West coast time, half the speed twice the pleasure… my excuse for some serious foot draggery. Some absolutely stunning work from my new favorite Canadian artist Angie Roussin above. Check out more of her work and info about her glorious Pina Styles here.

Renaissance Man go deep and nautical with their second Made To Play effort on August’s Brainstorm EP. No strangers to PnT, the duo’s sound has evolved heaps since their seminal Spraycan EP (which was featured on PnT back in its infancy ) and even their recent Babbadabba EP, hitting the nail right on the head in my books with Mindmap’s stunning atmospheric chants and tribal wood hits. The soundtrack to a last dance on a sinking Titanic catapulted into the year 2142 or the only tune on an unearthed time capsule containing only an iPod that is discovered in the year 3030. The Brainstorm EP is available now on Beatport and many other fine digi music retailers.

Be sure to check their accompanying podcast which wins with me right out of the gate because it’s got CVS Percolator remix smack dam in the middle. Win.

Tracklist after the jump.

Indigo Intro
Jacuzzi Boys & Bastian Schuster – In My Bed [Kindisch Records]
Joe – Level Crossing [Hessle Audio]
Four Tet – Nothing to See [Soul Jazz Records]
Renaissance Man – What Is Guru (Dop Remix) [Scion a/V Presents: Sound Pellegrino]
Robert James – Sleep Moods [Hot Creations]
Cajmere – Percolator (Claude Von Stroke Remix) [Cajual Records]
Soundhack – Rodeo (from the Vaults) [Soundhack]
Dave Aju – Anyway [Circus Company]
Chilly Gonzales — I Am Europe (Dirty Doering Remix) [Boysnoize Records]
&Me – One Day (Tiefschwarz Remix) [Keinemusik]
Matias Aguayo – Naranja [Kompakt]
Robag Wruhme – Blech Beule (Ark Remix) [Circus Company]
Moondog – Paris [Roof Music]

This week is a special week for us here at Plugged Not Thugged because it marks the 1-year birthday of our highly popular MAJOR RAGER party series.  Major Rager was born from a need to move our nutty 2-story Foxtrot parties (originally held at Mr. Mandelephant’s King St. loft) to an actual venue, as we were bringing in over 250 people every other month to Deezy’s abode — which became a filthy and costly affair.  MAJOR RAGER — which has been running and steadily growing for twelve long months — has been held at the Augusta House, our favorite Kensington Market hangout.  Despite the fact that Augusta’s staff and management are the best people we have worked with, the Rager parties have simply outgrown the venue’s maximum capacity of 198 patrons.  Life is a series of eras, and we would like to sincerely thank the Augusta House staff for the wonderful year that Major Rager enjoyed with them — we wish you all the best and thank you for everything!

To commemorate the end of a wonderful era,  the headliners of the show — Tape Deck Bros and Gooffee — have both recorded their exclusive plugcast mixes for PnT.  The Tape Deck Bros  “Plugged in the Tapedeck” exclusive has just been posted — and the hot Gooffee mix will be posted later today so keep your eyes peeled.  The Rager series will be moving to legendary College Street hangout Andy Poolhall for the September 4th Major Rager, which will increase capacity to approximately 500 patrons, and provide a gigantic amount of bar space – so the booze will flow like the Nile.  Get wild!

Sky Surfing Ft. Wayne Marshall (Douster Remix) – Toddla T

She also took the time to hook us up with a little info about the work showcased on her website:

As far as my site goes, I guess I don’t really put down examples of what my art can be applied to because I don’t want anyone to think that that’s all I do.  Pretty much as an illustrator I’m a commercial artist and am open to any interpretation that that takes on. I think it’s important that people don’t pigeon hole illustrators into any specific category. That being said I along with the others that I have worked with along the way (either through my collective, through collaborative efforts with other artists or flying solo) have worked on many different projects whether it be concept illustrations for ad agencies, murals, poster design, book illustration, t-shirt designs, and even industrial design and graphic design.  I hope that in the future that expands to include many other exciting ventures and pretty much anything creative that I can wrap my brain around I’ll try my hand at.

I was also absolutely mind blown today by  the musics of 17 year old Sonic C from Miami. The simplicity of this Dutch inspired booty space launcher is extremely effective. Big ups to O-God for turnin’ me onto this.  The internet suggests I’m a bit late here, but seriously… 17 years old?  This kid really is sonic, so 2009… keep an eye out.

SonicC – Stickin’