Legit before you could write cursive, The Chemical Brothers have long had a connection to film makers and now they’ve got director Adam Smith to direct Don’t Think, a concert film. Billed as the first-ever concert recorded in Dolby 7:1 and shot during a gig on a Japanese mountainside, the film is said to capture all the hyper hypo acidity we’ve come to expect of The Chemicals.

The trailer itself looks pretty wicked in a way that only the Japanese setting could pull off.  A frenzied euphoric carnival of oddity sort of way with kabuki dancers, crazy interactive bug lights, clowns, random preschoolers,  and traditional Japanese performers, not to mention robots. Lots and lots of robots. Did I mention robots? Robots.  The entire crowd seem to be fashionably handsome (men and women), with an assortment of geeks, dweebs and weirdos – there are no quiet games of words with friends or party poker going on, and I can only imagine that kool-ade was handed out at the entrance gate.

Adam Smith (not the free market guy), if you haven’t heard of him, is a young British director who has made his name on music videos, especially for The Streets although he has made a few for the The Chemicals before. More recently he’s been making British TV programs including the creepy one Skins. Smith used to be a part of Vegetable Vision, a collective who used to make the visuals for Chemical Brothers’ raves. The other famous member of the group was Joe Wright, the director of Hanna, Atonement and the new version of Anna Karenina.

The film is named after the 2010 Chemical Brother’s album, Further, which had a bonus track on the Japanese iTunes release called Don’t Think. Each song on the album also had a short film made by Adam Smith and Marcus Lyal. The track featured in the film Black Swan, when the main character played by Emily Portman goes to a club and loses her mind.

Muse: The Chemical Brothers – Dont Think (don lowed)

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Don’t hate.

Carpe Diem? I don’t know… nothing gets me in more trouble than seizing the day. Pretty much every time. But perhaps I should stop using it in place of applying good judgement. Of course, there is all sorts of unfortunate things that aren’t decisions. A force greater than our weakness, and we’re pretty weak monkeys. So Yeah, go all out, but don’t close your eyes, even for a second… Don’t blink. Unless something is coming at your eye… then close that motherfucker and duck.

There isn’t much better than jazz and breaks… it’s like coffee and cigarettes,  batman and  robin, cold fried chicken and chocolate milk…

Fingerbanger 1: Free the Robots – Session Two (don lowed)

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Fingerbanger 2: Appaloosa – Patchwork (Bostro Pesopeo Remix) (don lowed)

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Fingerbanger 3: Sneaky Sound System – Big (Nicolas Jaar Always By Your Side Remix) (don lowed)

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Fingerbanger 4: Mr. Chop – Snob (don lowed)

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Beatmake Roku did the right thing and shot me a link to some of his beats. Superb unpolished chillacity that dips forth and back highrise super sunrise. http://localroku.bandcamp.com/

Fingerbanger 5: Roku – Abstract (don lowed)

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We’ve done it again. Tunawax is the 2012 Intercontinental Dryhump Champions. But rather than hold it over your heads, we’re giving back…Finely picked dance tracks to go cotton to cotton with.

Chonky Sawtooth Synthlines still give me a boner.

Dryhump Champion: Trumpdisco – Cut And Paste (Extended Mix) (don lowed)

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We form our beliefs for a variety of subjective, personal, emotional and psychological reasons in the context of environments created by family, friends and society. After forming our beliefs we then defend, justify and rationalize them with a host of reasons arguments and explanations. Beliefs come first, explanations for the beliefs follow. Once people commit to a belief, the smarter they are, the better they are at rationalizing those beliefs. So smart people believe some weird things because they are skilled at defending beliefs they arrived at for non-smart reasons. We don’t form beliefs by rationally checking all information. Every fact gets filtered through our pre-existing beliefs.

Fingerbanger 1: Massive Attack – Paradise Circus (Gui Boratto Remix) (don lowed)

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The plastic tips at the ends of shoelaces are called aglets. Their true purpose is sinister.

If Nico had a synth…

Fingerbanger 2: Appaloosa – Sinister (don lowed)

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I secretly fluoridate the coffee at work.

Fingerbanger 3: People Under The Stairs – Time to Rock Our Shit (don lowed)

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I don’t worry about Global Warming because I figger it’ll be canceled by Nuclear Winter

Fingerbanger 4: Shapeshifter – Longest Day (Opiuo Remix) (don lowed)

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Sometimes I worry that I would fail the Turing test

Funny Underwear Yardsale Ambush… Friendly Union of Yelling Assholes… Fucking Ugly Yuppie Androids…? C2C goes all Birdy Nam Nam and cranks out a hot raspberry jam. Put it in your earhole.

Fingerbanger 5: C2C – FUYA (don lowed)

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So far this year is shaping up to be pretty funny, I mean… just in general I’m already having a ball. And I imagine it’s going to get progressively better as the presidential elections, Wall St./Euro final countdown & ‘end of the world’ bring this country to the brink if complete teeth gnashing, mouth foaming, lunacy. Of course I’m making preparations for escape, but until then I’m advising all my clients to join the fun and get ridiculous.

Dryhump Champion: Mushroom Mountain – Little Green Men (Original) (don lowed)

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These aren’t the best songs of the year. Shit, they might not even be new in 2011, they’re just some goods from what I posted in the previous 12 months that particularly grab me. And I’m not going to get all evaluate-y and critique them against everything else or pick something from every genre just to prove how well rounded I am. In fact, I don’t have any illusions that I have even covered all that much musical ground lately. Don’t blame the music though, It’s my fault. . . I’ve got too much on my plate, less time to listen and perhaps less to say. But it’ll come back, I mean…Mazzy Star took 15 years… erm, I doubt I’ll be here in 15 years though.  So, here are a few of  the songs that stuck to me as I move about this incredibly puzzling mass of vibrations. All things considered, this list is perhaps heavily influenced by the time of year. Anyhow, happy new years to you all. 2012…ender ender ender?

Fingerbanger 1: Bikini – American Mourning (WinWin Remix) (don lowed)

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Fingerbanger 2: Holy Fuck – Stay Lit (Bishop Morocco Remix) (don lowed)

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Fingerbanger 3: Diamond Messages – Boys In Grey Shirts (Rich & Pennyless Remix) (don lowed)

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Fingerbanger 4: Notorious BIG & The XX – A Juicy Intro (HaYes Remix) (don lowed)

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Fingerbanger 5: M83 – Midnight City (Patrick Reza Remix) (don lowed)

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Fingerbanger 6: Modeselektor – Pretentious Friends (don lowed)

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Fingerbanger 7: Goose – Synrise (don lowed)

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Fingerbanger 8: Dolle Jolle – Balearic Incarnation (don lowed)

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Fingerbanger 9: Datarock – Amarillion (don lowed)

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Fingerbanger 10: J.Vandal – Green Smoke (don lowed)

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Fingerbanger 11: RUF – Want Some Crack (don lowed)

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Fingerbanger 12: French Films – Golden Sea (don lowed)

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Fingerbanger 13: Bakir – Going Down Slow (don lowed)

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Fingerbanger 14: Beat Pharmacy (Feat. Negus Shabaka) – Mental Universe (don lowed)

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Fingerbanger 15: Roots Manuva – Here We Go Again (don lowed)

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Fingerbanger 16: Dawn Golden & Rosy Cross – Blacks (don lowed)

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Fingerbanger 17: The Chemical Brothers – Swoon (Lindstrom & Prins Thomas Remix) (don lowed)

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Fingerbanger 18: Blithe Field – Crushing (don lowed)

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Fingerbanger 19: Radiohead – Bloom (JamieXX Rework Part 3) (don lowed)

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Fingerbanger 20: Maxence Cyrin – Where Is My Mind (Pixies Cover) (don lowed)

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Dryhump: Murk & Intruder – Amame Feat. Jei (Long Ass Mix) (don lowed)

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“Concerning matter, we have been all wrong. What we have called matter is energy, whose vibration has been so lowered as to be perceptible to the senses. There is no matter.” – Albert Einstein

Also, sound is vibration. I am feelin’ this shit today.

Fingerbanger 1: Baklu – Dobre Mysli (don lowed)

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An initial listen to this song and you could be like…ok. Until you’re unable to shake the sounds from your head, betwixt by it, unable to resolve a position as it flows through thoughts unrelated. The sound of missing something you never had.

Fingerbanger 2: Active Child – Voice Of An Old Friend (Summer Camp Bedford Falls Remix) (don lowed)

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Fingerbanger 3: I Break Horses – Winter Beats (don lowed)

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Fingerbanger 4: Cosmic Force – Ghetto Down (don lowed)

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Don’t use nooo guun. Don’t use nooo guun…Don’t give the kids nooo toy gun for it will bloooowwww their mind in this Christmas Tiiimeee. This is the best christmas song of all time. ALL TIME I SAY!

Fingerbanger 5: Sugar Minott – Christmas Time (don lowed)

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In a series of studies in 2005 and 2006, researchers at the University of Michigan found that when misinformed people, particularly political partisans, were exposed to corrected facts in news stories, they rarely changed their minds. In fact, they often became even more strongly set in their beliefs. Facts, they found, were not curing misinformation. Like an underpowered antibiotic, facts could actually make misinformation even stronger.

Dryhump Champion: Nick Curly – Sun City (Original Mix) (don lowed)

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