Buy this 7″, you hockey puck

February 23, 2010

Now you can have a vinyl 7″ / novelty-size drink coaster of your very own – Original Recipe’s apopleptic post-apocalypso agitprop-hop dream diary ‘Hank Manicotti b/w Battleaxe!’ is now available on 7″ vinyl and as a digital release. It’s burnin’ up the Canadian specialty electronic charts (tens and tens of listens!) and providing the soundtrack to many a WoW guild raid, yo. You can buy it here.

Includes music!*

ASGLJASDFLAJS

*Seriously

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Hank Manicotti / Battleaxe! 7″

July 3, 2009

The new Original Recipe release, a 7″ vinyl (Hank Manicotti b/w Battleaxe!) will be coming out on Vinyl Republik this summer. Remixes currently being prepared by Kaneel and others.

File under: fuckjazz.

This is the first time we’ve ever had an actual release on vinyl, and it’s a win/win from what we can tell.

The artwork is a painting done by a good friend of ours, Sara Witty, an amazing artist and uber cool human being all around. Check out her stuff here.

Anyway, this record isn’t out yet, but we’ll be sure to let you know when it is!

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Hank-Back

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Nigiri, Please

July 3, 2009

We’re working on something new. It’s going to kick your ass. I know, it’s been a long time since we’ve released anything, but how about you try writing music with someone 3000 miles away. Anyway, there’s some seriously, seriously hot jamz in this lineup, and it’s the best work we’ve ever done (except maybe for Flanched Farney Garney). The record is supposed to come out sometime this fall, and we will be sure to let you know when that happens. In the meantime, look out for the the Hank Manicotti / Battleaxe! 7″ vinyl release which has already been mastered and, as we understand it, is going to press any day now.

  1. Girlz
  2. Hawkestone
  3. The Treatment
  4. Hank Manicotti
  5. Workin’ THe Middle
  6. Raincoat
  7. Puppy
  8. Youuuuu
  9. Stylistic Allusions
  10. Beat Machine
  11. Daisy
  12. San Francisco
  13. Riddle of Steel
  14. Battleaxe! (B-Side Bonus Track!)

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Noisette

July 3, 2007

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Noisette is out, and you can buy it on iTunes or at http://www.vinylrepublik.ca and you should because it makes a conversation piece at parties and has caused the makin’ of more than a few babies.

  1. What’s To Eat
  2. Painted Ladies
  3. The Chase
  4. Flanched Farney Garney
  5. Gravel
  6. Parking Lot
  7. Big Tesuque
  8. KlymaxXx
  9. Wine & Candles
  10. All Things Temporary
  11. G-Note Virginia
  12. Are You Being Served

You can check out some of the tracks here in this CYBER PLAYER:

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And don’t forget to check out “The Four Senses”, the B-Side that never made it onto the album!

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Two San Francisco Shows in 2007

March 29, 2007

We’ll be moving the earth and/or your bowels at the hoity-toity Supper Club on May 25th in San Francisco. Black tie only, of course, and we’ll be playing during the main dinner seating. At this kinda place, they throw tomato carpaccio.

Info:

Supperclub
657 Harrison Street
San Francisco, CA
(415) 348-0900

After that, We’ll be shredding/jazzercising live to the bemusement wand/or enjoyment of San Francisco’s citizenry on May 26th at Olive.

Olive
743 Larkin st
San Francisco, CA

Prepare for impact!

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Original Recipe on Tour(ettes)

December 6, 2006

Come get served at:

Fri, Jan 26 2007 – London, Ontario @ The Alex P. Keaton
Sat, Jan 27 2007 – Ottawa, Ontario @ The Mercury Lounge
Sun, Jan 28 2007 – Toronto, Ontario @ Wavelength (Sneaky Dee’s)
Thur, Feb 1 2007 – Hamilton, Ontario @ The Pepperjack Cafe
Fri, Feb 2 2007 – Quebec City, Quebec @ Galerie Rouje
Sat, Feb 3 2007 – Montreal, Quebec @ The Lighthouse

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You Got Served

June 18, 2006

You Came, You Saw, You Ate. We had a lot of fun last night at Lounge 88; as evidenced by my pounding head and aching liver. Thanks to Shannon and Mel for being the eye candy, and serving up the delcious snack treats and whatnot. I Am Robot & Proud had real, live groupies at the show. It was positivelychilling. Some photos for your scrapbooks and/or hope chests:

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The Four Senses

July 3, 2005

Girl, why you keep dem McNuggets to yourself?

We recorded this… kinda drunk.

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Prove Anything

August 1, 2001

Steve basically put this together as an excuse to use samples we’d lifted from a record called “Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner”; which was a recording containing largely monologues from Black Vietnam Vets, something we can’t really identify with, but applaud their aplomb.

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Gino Vanilla

March 3, 2001

Walking along Queen in Toronto, we dropped into Rotate This to look for something to sample. Dean asked the snooty record clerk for “the worst record in the whole store”. He quickly pulled out a milk crate from underneath some shelves, WAY in the back, and grabbed a Gino Vanelli record. He handed it to Dean and said “Just take it, please!” That was pretty much all we needed. We took it straight to my apartment and threw it on the Hi-fi, and proceeded to cringe, moan, holler, and laugh our asses off. It was the most pompous, offensive, shitty music we’d ever heard. We immediately decided to write an entire song using NOTHING but samples from it; a process we’ve since repeated several times (creating songs from nothing but Gino Vanelli samples) – we’ve dubbed the process “The Human Gino Project”. After taking what we could find, we then shattered the record on the ground (and then put it back on the turntable to sample it again — broken), and put the pieces into the vegetable crisper in my fridge, where it remained for a good six months at least. Thanks for the samples, Gino.

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