all gone!

guest list spots are all spoken for. sorry to all who got in
late. see you next year...

guest list spots for Santos on New Years Eve

hello. i have a few coveted guest list spots for Santos New
Years Eve party tomorrow. if you want to get in on the free
admission action email me at:
mike@troublemanunlimited.com
otherwise its like $50 or something... hurry i only have
a few spots.

"post some dance music"

i got a few complaints i am not posting any dance music.
holy moly i didnt realize you people were so touchy about
all this 'dance stuff'!! broaden your horizons! theres a
whole world out there. ahhh fuck it- heres some killer
old house for you!! happy new year! see you in the 2k9!
(see below for some cool parties i am djing)

who's house?

no name?

Union City banji anthem 1988

back jack

official "best track of 2008" award:

(even though its from 1976)

new years eve plans in NYC needed??

mike will be pulling double duty this new years eve, starting
out djing at Rubulad as is the tradition every new years. He
will then jump in a car and head over to Santos Party House
for the Italians NYE party downstairs along with our own
Invisible Conga People performing a live set, then mike will
play a while as well as our pals Eamon and James. Very
exciting! come on down! Santos open til the sun comes up!

happy holidays, etc..

in leu of some obscure lost baleric italo christmas
heavy rock jam from scandanavia or something- we
are going back to our roots. this one is for all the
lovers with their loved ones on this lovely holiday
season... happy holidays from your Italians family.

Now I Don't Mind Choppin' Wood...

movie of the year

filmed in Bayonne NJ. music by Bruce, a tour de force performance...
doesnt get any better than that.

...a close second for record of the year

this record literally blew my head off. obviously i am
not going to post a download for this out of respect to
Arthur Russell and Audika, but i suggest you buy this
album immediately.

you can learn more

here

my favorite album of 2008

for you

THE CURE Peel Sessions

this just arrived in my inbox via mysterious stranger who
knows i love the Cure. These Peel Sessions are from 1978,
1980 and 1981 i believe... Some killer early stuff here that
hasn't been leaked that much. You can hear some influence
that leaked through to some Italians artists as well (hint
hint)... But when i tell people i love the Cure, i really mean
it. Maybe I'll post some Cure edits i did. I feel weird posting
edits sometimes... but anyway, enjoy!

PS: the version of Seventeen Seconds SMOKES. so good!

1978

1980

1981

NITE JEWEL lp available

hi
check the italians store for the Nite Jewel lp on
tiny label Gloriette. We have some for mailorder
in case you want it. It seems impossible to find
outside of LA...

djing MONTREAL this weekend

hello! please come out to Montreal, as i am djing.
if you want on the guest list let me know!

its the same place as last time- at CODA. around
11pm ish on Saturday.
please come down and give yourself the gift
of music this holiday season.

djing in BARCELONA, GOTHENBURG this weekend

need christmas presents $ so i decided to go overseas to dj...

* Friday Dec 5th - Gothenburg Sweden (on the boat) w/Anton Tiedye
* Saturday Dec 6th- Barcelona @ Loft Club with GLASS CANDY

please come out ..


also, Glass Candy are continuing on the road for the rest of the
week. you should try to make all of these gigs..

Dec 9 2008 // Berlin
Dec 10 2008 // Paris
Dec 11 2008 // Amsterdam
Dec 12 2008 // Amiens FR
Dec 13 2008// Paris

DJING in D.C Black Saturday

hello. i'll be in DC this Saturday November 29th
at the 9:30 Club for Bliss. Please come down if
you feel so inclined...

then the next week i'll be in Gothenburg on
Friday and Barcelona Saturday. More on that soon..

word to your moms

ALBUTEROL MIX TRACK LISTING

hi. so im getting a lot of requests for track listings... c'mon guys,
these arent THAT hard to figure it out! there are a few unknowns
in here, but there are a lot of easy ones! any guesses? i'll start
with track 1:

I D I B store (announcement!!!)

if you look to the right you will see a new link.
this is for the new ITALIANS store. This is where
you will be able to get all the newest IDIB stuff.
Troubleman is no longer carrying these records.
We thank them for their help through the years
and wish them well, as they are my all time
favorite label ;)

anyway, this is the only place you will be able
to get direct mailorder for IDIB stuff...

The new releases will be ready Wednesday, and
hopefully we will not be under a McCain/Palin
regime by then...



Also, keep your eyes peeled for the new official
IDIB website. we already secured the domain:
vivaitalians.com - - - - - -
for now it will direct you to this blog.
Italiansdoitbetter.com was taken unfortunately...

new(ish) Mike Simonetti "Albuterol" mix for you

-
hello.
Happy halloween///
new ITALIANS stuff will be for sale later this week. TONS of
new stuff. Thanks to all who came out to the Italians party
in Portland. It was awesome, even though i was there for
under 12 hours!! See you in the spring!

OK, here's the backstory. early in 2008 mike and johnny
went into the studio to work on stuff, fuck around a little
with edits, music etc... Mike brought a box of records
into the studio, and they picked out some songs.
We came up with an idea to collaborate on a mix of edits.
We did a bunch of edits on the fly (no computers, just a
few cdjs) and did a mix. At the time, Mike was staying at
Adam and Natties house and as we all know he's allergic
to cats, and he was pretty fucked up the whole time he was
there, in a constant state of "almost asthma attacks"...
The typical Portland weather (DAMP RAIN) didnt help either.
Plus we listened to chopped and screwed hip hop pretty
much exclusively (as it is the shit Johnny listens to being
from Houston and all). The mix you hear is the result of
some of my time in Portland in early 2008...
Pitched down tracks for your enjoyment...
Done in a single take, Mike and Johnny
knocked out some edits and tried to mix them. Some of
these are proper "edits", others are simple extensions of
the good parts for djing purposes, and a few tracks were
perfect the way they were. Shit, some are even edits of
other edits!!!
The original tape was all but lost, but i found this on my
ipod on the plane and dumped it to my computer. I
totally forgot about it.
you may have heard some of these versions in a live
nightclub setting when i was djing. small world,
right? I am going to post a few edits for you all
to download later this week if you want (let us
know) ... Can you guess which
one of these songs on this mix is one of Mike's
favorite disco trax of all time?

ALBUTEROL MIX

ITALIANS OUT OF HIBERNATION

this weekend i will be in NYC at the WFMU record
fair hopefully buying all the minimal synth and
DIY 7"s before all the hawks come in (dealer
badge means 7am entry!)..

on Friday after FMU i am djing in NYC at 12:30
am as part of CMJ, so come on down and chill out.
its free... see flyer below.

i will then stay awake until 7am and go back to
the record fair to grab more stuff before i jump
on a plane in the afternoon to head over to
Portland for the ITALIANS DO IT BETTER party.
We try to throw parties all over the USA whenever
we have a record to promote. This time we are promoting
a few records: BEATBOX on vinyl (with bonus 7"!) and
a new addition to the Italians family: Nite Jewel from
Los Angeles, CA. Also playing is Farah (her first Portland
gig ever!) When she is there she will hit the studio
with Johnny to work on some new tracks. Very busy
weekend for the Italians family. I'll be djing the gig
and the afterparty as well. The afterparty will be at
the "storefront". if you are from Portland you know
this place. Last time i played there it was pretty
insane. I love that place!

and FINALLY, regarding the ITALIANS gig. We will be
selling a gig -only PINK VINYL version of BEATBOX.
But have no fear, if there are any left i will lug them
over to NJ for mailorder!
Also at the party we will be giving away a new Glass
Candy cd called DEEP GEMS, which is a collection of
singles, b sides, and rarities. in between touring like
crazy, glass candy has been in the studio every possible
moment working on a new lp for 2009. in the meantime,
"deep gems" is a collection of rare tracks recorded
between march 2006 and october 2008. featuring 10
unreleased songs plus the remix of "miss broadway"
they've been playing live, and the 12" version of
"geto boys". here's the tracklisting of DEEP GEMS:

1 > INTRODUCTION
2 > FEELING WITHOUT TOUCHING
3 > ANIMAL IMAGINATION
4 > THE BEAT'S ALIVE
5 > SOMETHING STIRRING IN SPACE
6 > THEME FROM DEEP GEMS
7 > MORNING MIST
8 > GETO BOYS
9 > MS. BROADWAY REMIX
10 > SOFT BOUNDARIES
11 > STARS & HOUSES
12 > SILVER FOUNTAIN

Check the TMU store on Tuesday for the
availibility of all the new releases.


ALSO AVAILABOE ON TUESDAY:
nite jewel "what did he say" 12" b/w
"let's go the two of us together"
two new underground synth pop songs from los
angeles' nite jewel. recorded on 8 track.
ramona g's singing is contagious, and the music
is out of this world. we love this girl!


AND MAYBE NEW ITALIANS SHIRTS AS WELL!!!

coming soon:
farah "into eternity" 12"
glass candy "geto boys" 12"
bottin "no static" 12"

Bruce covering Suicide

yeah this rules, right?