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Year End Treat from Detroit’s Eddie Logix

Always with a cap on, I’ve had the chance to hang out with this “bespeckled, smart looking guy”, as Doc Waffles called him, over the past year & have had the honor to soak up much of his saucy sounds.

Eddie Logix

Most days Eddie Logix can be found in the Eastern Market penthouse twisting the knobs, creating beats & producing albums for a laundry list of some of Detroit’s finest gents creating hip-hop today. But unlike a lot of producers, who seem more comfortable with their faces buried in a laptop, Logix has a strong stage presence as well as part of Progress Report with D. Allie, MidCoast Most and as hype man to Doc Waffles.

So, just in time for your Janus view on the 2012-2013 cusp, Logix offers you a free taste of his “Gregorian Mixtape” – a compilation of his work over the past year mixed by DJ Dante LaSalle.

Gregorian Mixtape (A Year In Review: 2012)

Who’s on the set? A lot of voices you might know – Doc Waffles, Danny Brown, Passalacqua, DUENDE!, COLD MEN YOUNG, Josef Coney Island, Progress Report and more.

The artwork is by Dial 81 who tapped Logix to help him with some of the mixing for the “Detropia” documentary soundtrack earlier this year.

At the low, low price of $0.00, give it a listen. Then pick up the albums by all the cats involved because it only makes logical sense that a man named Eddie Logix would be presenting the leading edge of the Detroit sound!

“Praise Bob” for the Amino Acids – the Band that Wouldn’t Die!

The spokespeople for The Amino Acids are liars, cheats and charlatans – and I couldn’t be happier about it!

 

See, back in late 2010, two of the men possessed by the surf-punk aliens, took off their masks, talked to the media and said the Aminos were done. They said the band was played out. In about a decade, the group managed to hammer their sound into our heads through about 500 shows.

So, I talked to Dave Taylor & Scott Boyink – so sexy, just like “Star Search” spokesmodels – about “the end” of the Aminos. The story worked out so well that some fellow journalists give me a few awards for it. Thanks, guys!

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Video From Prehistoric Forest Dinosaur Theme Park in Irish Hills, Michigan

I used to love going the Prehistoric Forest in Irish Hills as a kid.  The trip there often coincided with layovers to Stagecoach Stop USA and the Mystery Spot.  One year my uncle thought it would be really cool to take me to all of  these stops on the way to Colon, Michigan for their annual magic festival (yes, I was a magician nerd) but when we finally got there, he realized it wasn’t until the following weekend.  Needless to say, there’s not much going for Colon, Michigan any other time of the year so we just drove right back.    Anyway…  My friend, Nick Lloyd who’s made music videos for some cool Detroit bands in the past made this short film about the now out-of-business dinosaur theme park, The Prehistoric Forest.

From Nick:

This is my tribute to Prehistoric Forest, a dinosaur-themed roadside attraction in the Irish Hills of Onsted, Michigan. The park was once wildly popular, but has been closed since 1999. All the original dinosaurs remain, flaky and crumbling, waiting for their return to glory. The park is currently on the market for a cool $548,000.

I think I remember there being a waterslide too for some reason that I always wanted to go on, but never had swimming trunks.  Oh well.  Check out his video below: