Happy Halloween!

The Wonderful Jane and Jenny..

When Halloween girls go bad (in the best way;)

On the left is the gorgeous Ashlee as Little Red Riding Hood. That's me on the right in my foam latex 'Lizard' mask. My mom did the makeup, thanks Mom!
Laura as Minnie Mouse, (cute) and Morgan (Tedder) as an
Old School 80's Rocker. Nice mullet Morgan.
I believe Kenzie told me she was either 'bird lady' from Home Alone or the woman from the movie "The Birds". (Note Kenzie's costume actually has birds attacking her)

Wanna check out the rest of the Halloween pictures, click HERE

I got my crazy 'Lizard mask' from Nightmares Entertainment

Enjoy Michael Jackson's - "Thriller"
Happy Halloween from Electrikids ;)

Citizens of Tomorrow..

The guy on the left is Dave Monks and on the Wright is Graham. You then have Greg Alsop on drums and Josh Hook on guitar. These wonderful gentlemen make up the Tokyo Police Club. Their style is high energy indie rock and boy do they ever have it. With their catchy guitar riffs, memorable lyrics and raucous stage prescence, the Toronto quartet that have definitely become noticed in the last 2 years..

I saw them on Oct. 16th at Sugar Night Club. They tore that place a new something. TPC just released their first EP: A Lesson in Crime. It's amazing.

Here's a track from the album --> Nature of the Experiment

Go buy everything that this band stands for :) If you enjoy the track above, you'll enjoy the entire album... Links Below...
==>Buy 'A Lesson in Crime' HERE
==>Tokyo Police Club's Homepage
==>Tokyo Police Club's Myspace

Graham's tired from being the amazing one man show that he is with those keyboards..

Tegan & Sara

Born at the same time, (give or take a few minutes) and raised in Calgary, Alberta, the Canadian Indie/Pop sisters Tegan & Sara Quin, formed their group when they both turned 16 in 1999. They've toured with bands such as Hot Hot Heat, Rufus Wainwright, Ryan Adams, The Killers, Neil Young, Tom Waits, Metallica and more.. The White Stripes have done a cover of one of their songs and they've even been nominated for a Juno (Canadian Grammy)..

They have now just released their new album "The Con" and will be touring all over the states again, this time with guests Northern State. I'm currently enjoying "Back in Your Head", it's catchy and I like the piano. For those of you that need a house beat, Tyler Fedchuk to the rescue... Enjoy!

Back in Your Head (Original mix)
Back in Your Head (Tyler Fedchuk's 1/2 Alive Disco remix)

Links ==> Tegan & Sara's Myspace
==> Tegan & Sara's Homepage
==> Tegan & Sara on Youtube
==> Buy their music, hoodies, t-shirts & DVD's @ Maplemusic.ca

Do the D.A.N.C.E, 1-2-3-4 Awesome...

I saw Justice last time they were here and it was absolutely amazing.. but there was a more personal feel in the air. The North American Ed Banger Records Tour was on March 25th (this year) at the Caprice in downtown Van, there was probably 300 - 400 people there. If you were there, you would've heard Justice, Sebastian, DJ MEHDI & Busy P (Pedro Winters), cause they were tagging.. all night.

Gaspard Augé & Xavier de Rosnay of Justice came back to Vancouver on Oct. 13th with The Midnight Juggernauts & Dj MEHDI. Being the most "blogged artist" in history is just one of the things that has helped the two electro rock stars blow up massively over the last 7 months. This time, it was unreal. Huge, white glowing cross, flashing to the music and lighting up a dancefloor of 1500+ people that were losing their minds. They played their incredible new album 'Cross', front to back, randomly throwing in a couple new remixes and just completely tweaking and distorting their entire set. Amazing.

The Midnight Juggernauts were the best indie dance/live band act I've seen to date. If I had the money, I would follow them around their North American tour and become a crazed fanatic. Three extremely, multi talented guys, best explained as.."Like The Rapture with John Carpenter on keys, their pummelling space-disco is the perfect bridge between Bloc Party's indie elegies and a synapse-shredding Justice DJ set" - NME.

Dj MEHDI in my opinion, stole the show, but I heart MEHDI so that's another story. Being pretty much the 'Ringleader' of Ed Banger Records, he's the most entertaining person to watch play and he's incredibly talented. His style can be described as hard banging glitch electro meets crunchy party hip hop. It's kinda hard to explain what he's like live, but to give you an idea, there's a video enclosed of MEHDI playing at the Justice show from the 13th (courtesy of my friend Justin) and here's a picture of him freaking out at the Caprice.. Priceless.

Below is a remix of MEHDI's 'Signature' by half of Daft Punk's (Thomas Bangalter), The Midnight Juggernaut's amazing remix of Dragonette's 'I Get Around' and the most recent remix by Justice, which will slam your face into the ground.. in a good way. Again, if you like them, go buy the mp3's at Beatport or buy the vinyl at Juno Records. Enjoy!

Dj MEHDI - Signature (Thomas Bangalter remix)
Dragonette - I Get Around (Midnight Juggernauts remix)
ZZT - Lower State of Consciousness (Justice remix)

Anders got me movin'...

I started October off with a bang. On the 3rd, I went to see Trentemoller: Live in Concert at the Plaza Club in Vancouver. He came fully equipped with two keyboards, a mixer, a drummer (Henrik Vibskov), a guitarist/bass (Mikael Simpson) and loads of acoustic instruments (including an electric harmonica and a glockenspiel). They went through all the tracks that every fan has come to know very well; Les Djinns, Always Something Better, What Else is There, Moan, Evil Dub, etc. It was a constantly changing wave of electronica; funky, minimal techno in the beginning, staying melodic throughout, then getting alot heavier in the end, with darker synths and really deep sub bass.

The bass/guitarist Mikael Simpson was phenomenal. He did everything. Jamming out on the bass, blowing into an electric harmonica (absolutely amazing), jamming out on a guitar and even shaking a tambourine.. The most amazing moment had to have been when he dropped the infamous bass line from 'Evil Dub' over top of 'Moan'. At one point, we were making so much noise from cheering Mikael on, that he motioned us to quiet down.. :)

After they were finished, my friend and I approached them and told them, "If you guys ever get a call from someone, asking you to play on a gorgeous beach, on the very west coast of Canada at a 3 day party, say yes".. I'm of course talking about Soundwave and they sounded very interested by the end of our conversation. So who knows, maybe I'll see these guys again really soon. Cause in my opinion, you can never have too much Trentemoller.

Below is the "flawlessly programmed" Trentemoller Essential mix from last year, as well as a few of his remixes. The Essential mix is big, but DO take both parts 1 & 2, they're equally amazing and the whole mix has incredible replay value..

If you do enjoy either of the remixes that you hear, you can go to places like Beatport for mp3's or Juno Records for the vinyl. Enjoy! ;)

Trentemoller Essential Mix 10.14.06 Pt.1
Trentemoller Essential Mix 10.14.06 Pt.2
Blue Foundation - As I Moved On (Run Jeremy Band's 12 Inch Pleasure Mix)
Aphex Twin - Windowlicker (Run Jeremy Band's White Label remix)