BAAAAAAACK TO LIFE!

Ok so here it is, the re-inaugural post, more to come, world tour hiatus, bla bla bla.

This is Sta, u know him well. U know edits, u know bo. This is a rather odd comeback post, but its a great mixe, with plenty of fun and plus its pushing the 'in living color,' remix, that everyone needs to get a piece of,...and mostly don't miss the D.I.M remix on this one, its the deathswitch. The Bloghouse loves it and so should you. I'm just going to pretend like we were'nt silent for 7+ months, and handle the followup/catchup post another time. Go see sta, book him in your town. Big up to naomi from darling department for sending me this. Plus this art is worth the whooooooole price, frame it kids....



STA - ilc promo mix

Sta space (where u can buy the 'in living color' record)

on a completely unrelated tip, this is a horribly mangled baltimore edit (proving that absolutely anyone can do it) of MLK's "I feel happy" speech. Lords of Blogtown Style ( = w/maximum camp) And fear not, you will never ever ever ever ever see a baltimore edit on this blog again, you can be sure.

I Have a B-more (Lords of Blogtown's 'Taking the Piss,' Mix)

don't sleep, we're alive, but only half of us knows it...epic win!

xtra: anyone who does'nt get why this is a great, need not be dealt with:

Bobby Brown - Two Can Play That Game (K Klassic Mix)

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What Would Justice Do?

Three Weeks Ago

Driving back from Coachella at 3AM on Sunday night to beat the traffic after a hundred too many hours in the sun and a few hundred too many vodka drinks, I had a religious epiphany. It's hard to be sure of these things, even Paul the Apostle's testament is thought by some to have been inspired by heat related exhaustion.

I had a vision of a glowing cross upon a hillside. Or maybe I saw a cross with lights on it on a hillside. It's hard to be sure of these things. It was not the first time I'd seen such a thing. But what was remarkable about it was not that I had seen the thing, but the thoughts that it conjured within me. I felt not glorious Christian ecstasy, but an intense sense of anticipation for the new Justice album. I wondered even, maybe, could this be the second coming (of Daft Punk)?

Paul heard the sound of Jesus Christ's voice telling him not to persecute Christians anymore. I heard the sound of roaring sawtooth synthesizers telling me never to stand still again. Just as Paul felt in the presence of Christ at all times, I also knew that I would never be alone again. Paul was blind and didn't eat for 3 days, I could see well enough through my sweat soaked bangs and ate a little, but I saw Justice 3 days in a row.

But I also heard a voice, and it was the voice of Red Foxxworth. The voice told me not to post any of the new Justice songs. It said that posting the new Justice songs, would not do anything to strengthen the faith of the converted, and that hype had reached a reasonable enough level to ensure that the rest of the world would be shown the way soon after the album's release date.

Two Months Ago



I promised I would post this a very long time ago, and it's a shame I didn't do it earlier because y'all could have been rocking out to it in a very serious way that much sooner. If you were lucky enough to have come across it somewhere else, then Justice bless you.

Paris - Is This Thing Loaded???? mix.

I don't have a tracklisting for it but you'll definitely recognize some of the tracks, but it's also packed full of hits from eras bygone but fondly recalled and future classics and it's mixed so tightly you will half expect a jack-in-the-box to jump out of your speakers. I am not kidding.


Paris are about to embark on their first European tour. They are 2 dudes. Micprobes (Ruff Club, Six Six Sick) and David Abitol, aka Japanster.

ParisSpace where you can find out if you're fortunate enough to have these dudes coming to your town, as well as listen to their own music.

Three Months Ago



In other news, we were asked to remix Shit Disco and we happily did so. Unfortunately they didn't wind up choosing it to go on their release, but we're still quite happy with the results, so fortunately for you, here it is in fully play-outable-if-you-like-it-that-way 320 kbps mp3-ness (rhymes with penis, haha...):

Shit Disco - OK (Acid Girls Remix)

We have a lot of other stuff going on at the moment, so why not pop by our myspace to find out about it. We're going to be in Boston and New York next week and all over Europe next month, so hopefully we can dance and drink with some of you somewhere. There's a few things missing there that are almost confirmed, but if you there's something you'd like to do or maybe you just want to hang out or something why not write us on the aforelinked myspace.

Forever



And now that we've got you all riled up banger-wise, here's something for your headache. It's a wonderful and lovely piece of music by a delightful outfit called How to Cure Dyslexia and they're perfect.

How to Cure Dyslexia - Afternoon

I have no idea where I found this, but thanks if you posted it somewhere, and sorry if you are How to Cure Dyslexia and you're not happy about us posting this, we usually ask permission. Do let us know.

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I LOVE YOU GOODNIGHT HAVE A GOOD WEEKEND ETC

p.s. The new Harry Potter book comes out on July 21st, the same day as the Daft Punk show in Los Angeles... am I the only person dorky enough to consider bringing it to the show? Best day ever.

its not over...

so don't think it is, its coming...can u feel it?

all i wanna do is bounce bounce

The flowers are more than out at this point and it's time for me to go back to the half of the year in which I am, for some bizarre reason, viscerally terrified of bees. I've never been stung and I have a fairly high pain threshold (flexes muscles) but I run and scream whenever I see one. Bees bad, Summer music good. i.e., Daft Punk playing in LA on July 21st. I am listening to a set of theirs from Twilo courtesy of Hometaping (possibly the best design I've ever seen in an mp3 blog), and though it was recorded in October of 98, I would be happy to hear it out this July of 07. Though massive audio visual pyramids and ableton magic will suffice just fine.

First up is a track which we lifted from Fluokids for reasons that are patently obvious. M. Redhotcar seems to have turned this up at Masala, a blog which I am now happy to know.
Todosantos are 3 fun kids from Brooklyn by way of Caracas. Those 2 cities (and more) seem to give a pretty decent indication of their sound. They flex summer muscles here with cartoon 2 step that's all digital fire hydrants, pixellated bikinis, fluo ipods and bubbly bass. The track's title is completely coincidental and unconnected to us, but you'll understand why it caught our attention. Fiery label of abundant current currency Flamin Hotz is wisely choosing to put this out this summer.

Todosantos - Acid Boys & Acid Girls

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Keep your eyes peeled to buy this at Turntable Lab

Lovely Chords are our wonderful Argentinian friends who have previously instructed you to suck on their ear and let you know that they push up on Frenchies. They seem to think that their disco is broken this time around, but you can judge for yourself. To us it sounds fragmented, possibly sprained and for a moment it looks like it could be serious, but as soon as the stabs (not as painful as they sound) come in at 1:23 you know it's going to be alright. Like Italo from mars, a kinder less tweaky Oizo, Kraftwerk 2007 or something I don't know, but I do know that these kids deserve your ears.

Lovely Chords - My Disco is Broken

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There's many sides to summer and while it's possible to spend over 24 hours in a club (I think) , I don't know why you would want to. There's more to summer than digital fire hydrants and pixellated bikinis, there's also Poney Poney. Just plain great summery AM pop music (and they know it). French kids know what they're doing. It's not even nececssary to point out which ones at this point, it's just a nation blessed with a generation of kids who know what the fuck is up. You probably know the song that did the rounds a while back (which Xavier from Justice helped them produce) "Junior", which got a release in the Arcade Mode limited 7" series, and "AM Music" came out on the wonderful and growing Rallye/Klee label in Japan. If it weren't for charming tics of speech, you'd probably never know these kids were French, and if it weren't for certain watermarks you'd never know what year this music had been made in, and in the future you probably won't be able to tell.

Poney Poney - By the Numbers

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Some artists are able to invoke the past without forcing you to be actively nostalgic, instead compelling you to a state of passive continuity where the components of what made something great then are the same things that makes a thing great now. It might seem preposterous to get all THAT way about body music, especially the kind that uses hoovering sounds and sped up diva samples to get its point across, but I'm also the type of person that will tell you straight faced that I can relate to Ed Banger's music emotionally (and it's not always the obvious emotions, e.g. distortion does not = anger). So when I hear something that uses the past to build something new and fresh and now and (hopefully) future I can't help but open the clock. Anyway, Curses! has thankfully been picked up by Institubes, a label that knows what to do with the past (Surkin? Check out his remix of Para One [who, by the way, fucking KILLED it here in LA @ Check Yo Ponytail last week... he played with Boys Noize {who was also amazing}, and I can't fucking WAIT for his remix of Boys Noize.. Bobmo? Check out 'Home Alone').

We told you before when we were talking about Trouble & Bass that we'd be bringing this guy up (he's part of that crew in case you don't recall). This is sweat music. They mean it when they tell you that they will bass you. One of my favorite tracks of the year so far.

Curses! - What I Need

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Acid Jacks are madcap party boys w/ a penchant for NO RAVE (almost considered posting this whole thing in pink just so the sheer blackness of that NO RAVE would glare into your soul as you read it). In their own words, 'a robust blend of machine, acid and awesome.' mstrkrft, tacteel and boy 8 bit (my favorite mix of the bunch) have already shown their love to 'Awake Since 78', a song which you surely know or at least have heard (acid jack boris tells me that someone in aus is writing their thesis on the song!!!). But here they show a different side, in this extract from a live PA, opting for a fast and loose bit of old skool.

Acid Jacks - Rock 'n' Lol

This bonus offering from them is where they show you how they would be if you were like, 'Hey Acid Jacks, come play at my party!' They want to tell you that if you're able to identify all the tracks in this mix that they'll give you a prize. I don't know what the prize is but if you somehow know all these tracks, then that seems like a prize in itself there is A LOT in here. It was recorded a few years ago so you have a good headstart. HIT THE BOOKS!

Acid Jacks - Get Freaky House Party

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p.s. bonus gossip>>pssst, look out for future acid jacks & trouble & bass situation

Blamma! Blamma! have found their way onto Acid Girls (hearts') again, though this time it's in fierce battle with Maximo Park. As has become customary for them, their technique is to spin their foe around in circles and loops until their native rock n roll tongue can speak only electro. It really is impressive to watch a talented street thug with a good right hook become a seasoned drum machine. Their jabs are stabs and their kicks are steady. All dumb fight metaphors aside, this is a really bangin track. Just the right amount of crazy and fun and tension.

Blamma! Blamma! vs Maximo Park - Terminal Velocity

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Next up:
Cobra Kai / Sean K / Congorock / Alden Tyrell / White Noise / Dntel

you see the trouble with me...

so we haven't made good on our 'song a day' promise....and thats truly sad; but alas we do have some jems to drop. We have been doing alooooooot of remixing, so there will be some new Acid Girls material dropping soon, pls do keep up.

The first order of business here is a track out of NYC from Trouble & Bass who are on flaminhotz, who been releasing good works all the day long. Check them if you're in up in BK and peep their parties one of the greenest pastures of debaucherous night moves (2 words) one can find in the five boroughs. I first found this track whilst cheking a promo video for Hearthrob in boston, who incidentally have just released a (motion grafix/visuals?)dvd that i hope to have an opinion on soon; but the clips of the night i have seen thus far are pretty damn entertaining, the type of thing one might acquire some drugs for just to stare at the evil neon ghosts. Un-digress; Trouble & Bass is a label and crew which are made up of the pack of producers and DJs including: Drop the Lime, Math Head, Passions (whom you've previously gotten word of our fanciful feelings for), Star Eyes, Zach Shadetek, Starkey and Curses! (as far as i can tell anyway) More on Curses! later tho... Who doesn't love something with a finely crafted sample of rockwell anyway? The track weaves in and out of so many things that i can't necessarily tell what to call it...but both of us acid grrls fell head over with this thing the moment we heard it, and you should too, and always always let it get to that one part, or you won't be doing your set justice.

Trouble & Bass - Get Up

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what else what else... more later today...

o ya here;s a mad guilty pleasure of mine, resurfaced last week after a long hiatus, get it in your set in the right context and it will do you right, i swear.

Black Legend - The trouble with me

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image by Holly

so hiatus right?...thats all i really have for a post-time warping excuse.

2 nice boys from belgium ala Geht's Noch doing a lil edit danceparty on the prodigy's 'girls', in a glittery crackhouse 9000 neon grid sort of way. All good things. Can't turn around without something saying 'girls' in neon around, yes? This continues that. We sincerely beleive it belongs in a strip club one day, and thats the best compliment we can pay really. I wanna play belguim so bad, i keep forgetting that i have this 'our drums are louder' image in my head, so we need to drop in and see if indeed there is some undiscovered force of bass in belgium. This also points out to me how fun key the original of this actually is/was/is tho made at the pinncale of the late electro hype. Go see the lads.

The Prodigy - Girls(Geht's Noch Edit)

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gregoryexists (12:10:03 AM): i'll warn people not to play it too often because the hotness of the daft punk guest spot on top of my already fiery beat is too much for most hard drives to handle.
Isochronal120 (12:10:20 AM): can i quote that and blog it right now
Isochronal120 (12:10:23 AM): JA
gregoryexists (12:10:30 AM): hahaha
gregoryexists (12:10:32 AM): no
gregoryexists (12:10:39 AM): ABSOLUTELY NOT

Daft Punk - Too Long (Acid Girls edit)

also, greg forgot to mention in his lil recap thing that tim sweeney is the nicest man in dance music. go to beatsinspace to hear a lot of great music.

Sincerely,

Jamie Acid Girls

Vim & Vigor

Photo of Brodisnki by Holly

Ok, so here's the short version, because it's been tooooooo long to give you the long version.

Nightmoves and Ricky Haley are very nice people. Nightmoves had all kinds of stuff that made me go '?!' and it made all of us dance real crazy like, and possibly got Johnny Love into a fight that he would have won if I hadn't accidentally carried him away from what I thought was just another round of manly dance moves that look like a fight. Ricky was sure to have brought heat, but unfortunately, the CD players at Spider were set to DEEP FREEZE and so rejected his attempt to slay us ears-first. Sorry Ricky : ( But their California trip sounded suitably crazy, including all sorts of things who knows if they'd want me to share here that I can barely remember anyway. I hope to see them here or there again soon, and should you have the opportunity, you should as well. All that being said, the Monday night at Spider Club is no longer, as it proved to be too much work for all the too busy people involved. It was a fun two weeks though! Thanks, Rony (whose site is now linked to the right, and which you should check out if you like looking at pretty pictures of people (pretty or otherwise interesting looking)!

Right now you're like, 'Fuck, man, this is the short version? What the fuck? Where's the songs?' Well, you know what? The links to the songs are a different color and they're very easy to scroll down to, so by all means go ahead if you could care less about all this.

I feel like there was something in between this and the next thing, but my brain is all mushy now so the next thing henceforth according to the record shall read, 'Then we went to Paris and had the best time of our lives.' Well, it was up there anyway. All the Fluokids were incredible, and nice and wonderful and so cool that when they eventually make it over here, hearts will break. Pharrell was the world's nicest p-i-m-p, and he greeted us thusly, "You're sooo New Rave!" But with a French accent. Jamie took it as a diss, I took it like the sort of thing an old/new friend says to break the ice. Either way, it's true, a lot of Frenchies wear black and we don't really wear black at all. Tiva was there as well, and she is totally awesome and speaks five languages (I think?) and holds it down with ease. Met up with more cool people, Holly (who is from our HQ's zipcode, and is a snap at the camera as well as a fun drinking buddy and person in general), Idibi (rad dude, hip hop Fluo), Guillaume (rad dude, Fluo PR) & Bastien (amazing photographer whose work you probably already know from Fluokids) and drank whiskey in the Metro with them, walked passed MPs with M-16s who were completely unfazed by our antics. The French rule! We saw Les Plasticines & dATA at Le Paris Paris, the hardest to get into basement dive bar you can possibly imagine. I managed to spend 300 Euros on alcohol. Oh well. You can look at pictures on Holly's blog. Man, this is not a very short short version, maybe you should just skip ahead.

I'm sure you could guess that the Ed Banger party was incredible. The space was on (near?) the Champs Elysees. The ceiling was dripping sweat. The Ed Banger crew did what they do in very fine form, but to be honest, I was having so much fun in the Fluo room, that I barely ventured in there. The set of the night had to be Brodinski's, though. I'm sure you'll be hearing more about him soon. He's an incredible DJ and his remix of Klaxons w/ Yuksek is really great. Casper C and Skull Juice both killed it. Hianta was as cool and beautiful as expected, even if she was a little cruel to poor menthol smoking Jamie. It was darkly funny though.

I saw the Eiffel Tower out of the corner of my eye and kept walking for about twenty steps only to realize that I'd only paid the Eiffel Tower a passing glance. It was outside my frame of visibility by the time I realized it, and I couldn't really be bothered to walk back over to see it. Sorry, Eiffel Tower. Maybe next time.

Man... I don't know how much more I can write, to be perfectly honest. I feel like this is a slideshow and most of you have probably already skipped to the end, or even worse, just an overly detailed list of people and places. Anyway, Flash was hard because it was the same night we arrived back in the states, plus we've never sounded worse before. Oh well. Switch was incredible. He's a very nice guy, and he plays things you'll probably never be able to buy and you may never hear anyone else play ever. My sister got kicked out of the venue because she's dumb. Blow Up was great. Very hot. Jamie got glowstick juice all up in his mouth. Anne slapped the shit out of us and Dirty Dave. All in all, a fun night.

It's been a really fun few weeks. I'm kind of glad we're in a lull right now. It's given us time to regroup and be lazy and stuff (oops, i mean work on tracks and other productive things). Thank you very much to everyone who we've met recently, you're all fucking great.

I hope this hasn't come off as self congratulatory or anything. But you know how when you have to go visit your cousin (no, not like in The Teenagers song) and you're like, 'awww man, my cousin is lame and he puts crayons in his nose and coughs on my face when we talk.' But then you go and it turns out your cousin is into awesome music and knows the best places to dance and the best food to get at 4 AM and basically just all the rad shit you'd have never found on your own? It's like that. When that happens, you have to express your gratitude fully.

Which brings us to a fork in the road. There's still a song coming, don't worry. But there's one more thing to go over before we get to that. We have invited a new kid to come and play on our interweb site with us. His name is Dirty Dave and he's the best. Best at what, you ask? Well, he's certainly one of the best at throwing parties in LA. He graduated from the Phoenix Peyote Institute of Partyharding and is now doing his doctorate in Blow Up LA, along with Anne Lee. Only one question is off limits with Dave. Do NOT ask why they call him Dirty. Got that? Good. Otherwise, feel free to ask him about his mustache, or his former love of the Phoenix Suns, or what records he likes right now, or how he feels about, y'know, whatever. He is a senior fellow of the Acid Girls Trust. We have been vigilant in our lookout for fellows of the Trust, and Dave is the first. He is our esteemed colleague in techno. We are happy that he is willing to debase himself by posting here : ) , in this rank and moldy den of semi-frequent to wholly infrequent beat blogdom.



I promised you there would be music here. You probably think I'm a total prick for only posting one song after writing out the longest post ever made here. But dudes (and ladies), this song is pretty rich. You gotta let this one sit for a while before eating dessert. We have posted these guys before, in this same configuration. This is a different song and this remix is an altogether different thing for them. This is kind of like Soulwax's dub of Robbie Williams crossed with Audion's 'Mouth to Mouth'. It has the same kind of staircase incline of the Audion track, but with the tasteful epic-ness of the Soulwax track. It's an aural strobelight, speeding up and up until it's just a burst of white light. It does start off a bit uncertain on baby bird legs, kind of falling this way and that, until eventually it collects itself, staggered claps, swung hi-hats and misfired pixels, and propels forward toward the next track, challenging the selector to choose something worthy.

Keep an eye out for Blamma Blamma! and their new night, Neu Noise, at 93 Feet East in London. These kids are up to good things.

Headland - Love Hate (Blamma Blamma! Morgasm remix)

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Please take some time out to look at some of the new links to the right. They're there to be clicked til they're sore.

And look, we know we haven't kept our promises thus far, but seriously, we're like, seriously, like, totally, like, going to try to post at least 1 track per week day. For a while. Til we run out. So come back. And to people who have sent us things, if we told you we would post them, we're about to : )

xxx

greg acid girls

p.s. i can't figure out how to change my post name thing to anything other than just acid girls, do i really have to make a different profile to do that?

bass drums vs ear drums

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Oh man. Road to hell, best intentions, that whole thing. How many posts here begin or end with either an apology or a promise? Too many. It has been a fun week, leading up to another fun couple of weeks. How about we just pull a Groundhog Day but make it a Groundhog Monthandahalf forever and ever? Ok, nevermind.

Jamie wants to start a part of this blog for blogging things other than music, like, for instance, uhh, fonts. Would anyone be into that? He's a nerd. He's the resident Acid Nerd, kind of, but in a way that makes him way cooler than any of us. If I were to make a different section of this blog it would be for various recollections of watching the show 30 Rock. Dr. Leo Spaceman. Condi Rice as a lover. Maureen Dowd sending Alec Baldwin flowers. The little blue man. I could go on and on, but you don't come here for rambling about (hilarious) dumb tv shows, I guess. Pardon the lack of a segue here please.

The track that refuses to die. It's less pervasive than 'My Love' by a long shot, but it's still kind of everywherealways. This version of 'Me & U' is an awesome garage style tweak house thing with big boot drums and historical revisionism galore. Profondo J is in the habit of manufacturing club bangers, and despite this track's jacking-ness, it's a relatively more restrained moment for him. He catches his breath while you're moving your feet. As a measure of the longevity of this song, iTunes tells me I downloaded a very different version (the Liquid Pegasus Chamber Disco mix) of it on August 8th. I could have sworn it came from Daughters of Invention, but The Hype Machine tells me I am likely to have gotten it from Discobelle.

Cassie - Me & U (Profondo J mix)

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Bonus MP3: Cassie - Me & U (Liquid Pegasus Chamber Disco mix)

Moodyman with an itchy triggerfinger (pun intended). Are those Al Green samples? I don't know for sure, probably not, but the way the heartstrings get plucked say, "Why yes, they are." But they're more or less dispensed with early on in favor of something altogether more furtive but insistent. There's a romance of anxiety in this track by Brazillian producer Nostalgic Dance Orchestra. It is undeniably house. But the Moodyman thing is kind of accurate. This is definitely a faster tempo than the moody dude would typically work at, but there is the same amount of soul and life in it.

Nostalgic Dance Orchestra - Intriga

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Speaking of anxiety, there's a ton of it in this next track, but it's not romantic. It's like serious stimulants coursing through the veins, paranoia, doom, violence, velocity, whatever. It's French and it's got elements of that sound, but it's way more ummmm... punk than most of it. This is a fast song, and it cycles through ideas with glee & seriousness. This is a worrisome and troubling song. What's happening in the (hypothetical) video?

the lazy fingers - froisse 3

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self-promiton alert, set tasers to stun:

Now that we've dispensed with the tunes, we would just like to remind you about a few things.
First off, tonight is the first night of our new residency at Spider Club in Hollywood, and we have the wonderful Nightmoves and the splendid Ricky Haley, along with LA's own Royal Rumble and DJ Skeet Skeet along for the ride. Rony of Ronysphotobooth.com is promoting this, and it's his first promotional endeavor, so come make a pro out of him (or at least a happy man) and come say hi.


Then we will be in Paris for the Ed Banger 4th Birthday party, with our favorites, the Fluokids, Skull Juice, Brodinski & more. We've never been to Paris so we're so excited to even be there. If you're in France drop us a line, we'll be there from the 8th to the 12th. We are also hoping that no one lets us near one of the many Parisian shops that we've been fantasizing about for the last 10 years of our magazine-buying lives (with our wallets in our pockets).

Then we're home for a couple blinks and next up is Switch at Check Yo Ponytail. We are so excited to see Switch play that you should probably bring the paddles. It's a heartstopping kind of affair. Buy tickets early because we want you to pass out too!



Then on Thursday the 15th we'll be at the Beauty Bar in San Diego for Powder Room. Do come say hello.

This ends the blatantly self-promotional portion of this post, and the rest of the post. I hope you have a nice Monday, and you.

Arms, Ordinance, LSD & Vancouver

we have happened across (by gift though) this new shiny Guns'nBombs Mixxxtape, and its got me moving my chair, each track is arterially dangerous, with not a second of relaxation for anyone = we love them for it. We tend to like anything that makes everyone sweat/dance/sweat til their clothes are clear, and drinks and hands fly up from all corners of the room. Prepare yourself north america, as Acid Girls and GnB prepare to mini-tour your left side, TJ, SD, LA, SF, Portland, Seattle, Vancouver gets your dicks out. Mean time get yourself fluffed with this mix here.....


G'n'B - mixxxtape 2

datA - aerius light
does it offend you, yeah? - we are rockstars
guns'n'bombs - crossover appeal
mstrkrft - street justice (mstrkrft 07 remix) [EXXXCLUSIVE]
felix cartal - moss vs tree
boys noize - feel good (tv = off) (shinichi osawa edit)
yelle - short dick cuiz (tepr remix)
christopher + raphael just - disco 128
surkin feat. vyle - toxicoman
the futureheads - worry about it later (al dare half done refix)
the teenagers - homecoming (guns'n'bombs 1996 xtc remix)

tell me that doesnt make your insides feel all blacklit...

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this is as good a place as any to drop in the Acid Girls remix of Guns'n'Bombs super mega world smashing hit 'Nothing is Getting us Anywhere.' No description here, in the interests of journalistic whatever.

Guns'n'Bombs - Nothing is Getting Us Anywhere (Acid Girls Remix)


Here's a lil number from Magik Johnson by way of C Vonstroke, the bangers banger of late. Its not going to shake any trees, but when equipped with imagination, one might feel as though this is some missing link to the dubby, wubby downtown sound that corresponds with just enjoying your drugs, especially with that xtra-fat32 kick innit.

Magik Johnson - scanning for viruses (Claude Vonstroke's coffee on your motherboard mix)

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driving my 4x4 out of the ocean....

So it seems like mondays are go for new tracks, I like that as a juxtaposition of the fact that in the USSA new music (officially) comes out on tuesdays; but we all got the jump on that day and in turn we must now post the day before. Not that any of this will even hit a US record store soon or at all.

Aysam coming out swinging again, with his new bit of floor bleeder. With some of the necessary evil that we all like to see. Driving, arpy, insistant abrasive vocals, not your beardy older brother sort of dance music thats for sure. Anyone making this whilst repping barry manilow and moodyman deserves a listen. Sex in dallas original, out on kitty-yo sometime, however I don't know that the rmx will come out there too, looks like they have'nt done much since 04 there.

Sex In Dallas - Digital Memory (Aysam rmx)

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image totally unrelated, just something that reminds me
what i want people to look like on the dancefloor sometimes.

This next one dropped in this morning from The Glass, whom had the track won't bother me and if I remember correctly it was showing up everywhere for a while, my/our sets even. The remixes are a bit 'wide' if i do say so, coming from Kasper Bjorke, rinocerose, and stretch armstrong; the most relevant to me of which is the K. Bjorke remix, one half of Filur with tomas barford. The vocal loses me somewhere in the middle to the point that I don't know if there is even a coherent thought left in their.my.our head; but let's not get academic about it, the mix sounds thick and has a half-evil (dare i say ®åve-esque) sort about it. Don't shoot the messenger.

The Glass - Come Alive (Kasper Bjorke mix)

The Glassspace again
Filur again

so so so cold

image by mi-zo

Today I face a difficult decision. Not, like, Sophie's Choice difficult, but kind of like, 'Brown... or... red?' difficult. I have too much good music to post, you see. Couldn't possibly get to all of it tonight, and to be honest, I don't think it would do the music justice to give it up all at once anyway. Soooo.... you may be well served to check back sooner than we generally manage to post a follow up batch of tunes.

I struggle with finding a way to manage my tendencies toward hyperbole when it comes to describing something I like. Every good movie I see is AMAZING and every good new song I find is MY FAVORITE and every good night I have is THE BEST NIGHT EVER. Part of me will always be 12. But seriously, like, All Night Dance Party are AMAZING and this first song is MY FAVORITE and if they came to LA it would be THE BEST NIGHT EVER.

All Night Dance Party - Be The One

I know I really like it because it doesn't really sound like much else that I'm digging right now. Because it's deceptively simple music, it could lazily be described by cliche notes: it's a bit retro, a bit cinematic and a bit melancholic, but in actuality I think it's just kind of timeless. It probably will sound old one day, and maybe it does already, but so is the wheel and we still use that thing all the time and they still find rad new ways to use them (Kavinsky, anyone?).

I found these guys through the exceedingly awesome Risky Bizniz, a blog well worth your daily perusal. I listened to this song pretty much over and over again all day then I wrote them a message to see if they had anything else they wanted to share. They were kind enough to send this track:

All Night Dance Party - T-Rex

More perfect electro pop for bittersweet dancefloors and unrequited android love affairs, futurisitic oil slick car collissions, mechanical tangos, dramatic death scenes and/or barely holding on. If the world is a just place, next time I post them I'll be able to put a 'buy this here' link next to their name.

All Night Dance PartySpace

This sort of great band always existed, it just travels from city to city and reforms in new permutations every few years. It's not a diss of The Violets at all. They sound like they have their own unique thing going on, but that's not really the appeal to me. I like them as part of this continuum. It's a right place right time kind of thing. When talking about this band people will likely be mentioning The Long Blondes and Siouxie and the Banshees, but don't hold that against them (why would you? those are both cool bands in their own right), because, for me at least, the appeal of this band is more about where this song would sit on a mixtape, than any current, past or future trends in production or vocal technique.

The Violets - Mirror Mirror
The VioletsSpace

Ok, who am I trying to kid? I proved in the last post that I couldn't go too long without talking about techno in some way, shape or form. You know how we like the fidgety ish, so this track won't come as much of a surprise to those who have been reading this space for a minute or two. But isn't it always nice to find a new name? It's like a sickness, sometimes, this craving for new-ness, but oh well. He's called The Bulgarian, and by the look of him, I'm unsure whether he's a liar or not. He'll be coming to your attention in a more serious way in a short time when the up-and-coming fidget powerhouse onthebrink up the stakes in Commerce-ville.

'Listen Man' comes on pleasantly weird, with some kind of crooked pneumatic tube inviting you to travel through some bizarre portal to some bizarre place where people do bizarre things. But they dance, and since at the end of the day, this sound is the only really truly weird thing about this song, they probably don't dance all that bizarrely. But, and I'm saying this all the time lately, that ain't no diss. Dude has been around for a minute, and if you know what's good, you'll peruse his history over at Beatport, namely the 'Loop Poop' EP with the assistance of your credit card, and keep your eyes and ears open for his upcoming releases.

The Bulgarian - Listen Man
The BulgarianSpace

Jamie finished the flyer for the upcoming Switch show, and I'm posting it to show you, A) that Jamie's made a cool looking flyer, and B) that tickets are now on sale at Safari-Sams.com



Also, be sure to head over to Fluokids, where they were kind enough to post a mix that I did for some contest thing. To be honest with you, I think it's the most proud I've ever been of something I did musically, um, possibly ever. Not like you need a special reason to visit our Fluo friends anyway.

Speaking of Fluo, Casper C. has just done a podcast for Adventures in the Beetroot Field, which you can find out more about here.

Speaking of podcasts, you'd be well advised to visit Skull Juice and pick up the Faex edit of 'Phantom', as if you hadn't already, and to sort yourself out with a subscription to their new podcast.

I still have a bunch more to go, but that's it for tonight! Check back sooner rather than later.

Robocop

image by: mi-zo

Happy New Year! I hope everybody had a tremendous new year's celebration. We went to a party at a friend's house who has a metal door. We drew with a wipe board marker on the door to indicate variously ascending levels of drunken stupor, and then used magnetic legos to track our progress toward the top marker: face down. Luckily, we didn't make it to face down by 2 o'clock, as we dj'd from 2AM-4 for the afterhours thing at the spot where we do our night. Fun was mostly had, though I was a rare surly sort of drunk. Sorry if anyone reading this was there (I doubt it?) and I was rude to you. If it's any consoloation, by the time I got home I was definitively face down.

I'd also like to put it out there that we have a few openings in our europe dates in the middle of our trip. If you're throwing something between 1/28 and 2/9-ish, get in touch! We'll announce what's upcoming as things are confirmed. The holidays slowed everything down a bit. We're still most interested in England, France, Germany & Italy (not in any kind of cultural patriarchal way, just within the realm of feasible economic scenarios, I swear!).

ANYWAY!

!!! have a new album dropping on Warp pretty soon. In some ways it sounds like kind of a companion piece to the new LCD Soundsystem record. There's a similar amount of variance between the tracks, yet a more or less precise aesthetic. The aesthetic is: my record collection. Not mine, specifically, but theirs. Not that that's a bad thing. My roommate said he thought it sounded as if they've spent too much time with the Red Hot Chili Peppers, but personally I don't think that would have ever occured to him if he had not already known they'd toured together last year. I like it. To be honest though, I'm more excited about Free Blood than !!! these days. This is my favorite track from the album by a long shot. The female vocals here are awesome, and I hope someone is smart enough to let this get remixed into something like a proper old school house track. Maybe let Cajmere do it?

!!! - Heart of Hearts (buy it from Bleep when it comes out)

Talk about pleasant surprises! I'd heard a remix of this track, hadn't realized it was a remix, adored it and then I was sent this version and now I'm falling in love all over again. Whatever you're doing in your life, Alex Gopher, just keep doing it. It's working. His upcoming record is the release I am now most excited to hear this year (other than Justice, of course). It kind of caught me off guard because I didn't even know that this is what i wanted, and it's definitely not typical from him. It sounds kind of like New Order and Phoneix (not just because it's French). It's almost sappy sounding, but never crosses the line. Bittersweet has always been my favorite state. I hope you like it as much as I do.

Alex Gopher - Brain Leech

I don't know if this is coming out on Pias, Different or Kitsune, but please buy it when it drops.

Now this for you. This is more or less the set I played at Cinespace when we played on Boxing Day. I say more or less because I'd forgotten my Midi controller and so I corrected some eq issues when I got home that I had to use the club's mixer for live. Also, I deleted 2 songs from the end. I'm not sure why, but I just didn't want them there anymore. You've probably heard some or most of these songs already (some of them in previous mixes on this site?), but it's very unlikely that many of you have heard our remix of 'Nothing is Getting us Anywhere' by guns'n'bombs. I'm happy to say that this track got the best response out of anything we played all night. So... thanks dancing people! Who knows if anything will ever happen with it, but I hope you like it. I'll likely post the unmixed song file in a few days, I'm still not 100% sure it's done though.

Almost Live at Cinespace on Boxing Day '06
Loud Noises mix by Acid Girls
36m55s

Download Link

tracklisting:

Thomas Bangalter - Spinal Scratch
High Powered Boys - Hoes Get Down
Justice - Phantom
Black Ghosts - Face (Switch remix)
Daft Punk - Around the World
Federico Franchi - Cream
Surkin - Radio Fireworks
Puzique - Thomas
Double 99 - Ripgroove (New Mix)
Guns n Bombs - Nothing Is Getting Us Anywhere (Acid Girls mix)
DJ Delicious - Let It Drop
MBG & SDS - New Jack (Steve Angello mix)

elsewhere:

All tomorrow's parties

wednesday 1/3 (tonight):
no need to rsvp for this one. just watch the dj
mehdi video and do the foot dance greeting so
we know you're cool. plus the usual free beer.
21 + //free as a bird//820 w. 19th st. costa mesa

thursday 1/4: devin's poppin party on lido. rsvp to
this address for this one. our boy sean k. is playing
some tunes with devin. he's leaving for europe on
monday so come say hello and tell him to have a great trip.
21+ // 3400 via lido, newport beach

p.s., before you go to this you should go see Rob & J Cash
play at the Laguna Art Museum. We played last month.
The guy organizing it (Hi Tim!) is a very nice person. Rob
is our good buddy and an awesome dj. And J Cash is my
really awesome roommate!

friday 1/5: our friend franki chan and his iheartcomix
gang team up with puma to bring you the fun. with laz
(of shot callin', duh) making his LA debut, and flossy d,
how could it not be fun? rsvp to this address for the free!
@ short stop ( 1455 Sunset Blvd , LA) / 21+ / free w. rsvp

Saturday 1/6:
blow up LA heroes celebrate their B-Days in
(pirate) style. The usual suspects playing tunes
is not a bad thing when the usual suspects play
good tunes. rsvp here for further free-ness
(with subject line: pirate party).
redwood bar (316 w. 2nd st @ hill) / 21+ / $0 w. rsvp

wow, i was on a roll there for a second. i kinda wish i knew what was going for each day of the rest of the year. the whole year, blogged. coming soon on acid girls!

PAST DUE BALANCE

image by Mi-Zo

Do you like disco? We like disco, and for some reason we've gotten stuck in this techno thing (we love you, techno, we'll never leave you, even after you bless us with tinnitus and we're too sore and old to dance... speaking of which, I can tell you from experience that if you ever want to know what it's like to be too old and sore to dance, all you have to do is find a 20 foot long strip of artificial snow, preferably compacted to an 8 inch thick pillow of ice, and then get a 20 foot long running start and jump onto a sled on your stomach. Do this approximately 10 times. Being drunk should help you to muster all the courage you'll need for this small, foolish adventure). What were we saying about disco? Oh yeah, we love it. Disco feels like home. Until disco came along, there was a chance this whole music thing was gonna get pretty stale. That's not true, really, but sometimes it feels like it is. I like a lot of different kinds of disco. Gay disco, punk disco, confusing disco, druggy disco, et al.

This kind of disco is like if your mom was caught between being punk and being a disco dancer, but she was still a good mom. I don't know if that's true either. I'm perfectly happy with my own mother, but if I had to choose another one, it might be Vivian Vee. I think I'd be able to dance better if she was my mom. It's totally not a diss to call something mom disco. Ok, it's not mom disco at all, but my mom does like this song, and my mom did used to be a disco dancer.

Vivian Vee - Wanna Feel

This is scary disco, meant to be heard while watching scary movies. I don't like to watch violence onscreen very often. I used to. Maybe Justice do, I would believe it based on the ferocity of their synths. Dario Argento definitely liked to watch bizarre sexualized violence through the lens of a camera. Maybe they like to watch Dario Argento's movies. Or maybe they just like to listen to Goblin, who did a lot of the scores for Argento's movies. It's often just as scary and/or ominous as his movie's. Anyway, we know that at the very least that they sampled Goblin for their new track 'Phantom', which you've almost certainly heard by now. Check the usual suspects for the new quality if you haven't.

Goblin - Tenebre (main theme)

This is disco house. This sounds like being really happy. I didn't think I liked this stuff, since the only song I knew was 'Lady', and I didn't even know I knew that song until today. I wish that I liked the beach, if I did, this would be really good for a boombox on a beach, doing some kind of California thing. I wish the beach had nerf instead of sand, I'd be there every day listening to filter disco like this.

Modjo - Rollercoaster

This is Simian Mobile Disco, and this also my way of sneaking back to techno, by way of disco. I told you, techno, I'll never leave you. I promise. This was met with open arms, as I love SMD, but especially because this song feels like the rightful heir to the recent, mighty 'Hustler'. Thank you, Simian Mobile Disco. Thank you very much. I don't know if this will be a single, but I do think it will be on Kitsune, one of our favorites now and forever.

Simian Mobile Disco - Hot Dog <- removed, per artists request. sorry smd, we get a lil anxious sometimes.

Lastly, if you are in San Francisco or Hollywood, come hang out with us!

Here's where we'll be on Thursday, December 21st, at "Your Friends Haven't Heard This":

(turned sideways to fit into our formatting, naturally)



no link for this one, but it's at Duplex which is at 1525 Mission @ 11th

And here's where we'll be on Friday, December 22nd:

(shrunken to fit into our formatting, naturally)



Lights Down Low on Myspace
Every 2nd & 4th Friday at 222 Club (222 Hyde & Turk)


Then it's back home and Christmas and all that fun stuff. Then you'll find us in Hollywood at Cinespace on Tuesday, December 26th along with a bunch of other people:



If you come to any of these, you will likely find us in our natural state, drunk and hard of hearing! That's good, right?! See you soon.

Love,

Greg Acid Girls

That joke isn't funny anymore

Franki and his assorted crew of iheartcomix helpful and friendly people have done good work making this happen at Check Yo Ponytail for you tonight. Hope to see you all at Safari Sams! Don't say we didn't warn you!

Here's something from DJ Paparazzi that I certainly wouldn't have thought to combine, but which works surprisingly well. If you're out and about in LA, I'm sure you've probably seen him play by now, but if not, why not tonight? I'm not going to include the name of the acapella just so we don't get bombarded by hits for her, but the backing track is Cirez D - Knockout, which we have posted before and which we are big fans of.

DJ Paparazzi - Yummy Knockout

I wish I had a track or something to post from C-Town (HINT, HINT, dude!), as he's also playing tonight, but he's just secured himself a copy of Ableton, so we shant be waiting much longer I'm sure.

This is definitely a quick and dirty dj snack, and think about it maybe instead as a recipe that you could create yourself if you wanted to. I've done this far too many times in front of human beings, but hopefully someone can get some mileage out of it.

1 teaspoon: intro to David McCallum's 'The Edge' (Dr. Dre's sampling of said song was used as a substitute in this instance)
1 cup: Spank Rock's 'Bump', as remixed by Switch.
1 tablespoon: 'Pump Up the Jam' by Technotronic
3/4 cup: Justice's "Waters of Nazareth"

Quantize or beatmatch and blend depending upon your kitchen's capabilities and the requirements of your guests.

Voila!

Chef Acid Girls present - Bump, Pump & Spank to Switch on Justice

Now on to dessert.

Blamma! Blamma!, purveyors of worthwhile aural adventures out of London, have done Headland the favor of a delicious remix. Headland are an indie band from the UK, sometimes with dancey texture, sometimes with a classic pop feel. In the case of 'Dogging Sisters' it hardly matters, as Blamma Blamma haven't kept much of the original in their mix. The intro starts off in a suitably demented fashion before things kamikaze toward the dance floor in a very exciting way. It's definitely au courant, soundwise, but is spontaneous and thoroughly dangerous and rough sounding as well. Spring-loaded haywire house.

Their myspace is well worth checking out as well for further tunes.

Headland - Dogging Sisters (Blamma! Blamma! mix)

Go check out Fluo or Discobelle for NEW TTC stuff. Their album is a latebreaking contender for my favorite full length of the year. It drops on the 26th of December in France, and January 8th for the rest of the world. So, so, so good. Buy on sight. And then Go over to Shot Callin' and look at what Lazaro's been up to these last few weeks. He swears he's been writing papers for school, but the man's got a remix or an edit for every day of the week somehow!