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Now with set times:

Club Room – Doors 8pm

TaxLo DJs 8-930 PM
Scottie B 930-1030 PM
G.E.M. featuring DJ Booman 1030-1130 PM
Thieves Like Us 1130-1230 AM
Martyn 1230-2AM

Main Room – Doors 9 PM

DJ 9-9:30PM
Awesome Color 9:30-10:00
Dat Politics 1015-1115
Black Dice 1130-1230
Dan Deacon 1245-145

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MP3: Black Dice – Glazin from REPO (2009)

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MP3: Thieves Like Us – Miss You from Play Music (2009)

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MP3: Thieves Like Us – Drugs In My Body (Long Version) from Play Music (2009)

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MP3: Get ‘Em Mamis – Rock Wit Me (Explicit) from TERAWESOME (2009)

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MP3: DAT Politics – Gee Gee from Minicomp 1 (2008)

So this shis show next Saturday (June 13th) is a big deal.  Lots of names, spread all over the board.  Mucho props to TaxLo for  bringing together a broad array of artists.

I have a pair of tickets and a copy of Dan Deacon’s Bromst to giveaway to the funniest/most interesting commenr.  The theme is summer lovin. Go.  And enjoy this new video from the Get Em Mamis after the jump.

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MP3: Teeth Mountain – Ghost Science from Teeth Mountain (2007)

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MP3: Dan Deacon – Padding Ghost from Bromst (2009)

All Photos: the inimitable institution, Josh Sisk (full set here)

Dan Deacon is hitting up Sonar on June 13th, I suggest that you seek out tickets.

Editor’s note: Or you could enter to win tickets from Aural States.  Check back in just a few days.

Out in rural Carroll County where I reside, there’s a powerful stigma behind the idea of Baltimore. It brings up connotations of dimly lit streets, frightening murder-prone men behind every corner, and the Inner Harbor existing as an oasis of “real citydom” in the midst of it all. Needless to say, most of my country-bumpkin peers aren’t very familiar with the town. However, if they just so happened to have been at the 9:30 Club this past Sunday night, I’m sure their minds would have completely eliminated that sinister reputation, replacing it with one of ecstatic joy.

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MP3: Dan Deacon – Snookered

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MP3: Dan Deacon – Slow with Horns / Run for your life

I’ve always appreciated Dan Deacon’s music in the same way I have symphonic music. Both have their places in my personal musical collection, and I can understand what’s good about them, but they’re not usually what I’d put in a mix and force my friends to listen to. Deacon was fun to enjoy live now and then, but there wasn’t anything particularly resounding about his recorded material that made me want to listen again at home.

His latest release, Bromst, has significantly changed my relationship with his music.

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This is it. It’s here. Whartscape 2008 kicks off tonight at the Charles Theater with a spectacular, Matmos- headlined line-up and we hope everyone makes it out.

For the last day of our Countdown min-terviews, we’ve got some heavy-hitters including Mr Green-skull himself, one of Wham City’s patriarchs, Dan Deacon, homegrown electronic music royalty Cex.

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MP3: Dan Deacon – Wham City

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All photos: Josh Sisk

Dan Deacon is a showman.  If you have ever seen him live, you know he fucking kills it.  But what I find remarkable about him, and unique to just a very few other individuals, is his ability to completely control the crowd.  Performing on the floor amongst a rowdy crowd draws the apt comparison to a lion tamer with his head down the big cat’s throat-what a show, but he’s really putting it all out there, and it could all go wrong quickly.

In both cases, absolute confidence is needed.

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TaxLo closes up its insanely high-quality 6th anniversary festivities with a spectacular show at Sonar this Friday May 30, headlined by Diplo, Dan Deacon and DD/MM/YYYY.

But wait, there’s more!

In addition to our still-going Presets contest, you, lucky reader, have another contest to enter!

To enter, it’s simple: comment on this post or email your name and location to us at auralstates at gmail dot com.

One lucky winner will score the following:

• 2 Tickets to TAXLO featuring DIPLO, DAN DEACON, and DD/MM/YYYY on May 30
• CUT COPY tote bag
• TAXLO 6-Year Anniversary Screenprinted Poster by Kevin Sherry
• BONDE DO ROLE sticker
• CUT COPY 3-D glasses
• DAN DEACON t-shirt
• 2 TAXLO buttons
• BONDE DO ROLE sticker
• DIPLO “AEIOU” CD
• CUT COPY “In Ghost Colours” CD
• BLAQSTARR “Shake It to the Ground” 12″ featuring RYE RYE
• BLAQSTARR “Shake It to the Ground” remix CD single feat DROP THE
  LIME, Santogold, Switch

TaxLo is seriously blitzing, with two other chances to win at BYT and Butterteam. Tasty downloadable Diplo and Dan Deacon bits here. Videos for “Crystal Cat” and “Okie Dokie” after the jump.

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Dan Deacon – Wham City from Spiderman of the Rings

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Dan Deacon – Okie Dokie from Spiderman of the Rings

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M.I.A. (Diplo Mix) – Fire Bam from Piracy Funds Terrorism Vol. 1

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Pitchfork.tv obsession continues. Dan Deacon’s new video for “Okie Dokie” off Spiderman of the Rings premieres today. Get at it. “Crystal Cat” has been up there for a while now.

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B-more’s own Wham City member of some repute, Dan Deacon, has decided to post his entire back catalog online for the teeming masses of the net.

Downloads here. I recommend navigating by FTP.

Just MP3 format though, not FLAC.

Deacon is on tour in the land down under until early March, when he returns stateside for a few festival dates including Coachella. Check the video from one of Deacon’s frantic live shows after the jump.
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