July 2011
26 posts
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Archives - What’s With All The Brutal Honesty (off Decline, 2009, Tokyo Jupiter)
Shut up and eat your excellent Scottish skramz.
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Spaceghostpurrp
SPACEGHOSTPURRP - SVCK V DICK FXR 2011 | SUCK A DICK FOR 2011 |
Hottest record in the game, right now.
Sooooooooo good. This will be played at Bar Mitzvahs twenty years from now even if it’s immediately dated.
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Cannonball Jane - Take It To Fantastic (off Knees Up!, 2007, Gaddycat)
This used to get a lot of burn on my radio show back in uni - Spector girl groups meet surf guitar meets breakbeats meets rock’n’roll nonsense. This is what bubblegum pop should sound like.
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D’Angelo - I Found My Smile Again (off Space Jam OST, 1996, Warner Sunset)
I find myself listening to Voodoo a lot these days ever since “Feel Like Makin’ Love” popped up on shuffle while stuck in traffic - it made my day brighter, I can honestly say. Thinking back a few years, it felt like Paul Hunter’s (sorta creepy/sorta sexy) video for “Untitled” was my introduction to D’Angelo’s music when in fact I had listened to one of his songs about a hundred times as a child. Before the drums kick in at 0:50, “I Found My Smile Again“‘s feels kinda over-produced and studio-sessiony. Even as an impressionable kid in the jiggy era, it never appealed to me and to be honest, the opening of the song usually served as an indication it was time to rewind back to “Hit ‘Em High”. However, sometimes I forgot to rewind and I dug the hell out of the warm-sounding song that followed. I love the Space Jam soundtrack (and the movie, too).
This song is how I like to think of D’Angelo, not the arrests or breakdowns or him singing “Sex Machine” with Tom Jones that one time. Oh, I also like ?uestlove’s (sadly offline) anecdote about Dave from De La Soul hearing Voodoo and crying “if people don’t like this, I don’t know what’s wrong with them”.
Hey, nice blog. I was going thru and was very disappointed to see you made no comment on Sorcerer's Apprentice. I know that is a very strange sentence. I was so freaking charmed by it.
Cheers! I dig yours, while we’re on the complimentary tip.
Sorcerer’s Apprentice was cute, but if I’m being honest I yelled over the top of it with some friends. Had very low expectations for it and while I can’t say that I remember anything about it, it was a fun ride while it lasted despite being yet another Hero’s Journey drawn bluntly from A to B. Also, Monica Belucci was in that film for like five minutes, what was that about?
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Daniel Janin & Jean Claude Pierric- Fat Fat Fellow (off Melodie En Soul Sol - Paris 70s, 2008, KIF)
Sunday morning French library music brunch swag.
Currently streaming the shit out of this. It is great.
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Why do people take their time to speculate like this? Like, is it fun or something? I enjoy the tape (at least like twice a week) because dude is dope. Dope rhymes and lines. Sounds cool. Not because he’s supposedly exposing the molecular composition of inner New York and it’s rap helix which is supposedly disintegrating into a more lesser rap composition of which only lesser talented organisms can thrive.
In all honesty, yeah, I find dorking out on this type of stuff fun. He’s poking fun at something here with the Mitchgonenorth character, and understanding who exactly it is goes a long way - in my opinion, dunno about anyone else out there - in helping the mixtape feel so fun and fresh.
