IM // UR | Kill Em All turns SIX

This is probably the most exciting album we've heard in a while. Can you imagine a metal band not made by (and for) teenagers who worship Iron Maiden like their sisters worship Miley Cyrus? Invasion's The Master Alchemist is a compilation of 12 songs created with noisy guitars and fearless female vocals that will teach future generations about the emerging punk attitude; all with a metal sound and new rave style that might actually be the future of hairy metal. And we all thought heavy metal had no future...

WE // R \\ WEARING

No matter what part of the world you live in, you really can't ever have enough tees. Specially white ones. And black ones. With cool graphic prints on them. Meanwhile, in hipster-dom, crystals are still an ever popular theme, but in this case, we prefer this one in particular from Canadian based operation Handsome Clothing, christened the 'Lunar Crystal' (//Christel) tee. 'Handsome', despite being a kind of old school, highly civilised type of word, does describe this tastefully hip label justly. They also have a darn good-looking blog too, so go check that out while you're at it.

WE // R \\ WATCHING

Burn Notice is a USA Network series about a spy who got burned - which they remind you of in every scene. Although following the
basic style of American television, the series will catch all you dudes out there (sorry, girls won't like this) who like watching things explode in the most diverse ways. And like any good spy show, it teaches you how to make homemade bombs with boring things (a modern version of MacGyver). Plus Bruce Campbell is a lead character. And he's looking all Morrissey like.

WE // R \\ GOING

Imagine a youth house transformed into a club. Now charge 4 reais for a (long neck) beer and from 10 to 15 reais to get in. If you did it all right this would be called Neu (read in German) and actually already exists in São Paulo. My favorite night there is Friday, when they host Explode, a party where they basically play third world inspired songs (from Vampire Weekend to the whole club rap scene from Baltimore). Some great underrated DJs play there from time to time, and when you least expect it, you might find yourself laying on the dancefloor busting out some drunky town moves.

WE // R \\ READING

So yes, we've been wayyyy slack in updating the We//R\\Stuffs, which is why I'm going to say now that we began and finished Oscar Wilde's A Picture of Dorian Gray well before we knew it was a film. This is a classic novel about art, vanity, beauty and the consequences of such. 'A Picture of Dorian Gray' is brilliant; exploring and exploiting the potentially corrosive characters of beauty and what beauty can do to a character. Navigating through the deeply dark and light sides of human nature, Wilde's novel is a wickedly good study of society, and echoes with a cackling delight (and despair) at humanity's foibles.

Kill Em All turns SIX

Friday // November 20, 2009 at 12:05 // filed under Music

Filthy 'Ducks'

Those Filthy Dukes (or Filthy Ducks as Raphael likes to pronounce them) have turned out a mix of the most important tracks of the last six years at Kill Em All. They're partying at Fabric in London on the 11th of December to celebrate the half dozen, with a hot hot line-up including The Chemical Brothers, Hercules & Love Affair, Riton and The Juan Maclean amongst others as well as the Dukes themselves - not to even mention We Have Band and Crystal Fighters playing live. Phew.

And here's their track ‘Tupac Robot Rock’ now featuring Wiley in the wake of their recent FABRICLIVE 48 Mix.

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Filthy Dukes - Tupac Robot Club Rock (Kill Em All, Let Wiley Sort It Out remix - Clean Radio Edit) [mp3]

So go check their special birthday mix HERE. Track list is after the jump, peops.

LCD Soundsystem - Losing My Edge
Hercules & Love Affair - Blind
Holy Ghost - Hold On
Soulwax - Krack (NiteVersion)
Teenage Bad Girl - Hands of a Stranger
Benjamin Theves - Texas
Justice - Waters of Nazareth
Boys Noize - & Down
Riot In Belguim - The Acid Never Lies
LA Priest - Engine
Zongamin - Serious Trouble
Cut Copy - Lights and Music (Boys Noize Happy Birthday Remix)
Radio 4 - Dance To The Underground (The DFA Version)
Zombi - Sapphire (Escort Remix)
Tom Vek - Green Lights
We Have Band - You Came Out (Cage & Avairy Remix)
Simian Mobile Disco - Boatrace
Spektrum - Kinda New (Tiefscwarz Dub)
Tiga - Pleasure from the Bass
Hot Chip - Ready for the Floor (Soulwax Remix)
The Rapture - House of the Jealous Lovers
Alex Gopher - Aurora
Tomas Andersson - Washing Up (Tiga Remix)
Brodinski - Bad Runner
Switch - A Bit Patchy
Proxy - Dancer in the Dark
Dusty Kid - The Cat
Christopher and Raphael Just - Popper (Shinichi Osawa Distorsion Disco Edit)
Vitalic - Poney Pt 1
Shitdisco - I Know Kung Fu (James Ford Edit)
Death From Above 1979 - Romantic Rights (Erol's Love From Below Re - Edit)
White Rose Movement - Love Is A Number