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12 June 2006
Art Brut, Rachid Taha, The Living Blue…
2:21 pm
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9 June 2006
The Return Of Doctor Octagon, Chapter 6
The Dr. Octagon Chronicles
 “A Gorilla Driving A Pick-Up Truck” - Kid Loco (Banana Loco Remix) [MP3]
The Return Of Doctor Octagon, Chapter 6: Kid Loco in the Return of “A Gorilla Driving A Pick-Up Truck” (Banana Loco Mix)
Paris, France: At a streetside cafe on the wrong side of the river Seine, Kid Loco sips an aperitif while staring intently at his laptop screen, He is reviewing updates on the Decipher project from OCD HQ and he can’t believe what he’s reading. A planet destroyed by Dr. Octagon clones; fellow decipherers gone delusional and then cured by a mysterious cure; abducted hackers claiming to have met the real Dr. Octagon years ago; gorillas driving pick up trucks… How do all these events fit in with each other? What does it all mean?
Kid Loco inhales deeply and looks skyward. How can he, a hopeless romantic, an urban artist raised on the boulevards of Paris, be expected to wrap his head around these seemingly inexplicable ongoings in the U.S.? Whatever’s going on there, may soon spread everywhere. He knows if he just concentrates and focuses, maybe, just maybe, he can come up with the missing link to tie it all together.
He reaches into his pockets and pulls out a smooth-rolled blunt of rare Pakistani hashish – Kid Loco’s secret psychic weapon that he likes to call the Three Feet High Reefer. He lights it up, puffs it up, closes his eyes and prepares to Zen out. His dubbed out re-interpretation of “A Gorilla Driving A Pick-Up Truck (Banana Loco Mix)” cues itself onto his mp3 playlist.
Kid Loco lets his mind do the walking, through each of the tracks on the Dr. Octagon recording. It sounds almost as if the Dr. Octagon on this new recording is not quite the same man (creature?) that produced the perverted Dr. Octagynaecologist 10 years ago. As the purple haze thickens, Loco realizes that “Trees” is clearly a warning on the dangers of pollution. We know the Earth’s environment generally disagreed with Dr. Octagon, turning his skin “green and silver, warhead lookin’ mean”. Loco smacks his lips to the sweet, sticky fumes and thinks about the lyrics on “Ants”, where the Doctor is above the clouds, looking down on humans tiny as ants. Perhaps, this is a new perspective to help us remember how ephemeral our existence is?
There’s “Perfect World”, where Octagon declares, “Men with suits & ties sitting call the shots from a chair / Hummers comin’ at night with dark light / More drama looking thru the sun roof at a stealth bomber.” With the political messages behind “Jumpstart” and “Eat It”, Octagon demonstrates a certain sympathy for the human race, instead of the self-destructive tendencies he displayed previously. Has the Doctor been reborn? Is he offering us a key to ending suffering and pestilence? Is this recording the ying to Dr. Octagynaecologist’s yang? Then… maybe the foul circumstances surrounding this recording have more to do with someone trying to prevent Dr. Octagon from succeeding in our salvation?
As the sweet, sticky fumes subside, a green Chevy pick-up truck rolls to an abrupt stop on the curb, directly in front of Kid Loco. A huge, hairy ape in a spacesuit wrestles the door open. He steps out, stretches his arms and legs, and purveys the scene. He spots Kid Loco, walks over to him, and takes a seat. He speaks in a low, gruff voice.
Gorilla: “So, Kid Loco. You think you have it all figured out, huh?”
Kid Loco: “Why are you trying to stop Dr. Octagon?”
The gorilla guffaws, snorting through his enormous nostrils. He shoots Kid Loco an evil grin, and in a sudden flash he’s gone. Only later does Kid Loco realize that the gorilla took off with the quarter ounce of hash he had neatly tucked away in his jacket pocket. “Merde”, Kid Loco shouts furiously; “We are going to find you, monkey. And we are going to get to the bottom of this.”
“A Gorilla Driving A Pick-Up Truck” - Kid Loco (Banana Loco Remix) [MP3]
Previous Chapters:
Cassettes Won’t Listen “Aliens” - Hearing Aid Remix [MP3]
A Gorilla Driving a Pick-Up Truck - Rob Sonic Road Rage Remix [MP3]
The Gray Kid Al Greezy remix [MP3]
Al Green: The Gray Kid Al Greezy remix [MP3]
Mike Relm 20-minute Return of Dr Octagon megamix [MP3]
The Return of Dr Octagon hits stores June 27th.
—PopMatters Staff
2:22 pm
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8 June 2006
Pinetop Seven, Dirty on Purpose, Manual…
FEATURED ARTIST
Pinetop Seven
“Ash” [MP3]
“High on a Summer’s Tree” [MP3]
multiple songs [official site]
Mas
“Turn” [MP3]
Dirty on Purpose
“Light Pollution” [MP3]
Manual
“Celebration” [MP3]
Saloon
“Girls Are the New Boys” [MP3]
The Handsome Charlies
“Eighty-one” [MP3]
—PopMatters Staff
2:23 pm
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6 June 2006
Ladyhawk, Danielson, The Boredoms…
Ladyhawk
Ladyhawk’s core is bracing rock. Neil Young’s Tonight’s The Night is the hailstorm on the hood of The Replacements Let It Be, while distorted guitars invoke the thread and swerve of Silkworm and Dinosaur Jr. Helped along the way by Amber Webber (vocals) and Josh Wells (percussion, organ, singing) of Black Mountain, it will be hard to find a more hauntingly beautiful set of rock music than this debut.
“The Dugout” [MP3]
Danielson
Ships, Danielson’s newest full-length, sees Daniel Smith opening his arms wider than ever. Daniel made a long list of artists who have worked with Danielson over the years and other folks who planned to work together at some point. This list led to working with family, making new friends, and keeping the old. All joined together—both the well-known (Deerhoof, Sufjan Stevens, Why?) and not as well-known artists (Sereena Maneesh, Leopulde, Half-handed Cloud)—each bringing his or her own skills and ideas to Daniel’s songs and voice, resulting in this crowning achievement.
“Did I Step on Your Trumpet?” [MP3]
The Boredoms
“Seadrum” [MP3]
I Am Robot and Proud
“The Electricity in Your House Wants to Sing” [MP3]
Koufax
“Soundwave Sound” [MP3]
The Court and Spark
“Fireworks” [MP3]
—PopMatters Staff
2:24 pm
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2 June 2006
The Dr. Octagon Chronicles: Chapter 5
The Dr. Octagon Chronicles
Cassettes Won’t Listen “Aliens” - Hearing Aid Remix [MP3]
Chapter 5: Cassettes Won’t Listen “Aliens” - Hearing Aid Remix
OCD International HQ
A red light blinks on the machine. As play is pressed, a frantic message comes over sound system.
"I just got chased by a freakin’ gorilla in a pick up truck. What’s going on? Doesn’t feel right. I’m coming to L.A. to get to the bottom of this. Sonic out.”
The staff at OCD Headquarters had heard rumors that something was happening on the east coast and they had sent out a crack team of experts to investigate. Entrusted with the cure provided by The Money Fight, they knew they could be of great assistance. Gray Kid and Mike Relm were all but recovered and ready to get back to deciphering the strange messages received from Dr. Octagon.
There had been some changes to the original package they received. It had begun to blink "06272006" repeatedly and to the dismay of their hackers, they had not been able to figure out this new level to the mystery. Things were stable, yet not moving forward. Frustrated, the lead hacker sat down over the monitors to give it one more try.
While working through algorithms, polyrhythms and audiological historical charts, the monitor began to shimmy, shake and worm out of focus. The screen flashed "Cassettes Won’t Listen" over and over till it went blank. When it came back, a bearded man in glasses had replaced the charts in front of him. As the man began to speak, it seemed like the voice was coming from inside the hacker’s head.
I am Cassettes Won’t Listen. I have hacked into your system and have been following your progress on The Return Dr. Octagon. I waited to reveal myself until I knew you were good people and could be trusted. I know you are trying to decipher what he sent you and I think I may be of some assistance.
About 8 years ago, along with 5 friends, I was abducted. We were tortured, cloned and kept in isolation. Of the 6 of us, two survived. The other survivor, Travis Walten, was killed by one of the clones because of what we knew. I have since gone underground as a One Man Army to fight these imposters. The fact that I survived is not important. What is important is who I found on that ship.
Dr. Octagon was kept in the cell next to me. The aliens had abducted him as a prime candidate to study all things regarding grills, pills and bills. He had been cloned, and his clones had been sent out to destroy the universe. That’s who visited the planet of The Money Fight people. That’s who have been causing havoc all over the universe.
What I am trying to say is that Dr. Octagon is alive.
I was able to record a conversation with him before we were released using a makeshift recording device of duct tape and space age technology, which I am uploading now. You know everything I know. I will rendezvous with your team when they get to New York City and explain the situation. We will fight the good fight and continue to search out these clones and destroy them. These imitators must be stopped at all costs. Cassettes Won’t Listen ...out.
As the bearded man faded from the screen, a green button appeared. The hacker hesitated, shook his head and pressed the flashing icon. The hacker listened in awe as the history of Dr. Octagon began to reveal itself. As he ran to inform his superiors, a van screeched to a halt outside hq…
Cassettes Won’t Listen “Aliens” - Hearing Aid Remix [MP3]
Previous Chapters:
A Gorilla Driving a Pick-Up Truck - Rob Sonic Road Rage Remix [MP3]
The Gray Kid Al Greezy remix [MP3]
Al Green: The Gray Kid Al Greezy remix [MP3]
Mike Relm 20-minute Return of Dr Octagon megamix [MP3]
The Return of Dr Octagon hits stores June 27th.
—PopMatters Staff
2:29 pm
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30 May 2006
Cold War Kids, Kazumasa Hashimoto, Lowlights…
2:32 pm
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