A few cuts that I can’t stop listening to. Enjoy.
Clipse Feat Cam’ron & Pharrell-Popular Demand
Clipse back with Neptunes as per. Killer. Till the Casket Drops out 08/12/09
Raekwon Feat Inspektah Deck & Masta Killa-Kiss the Ring
Lifting this shit right from the Guardian site, sorry for the tardynessssss:
It’s a new Kanye West video, but not as we know it. The 11-minute short, We Were Once a Fairytale, is directed by Spike Jonze and shows West on a night out, drunk and behaving badly. The whole thing involves sex, vomiting and making a massive tit of himself; just your average Saturday night out in Croydon, really. Except this particular night out also ends with the disembowelling of a tiny troll. You know, the one that the rapper has ripped from his own stomach after plunging a dagger into himself in the toilets. We’re pretty sure most nights out in Croydon don’t end like that.
According to Jonze’s blog, the short film, which aired at the LA film festival in June, was due to be released on iTunes last month but has surfaced online instead. Given the video’s message of conquering your demons, or at least cutting them out of your tummy, the timing could signal a fortuitous attempt to turn something stupid (say, the Taylor Swift incident) into something clever and knowing. Of course, it could simply be a further display of West’s ego masquerading as art. What do you think?
Lunice, the Canadian wunderkind, has been rejigging Hip-Hop and R&B things for a while now, and the lovely Chromekids peoples have shared a pile of his stuff in one swift zip.
Featuring smashes by Three Six Mafia, Rick Ross(BAUCE), Daedelus, Aaliyah and more.
New Chris Brown feat music juggernaut Lil Wayne and Swizz Beatz. Pretty decent.
Enjoy.
The superb Grizzly Bear are touring with their latest album, Veckatimest. Their first album Yellow House garnered them a small but cult following, their Friend EP got them more exposure but they still simmered away under the radar of the mainstream, but with their latest album they have seen a whole new wave of fans(Jay-Z & his wife amongst others)taking in their shows and buying their music.
Chris Taylor of the band, who is also resident producer, has branched out and started his own label which will feature hios own solo stuff under his name CANT and the B-side which will feature an unheard Arthur Russell track.
You can read more about Taylor’s label at EXCLAIM.
Tour dates below:
| Oct 31 | London, UK | SOLD OUT: Barbican Hall (w/ the LSO) | Tickets → |
| Nov 01 | Dublin, Ireland | SOLD OUT: Vicar Street (w/ St. Vincent) | Tickets → |
| Nov 02 | Glasgow, UK | ABC (w/ St. Vincent) | Tickets → |
| Nov 04 | Manchester, UK | SOLD OUT: Cathedral (w/ St. Vincent) | Tickets → |
| Nov 05 | Leeds, UK | Leeds Metropolitan University (w/ St. Vincent) | Tickets → |
| Nov 06 | Bristol, UK | Anson Rooms (w/ St. Vincent) | Tickets → |
Four posts in 2 days, whats going on!
For those who don’t know, Blu is a Italian graffiti artists. Best known for his large scale murals and his fantastic stop motion animation, Muto.
In collaboration with David Ellis, below is his latest efforts.
Check out Muto as well.
The Dundee Contempory Arts Center is to show the acclaimed documentary Helvetica. Essential viewing for anybody interest in design in general, the film documents the typeface beautifully.
Tuesday 29th September is the date for your diary.
Trailer.
Dam. One of my all time favorite DJ’s passed away on Saturday. Details of his passing away are thin but suggestions are he died as result of complications from a car crash or a martial arts accident, something which he has been practicing for years.
Please find below a couple of mixtapes from the man. No tracklistings for these. Just enjoy the tricks and beats.
DJ Roc Raida – Free Smoothie Smooth Part 2
DJ Roc Raida & DJ The Boy – Tales From The Flip Level 2
Here is a catch up for all those who need to get to know.
A nice gift from TSB favorite Stones Throw Records. I’ll let them do the talking.
Koushik proposed that we release an instrumental version of his Out My Window album, where the vocals – what few tracks actually have vocals – are buried deep in the mix, less like a singer than a friendly ghost in the attic. Such a bizarre idea, how could we say no?
It’s on CD with 22 tracks, 5 or 6 of which are not on Out My Window, but who’s counting? Packaged in thick cardboard with tip-on cover in the style of old school LPs. Cover photo by Eric Coleman.
Out My Window (Instrumentals + Bonus Beats) on CD
Out My Window (Instrumentals + Bonus Beats) Free MP3 Download for 1 week
www: Koushik
Mark Mothersbaugh again on the score-yes.
