Butter Team Weekend Beats Vol. 25

When Girl Talk fans who downloaded Feed the Animals for free make unauthorized mashup videos of Girl Talk mashups, what happens? Is that like when Diet Sundrop tried to sue Sundrop for taste infringement?


Girl Talk - Don't Stop (Mashing)

Is the Trey Told 'Em team playing on Sunday like a hip hop version of Garfield minus Garfield, where Girl Talk = Garfield? Because that just sounds like a ripoff of The Nietzsche Family Circus.

Did the term "mashups" come from that Beatsie Boys sample where the guy said he was going to stick his Gillis in the starch?


Mantan Moreland - Mashed Potatoes Comedy Routine (maybe FF to around 2:10)

Either way, this weekend is that kind of party with an implosion of 70+ artists creating anything but familiar laptop derivates. Not even counting the inaugural incarnation of indie Voltron glob Who is the Tunafish Man? (Dan Deacon + Spank Rock + Girl Talk), expect to see some unexpected collabs and spontaneous freaking in the aisles. Word is there will even be a couple Bmore elementary school janitors on site Sunday night for when things get sick, they got that special sawdust.

Here's the schedule, choose your own:

Adventure - Battle Cat
Air Waves - Circle of Gnomes
Arbouretum - Buffalo Ballet (John Cale cover)
Beach House - Gila
Celebration - Evergreen
Cex - Baltimore
DD/MM/YY - Imagine!
Dan Deacon - Wham City
Jones - Too Dope
The Death Set - Impossible (Dan Deacon Remix)
Double Dagger - The Psychic
Ear Pwr - Diamondz, Liquor, Leather
Food for Animals - Swampy Summer Jam
Future Islands - Nu Autobahn
Height - Bad Weather
Human Host - Bathtub Blast
Jana Hunter - Paint A Babe
Jones - Too Dope
Lesser Gonzalez Alvarez - Mostly A Friend
The Mae Shi - Run To Your Grave
Ninjasonik - Tight Pants (Mr. Andersonic Rmx)
Parts and Labor - Fractured Skies
Ponytail - Celebrate the Body Electric
Spank Rock - Rick Rubin (President Eutl Rmx)
Teengirl Fantasy - Portofino
Thank You - Empty Legs
Thrust Lab - Magnum Opus
Tokyo Police Club - Cheer it On (Trey Told 'Em Rmx)
Video Hippos - Kool Shades
Wheatie Mattiasich - Sugar Cane

Additional Whartscape 2K8 & 2K7 coverage
Previous Weekend Beats
Hipster Runoff on Girl Talk
Mic to Mic on mashers

+ bonus mashers:
M83 vs. Donnie Darko
Grizzly Bear vs. The Incredible Hulk
Ferris Bueller vs. Requiem for a Dream
M.O.P. vs. Sesame Street
Cut Copy vs. Rad
Danzig vs. Shakira

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Soul Cannon, Turbo Fruits, Height + More At Talking Head

One of Baltimore's hallowed indie music institutions, ye olde Talking Head Club, has been back up and running for almost two months now after closing at the beginning of the year and the lineup is certainly in full schwing. Maybe you pack a sangwich and go down there to check it out for yourself.

It's a crime (little Bmore pun) to only point out a few shows but this weekend's looking ridiculous. Got folks from Norway (Ungdomskulen), some of our new faves from Nashville (Turbo Fruits, above), and a ton of solid Bmore MCs (Soul Cannon, Height, Jones, Bow n Arrow n more) all flexing out over a small stage the next few days.



















Fri Oct 19 - SOUL CANNON w/ LEPRECHAUN CATERING + RPM/PANACEA (RAWKUS RECORDS)

Ever come home from work one day and there's just a bunch of dudes standing in your backyard? Press photos are fun like that. Perhaps they had a pirates in the supermarket type shot going and the parrots never showed up. But with this Soul Cannon joint we hear Roots + Kanye, so.

Soul Cannon - What's Real



















Sat Oct 20 2007 -HEIGHT with JONES + BOW N ARROW

Height's winterizing the game people, show him a good welcome home from tour. All star cast here.

Height - Bad Weather



























Sun Oct 21 UNGDOMSKULEN + TURBO FRUITS + SMART GROWTH + PONYTAIL

Superfresh Norwegian rok, Ponytail, Turbo Fruits and - stop there, done.

Turbo Fruits - Know Too Much

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Baltimore Bangers n' Brazilian Baile!

Surprise performances from MC Spank Rock = cash money lightning. In this quick clip Baltimore native Naeem Juwan helps get the baile kids from Bonde do Role ready for the show, then Marina spits some Portugese for us re: Daft Punk and Afrika Bambatta, then everyone sings about Dwight Schrute:



When it was all said and done the guests included Ponytail, Plastic Little, Spank Rock, Bonde do Role, and even dirty dancing cameos by Johnny from The Death Set. If you have a chance to see Plastic Little, do - homeys laid it down like a glass carpet even during sober hour. Spank stepped in for a few dick joke songs then dropped his own solo set with mad decent bongo players, following Baltimore municipal regulations by performing at least half of the set in the crowd. Thanks to Josh Sisk for the photos.







Marina stole the show (e nossos corações) with her sweaty trampoline bounce and a filthy lyrical assault. Pretty sure at one point she drilled Portugese derenger rounds over Europe's The Final Countdown, so. Plus there's just something about a feisty Brazilian bomber in black spandex, heavy eyeliner and a Slayer shirt that works for us on multiple levels. Props to the Taxlo folks and Emily Rabbit for keeping it solid steel, tonight they come back with Spank Rock DJs Devlin and Darko.

See more Flickr sets here and here.

Bonde do Role - Solta O Frango
Spank Rock - Rick Rubin (President Eutl remix feat. Page Rock)
Spank Rock Girls and Boys (Original)
Plastic Little - The Jump Off

You can preview and download the entire Plastic Little set here courtesy of Jeff Mewbourn aka the Baltimore Taper.

More Spank Rock
Buy Spank Rock, Bonde do Role, Plastic Little

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Baltimore is known for its all-inclusive bootstrap DIY indie spirit - and with the number of startup artists, labels and legit/underground venues climbing faster than the city's body count (200+ this year, watch your back Detroit), we had plenty of gems to choose from for the first part of this series.

And yes, everyone that lives here wears neon fanny packs and likes to dance in sweaty sardine cans.

1. Among Wolves - Sleep and Dream
2. OCDJ - Pls Stp Th Hstl
3. Small Sur - Big Sur
4. Thrushes - Aidan Quinn
5. Brian Adam Ant - Holy Hell
6. Shields - Boom
7. Santa Dads - You Don't Know
8. The Death Set - Impossible (Dan Deacon Remix)
9. Ecstatic Sunshine - Little Big Dipper
10. Beach House - Master of None
11. Cex - Baltimore
12. Ponytail - Lion Down
13. The Oranges Band - If These Stars Are Struck
14. Double Dagger - The Psychic
15. Basshound - Aerodynamic (Daft Punk jam cover, live)
16. Video Hippos - Kool Shades
17. Dan Deacon - Wham City
18. Jakuta and Carl - 31 And Luving It

Wha:
Among Wolves provides the perfect Grizzly Beach Boy/House harmonies to start and end your days...OCDJ makes sounds on laptop, guitar, kalimba, euphonium, bangs drums, shakes things, cites Master Blaster as a major influence...Small Sur is instantly familiar fire circle hymns...Thrushes are murky shoeglazed pop masters...Brian Adam Ant is psychedilifolk that doesn't sound like Neutral Milk Hotel...Shields drops stuttery butter for fans of Prefuse and Madlib...we'll get to some of his counterparts including Jones and Height next...Santa Dads are beatboxing ukelele costume kidz...The Death Set are brilliant noise...Ecstatic Sunshine are superbad instruminimalists...you already know and love the mazzed out Beach House...Cex changes skins regularly around experimental laptop hop...Pontytail will bite your face...The Oranges Band define their sound as "rock" so...Double Dagger will bite your leg...Basshound are a jam band that occasionally covers Daft Punk for the kids at CBGB...everybody thinks it's crazy...Video Hippos and Dan Deacon are well-known Wham City clan types and Jakuta and Carl are electronic clap clap clap clap.

Let us know who you dig.

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Whartscape Pt. 2: Mo' Artist Previews

Later in the week our new investigatory journalist Raven Baker will give you an even heartier helping of Whartscape - the origin and roots of its hideous name and the Wham City organizers behind all this nonsense - but today we'll crack into the long list of artists that call Bmore home and will, we assume, be simply rolling out of bed in their Umbros to perform this weekend. All illustrations courtesy of the talented folks at Baltimore production/record label Wildfire Wildfire.


Video Hippos won't know if you're warming up, starting to tap the feet. To gain the attention of the Kevin/Jim duo (with occasional function button twiddling from Wham fam member OCDJ) you must cause a real fit as they operate in a dark emergency room lit only by obscure cartoon noir. A big fat gask mask ensures drummer and animator Kevin O'Meara won't make himself sick with the beats, but you're on your own. Currently touring the neon green states with D. Deacon, and playing Saturday night at Floristree.

Buy their debut album Unbeast the Leash at the show.
Video Hippos - The List
Video Hippos - Kool Shades

We've all spent a few cloudless nights in vacant lots swigging NyQuil and using the B Heezy's witchy slide powers to seance mazzy stars, so, 'nuf said. They tour with Blonde Redhead in August so start perfecting your shoedaze now. Beach House plays Saturday afternoon at 120 North Ave. Buy their debut from Carpark.
Beach House - Apple Orchard
Beach House - Master of None
Beach House - Tokyo Witch


More:
Ponytail play Saturday night at Floristree. Not really our steez but you have to respect the yelling and the shouting and what not.
Ponytail - Lion Down



Ecstatic Sunshine play Friday night at Floristree. We're pretty sure they now make up one Voltron portion of The Death Set, so. Pretty solid choppin.
Ecstatic Sunshine - Little Big Dipper




You "may" have heard of Mr. Dan Deacon, who could eat Tang crystals and watch Rad with James Lipton as they both stare at the "classically trained composer with a Masters degree in electro-acoustic composition" nametag affixed to his ripe neon Daffy Duck tee. Get tickets to the Saturday night show, which also includes Spank Rock, at Wildfire Wildfire or Wham City before it sells out. Don't you want to be a part of the Flickr zone?
Dan Deacon - Wham City
Buy Spiderman of the Rings from Carpark.

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