ITALIANS DO IT BETTER

Thursday, August 02, 2007

Mike's WFMU dj set

hello. heres a link to the WFMU appearance. i drove 5
minutes to play records on Jim's radio show. Let me
preface this by alerting you to a few trainwrecks in
this particular mix. Its tough to dj with 45's some
times... but im not afraid to show my weaknesses...
you only live once, as they say.
:)
anyway, the link is below... i start about 1:03 into
the show, and go until the 2:15 mark- then we bullshit
on the radio for a while, which is always weird, yet
funny.

go for it

Thursday, July 26, 2007

UPCOMING EVENTS TO TAKE NOTICE OF (pt 2)

Mike Simonetti will be djing in the immediate future, and
GLASS CANDY will be on the east coast playing shows!!! :

Wednesday July 25 on WFMU on the Small Change variety hour. 2-5am.

Friday August 3rd at Rubulad in Brooklyn from 2:30-6am
(email me for infos)

Friday August 10 at Studio B in Brooklyn (Glass Candy playing as well)

Saturday August 11 at PS1 Warmup in LI City, Queens , with
Glass Candy. (part of the Italians Do It Better "coming out party".)
Lovefingers is our special guest. check the site:
http://www.ps1.org/ps1_site/content/view/274/102/

Saturday August 11 - PS1 / GLASS CANDY AFTERPARTY at Union Pool in Brooklyn. with your DJs, Mike Simonetti and special guest Johnny from Glass Candy as well. midnight-4am. FREE.

Saturday August 18th - Mike Simonetti djing at Union Pool Brooklyn 10-4.

also keep your ears peeled for a secret glass candy show in
brooklyn as part of Andrew Porters bday celebration with yrs
truly on the wheels of steel. the party will be happening on
a roof in industrial Greenpoint. email me if
you wanna come. shhhhh. dont tell noone.

Monday, July 23, 2007

KILLER KUTS #38

Santana's classic lineup comes full circle at
Woodstock. THey totally obliterate 300,000
people while jamming Soul Sacrifice.
Everyone cites then 19 year old Michael Shrieve's
infamous drum solo as a high point of the
performance. Indeed , the guy can shred.
The entire song just blows open doors.
Santana was a road heavy band, and it shows. They
are simply superior musicians. In the movie,
Sly And The Family Stone plays immediately after
Santana, and as much as i like Sly Stone, theres
just no comparingthe two. Its just that good.

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Check out Santana shredding up Ed Sullivan in 1969.
A KILLER medley of Persuasion and Jingo. HEAVY. Hard
to think this was 1969.

..and a good live version

KILLER KUTS #37

This record flew under the radar when it was released,
and soon after it was released Buckingham and Nicks
joined Fleetwood Mac, and the rest is history- as they
say. The record was pretty much forgotten, and to this
day hasn't even seen a cd release. But who cares about
cds anyway- its a dying medium...
The track FROZEN LOVE is my current favorite. The build-up
RULES.

so to this day it remains unavailable. You can track down
the vinyl if you look hard enough. I suggest you do.

you can download the record

here

Sunday, July 15, 2007

Roma O' Morte

back from Africa- i mean Italy. Its nice to visit
the motherland. Hung out with Mirage in his deluxe
studio on the resort island of Sardinia. We drank wine
and ate cheeses until the night turned into day.
Its hard to understand what he is saying thru his
vocoder, but after a few drinks it was all good.

SO did American Apparel copy the Italian Appeal
logo? The mystery continues!

mike's dj gigs /vinyl release news coming soon.
also, due to overwhelming demand we are pressing
the After Dark cd professional style for stores.
More on that soon. BUT if you order from us
direct you can get the special hand made version,
which is much cooler, and VERY limited. the test
pressings are here, and we expect vinyl in 2 weeks.

Friday, July 06, 2007

Portland, Italy

Portland was great. you all missed out on a great show.
chromatics really stepped up their game. The new lineup
is 100% solid. glass candy killed as usual. especially the
Supernature cover. are live disco covers the new "edit"???
off to Italy to hang out with Mirage for a week. i got an
excellent gig at the foot of the Spanish Steps. cant wait!

Will be back to update the blog in about 10 days so keep your ears
peeled. New Italians 12"s test pressings are expected to
arrive while i'm gone. i will be djing throughout the summer.
maybe i'll post the dates if i can remember them... but
at this juncture all i care about is fixing the leak in my
roof and getting the dogs fed.

Wednesday, June 27, 2007

KILLER KUTS #36

been into this record lately. viva Brazil!

Monday, June 25, 2007

another link to Mike's mix

hi
apparently this is faster than megaupload:

http://www.zshare.net/download/24215036cbadec/

got a few people writing in with tracks, but
you are still missing a lot of them!

Saturday, June 23, 2007

MIke Simonetti djing in Portland/Italian night

hello. come out to Portland with me this coming
weekend... but more importantly it is a show
featuring two of Italians brightest stars!

Thursday, June 21, 2007

im back

hi. sorry its been so long.. here's a new mix i did for a magazine.
its a Megaupload link. copy the address below and it will ask
you to type 3 letters in for verification. its about 75 minutes
long. anyone who can guess the songs will get a prize!

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=XRFNR6DO

i'll be in Portland next weekend djing and i'm setting up an
Italians Do It Better showcase at PS1 this summer with
Glass Candy and yours truly on the dj duties.

got tons of other shit lined up but im too lazy.

oh YEAH! the first batch of Itaians Do It Better 12" releases
are ready to "drop" in a few weeks!:

Chromatics "Shining Violence"
Glass Candy "Miss Broadway"
Professor Genius "La Grotta"
Farah "Law Of Life"

Wednesday, March 21, 2007

some dj gigs of note

hello
yours truly playing records:

03/23/2007 12:00 AM - Mike Simonetti dj-ing

Lit NYC
Lit, New York
US
Cost: free
Description: Mike Simonetti djs: 12-4 am downstairs

March, 30 2007 at Mike Simonetti dj-ing
Rubulad (Brooklyn), Rubulad (Brooklyn), New York
Cost :
please send me a PM for info on this party,

as it is an "outlaw" type party and we cannot

advertise it (and the pigs keep coming). im djing

from 2-7 A.M. all by myself, my partner Chris is

out of town.

04/06/2007 11:00 PM - Mike Simonetti dj-ing
POUSSEZ! POUSSEZ! party @ Zoobizarre Montreal, Canada Cost: N/A Description: at Zoobizarre, 6388 St-Hubert, Montreal www.zoobizarre.org myspace.com/zoobizarre

04/07/2007 11:00 PM - Mike Simonetti dj-ing	[Edit] [Cancel]
SEVENTH HEAVEN @ White Orchid (Basement) Toronto, Canada Cost: cheap Description: 812 Dundas St W IN THE BASEMENT

05/16/2007 11:00 PM - Mike Simonetti dj-ing
Hurrah! @ Upatairs at Sals Philadelphia, Pennsylvania US Cost: N/A Description: 12th and Walnut Philly.

06/29/2007 10:00 PM - Glass Candy / Chromatics / Mike Simonetti dj-ing
Nightclubing party at Holocene Portland, US Cost: N/A Description: with glass candy and chromatics!

06/30/2007 11:00 PM - Glass Candy/ Chromatics/ Mike Simonetti dj-ing
more info soon L.A., California US Cost: N/A Description: with glass candy / chromatcs

Sunday, March 18, 2007

MYSPACE round 3

here we go again. yet another try at the myspace. join us.

http://www.myspace.com/italiansdoitbetterrecords

Sunday, March 11, 2007

IM STILL HERE!!!

people keep asking me via email if this is still a real blog.

yes it is, im still around. been out of town a lot lately. i have
some mixes for you as well. just got to get around to it.

ill be in canada in a few weeks and after that UK and Italy.
ill get the Canada info up once Alex gets off his ass and gets
me the venue (HINT !) .. . . . .. .

if anyone wants to hook me up with gigs overseas, you can
email me direct rather than go through my booker.
mike@troublemanunlimited.com

its easier that way. but if you'd rather deal with the booker
it is:

www.support-agency.com
(oliver)

coming soon : the first Italians Do It Better releases.
gonna be an awesome year for the label. literally stoked.

Wednesday, February 07, 2007

part 2 of the mix....

hello
rather than post part 2 of the Motherfucker mix i will
post part 2 of my New Years Eve-ning... After Motherfucker
i djed Rubulad until 10 am... The set was also recorded, and
l'll post it this week hopefully. It is the polar
opposite of the Motherfucker set. Barely any house
or electronic stuff-- i reserved that for Motherfucker
since i was in the 'electronic room', and i thought
it would be nice to do 2 separate sets with different
music.

So all of the people who complained the Motherfucker
set was "too dark"... This will suit you just fine!

Monday, February 05, 2007

Mike's NYE set from Motherfucker:

hello. here are the links to the Motherfucker dj set
from New Years Eve 2006. This is the first half-- about
1:45 (its pretty long). I have part two as well if anyone cares.
Sound quality may be shitty- it was one of those portable
USB recorders plugged into the mixer... (thanks CJ from
Germany for sending this to me!).... by the way, about
an hour into the thing a few girls jumped on stage to
dance and almost knocked everything over, so it sorta
jumped for a second... and, if you have a Stuffit program,
you can reconnect this so it is one long set...

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=Z5SE63DC

Friday, February 02, 2007

I'm Not Gonna Lie...

i've been in and out of town and havent been able
to do shit for the ol' blog, but i will do something
soon. i plan on re-upping the NYE Motherfucker set
as well. blah blah....

Wednesday, January 17, 2007

Mike Simonetti birthday extravaganza /Carl Craig djs

Mike is celebrating his birthday at Studio B this weekend,
and Carl Craig is djing. essential weekend activity.
very limited guest list spots , so lemme know ASAP.
if not get on the reduced list.

info:

NIGHT TIME presents:
Mike's birthday party!
DEMON DAYS: An official Planet E Selection
with
CARL CRAIG
GAMALL (Demon Days)
+ Special Guest TIM SWEENEY (DFA / BEATS IN SPACE)

FRIDAY JANUARY 19th 2007
@ STUDIO B
259 Banker, Btw. Meserole & Calyer, Brooklyn, New York
http://www.clubstudiob.com

$10 advance/$12 at door
Tickets available at OTHER MUSIC, TICKETWEB, HALCYON
Doors @ 10pm
Artwork: http://www.demon-days.com/ParraDemonDaysJan07TheFoolP.gif
with support from: URGE, XLR8R MAGAZINE & DFA

http://www.demon-days.com
Reduced list ($10) closes Thursday evening at midnight

two new additions to the Italians family

holy shit man. are we STOKED!

firstly, Italians do it Better is ready to go with their first few vinyl
releases. secondly, we added some new groups to the Italians
family.

1. Professor Genius
(myspace.com/professorgenius)
--Jersey City based organic dance music. intense and captivating.

2. Invisible Conga People
(myspace.com/invisiblecongapeople)
--the 2nd track on their myspace is SWEET. these are
demos and will be re-recorded.

these will be out very soon. once we get the ball rolling it
will be impossible to stop. indeed!

Sunday, January 14, 2007

ALICE COLTRANE

R.I.P.

shit man they're dropping like flies these days. i have been out of town a lot , so my blogging was very poor. i am still away so i cant give you anything, but when i return i will give you more. some live sets and other shit noone cares about but me.

Wednesday, January 03, 2007

2007

so with the new year i bring you sound samples. once i get my shit together they will go up . so you can all stop complaining. also, my buddy plugged one of those Ikey things into the mixer at Rubulad and recorded my Nye Years Eve dj set, and i'll post it soon as well. it will only be a snippet because we played from 3-9am that night and he couldnt fit it all on the hard drive...