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Cool mix of tunes posted by DJ Tacopunch of Whitechapel.

Whitechapel - DJs lets post some mixes thread!

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Very cool Fader article from 2007 on the origin of Daft Punk and the philosophy behind their disguises.

The FADER - USA: DAFT PUNK IS HERE!

There were always people eager to expose the group’s faces. (This element still exists, as a video of the undisguised duo DJing at a Milwaukee rave in 1996 recently appeared online.) In 2001, Daft Punk hoped to eradicate this problem when they debuted their robot costumes along with their second album and first masterpiece, Discovery. Devised by directors Alex & Martin and built by make up and animatronics effects creator Tony Gardner (whose credits range from Three Kings to Seed of Chucky), the robots gave them a way to hide their identities, but were bizarre enough to keep Daft Punk culturally compelling. The press played along, dutifully printing quotes from the group stating “We are robots now,” and recounting their story about how their bodies were irreparably damaged on September 9, 1999, when a sampler in their studio exploded.

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Very cool moody, videogame-style techno withunstoppable beats. Sounds like a remix of Metroid Gameboy soundtrack. And it's Creative Commons licensed.

http://www.jamendo.com/en/artist/flykkiller

FlyKKiller is the second collective project of musical collaborators Stephen Hilton and Pati Yang. Separately they have been at the forefront of avant-garde electro music, both bringing a wealth of experience into a band that in such a short time have already been seized upon as pioneers of the genre.

For their new project, the cannily titled FlyKKiller, the pair set about recording a studio album with (as legend would have it) an extraterrestrial called V; which when you hear the outcome of these sessions you can understand where such claims might come from. The gallant and incessant beats that have become the backdrop to Yang’s howling, stirringly poignant and harmonic vocal were, again as the myth insists, recorded by V who created these cubes (whilst in captivity in the FlyKKiller Institute in Poland) as a vessel in which to pass on her peaceful communications to us earthlings. However the otherworldly sci-fi cubes have been seized from her by her captors at The FlyKKiller Institute, and sold to fund their scientific research. Additional information is being presented via download and physical formats.

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Still time to get the one-day passes. It's happening July 18-20 at Chicago's Union Park. Dinosaur Jr. and Caribou will be there. Also the Fuck Buttons.

http://www.pitchforkmusicfestival.com/

As of right now, three-day passes for the 2008 Pitchfork Music Festival are no longer available. Those suckers sold out! That'll happen with tickets to the only festival that offers the remote possibility of witnessing an interaction between Les Savy Fav frontman Tim Harrington and Public Enemy jester/VH1 reality star Flavor Flav.

But never fear, dear snoozers, you haven't lost out yet. Still available are $50 two-day passes for the Saturday and Sunday portion of the festival as well as $30 individual tickets for all three days. We recommend making your way to TicketWeb sooner rather than later.

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Sing "Sweet Home Alabama". Pretty surreal.

YouTube - Leningrad Cowboys & Red Army Choir - SWEET HOME ALABAMA

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