Put together a podcast last night for uDance radio, an internet radio station based in Shanghai. Big up to Momo, Dave K, Lili, and the rest of the uDance crew for having me on the show last Tuesday! I had a lot of fun trying to stay on the night’s topic, addiction, with my broken Chinese.

Anyway, about the mix. I heard most people do house/trance/etc mixes for uDance, so this starts out with five of my favorite rock songs before getting into some deep-space beats at around 140bpm, ending with an absolute classic rap track I found on vinyl last Saturday. Hadn’t heard that jam in about ten years.

Most of these tracks come straight from vinyl, with a few CDs for the missing spots in my collection. Recorded this live in my living room last night. A few minor trainwrecks but song selection is on point.

Two Technics 1200s + one CDJ 800MK2, Pioneer DJM-400.

Also, don’t know why the file tags say this is 128kbs, but it’s actually 260kbs+ VBR.

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Heatwolves – Ghosts Jumping Galaxies

Planet Rock

1) Donovon – Wear Your Love Like Heaven
2) Ariel Pink and His Haunted Graffiti – Bright Lit Blue Skies
3) Television Personalities – Glittering Prizes
4) Talking Heads – Don’t Worry About the Government
5) Pixies – I’ve Been Tired

Looking For the Perfect Beat

1) L-Wiz – 4.42 OZ
2) James Blake – Footnotes
3) Starkey – Pleasure Points
4) Pictureplane – Trance Doll
5) Addison Groove – Work It
6) You Don’t Know What Love Is – 2000f and J Kamata
7) Slick Rick and Outkast – Street Talkin’

My boy Grandmaster Cavia recently invited me to join his new crew, Otakrew. If you’re a n00b and don’t know what an Otaku is, peep the Wikipedia page here.

The crew = Grandmaster Cavia, Ceezy, hBd, Trix, and myself. Also got VJ Olivepixel, basically the only VJ I appreciate/pay attention to, and the homegirl Cherri on graphic design. Check out our Douban site here.

We’re doing our first show this Saturday at Lune, directly after the Hongmen Live event. The party is called POP, with the simple concept of playing pop music from any decade, starting with the 60′s. That means Northern Soul, Disco, Rock, and anything else. You won’t hear me playing dubstep at this party, but you may hear some Hall & Oates.

Gonna be a big night. It’s RMB20 to get into POP, but that includes a free glass of drank. And by drank I mean rainbow colored crunk juice. We’re also joined by Dan Battle so shits about to get mad real.

Some great morning music here from beat wizard Ceezy. This local Shanghainese producer makes some brilliant jazzy hip hop, using samples from old vinyl and banging out drums in Fruity Loops. Anyone who disses Fruity Loops should listen to this, and then remember that Ramadanman and 9th Wonder also produce with Fruity Loops.

Check out Ceezy spinning his productions and more this Saturday at Hongmen Live, and some fine pop music afterwards at Lune.

Here’s a taste – No DLs cause the hot shit ain’t free, son.

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Ceezy – Autumn Paradise

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Ceezy – Ceeda Future

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Ceezy – Hot Track (not the actual title but this site can’t display Chinese characters yet)

More tracks available at Ceezy’s Douban page.

Up early. Managed to obtain bagels at CitiShop this morning, and asked the clerk if they had salt.

“Salt? Noooo…sold out.”

So after the tsunami in Japan and subsequent nuclear snafu, a lot of Chinese started freaking out about radiation poisoning/atomic rain/other nightmarish circumstances. Rumors spread via text message. “BBC News Flash! Do not go out in the rain! If you come in contact with the rain…”

At lunch in the company cafeteria,  where I’m a minority, I tried to understand my colleagues’ conversation about salt.

My Mandarin still needs a lot of work, because I misunderstood the idea as this: “we shouldn’t eat salt, because salt comes from the sea, which is poisoned with radiation.”

When I said “yeah, but not all salt is from the sea…” they looked at me funny and didn’t respond.

A few days later, I learned that people are hoarding salt and eating it in mass quantities. Many folk are laboring under the misconception that ingesting salt will save them from the imminent radiation storm from…Japan.

Remembering that China has 1.3 billion people, imagine what happens when even 10% of people believe a rumor like this.

The masses hit at all the salt spots. Some even packed their flashlights and went directly to the mines.

To curb panicked shoppers’ ferocious appetite, stores tried to impose a one box per person. This worked for almost two hours.

As a response to “how do you know (this is true)?” I often hear stupid people say “ting renjia shuo le,” which in this context, where (2logic/soundness of reasoning = 7grammar compensation for education) kinda translates to “people been sayin that…” or “it got proved by science.”

So what up Shanghai. I’m holding like 400+ grams of motherfuckin’ salt. That’s almost half a key. The stores are sold out, so you gots to come to me. Cause I got dat weight.

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DJ Rashad – 10 On Da Cush

Damn, a record number of visits to the site yesterday – the most in three years! Big tings in 2011.

Though he drew a huge crowd, Vitalic, last night’s DJ at Shelter was awful. Seriously sick of paying higher cover prices for really merde French DJs (a trend in Shanghai in 2011). Come on, I paid RMB60 to see motherfucking Kode9 (amazing set, and the boss in general) and I paid RMB80 to see this SB last night? Makes no sense.

This happened a few months ago too with “Make The Girl Dance,” one of the worst shows I’ve ever seen. Please stay in France.

Luckily, the homeboy Blaise Deville started playing around 3am and killed it as usual. Dude always ruins my plans for “definitely going home by 3am.” I remember “Claptrap” by Joe and “That Mystic” by Kingdom going down really big.

Speaking of uncool aspects of Shanghai nightlife, this song really touches on something else far too present here. When I first heard this I was like “damn, that’s just like Shanghai.” Easily one of my favorite tracks of the year thus far. Ironically, these dudes are French and I would love to see them in Shanghai.

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Benoit & Sergio – Walk and Talk

Only a 128kbs on the download cause I bought mines, and these dudes deserve to get paid for this.

About the pic. Up until about a year and a half ago, this was one of the most famous snack streets in Shanghai – Wujiang Lu.

Also wanna make it clear that Heatwolves does not hate French people. It’s just that, similar to America, the people who suck, they really, really suck. I’ve found this more true with France, America, and Italy than other countries.

Doing the music next weekend for Hongmen Live, part of Split Works’ Jue Festival. The event is an art-battle/art show/dance party. From 7PM until probably midnight, or when the police say “no more.” This will be huge.

I’m spinning with The Hungry Ghosts, three Chinese dudes: Grandmaster Cavia, Ceezy, and hDb. These guys all produce their own ish. After this we’re headed to Lune for Grandmaster Cavia’s POP party (more on that later).

This is put on by Hongmen Live, a local clothing and design company, in collaboration with Split Works (some of the best promoters in China), Dyce Productions, HAL Publishing, NeoChaEDGE, and CreativeHunt

Tickets are RMB69 pre-sale, or RMB80 at the door. Seriously cool venue and a full bar too.

Where? River South Art Center. 1247 Jiang Su Nan Lu

Here’s the info about the Art Battle, from the Jue Fest website.

“The Digital Battle: Hongmen Live is a high energy 3-hour Digital Design Battle where eight young designers will go head to head. The two round battle will include four amateur and four professional graphic artists. The winner of each battle will be awarded some serious cash!, Hongmen Art sponsorship and most importantly: bragging rights. Each competing digital artists will be given a theme and will have 30 minutes to create an image while a LIVE audience consisting of 30 plus media channels and over 600 people cheer them on. The winner will be chosen by a panel of professional judges.

The Contemporary Art Show: Dyce Productions is curating 100 pieces of artwork comprising some of China’s most gifted young artists. There will be a diverse mix of works by students, Chinese professional artists, and foreign resident artists working in China. Expect to see seriously contemporary works comprised of oil painting, sculpture, engraving, Chinese ink painting, digital design, ceramics, crafts, jewelry design, fashion, animation and film and more.

Side Events: Side events at Hongmen Live will include: live graffiti, collaborative image installations, screen printing, collaborative painting with local and international artists, and a service area with information showcasing volunteer opportunities with local and international NGOs.”

Music from The Hungry Ghosts coming soon.

Make sure to check the Jue Fest website for all the other events going on over the next three weeks.

Wow, sad news. The main who sang the hooks on so many G-funk classics, he dead. Like someone on Hollerboard said, there would be no Akon without Nate Dogg.

And I just wanna point out that Akon fucking sucks, and Nate Dogg was the man. He kept it laid-back, gangsta, and classy with his golden voice.

I used to have the “Regulate” single on cassette. Got auto-reversed all day long.

Don’t have much more to say about this. Just gonna let the tracks speak for themselves.

Since not everyone reading this blog comes from the States or had access to this kinda music growing up in the early 90s (though if you’re from ‘Merica that probably means you grew up in a cult or without electricity in West Virgina, cause this shit was everywhere), I’m gonna post Regulate just to be safe.

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Nate Dogg & Warren G – Regulate

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Snoop Dogg (feat. Nate Dogg, Kurupt, and Warren G) – It Ain’t No Fun (If The Homies Can’t Have None)

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Dr. Dre – Deeez Nuuuts (feat. Nate Dogg) – Deeez Nuuutz

note: not sure what’s going on with the player on the second track, “Ain’t No Fun,” but the DL link works fine. will sort this out later.

I’ve got a rule now where i pretty much only buy new vinyl if it’s a) a vinyl only release, like on Swamp81, or b) it’s an old track made with analogue equipment and I really need the track in my physical life.

As this is coming out on Hotflush at the end of the month, I’m pretty confident they’ll do a digital release, so I can’t buy this one just yet. but damn I came close.

I did however, bag the Pearson sound Deep-Inside refix on Night Slugs Limited White Label. I’d hop on that today if you want it. Want the Burial/Four Tet/Thom Yorke EP too, but only 300 copies. FTW…

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Joy O – Jels

Sorry, no DL on this one. Support the man makin’ this fine, fine music.

I pretty much believe that people who bring expensive/important items to the beach deserve to have them stolen.

Back to the horror movie tunes. No, that wasn’t one of those magic disappearing ideas.

i don’t think it’s on the official soundtrack, so anyone who can name the film this song appears in and tells me at the next show will recieve a prize. Could be a sandwich. Could be cake. Could be red gatorade.

Bonus prize if you can name the scene.

This is an edit, which I like, but the part where dude wails “gooooodbyyyyye horses” gets cut out. Bummer.  Will post the original when I find a good copy.

Also, this movie may have come out in 1990 or 1991, but whatever.

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Q Lazarus – Goodbye Horses (Krikor Edit)

Just came back from Sanya, a beach city in Hainan Island, South China. Basically a getaway spot for Russians and rich Chinese people who mostly can’t swim. The Chinese rock proper hawaiian gear like someone organized the whole city as a god damn facebook event.

Since a lot of them can’t swim, they just take pictures of each other, like standing in front of the water and so on. Nouveau-riche Asians seriously love cameras. Similar to how the sports car serves as a penis-extender for white males, the long, girthy-lensed camera offers a gender-neutral way to conspicuously display one’s social status.

Some long-time camera-wearers have serious posture issues, which can be traced directly to traipsing around with 15kg + of high-end photo-optical equipment hanging from their necks. This is similar to the US black male phenomena of wearing expensive chains and the associated vertebrae problems, for example:

“Watch out for the medallion my diamonds are reckless
It feels like a midget is hanging from my necklace.”
- Ludacris, Stand Up (Remix)

Yeah can you imagine how fucked you’d be if you wore something that weighed as much as a midget around your neck for even a day? People be like “damn, I didn’t know you had scoliosis,” and you be like “naw that just my chain tho.”

While in Sanya, I stayed at Blue Sky hostel and I can’t say enough good about that place. Cheap (RMB160/$25/day for private room overlooking the ocean), five-minute walk from the beach, cool staff, clean rooms, and close proximity to fresh ice cream and bbq’ed meats . Their puppy Fei Fei did not bite me, and I did not feed him.

Umm…beach songs. In case you missed this album last summer, “King of the Beach’ by Wavves is fucking solid all the way through. I pretty much listened to this, drank red gatorade, and played Mario Kart for Wii all last summer. Should have copped the vinyl when I had the chance back home.

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Wavves – Linus Spacehead

Super brief post this morning, I gotta get to the ocean. Just ordered the new Addison Groove record.  Limiting my record purchases to vinyl-only releases and that’s a must have.

Back next week with another track from the best era of slasher films. Start it off with some Dramarama.

I first heard this track in LA a few summers ago during an iPod battle. I got booed off on the first track (some pretentious indie rock) and the guy who won started with this one. Apparently everyone in LA knows this song. It came out in 1985 but it’s also on the Nightmare on Elm Street 4 soundtrack. Solid.

Dramarama – Anything, Anything (I’ll Give)

I didn’t realize that hand-washing requires six distinct steps, none of which involve a sink or other water source. Also don’t understand what’s going on with the skin colors here…

This sign is in the bathroom at my [ghetto] gym. I have never seen a black person there and I am one of only three white people. I have also never seen any of the Asian patrons spontaneously turn black either. I need to investigate deeper into this.

Amazing night at Beat Buffet on Saturday – thanks for coming out. I hope you were feeling that crayola crunk  juice too. In case you wanna know how to make it, each of those water jugs contained:

- three bottles of Soju (Korean rice/potato wine)
- half a 1/5 of Vodka
- a pint of Gin
- two bottles of Gatorade (I just chose by color. blue looked cool)
- juices (whatever you’re feeling)
- a liter of Sprite

Back on the grind, but here’s a track for your Monday.

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The B52′s – Mesopotamia

Some of the Duck Fight Goose tracks had problems loading. Not sure what’s going on with the internets in this city lately; unacceptable.

Anyway, all fixed now.

Beat Buffet 6 is tonight, and I’m happy to feature some tracks by this month’s electronic music producer – LON. The first time I remember seeing dude play was on a Thursday night at LoGO about a year ago.  I hadn’t planned on going out that night, and just stopped by to drop off some flyers. He was spinning some hyper-galactic techno breaks ish. Lots of air, not much bass; just drums and drums flying around space. Awesome; hadn’t heard anything like it before. I ended up dancing for like two hours.

Dude often plays with the Click crew, a group of producers in Shanghai making more experimental electronic music. Getting people hype on something other than house or electro is hard, and these kids manage to get dance floors bumping with something a bit more complex.  Keeping the dancers and the beardstrokers happy simultaneously is a feat.

Sometimes Click play at Shelter on Thursdays, occasionally with another one of the more interesting crews in Shanghai – ROM. Otherwise LON and fam (Cavia, Hamacide, sometimes Icenine) hold it down every Wednesday at Lune.

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LON – 5-10

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LON – Flooded

Seriously feeling these two tracks. Was bumpin them on the MP3 on the walk from Yuyintang to Dada last night. Speaking of that, big up to the Filipino DJ who played “Stereo Freeze” by Untold, “Play Doe” by Rustie, and “Hitman’s Anthem” by “Lunice.”  Big tracks. Their crew from Manila is playing at Shelter tonight with Sub-Culture, so if you’re looking for dubstep, I recommend stopping by there before or after you come to Lune.

I took this picture in Tokyo. Chinese people won’t use a laundromat because “it’s dirty,” but I bet some foreign folk would. Market gap, holla. More on washing machines soon. For real.

Big night at Lune this Saturday – three live acts plus two DJs and two MCs. Can’t believe we’re doing this for the sixth time. Seven if you count last summer’s “Eardrops” party. Kind of a prequel that was.

Live sets by Duck Fight Goose, LON, and Evil Einsteins. We’ve got a crew of breakdancers rolling through too. Seriously. Lost Unknown Breaker.

This round’s main act, Duck Fight Goose, plays proper rock and roll. Peep these tracks for a taste. No download, because you should support them by buying their EP on Saturday.

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Duck Fight Goose – Light is God’s Bread

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Duck Fight Goose – Theme

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Duck Fight Goose – Future Deer

Free paper cup of Crayola Crunk (jungle juice) that may contain baijiu for the first 40 people.