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your favorite thursday night jump off is THIS WEEK. a bit of a change this month as we’re subbing out the distinctive dancehall/bass stylings of LxNxM’s own tang (dude is visiting fam and generally causing a ruckus in spain – follow along here) with the glitchy, romanticrunk stylings of one of seattle’s finest djs, WD4D (you know dude has a blog too, right?). toast will be there too, doing his usual handsome, floor-wrecking thing. same bat time, same bat channel (i.e. MOE BAR, 10pm, FREE), so come out and dance your ass off – the holidays are about to start, and what better way to stave off weight gain than putting your booty in the air.
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When I saw this new video on UGSMAG, purveyors of new hiphop media for those seeking refuge from the swag and trap stylings of the day, I rushed to the record shop and copped the album Dialogue. After listening through and blabbing to the homies about how dope the whole album is, I was surprised to find out that the album actually came out in 2009. I’m more than a little embarrassed for managing to sleep on Thavius Beck, cause the album is more creative and cutting edge than most of the hip hop I’ve heard for a minute.
“Go” and the rest of Dialogue speak to my love for lyricism. Beck’s rapid fire delivery kinda reminds of me of Living Legends Eligh, however unlike many dense rhymers he shares space with his epic, degenerate beats in a sonic dialogue that shatters the standard verse/bar formula. If I had to go into battle against an army of soulless terminators – this is what I would bump before facing my fate. A Mush records signee and certified Ableton guru, Beck boasts collaborations ranging from Cedric Bixler-Zavala of The Mars Volta, Saul Williams’, and 2MEX. I will be watching/hoping for some new face-mashing music from dude soon.
This is a little something to give your earballs some love. West Coast beatsman WD4D just released a new mix through the good folks over at Plasmodium. It’s classic Dub D, stitching together a 38-strong laundry list of quality tracks, and blending each of them into something new on the transitions. Hell, look no further than the opening mix, from Seattle blunt hop maestro OCnotes into Shlomo’s reworking of “Pretty Boy Swag.” Yes, it works. And yes, you will enjoy it.
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Download: WD4D – Plasmodium Podcast #69 (right click/save as/etc)
Full tracklist below the jump.
This Tuesday brings a special treat to our Seattle peoples. Onra, the Parisian beatsmaster with some of the deepest (digital) crates around, is swinging through town to bless your eardrums with some bass. I hear he soaked that shit in rose water already too. Or something.
As we’ve written in the past, Onra is music to either make babies or start fights to. If that sounds contradictory to you, then you need to take a listen to the many freely available releases out on these webs. Onra is a master of building tension within a moving song. His creations layer melody, rhythm and highly attuned absences of both, creating mini-dramas along each step of a single song’s development. The result is a sound that keeps necks solidly cracking even at the smoothest moments.
It’s going to be quite a night – the Stop Biting crew (including LxNxM family WD4D) are heavyweights unto themselves. The combo? Clearly an 800-lb gorilla that you should pay attention to. It all goes down at the Lo-Fi (429 Eastlake Ave E), be thurr.
Check out the track/video below, and due to poor Soundcloud choices, head over here to listen to a gang more.
Onra – The One feat. T3 from Slum Village from Onra on Vimeo.
Once 1/2 of Abysinnian Creole, one of Seattle’s most beloved and down duos alongside Gabriel Teodros, The lyrically extraterrestrial Khingz has been traversing up and down the left coast of North America making music and being rad. Lately, the one and only Black Han Solo has been working on a live band+emcee project called Hi-Life Soundsystem , with some representatives from Seattle based Godspeed - album on the way.
As a prelude to the full course of the upcoming mixtape Khake and Khool Aid, Khingz blesses us with this summer mixtape Pho99, fresh and hot – add lime, plum sauce and Sriracha and your good to go, uyệt vời (great)!
For the record: I believe the West Coast is and has been killing the rest of the Estados Unidos on the future beat sound. Every morning another new name and subgenre slithers its way out of the laptop, and most of the time, there’s a West Coast address involved. It’s unreal. LA in particular seems to lace its drinking water with something that brings out the stank nasty funk in producers (maybe it’s part of the whole Arizona decontamination process?).
My guy WD4D, acclaimed beatmaker, DJ, and champion of all musics good and just recently put me onto yet another big Cali name: Take, aka Sweatson Klank. Call it a late pass if you will, but delving into this guy’s output is making my week.
Take starts off with the sloppy percussion and neck crunching bass of the LA sound, and throws a distinctly melodic spin on the whole thing. Unlike many West Coast beat producers (including many of my favorites), his music tends to have a little more actual music, without sacrificing the bounce.
Check the mixes below, and if you’re in Seattle, be sure to check Take out on June 22nd as he takes over Lo-Fi with the Stop Biting and Decibel Festival crews. Power up!
Video after the jump.
By now you know that Last Night’s Mixtape is a colossal fan of the dude WD4D. Hell, we even asked him to spin at our recent party. We love the dude because he’s a great DJ – but the cherry on top is that he’s a dirty producer as well, and today marks the official release for his all-remix ep, Post Hyphy Romanticrunk, that flips vocals from some of the Northwest’s buzz-burning female artists (Choklate, Canary Sing and Lisa Dank, to be exact) over Dub D’s hella hoard signature sound.
Female artists often get pigeon-holed into certain sounds and musical genres, and it’s refreshing to hear some quality talent riding on top of some sincerely outside-the-box sounds. Big ups to everyone involved, and hopefully this will be a sing of things to come.
Download: WD4D – Post Hyphy Romanticrunk
Tracklist after the jump.
Oh yes. It went down. Your own LxNxM and the fine gentlemen of Moe Bar Sunday-eve fixture the Red Eye teamed up to present the afterparty for a very full weekend. It was a lineup stacked with crazy talent – the File Jerks kicked things off, LxNxM’s own Tang & Toast picked it up, Gordon Voidwell came straight from the nearly-sold out Showbox to drop some ridiculous disco funk jams, and the almighty WD4D brought his one-man wrecking crew in to finish things off.
Good times, good people and a great bar (thanks Steven/Alicia/Becky and the rest of the Moe Bar crew. Check it (and yes, more coming soon from that dude Wordlush).
Many more after the jump…
Yes, yes it is. We’ll see you there.
