I’m going to the land of Lime and Gino Soccio, Neil Young and Kids in the Hall, that’s right, I’m gonna DJ in Canada. It’ll be a cross-cultural exchange between our two great nations, like an Olympics of hi-nrg disco, we will show the way for a bright future in which our two homes can finally get along.

Friday, Nov. 2nd
Loose Joints and Attitude City Present:
Dan Selzer (Acute Records, NYC)
Jordan Dare (Turbo Recordings, MTL)
Chris Pare (AttitudeCity, MTL)
Zoobizarre, 6388 St-Hubert, Montreal
10pm-3am. $5.

Killed some time yesterday and recorded a new DJ mix. It’s been a long time since I’ve done that and I had a lot of fun with it. For a few months I’ve been talking about a series of mixes I wanted to record but have just been to lazy busy to do it. Then somebody announced the idea of doing a DJ mix competition for the I Love Music message board and I figured I should throw something together. Only a few others have taken the bait, but I’m just glad it motivated me to get off my ass and record something. I also worked out some kinks in my recording set-up and learned how to fix the volumes in Audacity so it was definitely a good use of my time. It’s a bit sloppy at times, but I had fun. Here’s the mix, tracklisting and more info after the cut.

Wave the Rave Goodbye

more info…

Wow. Chuck Warner just pointed me to this, a video clip of the pre-Fire Engines band the Dirty Reds, on Youtube, of course.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agwed4_29Xk[/youtube]

Meanwhile, response to the Fire Engines CD has been great, will be updating the Hungry Beat page soon, but here’s just a few links to some of the press. For more info, read the prior blog post.

Stylus Magazine
PopMatters
Blender
Other Music
San Francisco Bay Guardian

We here at Acute are very proud to announce the release of our latest CD, Hungry Beat by the Fire Engines. Hungry Beat contains all of the Fire Engines studio recordings, culled from their first self-released single, and 2 singles and a mini-LP on the Pop Aural label. I’m not going to bother going into a whole history of this band, how they were the UKs answer to No Wave, how they played with Orange Juice and Josef K and were basically one of the coolest bands of the post-punk era, or any era. There are plenty of resources online, including the Hungry Beat release page on the Acute site, which includes samples, some press, photos and some great sleeves and flier artwork. I figure I’d take this chance to just share some music, like the amazing song:

Meat Whiplash
[audio:MeatWhiplash.mp3]
control-click to download

and talk about how this release came about, this blog is more like LiveJournal than it is Mojo, right? My Fire Engines story…