Archive for February, 2010
Aw yeah. Aw yesss. LxNxM just got our paws on a leaked out WD4D mixtape (or, as Krieg would say: a mixclusive), packed to the gills with every piece of music you’ve been wanting, whether you knew it or not. Clocking in at almost an hour and twenty minutes and 59 total tracks, it’s a beast of mix, which is suiting for the man recently crowned champion at the Battle of the Megamixes.
There are some juicy little exclusives in the mix here, including tracks by local producers Dead Noise, what sounds like an unreleased (and secretly added?) and WD4D’s own ridiculously hardbody mashup of the Blue Scholars’ The Ave and Major Lazer’s Hold the Line – the resulting Hold the Ave is a thing of stomping, unexpected beauty.
Add to that a lineup that includes the who’s-who of about-to-be-massive producers worldwide (from Schlomo to Robot Koch to Fulgeance to Flako), as well as well-selected cuts from the already-massive folks (Exile, Dabrye, Flying Lotus, Thes One), and you get a sense of how epic this thing is.
Download it. Get it in your life. Take it. Care for it.
Tracklist after the jump:
Hola! What a beautiful Sunday ’twas in the 206! You know what puts the sugar in my Sunday coffee? Palms Out Sounds dope blog – that’s what. Honestly I love visiting this site. It feels like these folks keep a finely tuned ear to all that’s good and forward-thinking in the intermingling worlds of house, techno, dubstep, dancehall, electro-hop etc. etc.
Each Sunday Palms Out also posts up a new “Remix Sunday” compilation/mix that’s guaranteed get it percolating. Tasteful selectahs transform cuts from artists as diverse as Busy Signal, Cherish, Prodigy, Massive Attack to Bill Withers, Blaqstarr, Debruit, Band of Horses, Udachi and yes -Jefferson Airplane.
Step your electronic game up with some grown folks techno – download these mixes and hit up the site – Peace.
Download Remix Sunday-Feb 21,2010 #143
image: Jelle Martens
Download Djuna – “Hippie not Hippie_3 – the heroin edition” Tracklisting after the jump
i put bonjay’s ‘faat gyal’ on lstnghtsmxtp, vol i because that song (especially the second half) just kills. bonjay put out an ep of their song ‘gimmee gimmee’ (and a mess of remixes) back in november. they specialize in a spare, barebones r&b/dancehall sound, and their output has been pretty great. the fader just posted a cover/remix of feist’s ‘honey, honey’ by UK producer emvee, featuring bonjay, which you can listen to below. download ‘faat gyal’ here, and the feist cover ‘glitch feisty rub’ here.
Hell no. And if you’ve ever questioned it, you need to take a listen to Industrial Revelation. Now, these dudes aren’t your Black Flag-type of punks. In fact, they aren’t even really punks at all. Industrial Revelation (IR, natch) is, in fact, a jazz quartet.
Fronted by Ahamefule Oluo on trumpet, with Evan Flory-Barnes on bass, Josh Rawlings on keys, and DeVon Lewis on drums, IR is, to all outward appearance, your standard jazzy fresh combo. But wait until you hear them play. That’s when the wheels start to come off. As a unit, they disassemble standards, push key changes to their maximum trajectory, and play with more heart than most groups find in a lifetime.
At some level, punk is about finding the sweet spot where energy and the flouting of conventions overlap. That spot can be hard to determine – it’s like the Supreme Court’s definition of pornography: you can’t define it, but you know it when you see it. Industrial Revelation does all this, but makes it beautiful, melodic, and startlingly emotional. It’s punk that rebels against not just the status quo, but even the idea of rebellion. They follow their own beautifully independent path.
So why write about them? Because they’re releasing their first album, after five years of performances, and two and a half years after cutting the tracks. This Saturday, if you’re in Seattle, you had better be at the Electric Tea Garden (1402 Pike St) to see the madness unfold.
Check here to listen to an earlier single, It can only get better from here.
i’m admittedly late to the party for this luvstep mixtape, which dropped on mad decent worldwide radio (why haven’t you subscribed to their podcast yet?) for valentine’s day. it’s sold as “music for starry nights and candle light…slow wine and grind time,” and yeah sure, i can see that. but i’ve been rocking this under headphones for the past couple days, and this is a massive sound at that range. i don’t personally know many chicks that would want to get down with this in the background. still, this one is definitely a keeper, and be sure to listen to the opening bit that features starkey, who’s been one of my favorites recently (e.g. this). grab the luvstep mix here, a couple new starkey jams here, and enjoy a remix and cover of brittany’s toxic that’s featured on luvstep after the jump:
Not sure where this came from or if it’s gonna be featured on an upcoming project, but it’s some hot new Raekwon spit over a deadly, eerily familiar whistle loop. I guess you don’t really need to know much else. Nice production from Vin tha Chin. Stream and download it here.
considering that this is a mixtape blog–and we sure as hell have shared a whole lot of mixtapes with you–it only seems fitting that we represent and post up our own mixtapes. so, please enjoy this mixtape that i’ve titled lstnghtsmxtp, vol i. this will probably become a monthly feature on LxNxM and will emphasize the music that we’ve posted up here. obviously you’re going to get different styles from whoever the mixmaster is, but the sensibility of the blog will shine through regardless. you can download vol. i right here, stream it below, and scope the tracklist after the jump.
I think the year was 2007 when a reggae singjay named Richie Spice came out with a earthquakin’ track called, “Earth a Run Red,” that musically shook fault lines amongst everyone who heard it. It’s been a little while since a track gave me the same convulsions but the new THEESatisfaction refix of one of their favorite Sa-Ra Collective songs called “Fantastic Vampere” has sonic textures that hit at all the right spots.
The duo released this single yesterday called, “Moonday School (intergalactic church),” that puts the ‘pep in yo step,’ the ‘slide in yo glide,’… and you get the rest.
I can remember when Shafiq came to Seattle a few months back and talked to THEESatis in person, but had no idea that a legitimate song would emerge from that. They didn’t collaborate on it together, but rather Cat and Stasia have decided to make this the first single in their music appreciation series in which they flip songs from artists who they love. It’s anybodies guess who else will get the THEESatisfaction approved rework treatment but I’m looking forward to hearing more songs like this.
For those in need of a little church, head here to hear a bonafied deliverance.
Olubowale Folarin, aka Wale, reps his Nigerian roots hard on this track.
I’m glad they made a video for this song. I’m not that big of a Wale fan, but this song is the joint. It’s produced by the Apple Juice Kid, who took a classic African disco rhythm and flipped up something real nasty with it. The original, “My Sweety, My Sugar (Let Me Love You),” was recorded by a Sierra Leonean artist named Bunny Mack in 1979. Bunny put out a few albums, but never hit as big as he did with this track. Apparently, this was a big, big tune when Africa caught disco fever. 20 years later, Bunny’s song is as catchy as ever in its latest, hip hop incarnation. Stream and download the original, sampled song here.
Just in case you’re the type of person that still buys actual CDs , you should know that this song is only available on the iTunes version of Attention Deficit (or you can download the rough version Wale leaked himself last August from 2dopeboyz).
