Muscles

“Muscles, I love you and I want to have your baby.”

I was lucky enough to arrange some one-on-one time with Muscles when he pulled through San Francisco this past friday with the Soulwax NiteVersions/2Many Dj’s tour. I had known relatively little about him prior due to scarce information on his websites and other music blogs. Well, I walked into the venue to find this 22 year old, brown-haired, windbreaker-clad Aussie behind two keyboards singing his lungs out to the point of vocal hoarseness.  Despite being the opening act, he delivered a solid dose of energy and excitement.  He made dance and not give a f*ck if no one else was.

the rest of the interview and a digital goodie bag of my incredible weekend of Coachella run-off

I was wondering why he was performing with out his signature lights wrapped around his body.  He informed me that they were stolen in Sydney and he hadn’t replaced them. To whomever stole them, i hope you feel like shit b/c you didn’t stop him from having a great show and he looks WAY better in them than you do.  As far as his North American tour goes, its been a pretty smooth ride.  Everyone has had a great reaction to him, Montreal taking the cake, thus far.

Muscles career is about to blow up.  He’s about to jump into bed with Modular. I’m surprised that they’ve managed to restrain themselves thus far…it’s like going on a date with Jessica Alba and her not letting you touch her coochie for two whole months. Muscles told me that the last few months have been a blur and if you had asked him six months ago if he thought he would be signing with Modular and touring with Soulwax, he would have said ‘ya right.’

He has an 11-track album all set to go.  Apparently it’s going to sound more positive than his previous singles (i.e. no stabbing references), but perhaps that’s due to the large amounts of Italo Disco he’s been listening to. We gushed about our mutual obsession with LCD Soundsystem and Midnight Juggernauts, so I can only imagine how much I’m going to love his album.

Bottom line: Muscles is super nice, crazy one man show, Modular’s new love affair…and I think mine, too.

p.s. and a little birdie told me that Soulwax is helping produce Tiga’s new album

Sorry, I only had my little point and shoot camera….

MUSCLES

 

 

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Muscles – One Inch Badge Pin (12″coming out in two weeks!)

DIGITALISM

Digitalism was A-MA-zing….definitely just as good live as on their tracks.

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Digitalism – Magnets

SOULWAX

(highlight of the 2manyDJ’s set was the Sebastian remix of RATM-killing in the name of)

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Klaxons – Gravitys Rainbow (Soulwax remix)

LCD SOUNDSYSTEM

They rounded out my incredible weekend with an impeccable show….flawless.