Nineteen Ninety Never

I spent a dreamy week on the Valley Isle over Christmas.

Here’s a track from Digits

Digits - Lost Dreams

Catch him at The Boat in Toronto on February 17th. Then, listen to more Digits on 199x.

I have to admit that I didn’t really become tuned into the phenomenon that is Katy Perry until she appeared on The Simpsons a few weeks ago. Since then, I’ve become a Katy Perry awareness sponge, absorbing the ways that she has permeated our culture. I mean, do you have any idea how many chicks rocked the blue wig on Halloween? I thought it was just some sort of fad thing at the time.

Anyways, here’s the KP fix you’ve been jonesing for.

Katy Perry - Teenage Dream (Temabes Remix) (via SEX DA HOUSE)

Notorious B.I.G.  - Back to Cali Gurls (Katy Perry Remix)

Katy Perry - I Kissed a Girl (NONEWYORK Remix)

Katy Perry - California Gurls (ALGERONICS Remix) (via SalaciousSound)

Katy Perry - Peacock (Insan3Like House Remix) (via Ratcachters)

Katy Perry - Teenage Dream  (Kaskade Remix)

Toronto has been cold and snowy for the past few weeks, and these two videos have got me stoked to be spending the next week or so on the Valley Isle.

The best part of the first video (track below) is where he gets the chick to get in the pool with him. Pure Fitte Prinse right there.

Dop - Horny

Kylie Minogue - Slow (A Capella)

Kylie Minogue - Slow (Nathan Vice Remix) (via Palmsout)

Dop vid via the fuckin’ awesome Fuckn Filthy. Their Tiger Tees are sick.

Sexy house music with breathless female vocals gives me goosebumps, and that’s why I love the EP that Fredrick Carlsson sent me last week.

Fredrick Carlsson – House (Feat. Roos)

Fredrick Carlsson - Kristallpojken

After a few months without posts here on 199X, I’m slowly digging through my virtual crates and listening to the music I missed. Consider this a four-track playlist of sexy songs.

Aaliyah - One in a Million (Keys N Krates Remix) (via Salacious Sound)

Tiga - Shoes (Green Velvet Remix)

Usher - DJ Got Us Fallin’ In Love (Ad Brown Remix)

Stephen Jerzak Ft. Leighton Meester - She Said (The Killabits Remix) (via Plugged Not Thugged)

PS: We’re back on the Hype Machine. Show 199x some love.

Toronto local Scotty Dynamo is back with a music video of one of his best tracks, Make it Right. If his name sounds familiar, its because I’ve blogged about him a few times here on 199X.

His music is fun, and it reminds me of a couple of other acts I’m digging these days: The Girls Can Hear Us and Dr. Hollywood. Give them all a listen.

Scotty Dynamo - Make It Right

The Girls Can Hear Us -Seems I Always Do

Dr. Hollywood (feat. Martha Washington) - Make You Move

Grab some Scotty Dynamo tracks on iTunes, then visit ScottyDynamo.com.

The following post is from Thomas Fortunato, a freelance writer from U S of A who will be writing the occasional field report for us.

NEW YORK CITY—Babycastles, named for bite-sized Portuguese cakes in Japan, is the city’s first independent video games arcade, has been showcasing indie videogames, large-scale art installations, and local chiptune music at the Showpaper 42nd Street Gallery in Manhattan.

I attended the venue on November 4th with my friend Mox, who invited me to come with her and watch her boyfriend, New York chip musician Zen Albatross, perform at the gallery for the “Heavenly Symphony” event organized as a joint venture between Babycastles and videogame culture shop Attract Mode. Performing with Zen Albatross were chip musicians Nullsleep, and George & Jonathan.
Admission was free to get into Babycastles, although drinks were rather pricey: $5 for a can of beer, and $6 for bottles. If I recall correctly, shots of vodka or whiskey were $1. Behind the bar was quite possibly the most addictive video game at the arcade: the “hug machine.”

The hug machine was an old television set with two buttons for controls, one on each side of the box, causing the player to “hug” the machine by putting one hand on each of the buttons. One button makes the on-screen cursor go up, the other makes it go down, and the player must navigate the cursor through a rapidly scrolling “tunnel” without hitting either the ceiling or the floor. The hug machine had very basic black-and-white graphics reminiscent of Pong or MS Dos.

The rest of the games at the arcade were considerably more artistically inspired, both in regards to the graphics in the games themselves the graffiti- and anime-inspired imagery painted on the physical box that housed the hardware. All the machines were for sale, Mox informed me, with one such game carrying an alleged price tag of $5,000.

Nullsleep - Dirty (ROM Dance Mix)

zen Albatross - Masada Gestalt

Hit up Zen Albatross on Twitter, Nullsleep on Twitter and George and Jonathan on Twitter

Then make you sure you follow Nineteen Ninety Never on Twitter. That shit is the future.

Ninjas are definitely the coolest guys around.

Krondor Krew - Ninjas Masters (via RhymeTorrents)

Die Antwoord - Enter The Ninja (Douster Butterfly Remix) (via Electro Toronto)

If you like ninjas, you’ll definitely want to read some more ninja posts on 199x.

In related news, my roommate and I bought throwing knives this weekend.

In the tradition of Sharon Apple and Rei Toei, I present to you Hatsune Miku. She’s not real.

Hatsune Miku - Love Is War

KarenT feat. Hatsune Miku - Neoromantist

Thanks to finding a bunch of photos from my time in Japan on a couple of recently-restored hard drives, I’ve been suffering from mega bouts of mega Nippon-nostalgia. Mostly, I’m missing Tokyo. That city is just so big and amazing, its hard not to miss. Nothing will ever really compare to it, and nothing can even really describe it.

That means I’m envious of Gejius, who’s living in Tokyo right now.

The kid dropped a free album of tracks that you can download on Soundcloud. He describes his music as funky space disco, and you know I love that style.

Gejius - TOKIO

The XX - Crystalized (SLYDE Remix)

SLYDE doesn’t have anything to do with Japan, but I was listening to the track when I was going through these old pictures and it worked, so there you go.

Read more about Life In Lotus Land here.

Slyde is on Twitter

so is Gejius. Say hi to both of them for me. Then follow 199X on Twitter.

When you’re finished doing that, grab more of The XX here.