Wednesday, January 25, 2006  9:11 am 

Don Johnson is undead and producing killer electro

I guess you might have noticed the xxjfg beast bot has reproduced and spawned another head.

We are proud to announce a new addition to the collective of Steve from one of our favourite blogs of last year To Here Knows When. Steve refused to accept the reprogramming we gave him and will continue on in his own style, but now his words of wisdom will be appearing on these very pages, and this makes us proud. From now on you probably will be more confused than ever as to which of us is posting, but here is some stuff from Steve, make him welcome please people!

Juan would like to add, holding his hands and laughing malefically, ‘he is ours, he is finally ours MWAH MWAH MWAH Or are we his, are we his?’. Either way you win, readers. Because this shit is fucking mighty…

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20 Jazz Funk Greats in mega-prolific posting shocker! OK, so this blog has not been so constant lately (I can say that now without being rude ‘cos I’ve just joined and I’d be insulting myself, right?) but Juan has been keeping it tight while Stuart was sleeping in trees with mutant-jungle-spiders on the other side of the planet. But the gangs all here now, so no worries.

Kavinsky- Testarossa Nightdrive

So we’ve had slow Mu-tion alien-pop from The Knife, wobbly Amazonian Krautrock from Caribou, post punk chamber music from UT, and the spastic-tribal beats of Aphrodite’s Child, why don’t we throw arpeggiator-set-to-overload electro from Hell into the mix too, just for kixx.

Kavinsky claims to have died in a car crash in 1986 and returned as a vengeful zombie but instead of hunting for brains, brains, he stepped up to the synthesizer instead. Rockin’ the kind of beats you’d find soundtracking the second stage of Outrun this is a blast of undead Miami Vice car-chase music that would sound so good if you listened to it on six-foot speakers, as the vinyl is cut LOUD.

Weirdly this is released by Air on the French duo’s Record Makers label, but it comes from the same dark place as Justice , SebastiAn and Aysam . There’s four different versions you should check out, and the 12″ holds yet more slabs of electro-pleasure, and, yeah, its supposed to end like that.

The computer game bleeps just keep on coming!

Monotrona- You Know It

Where Mu has Mr. Fulton on drums to back her up, Monotrona has Firebird, a cardboard cut-out on Gameboy. She’s part of a group of costume-clad Superbeings that make the kind of sound only mental electro warriors in costumes can.

If you were a cool kid in 2001, you will already know of Monotrona from her track ‘Tekgul’ on the first Electroclash compilation. This 8-Bit wig-out is taken from the ‘Hawkeye & Firebird’ EP, and it’s the sound of Monotrona skipping along hand in hand with Mario, collecting mushrooms to make them bigger and stomping on evil turtle-dragon things. Check out the site for the full lowdown on the collective and to be disappointed by the lack of audio - but hey, good pictures! You can also order the EP!

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