1. Rape Me (Nirvana cover) 2. People = S**t (Slipknot cover)
3. Baby Got Back (Sir Mix-A-Lot cover)
4. Girls, Girls, Girls (Motley Crue cover) 5. Closer (Nine Inch Nails cover)
6. Bust A Move (Young MC cover)
7. Down With The Sickness (Disturbed cover)
8. Sunday Bloody Sunday (U2 cover)
9. Freak On A Leash (Korn cover) 10. Nookie (Limp Bizkit cover)
11. Another Brick In The Wall (Pink Floyd cover)
12. Rock The Casbah (The Clash cover)
13. Fight For Your Right (Beastie Boys cover)
14. Hot For Teacher (Van Halen cover) 15. Gin & Juice (Snoop Doggy Dogg cover)
16. Come Out & Play (The Offspring cover) 17. Badd (Ying Yang Twins cover)
18. Creep (Radiohead cover)
My stand-out tracks highlighted in Bold Red above.
I don’t intend to win any medals for tact. Fat hits, Phat Titz, oh the wonder of phonetics.
Here’s something novel and astounding that will change your life (all over again). I have all these random mp3s lying around all over the gaff; like nuggets plucked from turds, charms collated from the cesspits of the internet (one love to my sources). And I needed flexibility to bestow them bountifully amongst you starving orphans of cyber-space. So I’ve devised a 20 track selection a month scheme for your elite satisfaction.
Expect untamed, unrestricted, multi-genre, ear-canal adventures on board my narcissistic sense of selectah-ship; could be slightly old shit, rare shit, unreleased shit, random shit, but most often new shit- ultimately rest assured it’s always bangers galore.
These tapes will surely follow suit with ‘Your Mum’s Soultronica Mixtape’ and become the pixie-dust of legend. Usual specifications apply: this is a free, individual, track-by-track mp3 selection all wrapped up pretty in a .rar folder. Just click, download, unzip, then smoke, pop, snort, shoot-up and tin-foil this good shit ya godforsaken junkies…
(This is the July edition, because, well, we didn’t do a July edition. I know it’s the middle of August, but take the damn July edition and await the August edition drop at the end of the month. And so on, and so forth, every month, forever, until we all perish in a natural disaster perpetuated by rebellious machines and robots out for sole control of the Earth. Word to Laurence Fishburne.)
1. Afta-1- Honey Dip
2. Big Boi ft. Mary J. Blige- Something’s Gotta Give
3. Busta Rhymes- I Got Bass
4. Common feat. Pharrell- Announcement
5. Cory Gunz- The Life
6. Flying Lotus ft. Lil’ Wayne- Robo Tussin (A Millie Remix)
7. GZA- Paper Plate
8. Jazmine Sullivan feat. Missy Elliot- I Need You Bad
9. M.O.P. feat. Bilal- Get Rich
10. Mickey Factz feat. Peter Hadar- Another Star
11. Mickey Factz- Incredible
12. Morgan Zarate feat. Eska & Ghostface- Sticks & Stones
13. Oddisee feat. Phonte- All Because She’s Gone
14. Onyx feat. Method Man- Evil Streets (Remix)
15. Q-Tip- Getting Up
16. Rah Digga- Lil’ Fattie
17. Reks- Say Goodnight
18. Rusko- Cockney Thug
19. Ryan Leslie- Break This Down
20. The Cool Kids- Action Figures
Fantasticunt mixtape rating:
1000 mums out of 10
[This is a free promotional release- appreciate free shit.]
By the beard of zeus! This is actually the most gulliest shit I’ve heard, in hours. Pure molten lava, peg-rollin’, punk-whistlin’ anthem shit. Ill rhymes. Iller flows. Sonics have developed. I feel Chuck & Mikey are being severely overlooked for the sake of purism. Let’s keep it moving forward.
The first single from their forthcoming LP ‘When Fish Ride Bicycles’, out shortly.
I stumbled upon this in the morning. And became embroiled in it’s whimsy (the grim, dark bastard within was slapped with a soapy flannel). Airy, bodouir-bound soul for the ripe and glamourous. Lovely stuff, from this winsome voiced and strikingly dusky young lady from Amsterdam. Christ, it’s no secret I fucking love the Dutch. Emigration, soon come, soon come.
01. On My Way 02. Joyride 03. Hypnotize You
04. A Matter Of Facts…
05. Melancholic You
06. Pure Bliss
07. Moving Me
08. You Can Do It
09. Free
10. To The Moon
11. Stay Together
12. U Again
My stand-out tracks highlighted in Bold Red above.
Who be this undergarment-inspired fella Trunks? I only know as much as you: a Canadian emcee featured on the King Gheedora LP. I wasn’t quite expecting any rap revelations this evening, yet Trunks happens to be just that dispensing a mettlesome underground EP that surely most heads will jump on for the special herbs alone.
Unicron dropped unexpectedly like some Chris Wallace bird-shit. Fresh beats specially weeded with Metal Fingers; initially I merely skimmed with fiendish fashion to find a Doom verse much to no avail, yet was countered with a tirade of surprisingly dope dork raps delivered with sharp claws: Stan Lee, Star Wars, Clive Barker, Thor, dragons, all inclusive. Trunks is a discovery, and I’m positively paying attention now.
Nonetheless, a proportion of this shine IS pilfered by the classic (Doom studio standard) drunkard drum taps and histrionic, Lo-Fi instrumentals with breaks unmistakably retrieved from the dead-skin-celled depths of MF’s VHS collection. For all my grubby ‘Operation: Doomsday’ and ‘Mm Food’ goons, these utterly sick sounds should just about keep us at bay until the next grand solo.
Having said that, my restlessness evolves into irritation. First Lib’s resplendently laced Madvillainy Remix piece and now this Doom assembly here- how many more befitting backdrops will drop unjustly untouched by Daniel Dumile?
The Genius is the my most beloved Clansman and amongst my Top 5 favourite emcees of all time; duke’s flow is colder than Margaret Thatcher.
When the first two cuts leaked, ‘Paper Plates’ and ‘Alphabets’ (both of which are of true Wu potency as the former’s laced by RZA and the latter by True Master), I was teetering at the possibilities of supremely sliced, raw meat audio.
Aight let’s dispense with the fraff, unfortunately it’s yet another ‘no classic’ from a veteran legend (though subtract three or four weak links, it becomes a solid effort). But it’s in possession of some undeniable bangers, and our boy Genius stays ravenous on the mic. So all my loyalists, until ‘Only Built For The Cuban Linx Part II’, willingly settle for this.
I just sat laughing at the screen for 3 minutes. In the age of CGI, I forget how much mirth can be evoked from the primitive, semi-retarded movement of puppets.
Ye’s timing and foresight, as always, impeccable. The steel-panned, horn blaring, Olympic refix of the joint: mp3 just below.
Your Mum had this up a month ago via the blockbuster Future Sounds of Soul Music post so ‘fore you diagnose me a senile bugger, understand the EP was re-released in the States yesterday with 2 additional bonus cuts, hence a vital re-up.
I’ve been trying to tell people for months, and I’m back at it again- however due to the lethargic haziness of recent sleep deprivation one is currently at his least comprehensive, so, yeah…
Janelle Monae is the future of your goddamn world. A bold, brilliant, bonafide superstar creature. Recognise.
And I’m esoterically in love with her, with plans to pro-create. Hol’ tight forthcoming babymother.
01. March Of The Wolfmasters
02. Violet Stars Happy Hunting! 03. Many Moons
04. Cybertronic Purgatory
05. Sincerely, Jane
06. Smile (Bonus)
07. Mr. President (Bonus)
My stand-out tracks highlighted in Bold Red above.
Because everytime the first Hovi The God single from an impending LP drops, it’s an event.
“That bloke from Oasis said I couldn’t play guitar, somebody shoulda’ told him I’m a fucking Roc star”.
Take one part deep-frequency bassline a la ‘A Millie’, puncture it with a hard-as-gunshot drum, garnish with an 80s Rick Rubin/Run DMC style metal riff break, chop a madly infectious hook, and finally serve up drenched in S Dot audacity: what’s manifested is the mainstream rap single release of the year- diamonds in the damn air, it’s all over. And sceptics wonder why I call Kanye a genius and probably the most important Hip-Hop producer of this decade? Get the fuck outta here.
How many more anthems does Jigga need to cement his place as the greatest ARTIST in Hip-Hop music ever? He wields the most ridiculous catalogue out of any rapper in this culture’s history. I’ll jock Jay-Z to the moon and back as a standard.
Additional note: if Kanye is producing the majority if not all of Hov’s forthcoming ‘Blueprint 3′ as reports indicate (much to my own salivating all over my chin hairs), then I suggest the people brace themselves for what could be one of the Rap albums of the decade. I have faith.
Not one of Extra P’s best works (though ‘Hot: Sizzling, Scorching, Torching, Blazing’ should roast a few speakers), and the flow is still reasonably mean plus he fucks with a few unexpected sonics (dope, abrasive vintage synthesizer sounds on ‘Rockin’ Hip-Hop’). Need to subtract some filler though sir.
But yo, fitted tipped & respect where respect due to one of the producer greats.
01. The Entrance 2:15 02. Hot: Sizzling, Scorching, Torching, Blazing 2:57
03. Maica Living Feat. Killah Sha & Guardian Leep 3:47
04. Pump Ya Fist Feat. Mikey D Lotto 3:13
05. Party Time 2:44
06. In The Ghetto 2:49 07. Hardcore Hip Hop 3:18
08. Frantic Barz 3:02
09. Swein’ Love 2:58
10. Ru Dope Feat. Jeru Tha Damaja 1:01
11. Dap Feat. Lil Dap 0:41
12. Noyd Feat. Big Noyd 0:47 13. Classic Emergency 2:31
14. Rockin’ Hip Hop 3:22
15. Large Pro Says 2:02
16. To The Meadows 1:46
17. The Hardest Feat. Styles P & AZ 4:42
My stand-out tracks highlighted in Bold Red above.
In June I shot a stunning Amanda Diva joint titled ‘Windows Over Harlem (Heart of The City)‘ from her upcoming mixtape ‘Foreplay’ over to a couple o’ my homeskillet girlies much to their elation; equal to my own when I’d first discovered it as I’ve had this sincere longing to see the female rap game redeemed.
She’s got a resilience reminiscent of the Blackstar era on the mic. And you know I got love for my B-Girls too.
A little later I received requests to drop her 2007 debut EP which is quite good, though I sense she’s blossomed into her style more comfortably since and I suggest we keep an iris out for Diva in the near future.
All you Kid Sister enthusiasts need to sit your neon-sporting asses the fuck out (bar Amanda’s green hat in the video which I’ll allow for I am biased).
1. Life Experience Intro
2. Bright Lights 3. Supa-Woman 4. 40 MCs ft. Q-Tip 5. Windows Over Harlem 6. Brown Girl 7. New School Old School Interlude
8. I Know (Better World)
9. Life To Love Outro
10. Crazy World (Bonus Track)
My stand-out tracks highlighted in Bold Red above.
Often I hear people utter, “I can’t believe it” in reaction to a legendary artist’s passing. I think folks need to acknowledge the detail those we consider the architects of modern musical history of are now in their most precarious years- believe it please. In short my advice to you is to see these originators relay their glorious medleys when they decide to stage a live show round your way, as you don’t know if it’s your last chance to experience them. This is said because I sit here with fingertips flittering over this keyboard choked up off the fact I’ll never see Isaac live now, and that’s agonizing when you think how profoundly young men (and women) desire to be in the presence of their heroes; to glimpse greatness.
I won’t post Hayes’ most renowned and easily identifiable work, the iconic ‘Shaft’ soundtrack despite it seminally altering Black music and providing the score to the insurgence of Black-American culture in the early to mid 1970s. No, instead I’m earnestly going to post my favourite LP of his career, the 1970 Stax release ‘To Be Continued’ which is softly overlooked between 1969’s milestone ‘Hot Buttered Soul’ and 1971’s landmark ‘Shaft’. Plus as it’s all too rarely cited, I’ll declare it one of the finest Soul albums of the 20th century. Entirely arranged and orchestrated by Hayes (with instrumental assistance from The Bar Kays and The Memphis Symphony Orchestra), here’s five epic songs that overflow with the some of the most lush, sprawling philharmonics committed to wax. Oh and not forgetting that erotic, god-like gust of a voice.
To my heads that know, remember that feeling first time you heard Hayes’ epic 11 minute re-envisioning of Burt Bacharach’s ‘The Look Of Love’ on here and clocked the identical break later used for Jay-Z’s classic ‘Can I Live’…? Electrifying.
Reside with fellow angels Isaac, you are one of the forefathers of Hip-Hop and arguably the greatest musical composer of the 70s- I’ll try & make everyone aware of that.
(Props to UniverSOUL for puttin’ up this list of known performers to sample from this record.)
To Be Continued: (Enterprise 1971)
-“Monologue: Ike’s Rap 1″ Micranots - “Farward”
Nas- A Message To The Feds, Sincerely, We The People
Pete Rock ft Un - “Cake”
-“Our Day Will Come”
Imani Coppola - “It’s All about Me, Me and Me”
Massive Attack - “Exchange”
MF Doom - “Operation Greenbacks”
-“The Look of Love”
3rd Bass - “The Gladiator”
Allure - “You’re Gonna Love Me”
Ashanti - “Rain on Me”
Compton’s Most Wanted - “Niggaz Strugglin’”
II Unorthodox - “Just a Little Flava”
Jay-Z - “Can I Live”
Kim Summerson - “Choices”
LL Cool J - “Hollis to Hollywood”
Lost Boys - “Is this Da Part?”
Mary J. Blige - “I Love You”
Monie Love - “Better Way”
Pressure Drop - “Senorita”
Smif-N-Wessun - “Stand Strong”
Snoop Dogg - “G’z Up, Hoes Down”
Special Ed - “Neva Go Back”
-“Ike’s Mood I/You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’”
Alkaholiks - “Mary Jane”
Beanie Sigel - “Still Got Love for You”
Biz Markie - “Cool V’s Tribute to Scratching”
Biz Markie - “Make the Music”
C-Murder ft Snoop Dogg & Magic - “Down for My Niggas”
Das EFX - “East Coast”
Foxxy Brown - “(Holy Matrimony) Letter to the Firm”
Intelligent Hoodlum - “Grand Groove”
Jeru - “Jungle Music”
JVC Force - “Stylin’ Lyrics”
Kenny Dope - “The Magnificent”
Kurupt ft Daz - “Tha Streetz Iz a Mutha”
LL Cool J - “Six Minutes of Pleasure”
Marley Marl ft Juice Crew - “He Cuts So Fresh”
Mary J. Blige - “I Love You”
Massive Attack - “One Love”
Naughty by Nature - “Knock ‘Em out Da Box”
Peanut Butter Wolf - “I Will Always Love H.E.R.”
Rahzel - “Make the Music 2000″
Ron C - “On and On”
The LOX - “Bitches from Eastwick”
Warren G - “Still Can’t Fade It”
Before I get into some porn (Bubble Butt BBQ with majestic turns from Jasmine Cashmere and Aurora Jolie) and a cup of tea (patriotically Tetley’s) possibly rounded off with ‘The Street Fighter’ (1974 Sonny Chiba martial arts classic); I felt a duty to my open minds to post this.
Released on the cusp of the new millennium (June ‘99 to be precise), I’m unsure of weather to classify this as my favourite LPs of theirs from the Nineties (which would bring it into conflict with the ‘92 opus ‘Blood Sugar Sex Magik’) or the Noughties (which would be chronologically erroneous and I’m the type to self-flagellate if I make any boo-boo with my music dates). Then again who gives a babbling, psychosomatic fuck, except I.
The album, is like a state of cerebral reflection within a synthetic bubble that’s about to rupture and the only thing to leak is the detrimental person inside- that’s how I hear it. I used to lie in bed at night aged 13 and let the more forlorn numbers seep into my head believing Anthony Kiedis to have the most soulful voice in Alt-Rock: like a zephyr born from aching and inability to cleanse in the clutch of self-harm, scaffolded only by John Frusciante’s affecting guitar-work and the arcane songwriting itself.
“Scar tissue that I wish you saw
Sarcastic mister know it all
Close your eyes and I’ll kiss you ’cause
With the birds I’ll share
With the birds I’ll share
This lonely view”
Yet frequently they still raise their arms (when there’s not a needle buried in it) and remain funky as hell, it’s quite the bi-polar record. Also produced by Rick Rubin. If you don’t know who Rick Rubin is, get the fuck out of Hip-Hop.
1. Around The World 2. Parallel Universe 3. Scar Tissue
4. Otherside
5. Get On Top 6. Californication
7. Easily 8. Porcelain
9. Emit Remmus
10. I Like Dirt
11. This Velvet Glove
12. Savior
13. Purple Stain
14. Right On Time 15. Road Trippin’
My stand-out tracks highlighted in Bold Red above.
1. Bullion- Get Familiar
2. Sunburst Band- Turn It Out 3. Katalyst feat. Steve Spacek- How Bout Us
4. DJ Day- Find A Place to Go 5. Jukes- Something Important 6. Stacy Epps - Floatin
7. Rozzi Dame- Morning Light 8. Yaw- Where Would You Be
9. Emantive feat. Ahu- Turn Your Lights On 10. The Invisables- Spiral
11. Arun Ghosh- Aurora 12. Charlie Dark & Roger Robinson- Prayers For Angry Young Men
13. Keneth Bager- Fragment One (And I Kept Hearing)
My stand-out tracks highlighted in Bold Red above.
Really rather pleasing soulful compilation from the multi-instrumentalist producer Symbolyc One (S1) of Strange Fruit Project behind the harmonious (key)boards for some notable guest spots (who misses Miss Rah Digga like I miss Miss Rah Digga?)
Once in a cobalt moon, I hear something so skillfully archetypal that I’m reminded why I fell in love with classic Hip-Hop as it palpitated with the dust settled on its skin.
There’s two types ofproducers in the rap’s subterrestrial province: firstly those who pay homage to its glorious golden years yet fail to equalize the acoustic texture of those TIMELESS compositions (recognize that mixing/mastering and tools are different than they were 15 years ago and unless you calculate-to-emulate accurately with the recording techniques, you’re shit will just sound monotonous and Primos, Pete Rocks, Large Pros, RZAs, Prince Pauls, Easy Mo Bees, Buckwilds, Havocs, Diamond Ds, Q-Tips you will never be thus remaining relegated to backpacks and bootlegs amongst a sea of undistinguishable underground drones).
Then there are cats like Damu, who just quite simply from the crates to the breaks, the chops to the bass, the booms to the baps- forms a beautiful noise that feels mortal once again. Perhaps my only criticism is that I’m awaiting a inimitable, yardstick, signature sound like the greats before, yet for now this is genuine progress from the Washington DC beatsmith. The new instrumental mixtape thumps so lovely. My next request would be to have someone like CL Smooth or Brand Nubian or Lord Finesse or Poor Righteous Teachers or ED O.G. goin’ over these beats instead of the nonsense producers those stray cats be working with nowadays and the mediocre emcees (what good is dense lyricism without dynamism, personality, characteristic vocals?) present underground producers be hooking up with.
(Hol’ tight my Pinboard Blog viral thug ninja Speakz and pardon my pride when you forwarded this, I was in the know off last year’s Y Society LP; I get sensitive like a recently augmented nipple chafing against angora over my self-reliant, fanatical, musical subsistence sometimes. Allow me.)
Fly-Lo’s homeslice and Hyper Dub’s first US signing, for all my Nintendo skankin’ futurebeat bastards and bitches. Couple o’ these jawns sound like the twisted, down syndrome sister of Madlib’s ‘Accordion’.
Just clocked the numbers Your Mum is doing (I intend to rinse this Mum-orientated extended allegory until some uptight turnip takes literal offence): healthy and well beyond initial expectations when I constructed this mini-monolith 1 month and 8 days ago. For that I wish to express gratitude to all of you bandits and beauties.
In turn, you fun(c)kers are obligating me to post more than I have the rassclart daylight savings for- but like the finest follicle on a unicorn’s twat- you’re most cherished in my kingdom.
5.04am in the downcast, semi-ghetto, London morrow and frustratingly not one bosom hath I yet laid upon as I peel back my eyelids and prepare the next drop strictly for you. All your graves will be spat on.
The Gaslamp Killer - I Spit On Your Grave
My being, when once a baby-face, was partially bred on Led Zep and other fuzzy, fantastical, Prog-Rock shit from my Pap’s pre-parental, purple haze’d past life. Now that he’s an old geezer who doesn’t know his Dilla from his Daddy Yankee (sacrilege!), I’ve been left to continue on the demonic legacy… as has GLK markedly from this 60 minute mix of his own mosh-worthy instrumentals (with flips of other artist’s including Flying Lotus, Roots Manuva & DJ Shadow) and the prior material I’ve heard of his (‘Kobwebs’ with Gonjasufi is a stone cold ‘07 classic cut). Too fatigued for the pomp of penmanship right now, so can I’ll just say The Gaslamp Killer is ridiculously fucking dope, and you’re about to sustain some serious blows of Avant-Garde-Glitch-Hop: like Jean Jacques Pierre puffin’ a chunky PCP-dipped blunt with King Crimson in Robert Rodriguez’s garage. If you like Fly-Lo, plus axes, plus crashing cymbals, and naked, painted sluts dancing around a giant smouldering wicker man in the desert, this is for you. Just keep listening to it as it hurtles along. The beats are actually absurd. Do you trust me? Of course you do. Then again, as with anything, it’s not for everyone. Goodnight.
(For the record, I fucking hate single-track mixes. I guess I’m a pretentious cunt; I feel my connoisseurship enhanced when I have the individual mp3s. I can’t be the only one who feels this way, surely.)
Ladies & gents, I present to you, the greatest lyricist on the planet right now…
“What I put down in the sound coil is Crown Royal, It’s like I dug in the ground soil and found oil, I’m known to terrorize, paralyze a pair of guys or prepare to rise off the land, sea, air, and skies, Snatch his heart, but spare his eyes, To show him why I’m great, violate, and I annihilate, My punchlines ain’t just tossin’ jabs, they often grab to put you in a Boston Crab, Caution, they say I’m psychosomatic in the attic, My automatic stick to my clothes like static, Cling on, better kiss the fist while the ring’s on, On the winning hand, four aces, now a king’s drawn”- Fire (Euro Pass Mixtape)
(Hol’ tight my ‘those who been knowing’ associates, we waited a decade for the debut opus. This one’s as bona fide as Hip-Hop gets in the state of 2008. 14 out of 16 joints laced by Black Milk. Only concern being the key stand-out cuts were all on the prior Euro Pass mixtape. Cop it all yo.)
01. Intro (The Preface)
02. The Leak (feat. Ayah)
03. Guessing Game 04. Motown 25 (feat. Royce Da 5′9″)
05. Brag Swag
06. Colors 07. Fire remix (feat. Black Milk, Guilty Simpson, Fatt Father, Danny Brown, & Fat Ray)
08. DEMONS
09. Save Ya (feat. T3 of Slum Village) (prod. T3)
10. Yeah (feat. Phat Kat) 11. Transitional Joint
12. Talking in My Sleep
13. The Science (feat. Fes Roc) (prod. DJ Dez)
14. Hands Up
15. What I Write
16. Growing Up (feat. AB)
My stand-out tracks highlighted in Bold Red above.
1. Intro 2. That’s That One
3. Fire Feat.Black Milk
4. The Reason Feat. Phat Kat 5. Talkin In My Sleep
6. Save Ya Feat.T3
7. The Know
8. High Off Life
9. Heart Of The City Cuts 10. The Transitional Joint
11. Dedicated Feat. Trip 12. Motown 25 feat. Royce Da 5′9
13. Audio Cinematic
Disc 1: 01. 2000 Intro (prod. by Wajeed)
02. Over Wit
03. Hands High 04. Days And Nights (prod. by Jay Dee)
05. Haters f/ T3 & Nick Speed 06. The Alchemist
07. Goin’ Out
08. Get It Up
09. Boomerang Slang
10. Stroll
11. Let’s Talk (prod. by Wajeed)
12. All I Want f/ Dwele (prod. by Wajeed) 13. Where It all Begins
Disc 2:
01. Nix Productions
02. Gunna (Are U Ready)
03. Kiddo 04. Don’t Be Alarmed
05. Concrete Eyes (prod. by Jay Dee)
06. Love It Here (prod. by Jay Dee) 07. How I Feel
08. It’s Your World (prod. by Wajeed)
09. Stunted Growth (prod. by Wajeed)
10. Writer’s Block 11. Friends (prod. by Jay Dee)
12. The Letter
Elzhi deconstructs his rhyme style syllable by syllable- and educates these motherfucks on how to emcee. I rip and I rhyme, I rhyme & I ripe, that is the way the Elzhi spit!
I’ve been sitting on this shit for a hot, cosmic minute.
Washington DC newcomer Olivier Day Soul, that man, is a sexual beast with a lightsabre microphone caught in his paw; he howls with lunatic longing over warped synthesisers like the baroque love-child of P-Funk in its hallucinatory prime and subatomic soul of the nearby future.
The debut album dazzles with fantastic voyages into intergalactic instrumentals and sci-fi songwriting clearly penned in the haze of ODS’ own reverie. Myself I can’t quite testify that Earth girls are easy, but I’ll take the bloke’s word for it from what’s depicted on the record.
The contour that separates Olivier from his peers in the sphere of contemporary Soul is the inspired, rainbow-decorated palette he’s obtained from touring Europe (in particular the UK) and forming alliances with space-age Scot beatsmith Hudson Mohawk- a wise ploy since I’ve proposed before Hud-Mo’s work signifies the future territory of where (that allegedly dead donkey) UK Hip-Hop/’Urban’ needs to travel if it is to transcend this epoch and regain consciousness. I’ve heard the bulk of production here was handled by Planet Mohawk, fashioning a psychedelic progeny of funk, electronica and new wave; their chemistry fuses and throbs throughout the record, especially on the exceptional dancefloor cuts ‘Spaceship’ and ‘Dance’.
For personal/ethical reasons, I’m not going to provide the full download link for the album. Instead, I’ll opt for an alternative system I’ve been planning to incorporate on the blog for some time. It’s simple: I’m going to take my 3 favourite joints from the LP, wrap them up in a pretty likkle .rar folder and upload them for your download gluttony with the successive aim to inspire you to buy the rest of record from one of the many fine retailers it’s currently available at (link down below). Sir Day Soul deserves your dollars and dineros.
Worth purchasing alone just to hear Olivier squeal, “I’m bout to lose my maaaaaaaarbles” on the intro into track 12. Doing wonders for transatlantic relations.
These guys, are a bit like, a slightly better (dressed) version of Frank-N-Dank.
Sufficient enough mixtape that I haven’t been in a rush to post (now 8 months after acquisition), then I felt it’s notable for 2 utterly outstanding cuts you’ll be needing in your life very much if you’re currently devoid of them: ‘Castlevania’ is one of my gorilla-thumping, vertebrate-snapping, 8-bit, Nintendo-beat bangers of ‘08. And ‘Beautiful Day’ shimmers so lustrously with Summery boom-bap glory it almost suppresses my usual misanthropy and cheers me up, a little.
01. Introduction
02. The Launch
03. Soul-Hop 04. Let Me BE
05. The Show 2007
06. Do Wit Me
07. Let Me Sing For You (Skit)
08. Knock On Wood
09. Fat Girl
10. The Proposal 11. Castlevania
12. LapDance 13. Beautiful Day
14. K.R.E.A.M.
My stand-out tracks highlighted in Bold Red above.
Tokyo-born, Berlin-based producer & turntabilist’s sophomore LP full of faraway grooves and fertile, unprocessed vibrations oozing underneath a fantastic support cast like my mans Kev Brown, Oh No, Aloe Blacc and Ta’Raach… exceedingly recommended listening.
01. Intro
02. Sugar Hill feat. Om’Mas (from SA-RA Creative Partners)
03. Love And Sex
04. Still Significant feat. Kev Brown
05. 0804-005 06. Right Here feat. Oh No 07. Morioka Sunset (JS Love)
08. Night Will Fall
09. Interlude 10. Try feat. Aloe Blacc
11. Let’s Do It
12. Lovelude feat. Ta’Raach 13. Get down feat. Ta’Raach
14. No te puedo ver feat. Laura Lopez Castro
15. Y.W.A.G.D 16. cp2sk feat. Christian Prommer
17. Playground
18. Outro
My stand-out tracks highlighted in Bold Red above.
In early June, I had one personal anthem only: ‘Have You Ever Made Love To A Weirdo?’ Excelling with a delicious sax solo 3 minute and 19 seconds in, it’s a miniature classic awaiting mainstream acknowledgement and chronic radio rotation.
I expected more from this mixtape however… but I’m never one not to emit a fat wad of steaming doo-doo-butter on the hype when it’s premature- I’ll wait till a debut album instead.
And a memorandum to the lesser music pundits: just because this troupe hails from Atlanta, and they wear silly outfits and spout colorful libretto… does not give you the right to the call them the next Outkast, you indolent, unimaginative arseholes. More akin to an electronic Nappy Roots as far as lazy artist comparisons go, do your homework.
1. Intro / Southern Tuki 2. Don’t Fight The Light
3. Stormy (Beat by Madlib)
4. The Climax (Weirdo Pt. II)
5. Alpha Jerk Interlude
6. HollyFunk / Beat Interlude
7. Ur Smile (Prod. 9th Wonder)
8. Dream Requiem Interlude / Street Now
9. Swagger
10. AUC Crusin’ / Basquiat Interlude
11. Have You Ever Made Love To A Weirdo?
12. Party All The Time Pt. II
13. Sincerely Jane (Remix) / Attraction Rules Interlude
14. Gripplyaz - Shake Her Rear 15. PartyLife
16. Pinball
17. Karl Tutymer (Prod. James Posey & Questlove)
18. Bonus Track: Back In The Day
My stand-out tracks highlighted in Bold Red above.
What conceivable commentary could you possibly demand from me on this one?
Unreleased recordings + demo versions from the classic long player resurrected like praying mantis Frank White… my real heads rejoice, and pass the wet wipes.
(’Ready To Die’ = my 3rd most cherished Hip-Hop masterpiece of all time alongside ‘Liquid Swords’ and ‘Illmatic’ son doobie. Word is bondage.)
“Welcome to my center, honies feel it deep in they placenta, as cold as the pole in the winter!”
01. Intro (Original Uncleared Sample Version)
02. Things Done Changed (Original Version)
03. Gimme The Loot (Uncensored Never Before Heard Version)
04. Machine Fun Funk (Dj Premier Version)
05. Warning (Original Version)
06. Ready To Die (Original Beat Version)
07. One More Chance (Original Uncleared Sample Version)
08. Fuck Me (Interlude)
09. The What (Original Unheard Lyrics Version)
10. Juicy (Pete Rock Version)
11. Everyday Struggle (Demo Version)
12. Me And My Bitch (Original Beat Version)
13. Respect (Original Extended Version)
14. Friend Of Mine (Original Demo Version)
15. Whatchu Want (Unreleased Original Version)
16. Suicidal Thoughts (Pete Rock Version)
17. Come On (Unreleased Original Version)
18. Who Shot Ya (Original Demo Version)
19. Mac’s N Dons (Unreleased)
20. Pepsi Freestyle (Unreleased)
21. Biggie Got That Hype Shit (Unreleased Demo)
My stand-out tracks highlighted in Bold Red above.
This was released rather unexpectedly with one of my choice cuts of the year ‘She Loves Everybody’ from forthcoming Star Trak signed, prep-school, Harvard white boys Chester French… on some late-60s-chamber-pop-Walker-Brothers-overdosing-on-early-80’s-new-wave-shit, which doesn’t seem to be available elsewhere. Worth downloading for the one joint alone; the rest of the mixtape despite some very capable newbies, is sadly unremarkable.
1. Mickey Factz- War (Prod By Precize)
2. Mickey Factz- Mick Joy (Prod By N*E*R*D)
3. Theophilus London - Sand Castles feat. Salonge (Prod By Machine Drum)
4. Mickeylude
5. Kid Cudi- Embrace The Martian (Prod By Crookers) 6. Fresh Daily- Jump f. Jesse Boykins III (prod The Milkman) 7. Chester French- She Loves Everybody (Prod By Chester French)
8. Curtis Santiago- TKO
9. Mickeylude II
10. Mickey Factz- Rockin N Rollin Remix feat. The Cool Kids (ILLFONICS REMIX)
11. Mickeylude III
12. The Cool Kids- Oscar The Grouch (Prod By Chuck Inglish)
13. FKi- Clap Ya Hands (Prod By FKi)
14. Nakim- I Get It In (Prod By The Runners)
15. Smoke Dza- Go Getter feat. Nipsey Hustle
16. Mickey Factz- Salute feat. Jesse Boykins III & Mz.Mimz (Prod By Chase N. Cashe) 17. Melo X- XXX 18. Jesse Boykins III- Sobriety (Prod By Jesse Boykins III) 19. Jade- So Fresh
20. Mickey Factz- Peace (Prod By Precize)
My stand-out tracks highlighted in Bold Red above.
Unpredictably decent mixtape (obvious filler shit & inaudible slurs inclusive) from Timbaland’s latest weed-carrier Izza Kizza with some advancement on the synth-heavy Southern production from prospective future billboard chart bombardiers Souldiggaz and Koolade. Not one fresh Timbo treat on here though? Surely he’s not charging $300,000 a beat to artists on his own imprint…
01. Intro 02. Flippin’ In The Rizzide
03. I’m The Izza Kizza 04. Millionaire (Preview)
05. Walk The Dog ft. Missy Elliot
06. Wham!
07. Timbo Freestyle
08. Tell ‘Em What My Name Iz 09. Red Wine
10. Here I Izz 11. Ooh La La (Preview)
12. Living My Dreams (Preview)
13. Don’t Stop Go! 14. They’re Everywhere
15. Hello
16. Me & Keesha (Boy Meets Girl)
17. Testimonial 18. PUSH
19. Outro
20. Georgie Porgie (Bonus)
My stand-out tracks highlighted in Bold Red above.
This has been floating the pirate’s gulf and sitting on my PC since January… now forgive my pridefulness, but I’ve been assured I was one of the first cats (in my general vicinity) to thrust Blu & Exile’s ‘Below The Heavens’ (the definitive sleeper hit of 2007 Hip-Hop’s bland caboodle) hither and thither when nobody was hearing it early on (in the days before Your Mum when I would have to manoeuvre low-key with these links like I was pushin’ weight).
So I’d like to say I’m doing the honours on this one, but I simply found the 21 track promo neither as stirring nor as deeply channelled as Blu’s first emcee/producer alliance offering thus I’m preserving the fireworks just yet… maybe the absolute final product will deliver when it drops September 23rd.
Bootleg Tracklist:
01. Intro
02. Get High 03. The Only Way
04. Told Me
05. Go For The Gusto Room (feat. BoBo Lamb) 06. Wow!
07. Half a Knot
08. God’s In The Building (feat. Miguel Jontel) 09. Bout It Bout It
10. Look
11. Listen Baby
12. Been Such a Longtime (Interlude)
13. Been Such a Longtime
14. Up All Night
15. Up All Night (Remix) (feat. Cashius King)
16. La La La (3:21)
17. Hold On John (feat. John Lennon)
18. Swear
19. Outro
20. Nuts Hang (Bonus Track)
21. Upside Down Cake (Bonus Track)
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