\/\/illy Posted May 5, 2007 Report Share Posted May 5, 2007 From Pitchfork: The six years it took for the Beastie Boys to follow Hello Nasty with To the 5 Boroughs may have doubled their usual time between full-length releases, but with their new album, The Mix-Up, scheduled for a June 26 release on Capitol, Mike D told Pitchfork that the trio are "going back to our regular average." He also said the album's title "is a bit of a double entendre, if you will. Any record we make is always about combining different ideas or different influences we have, and then with this record, it's an instrumental album. There are no vocals, no samples. We played everything. But as different as that might be from To the 5 Boroughs, it's equally different from instrumental songs we've done before, like the ones that were on The In Sound From Way Out! That was kind of one direction and this one [has] different influences, like Public Image Ltd., Gang of Four, the Slits, Killing Joke." Even though The Mix-Up is a "post-punk instrumental" album, the Beasties have no plans to ditch vocals for good. In fact, they are currently planning another version of the album that will feature collaborations with "a pretty wide array" of "mostly newer" vocalists. Mike explained that The Mix-Up took shape out of the need for variety. "On To the 5 Boroughs, we all put down the instruments and sat behind the computers and made music that way. [On] this record, we went 180 again and said, 'Okay, let's not sit behind the computers. Let's just play some music together and kind of see what happens that way.' "What we do a lot is listen to music together, things that we're inspired by, everything from post-punk to Afrobeat to hip hop to whatever. We're almost as much music fans as we are a band that makes music." Another good portion of the album came from sessions with frequent collaborator Mark Ramos-Nishita, aka Money Mark, and Beasties "regular percussion player" Alfredo Ortiz. Both musicians "embellished on top of what we had already made and arranged," said Mike D. The Beastie Boys will have a chance to air out material from the new album at a series of instrumental shows scattered throughout their beefy schedule of festival dates, where they'll stick to their hits. Mike joked that they plan to use some of their festival dates to expand their fanbase. "We're trying to really cross over into the whole jam band, Bonnaroo, Government-- what's it?-- Gov't Mule? That whole genre. We can play up the jam band [aspect], have a hacky sack tent. The 'Hack Sack Hand'... 'Sack Hand State Fair', we're going to be performing at. We're going to be performing at a lot of state fairs and a lot of pie-eating contests, too." When asked if The Mix-Up might provide a pastry-oriented twist on the old Spacemen 3 axiom Taking Drugs to Make Music to Take Drugs To, he said, "Yeah, it would be a great record to eat pie to." The pie-eating days of summer begin for the Beastie Boys' on May 26 at the Sasquatch! Festival. The Mix-Up tracklist: 01 B for My Name 02 14th St. Break 03 Suco de Tangerina 04 The Gala Event 05 Electric Worm 06 Freaky Hijiki 07 Off the Grid 08 The Rat Cage 09 The Melee 10 Dramastically Different 11 The Cousin of Death 12 The Kangaroo Rat Dates: 05-26 George, WA - Gorge Amphitheatre (Sasquatch! Festival) (instrumental show) 05-27 George, WA - Gorge Amphitheatre (Sasquatch! Festival) 06-10 Lisbon, Portugal - Alive Festival 06-11 Lisbon, Portugal - Aula Magna (instrumental show) 06-14 Barcelona, Spain - Sonar Festival (instrumental show) 06-15 Barcelona, Spain - Sonar Festival 06-17 Istanbul, Turkey - Efes Pilsen One Love Festival 06-20 Berlin, Germany - Columbiahalle (instrumental show) 06-22 Scheesel, Germany - Hurricane Festival 06-23 Cologne, Germany - E-Werk (instrumental show) 06-24 Neuhausen, Germany - Southside Festival 06-26 Paris, France - Zenith 06-27 Paris, France - Bataclan (instrumental show) 06-28 Werchter, Belgium - Rock Werchter Festival 06-30 Gdynia, Poland - Heineken Festival 07-01 Gdynia, Poland - Heineken Festival (instrumental show) 07-03 Kristiansand, Norway - Quart Festival 07-04 Stockholm, Sweden - Grona Lund Tivoli 07-06 Roskilde, Denmark - Roskilde Festival 07-07 London, England - Wembley Stadium (Live Earth) 07-11 Locarno, Switzerland - Moon & Stars Festival 07-13 Novl Sad, Serbia - Exit Festival 07-14 Vienna, Austria - Nuke Festival 08-04 Baltimore, MD - Pimlico Race Course (Virgin Festival) 08-31 Argyll, Scotland - Inveraray Castle (Connect Festival) 09-01 Stradbally, Ireland - Electric Picnic Festival 09-08 Isle of Wight, England - Bestival 09-09 Isle of Wight, England - Bestival (instrumental show) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meggo Posted May 5, 2007 Report Share Posted May 5, 2007 nice! i love the beasties. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AD Posted May 5, 2007 Report Share Posted May 5, 2007 i will report back on how it sounds from Sasquatch! 3 weeks today!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bokonon Posted May 5, 2007 Report Share Posted May 5, 2007 There are only two words that can appropriately express how I feel about this:FUCK YEAH! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jayr Posted May 5, 2007 Report Share Posted May 5, 2007 I'll be buying that one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shainhouse Posted May 5, 2007 Report Share Posted May 5, 2007 me too. I love in sound from the way out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hamilton Posted May 6, 2007 Report Share Posted May 6, 2007 nice! i love the beasties. What she said! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
afro poppa Posted May 6, 2007 Report Share Posted May 6, 2007 this will be quite cool...lookin forward to itthats also some tour they got goin on Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tooly Posted May 6, 2007 Report Share Posted May 6, 2007 yeah craaazy tour eh? all over the place.this is released on my birthday, and im taking that as a sign to buy it. ditto on lovin the beasties instrumental shit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cully Posted May 6, 2007 Report Share Posted May 6, 2007 They are AMAZING musicians!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paisley Posted May 7, 2007 Report Share Posted May 7, 2007 saw a recent B Boys concert film and after set break the boys came out all dressed like up a hipster mexican fiesta band and rocked it instrumental for a whole setvery looking forward to the albumlong live the Beasties Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YearsAlongTheSea Posted May 7, 2007 Report Share Posted May 7, 2007 "If I knew it was going to be this kind of party, I would have stuck my dick in the mashed potatoes..." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tigger Posted May 7, 2007 Report Share Posted May 7, 2007 Bahahahahahah Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jayr Posted May 9, 2007 Report Share Posted May 9, 2007 Just came across this little teaser. Sounds cool, I think they're adding a bit more each day or something but dont quote me on that......http://www.beastieboys.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jayr Posted May 9, 2007 Report Share Posted May 9, 2007 ^^ Yeah i guess they are adding a bit each day. I assume it will eventually be a full video......... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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