Archive for the ‘bay area’ tag
I was going to try to write something about how Thanksgiving is a holiday celebrating genocide, and how the best way to exorcise the worst of the tryptophan demons is to put on some damned good dance music and get your friends and fam around you, but to be perfectly honest, it wasn’t hanging together very well, so I dropped the whole thing.
Instead, free of any and all associations, you should absolutely 110% download and listen to the first release from Chief Boima and Oro 11, aka Banana Clipz. The duo is formerly Bay Area based – though now Chief Boima hangs his hat in America’s New York City – and their eponymous EP reflects it, with cumbia-inflected grooves and guest spots from Bayliens like MC Tidal and LxNxM favorites Los Rakas.
Just because clever puns elude me (and no, I won’t make any jokes about how Chief Boima goes by Chef Boima while cooking turkey) doesn’t mean you shouldn’t enjoy clever music. Get it in.
Download: Banana Clipz – Banana Clipz EP (right click “save as”)
Surprisingly, one of the metro areas that hasn’t gotten a ton of love from LxNxM is the Bay. Which is weird, because dammit, we love the Bay. Between family and friends it feels like a second home at times.
So with that, enjoy/download some of the Bay’s finest (no, not that, homie). A couple months back, Panama/Oakland future sounders Los Rakas dropped a free album of sorts – cleverly titled Free Music 2010. If you haven’t checked for it yet, now is as good a time as any. The selection ranges from neo-hyphy explorations to nearly digi-dancehall tracks, and drifts from English to Spanish and back again seamlessly.
The video for internet leak/single “Soy Raka” also dropped recently. Check the video and grab the free download below the jump. Brrrrap!
Apparently, burning Washington DC to the ground wasn’t enough for the Brits. Now they’ve come for our music.
UK grind-rap aficionados Southern Hospitality jumped onto many peoples’ radars with their all-Huntsville mixtape, appropriately titled “The Huntsville Alabama Mix.” Staying true to their love of Stateside emcees, they just dropped their most recent mix, “The New Age, Volume One” (one assumes this will become a long-lived series).
The mix features a gang of up and comers, plus some internet vets – yes, internet vets: if you’ve got more twitter followers than album sales, you’re a product of the future, for better or for worse.
It’s a good sampling of what’s bubbling from the Bay to Georgia and back again, and it only seems appropriate that this is a mix curated and selected by non-Americans. There’s something about being on the outside that gives you perspective on the big picture, and Southern Hospitality nails it.
Download: Southern Hospitality – The New Age, Vol. 1
Tracklist after the jump.
I was blessed enough to catch bay area beat bully egadz about a month back, as he hit up Seattle via the always solid STOP BITING night @ Lo-Fi Lounge. Dude mashed through his set on the mpd with surgical dexterity despite being admittedly sloshed, this video gives you at taste of what homie can do.
His latest and last album is called egadz is dead, and at aforementioned show he said it would be the last night he was performing under said moniker, citing a desire to move on to a new project. So treat your ears, sample and support egadz music here or here.
