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When you came in, the air went out

Posted in music, tagged , , , , , , , on September 19, 2011| 1 Comment »


Finished the most mighty of weekends… a couple fundraisers and a couple weddings made for a busy 4 days.  Somewhere in that mix I had to try and be a dad and do you know… my actual job on the Zone.

Focus was required, but hard to come by as I have my eyes firmly planted on Friday, September 23rd… Rifflandia!

OK, so Rifflandia actually begins on the Thursday, Friday is when Boitano and me DJ at the Phillips Brewery stage.  Friday night at 9PM.  After DJ Anger… and later that night; Michael Rault then one of our favourites at the Zone, Toronto’s Ko takes the stage.  Boitano says that Broken Social Scene ends just as we start… so I get if you have them as a “must see!” but maybe you’ll truly endeavour to bee-line to Phillips to catch the end of our set.  We’d really love to see some friendlies in the audience.

For our set… we are thinking that we’ll mainly try and focus on Modern Rock Remixes (Think Boitano’s Mixtape) to keep us on point for people that come to check us out.  That said… well I love my modern electronic stuff from M83 and the new Neon Indian.  I’ll try to squish them in if I can… early in the set.

I did fin a monster remix of the True Blood soundtrack!  Heavy electronic… and Vampires!  Oh My!

Jace Everett – “Bad Things” (Mister Gray Dubstep Remix)

Download MP3 >> Bad Things (True Blood Theme) (Mister Gray Dubstep Remix)

Savage.  I heard that jammer on the XM Alt Nation remix show on Saturday night.  DJ Liquid also played this remix from Oasis.

Oasis – “Wonderwall” (Figure Drumstep edit)

Download MP3 >> Wonderwall (Figure Drumstep Edit)

I’ll be choosing about half the songs so I want to include M83‘s “Midnight City” because I am obsessed.

Another song I am enjoying is Neon Indian’s “Polish Girl.”

Neon Indian – “Polish Girl”

Download MP3 >> 02 Polish Girl

I also have a remix of Two Door Cinema Club‘s “What You Know.”

OK so that is almooooooost 30 minutes.  Any requests?  And before you ask, yes I have made a commitment to end the set with Brian McNight’s 1999 slow jam anthem “Back At One.” (uhhhh if Boitano will let me and the people don’t have a revolution against me).

Right, requests… whaddya got?

Go with yourself.

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I know a bar out on mars, where they driving spaceships instead of cars

Posted in music, tagged , , , , on May 9, 2011| Leave a Comment »

Check this out… there is a girl on my facebook named Sundine Forsberg.  That’s her real name, not some hockey obsessed pseudo-name.  Crazy right?

She dropped an interesting MP3 down on my wall the other day.

Its a Dubstepped out version of Sublime’s “Santeria.”

I played this song to Jade and the first thing she said is, “hey, it has the dubstep sound.”  Ain’t that a pip?  The dubstep has a sound that every dubstep song uses.  That’s too bad for that sub-genre.  But to get geekier style, isn’t this song really Brostep?  Which is basically accessible dubstep?  And nothing is more “bro” than Sublime, period.

Sublime – “Santeria” (JPOD Remix)

Download MP3 >> sublime-santeriaJPODrmx

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In other news and a little world away… I got an MP3 from Vancouver.  A band called Southern Death Threat.

As the name already suggests, its hard rock.  Not normally my style but I have found myself jamming this cut out a bit from time-to-time at work.  At first, I punched it up out of morbid curiosity, but then, I dunno, it rooted in my brain.

Southern Death Threat – “Truth”

Download MP3 >> Truth (Take My Soul)

Sometimes I just like a more simpler heavy sound.  Takes me back to being 19.  Judge me not!  But if you want something to judge…

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Lastly, WTF is going on in the world?

Watch This! >> Katy Perry – “E.T.”

Reason #436 we’re all doomed:

“Tell me what’s next/Alien sex/  Imma disrobe you/then Imma gunna probe you.”

No wait, I love that line!  If that is a sign of the end times in music, sign me up.

Go with yourself.

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It’s Apocalypse

Posted in music, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on January 26, 2011| 3 Comments »

I was up late reading about the ancient Christian philosopher St. Augustine.

Augustine of Hippo grew up in North Africa where Algeria is now and lived during the actual last days of the Western Roman Empire.

Like many people of the Dark Ages (or Early Middle Ages), he believed that they were in fact living in the time of Apocalypse.

And like college kids today, he also went off to college where he got up to (or lied about) all sorts of sex.  And he’s the patron Saint of Brewers… of course you are Augustine.

Since the times of antiquity, young gentlemen have gone off to college, had sex and believed that their generation would be it.  The end.

Fast forward a whole bunch college toga parties (some actual toga parties, others ironic) to the 60s and whole other generation believing that this will be it.  War, civil unrest, Woodstock.

Mick Jagger told Rolling Stone magazine in 1995 that their 60s jam, “Gimme Shelter” wrapped all these ideas up in a song.  “It’s Apocalypse.”

No Mick, THIS is  Apocalypse!


Trolling the net brought me face-to-face with a wobble and glitch explosion.  Toronto dubsteppers Zed’s Dead remixed the Rolling Stone’s “Gimmie Shelter.”

I am not too down with whole dubstep phenomenon so I wouldn’t be able to tell you if low bass warble is any better or worse then the next glitched out production… but I did enjoy the Stone’s hooks thrown into the mix.

I check out some comments on the youtube view and not surprisingly, many people thought the remix was an abomination.  You can check it out for yourself… if you dare! muhahahahahaha

Rolling Stones – “Gimmie Shelter” (Zed’s Dead Remix)

Download MP3 >> Gimmie Shelter (Zeds Dead Remix)

I am pretty liberal on my view of a remix or cover.  Remixes or covers don’t go back in time and erase the old classic.  They always have the ability to generate excitement for the original and enable discussion and reflection.

I enjoy this song for what it is… dubstep but with the Stones.  In fact, that is why I like.  If I had to be at a dubstep party, I might as well get some Stones in there. I could also imagine this cut being a real banger on the dancefloor.

Mick says the song was created in a time of unrest and uncertainty.  Nothing amplifies that feeling of dred more than the post-industrial noise of dubstep.

I an appreciate the challenge of trying to merge the two conflicting styles into a cohesive song.  For the most part I think it works alright.  It does feel a bit like the Rolling Stones vocal track floats over a dubstep base.  The “gun click” sound was a little heavy fisted for my personal taste as well.

One of the best parts of Gimmie Shelter is the end when Mick sings, “Love sister… its just a kiss away, its just a kiss away.”  But I don’t recall hearing that in the Zed’s Dead version.  Maybe that was intentional in their reinterpretation or maybe they didn’t fully appreciate the context of the original?  I’ll hope for the first.

Either way… if “Gimmie Shelter” was Apocalypse before, its Armageddon now.

Go with yourself.

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