Thanks to all the freaks, weirdos, snake charmers, strongmen, bearded ladies, lion-tamers and gorillas who came out Saturday night to Harley’s to blow up the spot for another Bananas. Just realized we never posted the mix we put together for this circus, but you can download it here if you’re into that kind of thing. Also a very cordial holler to Mr. Xia, the master of the captured image, and our lovely bar maidens, Kate and Matsume, for keeping us conveniently inebriated all night long!

check out some more pics here.

because somewhere, right now, a white baby is being born

WORD UP TO THE THREE RING, it’s a circus on MARCH 15 SATURDAY

The Fantastic Flying Bananas Brothers
Shanghai Circus

Saturday, the 15th of March
Commencing with a bang at 10pm

We are delighted to make available to you a menagerie of tawdry talents, pecularities and sundry musical HOT SHIT

With cooperative appearances and feats performed by:

DJ Kamikaze (jiggy music mixed by a monkey with two left paws)
Mr. Stokes (original bearded two-headed banana)
elnomo (lowercase gnome strongman)
$anto Chino (unicyclist with ridiculous stamina)

Acrobatics, Pyrotechnics and a Tumescent Cannon
Photos by Charlie Xia (tireless lens provocateur)

Tickets a paltry 30RMB at the gate
Punch a mere 20 RMB all night,
as poured by our alluring mermaid bartendresses

HARLEY BAR
265 Nandan Dong Lu
near Caoxi Bei Lu
(Xujiahui)
Saturday, March 15!!

Everlasting gratitude to our generous sponsors, the smut peddlers at Smartshanghai.com.
Visit www.free-bananas.com. Send an email to bananas.hollers@gmail.com for more info.

Seems like dope dj’s in Shanghai are dropping like flies! First Mr. Stokes bounces to Kunming, and last week 3 time ITF champ, Kid Fresh, gave up the ghost in Shanghai for greener pastures and tour dates in Europe and the US. Fortunately, he didn’t leave us completely empty-handed. Right before leaving town Mr. Fresh was working long hours to crank out a new mix for palmsout sound that will accompany an interview on their blog sometime soon (if it’s not up already). For us kiddies on this side of the pond who can’t download from any blogger sites, here’s a fresh zshare link, and the track list:

- Led Zeppelin – When the Levee breaks
- Shorter Boys – Bama gettin’ Money
- Klaxons – Golden Skans (SebastiAn remix)
- Solid Groove & Sinden – Overbooked
- Portishead – Roads
- Bloc Party – Where is Home (Diplo remix)
- Justice – Let there be light (DJ Funk remix)
- The Rapture – Whoo ! Alright yeah Uh huh
- Armand van Helden – J’Taime (Switch remix)
- The Black Ghosts – Any way you choose to give it (Fake Blood remix)
- Office – Big Bang Jump
- Pomomofo – Back at the Club (Boy 8-bit remix)
- Santogold – Shove it
- Snoop Dogg – Sensual seduction (Solly remix)
- Rod Lee – Rod’s Drums
- Alex Gopher – Brain Leech
- Rainer Weichholdt – Infinite Template (Kissy Sell Out remix)
- Bolz Bolz – Chance
- Example – So many Roads (Herve remix)
- Boys Noize – Deny Selected
- Soulwax – E talking
- Hot Chip – Ready for the floor
- Maral Salmassi – Natural fun (zero cash remix)
- Don Rimini – Let me back up (Crookers remix)
- LCD Soundsystem – Get Innocous (Soulwax remix)
- Massive Attack – Unfinished Sympathy
- Feist – My moon My man (Boys Noize remix)
- Crystal Castles – Crimewaves
- SebastiAn – Dolami
- Sirius Mo – All the Girls
- Tepr – Minute Jacuzzi (DatA remix)
- Mylo – Guilty of Love
- Air – Mer du Japon

Thanks to Marcus and Smartshanghai.com for my exit interview. Check it out here:

A Banana Splits

I cut this mix in early 2004 and it was the last time I used my Tascam cassette multitrack. Pain in the ass! Anyway I cut the backing loops and instrumentals in a weekend to prep for a ‘Mission to Mars’ party in the basement of Panarchy, a famous haunted mansion full of weird kids at my college. I laid down the sections and then taped them to minidisc so that I could scratch over the breaks and do beat juggle segues and stuff like that. There were baking soda volcanoes and comp lit majors on downers. There’s great turntablist tracks mixed in there from Cut Chemist, Mix Master Mike and Kid Koala. I had finally found the ‘Deeper Concentration’ compilation vinyl and I wanted to mess with it a little.

I found it today while throwing out boxes since we’re moving out of our apartment. It sounds nice and dated to me now, mostly because the breaks and samples I used were rare and hard to track down just a few years ago, but today are lost in the millions of songs I’ve downloaded.

Blue Sky On Mars mixtape

Never posted on the blog?? That’s just crazy.

Here it is. No tracklist this time (you’ve heard all these before anyway) ! Yowza Yowza. See you in 2008!

Just Bananas Promo Mix

DECEMBER 22 ((SATURDAY))

With your cookie-baking Bananas friends, bearing tidings of joy unto the world of The People’s Park. Good King Wenceslas in the house!

Howlin’ Wolf - Smokestack Lightning

Because you’re worth it! Legendary bluesman gets roped into swirling psychedelic session band recording at peak of LSD paranoia, kinda likes it, later denies it.

THURSDAY NIGHT FROM 9PM AT THE SHELTER

FREE FOR EVERYONE

Spacerap, Futuristic Madness and Outerspaced Rants at the Shelter

MANNING THE FUNKBOX AND DECKS WE HAVE IN THE FISHBOWL COSMONAUT HELMETS:

VOCALS by IMANI KIMU (Yall ain’t ready for this cosmic bowler’s heavenly pipes)

MIXING from
SANTO CHINO (Miami via Saturn’s 516th ring)
DEVILLE (Switzerland via Alpha Centaurii)
STOKES (Ganymede)

GUEST FX by BOYA (Funky Martian from Pluto)

Press fast forward if we don’t blow your minds // here’s some of what to expect:

Parliament ‘Mothership Connection’
www.zshare.net/audio/5430960525aa62/

Breakwater ‘Release The Beast’
www.zshare.net/audio/5430978571bffc/

Klique ‘Inside Me’
www.zshare.net/audio/54309529e47d86/

Russell Brothers ‘Party Scene’
www.zshare.net/audio/5431029ae18866/

Virgo and Adonis ‘My Space’
www.zshare.net/audio/54308841ae8cd1/

Kool Keith ‘Keep It Real Represent’
www.zshare.net/audio/5430974e2d1d6d/

Free passes for the cosmic monorail, free peanut butter on your macaroni FREE COSMIC ENLIGHTENMENT FROM THE DAWN OF THE FUNKNOLOGICAL AFROHYPOTHETICAL SPACEOUT geddit?