the "12" shirts are finally for sale!

sorry for the delay on the shirts.. we only have small
and mediums, and we dont have many left! we also
put an option to buy one alone since so many asked.
thanks for being patient!

Glass Candy "Geto Boys" 12" OUT NOW

After months of mastering issues (the bass was so heavy
it was making the needle jump), legal issues, and remixing
issues. We are excited to say that the Glass Candy "Geto Boys"
12" is finally in stock. And even better...it's a double A side.
They've Been destroying this song on tour all year. Samples
the hip hop classic "Mind Playing Tricks On Me" from Houston
legends, GETO BOYS (who sampled Isaac Hayes). The flip side
of the record features the Deep Gems burner "Animal
Imagination". If that wasn't enough, the record contains 12"
instrumental versions and vocal edits of both songs. 3 tracks
per side. This is an extremely limited one time vinyl pressing
that you will never see on itunes. Packaging includes full color
jacket, insert, and lyric sheet. "For a good time...call Glass
Candy"...

also, we made a t-shirt with the Geto Boys cover specifically for
sale with this 12". We only made 60 shirts, so hurry up! Its
our tribute to the 12"! The shirts are on black American Apparel
shirts, and the price is nice!

OH YEAH, if you already ordered the Geto Boys 12" before we
put the shirt up- it is not too late to get a shirt. email us your
paypal receipt or transaction # along with $13 (the balance for
the shirt plus some shipping) and we will send you a shirt.
make sure you tell us your size.
paypal address for the shirt: mike@troublemanunlimited.com

this should be available in the store today! (August 6). sorry
for the confusion.

DESIRE II now available on vinyl

check the store for the vinyl version of Desire II lp
thanks!

Mike in Athens and Turkey this weekend

home for 2 whole days... back on the plane tomorrow...
pretty excited to hit the beaches in Izmir...

July 30 2009- Athens Greece @ Higgs Bar
August 1 2009- Beyoglu Turkey @ OTTO Sofyali

Mike djing in Moscow / St Petersburg this weekend

hello. back on the plane this weekend. the vacation is over.
no more ice cream socials in the park with a 2 foot man...
looking forward to going back to Russia though- last time
was pretty great.

July 24 @ Vodka Bar Moscow Russia
July 25 @ Swallow St Petersburg Russia

Premier Rang edit Stockholm Monsters

here is an edit by our own Premier Rang. digging
into obscurity with a psychedelic trip to Manchester
circa 1983.

Stockholm Monsters "Soft Babies" (Premier Rang edit)

GLASS CANDY, TWISTED WIRES, NITE JEWEL live west coast USA

For those of you in Los Angeles who can't wait until the 25th to get your dose of Glass Candy & Italians Do It Better...Our very own Twisted Wires will be doing two shows in L.A. The first show is with Nite Jewel at The Cocaine on the 20th, & the second show is at The Smell. Don't miss this chance to see Twisted Wires live. They never play out.

BEN MANZONE edits are here:

Ben Manzone aka Benguin sent me three edits for the blog. Im
his biggest fan so i am posting them. if all goes well some of
these may see a vinyl release.

Cosmic Lust

Only The Strong Survive

Lets Love Dance

4th of July weekend plans?

new releases: DESIRE, PREMIER RANG, SOLANGE- all out now (plus bonus Premier Rang mix!)

hello. three new releases available now on Italians Do It Better:

1. Desire- debut cd. This has different artwork and songs/mixes
than the demo. Vinyl coming very soon.

2. Solange 12" - Archival discovery with remix by Bottin on
the b-side.. ltd to 750. no repress.

3. Premier Rang 12"- new discovery from Paris. Some of the
sweetest sounds you may hear this year. ltd to 750. no repress.

3.5. also check out the PURPLE BRAIN 7"/cd we are selling, It
was released by RVNG and we only have 9 copies. it is sold out
from the label apparently.

we are also offering a bundle so you can order all three records
and save a few bucks. AND we are happy to say we lowered
our cd prices to fit the economic crunch we are all in...


to celebrate the new releases, Premier Rang has done a mix
especially for us. It gives you a good idea where they are
coming from musically, since they are so hard to pin down!

Premier Rang Selection

here is some BIM MARKS for you:

Who is Bim Marx? That would be my friend from NYC Duane Harriot
and our own Professor Genius- forming a super hero team of
production sure to be huge in the not so distant future.
You may know Duane as being one third of the now on hiatus
Negroclash crew (along with Dj Lindsay and Prince Language). They
used to throw a killer party at APT back in the day... And of course
you know Jorge (aka Professor Genius released one of the first
IDIB 12"s!) anyway, here is an edit they have given us exclusively.
its killer, so be warned.

Cristal-"Phonic" (Bim Marx breakdown edit)

check them out here to hear more :

bim marx myspace

Duane also did a KILLER mix for us that you can download:

Dj Duane Harriot mix

while you're at it, go to Turntable Lab and grab some super
ltd Bim Marx releases

HERE

(maybe we can talk the Professor into a mix sometime soon??)

DJING SANTOS THIS THURSDAY

hi. come out to see me DJ in NYC at Santos:::

Thursday, June 25, 2009 - 22:00
Santos Party House New York, New York, USA
Thursday June 25th, 2009
The Phenomenal Handclap Band - RECORD RELEASE PARTY!

Featuring:::
The Phenomenal Handclap Band (LIVE)
And DJ Set's by::

Tim Sweeney
Mike Simonetti
Tim Love Lee
Smallchange
Amir

First 100 RSVP'd Guests FREE!
Meanredproductions.com/PHCB

$5 Reduced with RSVP (after the first 100)
$10 at the Door
-Santo's Party House
100 Lafayette St.
-Doors 10pm

Built by Santos Party House and MeanRed
Brought to you by Wax Poetics & Friendly Fire Recordings

Mike will dj in LA, SF, MEXICO this weekend

hello. i will be djing in SF, LA and MEXICO
this weekend...

Weds June 17 @ Vessel San Francisco w/ Ryan
Thurs June 18 @ Dance Right in LA w/ Chairlift
Friday June 19th @ Pasaje Americana Mexico City

GLASS CANDY / DESIRE live in Frankfurt -date added

Mike djing on Diesel Radio

In an attempt to keep content on this blog
because i am going to be away most of the
summer on the road- here is something for you.
I djed on Diesel U radio when i was out in London
last weekend. Towards the end of the radio show
the cd player craps out thus rendering the exclusive
IDIB track unplayable... SO keep that in mind. It
was fun nonetheless. you may recognize one
Rory Philips of Durrrr fame make a guest
appearance as well. as for the mix itself--
blame it on a-a-a-a-a-alcohol...
also check this mix for some cool soon to be
released italians tracks as well as some
goofy Mike edits...

2 hours of pleasure

COOL PARTY ALERT (in NYC)

Ben Manzone and Steve Shakewell from NYC. good
friends and gooder djs. trying to do something right
in this shitty club filled city. support them!

ITALIANS FESTIVAL WEEKEND (with Lindstrom!)

hello. this weekend we bring the traveling IDIB
party to London, Frankfurt, and Paris. This is
our first attempt at an overseas party of this
magnitude, so please try to come out and
join us for these dates. We even asked Hans
Peter to come out and play in London. We
are excited to have him play with us. We've
been trying to coordinate for the longest time!

Thursday June 11th at KOKO London -
(Lindstrom, glass candy, desire, mike simonetti)

Friday June 12th Frankfurt @ secret location
thrown by CREATHIEF (ask around). just
mike djing as glass candy has a day off.

Saturday June 13 in Paris at Le Regine
(glass candy, desire, mike simonetti)


--also, i am djing after the London show at the
Horse & Groom at the Secret Weapons party with
Bill Brewster and Filthy Luka from Horsemeat Disco.
its FREE. located at 26 Curtain Road, EC2.

--AND before the London gig i am djing on the
radio for Deisel U music radio earlier in the
afternoon. it will be archived so i will post the
link if i remember.. http://cult.diesel.com/

A New Bottin mix

here is a message from Bottin:

It's been a while since I posted a mixtape, so last sunday
after returning from Paris I immediately started selecting
tracks. I've been playing fast disco lately so I had to
compensate with this rather adventurous mid-tempo mix
of laid back songs from 100 to 110 bpm with basically no
genre rules: set your time machine to a random range
between 1978 and 1990 and you'll get stuff going from
disco-funk to proto-balearic, from italo-boogie to very
old school rap.

The track list has been made somewhat obscure: all that
is left of artist names and track titles are the initials and
whoever guesses the tracks will be awarded with a 12"
vynil or cd that I will gladly ship to any address on planet
earth at my expense. You don't even have to guess them
all: the 2 brave contestants that will get the most will win.
If you have your own blog and would like to post the mix
there you are very welcome to do so. Just make sure that
answers are posted as a comment to this blog or sent to
me in a private message.

Ready?

LIVE FAST, DANCE SLOW
a 100-110bpm vynil mix by Bottin

01 TO - DLG (1978)
02 BSM - TFTSSOK (1981)
03 E7 - DG (1984)
04 GM - FDM (1984)
05 RJ - CR (1980)
06 LSD - TDS (1978)
07 A - YMMDI (1981)
08 VM - C (1990)
09 RM - S (1984)
10 K - OTBA (1983)
11 HC - E1IAW (1978)
12 PM&M - BBS (1980)
13 TDP - SB (1984)
14 DCLR - HJDAVDR (1979)
15 DC - C (1984)
16 TO - D (1983?)
17 SF - PS (1978)
18 LB - WSOWS (1978)
19 JH - ER (1983)

here's the mix

a few old fliers

Jonny from Konk sent these over to me. He found them as
he was preparing his move overseas. i am hoping to get
more to post. Either way, i have never seen the Paradise
Garage flier before. Its a rare later flier. pretty cool... Thanks
Jonny!

10 DESIRE TRACKS ON MYSPACE / TOURS, ETC

hello. sorry for the lack of updates on here- been busy with
recording, preparing for tour, preparing for the Itlians UK
party (more on that soon), celebrating birthdays,
mowing the lawn, etc... but we're back with tours,
new records (more on that soon as well!) and news...

due to the overwhelming amount of people looking for a
nonexistent Desire myspace page...they finally made one
last night. just in time for them to catch their morning
flights out of montreal with glass candy. both bands are
in the air right now on their way for three weeks in europe.
i am meeting them in london & paris. it's going to be insane.
most of the official Desire lp is up on their myspace page now.
plus some unreleased 4 track cuts. the desire lp is done being
mastered, and on it's way to the pressing plant. we should
have these in the store in a little over a month. but in the
meantime check out the page for dates and keep them
company...they only have 12 friends right now because
they accidently deleted tom.

DESIRE MYSPACE

GLASS CANDY/DESIRE EUROPE TOUR:
Jun 3 2009 BABEL Malmo Sweden
Jun 4 2009 BLA Oslo
Jun 5 2009 DISTORTION FESTIVAL Copenhagen
Jun 6 2009 DEBASER Stockholm
Jun 11 2009 KOKO LONDON IDIB FEST! w/ Lindstrom
Jun 13 2009 LE REGINE Paris IDIB FEST PARIS!
Jun 18 2009 Frankfurt
Jun 19 2009 Berlin
Jun 20 2009 INSIDE A ROMANIAN CASTLE Busteni


MIKE SIMONETTI BACK ON THE ROAD:
june 11 UK Italians festival GC, DESIRE, LINDSTROM, MIKE
june 13 PARIS italians festival, GC, DESIRE, MIKE Le Regine
june 17 San Francisco @ vessel
june 18- Los Angeles @ tba
june 19 mexico city @ Swine Flu
june 20 mexico monterrey @ Swine Flu Annex
july 3rd UK tba
july 4th london @ cargo