaxons - Myths of the Near Future
3. PNAU - PNAU
4. Kanye West - Graduation
5. The Go! Team - Proof Of Youth
6. M.I.A. - Kala
7. !!! - Myth Takes
8. Chromeo - Bonafied Lovin
9. Arcade Fire - Neon bible
10. Dizzee Rascal - Maths + English