For Mirth Only

Tim Sweeney at Cameo 3/28

Last night was overcast, and it was sprinkling on and off.  I arrived on time for once, but it took a little trolling on N. 6th to find Cameo.  Apparently, a couple bands (spindrift and the vandelles) had just played.  I proceeded to stand up and sit down for the duration of the next hour.  I was excited. But alone.  The venue was pretty sweet (a medium-sized, cube-shaped room with a small disco ball hanging from the ceiling); the crowd wasn’t bad and you could almost feel the music.  12:25, 12:40, 12:45, 1 AM.  The party was getting started…1:12, finally someone came to meet me!

Tim played a very solid set, definitely one you could appreciate even if you weren’t dancing your heart out at a club.  Highlights? A piano house track that had hands in the air – truly an EPIC build, and a vocal that came in towards the end.  If you were deaf, you might have gotten the idea you were at an electro-house show.   A disco song with the words new york, love, east, west (not necessarily in that order or phrasing), and finally a few “got to be funky,” blaxploitation-ish tunes with hilarious basslines towards the end.

I’d prepared to stay out till 5, but meh. Shouts to my best friends who wished me happy birthday.

Carpet Death

Photography duo ioulex are showing their mini-collectiona and 9-minute film called Carpet Death at the Audio Visual Arts (AVA) – basically a walk-in, walk-out hole in the wall – from March 13 to April 12.

More photos on Neo2.

Hatcham Social’s You Dig The Tunnel, I’ll Hide The Soil

OOOOOOH I’m so happy.  This album makes me happy.  Just heard it.  Theirs is a case where production significantly improved their songs.  Solid album. Just over 30 minutes. Definitely going to see them again this summer at Cake Shop. Unfortunately, I think the drummer Finnigan ditched the bowl cut, but I can deal.

Hatcham Social’s MySpace

Dog Piss Up Your Mom’s Ass

This mix by James De La Cruz reminds me – in style of presentation, not content – of the one Gonzales (formerly Chilly Gonzales) did for The Breezeblock.  Both are from 2002.

The Avalanches on Triple J 11/30/2002 (RapidShare)
Tracklist (Swampmaster)

Mesmerizing Margiela

More on the wig-coat here.

Bok Bok + Manara Mixes

there’s nothing to say about this mix:
Bok Bok & Manara Mixtape for Trash Menagerie Feb 09

cuz they already write about it so well. their write-up reads like a diary entry… it’s really neat.

anyway, that mix is pretty good, though not as good as this one:
Bok Bok mini mix for vice

i went to sleep with it yesterday. it’s my morning soundtrack. it’s just fucking *good*, not “ok,” not “yeah, it’s alright”- it’s *solid*. despite some slight, unfortunate trainwrecks, the momentum it builds is quite possibly the best i’ve heard in many, many months, and as a whole, it elicits a very cold shade of gray for me. it reminds me of those murky, transfixing dnb sets i used to love with oceans of subbass and sparse neon synths and hypnotic drum loops. AND, curses’ “moss man” drops friiiiighteningly hard at 18 minutes in or so.

yeah!!!

:)

11th Annual Bouquat w/Kingdom

God damn.  While the flickr photos from past Bouquat parties bear some resemblance to Rubulad, they in no way prepared me for the immense crowd that showed up last night.  Right off Broadway near the Kosciusko (yeah, nobody can pronounce that) J stop, it’s pretty close to where I lived when I first moved to New York.  Great mix of people, no cover, no security, cheap drinks, a bathroom consisting of two paint buckets at the bottom of a stairwell, colorful diy decorations, a long table filled with sweets and baked goods (including a swirly chocolate cake with a translucent jello layer), and music by Kingdom.  All the bassline/garage/club hip hop…umm “urban” goodness you’d expect.

God damn. I needed that.