We received many an email about if we would be dong anything for people outside the New York area in regards to our recent Warehouse Sale. Well now you have an answer…

ALL FALL ’07 MERCHANDISE IS 50-70% OFF!

We took inventory after the sale and whatever was left (not much) is now online at a deep discount while it lasts for all of our fans not in New York! Just head over to our Online Store and shop, shop away!

You’ll also notice that our store is now stocked with Holiday product, the New Store Exclusives & a special re-print of our Goblin T-shirts!

Holiday product, New Store Exclusives, Goblin & Denim are all excluded from the sale.

We wish you all a Happy New Year, thank you for making 2007 so amazing for us and hope your 2008 will be as awesome!

In keeping the tradition of doing everything last minute. I offer MY top 10 list of 2007. My top 10 eBay purchases of 2007! I actually haven’t done that much buying this year but I used to be an eBay animal, a Powerseller even! But I have kind of slowed down these days.

I was going to post the actual photos from the eBay listings whenever I could, but I didn’t save all the photos, and some of the auctions have expired from the eBay database, so oh well. I did however tirle them ALL as they were listed on eBay. These are in order of when I bought them this year rather than my favorites. Enjoy my dorkdom!

10. AFRICAN MOVIE ART POSTER HAND PAINTED CANVAS GHANA
This is one of the most favorite things I own. It is a hand painted African Movie poster of Army of Darkness. In different parts of Africa, they have these traveling cinemas that show American movies. Most of them are horror, action, sci-fi… basically movies they don’t really need to be translated to be understood. Local painters hand paint posters for the films on rice bags for the traveling shows.

9. Beastman Masters of the Universe Ben Cooper costume
We did an art show out in Toronto earlier this year that was Masters of the Universe themed. We did the window display and part of that display had child mannequins in these vintage vinyl costumes that we already had a bunch of. We however did not have a Beastman, who was one my most favorite of the He-Man villains because I’m obssessed with Bigfoot, The Skunk Ape, and other hairy beasts. But unfortunately this costume never arrived in time and we weren’t able to even use it the show! But we paid a pretty penny for it and it now makes a lovely decoration for our office. Check out our Gallery for pictures from the show!

8. KILLER KLOWNS FROM OUTER SPACE Chiodo POSTER
When I first heard the title of this movie as a kid I seriously thought it was a joke. I mean it is, kind of… know what I mean? I always loved the artwork for the movie poster, and this one is in Spanish, double the radness, I guess. On a side note, If you rent this flick, listen to the Director Commentary! Some of the best on any DVD.

7. RUDE RALPH / 1986 / AXLON / VINTAGE
I actually already had one of these guys, but I couldnt remember his name. So when I finally found out his name and saw him on eBay, I bought another one. He’s basically a giant Madball, but wasn’t produced by Amtoy. When you pull Rude Ralph’s eye out of it’s socket he makes burps and fart noises. If forced to explain who is/was a genius I would probably describe the guy (or gal) who created Rude Ralph.

6. 1986 AmToy Head Popping Mad Balls Oculus Orbus Figure
One of the Madballs action figures. His eye (head) pops off! Oculus Orbus, now you know!

5. RARE boglin Slobster the Lobster Pet monsters 80′s toy
I didn’t remember this Boglin until I saw him on an old advertisement. This Boglin is a lobster creature, how fucking sick is that!?

4. 1980′ MADBALLS “BRONCUDO” RARE ARGENTINE VARIANT BAGGED
When I saw this guy on eBay, I freaked! Argentina gave us some truly amazing bootlegs of many popular 80s toys. I’m really glad they bootlegged Madballs as well. I bought this from a guy who I also bought a ton of Argentinian A-Team (or Brigada A as they are known in Argentina) stuff from.

3. Vintage German Devil Satan Nodder Bobble Head Germany
This was purchased as a result of my bi-monthly eBay search of “vintage devil.”

2. Vintage BeBe’s Kids Ghetto T Shirt 80′s Hip Hop Mishka
Man, this auction really fucking pissed me off. I had won this on eBay and was stoked. But the next day the seller emails me and says someone in the UK offered him $150 (I paid $40) for it and he had decided to sell it to him instead. What an asshole! Sigh…

1. 1986 Amtoy My Pet Monster w/ Original Handcuffs
On our last trip to Japan, Mikhail and I saw one of these guys in a vintage toy store. We both had him as kids, but this is NOW and we needed one NOW! My Pet Monster… I know you know whats up!

So this Doombox and the post for it was one of the things lost in our move! So here it goes again…

Mike Dextro & I were good friends when we were both fresh immigrant toddlers in Brooklyn. I even rememeber giving Mike a sweet Ultra Magnus for his 5th birthday! But Mike and his family moved away and I hadn’t heard or seen from him in over two decades until I ran into randomly at a friend’s loft party in Williamsburg.

In that time since i saw him again Mike’s been busy DJing and throwing parties in NYC. Check for Mike’s weekly Pornography Party on Wednesdays at Piano’s, Along with his remixes for the Junkies, his mashup team up with Olé called Diesel & Raw and his own banging track Bulletproof.

No order, No control!
Grind your teeth, let’s go!

-SKREAM, “oskilatah” (skreamizm vol. 4)
-BLAQSTARR, “Gon Break It Down” (The King of Roq)
-BENGA and COKI, “Night” (Tempa30)
-RUSKO, “Cockney thug” (Babylon: Volume One)
-DEXPLICIT, “Lollipop Bass” (The Niche & Bump EP)
-DIZZEE RASCAL, “Sirens” (Maths & English)
-DJ MEHDI, “Signatune, Thomas Bangalter rmx” (Lucky Girl EP)
-DUBCHILD, “Bumbaclart Riddim” (ARMY007)
-DROP THE LIME, “Pump up NY”
-GROOVE ARMADA feat. STUSH, “Get Down, Calvin Harris rmx”
-GUI BORATTO, “Terminal” (Chromophobia)
-HIJACK, “Hijackin, Herve fuck fuck mix” (On The Brink Of Hype)
-STARKEY, “Corner Store feat. Xploder” (Corner Store EP)
-PASSIONS, “Get Hype”
-POMOMOFO, “Back At The Club, Boy 8 Bit rmx”
-PROXY, “Ready 2 Watching”
-DIDDY feat. CHRISTINA AGUILERA, “Tell Me, Switch rmx”
-TEENAGE BAD GIRL, “Vacuum” (Cocote)
-TREVOR LOVEYS & SINDEN, “Organ Grinder”
-ZZT, “Lower States Of Consciousness”
-M.I.A. “XR2″ (Kala)
-T2, “Filth” (The Monster Dubz EP)

Make sure you follow these artists and get all their tracks.
Hold tight! Brooklyn dance mosh crew!

but the site was down. Oh well… Check this out!

Fall Out Boy.

Tool – Prison Sex

Alice in Chains – Bleed the Freak (Live)

Soundgarden – Hands All Over

Mudhoney - Blinding Sun

The Jesus Lizard – Puss

Big Black – L Dopa

The U-Men – Dig It a Hole

So I was going to bitch and complain about the sad state of affairs in New York City and how everything is wack and nothing has any flavor and blah blah blah. Then I said to my jaded self, “self, things are way better here in New York than in 95% of the world, so curb those negative vibes, embrace that inner-hippie and tell the people of the internet what’s really good, not really bad.”

So with this newfound optimism I present my Top 9 things That Totally Ripped in 2007…

9.PorkChop
Jon Nicholson aka PorkChop aka Private Sector for years has quietly been making some of the most off-kilter psychedelic house music in these parts, holed up in his Brooklyn studio under the JMZ tweaking synths, jamming drum machines through effects units and recording that shit straight to tape, dude is producing some of the most rugged jams around. Further solidifying his legendary cult status, this year Jon did a three day non-stop improvisational music performance recording the entire 72 hours to cassette at the Grace Space. Aside from being a member of the Black Label Bike Club, PorkChop can be found DJing various venues around the 5 boroughs and doing time in avant-noise outfit Excepter. To say this guy inspires me is an understatement. Keep an eye out for some vinyl releases from Jon in early 2008.

8. Malvoeaux
aka Steve Summers aka Death Commando aka Rhythm Based Lovers aka Teen Laquifa aka Twin Roots. These are all the alias’ of one Jason Letkiewicz. Formerly of the Washington D.C. area and just recently a San Francisco transplant, Jason is destined for something big in the near future. In this past year during any given week I could count on an email coming from Jason containing new tracks from any of his numerous projects. An analogue outboard machine freak, equipped with an 808, 909, 707, Roland Juno-106 and various other pieces of machinery, Jason has, in my opinion, mastered numerous electronic music genres in tasteful and effective fashion. From 86′ jack-house, to electronic disco, to John Carpenter-esque soundtrack music there have been no boundaries for his creative output. Check out his tracks and see for yourself at CONFUSED HOUSE And if you download his tracks and play them out on your Serato, make sure you give credit where credit is due or drop the man a line and let him know you’re digging the jams. Again another major source of inspiration for me this year.

7. Eric Copeland’s (of Black Dice) first solo record, Hermaphrodite
I’ve been jamming this hard since I got a copy this past summer, but it wasn’t until the past weekend when I hit the peace pipe and jumped on the train back from Philly that this album got deep inside my head. I know that it takes a certain mind state to feel the effects of the Dice and their related projects, but I couldn’t help but feel as I closed my eyes that there were hundreds of tiny bugs crawling all over my face. HIGHLY recommended.

6. The visuals on Danny Perez
Here is a man who never leaves his home with the exception to walk his dog Boris and it shows. Deep beneath the clouded bongwater and the four walls of his editing room lies an individual intensely committed to creating a body of work that will be remembered for years to come, though hardly digestible by the masses. You may have seen his work this year flashing behind the stages of such acts as Panda Bear and Black Dice whilst giving tripping sixteen year-olds epileptic seizures. 2008 will see the completion of the full length Animal Collective “don’t eat the brown acid” movie entirely written, directed and edited by Perez. A beyond killer bro for sure.

5. Pissed Jeans
A punk band that’s not afraid to be a punk band. They get up on stage, plug in, and play for 25 minutes straight, unplug their gear and leave the stage. No bullshit, no antics, no claims to be this or that, just unrelenting heaviness in the vein of My War era Black Flag with a tad of the Germs thrown in for good measure. Sure you hear a lot of people compare new bands to such mega-outfits of yore, but Pissed Jeans truly lives up to these standards in today’s mundane world of rock n’ roll music.

4. Claudio Rispoli aka DJ Moz-Art
Thanks to the magic of ye ol’ internet, I came across this really mind-blowing Claudio Rispoli aka DJ Moz-Art mix from 1979 and have rocked it non-stop since last winter. Rispoli was one of the residents at the Baia degli Angeli in Italy alongside Daniele Baldelli who were among the pioneers of the Cosmic/Afro funky sound. The song selection and mixing on this tape is so on point for the time, gets me amped every time I play it. Features tracks by Ron Wright, ORS, Joe Gibbs and the Jam Band, and Queen Samantha among others.

3. The Music of Marcuss Mixx
Unearthed by some dude named Thomos, the music of Chicago House boozebag/screwball Marcuss Mixx has risen from the dead and hopefully to a dancefloor near you. A total tweaker who worked with legendary Chicago House DJ Ron Hardy towards the end of his career, Mixx has produced some seriously left field tracks, with only more to come. Should I leave my blow-up doll because she doesn’t like House music? I don’t have the answer to that Marcuss, but check out Let’s Pet Puppies to find out more.

2. Not Living on a Couch Anymore
I was living on random couches for almost two years. I now have an apartment again, and for that I am thankful.

1. Ziti, the dish
What do you all know about Ziti? What about a tray of Ziti? Or even Marie down the block who is rumored to make a terrible tray of Ziti. Ziti has been my cornerstone meal for years, it never lets me down, it’s cheap and if you know the right spots you will be treated lovely by this dish. Now don’t just walk into one of those broke-dick Rays Pizza’s and try to get some Ziti, because you will be very disappointed. I would suggest hitting Lalocanda at 432 Graham Ave. in Williamsburg as they know how to do things right. And if you don’t know about Ziti by now, well I really can’t tell you much more. All Hail Ziti!

This is Mr. Malta signing off for 2007… adios!