Hawks, Hacks!, and H...

The special guest of our January Basstown residency was none other than Choyce Hacks! who relocated from Atlanta to Guam, Connecticut. His explosion at Great Scott back when was a breath of fresh air, and while he almost came back to support Drop The Lime in our upcoming stint, he was unable to make it since he has to go to Brooklyn.

Fortunately, he threw together an exclusive minimix for us, which - in his uncertainty - was aptly titled the
Fuck I dunno, its a mini mix! mix

Tracklisting:
01) The Presets - This Boy's in Love (Damage Instrumental Retake)
02) Janedge - Suprise(!) (Plimsouls remix)
03) The Outrunners - Cool Feelings (Anoraak remix)
04) Robert M - I Love House (Original dub)
05) Futurecop! - Transformers
06) The Frail - Count On This (DoBERMAN Remix)
07) Chromeo - Fancy Footwork (Russ Chimes Remix)

"Its a synthed out mini mix meant to be all summer luvin' had me a GTFO of the house and run around fun-in-the-sun blast." - CH!

Oh, and also, looks like Mr. Hacks! will be moving to Brooklyn after all...Clinton Hill. Address, for stalking purposes, to come in the near future. Hang tight, ladies.

Audible: Choyce Hacks! - "Fuck I dunno, its a mini mix!"
Alternate Photo: pricelessss
MySpace: Choyce Hacks!

This Saturday .::. Trouble & Basstown

Saturday, May 24th
Basstown Presents
Drop The Lime (Trouble & Bass)

with resident Basstown DJs
Volvox (Black Magic, Make It New)
Die Young (Dopamine Records)

Great Scott
1222 Commonwealth Avenue
Allston, MA
9pm – 2am / 21+
$5 before 10pm
$7 after 10pm
www.basstown.net
www.myspace.com/dropthelime

Party photos provided by Nicky Digital
Flyer by RJ Foley (rjcandesign@gmail.com)

Brooklyn, NY - In early 2006, Drop The Lime – a.k.a. Luca Venizia – put out an LP on Kid 606’s Tigerbeat6 label called “We Never Sleep,” and since has continued to live up to the declaration. September of 2006 was the launch of Trouble & Bass, a monthly party in Brooklyn that has since grown to be one of the biggest and most respected events in the national DJ community. Bringing in some of the bigger, rarer names, the collective is comprised of several personalities that are a roster of full talent. Drop The Lime, who also performs his darker vintage-tinged material under the alter-alter ego Curses!, is one of the Trouble & Bass power players, as well as a combustible personality.

That said, there’s also his DJ sets, which are the stuff of constant rotation. If MP3s could wear like cassette tapes, then our recordings of the first several Trouble & Bass mixes would have been dead and gone for months already. One of the most viral of all was the Trouble Mix #4, which solidified his presence around the time that Discobelle and other tastemakers around the world caught on.

This May, Basstown presents to you a lengthy live set from Drop The Lime. Both Die Young and Volvox are fans and familiar of his work, and this’ll be one of those memorable occassions where the music is at its fullest harmony. Don’t miss out on the 5 hours of dancefloor disorder this Saturday at Great Scott.


Audible: Moby - “Alice (Drop The Lime Heavy Bass Remix)”
MySpace: Drop The Lime

Dusted Magazine: This Means Forever album review
Prefix Magazine: We Never Sleep album review
Pop Matters: We Never Sleep album review
Exclusive Mix: XLR8R
Chain D.L.K.: interview

Facebook: event page
Going: event page

Artist To Watch: Bloody Mary

Bloody Mary
Tanz Mit Mir
(Toys For Boys Records)
June 2008
distribution by: Neuton


After nearly four years of releases and other activities, Toys For Boys Records is proud to present its second compilation.
After Marcus Vector on the first one, they decided to give the decks to Berlin-based Bloody Mary, one of the leading artists
of the genre. Mary has been touring the world with her impressive DJ skills, setting the crowds on fire from New York to
Mexico to Paris. Mary chose her favorite tracks from the label by Jona, Grinser, Quenum, Sierra_Sam, Marcus Vector, Gerome Sportelli, Jeik, and mixed them with selections from friends' labels. These include Einmaleins, Sender, Contexterrior, Tunningspork, Mobilee, Leena, Upon You, Lessizmore, and others. The result is an escalation of techy, groovy flux of music: the perfect companion for your summer pre- or afterparties. Stay tuned for the release of Tanz Mit Mir. Down below is a recent live mix from Club Treibhaus in Glöwen (between Hamburg + Berlin).

Tracklist for Tanz Mit Mir
01 Miss Fitz, drifting on, Contexterrior
02 Tolga Fidan, our fathers, Vakant
03 Quenum, the four seasons, Toys For Boys
04 Grinser, the knowledge, Toys For Boys
05 Lee Jones & Daniel Dreier, A man, Marco Resmann remix, Upon you
06 Marcus Vector & Lust Addict, drum rollin red, Toys For Boys
07 Phage & Daniel Dreier, static bubbles, highgrade
08 Sierra_Sam & Bloody Mary, Blackjack, Einmaleins
09 Sarah Goldfarb, To be frit, Toys For Boys
10 Agnes & Lee Van Dowski, Radio Graceland, Leena
11 Jona, Dehydrate, Toys For Boys
12 Tom Dazing, Motion Sickness, Toys For Boys
13 Hugo, The Sloop, Tuning Spork
14 Jeik, Liquid, Toys For Boys
15 Pompoelmoessap, 1946 in memory , Lessizmore
16 Mark Broom, You and Me Sierra_Sam remix, Toys For Boys
17 Benno Blom, Red Tuna, Sender
18 Gerome Sportelli, Outfit, Toys For Boys
19 Marcus Vector & Lust addict, We love to be yonce Michal Ho remix, Toys For Boys
20 Sierra_Sam & Bloody Mary, night time, Toys For Boys

Audible: Club Treibhaus live mix, 2008
Label: Toys For Boys
MySpace: Bloody Mary

Sine Waves & Saturated Synapses

Signal

This Thursday, Make It New will be taken over by Non-Event who are, once again, presenting a very special showcase by Raster-Noton; a German electronic music record label founded in 1996 by Olaf Bender, Carsten Nicolai and Frank Bretschneider. Based in Chemnitz, Germany, Raster-Noton merged in 1999 from separate labels Rastermusik and Noton. The collective label's aesthetic focus is rhythmic, minimal electronic music alternating between playful pop and introspection, partnered with unconventional and equally minimal packaging design.

Non-Event, Basstown, and the Goethe-Institüt Boston present
RASTER-NOTON SHOWCASE
with SIGNAL
+
solo sets by
Alva Noto
Frank Bretschneider
Byetone

Thursday, May 15th
Middlesex Lounge
315 Massachusetts Ave
Cambridge, Mass
doors: 9pm
show: 10pm
21+ / $10



Below is more information on the acts, but be sure to listen to the podcast, compiled by Susanna Bolle of the Boston Phoenix and Non-Event.

SIGNAL is Raster-Noton’s supergroup, featuring Carsten Nicolai (aka Alva Noto), Olaf Bender (aka Byetone), and Frank Bretschneider. The trio performs intense, hypnotic music to a spectacular backdrop of graphical information that reveals the complex geometry of the sounds in play. Most of their sound sources are taken from a huge memory bank of music from long jamming sessions dating from the early days of Raster-Noton. These are processed and folded into a taut and energetic web of electrostatic rhythmic clicks, bristling static, and deep bass pulses that are unexpectedly sensuous and undeniably funky. Their most recent release Robotron came out in 2007. This will be SIGNAL’s Boston debut.

Musician and visual artist CARSTEN NICOLAI (aka ALVA NOTO) works in the transitional area between art and science. In his intensely dynamic work, Nicolai plays with the rules of physicality. Clicks and glitches are not used as ornamental additions, but make up the essential elements of the work, which is often structured around the rhythmic grooves of hip-hop and R&B. Nicolai has performed in many of the world’s most prestigious spaces including The Guggenheim, MOMA SF, MOMA Oxford, NTT Tokyo, Tate Modern, and Venice Biennial. This will be Nicolai’s Boston debut.

FRANK BRETSCHNEIDER is a founding member of Raster-Noton and one of the pioneering figures in ultra minimal post techno. Using the most basic sound sources (sine waves and white noise), Bretschneider creates minimal, flowing pieces with delicate textures and complex rhythmic patterns. Described as “abstract analogue pointilism,” “ambience for spaceports,” and “hypnotic echochamber pulsebeat,” Bretschneider’s subtle and detailed music is echoed by his visuals: perfect translations of the qualities found in music into visual phenomena.

OLAF BENDER (aka BYETONE) is a founding member of the Raster-Noton label, as well as its lead designer. Bender creates his music digitally, assembling sine tones into complex sound fabrics of deep sub-bass and rhythmic clicks and crackles. He creates abstract animations to support his abstract music —transforming the rhythm of the music into a graphic equivalent, which he controls in real time. His new album, D.O.A.T. (Death of a Typographer), is due out on Raster-Noton shortly.


Website: Raster-Noton
Podcast: Raster-Noton Showcase Preview

Basstown Turns 1!

Tonight, Basstown turns one!

It's been quite a year. So many friendships made. So many songs come and gone. When this started a year ago, it was really just one man, and now Basstown exists as a collective of five, with two hard-hitting drivers and 3 extremely talented and dedicated DJs.

Thank you for everything, and we're looking forward to next April.

Love,
Basstown

Robyn Ticket Giveaway* / Die Young + Baltimoroder To Open

We've said it before, and we'll say it again...we absolutely love Robyn. Now with Rakamonie being in the states, and watching her sweep SXSW by storm, Robyn is following up her intimate club tour from February with an official run across the country. Pop is better than ever, with the arrival of Robyn, the stellar new Kylie album, and, yes..the Madonna single does rule in a way that she is unavoidably magnetizing.

If you go through YouTube you can find a slew of Robyn videos, and they're all worth watching. One of our absolute favorites is on the acoustic version of "With Every Heartbeat" where - either heard or seen on video - is a bit of a tear-jerker.

The most incredible news about her upcoming performance at Paradise next Tuesday is that Basstown's DJ Die Young and Hearthrob's Baltimoroder will be the opening acts! What a match made in heaven...

Tuesday, April 29th
ROBYN
w/ DJ Die Young, Baltimoroder
967 Commonwealth Avenue
Boston, MA
Doors open 7pm
$12 advance tickets
$15 day of show
18+
Purchase Tickets: here


*Basstown is giving away two pairs of tickets for this event.
Please e-mail info@basstown.net with the subject "Robyn Ticket Giveaway" in the subject line, and include your full name, phone number, and e-mail address at which you'd like to be notified if you are one of the lucky winners. Contest ends at 11:59pm on Monday night (April 28th) and the winners will be contacted on Tuesday, April 29th.

MySpace: Robyn

Body by Basstown

Well, look at that. Basstown has started up a t-shirt industry with the shirtshop Spreadshirt. There's a $9.99 white shirt, plus a $15.99 men's black lightweight cotton shirt that reads "TECHNO KILLS" on the back. There's also a ladies shirt that reads "SHMINIMAL" on the back and a fly "techno kills" black hoodie with the logo on the back.

Click on the shirt or here to go shopping.

It's all in good fun, but they are kinda cool looking, with their .eps vector style logo and all. We're hoping to do more in quantity if people find them interesting.

You can wear them to the Techno Kills show or this Thursday at Make It New. You could wear it Friday to Solid! at ZuZu with DJ Die Young. You could wear it Saturday to Meem Dreemz or Tuesday when you see Robyn -- Die Young and Baltimoroder just got added to that bill.

Meem Dreemz is the closing party for ROFLcon, a convention of all the biggest internet memes and meme-makers. The LOLcat people, the Stuff White People Like, Tron Guy, Leeroy Jenkins and every other meesage board master will be at the convention. And, maybe, at the party:

The event is reserved for ROFLcon attendees until 11pm. At that point, Great Scott will open the doors to the public at large.

The last Basstown monthly brought the house down. The Revolution Will Be Feminized brought out a huge crowd ready to get down. Our headliner, Lauren Flax, played a mind-blowing set of classic '90s house and had a message to the music in many ways. The mix cuts off because the whole block ran out of power. Literally.

All the Basstown residents and a few randoms get on the microphone. You can hear the chaos through the needles, the alcohol on the mic and the crowd shaking their troubles away.

Audible: Lauren Flax live at Basstown
MySpace: Basstown Presents
Hype Machine: Basstown