Our favourite Bavarian Soca punks, SCHLACHTHOFBRONX, will release their album on Munich´s Disko B records soon. As a preview on the album the “Belly Full Of Pills” EP will be released end of August, including collaborations with South African chief cribwalkers Slush Puppy Kids, a.k.a. Spoek “Sweat X” Mathambo and Bigspace.

Download a minimix with some beats from the EP as well as other exclusive Baviarian bounce material.
Here´s the link:

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?l0xmzknf4dm

Watch out for the Schlachthofbronx remix of my track “Jesus” feat. Tati Quebra Barraco, which will be released on the “Gostoso Remix” EP, out early September.

Big shout out to Adia for letting me know about this. Another subgenre of hip hop that i can obsess over for a couple of months! Apparently Im late on this , since its actually something that’s been around in LA for a couple of years already. My excuse is that I’m not an African American high school kid living in Urban Los Angeles. If I was though, I would no doubt be wearing lime green skinny jeans with SBs or Chucks and a loud neon tee trying to “jerk”… to be honest I can see kids from South East Asia getting into this; the apparel is favourable plus we like doing group dances. All major labels putting out Jerk records in that part of the world please send me a cheque for this piece of valuable marketing advice.

I’ve heard maybe a dozen Jerk tunes, it sounds to me like a mixture of hyphy and snap music (nice!) Apart from the New Boyz “You’re a Jerk” in the video above, here’s a couple that I really like. Especially that Clothes off Movement tune, the way she says “I can pull a n!!ga h-way better than u can..” SEXY!

Young Rocky – Kicks real active

Clothes Off Movement – Better

Oh, and since Jerk is as much about the dance as it is about the fashion and the music, just go to youtube and type in “jerkin”, you will find amateur dance vids of this style aplenty!

I was at a Toy Art exhibition the other day and fell in love with the Enid doll pictured above, which in real life must stand at about 12″ tall. Enid is of course from the very wonderful “ghost world” graphic novel by Daniel Clowes. In the film adaptation, also penned by Clowes, she is played to great effect by American Beauty’s Thora Birch, who makes her unbearably cynical but bewitchingly sexy at the same time.

Interesting interview with Daniel Clowes here.

One of the best bags to come out of Italy lately…

A great piece of pyschsploitation with the debut single from Fabio. Released in 1968 “Lindo sonho delirante” (beautiful delirious dream) went completely against the grain of the Jovem Guarda, with its innocent paens to love, and embraces the times  with hip daddio Fabio continuously telling us he’s going to take a trip today on his magic carpet etc. The single was a complete flop and is thus worth a fortune nowadays. He went on to make an album at the beginning of the 70s with some minor brazilian prog players, which is apparently half decent.

lindo sonho delirante-lsd

This is another example of an adapted cover version, but unlike the Wanderlea track, this one sticks to the theme of the original. Os Baobás were generally a cover band who sang songs in English, though they didn’t do Beatles stuff which was the craze at the time (1968). They are more known for the b-side of the single pictured above which was “Pintado de Preto” or “Paint it black” as we know it. They also released a version of the Turtles “Happy Together” which is nowhere near as exciting as this track.

pintada de preto-paint it black

more next week.