11%. This is Surkin - Radio Fireworks (Riot In Belgium Remix) being beamed into my hard drive as I write. Final version. Quite looking forward to it, as the Riot boys are massive, and the preview was like, uh, fuck, I just gave away the proper adjective. I’m not going to live-blog a download, don’t worry. And don't bother looking for it online, it was a dropload, one dl only, sorry.

13%. Riot In Belgium will be at the Bal des Blousons Noirs party we’re throwing on the 26th. I won’t say “Come!” because it’s almost a matter of duty with such a line-up, it’s like you owe it to Tacteel, Das Glow, The Midnight Juggernauts, DJ Aï and Orgasmic and of course the aforementioned Riot In Belgium. There’s a great mix from them here by the way. God wants you to be there. He's holding a fuzzy little kitten hostage. The kitten being a metaphor for your soul.

26%. The Midnight Juggernauts are in Paris, arrived tonight from Copenhagen, after a UK show they apparently smashed (I got emails from UK friends raving about it). Andy & Vin came carrying big flightcases with HUNTERS & COLLECTORS MELB-AUST stenciled on the sides, which looks ominous in a good way, just like their music. New songs! New remixes (including an unstoppable KIM remix)! New record (“Shadows” 12” out now on Cutters--great death-disco artwork, great remixes from Ajax and Comets)! And we're readying the MJs’ Institubes 12”...

I furthered the FR/AU exchange by playing them the remix Surkin is working on for the next Para One single, "Midnight Swim", and a couple of tracks from future releases, not including (never give everything on the first date, girls) the upcoming BOBMO EPs. Yes, plural, as in more than one. 74%. Below, a little video showing Bobmo at the Arcade Mode Eurogirls release party, tearing it up. As in girls threatening to bare their breasts at the acme of youthful abandon.


Now, friends and allies, I bid you farewell. 5:46 AM, tomorrow at 10 we’re shooting the cover for Orgasmic’s mixtape with Akroe, and I have to find some headphones not destroyed by my cat Haïti--aka Kid Annihilus--to listen to the Riot In Belgium remix.

Oh, and last night Para One and Surkin were playing with [t]ékël in Poitiers and it went a little like this:
1:26 AM Surkin: dommage qu'il n'y ait pas le son sur gtalk
je pourrais te retransmettre le live de para
en live
1:27 AM je suis en hauteur au dessus du dancefloor là
il joue un truc que je connais pas
1:28 AM me: ça c'est normal
à chaque fois il y a des trucs que personne ne connaît
...
1:34 AM Surkin: ah para joue le tool burning-like tabasse chanmé
il fait des effets live sur le synth c'est hyper bien
...
1:50 AM ah le remix des daft
1:51 AM il fait chaud
me: il y a du monde ?
Surkin: je dirais
300 400
je sais pas
me: ok
Surkin: il y avait 150 préventes
donc déjà au moins 150
haha
mais là peut-être 400
bon je vais boire une bière
passe le bonsoir au mj
aux