Come back to us, Jane Birkin

In my never (ever, EVER) ending search for new, and amazing music I can't help but be a little frightened for the state of dance music.  Now, I am under the realization that good music can come from anywhere, but what the hell are they putting in the french water, or...what the hell are they putting in pastis over there?  I ignored it up until now, and "up until now" has been a pretty long time.  Now I had an itch for some quality dance music, so I searched myspace to see what could scratch my itch (and possibly make its way onto one of my playlist) when I stumbled upon what I always thought of as a pretty qualified, articulate, talented, and good-as-hell-with-production-value producer and "glitchy 80s horror pop" dance music maker going under the moniker "DANGER".  I had originally heard his named dropped at a Daft Punk show in Tokyo last winter and immediately did a search on him when I got home.  I was pretty impressed to say the least.  "Alien's are attacking, am in the jungle?!  This is terrifying!" but oh so good, and the production value was killer to say the least.  Ok, that's all good and well.  Now, back to his myspace, which I used as a database to dive into the world of "Danger/Kavinsky spin-off-wannabe's", They must recruit these guys fresh out of highschool, armed with a macbook and a love for the 80s (or is it a love for the bands that love the 80s?) I couldn't help but be overcome with a little sadness as I swam my way through the depths of  Giorgio Moroder's worst nightmares.  Long gone are the days of Daft Punk, where dance music was just fun, and a bit funky, bus still fucking cool as hell-actually...

....Dear France, please put your thinking caps on, stop drinking, stop smoking, no pastis, no stripes, no Eiffel Tower, for like, two seconds and start making cool-as-hell music again, make Daft Punk proud!  Please!  You get th privilage of using neon AFTER your music is amazing, I want timeless music!  I think and hope we all do!  Stop eating baguettes!  Stop downloading Reason and making an EP with an original, and, a Justice/MIA/Prince mash-up.  I just want killer, dance music.  Make me smash my head into the floor once more. France, please. 

Ok, you can go back to wrinkling your nose and saying "but, of course" when I ask you a question like "Do you like the color green". 

*Note* I love French people, It's just, I've been working with a lovably crazy French-man for the better part of the year, you know...c'mon-you know.  Gimme a break.

Since I am not one to banter negatively about anything and everything that might pop into my head, I will leave you with some sick remix's by two German DJ's known as MANDY,  start banging now...

The Knife - Pass This On (M.A.N.D.Y. Knifer Mix) [ZSHARE]

Roxy Music - Thrill Of It All (M.A.N.D.Y. Vs. Booka Shade's 'I'm Your Pusher Man' Remix) [ZSHARE]   **My Pick**

Lemme talk about food for a second, food and music, mmmmm.  But right now it's just food.  A couple days ago, I conqured a recipe I've been wanting to make since I ate it, like, a year ago at Pure Food & Wine in NYC.  Raw Tacos.  I'm not going to post a recipe because I've already posted a somewhat altered recipe from 'Raw Food/Real World' and at this point you just have to go out and pick up the book.  I strongly recommend doing so.  I will, however, post a picture of what It looked like when I finished, and I am pretty proud of myself, to say the least.  Me and my girl devoured these in like five minutes.  Yum.

Remember that they are totally, 100% raw, and, made from scratch.  Shells and all.  Check.