Popo might be a better band, but Das Racist is just as campy as our most nonsense shit. We started as a joke band and started playing marathon sets during tours that ended up sounding little like our recordings.I stand by our live sets, most night. You can HAVE the album.

Das racist embraces a set of philosophies that makes poor translation to music or musical musings. Dadaism teeters so precariously on the edge of validity at any historical point that it is summoned, that I think most people should just leave it alone. At least leave it the romance of History. The same reason that modern graphic artists don’t drag cave painting technique back into modernity kicking and screaming to show us all how simple and uninteresting it has become since we’ve moved on as a culture.

Mike Knight is legit even if you might think the Kominas have too much chrome in the grille of their punk hoopti. Read up on Mike, his autobiographicals are way betteer than Taqwacores. Personally, lets not talk about the music. Lets just see what happens with the next album, then we’ll talk.

Nayagan About Prasana, I have to say I feel bad for him because his gimmick takes so much more time and energy to perfect than either Kominas or Das Racist, but in the end he is falling victims to the constraints of his instrument precisely in showing how one does not need to be contrained by western fretted instruments. Its very obvious that hes playing Carnatic music, badly, on electric guitar. I can hear every fret and it hurts, make it stop. I hope that wasn’t what he was going for….

http://www.overcompensating.com/posts/20091020.html

http://drmcninja.com/page.php?pageNum=59&issue=15

This remix seems to be preferred to the original:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6xXl3Ku-S8

You guys just see a guy with an extension cord around his neck.

I see two guys displaying their satisfaction with the powerful “Extension cord” lobby.