We just got word that we will be DOUBLE TEAMING it with SOVIETPANDA on Saturday.
So come out and get wasted and dance to our Euro hits of the 90′s!!
Archive for February, 2008
MOON GOONS PLAYING TOO MUCH LOVE – SATURDAY
Thursday, February 28, 2008
THE WORLD’S GREATEST
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
I want to talk a little bit about a couple of producers I think are important. Like, generally everyone knows to check up on the Neptunes or Timbaland or whatever, but to be perfectly honest I feel like those dudes have sounded really tired 90% of the time for the last several years and there are a lot of people out now that are way better. I swear at some point I’ll get around to posting about something that isn’t gangsta rap or Boris, but right now all I got in me is more of this D-Boy bullshit.
Don Cannon is probably best known as an affiliate of Atlanta’s mixtape king DJ Drama. DJ Drama is one of the biggest names and biggest innovators of the hip-hop mixtape form, which as you may or may not know is the future of the record industry. You ask someone with their ear to the ground what the best rap albums of the last several years are, and you’re going to hear about a lot of shit that was never touched by a major label. Some of the most classic records from some of rap’s biggest names are mixtapes presided over by DJ Drama and Don Cannon – especially Lil’ Wayne’s “Dedication 2″ and the motherfucking grandfather of of this D-Boy shit, Young Jeezy’s “Trap Or Die”.
Drama and Cannon came to even greater prominence when they were busted by the feds last year on racketeering charges. The record industry finally caught wind of the mixtape scene and chose it’s two biggest names to be scapegoats for it. The outcome of the trial will probably decide the future of the record industry, though even if they do time for putting out mixtapes it’s probably not going to stop people from continuing to explore the format. Glass Candy and the Chromatics have basically eschewed the label-driven album format for now, in favor of self-released CD-Rs modelled after hip-hop mixtapes. Expect more and more people to start doing that shit as time goes on.
But enough of that shit. Regardless of his legal troubles, when Don Cannon decides to stop making news and put hand to keyboard, he’s made some of the most classic beats in modern hip-hop. Dude is one of the few producers in the game that can flip soul samples into sounding as hood as the hard trance shit that’s making so much money for The Runners, Cool & Dre, and Shawty Redd. Fact is, dude made “Go Crazy” by Young Jeezy, which is just about the most hood thing I have ever heard in my life. Fun fact: BET uses this song as an unofficial theme song for “The Wire”.
Jay-Z caught wind of the buzz around “Go Crazy” and immediately jumped on a remix trying to co-opt it like he did with Rick Ross’ “Hustlin’”. It sort of feels inferior to the original though. To me, “Go Crazy” is like basically perfect. Cannon and Jeezy teamed up again for “Mr. 17.5″ off Jeezy’s second album, but Jeezy didn’t come as nice over it. I would kill for an instrumental of this thing – Cannon turns snippets of The Miracles’ “Give Me Just Another Day” into a complete monster of a track. It sounds like it should cost a million dollars to rap over this.
Most recently, Cannon did the beat for the Outkast track “The Art of Storytellin’ Part 4″ off DJ Drama’s major label coming-out party, Gangsta Grillz: The Album. Anyone would probably sound good over this beat, but this happens to have Andre 3000′s best verse in like a fucking decade sitting on it. He murders this track in front of it’s own children, burns it, and then feeds it to dogs.
TRANCE RAP UPDATE
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
The video for “Say Yeah” by Wiz Khalifa is on the front page of MySpace.com. Trance Rap is blowing up in 2008. I don’t know what’s more awesome – the Alice Deejay sample, or the video itself, which defies every expectation I had when I first started warning you about this track two months ago.
Wait A Minute!
Monday, February 25, 2008
I listened to this song a lot this morning. Not new just good.
Estelle – Wait A Minute(Just A Touch)
Moon Goons Fans – Post 01.
Monday, February 25, 2008
So my girlfriend pointed this out to me this weekend and I was so pumped about it I figured I’d throw it on the blog and make it some sort of “section” for anytime I come across stuff like this and for whatever it is worth.
This picture was on someones mypsace as a photo caption. Meet “.greg MF cash. [cobra kai]” I assume the “MF” is for MUTHA FUCKIN!!! and after doing some research of 2 seconds “Cobra Kai” is his group of friends that he LOVES and devotes everything to… Here are his promo pictures with his friends:
Promos usually promote bands but hey it is 2008 and we gotta promote our cliques right? Fuck yeah. That’s how we do it.
Here is Greg again:
This position looks familiar…? I love the white belt and distressed denim Greg!
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Been a grip
Monday, February 25, 2008
So it has been a little grip since we wrote much but a lot of good stuff has been going down. Jonathan has been on the East coast playing shows with Will Eastman and Designer Drugs. James and I have been back home doing some of the local stuff. We went to Duluth this past weekend for our monthly out there at the Red Star. A damn good time indeed. The crowd was an odd one… our first request was for Hercules and the Love Affair which threw us the fuck off because usually Duluth wants Dead or Alive followed up by Duran Duran.
No party photos from out there but we managed to take some interesting shots of the city:
This is Hip Stuff but it is going out of business…
This is what Hip Stuff sells…
This was a shocker “ride” at this arcade called THRILLZ. Dope name but… uhh the shocker chair? Are you kidding me?
Oh Yeah! Only one of the handles works on the shocker chair… sorry guys.
Party Photos – Honeymoon VII
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
This last weekend was dope. I wish I could have snapped more pictures because there were a lot of good looking people partying. Ah well… We had a fun in-store at Robot Love and then Honeymoon VII on Friday was sooooo heavy. Non stop electro bangers all night. Big ups to NaughtyWood for keeping the tempo at 130 lmao. Next month is going to get real wild because we are bringing Trash yourself and Dance Robots Dance to party. ARE YOU READY!? VROOOM VROOOM. I SAID, ARE YOU READY!? Oooowahahah get down wit da sicknezz!!!
Robot Love
Friday, February 15, 2008
We are doing a little in store at Robot Love today from 3-5pm in promotion of Honeymoon tonight. We will be giving away free vitamin waters and maybe a KEWL t-shirt if you’re lucky and convince me to. Also Ian Orth will be joining in on the tunes today.
Come hang out with us at Robot Love. It a sweet place and there’s nothing else going on during the day.
ROBOT LOVE
2648 Lyndale Ave South
Minneapolis , MN 55408
612.871.9393
VALENTINE’S JUNGLE LOVIN’
Thursday, February 14, 2008
Inspired by a thrift store find from the early 80′s, Anthem Heart and Captain Safety teamed up to to show some love to Minneapolis retro.
The last of these super limited t-shirts are available in various colors and styles at two Uptown locations. Guys sizes are at Robot Love. Ladies sizes are at Cliche. To celebrate, here’s Minneapolis’ own Morris Day and the Time from 1984:
ExoticRobotic – Hypothesis: Mix 001
Thursday, February 14, 2008
Our Midwestern buddy friend dood aka EXOTICROBOTIC just did a mix for the blog! He even put in a Moon Goons track. I had fun listening to it… especially the bold tracks. Enjoy! Also check out some of his design work. Pretty kewl stuff.
1.Glass Candy- life after sundown
2.Big Face- i wanna be a style crusader (datA rmx)
3.Entre Tes Cuisses – the bowling anthem
4.Thieves Like Us- drugs in my body (kill the noise rmx)
5.Danger- 14h54
6.DFA1979- sexy results (blakemillerisruthless rmx)
7.crazy town- butterfly
8.massdriver- dont even care (13in mix)
9.Goose- Black gloves (BloodyBeatroots rmx)
10.futurecop- as seen on tv
11.chromeo- call me up (dj barletta rmx)
12.justice- phantom part II (boys noize rmx)
13.boys noize- lava lava
14.Thomas Bangalter & Dj Falcon- so much love to give
15.Buddy Akai- cut me up (villians rmx)
16.earth wind and fire- lets groove tonight(dj emagen rmx)
17.Kylie Minogue- Wow (MSTRKRFT rmx)
18.Treasure Fingers- Cross the dancefloor
19.Para One- dundun-dun (MSTRKRFT rmx)
20.Faker- This Heart Attack (miami horror rmx)
21.snoop dog- sexual eruption (Fyre Department ft. Robin)
22.Danger- 9H20(neon coyote rmx)
23.Moulinex- leisure suit
24.Paramore- misery business (Miscellaneous Chocolate Feels so good rmx)
25.Hot Pink Delorean Ft. Knowlton Walsh- freak night
26.Goose- bring it on (with Todd Fink of the Faint)
27.simian mobile disco- its the beat (the teenagers rmx)
28.the moon goons- evil organ
29.whitenoise- its what we do
30.lovepolice- computermusik
31.culture prophet- here comes the nasty
32.digitalism- pogo (Digitalism’s Robotic rmx)
33.Para One- midnight swim (surkin drowning rmx)
34.puff daddy- all about the benjamins
35.daft punk- da funk
36.mop-ante up (tittsworth rmx)
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Monthly Mix – XXNAUGHTY WOOD
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Ah yes! This months mix is brought to you by Minneapolis local, XXnaughty Wood (Kode†Nation). In my opinion this guys has THE BEST taste in music around Minneapolis. I said it. Yep. The best part is he is playing all vinyl at Honeymoon on Friday too! So come to jam the fuck out.
Disco Voodoo (49:04)
XXnaughty Wood (Kode†Nation)
Track listing
0. Sweet Drums – Cerrone
02. Knockers – Alden Tyrell
03. Futur Perfect – Sato Agrepo
04. Gluttony – Laurin Rinder & W.Michael Lewis
05. Jupiter – LiL Louis
06. The Spell – Ron Hardy mix
07. Love Explosion 05 – Alden Tyrell-(ft.Fred Ventura)
08. Sexual Primates – Allen Wright
09. Automatic lover – Blaqstarr
10. clear…Cybotron – Cobblestone Jazz remix
11. Battle Star Galactica – Giorgio Moroder
Download Disco VooDoo right here
MOON GOONS X ELECTRIK SUICIDE
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Ah yes my children! This is just a hint at what is about to come. ELECTRIK SUICIDE and The Moon Goons are in the works of teaming up and causing visual chaos. Chaos so painful and full of sorcery that you will need to rip your own eyes out. I don’t really know what that fucking means but the bottom line is we are about to bring you a lot of visual goodies. From monthly art video mashup podcasts to desktop wallpapers, clothes, and zines. We’ve got tons in the works and this is just a hint at what is about to come.
Download the MOONGOONS X ELECTRIK SUICIDE wallpapers HERE
For a preview of what is in the zip click HERE
