Jason Forrest a.k.a. Donna Summer a.k.a. Cock Rock Disco records is offering a free downloadable sampler of his stable of his way-left-field electronic artists. It includes the cut-and-paste noise-hop of D.C.'s Food for Animals, and a whole slew of d.i.y. internet wunderkind producers like Dev/Null, Vorpal and Terminal 11. A couple of my favorites are the sexy italo-disco-funk of "Mardi Gras" by Audiogarde and the song by Pisstank, which has such a horrible title I wont reprint it. The song itself is an unabashadly cheezy tribute to mid-nineties Drum and Bass and Happy Hardcore. I think they had to give it the atrocious name just to show that they are postmodern, because the song itself could pass for a blend of 1992 DJ Venom jungle with 1998 DJ Venom happy hardcore. It's the kind of thing jaded music nerds can enjoy just as much as glue-sniffing Vietnamese gayboys playing online games at 3 am in an internet cafe in Saigon. You're equally garanteed to like something on this sampler and not like everything- sort of like the statements that come out of Jason Forrest's mouth.

Oh, and the Venetian Snares track is called "I've really lost it because this shit is starting to sound like a half-assed Fatboy Slim ripoff with a 12-year-old's sense of humor" How can you go wrong?