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Zuma Toxic Mondays, Tempe.

When the Midnight Juggernauts drop their LP, “Dystopia”, it’s going to be massive. It’s set to release on the 4th. An Australian band, the ‘Juggernauts have been embraced by France and elevated to international stardom throughout the past few months. It seems they’re more popular in France than their own country, but you can expect that to change very soon. This song was on the justice essential mix about an hour and 19 minutes into it. their lp is due this week

Midnight Juggernauts – Into the Galaxy

A new Para One song! Can’t go wrong.

Para One – Midnight Swim

A Danceable version of Interpol. (On the West Coast!) Though sometimes they come off a bit to emo and whiney for my tastes, I will admit that they were surprisingly good live when I saw them at Coachella this year.

Interpol – The Heinrich Maneuver (Phone Remix)

Le Castle Vania is another cat that throws shows with Treasure Fingers at the monthly gig ‘Fuck Yesss’ in Atlanta. I want to fly out, but the tickets are three hundred bucks. Who wants to spend that kind of money to go to Atlanta?

Snowden – Black Eyes (Le Castle Vania Remix)

The Digital Divide
Daft Punk Abducts Los Angeles
By Nick Andrews

On a cloudy Saturday afternoon, Los Angeles resembled the premiere chapter of Ray Bradbury’s “Something Wicked This Way Comes,” where wandering circus freaks roam the streets of a small town, warning of storms that are coming, selling lightening rods and promising something memorable and disastrous. Something that will inevitably change your life forever. That Saturday night, two robots landed in the city, set up shop and showed California their unforgettable electronic insanity. Not since last year’s Coachella performance (and ten years before that) had California been rocked by Daft Punk, and they expected them to be nothing less than legendary.

The fifty dollar ticket price included Kavinsky and Sebastian, two French electro house DJ’s from the increasingly popular Ed Banger Records. Their set was another slice of the future for house music across the world, one dominated by a static electro vibe that has spread from Paris like the plague. America’s own Ratatat also dropped into the tour lineup for the night. But with Daft Punk’s name headlining, as well as fervor from their last legendary performance on the West Coast, Californians weren’t going to miss this one. July 21st was another sold out night on the exclusive Daft Punk Alive tour, hitting only a handful of cities in the United States.

When lights died, atop a giant glowing pyramid, two robots introduced themselves with “The Close Encounter of the Third Kind” theme. Fading into “Robot Rock,” they built up the tempo and once dropped- it was all over: every collective shred of inhibition or reservation vanished and the audience exploded in a visual and auditory firestorm. The show was an assault from all angles.

What sets Daft Punk apart from any other electronic music act, or any other music act, could never be singled down any one or two key factors. What is so impressive about their set is how well thought out and executed it is. Fans should expect to be totally overwhelmed with over five layers of lighting, every color from every angle, two massive flatscreens on each side of the stage broadcasting live feed, a video screen for a backdrop and an incredibly large lcd screen-plated pyramid. There aren’t many sets in the world that can compete for stage presence. This is their set, Daft Punk tours everywhere with it and charges an incredible fee to set it up. They’ve got this down to a science. After the show, I heard someone say “I feel like I have to sit in a corner and stare at the wall to even begin to digest everything that happened in the last hour and a half.”

Cycling through their performance, it becomes clear that none of their songs were meant to be played individually. Every hit that was intermixed with another, building up themes, cascading down and resetting with impeccable execution. The apex of the concert was “Around the World”, where a series of rainbow lights connected around the audience, leaving thousands of people roaring in delight, literally in the air screaming and jumping. Or maybe it was “Television Rules the Nation”, where the lighting triangulated over and over again as the music hammered the crowd into the ground.

Or it was the finale and it’s riveting, picturesque tidal wave of text- where the word “Human” stretched across the stage rivaled only by the pyramid, generating videos of bone structures, skin and muscle tissues, even eyes. The fragile essence of mankind. The word “Together” flashed instantaneously afterwards, addressing the divisive nature of technology. A simultaneous possibility of unity. Or then again, it was the entire performance that left Californians in a collective state of shock for hours on end after leaving the arena. The expressions on these people’s faces were priceless- it looked like they’d been abducted. One thing that is crucial for an amazing experience is crowd vibe, and these people were loving this.

Nobody has addressed the digital revolution like Daft Punk. The same feelings of regret and insecurity, the same capacity for a profound beauty and unforgiving tragedy generated by this machinery. These same themes ring as true today as they did in the nineties when first mastered. “Television Rules the Nation”, “Technologic”, and “Human After All” offer themselves as epic monuments of technological progress not only in regards to their production, but also within their messages accenting the rise of the computer age. We’re entering a cold new world here, and they awaken these fears and address them very thoroughly in as few words as necessary. When the spectacle finally came to a close and the lights kicked back on, you could hear the collective groan of thousands of people dying for it to resume once again. For the journey to continue. And in the end, it might seem strange to think that two robots could capture what it is to be human so acutely, but then again- no matter how unbelievable it might be- they are human after all.

So I got a new camera. It’s a 7.0 Megapixel Canon Powershot, but it might be stolen. I read about it on Craigslist and purchased it in a parking lot in front of Target. The guy seemed cool enough, but the thing doesn’t even look used. For what i paid for it, it should have been used. The memory card was still in it’s wrapper for Christ’s sake. Oh well. I’ll definitely need it this weekend. Stay tuned for daft punk photos and videos! I’m going on Saturday to see their show in LA.

Avalanches – Ray of Zdarlight (Wham vs. Digitalism)

Switch - Brick N Lace 3

Neon Plastix - Fire

Neon Plastix – Dream

Uffie - Make it Hott (Crystal Castles Remix)

Desyn killed it. Awesome show. People wouldn’t leave at the end of the night, screaming for an encore. That’s always a good sign in the venue that he played at. Myst can be a hit or miss crowd sometimes, especially in the summer. Here’s another reason why you can expect Scottsdale to stay on the map as a hot DJ spot.

yeah, i took these.

Next week Im going to see Daft Punk in LA, and if I’m up to it, I might stop by the night before and see Paul Van Dyk. I know your’re jealous. Expect some good photos/videos. Just bought a new handheld digital camera, that is probably stolen. oh well.

Wow. Nuuro started releasing music at 16 years old, and not a minute too soon because i can’t stop playing his premiere release, “In Transit EP”. hailing from Venezuala, Nuuro has quite an arsenal of musical influence, and is not afraid to express it in many directions. He definitely pulls some influence from a more dirty, rock oriented semi-emo feel, but with electronic complexity, he reaches much deeper than most. I’ll be excited when his track “White Volta” is released, but for now, I can’t find it anywhere.

Nuuro - Edison Melodies

Nuuro - Alone But

Nuuro - Waiting

so i saw ‘paprika’ last night, the latest film by satoshi kon, the same cinematic powerhouse that brought us ‘akira’, and it is clear to me that he hasn’t lost his edge at all. set in modern times, the story backdrops the digital evolution and the coming of age of machinery that helps us understand and interject into our dreams. it’s very much a theme brought about in ‘the cell’ but expanded upon much more thoroughly. should we, supposing that we could, try to control our dreams? truly an interesting dynamic to try and understand. i’d recommend it.

si begg - bangin’

Fletch, being himself.

So Fletch got evicted.This time it’s not his shady eighteen year old Tempe neighbors, but fletch himself. Oh, and Andrew- who conincidently was flying out of town to South Carolina that morning, leaving me to be woken up to the surprise. Times like these make me so thankful that fletch lives right across the street- though it won’t be for much longer. That and that i have an SUV. No order, or boxes, or time left to do anything with the heaps of shit that they own i threw as many electronic appliances in a bedsheet, crossed the corners and threw it in my car. Twenty minutes later, everything of any value is sitting inside and outside my apartment. And it rained today.

The weekend was slow. Slower than I’ve seen it in a while. Even DJ Sribble over at Axis couldn’t attract a crowd. He was playing a lot of Hip Hop Mashup, rarely venturing into his more house oriented previous albums. He has talent, but the show wasn’t as impressive as I had hoped it would be.

Mystery Jets - You Can’t Fool Me (Justice Remix)

Coldplay - Talk (Junkie XL Remix)

Treasure Fingers - 40 Minutes in the Champagne Room

Track Listing

01. treasure fingers - champagne room intro
02. The glamour - get into it
03. does it offend you, yeah? - we are rockstars
04. snowden - anti anti (treasure fingers remix)
05. dragonette - i get around (midnight juggernauts remix)
06. digitalism - pogo (punks jump up remix)
07. mstrkrft - street justice
08. LA riots feat. jadis - if i could
09. architecture in helsinki - it’s 5! (33hz & ming remix)
10. cassius - cassius 1999 (remix)
11. busta rhymes - touch it (kid fresh remix)
12. anthony rother - freaks
13. M.I.A. - bucky done gun
14. lovely chords - my disko is broken
15. gucci mane - freaky girl
16. math head - do damage (passions remix)
17. miami horror - don’t be with her
18. fergie - glamorous (treasure fingers remix)
19. mark ronson feat. lily allen - oh my god (chris lake remix)
20. cassius - feeling for you
21. cousin cole - thuggish ruggish love
22. the black ghosts - any way you choose to give it (boy 8-bit remix)
23. D.I.M. - airbus (mstrkrft remix)
24. roy davis jr - rock shock (thomas bangalter remix)
25. treasure fingers - cross the dancefloor
26. squarepusher - my red hot car
27. mr oizo - patrick122
28. klaxons - gravity’s rainbow (soulwax remix)
29. snowden - black eyes (le castle vania remix)
30. the discoboys - for you (patrick alavi remix)
31. the cribs - mens needs
32. krazy fiesta feat cassie - me and you
33. rockwell - somebody’s watching me
34. simian mobile disco - hotdog
35. czr - chicago southside (paul johnson remix)
36. naive new beaters - bang bang (yuksek remix)
37. digitalism - digitalism in cairo
38. fiasco - happy hour (the scar remix)
39. justice - genesis
40. da shop boyz - party like a rockstar
41. ocelot - this is our time (treasure fingers remix)
42. tepr - minuit jacuzzi (data remix)