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While techno may be the country music of Europe, here in LA it is usually just the music of douche-bags. Then the punks got their hands on it and things really got fucked up.

Enter King Ahab (Twitter). Punk in attitude, but still a virtuoso that crafts everything to perfection. There are a lot of awesome folks doing this Ravesploitation thang here in the valley of smoke (IE and Kid Infinity are the first to come to mind), but it is Captain Ahab that serves as world-wide ambassador for this LA sound. So why not a summit meeting? Let’s call Sickboy to the table and see what he has to say:

Captain Ahab-Party Baby (Sickboy Remix)

Get it from the wonderfully named, Needs More RAM Records.

I’ve been feeling that Cali nostalgia lately and listening back to some classic, although sadly unknown, 90s jams. Obsession has never meant as much for me as it did with a band called rRope from San Francisco. To use 90s reference points, they were a Sonic Youth or maybe even Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 for the Touch N’ Go / Jesus Lizard loving crowd.

Totally cowboy. Or, like that scene in Young Guns when the cowboys all do peyote. Bad asses doing mystical shit. Fucking amazing. Fortunately for us, rRope’s demise is not the end of the story. Death to rRope, long live VNC!!! Sorta. It’s a combo of awesome classic SF folks, but best of all they are active NOW. We are blessed.

Lets all walk on molten glass.

rRope- Step Right Up

VNC- Sea Way Wolf

Half way between Los Angeles and Alaska is Alaskas. The dude. From Seattle. A part of the small, genuis circle of lo-fi-ers from the land of Grunge that Universal Studios Florida call home, Alaskas is the heart throb of the group. A male Kate Bush that is killing it live with a brutal poised-honesty… but see for yourself:

Alaskas “Unshackled” video

[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/6772030[/vimeo]

The message of that song is either “free yourself” or “free downloads”. You decide. In the meantime:

Alaskas- Unshackled (Universal State of Florida_Remix)

We are DJing at the Nail the Cross on Saturday. Rising early and shining strong. Come and say hi.

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