True, this song isn’t brand new, but it’s still fresh. It’s got preservatives, HomePiss!

It’s called "Thunderous Bumps" and is made by Back from Japan who takes a remix of Justice’s "Phantom Pt I" called the "Lite Ghost Remix" by Thunderous Olympian (which is pretty hot on its own) and mashes it up with some Spank Rock vocals from the song "Bump" and I found it on a mixtape made by Finger on the Pulse. (Okay, I added that last part just to make it seem more complex.)

Since Culture System did an earlier post on the Chicago electro-rockers Walter Meego a few months back, I figured it would be appropriate to let you know that they are coming to Brooklyn on August 30th at Studio B.

My Open Bar, everybody’s favorite cheap drunks, are putting together this electro night, which will be headlined by VHS or Beta and include a Deejay set by Finger on the Pulse. Team Robespierre will also perform.

If you RSVP through Going.com, you can avoid the steep cover charge that Studio B has been known to level people with.

Skroop!

UPDATE: The Meego afterparty will be at Home Sweet Home.

A record store caught up in the throes of the rapidly gentrifying Harlem may need to close its doors after over 60 years.

Its owner may be the first black man to own a store on the area’s major thoroughfare, 125th.

Dude opened his store "before R & B music got its name".

Sounds like the type of thing the Landmarks Preservation Commission should be paying attention to.

<via the NYTimes>

A little while back, Culture System featured a story on how people search for music. It was about a survey of people meant to represent the whole population. In a bit of bad news for this blog, it found that the majority of people do not go online in search of new music.

The study did note, however, that music heads and the "Internet cognoscenti", as the report called the web savvy, search for music in a different manner.

And a couple of new studies might help to shed a little light on this part of the population.

A recent non-scientific survey of users of the blog aggregator Hype Machine found that, like the first report, friends still played a large role in discovering music for Hype Machine users. But friends were only the runner up as a source of music, not the prime source. Online editorials were the go-to place for Hype Machine users.

But one of the readers was a little peturbed that the study didn’t include radio as one of the multiple choice options for sources of new music. A total of 7.6 users wrote this alternative into the "other" category.

Entertainment Media Research also just recently published(pdf) a study of digital music consumption in the UK. (Net, Blogs and Rock’n'Roll caught this one.)

In this online study of 1,700 people, MySpace ranks as the most important web site for music, with YouTube coming in second. More importantly, perhaps, is that 10 percent of respondents said the social networking sites have led to purchases. This is surely to increase now that musicians are able to sell MP3’s directly through their MySpace profiles. And it’s just in time: nearly half said it needs to be easier to buy music from the sites.

Regardless of their popularity, two-fifths agree with the statement that the networking sites "are full of idiots nowadays". Yes, they really asked that question. So scientific.

Finding and spreading music hidden under the radar is a big reason Culture System exists. That’s probably why I was so excited to come across NozeBleed. If ever there were a sound that defined a genre, NozeBleed would do that for trip hop.

Homeboy’s album, Romantics of the Rhino, is probably equal to the overall body of work by RJD2, Shadow, or Prefuse - if not better. Problem is, it lacks any of the obvious hits or standout tracks that attributed to those artists. Not to be misunderstood: this album hits the spot, and I love to listen to it while I work. But it just never reaches that level of intricacy which would merit a long sit down where listening is the main activity.

Still, in a world where anybody can distribute their shit, and we’re not dependent on huge distribution systems, my man’s work should shine a little. When the dust from the digital revolution settles (as geeky as that sounds), hopefully dudes like this will be able to afford the entire alphabet for their soup. And maybe billion dollar, blockbusting, baby dropping Britneys wont exist either.

Anyway, I got a couple MP3’s here. These are two of the best songs off the Rhino joint.

Manhattan native Blockhead is about to drop a new instrumental album, and ya best ta check it. But first, I’ve got a little check list of things for you to do. Watch the video below to hear him talk a little about it, then listen to the unreleased "NYC Bounce" (maybe the best song on the album), and then read the full interview after the jump.

Read, watch, listen. That’s the theme of the day.