Happy 2012! As we all embark on this exciting (and perhaps historic) new year, we would like to take a moment to share our intentions for the Do LaB community and Lightning in a Bottle festival. Whether prophesied, or simply the true state of affairs, our community, our nation, and our planet face great change at this particular moment in time. We invite you all to embrace this change and continue celebrating life and our incredible human spirit during these tumultuous times. Though our problems seem many, and solutions difficult, we must remember to approach them with grace, love and celebration for in this attitude lies our best way forward.

LIB has always been about discovering and enacting a different way of living. A way that is more in touch with the earth, with each other, and with ourselves. As the pace of change continues to accelerate all around us, and old ways of thinking begin to reach their logical and useful ends, LIB continues to expand its spiritual and educational aspects so that we, as a community, may boldly embrace and lead the way into this new world. The Temple of Consciousness will be bigger than ever this year and will include inspiring new structures for the yoga and meditation area, as well as the beautiful area for speakers and workshops in the heart of the Temple. At the same time, we have a music and performance lineup brewing (scheduled to be released in March) that could be our best yet and is sure to awaken the celebration of dance that we hold so dear.

We are so happy and proud of the way LIB has been able to continue to grow and mature, while continuing to preserve that indescribable vibe we have all come to love so much. We thank everyone that participates in this event, from the volunteers and the musicians, to the painters, builders, artists and crew, and especially to you for contributing to that feeling that makes everyone feel so welcome and happy to join us in capturing lightning in a bottle, year after year.

It is to all of you that understand and reinforce the intention of the festival that we offer our early bird discount tickets for 24 hours starting on Monday, January 16th at 7am. We can’t be absolutely sure, but all indications point to the festival becoming sold out earlier than ever before this year. We don’t want you, our valuable core of festival goers, to miss out on tickets this year. We want to see you smiling again, bringing your incredible energy and understanding to help us make Lightning in a Bottle 2012 our greatest year ever.

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Annie Mac – BBC Radio1 (Guests – Sigma and Ben Westbeech) 10-07-2011

Annie Mac is kind of awesome if dance music is your thing.

Sick.

We said it before and we’ll say it again: we loves us some Mochi.

Mochipet is back with a banging new release: Chicxulub.

Mochipet’s latest release on 1320 Records ‘Chicxulub’, is the soundtrack for an animated novel in which the Dinosaurs make their way through the impact of the comet believed to have destroyed them. The album starts off with a highly compressed glitch-hop bass number ‘Dinosaur Anthems’ signaling the dark that is arriving along to where ‘Yoshi’s Dinosaur Egg Hunt’ guides you through Fraggle Rawk-style landscapes in search of the young that are left to live on. The Dinosaurs eventually leave the planet, taking off in their ‘Pterodactyl Spaceship’ to new undiscovered lands. But they do not make it out easily; there are a number of alien life forms that have invaded in ‘The Battle of Dinotropolis’ (Featuring Ben Samples). With everything destroyed all that is left are ‘Fossils’ and our prehistoric creatures are left to find ‘A Home Away From Home.’ So ‘Ghost Ride The Ark’ to Outer Space we go! Whether our Dino friends make it to their new homes is unsure as ‘I Really Don’t Think We Are Ok ACE.’ The Saga is To Be Continued…

Crushing beats that are reminiscent of The Glitch Mob with that sweet Mochipet flavor. If you want to get wild in the club, or just enjoy this record at home, the track selection will allow you to do either.

Check out this track from the album:
“Yoshi’s Dinosaur Egg Hunt:”

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Here’s a preview of the track Spacezilla, from Mochi’s latest forthcoming record, Spacezilla, set for release on June 28, 2011.

Upcoming Mochipet Shows:
6/10/11 – Chicago, IL (US) @ Kinetic Playground – Mochipet @ Kinetic Playground 1:30am
6/11/11 – Hamtramck, MI (US) @ Mars Bar – Mochipet @ Mars Bar 12:30am
6/17/11 – Milwaukee, WI (US) @ Miramar Theater – Mochipet @ The Miramar Theater 11pm
6/18/11 – Bellefontaine, OH (US) @ Zane Shawnee Caverns – The Blastoff
6/24/11 – Nevada City, CA (US) @ COOPER’S ALE WORKS
6/25/11 – San Francisco, CA (US) @ Public Works – Mochipet w/ Futuremousepet
6/30/11 – San Francisco, CA (US) @ Temple – Spacezilla Record Release Party at Ritual
7/16/11 – Reno, NV (US) @ Wurk – Mochipet @ Wurk 2am

Also, if you want to check out a recent mix of Mochipet’s on jaimeledubstep.com, go here.

This is the tracklist:
01) Ozzy Osbourne – Crazy Train (Mochipet Remix)
02) Mochipet vs. MC Zulu – Roll Back
03) Mochipet – Bassadonis
04) Big Pokey FT. Slim Thug – Boss Hogg On Candy Acapella
05) Bass Science – Rockstars
06) Far East Movement – G6 (Mochipet Remix)
07) Encanti – Untitled
08) TI – What You Know Acapella
09) Kano – Spaceship (Trolley Snatcha Remix)
10) Mochipet – Whomp-a-saurus Sex (ill-esha Remix)
11) Mochipet – RAWR
12) Van Halen – Running With The Devil Acapella
13) DK aka Donkey Kong – Yuah Acapella
14) Nirvana – Teen Spirit (Dual Remix)
15) Mochipet – WuWu
16) Beach House – Norway (Deceptikon Remix)
17) Mochipet – Whomp-a-saurus Sex
18) Mochipet – Spacezilla
19) Juakali – Crossing (David Starfire Remix)
20) Mochipet – Brontosaurus Beats Ballet
21) Jantsen – Sultan Swing
22) Black Sabbath – Sweat Leaf (Mochipet Remix)
23) Ewun – My Name Is Fame
24) Mochipet – 420 Remix
25) R U Ready (Original Mix)
26) Mochipet – Godzilla New Year (Original Mix)

So Jeff Weiss over at Pop & Hiss — The LA Times Music Blog — talks about the Lightning In a Bottle Festival (“LIB”), which is only a couple days away! The line-up is massive, and we’re feeling what LIB has to offer.

Here’s a screenshot of the article–just click on the image for the full story.

This year, LIB has already run a mixtape contest, where the winner receives free entrance as well as a slot in the schedule of performances during the four day festival (among other things). The winner of the selection is THE SEX PIXELS. We’re looking forward to hearing their set, although it could be quite late. Could be? Actually, HERE’S A LINK TO THE FINAL SCHEDULE, so now you know the exact time they’ll be on (2:30am Saturday morning).

This festival is going to be terrific. But, if you’re on the fence, visit lightninginabottle.org for the full details.

The Glitch Mob: “Drive It Like You Stole It:”

The faster computers get and the faster Internet connections get, the faster we have this need for instant gratification. It’s all about getting things immediately. It’s all about not getting something that’s a week old, not getting something that’s a couple days old, not even getting something that’s 12 hours old. Getting something that became available several hours ago and was uploaded from anywhere in the world, like a country in Europe, and now you’re listening to it.

And you’re doing it for the cost of your Internet connection. That’s one way that technology is influencing music and changing the face of music as we know it. Because, with that, everything changes: the nature of the competition and what determines the music we listen to. That’s that.

So, with SoundCloud, you have to know who you’re looking for. You have to know what artists you like, but anyone who’s truly interested in music is going to have some sense of artists they want to hear more from. In this case, today, the artist we wanted to hear more from is Jimmy Edgar. And it’s superior to putting in a Jimmy Edgar station on Pandora, because there’s no way you can get anything that’s this recent from Jimmy Edgar on Pandora. Sure, there are some older songs mixed in with some newer songs on SoundCloud. Who knows, maybe Jimmy finished these songs months ago, but the bottom line is, they’re available now: starting eight hours ago, 14 songs dropped in a four hour period on Edgar’s SoundCloud. It’s life-changing, really. You can hop in the car, and go on SoundCloud with a smart phone and search for Jimmy Edgar. Bam. New music on the car stereo. Simple as that.

Girl Talk – Triple Double

The Girl Talk show last night was pretty awesome. The best way to describe the show is “high energy.” Errybody was getting crunk, crunk. It was so spectacular, we’re planning on hitting up next week’s show up in LA. Run a search on ticketmaster.com for Girl Talk to lock-down your tickets now.

Also, check out OC Weekly for some rad pics of the show.

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Jimmy Edgar – Hot, Raw Sex (Theophilus London Demo):”