We are happy to present forthcoming HEADLINE additions to the soon approaching and much anticipated Lightning in a Bottle Music and Arts Festival 2010, presented by The Do Lab, which will occur Memorial Day weekend (May 28-31) at the beautiful Oak Canyon Ranch in Irvine, CA.

On the heels of their upcoming release “Drink the Sea”, and after a stand-out Coachella performance, The Glitch Mob will be performing along with the indie sensation Nico Vega and our cherished brothers and sisters, the Lucent Dossier Experience.

We would like to offer our sincerest thanks to all of the amazing submissions on the “Mixtape to Make the Line-up” contest. Not surprisingly our three top finalists were all unbelievable female DJ’s… The submissions have all been great and it was quite a task picking the “Grand Producer” to perform at this years LIB, but alas we have chosen and her name is KRYSTEE!

Other musical additions include Heyoka, Sidecar Tommy, Kitty D, The Luminaries, Geno Cochino, The Makers, Ron Levy, Michael Hart, Manny Greensector, Terrakroma, Motion Potion and DJ Wolfie.

Performances added in addition to Lucent Dossier include, Vau de Vire Society, El Circo, Ricochet ~ Poetic Acrobats, Fire Groove, Stilt Circus, The Wandering Marionettes and Shakti Sunfire

For full lineup and additional information visit the LIB website and stay tuned for more exciting news in the coming weeks.

Lightning in a Bottle:

The history of LIB spans more than a decade, and friends, family, and co-horts of the Do LaB are thrilled and astounded that it’s been more than ten years of making miracles and catching Lightning in a Bottle! Together with all of our friends we will converge on a beautiful new location and transform it into a wonderland for the senses, once again capturing Lightning in a Bottle. Prepare to start the summer off right!!!

4 days and 3 nights of activities and entertainment including music, performances, inspiring art, yoga and meditation classes, sustainability workshops, clothing and craft vending, tasty organic foods, camping and much more!

The Do Lab:

Based in Downtown Los Angeles, The Do LaB is an ensemble cast of creatives ranging from artists, event producers, lighting designers, DJs, constructors, welders, costumers, musicians, and the performance troupe Lucent Dossier. Since 2000, The Do LaB has been dedicated to treating experience itself as the art form. Their exceptional annual events–including the Lighting in a Bottle Music Festival–and jaw-dropping, large-scale art environments, have been attracting a devoted following among the West Coast’s underground creative community, and around the world. While bringing the visions of their home-grown art collective to life, The Do LaB has evolved into a respected event creations company, winning over major brands, music festivals, and trade-shows, with their unparalleled creativity and innovation.

The Do LaB’s portfolio includes clients such as the Coachella Music Festival, Ford, Audi, Red Bull, Scion, the Virgin Music Festival, Speakercraft, Esquire Magazine, AIDS Project Los Angeles, Stop Aids Organization, and many more

The Confluence:

Is a post label thinking management/marketing firm that takes an artist-centric approach to addressing the shifting music landscape. They will be releasing EP’s for MartyParty, AdamandEvil and the Lightning in a Bottle 2010 festival’s “Lightning in Your Ear” artist sampler to benefit the charity Critical Beats whose goal is to allow the natives to share the sacred healing sounds of their lands with new audiences all over the globe.

Nico Vega – “So So Fresh:”

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Lightning in a Bottle! (official video):

Soooo… cop an album that you need.

There some hoes in this house, if you see ‘em point ‘em out!

Two things that are great: LuckyMe and Machinedrum.

Another thing that’s great: this mix. How great the nostalgic and trash-talking tracks on this mix are. Best listened to with scones and some tea.

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So we’re really feeling this HudMo mix. Lots of styles and interesting twists on tracks that we know and love, but we like them even more with nice editing all over the place. Chop chop. Music reborn and getting the pitch/tempo up is a must.

Favorite part of the mix right now is from 19:00 in to 24:39. There are definitely lots of gems throughout.

Enjoy if you haven’t already heard!

Download.

Tracks within:
Keaver – Cleff Recherd (cdr)
Clark Ft Soulja Boy – Autumnal Crank (Warp/Interscope)
Machine Drum – Don’t Wait (Normrex)
le N?ko – Loas En Je Laisse (cdr)
Chingy Ft Keri Hilson – Let Me Love You (Capitol)
Seiji – Chiggy Time (Sonar Kollektiv)
Sleepless Crew – Cold Rock (subplate )
Gaby y Carlos – Hot Heavy Heat (Dimlite Mix)
Taz – Strike First HudMo mix (Ramp)
V.C. – Hurme (cdr)
Timbaland – Give It To Me Rmx ft JayZ (Mosely Music)
Samiyam – Box (cdr)
debruit – Puccek (cdr)
SwizzBeats – Money In The Bank HudMo rmx (cdr)
Onra – Shhhhh (cdr)
Olivier Daysoul – Brain (cdr)
Teebs – Thai Bells (cdr)
Sleepless Crew – Vudootronics (cdr)
Nicole Scherzinger – Whatever You Like Inst. (Interscope)
Flying Lotus – Camel (cdr)
Rustie – Japanese Telecom Remix (cdr)
Claudia Fonti – iii (cdr)
Claudia Fonti – four (cdr)
Twista – 2 Times (Atlantic)
Cassie – Sometimes (Badboy)
Mike Slott – Good Morning (cdr)
Hudson Mo – Root Hands (cdr)

We got six video clips of the show (after the photos), two of Juan Huevos–who came all the way from North Carolina to make it out to the show–and four of ERAs. It was too bad that we couldn’t get more, but that’s all spilled milk now.

On Juan Huevos, we think he is a dope live MC and his performance was get-up and kept the crowd locked-in. Bringing a cover of Avril Lavigne, and getting half-naked towards the end of his show, it’s a performance we’ll never forget. However, we like Juan Huevos’ flows and instrumentals and find his style exciting even without the show and dance. Huevos’ is upbeat and different. Good things.

People like a good show, but if there’s not substance to the music, you could put on the best show in the hottest venue out there and it would be like eating a burnt grilled cheese sandwich at a five star restaurant.

Nathaniel Eras, or ERAS, really rocked out as well. Twiddling knobs and having fun while he played, things stayed engaging. Even though more abstract, glitchier music and melodies are more of an acquired taste, if you spend much time on the site you’ve probably noticed that we love experimental music in general and especially where technology and music meet. ERAS had a high-tech gadget-driven sound that we always enjoy hearing like sipping on a unique-flavored foreign drink.

At any rate, the show was hot. The videos are a bit dark and aren’t the best representation of what the show was like, especially since we didn’t manage to record all of the artists that performed, but that’s why you have to go out to these events for yourselves. We look forward to future shows from B.E.A.R.: rock, rock on.

“Seventeen” by Casxio (”17 Ways Out” Remix by Velapene Screen)

P.S. Tokyo is amazing too and their music scene is something else.

So this post is about the relatively recent Mochipet record Master P On Atari (Released: 04/07/2009). The album is a structured collision of all kinds of styles of music (lots of electronic influence) that somehow works and you can’t help but nod your head to it. If you’re feeling The Glitch Mob or Lazer Sword, there’s no reason you shouldn’t enjoy this. Don’t believe us? Check out these two tracks from the release. Keep up the good work Mochi!

“Marshall Bass Stacks:”

“Turbo Thizz Petnation:”

Mochipet’s new album “Master P On Atari” is spacy, bassy and dirty and doesn’t cease to impress electronic, glitch and hip hop music heads around the world. The dude one-ups himself with twisted beats and bizarre off the wall melodies and samples. The album recently reached the CJM Charts and continues to be well received. Mochipet just finished up a European tour and is currently playing various U.S. shows.

A fusion of hip hop, techno and electronic bass music is what Mochipet’s been after all along. His music has been released albums on several labels including Tigerbeat6, BPitch and, his own, Daly City Records. He was nominated as one of the Best Electronic Acts of 2008 by many publications, such as Clash Magazine (UK) and The San Francisco Bay Guardian. His composition “Dessert Search for Techno Baklava” has been performed by a 20 piece orchestra, Alarm Will Sound, around the world, notably at New York’s Carnegie Hall, and Amsterdam’s Holland Festival. He’s shared the stage with such notables as M.I.A, Flying Lotus, Boom Bip, Daedelus, Megasoid, Tittsworth, Ellen Allien, The Bug, Mykah 9 and Lazersword. His music has been featured on a recent NBA2k9 Videogame and he’s currently working on several new projects including ones with Joyo Velarde, Lyrics Born, Antipop Consortium’s M. Sayyid, and Chicago ‘s MC Zulu.

Mochipet in Prague. Nothing beats European streets.

Tracklisting:
01) Pythagorean Hyphy Proof
02) Master P on Atari
03) Turbo Thizz Petnation
04) Sumo Hertz
05) Robo Crunk Juice
06) Mashall Bass Stacks
07) Complex Players Dub
08) Ghetto Puddin Pet
09) It Ain’t Trickin If Ya Got It
10) Coleco Crunk Vision
11) Win With Wang
12) Full Frontal Face Melt
13) Honey Badger Breaks
14) Godzilla New Year

Bossasaurus is in whatever building you are currently inhabiting. This is their remix of “Dangerous MC’s” by Redman and Method Man off their new album Blackout 2. Another interesting angle from Egon Brainparts and Negatron Johnson. Download here.

Redman & Method Man – “Dangerous MC’s (Bossasaurus Remix):”

Cool commercial though.

P.S. We like your beer too. Go here for the official Biz Markie video.

Photo by Denise Neal.

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Some Four Tet musics for your previewing pleasure:

So we’ve always thought the Monome is a pretty cool device for making music, among other random uses its makers have come up with. The Monome is like the nerd’s paradise for audio: simple, with a beautiful design, and so many different applications because of its simplicity and integration with MaxMSP, which opens up so many applications and possibilities if you know how to program or are friends with a programmer who will hook you up. Actually, you don’t even have to have any friends to get cool applications for max/msp that can be used with the Monome! Ah, but we digress.

So check out this video demonstration of the monome from its makers:

Pretty cool, huh?

At any rate, the point of this post is not to tout how awesome the Monome is (even though it really is awesome), but rather to clarify something about a song used in a Monome demonstration made by the Monome company! Check it out:

So we came across this video and it’s actually how we discovered the Monome. Late hours wasting time on YouTube will lead you to things like this. We’ve all been there before. Well, so this video–Monome device aside–struck us as really nice in aesthetic terms. The song is beautiful, the flashing lights are kind of cool, but mostly the song is great. So, we managed to get a hold of the producer of the song–Tehn–and he hooked us up. However, this was back when he had the song available on his web site, which is interesting in and of itself. However, it seems as though the song from the video above is no longer available on Tehn’s site. If it is, we just weren’t looking hard enough. However, to save you the trouble, you can just save this download link for yourself!

If you want to just stream the full song,  entitled “jan18cold,”   before downloading, then here it is,

Special thanks to Tehn and the Monome team for doing what they do.

Really feeling the new version of “Blindfolded,” produced by Jimmy Edgar on This Charming Man. “Save,” has a really unique beat with great snares. It’s also up there with some of our favorite flows from Theophilus on the record too. The bonus track “Enjoy the Sun,” goes in a really different direction that’s good. The fusion of Jesse Boykins III and Theophilus London is no joke. Add that to some Machinedrum instrumentals and you’ve got an instant-winner. “Want U for Myself (feat. Peter Hadar),” kind of reminds us of Gus Gus or Stardust, although it can’t really be labeled as straight house.

Don’t just take our word for it, listen for yourself!

Baller album art.

At any rate, it’s a pretty good run-down of hipsters in general. She forgot a few forms of hipsters, such as the IDM hipster, but that’s okay. Like we said, it can get vague. Lehrman also picked some decent music throughout, so good job for that too.

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