Chemical Brothers Create New Years Eve Edition of Midnight Madness

From the Chemical Brothers' blog:

The brothers and all at Chemicals HQ thank you for your loyal support in '08, and we wish you peace, love and happiness in 09!

As the year winds down, we have one last surprise for you here at The House Of Chemical. As the track is already a must play for ringing in the midnight hour, The Chems have whipped up a special New Years' Eve edition of "Midnight Madness".

This version has been serviced to DJs only for NYE, however we'll be posting the track up here tomorrow for your streaming pleasure. It will no doubt turn up in some of your favorite DJs sets tomorrow night as well (and do be sure and support your local DJ and local music scene).

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NYC Show List Updated

Sorry things are quieter over here than I would like. I have December 24 - January 4th off from the 9 to 5. I'll be spending a good chunk of it in suburbia hanging out with the fam and nerding it up on the internet so there will probably be a lot of updates then. In the meantime I just added a ton of dates to the shows list (stuff for tonight and this weekend too, so don't let the snow keep you from hitting the floor!). Here's what's up for now - keep checking back, I'm usually always updating it:

December 19 - Fool's Gold Family & Friends Holiday Bash at Twelve21 with DJ Premier, Cipha Sounds, the Brothers Macklovitch, Sammy Bananas, and Nick Catchdubs

December 19 - My Cousin Roy and Jesse Mann at APT

December 19 - DJ Harvey at Love

December 19 - Play It Loud at Lounge 87 with DJ Drilla, Darshan Jesrani of Metro Area, Son of Sound, and Doug Gomez

December 19 - LA Riots at Le Royale

Decemeber 20 - Fixed with In Flagranti at Studio B

December 21 - Frankie Knuckles and Danny Krivit at Cielo

December 20 - 33Hz live at Le Poisson Rouge

December 26 - Ladytron dj set, Le Castlevania, and Grandmaster Flash at Webster Hall

December 31 - Studio B New Years Eve with deejay sets from Sinden, Jokers of the Scene, Scott Henry, Reid Speed, The Captain, Star Eyes, Cowboy Mark, Alexander Technique, and Van Scott. Grandmaster Mele Mel, Mickey Factz, and Ninja Sonik live. Afterhours with Echospace and Taimur & Fahad.

December 31 - Prime Time New Years Eve at Santos with Invisible Conga People, Mike Simonetti, James F!@#$%^ Friedman, and Eamon Harkin

December 31 - Matthew Dear, Drop the Lime, Michna, and Mike Servito at Le Poisson Rouge

December 31 - Rude New Years Eve at Glasslands with Heartsrevolution and Nick Catchdubs

December 31 - Famous Friends ' & Palmsout Epic New Years Eve at Europa with Kill the Noise, AC Slater, the American Dream Team, Udachi, Bradley D, and VDRK

January 2 - One Man Party (Steve from Soulwax) and So Me at Webster Hall

January 3 - Afrika Bambaataa at Le Poisson Rouge

January 16 - Disco3000 NYC with Trus'me, Linkwood, and Kon & Amir at APT

January 17 - Fixed with Max Tundra at Le Poisson Rouge

January 23 - No Big Deal with Moulinex and Xinobi at Europa

January 24 - Modeselektor and Housemeister at Bowery Ballroom

January 24 - M83 at Irving Plaza

January 29 - Fixed at Studio B with Lindstrom

February 6 - Fixed with Little Boots (live) at Studio B

March 21 - Cut Copy at Terminal 5

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Royksopp Celebrate Their Birthday by Giving Away New Track

Awesome Norwegian electronic duo, Royksopp, are celebrating their birthday today and giving away a new track (their first studio release since their last album the Understanding came out in 2005) at their website. The site is being re-designed soon, perhaps to coincide with the release of their new album? which did not come out 2 months ago.

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Santos Party House/100 Lafayette has moved!!

The wonderful new venue that opened downtown this year has shifted from 100 Lafayette Street to 96. According to the Santos Party House blog:

"...we have been able to recreate the exact same club, only 8 feet further down the block, simply by shifting the walls and parts of the ceiling to accommodate the new location.

Our patrons will notice a slight shift in the sidewalk, as well as a wider stairway leading down to the lower level. As a result of this move, we now have a larger amount of space on the left side corridor of the club. We were also able to shift the entire front entrance and windows of our building, leaving the upper portion intact."

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Bloody Beetroots release track "Butter" from Rombo EP

Awesome Italian dj/production duo the Bloody Beetroots have just released a piece of heavy, piano-ey bliss in the form of a track called "Butter". Butter is featured on the Beetroots' Rombo EP (tracklisting below), which gives you an idea of what to expect from the pair's full length album, scheduled for release on Steve Aoki's label, Dim Mak in 2009. Check out the dope EP cover from Turbo Krapfen on the right and download the track below:

The Bloody Beetroots - Butter

The Bloody Beetroots - Rombo EP Tracklisting:

1. Rombo (feat. Congorock)
2. I Love the Bloody Beetroots (Radio Edit)
3. Butter
4. Yeah Boy
5. I Love the Bloody Beetroots (Extended)

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Shockhound Interviews Justice In Bed

Shockhound (which looks like a pretty interesting new site for following artists) recently interviewed Xavier and Gaspard of Justice from their hotel room bed. Yet another enlightening and entertaining (much like the duo's documentary, A Cross the Universe, which is out in the US in 5 days. Did you pre-order your copy ?!) experience:



Transcript of the interview if you'd rather read it here.

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Mid-week Vids #13

I haven't really gotten into Passion Pit, but came across this video that Etan (from Passion Pit) created with a friend. It's short and sweet...and has robez (aka robots...):

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