LAB028 - eStreet Teamer, Vol. 2: Robotic Empire

LAB028 - eStreet Teamer, Vol. 2: Robotic Empire


Second installment of the eStreet Teamer series. First one was Latitudes. This one is ROBOTIC EMPIRE. I don't believe there's much that needs to be said; RE is one of the more individual, dedicated and successful labels of our interest and era. They've been releasing albums since the Pg. 99/Reactor No. 7 split back in 1999, back when Robotic Empire was Robodog and some of us were listening to Limb Bizkit anyway. They've since continued to release some highly innovative music in some highly innovative ways, and if proof of this is needed look no further than their latest project, the FLOOR box set.

The tracks on this mix are more or less a personal 'best of', keeping in mind their entire catalogue and my limited space for twenty-minute epics. If you've an opinion about what I should have included, should've not included or should've been listening to instead, I would love to hear it.

1. Pg. 99 - Punk Rock In The Wrong Hands
2. Dial - If You're Not Battling
3. Circle Takes The Square - Interview At The Ruins
4. Verse En Coma - Through Ice Patches And Pine Trees
5. Stop It!! - Remove Your Teeth
6. Crestfallen - Early To Bed Early To Rise Again
7. The Red Chord - Dreaming In Dog Years
8. Crowpath - Among Cards And Pawns
9. Employer, Employee - Summon The Vermin
10. Red Sparowes - Buildings Began To Stretch Wide Across The Sky, And The Air Filled With A Reddish Glow.
11. Kayo Dot - Aura On An Asylum Wall
12. Mannequin - Skin
13. Versoma - Gods And Queens
14. Torche - Mentor
15. Bad Secrets - Lay Down
16. The Now - Who Is This "Jawns" I Keep Hearing About
17. Grails - In The Beginning
18. Neil Perry - Fading Away Like The Rest Of Them
19. Ultra Dolphins - White Substance
20. Pygmy Lush - Send Bombs
21. Pink Razors - Fine Food 5:15

Bomb The Music Industry!

Quote Unquote Records is a donation-based record label, which to a lot of folks means free downloads. So... Bomb the Music Industry!, O Pioneers!!!, Laura Stevenson (!!!!!) et al. Free. Unless you're <3ing, in which case... cheap! To the albums!

Home Video

It Will Be OK.

Good little EP making the rounds.

Don't hate me for saying it sounds like Radiohead.

LAB027 - FUCK. YEAH. (FYF Fest)

Well, look at that. Just as I promise you nothing will be coming, here something comes! And it's good! Nay, exceptional! In anticipation of this years newly-renamed F Yeah Fest, here's the unofficial sampler of only some of the bands you may or may not be entertained by; but for preference may. Newbies but goodies!

LAB027 - FUCK. YEAH. (FYF Fest)

1. Fucked Up - No Epiphany (No Age Remix)

2. Wavves - Lover

3. Torche - Across The Shield

4. The Thermals - Now We Can See

5. Crystal Antlers - Until The Sun Dies (Part 1)

6. Converge - Dark Horse

7. Mika Miko - With My Ducks

8. Times New Viking - (My Head)

9. No Age - Losing Feeling

10. Woods - The Number

11. Glass Candy - The Fairy Feller's Master Stroke [Queen]

12. Fucked Up - Mustaa Lunta

13. Darker My Love - Hair Decisions

14. Cold Cave - In A Cave

15. Black Lips - Drugs

16. Crystal Antlers - Until The Sun Dies (Part 2)

17. Lightning Bolt - Crown Of Storms

18. Grabass Charlestons - Bossman

19. Matt Skiba - Good Fucking Bye

Bonus!

20. Darker My Love - Blue Day (Live at Amoeba)

This is meant to be read in conjunction with the post

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Fuck Yeah Fest / Bangkok to Beijing by Bicycle

... is no longer known as Fuck Yeah Fest.

But it's just as awesome even sans the exclamatory handle.

And especially since this change is in the good name of supporting state parks.

So Fuck Yeah Fest Fest dot com, or |fīf| colloquially, is where you now want to head, and the Los Angeles State Historic Park is where you'll want to be heading come September 5th. Latest rumor is Torche has joined the roster too, and since I missed their free show earlier this month I see this as good news.

But equally important and completely irrelevant is the second subject at hand, as suggested by post title: Bangkok to Beijing by Bicycle!

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That's me, in real life, and almost human form (finally!)

But in all seriousness, I'm waiting for you to click. Bookmark. Follow. Support. I'll be needing it, and you'll be getting valuable updates about the current state of China's road conditions.

Win-win.

Apropos what you're in actual fact here for, however, I just transferred my music from it's substandard 250GB location to a cutting-edge 1TB and successfully deleted everything, followed by successfully recovering everything apart from my playlists. If you pay close attention you'll note this isn't the first time. So that whole "uploading mixes" idea I've got for this mix tape blog has made like your old Walkman and... is stuck on pause. Which leaves you listening to Mom's tuner, quivering under the knowledge of how well you call to mind Sheryl Crow lyrics.

All apologies.

A City Safe From Sea / Loser Life

HOLY FATHER OF FUCK A MOTHER'S PEARLY GHOST this band is good. If I could gather them up and cuddle them deep inside a pillow-and-refrigerator-box fort forever I would have done so a half hour ago when I got the Magic Bullet email which did little to inform me of some artist-turned-tone-geek who thought about releasing some music and possibly had a knack for hooks, HOOKS! they're everywhere! and delicious if not at all edible, but anyways I'm fucking starving now and if you know me at all you know I'm no good at sharing eel rolls and Cherry Garcia and other things I consider delicacy but this band wrote music for people to digest so go download it from Gimme Sound or more preferably stop and drop all of $5 on the hard copy from Magic Bullet THAT'S LESS THAN AN EEL ROLL and it'll mean you'll be a part of some exclusive club that I'll be in too so if you want to come deep inside my fort with your hard copy you are welcome. Get your mind out of the gutter.

Speaking of gutters, I'd also like to use this as an excuse to point out a free discography from Bakersfield's finest Loser Life, who I just realized are on Magic Bullet now too but have a classic DIY back catalogue which extends across labels and continents making it hard to own the releases in their preferred formats and even if you did you would download the MP3's anyways so I hereby demand you to spin some Loser Life and some A City Safe From Sea today and support Magic Bullet because that's apparently what I do and have as good of a day as I am having because it is nice outside and I don't have work and tonight I'm going to see a free showing of Wall-E with a special female and hopefully get eel rolls after.

You Were Worried.

Admit it.

Somebody asked for this like three months ago. I Googled it. Don't know who upped it originally. I listened to it, too. Not a fan.

If you're sick of my lack of updates, the Absence of Sleep offers remedy.

Oh and Magic Bullet directed me to Gimme Sound. It's beautiful.

So yeah, LAB027 is on deck.

Listen to Obits.

Fin.

Three Things:

First, if you're a Comadre fan, and I know you are, click here.

Second, it has come to my attention that most of the Denovali stuff is available for free download now. Dominic, Kidcrash, Celeste, etc.

Third, this will be the last LAB update for a bit, check back in August!!!

Attn: Music Friends

Re: The Dollar Bin Is Almost Empty!

Wanted: individuals with caring homes and epic setups. This is the last bit of my bounty I'll be parting with, and the last time I'll have to waste yours with these shameless advertisements.



Also, next Thursday the infamous Fox Theatre in Fullerton is hosting a benefit being put on in it's honor, starting at 6pm. If anybody lives in the Orange County area, please come check out what they've got to offer. I like Oliver Jane.



Mostly Jane.



But I guess Oliver has a very nice smile, and he does play a banjo, which is always good for two of Ebert's appendages-gone-legitimate-rating-system way up.

Happy Monday everybody!

Must... Start... Fresh... (LAB024, 025, 026) (!!!)

Alright, so I've had a couple of mixes in construction since lord knows when and, well, here they are. I need a clean slate to keep moving. 026 is the next Butcher Shop installment, and the other two are more-or-less themed, probably leaning more towards the latter but nonetheless sweet. Noteworthies are the Sigur Rós 3-track EP I layered into one, as suggested by the band; the rare Tidal track; the Lemonheads-ala-Pink Razors cover <3; the Frog Eyes song from their split w/Jerk With A Bomb, and the Jerk With A Bomb track from their Pyrokinesis album; the UNKLE remix; the Boredoms classic and their less-experimental but no less-Japanese mixmates Luminous Orange; aaaaaaaand End Of A Year covering Seaweed, which came from a split with a band rocking said songs namesake who just happen to cover the Embrace song End Of A Year so legitimately hold up. I caught glimpse of the new Thermals today. They've finally scrapped the jewel case. Cucumber rolls on the house.



LAB024:

1. Oneida - Fantastic Morgue
2. The Nation Blue - Modern Warfare
3. Department Of Homeland Security - God Bless The Dixie Chicks
4. Defiance, Ohio - Petty Problems
5. Dead Meadow - What Needs Must Be
6. Ladyhawk - I Don't Always Know What You're Saying
7. Langhorne Slim - Restless
8. Joseph Plunket - Track 04 from his CD-R
9. Moccasin - Last Leaf
10. Frog Eyes - The Ox Who Drank His Blood
11. Call Me Lightning - Soft Skeletons
12. Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks - The Hook
13. Minus The Bear - Burying Luck
14. Swan Lake - Petersburg, Liberty Theater, 1914
15. Jerk With A Bomb - Fine Health Is At Home
16. If - All Right (Lord Knows)
17. Howlin' Rain - Lord Have Mercy



LAB025:

1. Prophet Omega - The Right Thing
2. Lightspeed Champion - Waiting Game
3. UNKLE - No Hits [Black Mountain] (Remix)
4. Flashbulb Memory - Money Clip
5. Luminous Orange - Every Single Child
6. The End Of The World - Party's Over
7. Boredoms - Tilde
8. The Black Soul Choir - Toward The Night
9. Tidal - Peacemaker
10. Findlay Brown - Loneliness I Fear
11. Sigur Rós - Ba Ba Ti Ki Di Do (Layered)
12. Metric - Hardwire



LAB026:

1. Beirut - Hallelujah [Leonard Cohen]
2. Pink Razors - Uhhh [The Lemonheads]
3. Spoon - Peace Like A River [Paul Simon] (Daytrotter Session)
4. Tera Melos - Meant For You [The Beach Boys]
5. Pelican - Diggers Of Ditches Everywhere [These Arms Are Snakes]
6. Nouvelle Vague - Ever Fallen In Love [The Buzzcocks]
7. The Books - Cello Song [Nick Drake] (feat. Jose Gonzalez)
8. End Of A Year - Red Tape Parade [Seaweed]
9. Playing Enemy - Riot [Dead Kennedys]
10. Thrice - The Earth Isn't Humming [Frodus]
11. Constantines - Thank You For Sending Me An Angel [Talking Heads]
12. The Minor Canon - Car [Built To Spill] (Live)
13. Cave In - The Callus [Giants Chair]
14. Strung Out - Bark At The Moon [Ozzy Osbourne]
15. Part Chimp - Wild Honey Pie [The Beatles]
16. The Saddest Landscape - Accident Prone [Jawbreaker]
17. Okkervil River - Riot Act [Elvis Costello]
18. Against Me! - Bastards Of Young [The Replacements]



And if anybody else is like me and unwilling to shell out for the new Khanate, redirect your mouse to these Chicagoan sound sculptors instead.

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