Archive for October, 2009
Becomes sometimes, it never hurts to remember how good Manu Chao’s music is. He’s one of the architects of dropping global hot shit and this jam above, “Desaparecido” has always been one of my favorite cuts. The oddball video below of Manu’s tribute to Mr. Tuff Gong himself, Bob Marley, isn’t bad either.
do you read the new york times? if so, you might have seen this prominently featured concert review of la roux, an english duo that “makes pristine, exuberant and astonishingly faithful mid-1980s club-pop.” i don’t particularly like the stand-alone la roux songs that i’ve heard, but the remixes are pretty righteous. i offer you two of the several hundred that are out there (seriously, hype machine has 27 pages of results when you search for la roux).
la roux – in for the kill (skream’s let’s get ravey remix) (download)
la roux – bulletproof (nacey remix ft. matt hemerlein) (download)
Am I still okay with autotune? I guess so, this time around. Aidonia and Tarrus Riley, who we’re big fans of, up on the Go Go Club riddim. This started popping up on the webs about a month ago, so call us late or whatnot, but hey for you the people we can never do enough.
Last year, Lisbon-based Buraka Som Sistema broke the Kuduro sound to mainstream US audiences, but it’s been bubbling since the late 80′s, originally in Angola, and now across the world. Kuduro fuzes Angolan styles with Soca and Calypso, which means you’re hit with some high energy goodness.
Bruno M is one of the big fellas on the scene. That’s him in the video above, and you can download it here:
More goodness:
Os + Potentes – Somos do Kuduro
Shouts to Kelly Stress for the looks.
Some more goodness from those hometown dudes Khingz and Hill B. Plus SEA/FL/NYC fam TC Izlam, righteous MC and son of the one and only Afrika Bambaataa. Talk about a hard shadow to get out from under.
Enjoy.
Coming to a local PBS station near you in January 2010:
Can you own a sound? As hip-hop rose from the streets of New York to become a multibillion-dollar industry, artists such as Public Enemy and De La Soul began reusing parts of previously recorded music for their songs. But when record company lawyers got involved everything changed. Years before people started downloading and remixing music, hip-hop sampling sparked a debate about copyright, creativity and technological change that still rages today.
Looks good, eh? Too bad I just missed the only screening in Seattle. Check the website for upcoming screenings in your area. The Bay Area, Miami and D.C. screenings are happening today, tomorrow and the next day, so get moving!
Dang, this track is just off the motherfrickin chain!
Courtesy of okayplayer, this song, which was likely made in the early 2000s, was produced by Dilla while he was still alive. Jay Electronica didn’t actually meet Dilla to work on this project, but it’s fire nonetheless.
Listening to this past Sunday’s edition of KEXP hip hop standby Street Sounds, I got a little taste of something I haven’t heard in while: Stones Throw soul stalwart Aloe Blacc. Now, I’ve never been the biggest Blacc stan, but something about the song that popped onto the speakers while driving north along Lake Washington made me stop and take a second listen.
The song? “One Inna” – a hypnotically sexy groove that sounds its best with someone special by your side. It definitely brought Aloe to the forefront of my musical mind, and I’ll be checking for him in the future.
There’s no video or download link that I can find, though if one were to be posted in the comments, I just might update this post (hint hint). In the meantime, you can stream that bad boy right here.
UPDATE: The dude Krieg comes through, get the whole goodness here:
And yes, the title of this post is inspired by a certain local musician round the way. If you don’t know, you better google somebody.
