MY HOMETOWN OF MILWAUKEE HAS A STORIED HISTORY WHEN IT COMES TO AGGRESSIVE HARDCORE TECHNO. WHAT STARTED IN THE 90′S WITH THE FABLED DROP BASS NETWORK CONTINUED ON INTO THE NEW MILLENNIUM THROUGH MORE EXPERIMENTAL LABELS LIKE ADDICT AND ZOD, PUSHING THE BOUNDARIES OF RAVE MUSIC AND CULTURE THE WHOLE WAY THROUGH.
ALTHOUGH THE SALAD DAYS OF THIS MOVEMENT ARE OVER, LOCAL MILWAUKEE LABEL RADIO GRAFFITI IS KEEPING THE DREAM ALIVE WITH A CONSTANT BARRAGE OF REALLY SICK RECORDS. STYLES RANGE FROM LO-FI GABBER TO CHIPTUNE TO ACID TO BREAKCORE, BUT A HIGH QUALITY CONTROL AND FOCUS RUNS THROUGHOUT THE LABEL’S ENTIRE CATALOG.
OWNER TYLER ST CLAIR MAKES MUSIC UNDER THE STAGEDIVER AND DISPYZ HANDLES AND IS RESPONSIBLE FOR SOME OF THE LABEL’S BEST RELEASES. THIS SHIT WILL ALWAYS HOLD A PLACE IN MY HEART AND I’M PSYCHED TO SEE KIDS DOING IT THE RIGHT WAY. NEVER STOP RAVING AND RAGING PEOPLE!
“GO TO THE CLUB ALONE” IS A DJ MIX I MADE A FEW MONTHS AGO THAT I HAVE BEEN SITTING ON UNTIL NOW. UPTEMPO MUSIC TRYING TO TELL A LIL’ STORY ABOUT HEADING EAST AND WEST FROM THE HEARTLAND IN SEARCH OF SOMETHING. NOTHING REALLY TOO OBSCURE OR NEW OR OLD OR COOL OR UNCOOL AND A LITTLE BIT BLOWN OUT. MAYBE SOME SICK “BLENDS” I DON’T FUCKING KNOW. THIS THING IS REALLY LONG AND YOU KNOW IT ALWAYS RULES WHEN DJS TALK ABOUT “TAKING YOU ON A JOURNEY” BUT WHAT ELSE CAN ANYONE REALLY SAY? THIS MUSIC SHIT IS A JOURNEY PEOPLE.
LET ME START THIS OFF BY SAYING THAT THIS ONE WAS “TOO GOOD TO JUST TUMBLE” SO HERE WE ARE. I GOTTA GIVE IT UP ONE TIME TO MY BOY COSTANZA – YOU CRAZY FOR THIS ONE! IF YOU LIKE HIS TWITTER STYLES YOUR GONNA LOVE HIS DJ STYLES. I CAN PICTURE THE REAL “INDEPENDENT GEORGE” SHIRTLESS IN THE PIT DOING NINJA MOSH MOVES TO THIS AND LOVING EVERY MINUTE OF IT! CHECK IT BELOW:
UNDERGROUND LEGENDS AND ONE OF MY PERSONAL FAVORITES EXTREME ANIMALS START A EAST COAST TOUR NEXT WEEK. MAYBE YOU KNOW THEM THRU THEIR WORK WITH PAPER RAD, MAYBE YOU KNOW THEM THRU THEIR AWARD WINNING 7″ ONLY REMIX OF MY SMASH SINGLE WITH DRE SKULL CALLED “CENTER STAGE”. BUT FUCK THAT, THROW EVERYTHING YOU KNOW OUT OF THE MOTHERFUCKING WINDOW BECAUSE THESE ANIMALS ARE BACK WITH A NEW ATTITUDE AND STYLE FOR 2K11: LEAN, MEAN AND READY TO DESTROY. MUSIC VIDEO AND TOUR DATES BELOW.
TOUR DATES:
April 20 Bard College
April 21 Vasser College
April 22 Easthampton, MA at Flywheel
April 23 New Haven: Arts Space Underground
April 24 Providence warehouse show
April 25 Boston , organized by BODIES OF WATER
April 26 NYC, organzied by Todd P
April 27 Baltimore at THE BANK
April 28 Baltimore at Transmodern Festival
April 29 Hirshhorn Museum, DC
A COUPLE YEARS AGO I MADE A DANCE MUSIC DJ MIX USING ALL VINYL RECORDS FROM MY PERSONAL COLLECTION. A LOT OF B-BOY HOUSE, PRIVATE PRESS BASS, EARLY BMORE, CHICAGO STYLE JACKERS AND BOOTY/GHETTOTECH IN THE MIX. MOST OF THESE RECORDS WERE ACQUIRED IN CHEAPO OR DOLLAR BIN SECTIONS OF RECORD STORES OR THRIFT SHOPS. GROWING UP NEAR CHICAGO HAS ITS BENEFITS. I’M PRETTY SURE MOST IF NOT ALL OF THE TRACKS ON THIS MIX WERE MADE IN BETWEEN 1987 AND 1997 AND LISTENING BACK FOR THE FIRST TIME IN A LONG TIME, IT IS SOUNDING DAMN GOOD. SOME OBSCURE STUFF, SOME MEGA HITS AND SOME THINGS IN BETWEEN PLUS LOTS OF STUPID DJ EFX THAT SEEMED LIKE A GOOD IDEA BACK THEN AND STILL DO NOW SOMETIMES. A LOT OF THESE RECORDS ARE PART OF THE CORE INSPIRATION BEHIND THE JUICEBOXXX AND DRE SKULL TRILOGY OF DANCE MUSIC 12″S. REMEMBER WHEN FUN REALLY WAS FUN? FREE DOWNLOAD BELOW. I STILL DJ OUT ON OCCASION AND I AM AVAILABLE FOR BOOKINGS. NO TRACKLISTING AVAILABLE.
WHAT DOES A SOCCER HOOLIGAN SLICING HIS FACE OPEN ON THE DANCEFLOOR IN THE MIDDLE OF A FOAM PARTY IN IBIZA SOUND LIKE? LAST YEAR I MADE A SONG WITH SUPER PRODUCER AC SLATER AND DIVA AMY DOUGLAS UNDER THE NAME “92 ETERNAL” THAT ANSWERS THAT QUESTION AND MORE. THE SONG IS CALLED “THE FEELING” AND IT IS PUMPED UP POP RAP RAVE OF THE HIGHEST ORDER. ALTHOUGH I HAVE BEEN CONCENTRATING ON MAKING A DIFFERENT KIND OF MUSIC LATELY, I STILL HAVE A LOT OF LOVE IN MY HEART FOR DANCE MUSIC, BOTH CLASSY AND TRASHY. NO RULES. YOU CAN DOWNLOAD THE SONG, AS WELL AS REMIXES BY RAVE LEGEND LUNA-C, KASTLE AND UDACHI ON TURNTABLE LAB DIGITAL HERE.
I AM PSYCHED TO BE A PART OF HOODSTOCK 2010, WHICH IS HAPPENING IN OAKLAND SEPTEMBER 4TH AND 5TH AND LOS ANGELES SEPTEMBER 11TH. CHECK THIS BLOG FOR ALL INFO. A MIX OF PUNK AND RAP STRICTLY FOR THE HEADSTRONG. SOME OF THE BANDS PLAYING INCLUDE JAPANTHER, HOTTUB, SHANNON AND THE CLAMS AND MANY MORE. THERE WILL ALSO BE SOME “SURPRISE SPECIAL GUEST” RAPPERS THAT WILL BLOW YR FACE OFF 4 REAL! I HEARD SOME CRAZY STORIES ABOUT LAST YEAR’S HOODSTOCK, SO I EXPECT THIS ONE TO GO OFF HARD!
MASSIVE MAGAZINE WAS A RAVE ZINE BASED OUT OF MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN. AS A 12-YEAR OLD KID I WAS ABLE TO CATCH THE TAIL END OF THIS PUBLICATION IN THE LATE 90′S JUST AS RAVE CULTURE WAS STARTING TO DECLINE IN WISCONSIN. THERE WAS A PERIOD WHEN THE MIDWEST RULED THE RAVE WITH LARGE SCALE EVENTS LIKE EVEN FURTHUR, WHICH IS PROBABLY MOST FAMOUS FOR HOSTING THE AMERICAN DEBUT OF DAFT PUNK. I THINK MY FASCINATION WITH THIS SCENE/TIME PERIOD PARTIALLY STEMS FROM THE FACT THAT I WAS JUST TOO YOUNG TO BE A PART OF IT (I WAS 12 IN 1999). I REMEMBER HANGING OUT AT MASSIVE RECORD SOURCE AROUND THAT TIME, A SHOP THAT WAS OWNED BY THE LEGEND DAN DOORMOUSE. MY DAD WOULD DROP ME OFF AND I WOULD SPEND TIME LISTENING TO RECORDS THAT DAN WOULD PICK OUT FOR ME. THIS WAS A PRETTY IMPORTANT EXPERIENCE IN SHAPING A YOUNG JUICEBOXXX! I WAS EXPOSED TO A LOT OF NEW STYLES FOR THE FIRST TIME IN THAT STORE, THANKS DAN. YOU CAN READ OLD ISSUES OF MASSIVE HERE, I RECOMMEND IT.
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