South Africa is Burning: Holy Spoeks

Spoek Mathambo

To call Spoek Mathambo colorful is an understatement, Mathombo’s a bag of skittles in a world full of marshmallows! If you haven’t heard about South Africa’s hottest MC cum designer cum DJ, you’d better recognize.

South Africa’s Got Talent (Part 1).

Photo credit to Xander Ferreira aka Gazelle

Red Bull Music Academy had a little showcase in South Africa earlier this month, which brought out some of South Africa’s finest DJ’s, Producers and noisemakers to play shows,  network and learn.

So it seems like a very good time to hype South Africa.

Gotta Love Dem Flashmen (Take II)

The Flashmen contest is technically over but we didn’t get the full onslaught of voicemails we’d have liked, so we’ve decided to do two things, extend the contest ’til Friday and lead by example.

The first is immediately in effect, the second is linked below and is St. Juice’s Flashmen Love Voicemail contribution. Hopefully this will spur off some of you anonymous people afraid to send something in.

love dem flashmen – St Juice

To leave us a voicemail call 646-402-5694 and hit extension 71793.

Don’t forget what you’re playing for.

x.

MPM

p.s. Thanks to Jared over at Crush Central for giving us some love.

Gotta Love Dem Flashmen (Album Giveaway)

photo credit to ddephoto

Our good friends Flashmen have an excellent track out on the Crushed Records sampler that came out today. “Little Wildkat” is a sordid three-minutes of passionate vocals courtesy of Daniel E. over splashy synths and thunka-thunka bass, most def. guaranteed to overclock your local party!

MPM loves Flashmen and Crushed records so much that we’re giving away a copy of the sampler to the MPM reader who can prove they have the most love for Flashmen.

Call our voicemail drop at 646-402-5694 ext. 71793 and leave us a message communicating your intense Flashmen love.

The most creative entry judged by MPM writers wins a giftcard for the entire Crushed Records album sampler at Amazon.

The competition will run until next Tuesday 14 July.

Weekend Mixtape (If it ain’t 8bit…)

Made this for Lori over at Get In The Van (from last week)

It’s a bunch of songs by St. Juice leaning more to the 8bit side of things. “8bit” is music made using gameboys, or any retro computer and video game hardware.

The mixtape is more “fake”-bit, it’s made using some of Tweakbench’s software instruments (VSTs) that emulate the sound of those wonderfully, shitty, evocative machines, so no real gameboys were harmed in the making of this mixtape…

Enjoy, this one clocks in at just over 12 minutes.

1212 by St. Juice.

Tracklist + More fake/8bit links

What’s Your Favorite Musician(‘s used glass dildo) worth to you?

True Fanzzz!

Tell me, if you had $$$ and unrestricted access to your favorite artist, what would you claim? Bjork’s bath water? Thom Yorke’s Baby Teeth? Trent Reznor’s ego? Phil Spector’s wigs?

How about Amanda Palmer (from the Dresden Dolls)’ dildo?

“skanky no” to “sexy pro” in 30 mins

Lori Samsel’s exercise video “Get in the Van” is the best thing I’ve heard of in a long time. Imagine Jane Fonda doing leg raises. Now imagine her doing them in time to cracked-out, blipped-out electro blaring out of a gameboy-shaped boombox. Now imagine her in outer space, on a pirate ship, under the sea and all over the universe!

Intriguing, isn’t it?

Synthpop can’t be stopped

La Roux,  The red haired one, the red headed girl with a wacky hairdo but whatever nicknames you’ve got for her it seems like she’s blowin’ up this year. My first encounter with La Roux was on the Kitsune Compilation 6 with the song “Quicksand” which quickly became one of my favorites from that album.  After continuously playing the Kitsune comp I moved onto bigger and better things and almost forgot about La Roux until I heard remixes from The Twelves, Lifelike, and Foamo. This prompted me to delve farther into the biography of La Roux and take a gander and some more of her singles.  Ladies and gents, it appears that she’ll be releasing her debut album on June 29th of this year!

I’ve added a couple links so you can get a taste of this yummy brit electropop.

La Roux – In For the Kill (The Twelves remix)

La Roux – Quicksand

La Roux – Bulletproof (Foamo Dubstep remix)

I call your Kavinsky and raise you a La Roux!

Please Bear With Us.

Gloomy bear vs. hosting company.

My Pleasure Miss and Gloomy Bear wanted to apologize for any broken links on the site, our mp3 host seemingly went out of business over the weekend!

But don’t blame them, don’t blame us either.

If you have to blame someone, “Blame It on the Boogie” in 320kbs courtesy of drop.io (for the time being).

“Blame It on The Boogie” – Jackson 5

x.

MPM

Children + Boney M = 100% Italodisco Banger?!!!

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What happens when you unleash Boney M on a bunch of cute kids?

Pure Electro Magic.

I recently picked up a CD of Italodisco hits in the bargain bin section of the internet and my favorite song by far is “Happy Song” by Baby’s Gang. This song was a number one hit in Europe twice! The first time in 1983 for Baby’s Gang in their native Italy, the second time as a cover by Boney M the following year.

Information on Baby’s Gang is scant on the internet, sources say they were on Memory Records, a minorly succesful Italo-disco label. But if Italodisco means nothing to you, think of Baby’s Gang as:

(Justice’s D.A.N.C.E. – Michael Jackson) x (Outrunners + Kavinsky + Muscles)

Which should equal EPIC in anyone’s book.

A truly happy song for the weekend.

Here is the “Extended Dancefloor Version” in 320 for you DJ’s/mp3 hustlers, I guarantee it will bring the heat at your local party.

Baby’s Gang – Happy Song

Bonus Sh*t:

More Baby’s Gang mp3 goodies at  discoworkout and 20JazzFunkGreats.