June Tom Tom Club shows lookback 7/6/08

Boston June 27th

left to right: Fuzz, Tina Weymouth

I am the DJ for TOM TOM CLUB and we were happy to get to play some really posh shows with Devo, Gang of Four, and DAN DEACON. we played in Fairfield,CT then London (for 3000 seats), Brooklyn, and boston. london's meltdown fest was put together by Massive Attack where we played with Gang of Four. the Massive Attack guys were really cool. Brooklyn was june 26th and boston was the 27th with Devo. Tom Tom's were deep in the groove pocket thanks to Chris Frantz, the funk metronome.

in williamsburg, Dan Deacon's energy with the audience at McCarren Pool was more than impressive. the kids were ready to have a serious good time, just like for some of my favorite bands. even with such a big space he got the crowd moving. he was cool. traded Kraftjerk-01 "12 for his Crystal Cat "7 and some other stuff.


Dan at Mccarren pool

I met this guy named Benny from Baltimore who told me about his 8-bit project, ADVENTURE he mentioned he was about to play cake shop in manhattan. I think his stuff sounds rich with cool panning, good composition, and some sweet rutger hauer blade runner samples on "poison diamonds." His US tour starts in late august and his record will be out too:)



a great website from this baltimore artist collective WHAM CITY

that's all for now,
thanks,
:)-r KG!

Salut to the Liege scene! 5/14/08

I had an amazing time in Liege, Belgium,thanks to my hosts, Nell, and Shaken. I Played with Brussels' Velvet Underwear and Leviathan. Then, a rad DJ set with Nell mixing 130bpm planet-rock beats, as Atone joins to add fast, but grooving skratching. Shaken also did a set with dubstep at the very end. Earlier that night, I walked with Shaken to the radio station for a promotional spot, thanks to Shaken's friend (please tell me your name again.) The show at la Factory was a blast and I spent the night at R-Mit's appartment. He makes hard, 8-bit influenced tekno. The next day I went to the Timeless Network shop and hung out with Bioxyd. Some of the other DJ's I met were Shore, who is part of Party Harders, and Symptome who loves music to be "dark and darker."

LIEGE IS A VINYL CITY!


KG and Nell!

on stage

venue

train sation:)

sold 15 records, not bad:)

thanks to Nell and the people reading this:)

best,

:)-r KG!

flyers: 1st part of '08

live Kid Ginseng show with DJ sets from Lauren Flax
, Chris Frantz, and buddy, Mike Dextro


SUNY Purchase art school DIY party (OFF THA CHAIN!) sorry, sadly nobody took pictures. it was just packed to the walls with drunken college kids dancing to KG and Greg Dog's DJ set w/ electro/miami bass/dirty south/dubstep. a great time with great memories:)


Pianos party including Chicago's Alexander Bassett and New York's Ole


KG rocking:)

thanks folks. next blog= KG performing in Belgium 5/14/08

best,

:)-r KG!

VINYL IS OUT:)

get it in your hands:)


TOOLBOX E-STORE
you can stream audio samples or hit up my myspace


WHOLESALE BY TOOLBOX, PARIS (visit them if you are there)

if you live in new york city:

KIM's Video and Music
6 St. Mark's Pl.
NYC
ph: 212-598-9985
mondokims.com

ETHEREA
66 Ave A
NYC 10009
212-358-1126
etherea.net

VINYL MARKET
241 E 10th St.
NYC
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look for it soon at :

and la la land (shop) The Hague, Netherlands

timeless-network (shop) Liege, Belgium

OH, final note: Go See RUINER the next time they come to New York. They are soo melodic. nothing brutal. I went to see them with Paul (SIGNS OF HOPE) in a restaurant basement in Brooklyn. that was Dec. 2nd. some of the other bands I liked were TRASH TALK on malfunction records. and ENVISION. those young kids are on my top friends. I would post some of ruiner's pix but dance music heads might not care so much about the hXc. ha:) I still love it

best wishes and happy new-year to ALL!

:)-robin KG!

The Deep, Chicago (a few weeks back)

HA!


New York based DJ, MIKE DEXTRO went on a rant, a few times about this Chicago warehouse party he played. About how the floor was in danger of caving-in:) He spun indie-techno.

sweaty pix:



Mike Dextro, far right.

ask mike for his track "The Agony" it's nice and melodic, and buzzy.

:)-r KG!

Melt Banana/ Vaz @ Club Europa! BK

photo: Daniel Corrigan, Minneapolas 6/24/07

I went to see MELT BANANA on Nov. 11th at Club Europa, in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. It was a posh place! Melt Banana hit the stage hard with rapid double-time drumming, short, fast guitar riffs, and cute-as-hell shouting. The voice cut so sharply and guitarist, Agata, created sounds which ranged from a recognizable hardcore punk to moments similar to Thurston Moore's. Except these sounds were executed faster and tighter. The opening band was called VAZ,who have been playing with Melt Banana. The vocals are pretty sparse at times and are not verse/chorus/verse, which isn't needed anyway. All three guitarists were playing telecasters. twangy as fuck. They had a sound which reminded me of THESE ARMS ARE SNAKES, or The Minutemen. If you check them out, Vaz's recordings are great. The dirty drums don't intrude on the guitars and all of the instruments are warm sounding. Over-all the night was fun and not boring at all.

Check out this youtube. it's the best sounding version I found from that night. You can easily hear the guitar.
MELT BANANA ENCORE AT EUROPA (youtube)


Here are some bad cell phone pictures from that night. They look sort of like impressionist paintings. I'm a blogger without a camera. what are you gonna do:(


And here is a pic from a VAZ show.

I'm going to get a camera:) definitely check out the youtube!

and best wishes,

:)-r KG!

Kaiju in BROOKLYN nov. 9th!

More Better Fighto match from KAIJU BIG BATTLE was held at The Warsaw in Brooklyn last week on Nov. 9th. I interviewed Nick de Jardins who works on Kaiju, earlier in this blog. It was my first Kaiju show and I didn't know the plot but the play-by-play narrative from the announcer was really entertaining. If you haven't seen it, those monsters slam eachother! Im glad my introduction was a live show and not a DVD. Cameras weren't allowed, although everyone had them.
here is a pic I found from that night .

The Kaiju champ for that night was Call-Me-Kevin.
The after-party at Matchless was fun.

:)-r KG!