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THE ENTITY

I keep seeing this:



And it keeps reminding me of this:

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LINKS

• The 50 Greatest Comedy Sketches of All Time - Nerve.com
  ok list, stupid descriptions
  
  
• The New York Times 4/81
  MATERIAL, A BAND OF MANY FACES by Robert Palmer
  
  
• Discobelle.net » Blog Archive » Mixin' It Up: Mike The 2600 King
  This weeks Mixin' it up is from Mike The 2600 King
  
  
• A Night Out With Jamie Lidell, the Soul Singer - New York Times
  Jamie Lidell, the 34-year-old British soul singer, samples tacos and various flavored margaritas in SoHo.
  
  
• PottyMouth Music (Powered by Invision Power Board)
  fidget house message board
  
  
• Torontoist: Untrust Us
  details on Crystal Castles/Madonna art fiasco
  
  
• MPR: Hot Chip performs in The Current studio
  Songs performed: "Made In The Dark," "Nothing Compares 2U," "In The Privacy Of Our Love," and "Ready For The Floor."


• Best Club Dj: Soviet Panda - Best of the Twin Cities - 2008 - City Pages (Minneapolis & St. Paul)
  
  
• RA: Label of the month: Rekids - Feature / Interview
  Todd L. Burns talks to Matt Edwards and James Masters, the minds behind the UK's most successful export since the light bulb – Rekids.
  
  
• RA: Black Devil Disco Club issue Eight Oh Eight. Music News
  French disco producer Black Devil Disco Club will release the third and final part of the BDDC trilogy Eight Oh Eight this summer.
  
  
• NYC TV - New York Noise
  Tune in to a brand new and revamped season of New York's favorite indie and underground music show, New York Noise! Experience 8 delightful new episodes, 96 joyous music videos, and quite a handful of exclusive interviews, features, wild stunts, and live
  
  
• Myspace.com Blogs - TRINA STILL DA NASTIEST ALBUM REVIEW - Khia MySpace Blog
  Khia's review of Trina's album...
  
  
• 2. Recordings - Dharavi, Mumbai
  Mad Decent field recordings
  
  
• RA: RA.099 The Count & Sinden Podcast
  This week on the RA podcast: a rambunctious party mix from UK duo The Count and Sinden.
  
  
• The Great 2008 Dog Crawl - City Pages (Minneapolis/St. Paul)
  A search for the Cities' best franks
  
  
• Mike Simonetti - Interview & Mix
  Cosmic Disco is very excited to have spoken with no other than Mike Simonetti, one of the hardest working label bosses/DJ's/Manager's in New York's underground dance scene today.
  
  
• MATMOS: Fact Magazine
  We called up Drew Daniel and M.C. Schmidt to find out what's going on...
  
  
• LA Weekly - Coachella by the Numbers
  Digging deep into the Valley

SELECTED

Come to Too Much Love tonight with Konsept + Popstatic at the end of their Selected Tour.

YMO

RED SOCK PUGIE

Foals are at the Entry on Monday. I really like this band and this album, can't wait to hear it live.

IT'S THE (SAME) BEAT

This Simian Mobile Disco remix thing is out of control. They keep re-releasing the same singles with new remixes (we could possibly call it Chromeo syndrome), and I would totally mind except they keep picking my favorite producers and DJs, to the point where it's getting ridiculous. A remix album sounds like too much, but check the people they lined up for it... from Shit Robot's MySpace:

Subject: simian mobile disco shit robot remix

hey, new simian mobile disco "it's the beat" shit robot remix posted in my player if you care?

should be released next month on simian's adsr remix album with more remixes by silver apples, beyond the wizards sleeve, invisible conga people, joakim, danton eeprom, simon baker, cosmo vitelli etc.
!

enjoy,

shitbot.

Make sure to check out that SR remix on his page, it's a nice buzzing death-disco number. Can't wait to hear the rest of those... BTWS, Invisible Conga People, Joakim, fucking Silver Apples...

GRAND CENTRAL SHUFFLE

WEEKEND NEVER DIES

DOCVILLE - Trailer Part of the Weekend Never Dies
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A.V.A.F

Gavin Russom rencontre A.V.A.F

LINKS

• RA: RA.098 Todd Terje Podcast
  You can share your thoughts, suggestions or general love in the RA forum here; 61 Comments This week on the RA podcast: a left-field disco mix from Norway's Todd Terje.
  
  
• Scale model of Scrooge McDuck's money bin - a set on Flickr
  This is a set of images documenting a model of the world's richest duck's money bin, built by me in 2002/3, using blueprints created by the great Don Rosa and Dan Shane.
  
  
• Sample Wednesday 40: Armand Van Helden
  Now, enjoy some of the songs sampled by the self proclaimed "Michael Jordan of House" - Armand Van Helden.
  
  
• Why records DO all sound the same | Word Magazine
  No, it's not you – records do all sound the same these days. Desperate to get their music on the radio at all costs, record labels are employing a new and powerful software to artificially sweeten it, polish it, make it "louder"… and squeeze out
  
  
• Buying It: The Art World: The New Yorker
  A Takashi Murakami retrospective
  
  
• Complex Magazine: Mark Ronson
  Guest editor Kanye West builds with the DJ-gone-good
  
  
• Vice magazine: POP VOX - ONE MINUTE IN TIME-TRAVEL HEAVEN
  The deal is this: You've got one minute to travel back in time and talk to your teenage self.
  
  
• - Interview week: DJ Soviet Panda
  interview at Mediation blog
  
  
• The FADER - Exclusive Freeload: Brothers FADER Mix
  Brothers explore the dancefloor's outer limits
  
  
• The FADER - Dollars To Pounds: Disco Discovery
  I asked three leading lights of the Hackneydisco (Dalsto?) renaissance—Dan Beaumont of Disco Bloodbath, Piers Martin of Cocadisco, and Toby Tobias of LateNightAudio (also a DJ and Rekids recording artist)—to take us deeper.
  
  
• Sound Opinions Message Board
  
  
• Interview: Spoon
  We speak to Britt Daniel about Spoon-related internet rumors, "Arrested Development", Har Mar Superstar vs. the White Stripes, Feist's "My Moon My Man", and why he thinks Merge's Mac McCaughan should run for office.
  
  
• HIP-HOP`S NEW WAVE: XXXCHANGE & SAMIYAM: Fact Magazine
  In the first of a two-part feature focusing on the Red Bull Music Academy's illustrious graduates, we talk to Spank Rock's Armani XXXChange and DIY blip-hopper Samiyam about the ideas and inspirations behind their music...
  
  
• The Healthiest Fast-Food Restaurants - Health.com
  
  
• DOLLAR BIN JAMS: Disco Sirens?
  Marcos Cabral (Runaway) interview and mixes
  
  
• Sony/BMG Under Investigation for Software Piracy | Listening Post from Wired.com
  A small software company has accused major label Sony/BMG of software piracy, in a reversal of the normal orientation of piracy cases between major labels and the rest of the world

MEDIATED

You can catch a quick interview with myself today on Taylor's excellent Mediation blog, as part of his Interview Week. Again, I really recommend adding his blog to your feed reader. For the record, I'm pretty sure I'm 0% Russian. And while we're at it, 0% Chinese, too.

I JUST STYLE-FLIPPED YA!

The most notable thing about the Minneapolis electronic music scene? We know how to order customized gear stickers online. Ballin!

PART OF THE WEEKEND NEVER DIES

I really, really wish I had caught the last Nite Versions tour.

RELISH THE THOUGHT

As predicted, Too Much Love last Saturday was the biggest, and possibly best, ever. I can't remember the last time I heard that much great music in one place. Plus there were LASERS and FREE HOT DOGS. It's going to be hard to top. 1,000 thanks to James F!@.$%^ Friedman, My Cousin Roy, Max Pask, and The Wiz for coming out. And look for TML to get bigger and better as spring and summer start to show up. Here are some photos from the whirlwind night:
















Also check out photos from my partners in crime, the Moon Goons.

FIND THE CORE

I still haven't done my spiel about why I think the Black Ghosts are such a great band, and deserve more than just blogged-out remixes. Oh well, maybe later.

WEEKEND

Big weekend!  Tonight I will be playing at a party in the VIP room at First Ave.  From the Facebook event:

It is that time again for a lot of peoples birthdays. Once again it is going to happen at First Avenue in the VIP room. I hope to see a lot of you here as the whole night will be fun and dance infused. Word yo!
18+
Free with college ID.
2-4-1s on rails and domestics until midnight.
SOVIETPANDA is going to close out the night with a DJ set. It will be like Too Much Love in the VIP room again.

Then tomorrow is the biggest Too Much Love of the year yet. The Moon Goons and I are bringing in the Friday resident DJs from New York's Club 205 for disco-fueled madness. There are going to be a bunch of surprises, so don't miss out.

SOVIETPANDA & the Moon Goons present
205 @ Too Much Love

with
James F!@.$%^ Friedman
My Cousin Roy (Wurst Edits)
Max Pask
The Wiz

Saturday April 12
10 pm, 18+, $3 or free with student ID

If you don't know the DJs (and you should) check out their MySpaces. Tell all your friends and be there at 10 sharp so you catch everyone!

LINKS

• FADER 53: Glass Candy - Features
  Glass Candy met in the produce aisle over ten years ago. Now they're making the glamorous disco music they never knew they had in them
  
  
• FADER TV: Hanging Out With Glass Candy
  Above check out Glass Candy beatmaker and Italians Do It Better mastermind Johnny Jewel showing us around his studio and music, and then make the jump to see Ida No's crazy house with lots of clothes, a cat that is everywhere and uh, a weird ventriloquist
  
  
• Earplug | Chart - Oliver $
  
  
• Read our Cut Copy interview | RCRD LBL
  Back during SXSW, we caught up with two thirds of totally awesome Australian electro-rock band Cut Copy, right before the band DJ'ed a crazy weird house party.
  
  
• MoMA.org | PopRally | DFA Dance Party and Color Chart
  mixes, photos, info
  
  
• You Can Dance (for Inspiration): Italians Do It Better Brings Us Computer Love, Druggy Disco, And Conga Pop
  he takes a look at the newest crop of releases from neo-disco imprint Italians Do It Better—including records from Glass Candy, Farah, and Invisible Conga People—all of which take the label's synth-heavy sound into exciting new places.


• Fischerspooner Interview | IHEARTCOMIX!
  Casey Spooner was kind enough to take a few moments to let me pick his brain about the current state of the music industry, his integration of art into music, and what FS has in store for us in the near future....
  
  
• Photographer looks at women from the outside in
  But the surprise of a powerful first book by Seattle photographer Rosanne Olson is: Many of the harsh self-criticisms come from women who might seem to have little reason to complain.
  
  
• Spinner RPM: Metro Area - Spinner.com
  feature and mix
  
  
• AMP.VHS
  videos from MTV AMP
  
  
• Erol Alkan - Beyond The Wizard’s Sleeve Live At The G-Mex, Manchester
  best podcast ever?
  
  
• Happy Accidents
  Canadian magazine? I dunno
  
  
• The Top 25 Blogs - Time.com's First Annual Blog Index - TIME

PRO-BODIES

Poni Hoax - "Antibodies"

DAILY LOL

The Daily Swarm has recently become one of my top places for music news.  The ridiculous news items that just popped up in a row on the RSS feed are too crazy not to share. Only one of these is about an April Fool's joke:

• The Daily Swarm - TAG Records: Procter & Gamble starting deodorant hip hop label with Jermaine Dupri...
  
  
  
• The Daily Swarm - Justice jeans...
  

AW BABY

I can never remember the name of this song. Thank you Can't Hardly Wait soundtrack listing.

INTRODUCING

BIRD N EM

Hotness-creator and professional swell dude Bird Peterson has a quick feature in XLR8R that's worth checking out. Nice one Bird.

In a slightly more bizarre match-up, Metro Area is featured on AOL's Spinner, with a disco mix to boot... although AOL is a little late on the WMC plug.  Check out Environ on Facebook.

SLIP IN AND OUT

Some friends and I watched Sesame Street late this past weekend. They still show some of the animated bits from the 70's. I have never been so into the number 7 in my life. This reminded me of that for some reason:



Domino Record are releasing a comprehensive retrospective of legendary New Yorkers Liquid Liquid. Slip in and out of Phenomenon drops in late May.

LINKS

• The Daily Swarm - Pink's Dudamel "Dude Dog"
  Pink's, the world famous hot dog stand in L.A., is a favorite retreat of Gustavo Dudamel, the music director-to-be of the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
  
  
• Meet the new sonic revolutionaries...
  You've heard the hits - from Lily Allen, Gnarls Barkley, Kylie. But what of the people behind their success, men with names like Diplo, Switch and Danger Mouse? These are the producers, the innovators who provide the magic to turn an artist's dream into...
  
  
• ibeatyou. challenge the world.
  i don't get this
  
  
• 10 top cocktails: The drinks
  vita.mn's top 10 local cocktails
  
  
• The Minneapoline SUNDAY, APRIL 06, 2008
  4/5 - TML
  
  
• French Friday: Fred Falke at WAVES AT NIGHT
  We were lucky enough to get into contact with him just before he embarks on his Australian tour…
  
  
• Klaus Dinger, Drummer of Influential German Beat, Dies at 61 - New York Times
  Mr. Dinger was the drummer for the 1970s band Neu!, whose mechanically repetitive yet buoyant beats had a wide influence in underground rock.
  
  
• RA: In search of Kelley Polar - Feature / Interview
  Todd L. Burns hikes up to Sullivan, New Hampshire, population 746, to catch up with viola disco producer Kelley Polar. ..
  
  
• Erol Alkan > Features > URB Innovators
  MAD FOR IT Indie dance innovator Erol Alkan of Trash UK talks dance floor revolution with Hacienda resident Djs and acid house survivors Mike Pickering and Graeme Park.
  
  
• Pointless Listmaking: Guitar School Reveals "Top 25 Riffs Of All Time," Flatters Ghosts Of Jimi, Dimebag
  
  
• Design » Interview with Mike Davis of Burlesque of North America
  The Walker Art Center Teen Arts Council (WACTAC) recently visited Burlesque of North America and made a pretty nice video of their studio tour and interview with Mike Davis
  
  
• BLINCOLN BLOGS
  WOWCH blog
  
  
• CUT COPY: Fact Magazine
  As Cut Copy prepare to play London's Scala on April 23rd and release their sophomore album, In Ghost Colours, on May 5th, we caught up Tim Hoey to see what's up...
  
  
• End of term party becomes village square orgy - Telegraph
  Witnesses described how "all hell let loose" at the party in a picturesque Lancashire village
  
  
• Little Boots (Blackpool, UK) - Dazed Digital
  Little Boots is Victoria Hesketh, formerly the lead singer of Dead Disco. Her new track "Stuck on Repeat" was produced by Joe Goddard of Hot Chip.

TRIPLE DOUBLE DOUBLE DOUBLE

I ordered the double-double; they gave me the double-double-double-double!



Tonight I'm rocking Mike's joint the Triple Double at the Triple Rock.  It'll be myself, my pal Millions Billions, and Paper Tiger from Doomtree.  2-4-1's on taps and rails til midnight, $2 Hamm's from midnight til close.  No cover, 21+, etc, see you there!

LINKS

• The Sartorialist: On the Street..... Kanye West, Paris
  Kanye on the Sartorialist! Balllllinnnn
  
  
• 150 Things to Do in Minneapolis
  In honor of Minneapolis's 150th birthday, we have gathered 150 of our favorite things to do.
  
  
• Pitchfork Feature: Interview: Radiohead
  We talk to Colin Greenwood about the State of Radiohead, the increasing importance of communal spaces in today's society, and his affection for the Metallica documentary Some Kind of Monster.
  
  
• garfield minus garfield
  garfield, this time without any garfield
  
  
• The FADER - Introducing F2
  The first issues tackles the New Disco and includes two photo essays on Melbourne dance music (featuring Midnight Juggernauts, Miami Horror and cover stars Cut Copy), as well as profiles of Sally Shapiro, Jokers of the Scene, Boys Noize and more.
  
  
• Earplug | Chart - Jacques Renault
  Chart - March 27, 2008 - Jacques Renault/Runaway
  
  
• Earplug | Kelley Polar Goes Solar
  Avant-disco producer reaches for the stars
  
  
• Vice magazine: LONDON - BE YOUR OWN PET
  where's all this high-school rage even coming from? Luckily this was the first thing we asked the band when they were in London last week.
  
  
• Mishka Bloglin » Blog Archive » M15HK4 PR353N75 7H3 H4X0R M1X 8Y 5T4R 3Y35 0F 7R0U8L3 & 8455 0N 7H3 D00M80X!
  Star Eyes & I make no secret of our love for old school Industrial and EBM and this mix is celebration of just that.
  
  
• The Daily Swarm - Winter Music Conference 2008: Top 10 Reasons You're Not Going to Miami This Year
  
  
• grain edit · Mike Davis interview
  Mike Davis aka Mike the 2600 King is part of a design collaborative known as Burlesque of North Of America. In addition to their design work they are a full service screenprinting studio.
  
  
• SANTOGOLD: Fact Magazine
  FACT called Ms White up to see what's happening...