It's true, the Captain is returning to the stars from whence he came, but Dance Band will rage on with new and even more magical machinations. The Octagon mastery will continue into June. Then the danceria will really hit the fan. Be ready.

http://blogs.citypages.com/gimmenoise/2009/04/dance_band_fron.php

Congrats to our friend Chuck U!
He just got the piece he did for our Geekadelic record cover into the Feb. '09 issue of Juxtapoz!!

Mad props homie!

Go check it out, y'all!

It's this one
peace
_DB

Hey Dance Bandits.

Thanks to all of you who came out to our show last night. Proceeds from the sell out show were donated to the Maasai Cultural Foundation and their efforts to bring clean drinking water to communities in Kenya that are in need (http://www.maasaiculture.org/drinking-water.html). With your help, we were able to raise $1,500. That's enough to buy two or three ginormous water tanks used to collect rain water and able to supply families with clean drinking water during times of drought!

-The Perfect Beat

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9
8
7
6
5
4, 3, 2, 1

There’s a black hole in the center of the galaxy
You can be anything that you want to be, you can be a singularity

There’s a black hole black hole in the center of the galaxy
Come away with me
You can be anything that you want to be, you can be a singularity

10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1
Ignition dance off
Operation Everyone

I built my magic carpet from hard steel and rivets
Come with me on a ride through gravity wells and divets
Approaching light speed will stretch your mind to the limit
And when we get to the center we’re gonna get out and hit it
Your radiant body ringing with the harmony of the spheres
We’ll become time and space, we’ll lose track of the years
Defeating evil space dragons, their empires will fall
Let two become and bring love to them all

Count backwards from ten to lift off
She loves me, she loves me astronaut

10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1
Ignition dance off
Operation everyone

Monologue!

10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1
Ignition dance off
Operation everyone

I pop I lock I drop my slide when the dead come alive

dance band is rockin the crypt so let the party begin
damn this party looks like rigor mortis set in
yo Captain why is that guy lookin at me like that
my god D its a zombie attack
Philanderer get that bass bump bumpin
Perfect beat bring the heat get it pumpin
Yo Chop could I get a little vibrato on that?   
Theres no time to fix the mix we got some zombies to whack

You zombies stager slide stager slide
Stager slide Stager slide
Stager slide Stager slide
These are the moves you’ve gotta do when the dead come to life

This is how you dance when you
This is how you dance when you
This is how you dance when you die

MONOLOGUE

What do we want? BRAINS! When do we want them? BRAINS!

This is how you dance when you die
This is how you dance when you die
This is how you dance when you die
Stagger Stagger Stagger Stagger Slide!

Bass that goes thumpin tonight
Freaky so dirty so tight
their clawing up from 6ft under ground to give you a fright
we’re got to stagger slide and rock it side to side
these these are the moves you do when the dead come to life
George A. Romero what do you know?
Do these undead zombies move fast or do they move in slow-mo?
If I wait till 28 days from now will they die naturally?
Or if I shoot ’em in the head with a bullet will they go down
or will they keep coming after me? they’re coming after me, oh
Dawn of the dead day of the dead night of the living dead
these zombies are old school moving in slow-mo you just got to keep your head
it don’t matter were they came from it could have been a comet or a blood born pathogen
you’ve got to have a zombie plan to subvert the man and avoid this mess we’re in.  

This is how you dance when you die
This is how you dance when you die
This is how you dance when you die
Stagger Stagger Stagger Stagger Slide!

Good evening ladies and gentlemen
The philanderer strikes again
Lend me your ears I will begin
The glorious story telling 
I had a dream in the deep freeze
Wait! it was more like a prophesy
I saw monotony spreading like disease
On a planet across two galaxies
Hark the light of fraternity  
friendship for dance modernity
I knew the question I knew the answer
Best Friends forever on your command sir
BFF and DB
allied in dance matrimony
dare to dream we could be
a pan galactic dance party

prophets and friendships and big hits
shooting stars align with our dreams
this mother ship will guide us to earths arms
we will divine victory
    
galaxies span between us     
this modern dancing genius   
galaxies they  span between
this modern dancing dream

One moment of indecision, centuries of regret
Won’t let that happen to us baby, won’t let that happen to us

This is your Octagon, Captain speaking
You may not remember our last meeting
Glorious rapture on the dance floor,
But his prophecies they’ve been wrong before.
I barreled my way from across the room,
Your fantastic blues met mine and I swooned.
This is the promise I came to keep:
Again we meet.


galaxies span between us     
this modern dancing genius   
galaxies they span between
this modern dancing dream

BFF and DB
allied in dance matrimony
dare to dream we could be
a pan galactic dance party

the best dance alliance
mystery and science
victory dance for me
baby

I got my collar flipped up and I’m ready to roll
I took my wrist watch off to increase the flow
tight tight pants so the ladies know I’m serious
get on to the floor and bow to the imperious
CAPTAIN OCATAGON!!! one man eight facets
I’m harder than plastic one beat two feet I’m jigy-Gymnastic
I might drop the beat, pick it up and blow you a kiss
When I clap my hands you clap your hands like this

When I clap my hands you clap your hands like this!
When I clap my hands you clap your hands like this
When I clap my hands you clap your hands like this
clap your hands like this clap your hands like this

the philanderer is philandering
and he’s holding onto his philander thing
airing it out like dirty laundry
MY ADIDAS! Tied tight while I bounce the B
you don’t wanna deal with my bastard-ry
I’m down on one knee begging baby please    
come on pretty lady won’t you dance with me
are you so serious, you’re afraid to come near to us?
for fear the imperious might blow you a kiss
and make you feel delirious, oh its curious
when I clap you clap like this
when I dance you dance and twist 

When I clap my hands you clap your hands like this!
When I clap my hands you clap your hands like this
When I clap my hands you clap your hands like this
clap your hands like this clap your hands like this

My name is double D I’m Double Delicious
I’m here to answer all of your wildest wishes
in conjunction with the perfect beat I’ll keep it unique
I going to try to find a rhythm to make you move your feet

The CPU is going to blast you with its MHZ’s
its tickling the ebony and the ivory keys
perfect beat so unique perfect machinery
space bar part man part hologram all dance majesty 

When I clap my hands you clap your hands like this!
When I clap my hands you clap your hands like this
When I clap my hands you clap your hands like this
clap your hands like this clap your hands like this

When I clap my hands you clap your hands like this!

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
I move and I groove and I dance and I shake
1 2 3 4 5
dance bands gonna keep it alive
1 2 3
come and see all of our damn-bam-bastard-ry
1 2 3 4
get on to the dance floor don’t give me what five give me what four

from the shores of the m.i.s.s.i.p.p.i.

Dance band is rocking and locking you know I'm telling you why

The midwest coast is where the cow bell rocks your dairy air

we're breaking down the barrier between you and your rear area


every one here is gonna rock

every one here is gonna sock hop

every one here is gonna hop in the rocket

gonna rocket to the top


m.i.s.s.i.s.s.i.p.p.i. [Rise like a phoenix from a fiery furnace]

m.i.s.s.i.s.s.i.p.p.i. [We're on fire nobody's gonna burn us]


east coast west coast chauvinists they just fly over Minneapolis

in 1st class sipping on over priced alcohol making important telephone
calls

to impotent people in impressive places with beautiful nip and tuck
faces

fanning fiery flames of self immolation across the nation

I'll never be in their sim cards on their cell phone contacts list

because I'm an isolationist to ensure that my bounding box is
limitless

I'm speaking into this microphone gently trying to make it hot and
sweet like a kiss

I hail from MPLS yet I arise like a phoenix from a fiery furnace


m.i.s.s.i.s.s.i.p.p.i. [Rise like a phoenix from a fiery furnace]

m.i.s.s.i.s.s.i.p.p.i. [We're on fire nobody's gonna burn us]


from the shores of the m.i.s.s.i.p.p.i.

Dance band is rocking and locking you know I'm telling you why

The midwest coast is where the cow bell rocks your dairy air

we're breaking down the barrier between you and your rear area


So we ain't got Biggie 50 Diddy or Dre in our Midwest history

twin town with the big sound from the Midwest gonna rock this party

from Itasca to the mississippi delta shake your delta helter
skelter 2x


mississippi

the Midwest sound from the underground once we get this party started
you cant stop us know

Twin Cities

The twin town sound form the underground once we get this party
started
you cant stop us now


m.i.s.s.i.s.s.i.p.p.i. [Rise like a phoenix from a fiery furnace]

m.i.s.s.i.s.s.i.p.p.i. [We're on fire nobody's gonna burn us]

Hello and welcome to irrational output of the Philanderer's brain waves through his finger, tips across digitally encoded electrical current, through publicly and privately owned infrastructure, back out into your magical web oracle, filtered through the ominous and elemental power of light bouncing the lenses of your eye holes, then getting converted to signals that your brain is comfortable enough with to pay attention to.

In the immortal words of Stevie Wonder."I just called to say I love you".

Thank you for supporting your local Dance Band. I know dancing is fun. But seriously... You people got some moves! You know who you are.  

See you on the floor!

The Philanderer