Our Top 10 of 2009 lists will be up soon as well as, perhaps, a review of Gogol Bordello I wrote for thecore.fm. peace in 2010!

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!!!!!!!!!!!!Our show is now 8-10p on Sundays!!!!!!!!!!!!

I’ve been so busy migrating all our antiquated systems to brand new pica-sized servers, and Jaye has been working hard at grad school. But the show must go on! I have a lot of work tidying and updating up our page here, and as a sign of good faith. Here is a video of an awesome song.

p.s. I have an idea for a new look for the site, I’ll be working on that with some free time!

I hope everyone’s havin a groovy summer! We sure are, and we’re so busy in the city with shows and events, so I hope you follow us on Twitter, where we do most of our concert announcements and updates. It’s electroph baby!

I also hope you got to check out Chuck Brown at Battery Park. That man and his big band are awesome. He had is family up there with him, and probably the best part - next to the non-stop swingin melodies backed by breakbeat funk - was his grandson, freestyling! The kid must be 9 years old and a frikin natural. He seemed unsure of when or what to start with when given the mic, but I think it was a hustle because he went full force. Everyone was dancing, some more than others. Picture it: average to small-sized middle-aged man, bushy frizzed out gray ponytail tamed back by a long flowing pink bandana, black t-shirt and tight black jeans like a roadie for Squeeze, tie-die socks and black sandals, displaying the most fancy footwork I’ve seen since… ever. Dancing wide circles, swinging his hips, twisting them and his ankles while hopping on the beat, with the most serious, unmoving stare. SO excellent.
I thought Mr. Brown mistakenly addressed us like we were in DC, but apparently some of his DC fans came up to see him. They are dedicated. And he loved them, but not without mentioning NYC is “open 24-7″, making me feel like I was in a Wawa commercial filmed by Spike Jonze/Adam Spiegel.
Rock n roll -jaye

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For playlist and direct downloads, into the beyond!!

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24th March – Black Cat, Washington DC
25th March – First Unitarian Church, Philadelphia
26th March – Bowery Ballroon, New York City
27th March – Bowery Ballroon, New York City
28th March – Paradise, Boston
30th March – Les Saints, Montreal

Twittering. What’s it all about? I’m not sure, but I’ll let you in on a little secret… I just did. @electroph

From Droppin Science Fiction… Notice the voodoo between our new skin and the female-in-space scenes. Wild!! They look beautiful together. And I think they borrowed a set from Astronaut Jones.

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The Mighty Underdogs are Gift of Gab (from Blackalicious and featured in N.A.S.A.’s Spirit of Apollo), Lateef The Truthspeaker (from Latyrx) and produced by Headnodic (of Crown City Rockers) on the Definitive Jux label. You can catch other songs from Droppin Science Fiction on Show 21 and Show 24.

Link: https://twitter.com/electroph

So exciting! It’s evolution baby! Look us up @electroph or use my e-mail address (you could plain e-mail me too if ya want) jaye@respectthesignal.us. Oh hell, just click here.

I really like N.A.S.A.’s Spirit Of Apollo, and so does Xeni at Boing Boing who’s been following the multi-elemental hyper-collaborative project. The Spirit of the Apollo music CD was recently released and Electronic Phonics has been all over it. We’re now waiting patiently desperate for the music documentary side of it. And since videos are not radio friendly, I’ve graciously linked you to BB, who offers not only 2 of the vids but also a short interview with Syd Garon, co-creator of the upcoming music documentary from N.A.S.A, and a quickie with Mr. Byrne who contributed to some of the songs on the album, as well as other pertinent info on the artists behind the docu and other great contributing people and things.

Follow the jump for local tour dates.

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I can barely breathe, I’m so anxious to go through all the posts on Monkey Clap Education. I’ll need to set up an ergonomic chair and keyboard system, hook on a feedbag, and I’ll be good to go for indefinite amount of time. And that I will need. There’s copious news and newsy entries that we can all surely learn from. The mp3 links are wacky, as to play any from the site requires MediaFire, which I will not be downloading and I don’t care how free it is! Regardless, I will get to them one way or another, and so should you.

Respect the signal.

[Edit: MediaFire is just a middleman, so don’t be afraid to click download. You’ll get the song and not some additional music application as I postulated wrongly.]

I really dig KEXP in Seattle (and sorta NYC). It’s where the music matters, and I respect that. I also secretly want to live in Seattle. Now it’s not a secret. But I digress. They do these short radio “documentaries", produced by Michele Myers, and though I haven’t listened to any of them yet, I’d place bets that they’re worth our whiles. The latest feature is called Pop Goes Electronic, and they’re highlighting Kraftwerk. Without Kraftwerk, Electronic Phonics wouldn’t be here, because the architecture of electropop would be totally changed, and who knows what bleep blop we’d be listening to without such fine German engineering. KEXP blogs about Kraftwerk’s influence on the human world and you can listen to the radio doc as well. Hooray for robots and radio features!

Respect the Signal!