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So let’s start this party! Hide your daughters… Kid Versimilage, The DJ Wonderslut of Twitter with his man Pimpin’ Doc Baty @docbaty are making house calls! After the groundbreaking success of “Dr. Wonderslutecologyst,” Kid Versimilage hid out for years – he returns to practice with nasty skits and gritty electro-beats; his Pre-Sim rants that compliment his mental rhymes. Outta space has cometh. Trees are dying. Gorillas are driving pick-up trucks. And I can tell you no more. You’ll have to check this crazy simulation for yourself. Okay, and DJ Wonderslut? Where did that come from? Where’s the ultra-hipster music list?
Here’s something, not much but perhaps a half-decent starting point: here are the last twenty-five songs added to the my Superfly TNT Hip iTunes playlist. Might give you some idea of whence I’m coming from:
1. The Sleeping – “Don’t Hold Back”
2. Head Automatica – “Graduation Day”
3. Steely Dan – “Jack of Speed”
4. Chevy Heston – “Nancy Seduces the Couples”
5. Stiff Little Fingers- “Suspect Device”
6. Statuesque – “Three Quarter Moon”
7. Lucky Sperms – “Tomorrow Never Knows/Glass Onion”
8. Wipers – “D-7″
9. The Adverts – “Safety In Numbers”
10. Velvet Underground – “Velvet Underground Ad”
11. Collide- “The Lunatics Have Taken Over the Asylum”
12. Shellac – “Jailbreak ’95″
13. Alexander “Skip” Spence – “Lawrence of Euphoria”
14. Curtis Mayfield – “Move On Up”
15. Saccharine Trust – “Belonging to October”
16. Dredd Foole and the Din – “Not The Same”
17. Suicide – “Beggin’ For Miracles”
18. Theoretical Girls – “Keyboard Etude”
19. Sproton Layer – “Jam From Outer Space”
20. Elvis Costello – “Psycho (Live at the Palomino Club, 1979)”
21. The Who – “Tattoo”
22. Faust – “So Far”
23. Bad Brains – “With The Quickness”
24. The Jean-Paul Sartre Experience – “Jabberwocky”
25. Dream Syndicate – “Tell Me When It’s Over”
Now, I can delude myself and @docbaty about what a gloriously eclectic list that is (and that’s just an eighth or so of the whole), but let’s be frank – this is just your standard, everyday, self-conscious hipster lineup: a little classic R&B/soul to break up the wave of ivory that is the remainder of the list, only the hippest and cleverest classic rock artistes (the ‘Oo, the Dan, Skip Spence), oh-my-god-so-cool cover versions and pastiches, a tiny touch of electronica or whatever new term has been coined for it since 1998, some old-school punk (from when it meant something, F8k3rs!), bootleg selections from most of the more well-known artists up there, and a whole lotta indie-bred one-moreobscuremanship (not Mission of Burma/Sonic Youth/Minutemen [though they're all represented on the full playlist], but MoB/SY/Mm offshoots and antecedents; arcane choices from the Flying Nun and SST catalogues; and a few bands/artists that even I’ve barely heard of). Is this the scowling face of community-college rock at it’s you’re-too-hip-baby worst?
Should I perform some kind of act of penance for deciding to remove that Donnas song I liked once I started hearing it on the radio and seeing them perform it on SNL (or was my job, at that point, done)?
Am I revealing a ever-deepening scatalogical displacement meme right now, an ever-hardening artery of out-of-touchedness by even concerning myself with such things (the twenty-and-under-somethings being sure to look upon my 33-year-old tastes with undisguised, heavily-pierced contempt)? Should I be concerned that I’m not sure whether the Lucky Sperms track I downloaded from iTunes and uploaded to my iPod before listening to it may or may not have been transferred from 7″ to MP3 at the wrong speed? Or should I just relax, admit that I love all this stuff despite all my contortions, and consider putting that Rick Springfield song I heard backing up the funniest sequence in Wet Hot American Summer that I couldn’t remove from my consciousness for almost a week after wards up there next to my fave Go-Betweens, Fall and Spacemen 3 brain-spasms, since, hell, who will listen to these thing (or reads this post) but me anyway and I’m just indulging in these kinds of thoughts to avoid contemplating the forthcoming decimation of life on earth as we know it when the republicans sweep the whole show again after a Karl Rove inspired surprise act of contempt against American values – again?
So, enough – anyone know Doc Baty @docbaty? See – you learn something new everyday. Check it out. It’s guarenteed to give you an express ticket to an institution – maybe even the same one he was committed to. I heard he shared a 6×9 with @livlab and @mariobourque the Canadian abstract recapitulationist. I think most of this is spelled out in his upcoming feature length “Mario’s Lovepulp.”