We in the Midwest: Hey Champ’s new mixtape
Only one-tenth of this post is about the HIT SINGLE (!) “Cold Dust Girl”
We in the Midwest: New mixtapes from John Twatters, Only Children, and the Hood Internet
How good do your mash-ups have to be for anyone to give a shit? Does a retro soul mix made for a queer-oriented dance party sound any different than a soul mix made for a non-sexual-identity-specified dance party? And if you say the word ‘disco’, and I say the word ‘disco’ and a dj says the word ‘disco’, what are the odds we’re talking about the same thing?
These questions and more answered in another edition of WE IN THE MIDWEST!
We in the Midwest: New mixtape from Skyler Mendoza and Rehab
Rehab Mondays drop a new blog and a new mixtape!
We In the Midwest: mixtapes and mixtapes and mixtapes from Chrissy Murderbot
Our friend Murderbot drops a mixtape a week for one year. Weirdness/goodness ensues.
We in the Midwest: New Mixtape from British Knights
British Knights drops a mini mix of 1980s punk refixes…..
We in the Midwest: Artifacts from the Rave Scene 1993-2009
Milwaukee’s Juiceboxxx just posted a link on twitter to some scans he put up on RaverGeek.com of the legendary Milwaukee rave zine Massive. In all, there are four complete issues of the magazine, spanning five of its six-year lifespan. It’s an important six years too. 1993-1999.
This was the time when a good chunk of the world thought that electronic music wasn’t just the next big thing, but the future of music (for better or worse) and magazines like Spin, Mojo, and Rolling Stone were asking question’s like “Is the Age of the Guitar Over?”. From any objective viewpoint, you could see the parallels between rave culture and hippie culture. Would 1997 surpass 1967 as a time of peace, love, music and drug-fueled social change? Would Generations X and Y finally shut the Baby Boomers up by doing it better, with new technology and a totally alien form of pop?
