Friday, July 18, 2008
Taking a break from exporting the Boston Bounce shizz to folks up in the Windy City, Mashit Recs honcho DJ C comes back to bump laptops with the "Pan Am" crew tonight at Enormous Room, kicking off an East Coast mini-tour that'll swing him through Rhode Island, New York, and Maryland before winding up back at the same joint on July 28, that one with his old Beat Research pals Flack and Wayne & Wax. If you've been wondering what C's been up to, check his album, or better yet, sample the latest in his "B" series mixtapes. "B-Low" takes a crack at dubstep and related skullfuckery, borrowing chunes from new friends and famous people, with a few choice exclusives worth carving out with your Abelton knockoff of choice. Check it:
DOWNLOAD: DJ C, "B-Low" (mp3)
Tracklist:
- Schlachthofbronx; “Bronx Dub:
- Max Ulis; “kILL aNOTHA sOUND”
- abZ; “Cylinder”
- Elemental; “Space Expander”
- Juju; “Punks”
- Fat Freddy’s Drop; “Cay’s Crays (Digital Mystikz Version)”
- Si Begg; “Pete Fucking Tong”
- MRK1; “Never Warned”
- Sosolimited; “Um Nah”
- Exillon; “Moon Shiner Remix”
- Burial; “Archangel (Boy 8-Bit’s Simple Re-Mix)”
- The Others; “Bushido (Caspa Rmx)”
- abZ; “Bumpy (Wascal Mix)”
- RSD; “Kingfisher”
- DJ C ft. Chrissy; “Strut Dub”
- Schlachthofbronx; “Fatthing (Dubstep Rmx)”
- The Colonel; “Big Trouble (Original Mix)”
- Starkey; “Stripped Gutted (DJ C Mix)”
- Timeblind; “Skater 6″
- Squincy Jones “Shawty Swing (Nintendub Edit)”
- DJ C (Ft. Ghislain Poirier, Face T, & T.I.); “Blazin’ Hurts”
- Ghislain Poirier (feat. Face-T); “Blazin’ (DJ C Remix)”
- Stenchman; “The Number One”
- Sully; “Living”
- DJ C; “Since You’ve Been In This Club (Dub Mix)”
- Starkey; “Dementia”
- Schlachthofbronx; “System Red Remix (ft. Mr. Vegas and Babylon System)”
- Villa Diamante; “Daleduro vs Lady Tigra”
- Timeblind; “Cassette Deck”
- DJ Donna Summer: “Rock Rock Rock (Aaron Spectre Remix)”
- Pacheko; “Bi Polar Bear”
- Cotti; “Mi Nua Friend Oddessy (Remix)”
- Cardopusher; “PAO! Total Xplosion of the Heart (Cardopusher rmx)”
- Buju Banton; “Murderer”
- Pacheko; “Green Bull”
- Point B; “Gymede (Original Mix)
- Ebola; “Teledildonics”
- Cardopusher; “Homeless”
- DJ C; “Dehydrogenated”
- Math Head; “Last”
Friday, August 17, 2007
YOOOOOOOOUUUUUUUAA!
BIRD FLU: tonight at Enormous Room
Mr. Collipark, eight zillion kids with youtube accounts, four out of five bloggers, and Winnie the Pooh agree: teenage sensation Soulja Boy's "Crank Dat" (a/k/a "Superman That Ho") is officially the viral hit of 2007, has spawned a superhero dance craze that's even more fun than that whole Chicken Noodle Soup thing, and is probably the grimiest-sounding rap vocal ever to become a hit. We're still trying to learn the dance steps, but we keep getting interrupted by new "Crank Dat" answer songs, which appear to be dropping at a rate of about three per minute: it seems quite possible at this point that "Crank Dat" will surpass rap's reigning record holder "Roxanne, Roxanne" as the most-answered song ever. Possibly this week. (See "Crank Dat Batman," "Crank Dat Spiderman," "Crank Dat Wonder Woman," "Crank Dat Aquaman," "Crank Dat Robocop," and our favorite, the Simpsons-referencing "Crank Dat Spider-Pig.")
As if that weren't enough, now that the original's getting a wide-release on Interscope (speaking of which, go find the original: the Uni version cleans it up and kinda ruins the screaming-into-a-cheap-mic, Minor-Threaty quality that made it a hit in the first place), the intertubes are flush with "Crank Dat" remixes. It's gotten so heated that the Hollerboard's got a dedicated remix thread. But nothing quite compares to what COUSIN COLE (of Atlantic Records TI Clearance fame, among other OTD faves) did to "Crank Dat" just a minute ago: his new rework flips the moment's blog-rap phenomenon into a blog-house phenomenon. It'll be destroying dance floors everywhere in about five seconds.
Most notably, it will be destroying the Enormous Room tonight (see flyer), when Cole himself steps to the decks alongside his Flagrant Fowl cohort Pocketknife. They're going head-t-head against Brooklyn's femme-tastic DJ duo the Hot Hens for some bird-flu-flavored smackdown-type battling. Do not miss.
DOWNLOAD: Soulja Boy, "Crank Dat (Cousin Cole Remix) (mp3)
Friday, February 09, 2007
IF YOU GO:
For anyone still smarting from the sudden absence of Federline-related club happenings -- don't look at us like that -- it turns out there were better things to do tonight all along. Chief among them our adopted Providence/Brooklynite party kingpins Certified Bananas, this month bringing in that dude DJ Morsy, a selector famous (make that infamous) for his exceptionally fantastic Emo Thug mixtape. Yes, it's a blends mix. No, it isn't particularly emo. (More like indie-ish thug. If someone had referred to the Clash as "emo" back in the day, someone things mighta got heated. Nowadays . . . meh, who cares.) And Morsy has since moved on. But on the off chance this one evaded your iPod the first time around, here it be:
DOWNLOAD: DJ Morsy, "Emo Thug Mix" (mp3)
WATCH: Emo Thug, the video:
Monday, November 13, 2006
IF YOU GO:
The bad news: Wayne Marshall, the smartest person we know email from time to time, done moved to Chicago. (Dude, there's a hole in our heart that can only be filled by you. Although if anyone knows another Boston-based ethnomusicologist/DJ/producer/blogger, get at us immediately.) The good news: he's put together a farewell ode to Boston in the form of a followup to his awesome Boston Mashacre mix, this one called the Boston Smashacre. Even better news: he's in town again tonight to DJ at Enormous Room.
But first, let's talk Smashacre. In his words, it's an "anti-canonical" mix that includes local faves from Big Digits to Luny Tunes, but that "generally sidesteps the pop and pop-rock referents of last year’s 'Mashacre' and instead claims for the Hub's sonic profile some homegrown hip-hop, bellydance, ska, new jack, quirk rock, boss bounce, and reggaeton, among others. Although I still attempt to make some gestures toward breadth and familiarity, including some poppy faves, in general I have tended here to the obscure, to the weird and the dark and ironic-exotic, seeking to plumb the town’s dirty water depths more than skim its surfaces."
In other words, the same awesomeness you've come to expect from our favorite braniac DJ.
It's also the jumpoff for what Wayne describes as "semi-regular, relatively longform musically-expressed ideas about music" -- i.e., a podcast, or in Wayne's world a Waxcast, which you can sign up for here.
DOWNLOAD: Wayne and Wax, "Boston Smashacre" (mp3) [TRACKLIST]
Friday, September 15, 2006
Monday, July 17, 2006
Sorry, but they're already all sold out!  1. See Piles at Charlie's Kitchen in Harvard Square with American Business Machines and Dead Like Death. DOWNLOAD: Piles with Animal Hospital's Kevin Micka, "Divided Binomials" 2. See our buddy Wayne Marshall at Enormous Room's Beat Research with DJ Flack. Wayne sez, "I plan to mix all sorts of things into a dembow salsa stew, if you will, merging recent reggaeton with classic nuyorican soul and throwing in a pinch of dub for good measure. I may even break out some ol' raps. I'll also be joined by an exciting band outta Brooklyn, Aa (say 'BIG A little a'). They mix up a tangle of percussion, synthesizers, and "screamoy" vocals to make music that defies category, and they've apparently cooked up a special set just for us Cambridge folks. They also do their own light show! Should be a blast." 3. Read Lemon Red's tour blog over and over until you can smell the Jager on DJ Gorky's breath. 4.  5. Cry
7/17/2006 5:30:35 PM by Cami | |
Tuesday, July 11, 2006
Rucker: lord of the Ring.
A few weeks ago, our old pal Rucker announced he was dive-bombing the mid-week slot at Enormous Room. "I'm taking back Tuesday!" he IM'd us, and just like that, a name for the night was minted. Many of you know Mr. Rucker from his column in the fishwrap and his stint as FNX's local music guy. Now employed by an evil, monolithic megacorporate media collosus, he keeps his conscience clean by returning to the decks to spin . . . well, frankly, we have no idea what he's spinning, although he's rumored to have a couple of exclusive mixes in his record bag (if you're into AFI remixes, do not sleep). He's also bringing with him DJ Carbo, the man with the most powerful iPod in Boston. (This is a guy who, just for fun, would show up at a brit-pop night to play tracks from an oasis record that even their manager hasn't heard yet . . . uh, hypothetically speaking, of course.) Expect a crowd comrising hardcore thugs, famous athletes, label stoolies, indie hipsters, and maybe (just maybe) the most famous little sister on Geffen? The line forms in Central Square tonight beginning at around 10 pm.
Thursday, June 08, 2006
1.  We had one of those psychic moments last week hearing T.I.'s "What You Know About That?" on the radio. Although we'd observed on these coordinates back in January that the song borrows its synth chords from "Hey Joe," it had simply never occurred to us that someone could do a mashup of these songs. So anyway, the spark went something like this: "Gee, someone should really try to mash those up," followed seconds later by the thought, "Hmmm . . . wonder what Wayne Marshall is up to?"
DOWNLOAD: Wayne and Wax, "What You Joe" (mp3, via Riddim Method)
Also, there are some other versions of this song floating around that you should hear -- not even close to getting sick of this song yet, and that Curtis Vodka b-more version is twisting even Audiovandal's heads in knots. Solid.
Speaking of the Audiovandal, the show previously advertised (see, but ignore, the poster below) as "half and half" -- that is, half of Certified Bananas and half of Caps + Jones -- has now doubled its pleasure. That's right: Friday at Enormous, the full CB and the full Caps + Jones. Retarded.
Thursday, May 18, 2006
Crappy camera phone photo by OTD.
The above is from the Enormous Room on Tuesday night, where Mission of Burma's Peter Prescott and Roger Miller manned the decks during the local release party for Burma's new The Obliterati. What did they play? Well, the entire album, for starters, and then some stuff you wouldn't expect. Brazilian funk? Missy Elliottt? Public Enemy? Full report can be found online over here. And yes, the song below is a gift from the Burma camp to you: previously referred to by us as the song title of the month, "Donna Sumeria" is track three off the new record. We arrived at track 3 after falling in love also with tracks 1, 4, and 5, and then not being able to decide on which one to single out. That 2 is pretty good too.
[You can listen to lots more from the album at TheObliterati.net, where Eric Van has his own wiki entry] [Friend the band at MySpace] [Order tickets for their upcoming tour]
DOWNLOAD: Mission of Burma, "Donna Sumeria" (mp3)
Wednesday, May 10, 2006
 With their second post-reunion album The Obliterati about to hit the shelves, Mission of Burma yesterday announced a brief tour that'll kick off July 13 at the Paradise. Advance tickets are available beginning today (UPDATED: click here for the presale). Those of you here in Boston are also invited this Tuesday, May 16 to Enormous Room in Central Square for the official CD-release/listening party. The band, as well as their manager/svengali DJ Carbo, will be spinning discs over there by the record machine.
PREVIOUSLY: First Listen: Mission of Burma's The Obliterati
Friday, April 14, 2006
In case you haven't been here in a week, it's our birthday . . . almost. We're celebrating tonight at Enormous Room. This post was supposed to be up hours ago, but we started getting hammered at noon, Cami just left to pick up some Suicide Girls, and, well, you're lucky we haven't puked on our keyboards yet. But in honor of OTD's first anniversary, and to remind you of why you love us, we present . . . the top 10 OTD exclusives of our first year in business. (The fact that this list doesn't include the ultra-amazing songs Bonde do Role and Black Helicopter is verifiable proof that we are totally not very serious about this list.) Get these songs now, because sometime this weekend we're ditching the exclusives nav-bar thing on the right and replacing it with something more useful. (Like drunken photos, or a show calendar, or a blog roll, or barbeque recipes.) In the meantime, everyone should go download Ray Lamontagne's cover of Gnarls Barkley's "Crazy" over at Stereogum -- holy shit, so good.
10. Major Stars, "Pocket." Simply put, it sounds a cross between Black Sabbath and Bikini Kill . . . or, if that's too square for you, try Hawkwind meets Phantom Pregnancies. By any measure, it fucking owns.
9. Big Digits, "Music is Magic." We didn't give this an OTD-styled intro when we first posted it 'cuz Cami was swamped with dead people and OTD was fresh from wrecking shop with Minnie and Mickey. But for the last few days, we've had this track repeating on our iTunes Playlist and we're happy to report that TD and Mac remove the muffling sweaters from their mouths and do some real, earnest singing! Against a piano sample! And it rules! Best of all, you can't get it anywhere else.
8. Keys to the Streets of Fear, "Modern World." Six months, one recording session with the Walkmen, and one New Yorker namedrop later, we still can't introduce this Boston-on-Boston exclusive better than KttSoF's two-string guitarist, Elio DeLuca did: "The song is a terse, hot blast of USA-bent Schlitzphetamine-fueled anti-nursing-school modern-sonic face-fucking." Go ahead, let them fuck your face!
7. Kay Hanley, "Cellars by Starlight." Sure, the Phoenix covers Kay Hanley every time she farts. But this time she farted a song named after our local-music column, and more importantly, after local-music scribe Brett Milano.
6. Hidden, "That's How I Escaped My Certain Fate." Their new riffs will knock Alkaline Trio's teeth down their throats, and their singer does the best Danzig impersonation this side of Type O Negative. Picking up where Keys to the Streets of Fear's Modern Lovers cover left off, it's round two of a two-part OTD series where great Boston bands cover classic songs by other great Boston bands. There were going to be more parts of this series, buy, hey, shit happens.
5. Casey Dienel, "Frankie and Annette." Our girl Casey Dienel, who's moved to Brooklyn and gettin' all huge, is receiving a warm welcome to her new NY home. Time Out anoints her a member of the '06 pack. Fluxblog posts the opening track of Wind-Up Canary, "Doctor Monroe." Jane Magazine publishes her in its March issue alongside Annie, the Giant Drag girlie, Annie, and Maja from the Soungs (not online) -- "very humbling company" as Dienel says on her homepage. And then -- drumroll puhleeze -- Pitchfork gives Wind-Up Canary a better-than-respectable 7.6. We told ya she was dangerous.
4. Anal Cunt, "You're in a Coma." Extreme metal's most notorious fuck-up writes song mocking people in a coma, consumes $200 worth of crack cocaine, an untraceable amount of heroin, and at least a fifth of whiskey, and ends up in a coma. Next thing you know, Joe Bonni will punch him in the face. 3. Damone, " Out Here All Night." OTD spent some time in China with these kids a couple years ago and watched this little teenage hoodrat named Noelle LeBlanc turn into the Amerie of metalcore and now they're making bubblegum speedmetal jams for the new new superheavy century. (BTW, if you fancy yourself a guitar shredder, Damone may want you for a new video. Details here.)
2. Cave In, "Down the Drain." This is unlike anything else on Cave In's Perfect Pitch Black. Two, it is unlike anything they've ever done. It's a pop song, maybe; closer to Brodsky's solo folk-psych records, sort of; but with an ingenious arrangement (the bass filter from Metallica's "Orion" meets, like, the electronic rainwater-trickle of Postal Service?).
1. Tunnel of Love, "Paint It Black." The world's greatest rock and roll band, covering a song by the pretenders to the throne. A random Warner Bros publicist emailed us earlier this year: "Maybe it's just me, but I think this is better than the original." Whaddya mean, you "think"?!
Thursday, April 13, 2006
1. P. Nice and the Audiovandal have been working overtime on what they're calling their first official mixtape -- that is, the first one that they're not giving away for free on the internet, even for a little bit. Or at least that was the plan until we badgered them into giving us a preview. Whereupon instead of just giving us the first five minutes, they turned around and produced a full-on "trailer" -- like they're Clinton Sparks or Kanye West or some shit!
Dudes have been bragging to anyone who'll listen that they've stepped up their game for this release, which we think might be called SPRANG! (at least, that's what the secret full-length version they gave us says when it comes up in iTunes). We wish we could convey the monstrosity of this mix, but as usual we'll just give you a few of the highlights: Dolly Parton, "Sandwiches," Neil Young, "Pets," Big Baby Jesus, "Neva Eva," Phil Collins, "Ms. New Booty," Natasha Bedingfield, a "Kryptonite" remix that will kill the indie kids dead, and . . . a Baltimore-club remix of The Little Mermaid?! GOOD GOOGLY MOOGLY!
DOWNLOAD: Certified Bananas, Sprang! trailer (mp3)
2. As if you needed a reminder, the Bananas crew represents tomorrow night at Enormous Room for OTD's First Birfday. Worrrrd. Don't bother bringing cake. (Maybe bring cookies?) For desert, we got Nick Catchdubs. We commissioned our old pal Nick Sylvester to write something about Catchdubs (actually, we had nothing to do with it) and here's what he came up with.
3. Um, and just in case you missed the link right up there, MS. NEW BOOTY: THE WEB SITE. Amazing:
4. Re-up:
Friday, April 07, 2006
Nick Catchdubs and Certified Bananas
April 14 at Enormous Room
Click on the archives and you'll note that the first official On the Download post was made on April 17, 2005. We put up something about the Converge show at Harpers Ferry. None of you were reading, because we didn't tell anyone about it for a couple of months. After lots of plotting and we-really-shoulds, Cami and OTD took the bull by the horns, made a blogger account, and stole some server space. Eventually, some noses poked around the corner and asked what we were up to. We shrugged, pointed, clicked, and the noses, satisfied we weren't doing anything criminal, went back to their work. We've been on our own ever since, making it up as we go along.
The inspiration for On the Download came from a handful of music blogs, a desirie to join the conversation. A new sensibility was emerging. The two bloggers we loved most were Lemon-Red and Nick Catchdubs, and an early highlight was hanging out with both those dudes, along with Riff master Nick Sylvester (pre-Voice), at one of the early Certified Bananas parties. So when we heard Young Catch was coming back to play the Certified jumpoff the second week of April, we figured, what the hell: let's throw a birthday pawrty. Just like old times, yo.
We've met a bunch more of you over the past year, and quite frankly, there are too many of you who we only see on the internet these days (OTD's fault), so we'd love to catch up with everyone. Mark your calendars. And note that the Rub dudes are coming the night before -- plan your vitamin intake accordingly.
DOWNLOAD: Catchdubs & DJ Ayres, "Tell Me When To Go (Remix)" (mp3)
DOWNLOAD: Converge, "Black Cloud" (mp3, via Phoenix Band Guide)
Saturday, March 18, 2006
 We know the Federales are Googling, so let's get this up front: if you're looking for the other Boston George -- the Weymouth kid who more or less singlehandedly invented the cocaine game, as seen in Blow -- we have no bananas. Instead, we've got tracks by the pseudonymous Boston George who wrecks Enormous Room most Saturday nights at Jam Hot (as previously seen in the Phoenix.) We've promised not to reveal his identity, since in some circles, making reggaeton party records can be the song that ended your career. We're pretty sure nobody from those circles reads this blog, thank god, but still: our favorite part of lucha libre is the masks, the lie is more interesting than the truth, etc., etc.
We've been sworn to secrecy on the late-night Jam Hot shenanigans, too, but dude. If you don't know, now you know. Jam Hot returns to Enormous next weekend; you can also catch the team doing a one-off with DJ Bruno tomorrow night at Utopia Sundays at Boston Rocks in Faneuil Hall.
You can buy the new Boston George 12-inch at Turntable Lab, but you know how we do: the first taste is free. We were gonna bring you the title track, "Puerto Rock Anthem," which throws Grand Theodore over Daddy Yankee and thus should really be declared the Revere Beach National Anthem, but due to technical difficulties (vinyl rips: new to us), you'll have to sample that one at the 'Lab. Instead, and just as fly (by night), we bring you the self-explanatory "There's Some Hoes in This Nookie," grabbing the Baltimore/strip/house staple and running it over Jamesy P's soca smash. Bonus track: from the last Boston George record, some jet fuel for hipster-fuck watering holes.
DOWNLOAD: Boston George, "There's Some Hoes in this Nookie" (mp3)
DOWNLOAD: Boston George, "Beware of Stopper" (mp3)
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