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Tweet Darkside , the title and project name of Nicolas Jaar's new EP released under his own label, Clown And Sunset , alongside Brooklyn-based artist, guitarist and bassist Dave Harrington , is an intriguing project worth investing time (and a spare $5) into. Jaar, a 21-year old New York based producer with a steadily rising fanbase since his breakthrough 2011 release of "Space Is Only Noise", diverts from the fashion of ambient noise in [...]
Darkside , c'est le projet de Nicolas Jaar et de Dave Harrington. Leur premier ep contient 3 titres : A1, A2, A3 . Darkside - A1
Trek Life - Aiming In The Spotlight (prod.Oddisee) "Wouldn't Change Nothing " is coming out on my label, Mello Music Group, Tuesday July 12th , it's another summer record. We brought on a lot of dope producers to revisit the "Everything Changed Nothing" album. This one's got some of my West Coasts people like J Bizness, Duke Westlake, A3, Captain, and DJ Buddy. Plus it's got Detroit's Apollo Brown and MarvWon, Philly's Has-Lo, Audible Doctor who did Joel Ortiz's Battle Cry, ST/MiC came through with some heat, SlimKat78 who did a [...]
Study Long, Study Wrong by The A3
We didn't realise this week would be dominated so heavily by Hauschka but we're not complaining. It started with a record review ( here ), then an album stream ( here ) and now a competition to win an A3 lithograph Hauschka poster. Woah. For your chance to win one of these posters, answer this very simple question. What's the name of Hauschka's new album? [...]
I'm having trouble relating to a lot of rappers my age. I guess that's partly why I root for cats like TiRon . Having a solid pen game is a necessary pre-req. But writing lyrics people can identify with go a long way as well. He acknowledges his shortcomings that go beyond the travails of being a rapper and endears his vices without being annoying in the process. That last part is key since admitting your faults can border on complaining when done in excess. Fortunately TiRon knows how to play the balance beam between [...]
Alabama 3, "U Don't Dans 2 Tekno Anymore" I couldn't resist dropping a song from my favorite Brixton-based acid house/country/gospel collective this month. Their excellent debut Exile on Coldharbour Lane is brimming with drug/rehab/12-step program references ("Hypo Full of Love," "The Old Purple Tin"), but my favorite is definitely this fiddle-fed ditty about a club overdose. Placebo, "Special K" Definitely not talking about the breakfast cereal. Taken from Placebo's highly underrated 3rd album Black Market Music , ketamine has never seemed more romantic & angsty. [...]
Probably The Best Known Television Theme Song From the last 10 Years and a slew of catchy tracks ALABAMA 3 When I play songs for people in my home, make a mix or DJ, I like to watch their response to something they have never heard before. This was the case this week when I added a little Alabama 3 ( or A3 as they used to be known ) into the mix. The [...]
Happy New Year, folks! Before we dive headfirst into 2009, I wanted to look back one more time. This week I realized that this was the 10th year I've put together an annual best-of compilation CD. It started out as something to give my musically-curious coworkers, and it's become an annual tradition that I share with good friends, family, coworkers, and, now, teh intarwebs . And yes, I'm well aware that some of you have actually heard some/most of the songs I include, but when I first titled the collections "The Best Songs You Didn't [...]
As promised, here are the unmixed originals to go along with the tunes I posted in Even Better Than The Real Thing a couple weeks ago. Every once in a while I revisit these mixes, with Cornershop's half-speed "Brimful of Asha" and A3's more rambling "Woke Up This Morning" getting the most work, but for the most part, I seek out the superior remix. Enjoy the before/after effects! Download: Primal Scream, "Higher Than The Sun (Original)" (mp3) (Right-click/control-click link to download) [...]
When I began combing through my collection for my most-loved remixes, I realized that a host of them had become the de facto version of the song that you and I know and love - somehow, the second stab at these tunes was universally a step up (next week I promise a list of the originals so you can appreciate the transformation yourselves). Here, then, is a list of remixes so good that they've supplanted the original mixes in my library: Primal Scream, "Higher Than The Sun" I loved [...]
As I sit to type this, I'm watching American Idol contestant Kristy Lee Cook absolutely BUTCHER the Beatles song "8 Days a Week". An uptempo, countrified version. Buhhh-leck. "Dolly Parton on helium", says Simon. Lucky for me I don't watch American Idol. Oh sh - -, caught! So anyway, here's Alabama 3 with a version of John Prine's "Speed of the Sound of Loneliness" - one of my favorites in his catalog. A3, as the popular country group Alabama insists they call themselves stateside, is a British acid house [...]
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