ARTIST: VA
TITLE: Premium Bananas-A Dim Mak CD Sampler
LABEL: Dim Mak
GENRE: Indie
BITRATE: 177kbps avg
PLAYTIME: 1h 08m total
RELEASE DATE: 2006-05-00
RIP DATE: 2006-05-31
Track List
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1. The Rakes - 22 Grand Job 1:45
2. The Scanners - Lowlife 4:02
3. Moving Units - Paper Hearts 2:28
(Demo)
4. Bloc Party - Helicopter (Weird 5:47
Science Remix ft. Peaches)
5. Grafiti - What Is The Problem 5:15
6. Whitey - Leave Them All Behind 4:37
7. Bloc Party - This Modern Love 5:00
(Dave P And Adam Sparkle's
Making Time Remix)
8. Pony Up - The Truth About Cats 3:51
And Dogs (Is That They Die)
9. Souls She Said - Sunken City 3:25
10. Mickey Avalon - Jane Fonda 3:38
11. Be Your Own Pet - Extra, Extra 1:51
12. Neon Blonde - Chandeliers And 4:07
Vines
13. From Monument To Masses - 6:59
Deafening
14. Icarus Line - Spike Island 3:46
(Remix)
15. JR Ewing - Change Is Nothing 3:35
(Everything Is)
16. Blood Brothers - Ladies And 2:44
Gentlemen
17. Lion Fever - I'd Love To Leave 4:25
18. Das Oath - You Will Never Never 1:20
Know Me
Release Notes:
Dim Mak media cartel, ground zero. A record label as a tangram. It all started
in a small room in a college co-op books, records, magazines, one-sheets,
records, stickers, records, records, and records. People filing in, one at a
time or three at a time, hands being given where needed. Support is free.
Passion is free. Silkscreened Pretty Girls Make Graves posters aren't free, but
that's nothing personal. Everything else is.
That's part of the Dim Mak politics: if we are all affected by everything around
us, then we are part of the surroundings for everyone else. Each vinyl release,
and some CD releases, include a Hearts & Minds poster or insert, documenting the
intensity, words, and inspiration of radical leaders, mentors, and critical
thinkers. Dim Mak seeks to bring it home (to the fans, kids, consumers, call
them what you will) because that's where everything begins. In the bedroom... in
this case, of a small room in a college co-op.
The ultimate failure of Do It Yourself is that it so rarely becomes Do It
Ourselves.
Dim Mak started in 1996 as a whim and became a lifestyle. Launching with a 7"
from obscure SoCal hardcore ensemble Stickfigurecarousel, Dim Mak's roster grew
to include bands outside of hardcore and punk to garage rock and roll, disco
punk, new wave, whatever it is that is explosive. The roster is a large and
expanding one. There is no particular genre of music we corner other than what
we know feels right. The point being is to just to release what we think is good
regardless of style. And with our expanding roster we include all artists we've
done shorter albums and/or singles as always part of the active family on Dim
Mak - The Coup, The Kills, Whirlwind Heat, Soledad Brothers, Automato, Panthers,
The Gossip, Young People, Das Oath, Paradise Island, Pearlene, Lion Fever, Dance
Disaster Movement, Pretty Girls Make Graves, Mr. David Viner, The Von Bondies,
Bluebird, Die Monitr Batss, From Monument To Masses, The Red Light Sting, Envy,
Miracle Chosuke, Battles, Libretto & Lifesavas, Dollhouse, Tokyo Sex
Destruction, Bloc Party, Deep Jail, Edy Crahp, Juss Ske.
And that's where the politics get messy. The problem with maintaining a
politicized presence is that your ideals can turn to rhetoric, and rhetoric is
inherently limiting and disempowering. And though Dim Mak seeks to encourage
radicalism as an ideal, the musical output emphasizes aesthetics and innovation
over any specific stance or message. Dim Mak and its bands comprise, not a
collective, but a community.
And just as a community isn't limited to one voice, it shouldn't be limited to
one language. Dim Mak is also engaged in compiling a documentary (tentatively
entitled Carpet of Gold, Carpet of Bombs) half of the footage shot in
Afghanistan and featuring interviews with radical voices across the nation,
including Howard Zinn, Boots from the Coup, Noam Chomsky, Alice Walker and many
others, along with a clearance to use new spoken-word from Mumia Abu-Jamal. The
soundtrack-to be released separately as well-will hopefully feature both hip hop
and rock artists.
A communal spirit and an inclination towards fucking around need not go hand in
hand. DIY and dilettantism are not synonymous.
In other words, Dim Mak's not going anywhere until it goes somewhere. Bands come
and go. Ideals are refined, reworded, resought. But the music and the passion is
what carries on. As Jonathan Jackson at age 17, who waltzed into a courtroom and
freed framed black brothers in protest for the freedom of his brother George
Jackson and the Soledad Brothers, said in the courtroom, "Alright gentlemen, I'm
taking over from here", we'll follow suit.
Steve Aoki
Dim Mak Media Cartel Headquarters
Hollywood, CA
Features new stuff from Scanners, Moving Units, Whitey, Mickey Avalon, and the
Icarus Line as well as great stuff from a number of other Dim Mak bands.