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DIY headline about mushrooms

Man, you know what goes great with this?

This:

DUH.

I mean, it makes perfect sense: when you’re balls-out gurning, getting fucking amped to Superstar DJ Tiesto or Paul Oakenfield or DJ A.M? too soon! whoever the kids listen to these days at the Raves, you totally want a hot, fresh, stone-baked pizza.

That’s why, when a press release with the following headline hit the RES inboxes, we collectively sighed contentedly, knowing that the world finally makes sense:

DT: SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

FR: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

SUB: INFECTED MUSHROOM TEAMS WITH SOUTHEAST PIZZA CHAIN MELLOW MUSHROOM FOR SPECIAL PROMO LAUNCHING PIZZA AND MUSIC

No, folks, Ishkur did not make this up, THAT Infected Mushroom, as in the Israeli trance band, has teamed up with a fucking southeastern pizza place.

I wish I could do anything but quote this release directly TO you, but man, I can’t write stuff this good:

On September 29, a joint campaign between the unstoppable Los Angeles electronic-rock outfit INFECTED MUSHROOM—whose new album LEGEND OF THE BLACK SHAWARMA was just released September 8 via Perfecto Records—and Mellow Mushroom, the bohemian-chic Southeastern pizza chain, will introduce a double mushroom promotion that will excite both your taste buds and your ears.

Starting on that day, Mellow Mushroom’s patrons will get a taste, as the pizzeria debuts a special “Legend of the Black Shawarma” pie topped with shawarma. Select outlets of the Southeastern chain–known for their unique pizzas and fun, energetic atmosphere–will be sending out their pies in specially stickered boxes and distributing flyers promoting the event and pointing customers to www.infected-mushroom.com/mellowmushroom, where they’ll be able to access a free download.

It’s a perfect match for both Infected Mushroom and Mellow Mushroom. According to the band’s AMIT “DUVDEV” DUVEDEVANI, the new album was originally inspired by their favorite foods; “there’s a lot of material about getting your grub on,” he added. Helping the band out on the album are other musical epicureans, including Korn’s Jonathan Davis, Jane’s Addiction’s Perry Farrell and superstar DJ and electronic musician Paul Oakenfold, who produced. And Mellow Mushroom has built a reputation for food and attitude that distinguishes them from your average pizza place.

In the words of Hacks: “I DID NOT REALIZE SUPERSTAR DJ AND ELECTRONIC MUSICIAN PAUL OAKENFOLD WAS INVOLVED!”

Yeah, uh, I’m going to go for the obvious joke here…apparently the pizza place that’s always stone baked is going to be, um, uh..
..
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……..converting vegetarians.





how we drifted away

Sometimes, I get what I want. From a press release:

Chicago by way of New Orleans duo Telefon Tel Aviv has signed to
BPitch Control
, who will release the band’s third official
full-length, Immolate Yourself on January 20, 2009 - it’s the band’s
first official full-length in five years.  The band has remixed tracks
for the likes of Nine Inch Nails, Apparat and Bebel Gilberto, to name
a few.  The band’s previous albums were released via Chicago label
Hefty Records. They will also tour North America this Fall with
Ghostly artist Matthew Dear.

This is where I begin prancing about like the gross dirty southerner I actually am,  acting the fool and doing the dirty bird ’til the cows come home or the Falcons win again (no chance of either).  TTA? On BPC? Finally, after years of me bemoaning the state of electronic music in THIS VERY BLOG, something GOOD has finally happened. The TTA duo made one of my favorite electronic albums ever, the lush, R&B-storming heartbreaker Map Of What Is Effortless, almost a half-decade ago.  I wrote and wrote and wrote about them elsewhere, to the point of becoming fairly fucking obsessed, and then…then they vanished.  Now, to see them re-surface on BPC, the single most forward-thinking, cutting-edge, never-bought-into-the-fake-Justice-electro-war tech-tronic label in existence at the moment? I feel like I’m playing Fantasy League Dance Music All-Stars. This means that a conversation BETWEEN THE GUYS IN TELEFON AND ELLEN ALLIEN HAD TO OCCUR. It probably went something like this:

     Hi, is this is to be the Telefon? I am is to is the Ellen Allien.

   Sup?

  You would like to have been make a new the music with as to for being my label, no yes?

  Suhweet. That kid at that blog will effing love that.

  I am having the hooray! Now we techno party!

  Ellen? We are two dudes who make sad, heartbreaking works of staggering genius, all right?Ok. We don’t dance. No Way. We just take our Louis rags out and wave them around in the air. We take our Gucci rags out and wave them around in the air. Now we must get back to constantly breaking up with our girlfriends and being alone in dark rooms with tinkley things.

I assure  you, that’s how the conversation went.

Telefon Tel Aviv: Helen Of Troy

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Gauzy and fuzzed as hell, this is the first taster of Telefon’s forthcoming BPC debut and third full-length original album. There is a part of me that misses the operatic, aching soul stylings, but if this is the new direction I can acclimate.

 Telefon Tel Aviv: I Lied

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From the beautiful Map Of What Is Effortless album,this is Telefon then (and I can’t assume it’s them now).

Telefon Tel Aviv: Street Spirit

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A typical Telefon re-working of a Radiohead classic, into something hushed and something that walks in the realm of both dreams and nightmares.