Monthly archive May, 2009

End of an Era

17 years have passed since Jay Leno took over NBC’s Tonight Show from Johnny Carson. This part of American TV history has come to an end last week as Conan O’Brien takes over. Leno’s usual monologue was always something I would look for on cable, checking if they were airing it on NBC Europe (a...

Taken away by a Take Away Show

Everyone here at Fat Gold loves a good gig, a gig you just stumble upon in the streets of Paris is something few if any can claim to have experienced, but we all envy those who do. Beirut are completely in their element, providing orgasms for the ears of anyone who walks by. La Blogotheque...

If you`re in town. . .

If you happen to be in the little (but big on music) island of Malta, hop over tomorrow for Dondisko/TDDR’s ‘The Beat That Shakes the Mothership’ Tour. If you dig our mixtapes you shouldn’t miss Night I of IV. Dj’s :  Alex Thomson, Boy Kills Girl (the dude that’s trying to strangle my partner in crime J)...

The Family is growing – Part 1

Here in Planet Gold we’ve gotsa lot of family, from one eyed cats who think they are dogs, to heavy metal guitarists who listen to Kavinsky and Falke to just plain mental dj’s / designers. One addition to la Famiglia is our disco shaking hair bouncing boyo that will be contributing to the fat blog....

Our 2 most favourite things in life.

Yep, we love girls and we love robots. I think Royksopp did a good job on combining the two in their new track called… The Girl And the Robot. We can’t get enough of it.  Word.

`I don`t care if the song is in French`

Make The Girl Dance “Baby Baby Baby” (official video) ‘What is the world coming to?’ you ask. Clever vid.

Mixtape oh! four.

Whoever follows this blog knows that every month we release The Mixtape. It’s Kenji’s time to give us some fresh and classic tunes on the 1′s and 2′s. I’m not gonna list the songs for now, but if you see the image up there it’ll give you a pretty good idea of what there is...

The many faces of….Dan Black

Space – 1961 and 1977

On this day, May 5th, in 1961 – Astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr. became America’s first space traveler as he made a fifteen minute suborbital flight in a capsule, but this isn’t the Discovery channel… September 1977 – ‘Magic Fly’ is the first single released by ‘Space’ – the legendary French electro pop band. They...