Name: Evil Nine
Genre: Dance
Day: Friday

Wikipedia sez: “Tom Beaufoy and Pat Pardy first combined skills as Evil Nine in 1998 and were quickly recognised as a quality DJ/Producer duo by Adam Freeland who signed them to his label. Their punk rock, DIY attitude, epitomised by their remix of Ils’ “Music”, stirred up the breaks scene. Their love of innovation and ability to tweak the breaks format, injecting punk, house and their own raw vibe into the mix, is rapidly establishing them as the new golden boys as they forge a fresh path.”

Jeez, doesn’t the above read just like a press release?? I don’t mind Adam Freeland, and I can see why he brought on Evil Nine - they sound so similar. Simple breaks with electronic piano and the odd sample thrown in for good measure too. They have done a few tracks with rappers including Aesop Rock, but I can’t say I like what I hear by any means.

Likelyhood of Seeing at Coachella: Nah.

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Name: El-P
Genre: Hip-Hop
Day: Friday

Wikipedia sez: “El-P aka El-Producto (born Jaime Meline) is an American rapper, producer and entrepreneur from Brooklyn, New York City. He is the co-founder, owner and CEO of the Definitive Jux record label. As a rapper, El-P’s style can be characterized by his dense, aggressive, and verbose attacks, which include notable use of metaphor, science fiction and fantasy themes and references, and associative word play. Regardless of this sophistication, he does not eschew traditional hip hop subject matter, a description which would fit equally well with several of his colleagues. His impact as a producer owes to his innovative mix of bleak futurism and low fidelity sounds. This sound is influenced by Public Enemy’s production team, The Bomb Squad. El-P is a great fan of science fiction writer Philip K. Dick, and many of Dick’s themes—paranoia, the nature of reality—feature in El-P’s work.”

El-P is the founder of Def Jux, home to alternative hip-hop artists such as Aesop Rock, MURS and favourite of The Couch Sessions Danny! So after doing a search for some El-P, I was suprised by what I heard, in particular why I hadn’t come across it earlier. El-P’s rhymes don’t share the aggressive tones that you might hear from Slug, but are a bit more heartfelt reminding me of Murs. Recently he put together a live backing band rather then relying on records, but he has also been known to spin tracks as a DJ at festivals too. For Coachella fans, who knows what he will bring, but those saying that Friday is lacking big names may want to check him out.

Likelyhood of Seeing at Coachella: I think so!

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Name: DJ Shadow
Genre: Electronic
Day: Friday

Wikipedia sez: “Josh Davis, a.k.a. DJ Shadow is a turntablist, producer, and songwriter. His recordings are primarily noted for their lush, atmospheric, sample-based sound. DJ Shadow began his music career as a disc jockey at the community radio station KDVS. During this period he was significant in developing the experimental hip hop style associated with the California-based Solesides record label. His early singles for the label, including In/Flux and Lost and Found (S.F.L.), were genre-bending works of art merging elements of funk, rock, hip hop, ambient, jazz, soul, and used-bin found records. DJ Shadow is often cited as a leading creator of trip-hop, though this is a label he strongly contests.”

I like DJ Shadow. Well I did, at least until he released “The Outsider”. I found Shadow via my search for everything and anything Jurassic 5 related, and since Cut Chemist did two amazing mixtapes with him (”Brainfreeze” and my personal favourite “Product Placement”) chock full of samples from here, there and everywhere as well as the brilliant “Endtroducing” and “Private Press” albums. Then in 2006 he released “The Outsider”, and the damn album is full of bay-area hyphy rap. No cool samples or beats, just rhymes about getting high on cough syrup. I wasn’t the only one who was upset by it, but at least Cut Chemist was going to come out with a decent sample based album (for the record, he didn’t). I suspect that Shadow will be doing a hyphy set rather then hearing Building Steam with a Grain of Salt, so I will probably give it a miss. But if Cut Chemist suddenly pops up…

Likelyhood of Seeing at Coachella: Doubtful, but I’ll probably check it out anyway.

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So rather then spending time putting together badly written entries here at lamerslame.net, I spent most of the day updating the look of the site. I was a bit tired of all the links running down the right hand side, so I’ve stuck a link bar up the top of the most important stuff to draw attention to it. I’ve separated a few sections as well - the tag cloud now has it’s own individual page (and looks a bit better in the process), there is a separate page for Twitter entries (more on that a bit later), and the search bar now has it’s own section which you can open and close.

Now for the new stuff. Like the hundreds of people joining the site each day, I became a member of Twitter and will be using it for live updates once I am in the States next month. Twitter is sort of a mobile-blogging site, where the maximum you can write is 140 characters. The upside to it is that you can register your phone to the service and SMS in entries from anywhere, which are uploaded to the Twitter site (and my blog too). I won’t be sending song by song updates from Coachella with it, but it will give you all an idea of what is going on during my trip (at least until the more detailed updates come along later).

I’ve also added a calendar and weather details. The calendar shows upcoming events that I’m interested or involved with (such as the shows at the Comedy Festival that I’m attending and the Carlton fixture), as well as any entries I’ve made on the blog in the past. The weather section is pretty self-explanatory, and will change depending on the location that I’m in when I have access to a computer.

That is pretty much it on the update side of the time being. I will be tweaking a few things and may change a few things with the bars, including the ability to open and close any bar on the side if need be, but right now I’m pretty happy with it.

Name: DJ Heather
Genre: Dance
Day: Saturday

Wikipedia says: Nothing! DJ Heather isn’t listed on Wikipedia, and most of the stuff on the web seems to be PR hype.

DJ Heather is a house DJ, which means you get some really phat funky beats at just the tempo I like. Apart from that I can’t really go into any amount of detail about he, I may check her out but I won’t be upset if I don’t. With that said, I expect Heather playing early on the lineup due to Saturday being so stacked, so I won’t be shocked if I miss her.

Likelyhood of Seeing at Coachella: If I’m wandering past, I’ll stop in for a listen.

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