'Aight. We out. Second star to the right and straight on 'till morning, son. Proper vacation starts now, and /am.fm.pm/ will be back up broadcasting the weekend of September 2nd. But hey, dry your eyes kids! We wouldn't straight up just ditch you like that. To keep fists pumping all the way through the long Labor Day weekend, /am.fm.pm/ is pleased to present a super post of long form DJ mixes: The Ninja Tune Edition! Put them on at your party and leave that iPod the hell alone! Yeah monkey, DANCE! Live off of NinjaTune's "Solid Steel" webcast, the classic:
Kid Koala - "Solid Steel '03" (mp3)
Coldcut - "Solid Steel '07" (mp3)
But wait! There's more! Released in 2000, the three disks of NT's anniversary comp Xen Cuts feature the likes of Amon Tobin, The Herbaliser, Mr. Scruff, Saul Williams, Roots Manuva, and more!
Ninja Tune Xen Cuts Disk One (.zip)
Ninja Tune Xen Cuts Disk Two (.zip)
Ninja Tune Xen Cuts Disk Three (.zip)
And, Ooh Ooh Ooh! Bonus! Def Jux mainstay Aesop Rock's latest None Shall Pass hits the brick and mortars next week, August 28th. As we're coming up on, well Labor Day, let's throw one more little treat out there: The Aesop Rock Instrumentals EP was released as a supplemental disk to Labor Days producer Blockhead's own Music By Cavelight off the NinjaTune label. Only five tracks, all of which are mislabeled. Whoops. Our bad.
Blockhead The Aesop Rock Instrumentals EP (.zip)
This concludes our broadcast day.
We interrupt your regularly scheduled programming.
Everybody knows the Internet needs more music blogs!
We here at /am.fm.pm/ do hope that you, the reader, don't take this week's inundation of mp3 & album posts as a sign that we're steering away from our regularly scheduled television, film, & media coverage to become just another music blog, we're simply stacking the decks with content before going on vacation for the week of August 26th. (Not like the vacation we took last week. Or the vacation the time before that. This time we're REALLY going on a proper holiday.) /am.fm.pm/ appreciates your patronage as always, and will kill you if you ever try to leave us. Do you hear me? DO YOU HEAR ME. You are NOTHING without us. Nobody else would ever have you anyways, all bruised and shit. You're so clumsy. Don't you EVER talk to me like that again in front of the people I work with.
Oh no, not you, sweetie. That was for rude dick anonymous commenters. (By the way, how the hell was that opening for a run on sentence, huh? Not bad.) Enjoy the music, kids.
I aint NEVER 'scaid.
DJ Shadow's Funky Skunk, released in early 2006 under Shepard Fairey's Obey label (the mixtape was originally only available packaged alongside the Obey artist's Graph-chic shirts and the like) has been keeping me up at night lately. This is music to move to, pure and simple, and seeing as how the mix is approaching it's second anniversary, I'm genuinely surprised that every one of these beats hasn't been lifted for a more mainstream track in these last twenty months. Like this year's critically shrugged The Outsider, the mix is bound to come off as a touch jarring to casual Shadow fans familiar only with his more pastoral fare (think "Midnight in a Perfect World".) There's very little "But have you ever really looked at a tree?" mushroom trip music here, his signature early album cool is instead blindsided by the syrup-crunk likes of Three 6 Mafia and Bonecrusher.
While the modest mix provides something of a sensible bridge from Entroducing... to The Outsider, we recommend ganking our previously posted Shadow BBC Essential Mix, a fine primer in old school break beatery, and a fun summer reminder that our man from 'Frisco has a voice between the hugely anachronistic "Never Scared" and "Rabbit In Your Headlights".
DJ Shadow Funky Skunk (.zip)
Do check out the high-res Fairey art for the project, a grossly cropped and shrunk version of which is above. Sure as hell beats a $170 price tag, huh?
Serious Delerium
Via Rolling Stone:
Put the Tip In.
Binary Solo!
UPDATED: You love it: Daft Punk Live @ Keyspan Park 8.9.07 Bootleg as hell, but the quality's solid. Original post continues below, now with DJ Payroll's ace DPK vs. Bon Jovi mash, released Friday.
Well, it's been a full week now since a pyramid shaped spaceship carrying two Parisian DJs touched down in Coney Island- (check out the mothership's interior here & here)- and it's taken me just as long to properly digest exactly what happened that night. A person has the tendency to claim, upon leaving any major concert, "Wow! That was the best concert I've ever seen!". Here, one week later, my eyes honestly dew up when I think of what happened during that encore. That wasn't music. It was fucking alchemy. I mean God, man, that intro alone...
Oh yeah, and anybody that ever gave DPK shit for doing that Gap commercial with Juliette Lewis can suck a dick. Robots selling denim? Genius. In thorough appreciation & celebration of Daft Punk providing the concert of the year, I'll give Thomas Bangalter and Guy Manuel de Homem Christo the same treatment we gave the Jacksons a few months back: their very own little mixtape of remix & mashup bangers.
Payroll "Daft Prayer" (DP vs. Bon Jovi)
Daft Punk "Human After All (Justice Remix)"
Alex H "Champion Floss" (DP vs. Madness)
iPunx "Intergalactic Robot Rock" (DP vs. Beastie Boys)
Clumsy "Work It" (DP vs. Missy Elliott)
McSleazy "Paranoid Funk" (DP vs. Garbage)
Dunproofin "Hard To Boot" (DP vs. Hard Fi)
Merck X "Daft Sunday Morning" (DP vs. Velvet Underground)
Ben Double M "Something About Jezebel" (DP vs. Sade)
Martinn "Around the Word on New Years Day" (DP vs. U2)
Party Ben "Another One Bites Da Funk" (DP vs. Queen)
Ben Double M "I Want Your Digital Love" (DP vs. Jackson 5)
Goin' Downtown.
When kaleidoscopic pop monsters Junior Senior released D-D-Don't Stop the Beat (a.k.a. "Enjoy these songs before you hear them in a Target commercial") in early '03, it seemed that the manic, sample savvy twosome were poised to reign supreme over the land of the summer jam for some time. And then "Shake Your Coconuts" was in the trailer for Looney Tunes: Back in Action. And The Go! Team happened. And then... yeah.
Having forgotten just how much damn fun that first album of theirs was, we were crazy psyched to catch late news that their sophomore effort, Hey Hey My My Yo Yo (available in Japan some two years now, natch) drops stateside August 14th, according to the duo's MySpace. Additionally, the Danish dance crew have two East coast pit stops in these next few weeks:
08/11 - Boston, MA @ Middle East
08/13 - New York, NY @ Highline Ballroom
By special request of Mr. Tim:
Junior Senior "Move Your Feet" mp3 (from D-D-Don't Stop The Beat)
Junior Senior "Hip Hop A Lula" mp3 (from Hey Hey My My Yo Yo)
And hey! You love mashups featuring the hit songs of yesteryear! Crooked Acrobat "Doo Wop Move Your Feet" (Junior Senior vs. Lauren Hill) mp3
The contemporary classic video for D-D-Don't Stop the Beat's "Move Your Feet" (below) was developed and directed by London art collective Shynola, exclusively using a 1994 bitmap editor called DeluxePaint to simple, genius effect.
I liked the Jamacian story better. Had a nice Elmore Leonard ring to it.
Richard Belzer, in case he hadn't already been established as such, is the sooo the fucking man. The Friar's Club roast master, star of his own mint Super Deluxe series, and mortal enemy of Hulk Hogan has now played the role of Detective John Munch across TEN television series, spanning four networks: The Wire, Homicide, Law & Order, Law & Order: Trial By Jury, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, The Simpsons, Arrested Development, The Beat, The X-Files and Sesame Street. Drinks on us at the Waterfront.
Shooting from Jersey with a Zoom.
Big ups to the boys from Olde English, whose Free NYC Rap (above) is the kind of timely, social comedy /am.fm.pm/ can get behind in a big way. The video was produced in response to the NYC Mayor's Office of Film's proposed changes to the city's film permit laws, which would no doubt strike a blow to the city's burgeoning video sketch community. The new codes include:
(Read the entire proposed new rules here, 11 page PDF)
While the appeals period for the initial revisions have closed, the short appears to have- at least in part- influenced a last minute revision of the propositions. Rock. Keep your eyes peeled through the clip for appearances by other public rabble-rousers like Chris Kula, Charlie Todd, John Gemberling, Curtis Gwinn, and more. Make sure to catch OE & Friends Saturday, August 18th @ UCB.
The ReStarkening.
am.fm.pm will be presenting the next in a series of special messages from Tony Stark- the IRON MAN, live on stage at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre this evening. Mr Stark is head of Stark Industries, and best friends with Ghostface Killa. Tonight's frank discussion on last weekend's ComicCon, Stark's own upcoming celebrity appearances, and Amy Winehouse's mouth will take place during midnight's "Liquid Courage". Free. 12am. 26th St and 8th Ave.
Iron Man Theme Song -1966 (mp3)
At this rate, Jamie Massada is just gonna have to ban everybody from the Laugh Factory. Except Carlos Mencia, for some reason.
(Via TomGreen.com)
TOM GREEN: I mean, are you upset about all this? What... the hell is going on here?
ANDY DICK: They don't even know what you're talking about.
TG: Come on. It's the internet.
AD: I took a big dump right before I came out here, and I almost always do.
TG: Yeah. Well, we don't have to talk about that if you don't want to.
AD: Well, I do, I just- I just don't wanna come out here and be full of shit.
TG: Yeah
AD: Like Lovitz is
Thus far, Jon Lovitz has been the only man to speak publicly on late July's throw down at the Laugh Factory between he and Andy Dick. The story, and Lovitz himself were everywhere in the week following the incident, appearing on both Larry King Live- (a fucking mint interview for Lovitz' impression of Dick alone, saying nothing of Alzheimer's-shaped-like-a-man repeatedly calling Phil Hartman's psycho wife "Brian")- and Dennis Miller's syndicated talk radio show. Check out Radar's great little timeline of Dick's dickery over these last few years, both thorough and thoroughly depressing.
As excerpted above, Dick broke his silence last week, appearing on Tom Green's internet show to talk at great lengths about the tussle. WATCH IT ALL HERE. Shit gets grim around the six minute mark. Oh, and good luck trying to embed video from Green's site. Do make a point of checking out Green's suprisingly good host vehicle at some point, though- the Bob Odenkirk ep. is a riot.
Point is, look: Andy Dick was a Second City house performer under the tutelage of Del Close. The Ben Stiller show was great, NewsRadio was great. No one can touch that. Counterpoint? Lovitz wraps his Larry King interview with the joke: "What's the difference between Andy Dick and Hitler? Some people liked Hitler." That folks, attempting closure here to the most abused pun headline of recent memory, is the ticket.
