This month’s Keep watch comes courtesy of another Croydon, London alumni – Plastician brings us this month’s mix – a compilation of his favorite Dubstep and Grime tracks from the past year. Hits from the likes of Rusko, Skream and Crissy Criss, along with many others makes this month’s Dubstep-heavy installment the perfect part mix for the start of spring. Enjoy.

Plastician has been rocking the UK underground for 8 years now and has been seen all over Europe as well as North America. His recent induction into a BBC Radio 1 slot really is a testament to his popularity in the scene, complimented by his ongoing Rinse FM show at 11pm on Monday evenings and his infamous May Mixes (new one dropping soon). Plastician still finds the time to run his own label Terrorythm Recordings and just released his new album “Beg to Differ.”

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Found this junk mail whilst looking for something else, so I thought I’d share.

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Hello my the surprised friend!
My name Nadejda and I wish to take away from you at all a lot of time
and to penetrate in my letter! My trade the doctor the dentist. I had
an ingenious idea to try to find love not in that place where I live
namely not in Russia! In me there were such emotions since recent
time! I would like to tell to you about it my new friend. On my former
work in the Stomotologichesky Polyclinic I had a chance that I will go
on an exchange for practice to other city for me it it was good and
not much not on myself because to go to other city on practice! I do
not have there friends or even I am simple girlfriends with which I
can to spend time and speak cheerfully about problems in mine to a new
life. But all has exchanged and on an exchange there has gone my
colleague which only not for a long time has come to us for work after
the termination of Medical university. But the desire to find the
acquaintance from other country at me remains on former. I thought of
a step as acquaintance to the person from other country much. Once
after work I have gone on foot because weather was fine and saw as
enamoured steams follow a hand and exchange gentle kisses. I do not
have not enough tenderness and the favourite person in the lives and
it to me became very clear after this walk. I like to walk sometimes
one alone with myself and to think about the lives. I could not find
the happiness in my city and till now is lonely. For myself I have
resolved to search for the love in other country. Especially I heard
much about that that people from other countries are more romantic and
are careful concerning relations with women, so to say they have a
spark in eyes! I am ready completely to this step and have bought
yours e-mail in International Dating Agency. To me have told that you
my friend very good lonely person with kind and open heart. I wish to
tell about myself directly that to me 28 years and my growth 168 see I
live to Russia, city Novochebocksarsk. In connection with that that in the
world financial crisis and few workplaces goes reduction. I have got
to reduction and I had to finish the work in hospital. Now I work in
Cafe-Bar. I wish to be happy life in the and I have serious sights at
this world. At me the big age and is a lot of experience behind
shoulders. I am confident that we can to find with you the general a
theme of conversation and to learn each other more. I hope to see
yours the letter my friend about your life. As I to place my foto with
the letter and some resume in a file. I very much would like to see
yours the letter and to have with you acquaintance. I would like to
see that we became good friends and not only.

If you are serious and interested in me please reply ONLY to my personal e-mail: nadejdakitten@gmail.com

P.S. My letter to you was sent by manager International Dating Agency
therefore write on my personals e-mail: nadejdakitten@gmail.com
Yours new friend
Nadejda.

OI! Stop jackin’ his gear! Incooooooming!

When people have asked me what I don’t have Mr.T related, or what am I looking for, I always tell them a Mr.T Wax Museum figure. My friend Mike Essl sent me the link earlier today from liveauctioneers.com

Unfortunately (or fortunately) this is a pretty poor example of a wax Mr. T. Which is probably a good thing cause I dont have $3K to drop. Hrmm, although, maybe I can convince My Pal The Crook that we need this for the Mishka store.

You check out the auction here.

WOAH, ok I totally didn’t notice the post below about the Seinfeld figures. Oh well.

Got a couple extra thousand dollars to spend at the Jerk Store? Now available for auction, a quartet of your favorite jerks (as well as a bunch of other half-assed wax figures, like Tiger Woods and Leo Dicraprio) from the Hollywood Wax Museum collection. Just realistic and (barely) recognizable enough to provide maximum creep-out.

Tinted Windows – Tinted Windows (2009) [EMI] // Grade: C

Why the hell am I reviewing this after in the midst of an onslaught of doom metal & lo-fi albums? Why not! I was pretty fuckin’ curious to hear what a band featuring James Iha (Smashing Pumpkins), Adam Schlesinger (Fountains of Wayne), Bun E. Carlos (Cheap Trick) being fronted by Taylor Hanson, of well, Hanson would sound like. Plus the initial disgust of co-workers and my girlfriend at their debut single only made me that much more curious. “You have to hear how bad this sounds” was what I kept hearing up until I was sat down and shown the debut video for “Kind of a Girl”. Which at the end of I just scratched my head and said “This is what you think is so awful? This is just straight up Power-Pop.”

Tinted Windows is unoffensive, unremarkable, over-produced yet still catchy paint by numbers Power-Pop. A little bit of Cheap Trick, some Foreigner, a lot of Matthew Sweet & a smidgen of Nelson-esque rock balladry dumbed down (yes even Power-Pop could be dumbed down) for Disney Channel Tweenagers. This is a top heavy album of 5 or so tracks that like it or not can worm there way into the back of your head waiting to come out when you’re really drunk and a cab’s radio is tuned to z100. Is that really that bad? I guess that depends on how seriously you take your Power-Pop and or hate for anything blatantly mainstream.  If I had an 11 year old, I’d rather they got into some 3rd rate Power-Pop like rather than any number of other crappy things on the radio or TV.

So is this album any good? I wouldn’t go so far as saying that, but it has given me some guilty pleasures for the Summer and for Karaoke so it is a success in that regard, and I couldn’t ask for any more from commercial pop.

My Hobbies: watching sexy movies, chating, watching t v, play football

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You die five seconds after watching this.

This Friday, May 1st
Mishka in association with Pacha NYC presents…

The Pacha debut of…
SURKIN

Along with
TROUBLE & BASS DJ’S (Star Eyes & The Captain)
JDH & DAVE P (Fixed NYC)
DJ AYRES (T&A Records / The Rub)
DANCES WITH WHITE GIRLS
MICHAEL MEDS (Microprobes/Ruff Club NYC)
S$MALL CHANGE (Pure Fire / No Parking On The Dancefloor)

The pint-sized French phenom may have skipped high school, but he’s already made a career for himself as one of France’s biggest rising stars. Pacha NYC proudly presents Surkin on Friday May 1st, 2009. As a former four-to-the-floor hater, Surkin got into dance music through Detroit ghettotech and thanks to the internet started to dig deeper into club music history focusing on Miami Bass and big room Chicago house. Add a thick layer of glammed-up filtered house courtesy of French dons Daft Punk and youíve got the full Surkin mille-feuilles.

In May 2006, Parisian label Institubes released not one, but two Surkin records at once, ìGhetto Obsessionî and ìRadio Fireworks.î The response was tremendous, played and playlisted by everybody from the Ed Banger and Erol Alkan cabal to Boys Noize and Laidback Luke. Those tracks even managed to break the indie dance glass ceiling by smashing main rooms all over the globe. Radio Fireworks emerged as a genuine club hit, topping both Justiceís AND Myloís “Best tracks of 2006″ lists.

Surkin, with his first album due out in October is still riding high of his latest EP, ìNext of Kinî featuring the mega hit, “White Knight Two,” that just made Mixmagís top 100 tracks list of 2008. Add to that a Mixmag cover featuring him alongside NYC favorites The Martinez Brothers and Dubstep king Skream (naming them the “New School” of dance,) Pacha NYC together with Surkin will be exploring a whole new genre of dance music that is growing ever so quickly. Joining Surkin is the latest crop of NYC talent, Trouble & Bass DJ’s (The Captain & Star Eyes), JDH & Dave P (Fixed NYC), Michael Meds (Ruff Club), Dances With White Girls, DJ Ayres (The Rub) and Small Change (Pure Fire).

FREE BEFORE MIDNIGHT! Get on the list!

CHECK OUT THE SURKIN MINI-SITE for guestlist, info, lineup, 2 free downloads, and more!

Doors open 10pm
Info: 212.209.7500

Pacha NYC
618 W.46th St.
New York, NY

Zoroaster – Voice of Saturn (2009) [Terminal Doom] // Grade: B+

Holy shit. Someone got Sleep back together and killed off the members of Zoroaster! Well not really, but that’s what most this album sounds like. Since Dog Magic, the Southern boys in Zoroaster have been perfecting the formula for the perfect doom record. This formula consists of melodic and soothing tracks immediately followed by huge, gargantuan and heavy masterpieces like “Spirit Molecule” and “White Dwarf”. Listen carefully in “White Dwarf” for Brent Hinds of Mastodon’s handy-work. Also be sure to catch the hidden track on “Lamen Of The Master Therion” around 6:20.

Overall Zoroaster has created a great album that will most likely mark a highpoint in the band’s career. It’s heads above their self-titled release and Dog Magic and it’ll be interesting to see how their sound evolves in the future.