Is it bad luck comes in threes? Or just luck in general? Either way my string continues with # 2 as I ended up with a massive black-out concussion this week, so the majority of the week I hardly could move my head – let alone listen anything louder than a page of a book turn. That isn’t to say these songs aren’t good… just that I’m still on the red-eyed stupor tip, still braving the storm. Don’t hate. Where the fuck is Fuzzy? I owe him one.

Fingerbanger 1: Para – Save Your Breath (don lowed)

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The masses have never thirsted after truth. They turn aside from evidence that is not to their taste, preferring to deify error, if error seduces them. Whoever can supply them with illusions is easily their master; whoever attempts to destroy their illusions is always their victim. – The Crowd by Gustave Le Bon

Rule 761: If everyone else thinks it, there’s probably a good reason to reject it.

Fingerbanger 2: Colm K & The Freestyle Mellowship – Love To Love You (don lowed)

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One day, a farmer’s horse ran away. His neighbors expressed sympathy, “What terrible luck that you lost your horse!” The farmer replied, “Maybe so, maybe not.”

A few days later, the horse returned, leading several wild horses. The neighbors shouted, “Your horse has returned, and brought more with him. What great fortune!” The farmer replied, “Maybe so, maybe not.”

Later that week, the farmer’s son was trying to break one of the wild horses and got thrown to the ground, breaking his leg. The villagers cried, “Your son broke his leg, what a calamity!” The farmer replied, “Maybe so, maybe not.”

A few weeks later, soldiers from the national army marched through town, drafting all the able-bodied young men for the army. They did not take the farmer’s son because of his broken leg. Friends shouted, “Your boy is spared, what tremendous luck!” To which the farmer replied, “Maybe so, maybe not.”

—Ancient Taoist Proverb

Fingerbanger 4: The Gigantics – Safe (don lowed)

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Roni Size was almost like a moment in time more than a producer, with the way New Forms spread through aural consciousness and disrupted listening patterns. Of course jazzy breaks had been around, but the multiple genres and styled production really set it apart; Breaks, Drum & Bass, Jazz, Hiphop, Turntableism, and even Rock in an uplifting alchemy of sounds. Still some of the most crisp drums I can think of. This white label only remix came out a couple years back when Roni tried to recapitalize on the record.

Fingerbanger 3: Roni Size – It’s Jazzy (Nu:Tone Remix) (don lowed)

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Figure out whats important to your heart. Fuck everything else.

Fingerbanger 5: The Belligerents – These Hands (Timeshare Remix) (don lowed)

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Not the craziest video ever, but the one that makes me ache to ride the most. Even if my season is on hiatus for a week or so. The preview.

Among the most repeated things my father has ever said to me is, ” I don’t care if you like it, do what you know your suppose to do when you know you’re suppose to do it, and be done with it.”

Come to find out that he probably stole this little piece of wisdom from Thomas Henry Huxley, who said, ”Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do when it ought to be done whether you like it or not. It is the first lesson that ought to be learned and however early a person’s training begins, it is probably the last lesson a person learns thoroughly.”

Though, my fathers most often repeated saying is, “Don’t act so stupid.” Which he would pull out whenever he thought my siblings and I we’re trying to get away with something – and it didn’t matter if we didn’t know, we were still responsible. Thus proving we didn’t get away with shit. I’m still waiting to find out who he stole that one from…

Dial.81 is from Detroit, where they have to hide equipment in underground tunnels so that it won’t get lifted. Listen to more from him or buy the remix goods at (Itunes).

Fingerbanger 1: Dial81 – Sun Hammer Pounding (don lowed)

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Fingerbanger 2: Surfer Blood – Neighbour Riffs (don lowed)

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Chinese Man Records in the house again… this time with a oddly intoxicating remix of Blackmoon.

Fingerbanger 3: Blackmoon – How Many MCs (Chinese Man Records Remix) (don lowed)

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Fuzzy sent me a link to this with some incoherent rant about this song. Something about the bullshit after the 1:25 mark? ” I’m crude impregnated with the sound and Carn’t nod at 1:25 garble while losing a queen to a pawn. Why suffocate a baby???”. What I think he means is, the beginning is fucking rad… but he’s not so fond of the ending. You decide I guess. But I always side with Fuzzy.

Fingerbanger 4: Squire Of Gothos – Squire Bathing (don lowed)

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Posting this for the 8 people in the world that aren’t hipsters and therefor haven’t heard this before… Also peep the video below, because eventually someone will ask you if you’ve seen it.

Fingerbanger 5: Edward Sharpe And The Magnetic Zeros – Home (don lowed)

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Its amazing how many hits this has got in a week. In the few days since I first saw it I think 2/3 of a million more… I hate to automatically be cynical, but hopefully this doesn’t prove to be some sort of marketing gimmic. Still pretty sweet.

Over(((End(((Out – p.tone

Words have the power to destroy or heal. When words are both true and kind, they can change our world. – Jack Kornfield

A couple of the more notorious vocal samples in my mind, and if not yours, then enjoy for the well made sounds. Use your voice. Light a fire.

Throwback: Cannonball Adderley – Walk Tall (don lowed)

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Throwback: Dave & Ansil Collins – Double Barrel (don lowed)

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Here’s the ricecream scoop. I had meant to get this out yesterday – hence the Fingerbanger-ness of it all. But carbon monoxide poisoning is no joke, and getting that plunked in between 2 gigs and new years… an appropriate cap to 2010 I suppose. Considering last year at the same time I was flipping my Jeep down the highway – I have to believe that December is seriously trying to kill me, and I keep winning.

These are my top 20 songs from djnodj.com of 2010. Its easy to see my some movements in my tastes as the days went along. Let the unfolding manifest.

Air – Sing Sang Sung ( Black Moth Super Rainbow Remix) (don lowed)

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Unkle – Natural Selection (Featuring The Black Angels).mp3

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Milt Mortez – Gentleman Duck (don lowed)

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YACHT – Psychic City (Classixx Remix) (don lowed)

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Peter, Bjorn & John – The Chills (don lowed)

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Groove Armada – Warsaw (don lowed)

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Nujabes – Luv (sic) Pt.2 (don lowed)

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Rumspringa – Cant Seem To Make You Mine (don lowed)

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Yeasayer – O.N.E. (Clouds Remix) (don lowed)

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Starfucker – Rawnald Gregory Erickson The Second (don lowed)

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Trentemoeller – Silver Surfer, Ghost Rider Go (don lowed)

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Mylo – Macrobiotic (don lowed)

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Interstates – Sudan (don lowed)

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Flux Pavilion – Excuse Me (don lowed)

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Eliza Doolittle – Money Box (Jamie XX Remix) (don lowed)

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Alexander – Truth (Edward Sharpe Project) (don lowed)

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Phoenix – Love Like A Sunset Pt. 3 (Tong & Rogers Wonderland Remix) (don lowed)

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The Medusa Snare – Every Little Thing (don lowed)

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Chinese Man Records – Indi Groove (don lowed)

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Bon Iver – Skinny Love (Das Kapital Rerub) (don lowed)

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Everything seems stupid when it fails.
– Fydor Dostoevsky

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To the man with only a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.

10 silver hammers from this past years Dryhump Champions to nail you down.

Dryhump 1: Sunset Cruisin – Perfect Wave (Lebatman Remix)

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Dryhump 2: Cory Daye – Green Light (don lowed)

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Dryhump 3: Webqueawry – Searching (don lowed)

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Dryhump 4: Bird Peterson – Actin’ Up At Zenobias (don lowed)

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Dryhump 5: D.A.M.B. – Daylight (Original Mix) (don lowed)

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Dryhump 6: Foamo – Generate Some Heat (don lowed)

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Dryhump 7: Drop The Lime – Sex Sax (TAI Remix) (don lowed)

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Dryhump 8: Andreas Heiszenberger – In A Disco (Andreas Heiszenberger Remix) (don lowed)

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Dryhump 9: Max Bett – Mad Clinic (don lowed)

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Dryhump 10: Style Of Eye – Puss Puss ( Taped Remix ) (don lowed)

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After much deliberation I’ve settled on this remix today. Classic text book example of how to slowly build a track into a mammoth fucking frothy foamy mouth-watering frenzy. To every aspiring producer/remixer/masher/dj wannabe – take notes. Slow starter with a good long intro good for mixing into something and not being blatantly obvious (although since the computer dj mashup shit, what passes these days for good mixing has regressed to whoever has the most ironic tshirt/mustache/plays naked, etc.) , at 2 minutes begins to build a nice froth by dropping out sounds (the dub technique) and builds until 3 minutes when it repeats that same technique a little heavier and builds more…until about 4 minutes when it repeats again with the most dramatic break down and then builds for almost a whole minute until about 5 minute mark when it has got you locked into the groove and your whole body is uncontrollably convulsing to the beat. Or something like that.

This remix takes the pie in the sky. The cake without a candle.

Dryhump Champion: Style Of Eye – Puss Puss ( Taped Remix ) (don lowed)

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The original is a bit more sinister – which I like.

Dryhump Champion: Style Of Eye – Puss Puss ( Original Mix ) (don lowed)

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The uninitiated might find the whole thing a little perplexing.

Fingerbanger 1: Chinese Man Records – Indi Groove (don lowed)

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Fingerbanger 1.5: Chinese Man Records – I’ve Got That Tune (don lowed)

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I’ve always left the Bon Iver posting to others. But I’m going to concede this time and wave my white flag. Rerub, remix, retickle, reticent, rectified, repartee,  whatever…

Fingerbanger 2: Bon Iver – Skinny Love (Das Kapital Rerub) (don lowed)

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Gui Boratto production has a philosophy, and that is the win of the battle.

Fingerbanger 3: Massive Attack (Feat. Hope Sandoval) – Paradise Circus (Gui Boratto Remix) (don lowed)

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Maybe you’re sitting at your computer and listening to this song with some shitty little computer speakers, and thinking ‘so what? – this song is whatever’… and you’re an insufferable wanker. Grab some headphones that aren’t shit and slowroast. Edredon layers their self titled album like a glim dropper going for the kill, and something in me likes it.

Fingerbanger 4: Edredon – Sopena (don lowed)

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Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
– Bertrand Russell

Fingerbanger 5: Sean Hayes – When We Fall In (don lowed)

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Dryhump Champion: Archigram – In Flight (Raw  ClubMix) (don lowed)

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What can be said when the now is the only thing that can be realized, and when our ideas are to become our feelings and actions, how carefully deliberate we should be in what we let ourselves think.

The less I can impose upon a song, sometimes the better I think.

Fingerbanger 1: Duptribe – Blackbird Song (Feat. Ben Cocks) (don lowed)

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Slow overlapping and washing over like waves.

Fingerbanger 2: Blackbird Blackbird – Fade To White (don lowed)

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You are 17,600 times more likely to die from heart disease than from a terrorist attack

We really need to stop those terrorists from getting in the way of our meat and cheese eating. It’s our patriotic duty to be unhealthy… I think that’s how we know we’re winning.

Fingerbanger 3: Protassov – Steam & Oil (don lowed)

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For those of you that Can.

Fingerbanger 4: Tjutjuna – Rise/Set (don lowed)

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This is positively the first year since I was a young boy in the country that I’ve willingly listened to Christmas music. Not that this is an example of that… it’s not. Still, I had to give respect to the Parumpapumpum. And what else would you expect from us over here?  Give it at least a minute.

Fingerbanger 5: DYM – Little Drummer Boy (don lowed)

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Tunawax is the 2010 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.

He handled physical details as if there were nothing beyond them; yet spiritualized them all, and redeemed himself from materialism by his strong and eager aspiration towards the infinite. In his grasp the veriest clod of earth assumed a soul – Hawthorn

Dryhump Champion: Micro Prophet – Thunderbird (Tape Deck Bros Remix) (don lowed)

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