better still... learn how to properly balance your tone-arm... and check the recommended tracking weight for your cartridge... set it to near the minimum... and learn how to handle records without having them jump all over the place.

I mean, really... who wants spit and fingerprints all over their records?

As a preview for the MEME Festival in Winnipeg [ www.memetic.ca ] PHASE-ONE Radio [ ckuw.ca ] will be broadcasting an exclusive new fishead mix this evening, followed by an hour of vintage material...

The new mix covers all kinds of territory, and features classic cuts on Warp, Rephlex, Distort, Bloody Fist, Minus, Basic Channel... and newer material on Modern Love, Void Tactical Media, Kranky, Mexican Summer and more...

The vintage material is expected to be a broadcast of the Systematic Destruction mixtape - in it's entirety... dark, dark, dark drum'n'bass followed by an explosive mix of hardcore, speedcore and noise.

for some reason those links don't seem to be working...

anyhow... I posted the mix to [ soundcloud.com ] so you can grab it there...

if you're interested in the festival, you can read about it here: [ www.memetic.ca ]

Mana is a solid choice, too...

[ www.djbrace.com ]

2004 Canadian DMC Champion + 2009 Juno winner
learn mixing and scratching - beginner and advanced techniques - lessons in English and French

drop him a line from the contact page if you're interested...

btw- I don't know how many DJs you'll find that are willing to lug their gear to your place to give you lessons...

...apparently there's going to be some kind of worldwide earthquake on Saturday... and judgment day is going down... so I figured I'd skip listing this one.

...also, throwing up listings for shows like this always makes feel like a shill.

I'm still gonna be there, but my man DJ Brace is gonna be manning the decks for the bulk of the evening... come out and witness the skills that took him to the DMC worlds a few years back...

to be fair... I think it's more like 85% of Quebec doesn't want Harper... and that number drops significantly outside the province... what I find particularly disturbing is the notion that southern Ontario has whole-heartedly embraced a party leader with links to the Norther Foundation & Heritage Front (essentially the Canadian KKK)... that much of western Canada remained conservative is not such a surprise.

pee-pole?

Seconded... it's one of the films that the late Robin Wood singles out as exemplifying the 'apocalyptic horror' of the 70's in his seminal essay "An Introduction to the American Horror Film."

Q The Winged Serpent is another great Cohen work...

yeah... but animated... like this...



...and perhaps less Steven Seagal.

now I'm totally picturing the slaughterhouse for KFC chickens being like some kind of Mortal Kombat style arena, with some guy dressed up as Scorpion is beating poultry senseless while a voice in the background bellows "FINISH HIM!"

...and y'know... if KFC ever ran a commercial like that... I'd probably go out and get me some.

I guess so... after all... they use manure as fertilizer for a lot the plants I eat.

Synthamesk + Laf-O = unprecedented levels of win... two of the most criminally under-rated producers this city has to offer...

I haven't eaten meat in 20+ years... but the autobiography of Col. Harlan Sanders is one of the most awesome books I've ever read... it's pretty much written in redneck... found it in a used bookshop years ago - totally amazing.

[ www.amazon.com ]

as for the food... I remember liking the smell of fried chicken, but even before they kill 'em - chicken is some nasty shit. I don't care if you eat meat, there are plenty of great animals to eat - chicken ain't one of them... I mean, I grew up on the prairies... friends worked 'chicken pulls'... and my grandfather had a farm with chickens (and cows, a lot of crops and even some beehives). Let me tell you; those birds will eat anything. They're simply filthy creatures.

[ earplugstore.stores.yahoo.net ]

you could also go the crazy cheap route... hit up RONA for some ear protection headphones (serious noise cancellation) - and then get a set of cheap headphones and stick 'em inside.

I've played 100,000+ watt sound systems with mine - and the drivers inside came out of the free headphones that came with a $10 walkman.

cumshot

tracklisting -
(you are so fucking retarded) - Doormouse
Let Your Body Learn (Fixmer mix) - Nitzer Ebb
Love Express - Mateo Murphy
Climaxer - DJ Hyperactive
Cerveaux Sans Ames - Terence Fixmer
Disco Killa - The Advent
FM 181-B - Thomas Heckmann
Clock Science - The Hunter Of Sounds
BASJ - Speedy J & Adam Beyer
End Of Chapter - Marco Carola & Cisco Ferreira
Together In Electric Dreams - Giorgio Moroder & Phil Oakey
Metal Slug - The Outside Agency

at the moment the next gig is the MEME festival - [ www.memetic.ca ] - playing the Saturday night event with Dandy Jack (Geneva), Venetian Snares (Canada), Wrong Jeremy (Canada) and Hitori Tori (Canada)... should be a crazy time. Process Rebel (Amsterdam) and Thomas Fehlmann (Berlin) are also playing...



That's actually a hardtechno mix - not hardtek... hope you're not too disappointed.

I took out the nipple rings a couple of years before I started actively training in jiu-jitsu... but did a fair amount of scrapping when I did have them in... always had a shirt on, never really had a problem. In truth, sex was probably more hazardous for my nipple than fighting was... 'cause ladies always had fun pinching, pulling, tugging and nibbling... and nobody ever went for that in a fight.

[ www.future-shocked.com ]

extensive archive featuring pretty much all the mixes I've made public over the last decade or so... some of them are a bit embarrassing to listen to, some of them are way better than I remember them being...

a couple of highlights:
20M is the 20th Anniversary mix that I put together for Brave New Waves: 20 records in 20 minutes - one from each year 1984-2003... mixed on three turntables and broadcast on CBC FM in February '05. They requested that it not stick to any particular genre - it doesn't... Severed Heads, 2 Live Crew, New Order, Pop Will Eat Itself, Renegade Soundwave, Sonic Youth, Cranes, The Orb, Calexico, Venetian Snares, Dr. Octagon, Blackalicious - it's all over the place.

Eat Shit:
The a-side to the justifiably infamous Eat Shit & Die split cassette... the mixtape that got Venetian Snares picked up by History of the futurE....

Systematic - Destruction:
the two companion sides to a mixtape that winds it's way through hard, dark drum'n'bass on the a-side - and turns into a full-on hardcore assault on the flip side... meant to be listened to one after the other.

y'all can peep my nipple... fyi, that's one of the last photos before I took out the nipple piercings... 6ga barbell vertical, 8ga ring on the horizontal... the guy giving the thumbs up is DJ [ .COM ] - the man behind the booty house classic "Donkey Punch" - heard in the mix right here...
[ www.future-shocked.com ]

that ain't one of Antoninio's photos, though...


I haven't flashed skin for him, but he did get a nice crotch shot at this year's first OCDJ:

I had fun... and it looked like other people did, too... I was really pleased to see the reaction to this piece that I picked up recently...



it's limited to 300 copies, and it's available from [ www.radiograffiti.org ] if anyone is looking to get a copy for themselves... it's one of the most ridiculously cool records I've seen in a long time...

all that really needs to be said about glowsticks...

throwing records together tonight so I can nap tomorrow... expect some serious mindfuckery... industrialtechnoidmbreakspeeddubcore... with retardbeats, farting and vomiting sounds... and some deathmetal vocals and yodeling.

fuck dancing - just vibrate.

settled... Gantz Graf and Analog Bubblebath 4 are going into the crate... among other things that are bound to be more stupid... like yodelcore.

really good turn out... not sure I've ever seen that many shots lined up around a bar... I think it covered nearly 2/3s of the counter! Kick ass.

Venture Bros.

btw: blind, deaf and mute... and probably a bigger inspiration than any of us "able"bodied folk will ever be...

his ex-wife has accused him of letting one of their two dogs starve to death. She's apparently reclaimed the still-living one - and yadda-yadda-yadda - more drama than a thread about possibly-pedophile-paparazzi... (how's that for alliteration?!?)...

anyhow... questionable tabloid media sources will give you all the questionable tabloid gossip details...

if the stuff about him neglecting animals is true, then I'd hope that he disappears from the public eye relatively soon... the trainwreck for attention has gone on too long as is.

I think it's just petty jealousy on my part... I tried many times to dread my hair... and always failed miserably...

... and the original message was never intended to be serious.

can't believe this one slipped my mind...

[ www.djbrace.com ]

2004 Canadian DMC champ... 2009 Juno award winner for best instrumental album... his second album dropped late last year... it's all pretty awesome stuff - although it pushes outside the downtempo region at times... Well-worth checking out. I lived with the guy for a couple of years, and wrote the liner notes for the new album, so you can maybe dismiss it as me being a shill, but I'd recommend digging into some of the audio available online before making that decision.

a lot of my favourite albums to relax to fall outside the confines of electronic... The Screamadelica album by Primal Scream is a great example - as are a lot of the shoe-gaze releases from the same period: Souvlaki by Slowdive, the Half-Life and Flesh Baloon EPs by Pale Saints, Spooky by Lush... and Victorialand by Cocteau Twins are all great places to look for non-electronic ambience.

Eno's been mentioned a few times here, but his collaborators are also worth investigating... the Belladonna album by Daniel Lanois is phenomenally chill, Low by David Bowie has a very calm second side, and pretty much everything by Harold Budd is golden.

I generally don't trust anyone with dreadlocks... but you may be right about this.

shit like that's just fucked up... and is indicative of some kind of issue. I mean, it should be patently obvious that ANY kind of celebrity invites criticism... and for better, or for worse, this guy's habits (amateur film-making, photo-taking and questionable self-portraits) have given him enough 'celebrity' that he's become a bit of a target...

Someone needs to fuckin' deal with it. Seriously.... and I don't mean to individually (and physically) deal with the haters...

I mean... I've been getting shit from people who hate what I play for years... and I've always chalked it up to the simple fact that if you cross paths with enough people then you are bound to find some that hate you. There are some very rational ways of dealing with haters:
1> Decide their criticism is baseless and ignore them.
2> Realize they've made some valid points, thank them for helping your evolution, and alter your path accordingly.
3> Agree to disagree... some people have different tastes, and maybe they don't find your artistic direction terribly interesting. If things stay respectful and honest, then perhaps the discourse is meaningful enough that you'll realize you've found that rarest of allies: one that you can be certain will never shy away from giving you their honest opinion.

Issuing threats is simply dense. Issuing threats in WRITTEN FORM is exponentially more moronic.

Then again, I'm not the one posing for photos with folks that are pretty obviously too young to have completed their higher education - and using that as the basis for complaints that I'm unable to meet anyone with a degree.

I'll say... I had two in one for a long time, but it's really tough too maintain (the shallower one tended to see-saw on the deeper one... made for some serious discomfort)... I was stupid enough to stretch them, too... I got the vertical piercing up to a 2ga flesh tunnel. I think the horizontal was at 6ga when I took it out.... it was a lot of fun for about ten years.

haha! a couple of friends of mine are behind the project to build a statue of RoboCop in Detroit!

"If you are meditating and a devil appears, make the devil meditate too." - Reyna D'Assia

I know you're not talkin' 'bout me... however:


I gots dark hair, but any beard I grow is full-on ginger.

this is creepin' up... even if it doesn't much look like spring at the moment... it's almost here.