RowTow 2.0

Suggested consumption before consuming this mixtape: Neuromancer by William Gibson, Futureshock and The Third Wave by Alvin Toffler, Omni Magazine, Escape from New York, Blade Runner. Break out the parachute pants, fingerless gloves and mirrorshade Ray-Ban aviators, it’s time for a trip back in time to the future the 80s promised but never delivered. A heady mix of Detroit Techno, Italo Disco and some more modern stuff.

1. Dopplereffekt – Hyperellyptic Surfaces
2. Clock DVA – The Hacker
3. Crystal Castles – Knights
4. M|A|R|R|S – Pump up the Volume
5. Shit Robot – Chasm
6. The Juan McClean – Give Me Every Little Thing
7. Delia Gonzalez – Rise
8. Model 500 – Vessels in Distress
9. Crystal Castles – 1991
10. Cyber People – Void Vision (Radio Version)
11. K.S. Experience – Electronic Dance
12. 808 State – Bond
13. Model 500 – No UFOs
14. Giorgio Moroder – Chase
15. Cybotron – Alleys of Your Mind
16. Dopplereffekt – Sterilzation
17. Ladytron – Evil
18. Cybotron – Clear

Download. 101 megabytes, 75 minutes. Might take a while on your Commodore 64. Midi version not coming anytime soon.

I hear that you can get anything you want at alice’s restaurant…

All You Haters (Suck My Balls) from nixbros on Vimeo.

THE LORD OF DEADSIDE!!!! HARDCORE ASSWRECKING TECHNO MUSIC!!!!!

These guys are pretty chill.

Peep more from these fools on their myspace page.

Guy was straight Rowtow, fo sho.

SRSLY!

Snoop’s even recorded a dubstep flavored track, “Snoop Dogg Millionaire” complete with vocals by the chick from Slumdog Millionaire.

Peep it here

“Geraldine” by Glasvegas

I don’t know how how I missed this until now, but Lux Interior of the Cramps died this past Wednesday.

It was a heart condition that did him in, which surprised me since I always figured it’d be lung cancer after watching him stuff an entire pack of cigs into his mouth and light them with a blowtorch at the last Cramps show I saw. He was 62 (pretty old to be that punk rock) and he had been married to bandmate Poison Ivy for 37 years.

Another excellent free compilation of mash-up bootie-bouncin’ beats.  Download it here.  Might also check out Best of Bootie 2007.  Werd

In case you’re either fucking retarded and/or have never read this website before, Zooey Deschanel and Christina Hendricks are two of the hottest women on the planet, which makes discovering that they each appeared in shitty videos from the Offspring and Everclear all the more LULZY:

Zooey in the Offspring’s “She’s Got Issues”:

Christina in Everclear’s “One Hit Wonder”:

Seriously, great female talent, terrible music. Man, I’m so glad the 90s are over, no more of this crap music and I can see Zooey in whatever movie she’s making this year and Christina as Joan on Mad Men!

Guy rocks fuckin’ MOONINITE bling:

The coolest Scientologist ever! The man made some very memorable music in the 70s, winning an Oscar for his theme to the movie Shaft and went on to act in his own awesome blaxploitation movie, Truck Turner! His first two albums, Hot Buttered Soul and Black Moses are both excellent records that anyone who has more than a passing interest in 70s soul and funk should own. He was awesome as the Duke of New York in John Carpenter’s Escape from New York. His version of “Walk on By” is one of the funkiest songs ever. The man accomplished a lot in his life.

Oh and he was on some poorly animated cartoon for a while. I think he played a chef.

Freak out to the trailer for Truck Turner:

And treat your ears to “Walk on By”: