Robotic Pirate Monkey

Maybe you’ve noticed but I’ve been putting up some shorter posts recently. My goal is to do one “feature” a week with shorter posts throughout the week. My plan was to do a write up this week featuring the Major Rager show at Cervantes. Major Rager is an alias for Diplo the world renowned DJ. Unfortunately he bailed on the show so that went up in smoke. I was super bummed because not only would Diplo have killed it but Robotic Pirate Monkey was going to open.

I mentioned in an earlier post that I saw them at Beauty Bar 3/26/11 and I had a great time. The crew and I rolled deep to the bar and I was in shock by the talent, the bar definitely lives up to its name. Opening for RPM was Mo:Rockin and he got the dance bumping with some well known bangers like Rusko's "Woo Boost" and Bassnectar's "Bass Head." By the time Robotic Pirate Monkey took the stage everyone was feeling loose and they unleashed on the crowd. Every body in the house was moving to the beats which they brought until the bar closed. RPM has some unusual remixes that may seem strange on paper but is bass porn for your ears. Some personal favorites of mine are "Carousel" (Blink-182), "I Cam as a Rat" (Modest Mouse), "Smile" (Lilly Allen), and "Mr. Brown" (Bob Marley). I also really like their originals "Ligers" and "All In You." You can see them April 21st at the Aggie in Fort Collins but in the mean time you can bump all their music free at www.roboticpiratemonkey.com.

Back In The Saddle Again

RRRRRAAAAAAARRRRRRRR, I’m back from hibernation. The days were short and the nights long this winter providing the time to capitalize on gumdrops, lasers, and ragers. I won’t bore you on all the lame things that happened in between my last post and now like Chromeo and A-Trak for Halloween, Savoy’s debut of their awesome new lasers at The Ogden, STS9’s mind blowing NYE light show and new songs, the Winter X Games with Big Boi, Umphrey’s McGee, Ghostland Observatory, Snow Ball Music Festival, or String Cheese Incident’s Winter Carnival, but like I said I won’t bore you with that.

Speaking of SCI, Michael Travis and Jason Hann’s side project EOTO is playing Saturday at The Ogden. They create a unique experience with their live, improvised, dub-jam style that always brings an energy only they produce. I’ve seen them at Rothbury, Three20South, and Wakarusa and at each incident they’ve produced banger jams that are one of a kind. If you go expect to get sweaty because the crowd will be getting hot and heavy just like the bass.

Skrillex is playing a sold out show tomorrow at Beta in Denver. He has been a well known producer who is now is making a name for himself. He has acquired quite the following but for whatever reason I can’t jump on board with his tunes.

Robotic Pirate Monkey is a DJ group from Boulder that has really been gaining momentum. They opened Snow Ball Music Festival with the first show of the Groove tent and are playing in Eagle County again at the Samana Lounge in Vail tonight. I saw them last Saturday at Beauty Bar and they killed it, there will be more to come on here about them shortly. It’s good to be back, keep your peepers out for my next post and stay fresh kids.