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PRISM March

This app replaces your iChat icon with iTunes album artwork. [Mac Only]

Proenza Schouler At Target

If your female, run out and get yourself some Proenza Schouler at the local Target. Assuming they sent any here, there should be plenty to choose from at stores located in Utah. Most people won't know it from a Joan Collins collection at K-Mart.

Andy Caldwell Rocks SLC

Two pix snapped in my tequila haze this past Friday at PRISM. The crowd was awesome, Andy was on point and despite the strange weather pattern that day, it eneded up being a brilliant night! Thank you one and all, we hope you had a great time.
 

Andy Caldwell Tonight At PRISM

This American Life: The Television Show!

What would a TV version of This American Life look like? Here's the trailer and an article.

Defense agency kills Divine Strake test explosion.

March flyer preview. Photography by Colby D. Crossland.

Mystic Candleholders/Vases by Arik Levy for Gaia & Gino. [Wallpaper Design Awards]

Spiralight by Robin Carpenter [Via MoCo Loco]

Rare footage of Nina Simone from 1962. [Via Coudal]

PRISM Loves You

No No No No ...and... No

Sienna Miller in a remake of Barbarella? Heresy I say! The only way this idea could get worse is if Tim Burton directs.
[Via Woolfphase]

The Recommended New Music list has been updated in the column to the right.

Deep Melodic Tough Gritty House

If you liked that last DJ mix suggestion, I'm willing to bet you'd enjoy this other release by JT Donaldson called Franchise Player out this month.

JT is the classic triple threat - a skilled DJ, Producer & Remixer who logs countless miles DJing from Sydney to San Francisco. So it's only right that we kick off this new compilation series with one of the best.

The Franchise Player sound is the sound of the underground. This isn't music for glamorous ultra-clubs and their overpriced bottle-service. This is music for the true believers. The sound is deep and melodic but always tough, gritty and guaranteed to make you move.

Again, you can down it legally and enjoy on the way to the club tonight. Aces!

Body Language Tres

Jesse Rose is one of those bubbling under names whose move to Get Physical just might break him internationally. But if you look closely at the record bins, you'll find his name everywhere: recently he's released on Dubsided, Will Saul's Simple label (as Content) and Mobilee as well as Derrick Carter's Classic label (as Induceve). Rose also runs three – count 'em – record labels, Front Room, Loungin' and his latest addition Made To Play, releasing the likes of Solid Groove, Trevor Loveys and Stefan Goldmann. 'Jesse can do no wrong in my eyes,' says Output head Trevor Jackson. 'He's always diverse and never scared to do his own thing.'

Given Rose's background in house music, perhaps the hook up with Get Physical isn't such a surprise. He was first asked by the label to remix 'Vejer' by Riton vs Heidi, and he now lives in Berlin, Get Physical's base, where he has a monthly residency at the Panorama Bar. Why the move to Germany? 'I needed a change from London. I had been living there for ten years and it's a hardcore place at the best of times,' says Rose. 'There's only so many clubs and after parties you can do. Because I had played in Berlin quite a lot over the past six or seven years, I had already made good friends here.'

Although Rose had already hooked up with Get Physical, he was still surprised when they asked him to mix the third 'Body Language' CD. 'Get Physical is always looking for fresh ideas, but I was honoured that they asked me. They let me do what I wanted, so the mix isn't their typical sound,' Rose says.

Rose joins the ranks of stablemates M.A.N.D.Y. and DJ T. with his 'Body Language' mix, on which he includes a number of his own Dubsided, Classic and Made to Play productions, as well as more than a few chopped up hip-hop samples. 'Using hip-hop is part of a general attitude,' Rose explains. 'If you listen to house music when you're making house music, that's when things go wrong. I did the mix using two turntables and a CD deck. It took me three weeks to do properly. Don't ask me why I didn't just do it on a computer - maybe I feel DJing should be involved, a performance, rather than just looking like someone checking their emails on a laptop.'

Aside from his own tracks, 'Body Language 3' includes some bigger like-minded tunes such as Radio Slave's remix of 'Deer in the Headlights', Bobby Peru's 'Erotic Discourse' and Aril Brikha's perennial stomper 'Groove La Chord' from 2002. 'I decided to end the mix with 'Groove La Chord' because I started off playing Detroit and Chicago music, so what better way to end my first mix?' says Rose. [Resident Advisor]

You can legally download the entire mix at DanceTracksDigital.
This is Rose's MySpace.

The Texas Centaur

Say hello to the Texas Centaur.

Two random Utah related stories today: Former Utah Jazz basketball player John Amaechi came out of the closet (the tea parties didin't give it away?), and Mormon presidential candidate Mitt Romney faces the first of many questions surrounding his... Mormonism.

Body Movin'

There's a lot of cool stuff lately at Protien Feed including the mesmerizing robotic UniQlo Mixplay breakdancers. See it here.

Karen Walker Dictator Sunglasses

I wish I was related to Kiwi designer Karen Walker. Her awesome dictator-esque sunglasses are the rage. Available from No-One, 1 Kingsland Road, London E2 (020 7613 5314; www.no-one.co.uk)