Hey folks!
As i run laps around the Bassnectar Labs trying to get ready to zooooom out onto the open road for the next 2 weeks, i wanted to give out a few passes to upcoming shows. I know a lot of you are planning on coming to 3 or 4 shows, and SOME OF YOU NUTTERS are doing the entire 5-city sweep next week. That is too bad ass to take lightly. SO…
I want to give away 1 Season Pass (a pair of free tickets to EACH of the 5 nights: Mendocino, Arcata, Eugene, Portland, Seattle… and if you win it and you are only hitting 3 or 4 shows you can give away the passes you don’t want to a buddy who does: we’ve got a system worked out! 
Also i want to give away 1 pair of passes individually to each of the 5 nights, as well as Tempe, LA, and Santa Cruz. Santa Cruz and Arcata are both already sold out, but i’m just giving up my own guest list, cuz i think it would be cool to have another little cheeky competition.
So, here is the plot: we want to get the sickest, craziest photos of you showcasing your enthusiasm. We prefer to call it a bassface (that feeling of perfect disgusting delight right when a huge beat drops on your noggin, and the face you make in response) but you can do whatever you want. You can also do videos, like folks did last time.
Submissions will be judged on:
1. Level of Enthusiasm
2. Uniqueness, Personality
3. Intensity.
The photo must be OF YOU, or taken BY YOU, specifically for this (you can submit photos of yourself from a previous show if you really captured a moment, but we prefer if you make a new moment right here and now.
Runners up will receive a free pair of passes to the show in the area they specify, and the Winner will receive a season PASS.
INCLUDE YOUR NAME, EMAIL, and CITY WHERE YOU WANT YOUR PASS and submit your bassface to guests@bassnectar.net. If you are far away, only submit if you know someone in one of these cities whom you want to give a gift to. All set? We will announce the winners on Monday at noon, submissions must be in by 6pm PST, This Sunday January 31.
AND LASTLY THANKS FOR THE SUPPORT WITH THE REMIX PACK AND THE IDJ MIXTAPE!
If you haven’t checked out the Teleport Massive Remix yet:
Our music store took a hit of acid and quadrupled in OOOOMF this week (Thanks Daysha!!!!) and you can now get music bundled with various things, in eclectic combinations. We will be unleashing some pretty sick bundles, but this first time we kept it pretty simple and just tested out some random ideas. The Collector’s Bundle was supposed to be limited to 30, and sold out almost immediately, so we added more. Each purchase of that bundle enters you into a raffle to snag an hour hanging out with me and the Crew, going through my laptop, doing remix stuff, swapping stories or tunes, or whatever. Since we will be running all over the states this tour, we will be giving way 3 raffle prizes instead of 1 and have arranged for 100 copies to be made available at remixpack.bassnectar.net. Congrats to Chris Keller for winning the first draw. See you in Arcata, Chris!
MUCH LOVE!
L
2010 is in full swing and we are starting off with a BOOOOOOM!
Tour kicks off next week, so today we are unleashing this new Remix pack, which features 2 new Bassnectar re-interpretations of Boombox and Teleport Massive (both erupted at New Years eve and will be in heavy rotation @ the upcoming shows). In addition we have some AMAZING remixes from the likes of RJD2, Robot Koch, Son of Kick, DJ Vadim, and Stagga – available at Bassnectar.net and at all the major retailers. Order through the little shoppe at Bassnectar Labs and get the exclusive bonus remixes of Cozza Frenzy, Boombox, and West Coast Lo Fi Rides Again by J Boogie, Amp Live, Mexican With Guns, Stylust, and SF’s own Roomate.
Visit RemixPack.Bassnectar.net and grab the remixes, some new instrumentals and remasters, plus the new podcast, as well as some other bundles including the Cozza Gold pack, DJ Tools, and limited collector’s edition set of Bassnectar music & gear (including a coupon good for either free cotton candy, or 1 free ride at Lorin’s new amusement park, set to open spring of 2046 or later, prices may vary…avoid taking if you have an allergic reaction to the sun or suffer from chronic disappointment. in general, if you develop gold and purple dots on your face please consult a physician. you may also want to ask about some new glasses? ..just sayin…).
Feb 1st starts the Northwest tour run with events scheduled in Mendocino, Arcata, Eugene, Portland, and Seattle. We are thrilled to be joined by Eliot Lipp, Emancipator, and Danny Corn!!! Then we cruise to Tempe, Arizona on Friday February 12th with DJ Element and on February 13th we’ll head down to LA for Lucent L’amour: The Do Lab’s annual Valentine’s Day fiasco, featuring a massive lineup of all your favorites plus N.A.S.A. and the Stanton Warriors…. then bouncing back up to homebase, closing out Valentine’s Day proper alongside Brother, Little John, Raindance, & Magnetic Sound crew in Santa Cruz on Sunday night – Monday is a holiday so get ready to raaaaaage! We are toting a huge wall of PK subs to each event to fill your bodies with bass; as always ear plugs are free but you are encouraged to bring extras to share!!! While you are at it, you are encouraged to bring all sorts of gifts to share with each other. Why not??? CAN’T WAIT TO SEE YOU ALL OUT THERE!!!!
Visit the tour schedule to grab the discounted tickets or subscribe to the Tour Blog & follow online with the freak show.
And, as mentioned above, head over the to the mix set section at Bassnectar.net and enjoy some FREE MUSIC: the new 2010 IDJ Mixtape…. 44 minutes and 25 seconds of 10th-generation genre-re-wiring, exploring bass music through an open-minded lens, regardless of tempo, or even beat-structure… this sound clash aims straight for your body, with the intent to melt you down into a fidgeting, wobbling mess of enthusiasm and delight.
In addition to some of my favorite old records and samples, this mix features several brand new Bassnectar tracks, heaps of exclusive edits, re-edits, and re-re-re-edits. Lot’s of re. Lot’s of mix. Lot’s of edits. We tore our favorite drum & bass to shreds, injected hip hop with some pogo-stick bass, amped up the tempo of dubstep, freaked out the gypsies, gave a nod to the dreamy 80’s and ended up similar to where we started off: omni-tempo maximalism strikes again.
I hope everyone is doing well out there, the new Decade is exploding and we are thrilled to be here living it with you!!!
-L
It’s time for our annual major meltdown, and we have 2 VIP passes to give away for Sea of Dreams NYE 2010 in San Francisco. We have no idea how to decide who to give them to, so we are holding a contest for the craziest photo of your most outlandish bass face.
Like Rock, Paper, Scissors: a photo can be topped by a video, and a video can be topped by a check for 17 million dollars made out to Belinda F. Stringleheimer.
Location and Details
December 31, 2009 from 8pm-4:30am
Bassnectar is on @ 1:30, mainstage, but this event is RAMMED with killer lineup all across the board.
@ The Concourse Exhibition Center
635 8th Street, San Francisco 94103
UPDATE
My oh my oh MY!!!!!
It was so much fun to field through all these crazy=ass submissions …you folks are a bunch of ODDBALLS AND FREAKS!!!!! i LOVE it! you know i love it.
Unfortunately whats not fun is having to choose 1 winner, because there were soooooooo many wierd/crazy/amazing/beautiful pictures and videos, how can we possibly say no to people who love bass this much???
Anyhow, so much love and appreciation to everyone who sent in some expression of passion or freakishness. WE LOVE YOU ALL!
The Winner had to be this pic, partly out of love and support and wishes of healing, and partly out of respect for maintaining the fierceness even in times of challenge or pain. WE SALUTE YOU!!!!
Then there are the 2 runner ups, each to receive one General Admission pass, first off to the dude in pink pants… you are SO GRINDCORE! WE LOVE IT!!!! HAHHAHHA! the hands! the pink pants! GO ON!
And then to the freaks who made Turbo Mega Bass Face video…we have no idea what you are doing or who you are but we like it! a LOT! Thank you!!!!
Included below are 5 photos of Honorary Mention (each of these was first choice by one of the judges), just to give you all ideas of what we are searching for next time we have a contest like this. There is a huge stack we arent posting, full of so many beautiful faces, laughing people, contorted folks, lots of oddball photoshop edits (killer job!) and a wide range of disturbing shit!
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THANK YOU ALL! MUCH LOVE AND HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Where is my Mind?
After touring my arse off nonstop for months and damn near completely loosing my marbles, I returned home wondering what’s next.
And since its the Season for Giving, how about a cup of bass nog, and this new smasher for YOU:
This tune is an anthem for living life at a dizzying pace, but refusing to slow down. Obviously influenced by the legendary rock band THE PIXIES, this bootleg was 1 of the secret weapons of almost every show on the Cozza Frenzy tour, and now its yours for free: Happy New Year! Merry Xmas! Happy Hanukkah! Joyous Atheism! Enraptured Humanism! Do as thou will, and blast this track!
Feed Readers: Click here to download.
AAAAAAAAAANNNNNNDDDD…exclusive in our Little Music Shoppe:
“Where is my Instrumental”
This is just a simple chunk of bass and beats, probably not dubstep because it is 20 bpm faster, probably not D&B because it doesn’t follow the rules, but its thick and deep and it should be yours. If you are a listener, just grab “Where is my Mind” for free at bassnectar.net, but if you are a DJ and want a nice instrumental banger for your sets, this jam has some heavy bass and a nice clean beat loop at the beginning running at 85 bpm…perfect to thicken up any hip hop, drum & bass, dub, downtempo or dubstep track, also a nice little acapella synth at the end…
NOW SOME UPDATES ON THE EVER-TRAVELLING FREAKSHOW:
New Years Eve tickets go up in price tomorrow, so JUMP ON THAT SHIIiiiii and grab yours now!!
Tickets: http://www.seaofdreamsnye.com
The February run is ON SALE:
COZZA FRENZAAY WEST COAST WINTER RUN is about to barrel through your snowy village like a snowplow.
Running up the west coast with a stack of PK sound in tow, then cruising through Tempe on our way to Los Angeles for The Do Lab’s Lucent L’amore…. then it’s back up to the hometown for a special Valentine’s Day blowout on Sunday February 14, in SANTA CRUZ – MONDAY IS A HOLIDAY, SO IT’S GAME ON!!!
Also, now up: a full stack of tourdates in April 2010, including some bonkers shenanigans with Major Lazer in Cleveland, Indianapolis, and Detroit (WHAT?!?!?!) as well as first time shows in Omaha, Minneapolis, Urbana, and Syracuse with a special doobie-sparking session on 4/20 in Buffalo, NY (oregano only, of course 
ANOTHER BIG ONE: we are joining the party down in NEW ORLEANS for Jazz Fest with a late night on 5/1/09 to close out that run @ The House of Blues.
Check out the full schedule at http://tour.bassnectar.net
….Also, a super-large remix package on the way with remixes from RJD2, Robot Koch, Noah D, Stagga, DJ Vadim, Roomate, Alex B, Son Of Kick, Mexicans with Guns, Amp Live, K-Flay, J-Boogie, and more!!!! That will drop early January…more info soon
Cant wait to let you guys in on our festival plans, but some presents you gotta wait for….
MUCH LOVE
Lorin
MASSIVE GRATITUDE AND LOVE FOR ALL THE SUPPORT THIS FALL!!!! In each and every town and city you showed so much love and enthusiasm, helping make the Cozza Frenzy Fall 2009 Tour a nonstop BLITZ, an unforgettable freakshow, and a celebration of passion, expression, and face-melting energy. Thank you! We will be back soon!
UP NEXT: NEW YEARS EVE IN SAN FRANCISCO!
SEA OF DREAMS 2010
The lineup is packed and we are going to detonate another THUNDERBOMB in California! Last year was insane and this time there are so many people traveling in from all over, and more contribution from the local freaks than ever before.
JUST ANNOUNCED: NEW TOUR DATES IN 2010
Before the raucousness of the spring tour, we have planned a few sweeps along the western regions, and the first 5 have been announced: Mendocino, Arcata, Eugene, Portland and Seattle! Look for Los Angeles, Santa Cruz, Tahoe/Reno and others to be announced shortly. Visit the ticketing page for information on presales and discounts, as these shows will sell out. MUCH LOVE!
IN THE MEANTIME: Now it’s studio LOCKDOWN working on new remixes for RJD2, DJ Vadim, Modeselektor, Robot Koch, and Thievery Corporation, as well as finishing up new projects with iLL Gates, Datsik, Jantsen, Excision, Son of Kick and Number Nin6. In addition to getting together a new podcast, i am also working with Amorphous and Child’s Play to put together a big comp of remixes (Boombox, Teleport Massive, WCLF Rides Again, Window Seat, and more Cozza re-dids) so stay tuned for that!
SEE YOU ALL IN THE FUTURE
-Lorin
Time for another RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRREECAP!!!!
After the first leg of the Cozza Frenzy tour, i left miami with a sore throat. We had just slammed through a crushing route of dates, each night bursting with energy, and mounting intensity. But quite literally, the second i walked into my home late sunday night (my flights delayed, my bags lost) i collapsed into my bed, and was literally on-and-off ill the entire time i was home. I had anticipated 10 days of non-stop studio time but instead my body forced me to slow down as best it could.
I did manage to create several hours of new loops and content for live shows, as well as a long overdue ‘metal-mashup’ set for a last-minute booking opening for Korn in Southern California. And that was how the second leg kicked off:
October 30: Trevor and i flew down to Orange County to slay an odd-ball crowd of metal heads, hybrid SoCal gangster thugs, youngster mods and face-painted goons, lots of headbangers and overall wierdos as well as shirtless jocks, and girls who *LOVE* eye shadow. I was excited. It turned out to be slightly lame because there was a massive hole in the audience where the promoters thought it would be cool to reserve PREMIUM dancefloor space for ‘VIP’ guests, but they failed to sell any of those passes, so half the front area was completely empty, while 2-3000 people packed in all around it. I played my heart out, highlight being a Sepultura mashup i’ve been wanting to drop for years. Then i slammed a fuckload of wine and rushed off to the hotel to knockout quick. Our biggest show of the tour was next:
October 31: Halloween in Denver. The largest venue i have ever played a headlining show at, not to mention it sold out 3500 tickets weeks in advance (THANK YOU COLORADO!!!), and there was an extra thousand-person afterparty also sold out. I am not sitting around bragging… i am like GAWKING from the sidelines in total shock… what kind of WEIRD world have i fallen backwards into…it’s out of control, immensely beautiful, but exponentially stranger and stranger. HDC and RJD2 played support, and The Fillmore exploded like a fucking thunder-bomb. The afterparty was good too, but i was a sweaty mess by the end, and after 3 loco shows in 24 hours i was ready to collapse.
November 3: Sold Out 900+ people in Grand Rapids Michigan? On a Tuesday? WTF??? How does a tuesday night feel SO FORKING LOCO!?!?!? The crowd was amazing. my buddy had forwarded me some online goofball haters talking shit about Bassnectar in michigan, so i didn’t know what to expect. I put together a sketch set which was a mix of classics, new insane bangers, and some truly weird shit. At the end of the show, i literally wanted to hug every single person in that room. It was a totally wonderful energy rush. Angela took video of 2 dudes outside talking about some funnny stuffff!
November 4: Wednesday in Madison: rammed over capacity @ the Majestic… the venue shoots up vertically maybe 2 or 3 stories high with vaulted seats. It was our first night with Nosaj Thing (on the road for the next 3 weeks) doing support, and his music was the perfect set-up: rich, emotive, thick, strange, and full of infectious groove. When i finished i clambered up to the backstage and it was full of random kids who had broken in and were hiding up there… i shudder to think what they might have been doing, hopefully they had fun. Overall the Wisco crowd was amazing!
November 5: my first time playing in Bloomington…i expected maybe 100 people. Although the venue claimed to fit 800 people, our 500+ crowd was more than i could imagine squeezing into that room. When i walked into the back of the room at the end of Nosaj’s set i was immediately drenched in moisture…the air was dense with perspiration. I got to dig into lots of oldies and classics since it was a new place, but i literally recognized DOZENS of faces, so either those locals get around or those locos travelled a long way to Bloomington…either way it was a facemelter.
At the end i dove into the crowd to take a ‘family photo’ and when i climbed back onstage i sliced my pointer finger on broken glass and bled everywhere while i played an encore track and tried to stop the bleeding. Backstage Elliott laughed at me when we saw the cut: half an inch long and i looked like a sissy. and i AM a sissy. but it was deep and bled for days. As i type this i am happy to note it has healed and once again i just think it is so magical that our bodies heal themselves like this. there were all these girls backstage, and elliott brought back pizza, the girls were hanging with me and the crew but one of them was texting her boyfriend, and i guess ALL their boyfriends were outside in the car, and i flipped out. i was like “im not some backstage DJ schmuck!!!! tell your boyfriends to get their asses in here, its warm and we have pizza!” The guys were totally cool, and it turns out one of them was like the Bassnectar Pied Piper who was responsible for getting them all to come out to the Bloomington show. I was thrilled to meet him and give him a hi-5 with my working hand. It’s always like that, people ask for a picture, then the girls jump in and all their Dude buddies slink back and im like “get in tha fuckin picture! this isnt just for girls” maybe they just dont wana be photographed with some weirdo like me. hahahaa. that would probably be a good initial instinct. anyhow, where was i?
November 6: After Lollapalooza we kind of knew Chicago would sell out, but i had no idea that The House Of Blues was such a magnificent temple of mad-house art and architecture and overall a TOTALLY bizzarre and gorgeous venue. The crowd was *TOTALLY* bezerk, and the set was over in a single flash…2.5 hours of my life gone in an instant, felt sooo good and i was so excited i could barely sleep that night after playing. During sound check i asked the house light designer what he thought i should play in such a gorgeous, epic venue. He said something simple that blew my mind. something to the effect of “at the end of the day, these kids are coming here to PARTY. All i’ve heard about Bassnectar is your shows are off the hook and i think your fans are just coming to spend time together going wild” it was so simple, but beautiful. And i looked at our huge custom PK sound system lined up along the front of the stage, and i felt so excited and honored…teeming with anticipation to broadcast this mad-heavy bass music the way it was intended to be heard: FULL THROTTLE WITH MASSIVE LOW END! i felt more inspired than ever to just let myself explode and become one with the entire crowd because they mean so much to me.
November 7: Detroit. Every inch of that venue was soaked in sweat…We put loads of effort (thanks to Lia, Daysha, Angela, Justin, Ryan, and so many more) into hosting 4 community orgs to support and promote at the event, and everything about that just made the night feel extra special. Sweat was dripping on my head from the ceiling when i played my first song. After the show i split outside, ran down an alley and was trying to get to the bus but got mauled in the street by this fucking crazy gob of people. There was a massive make-shift streetparty/carshow thing happening as multiple venues emptied out onto the same street. It was awesome. We had raised over a thousand dollars for local Detroit community organizations, and overall it was a perfect close-out to 5 cities in a row.
November 10: Our third round at Boston’s Paradise club, and without question my favorite. It just gets better and better. I admit here that i lied outside on the street and told security that multiple people were “my brother” to try and get them in. When i’m outside a venue before a sold out show and someone comes up to me on the street and begging for help to get in, i cannot say no. After they stopped letting me pull moves like that, i went outside to try and pass out stickers to the other folks who couldn’t get tickets, but felt like kind of a cheapskate “hey sorry you can’t get into the show, here is a little freakin sticker” …i dont know. i meant well. At one point in the show the bouncers started kicking people out for crowd surfing. I signaled Elliott over and unfairly yelled at him to make that stop, but then one kid came crashing into my table and Elliott gave me an “i told you so” look so i shut up. haha! That Missy Elliott beat into the Lil Viscious beatbox mashup went off so hard, i decided i would play it at every show for the rest of the tour.
November 12: 2 years prior i had played the legendary 930 club in DC by opening for STS9… i remembered literally gaping at how big the venue was back then and literally wondering if i would ever play a venue like that on my own. The show was EPIC! Utterly sold out, and like in Detroit, i gave a dollar for every ticket sold to help 1 of 2 local groups Hip Hop Education and Urban Artistry, and in between Rex Riddim and Nosaj Thing, Urban Artistry cleared out a circle in the middle of the packed floor and these kids did banging dance moves while other kids from Hip Hop Education stood up bravely on stage rapping away. A lot of these kids were 5, 6, 7 years old. it was SO PRECIOUS!!!!! That one kid rapping about brushing his teef “Just HUSH! and listen to the sound of my BRUSH! SHH SHH SHH SHHHHH SH SH SHH SH SHSHHHHHH” it was HOT! he was like 3 feet tall!
November 13: NYC…yes, friday the 13th. I am tempted to mention how lame i think it is to take nitrous…what a horrendously pointless and dumb waste of the precious brain and body. But i *honestly* don’t mean that as a personal judgment, i more mean that as a heartfelt ‘heads up’ …i’ve seen a lot of people get really effed up from that. So be careful out there. Other than that weird scene outside, *INSIDE* the event was a throbbing, bursting freakshow. i played my heart out, the whole crew went bananas. We had a full day of interviews and press and stuff, and there was a journalist who flew over from the UK to cover the show. this was pretty strange for me, so i just kind of kept my eyes closed most of the time and made weird noises in my head while i played my favorite songs. There were some really weird and random combinations that happened live on the spot which was super exciting. My little sister was in the house, and bunch of friends who flew out from Cali, got *WAY* too drunk, and it caused me to bar them from the bar the next night in…
November 14: Philly
We played this same venue last year, and while it felt great and was full of people, this time there were literally twice as many people. I tried starting off TOTALLY differently than i have all fall, and it was weird. The crowd was looking ecstatic and making tons of noise but the whole front row was just STANDING THERE, still as hell. I played ready2rage and they went monkeyshit, so i guess that answered my internal question of what do they want? they want loco wobblestep. ok! These 3 nights were *SO* indecently hot, like nasty nasty hot, but Philly was the most absurd. The good folks at the venue said their AC had broken that night, but i feel there was a greater conspiracy going on behind the scenes, designed to make me sweat myself to death or something…but the crazier it got, the more amped up i felt, and as i was losing my voice and my mind at the same time i decided to just totally let go…it was the last night till Mississippi next week, and our last east coast show, so why not go totally BUCKFUCKINGWILD!!!!
ha!
Much love to the east coast, the midwest, and our friends in colorado.
i feel an amazing community building up and i just LOVE IT.
overall i just feel overflowing with an insane amount of gratitude…literally impossible to express, totally beyond words. which doesn’t really explain why i just typed so many in an effort to simply say:
thank you ALL!
-Lorin
Howdy!
I just wanna say thank you from the top & bottom of my heart for the most INCREDIBLE and STUPEFYING show of love, enthusiasm and energy. This past Cozza Frency tour has been the sickest EVER! Totally old school energy, with a next level twist. During a time of recession, with so much going on, to have nearly every show be sold out and rammed out so early on has FLABBERGASTED me and my entire crew. WE LOVE YOU!!!!
We have had to do a sick amount of laundry, because i am drenched at the end of each night.
Our sound system is getting tighter and more dialed by the night.
I am working 3-5 hours a day on each night’s set, cutting it up, and tweaking it out from the night before.
I’m writing a quick note because we are closing out the US Tour for Fall 2009 this Saturday night in Lawrence, KS.
Tonight in Fayetteville and tomorrow in Colombia are both sold out, and we are flooded with people asking for tickets.
There are a few left in Lawrence, and we just got 50 added to our Fan Club ticketing:
Get tix: http://www.bassnectar.net/2009/07/lawrence-ks-2009-11-21/
We would love you to join us if you are feeling it!
Heads UP! That show will sell out as well, so i wanted to get any hardcores out there who feel like taking a roadtrip the chance to grab tickets before its too late.
THANKS AGAIN! YOU ARE BLOWING MY MIND!!!!
(And Canada…we will see you shortly…
L
RRRRRRREEEECAP!!! Good gawd! The first leg of COZZA FRENZY TOUR has been BONKERS!!!! From Texas, to Alabama, to Tennessee, to Georgia, through North & South Carolina, and on to Florida, we just raized some hell and contributed to one hellava freakshow experience night after night to rammed out venues and eagerly awaiting bass-heads (and their eager eardrums).
FRENZY: Officially Caused.
Massive thanks to all attendees, supporters, the community Orgs, to the killer road crew, and to PK SOUND SYSTEM, LUMATECH, and DJ VADIM & HEAVYWEIGHT DUB CHAMPION.
MASSIVE!!!!!
While raging the tour front, the digital album wobbled its way up the iTunes charts. Thanks to everyone that supported, listened and shared!!!
As of today, the HARDCOPY CD’s are available in stores, or you can grab it from our lil’ shop at the Bassnectar Labs. Includes a free poster and lots of random notes and thoughts i wrote about my music and more. (mad thanks to all you hardcores who pre-ordered!!!! nutso!!)
And in addition to keeping up with a tour blog as we wandered through some of the most internet inaccessible areas of the country, got a slew of video clips coming through the pipes…. some absolutely ragin crowd shots, a little bit of backstage nonsense, and the first batch of what we hope to be many Cozza Connection videos – which highlight some of the organizations that we are working with in D.C. an Detroit. (BIG UPS CauseCast.org & Ms Holland for CRUSHING IT)
We will be posting these over the next few days, so visit http://www.youtube.com/bassnectarlabs and subscribe to the video channel.
Next Up! Halloween weekend with a quick addition to the tour schedule….
FEAR & LOATHING IN ORANGE COUNTY!!!! HAHAHAAHA
Who’d a guessed it: Halos N’ Horns fest with Korn (when i was in High School we thought Korn was *so* weak, haha! Now i’m getting raised eyebrows cuz people think they’re so hardcore! How times change!)
So it’s kind of a metalhead DJ’s ironic foray into ridiculum…a chance to right propper SWAT THA BAJEEEZUSS out of a sea of heavy metal freaks with all sorts of SMASHERS AND MASHERS!!! Custom cut this week: a whole new slew of insane remixes of Sepultura, Metallica, Pantera, Rage Against The Machine…even got som Jimi Hendrix acapellas and some sicko loops, and of course bigbang dubstep and drum&bass noiiiiiisezzzz. this will be COZZA HEADBANG, and it may never happen again. Click here to get tickets
And for Halloween night, we are off to Denver to slay a SOLD OUT Fillmore. BIG BEAR HUGS, SMOOCHES, HI-5s and TOTALLY BUGGED EYED GRATITUDE to all that grabbed tickets in advance and rammed this place out. If you weren’t able to get yours in time, no worries! We’ve added a second set to close out Halloween night at Casselman’s (remember its Daylight Savings!!). Fillmore show is THE FREAKER’S BALL MEGADOSE OF BIG BANGERS & ULTRAMAJICK. Afterparty music will be much more about just giving you a nice warm bass soup to swim in… Click here for the info.
After that… ramping up for the second leg of the tour with Nosaj Thing on board (LOVE TO DJ VADIM, HEAVYWEIGHT DUB CHAMPION & RJD2 for support as well!). Subscribe to the tour blog to keep up with the freakshow as we make our way through the Eastern, Midwest, and Northern US, as well as stops throughout those happy lands of the North, Oh Canada.
LASTLY, AND FROM THE HEART: Always remember that there are finite resources on this planet. If everything was divided up equally amongst humans, the world would look very different. Instead, 1% of humans in this country control 95% of the WEALTH of this country (That’s what happens when a Wolf In Sheep’s Clothing like Obama, or Our Congress, or of course Bu$h, allows a few wealthy bankers to steal 700 BILLION DOLLARS from US CITIZENS!)
That said, remember that it has ALWAYS BEEN LIKE THIS: The few rich cronies, cold hearted enough to propagate a multi-generational Control Mafia over the world’s resources (be they Kings, Emperors, Lords, Popes, or Bankers) stop at nothing to keep ALL the wealth in their few hands, while the majority of humans on earth live as some for of serf or slave or maybe a joker/jester/knight (Rove, Limbaugh, O’Reilly) or a favored baron (Rich, middleclass whitecollar conservatives)…but none the less, when something like THE INTERNET comes around that lets the serfs talk amongst themselves, and share TRUTH, not LIEs (like our corporately manufactured media) it presents a potential threat to the control of The Wealthy.
That is why Net Neutrality is so important. And that is why you have to be SOOOooooo careful with Republicans*. Because they pass an act like ‘CLEAR SKIES’ which was misleading, and was actually written to END the environmental protection program called “THE CLEAN AIR ACT”. So when John Fucking McCain recently announced that he wants to pass the “INTERNET FREEDOM” act, You Should Be Wary! The INTERNET FREEDOM act is misleading and dangerously deceptive, because it is actually designed to prevent “NET NEUTRALITY”…
As you should know, Net Neutrality is a GOOD THING. It is intended to protect equal access to the internet, and to prevent unfair corporate control of the internet. So THE INTERNET FREEDOM ACT IS BULLSHIT, because it is intended to GIVE FREEDOM TO VERIZON AND COMCAST and that’s about it.
it’s like making an act called “Happy Babies” that allows people to kill babies. It is literally that fuckin absurd.
COZZA FRENZY!
VIVA NET NEUTRALITY!!!!!!!!
-L
*[EDITOR's NOTE] Obviously Officials of both parties – Republicans & Democrats – are not to be trusted. Republicans just play the bad cop, so they are low-hanging fruit… just wanted to be clear, cuz The Democrats role as ‘Good Cop’ often lets them escape blame and they deserve a lot of it.
