Blog: The Passion of the Weiss

Son Raw: From Jack to Juke

Feb 10, 4:16pm The Passion of the Weiss
From Jack to Juke: 25 Years of Ghetto House
From Jack to Juke: 25 Years of Ghetto House from Sonali Aggarwal on Vimeo . A quick but thorough history lesson straight from the horses' mouths. Rightfully placing Ghetto-House in America's storied tradition of urban music rather than in a more nebulous international dance music context, this documentary makes a strong argument for discussing Chicago, Detroit and Baltimore music alongside Crunk and Hyphy rather than Disco or Deep House. Then again, I did find this link on Resident Advisor so perhaps the battle's been lost. Nevertheless, the music covered here follows Son Raw's golden [...]
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What's the Word: Exile & Fashawn Keep Rising

Feb 10, 1:30pm The Passion of the Weiss
What's the Word: Exile & Fashawn Keep Rising Tosten Burks is about to fall asleep on the steps. The latest flourish from Exile and Fashawn shows the difference between hip-hop that promotes fun and hip-hop that simply just is. The two trade bars on top of giggling guitar stutters and the hoots and hollers of a cartoon peanut gallery, chaptered by an off-pitch falsetto Exile hook that's either sarcastic or drunk, probably both. Of course, "Oh Word" would just be silly if not for it also being full of good rapping. Exile "burns blunts the size of [...]
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Artist:Exile ft. Fahsawn
Title:Oh Word (keep on rising)
Link Text:Exile & Fashawn-”Oh Word (Keep on Rising)”
File Name:Fashawn-Exile-Oh-Word-Keep-On- Rising.mp3
Bitrate:192 kbps

Not a Blogger: We Are All Terrible People — The Music Criticism of Lana Del Ray

Feb 10, 4:49am The Passion of the Weiss
Not a Blogger: We Are All Terrible People — The Music Criticism of Lana Del Ray Doc Zeus really thinks you need to stop talking your talking points from Carles. There once was a pretty girl named Lizzie Grant who decided that she wanted to make music for a living. She signed a record deal with a major label and recorded a gooey, happy-go-lucky pop record in the vein of Stefani Germanotta or Katheryn Hudson. It failed. Like an untold number of aspiring singers, Lizzie was forced to start over. Whether by the influence of the divine, personal genius or the focus-tested will of a shadowy group of [...]
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From Queens Come Kings: Nicolas Jaar's "From Scratch"

Feb 9, 6:07pm The Passion of the Weiss
From Queens Come Kings: Nicolas Jaar's "From Scratch" Pictures via Pitchfork , shot by Will Deitz. Henry Kerins studied house at Brown with Nicolas Jaar. Nicolas Jaar at MoMA PS1. With live movement art and real time video processing. In a geodesic dome. For five hours. On Super Bowl Sunday. Too good to be true? Too true to be good? For those of you who don't know what geodesic means, neither do I. Nor does Nico, one of many facts gleaned from his [...]
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Link Text:Nicolas Jaar-"Keep Me There"
File Name:05-Keep-Me-There.mp3
Artist:Azari & III
Title:Into The Night (Nicolas Jaar Remix)
Link Text:Azari & III-"Into the Night" (Nicolas Jaar Remix)
File Name:Azari & III - Into The Night (Nicolas Jaar Remix).mp3
Bitrate:320 kbps
Genre:Dance
Year:2010
Artist:Nicolas Jaar
Title:With Just One Glance
Link Text:MP3: Nicolas Jaar ft. Scout Larue - “With Just One Glance
File Name:With-Just-One-Glance.mp3
Bitrate:128 kbps

Son Raw: LHF – Akashic Visions

Feb 9, 2:00pm The Passion of the Weiss
LHF - Akashic Visions - from album "Keepers of the Light" on Keysound Recordings
Son Raw is an urban hippie minus the long hair and overly-sincere attitude. OK, just urban then. Some groups are easier to like than love and others are easier to love than write about. LHF falls in the later category as RZA-influenced junglist beat music will be awesome long after bloggers have run out of ways to rearrange adjectives like "junglist" in new ways. The current angle for writing about the group seems to be that they're "saving Dubstep," a task about as appealing and likely as a rapper "bringing New York back" but [...]
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Riff Raff & Action Bronson – "Bird on a Wire"

Feb 9, 1:24pm The Passion of the Weiss
RiFF RaFF SODMG & ACTiON BRONSON "Bird On A Wire" (Official Video)
Not to be confused with the hijinks-filled 1990 Mel Gibson and Goldie Hawn action comedy of the same name. "Bird on a Wire," also known as the time that Action Bronson crashed at Alchemist's place and Riff Raff and Simon "Dirt Nasty" Rex showed up and they opted to smoke joints the size of giraffes on the streets of Santa Monica. On the surface, this is the weirdest video in the history of weird-dom (population: based). However, Alchemist and Dirt Nasty are long-time friends who worked together on Dirt Nasty's last dopus. During a [...]
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Son Raw: Earl Sweatshirt's home

Feb 9, 11:57am The Passion of the Weiss
Son Raw: Earl Sweatshirt's home Son Raw felt sort of obligated to post about this. Damn blog hype. So he's releasing music but isn't part of Odd Future anymore, is that what we're supposed to infer from yesterday's is-he-or-isn't-he clusterfuck? If so, that's a shame as both parties could benefit from working together far more than whatever will come of an Earl solo move. We'll refrain from comment until the truth (or tweets) emerge but in the meantime this is a pretty cool bit of randomness in the vein of a violent, teenage MF DOOM, which is what [...]
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Link Text:Earl Sweatshirt - Home
File Name:Earl_Sweatshirt_-_Home.mp3
Bitrate:257 kbps

Douglas Martin's Dirty Shoes: 20 Questions Raised by Cloud Nothings' Attack on Memory

Feb 9, 4:55am The Passion of the Weiss
Douglas Martin's Dirty Shoes: 20 Questions Raised by Cloud Nothings' Attack on Memory Cloud Nothings do not qualify as Douglas Martin Music. 1. If you could go from lo-fi guitar pop to mall-punk to Serious Punk Musician That Everybody Should Take Seriously in about two-and-a-half years, wouldn't you prefer to have a wider template than Wipers and emocore? 2. Are we witnessing the Great Emo Revival of 2012? If so, will you wake me up when September ends? 3. Vivian Girls followed through on their longstanding Wipers influence and got panned nearly across the board for it, while a band full [...]
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Artist:Cloud Nothings
Title:Stay Useless
Link Text:Cloud Nothings-”Stay Useless”
File Name:04-Stay-Useless.mp3
Genre:Indie Rock
Year:2012

Video: The Black Keys – "Gold on the Ceiling"

Feb 8, 10:35pm The Passion of the Weiss
Get More: The Black Keys , Gold On The Ceiling , Music , More Music Videos As Rob Harvilla sagely pointed out: the The Black Keys are every writer's seventh favorite band . We here at the Passion of the Weiss are no different. Should you disagree, I will point you to Chulahoma , the best psychedelic blues album of the last decade (out of three made total). I have no clue what "Gold on the Ceiling" means, but it sounds like a Rick Ross invention. [...]
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SpaceghostPurrp is The God of Black

Feb 8, 6:37pm The Passion of the Weiss
SpaceghostPurrp is The God of Black The return of Spaceghost Purrp , the vowel-averse Memphis vampire, who makes music to commit murders while watching ghost trains whistle by. According to my iTunes, his latest freeEP is called /SPVCXGHZTPVRRP Presents: GXX XX BXXXX EP Vol. 1 . We'll just call it God of Black. This is something like a devil worshipping doppelganger to that Jet Life compilation from earlier this year. Perma-fried, laid-back rider music that somehow even manages to up the ante of ignorance. Roughly half the tape features raunchy rundowns of Spaceghost's sexcapades. This is when he's [...]
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Artist:SPACEGHOSTPURRP X RVIDER KLVN
Title:KLVN VMBER LONDON - LXX MF KXXY | LOW MF KEY PROD BY SPACEGHOSTPURRP
Link Text:KLVN VMBER LONDON - “LOW MF KEY (prod. Spaceghostpurrp)
File Name:01-KLVN-VMBER-LONDON-LXX-MF-KX XY-_-LOW-MF-KEY-PROD-BY-SPACEG HOSTPURRP.mp3
Artist:SPACEGHOSTPURRP X RVIDER KLVN
Title:SPVCXGHXZTPVRRP - TXX BXXXK GXX | THA BLACK GOD PROD BY SPACEGHOSTPURRP
Link Text:SPVCXGHXZTPVRRP - “TXX BXXXX GXX (prod. Spaceghostpurrp)
File Name:02-SPVCXGHXZTPVRRP-TXX-BXXXK-G XX-_-THA-BLACK-GOD-PROD-BY-SPA CEGHOSTPURRP.mp3

Frank & Beats: The Full Float of Porcelain Raft

Feb 8, 1:46pm The Passion of the Weiss
Frank & Beats: The Full Float of Porcelain Raft Aaron Frank has returned after a few strange weekends writing for the LA Weekly . Throughout its many manifestations, synth-pop has always suffered from similar shortcomings. While readily apparent in the most recent generation of artists, the Achilles' heel of almost every latest, greatest synth-pop act is their failure to make a human connection through creative songwriting. From techo's explosion over the last 20 years, we know it's relatively easy to make someone dance with a nice melodic synth riff, but bringing someone to tears or forcing them to ponder their existence proves [...]
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Artist:Porcelain Raft
Title:Put Me To Sleep
Link Text:Porcelain Raft-”Put Me to Sleep”
File Name:putmetosleep.mp3
Genre:Indie
Year:2012
Artist:Porcelain Raft
Title:Unless You Speak From Your Heart
Link Text:Porcelain Raft-”Unless You Speak From Your Heart”
File Name:unlessyouspeak.mp3
Genre:Indie
Year:2012

Son Raw – Goth Trad's New Epoch

Feb 8, 5:00am The Passion of the Weiss
Son Raw – Goth Trad's New Epoch Son Raw really wants to tour Japan one day With New Epoch, Japanese producer Goth-Trad has created a rare beast: an album providing plenty of top-quality DJ-food for selectors that also stands up as a straight-up front to back listen. It's a tough trick to pull off as the extended intros and breakdowns inherent in EDM can make for repetitive listens at home but then again, you'd be hard-pressed to qualify New Epoch as ordinary club music – drawing on Goth-Trad's past work in noise, jungle, Trip-Hop and UK Bass, it's satisfyingly physical without bowing [...]
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Artist:Goth-Trad
Title:Alone Warrior
Link Text:Goth-Trad - Alone Warrior
File Name:GOTH-TRAD-Alone-Warrior.mp3
Bitrate:320 kbps

Flash Bang Grenada ft. Riddlore & Verbs – "Teleport Remix"

Feb 7, 11:52pm The Passion of the Weiss
Flash Bang Grenada ft. Riddlore & Verbs – "Teleport Remix" Flash Bang Grenada top Spock at his own game and teleport alongside Verbs and Riddlore. The latter is a Project Blowed O.G. and one-time member of Chillin' Villain Empire (CVE). You should be aware of him, but you are likely not. This is a good place to start .This remix tweaks the original "Teleport" from last year's 10 Haters , arguably the best rapped project that didn't involve a man who shares a last name with a memorable character from Revenge of the Nerds . Like the only remixes worth a damn, [...]
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Too Advanced, Digi Stance: Pulp Banga 101 Taught by the Wrecking Crew

Feb 7, 3:32pm The Passion of the Weiss
Too Advanced, Digi Stance: Pulp Banga 101 Taught by the Wrecking Crew Pelican briefs, Craig Ehlo, Lil Mac, the beat for Wu Banga, the ghosts of master killers, all channeled on the latest leak from the Wu Tang Pulp project. Some more strictly fam members only shit from the Wrecking Crew (Has-Lo, Zilla Rocca, Curly Castro), plus Boogieman Dela and David Little. Small Pro slices and dices the beat. This is better than any rap tribute album that I've heard (admittedly, I can readily think of few beyond In tha Beginning .) Why cover the songs when you can re-imagine them? The Wrecking Crew know [...]
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Jolly Green Giants Get Cut: Serengeti's "Shazam"

Feb 7, 1:59pm The Passion of the Weiss
Jolly Green Giants Get Cut: Serengeti's "Shazam" It's been a rough week for Shaq. Last night, Kobe Bryant passed him in scoring on the all-time list, now Serengeti has unleashed the power of the Killa Deacon on the Big Aristotle. For those who don't know the back story, Kenny Dennis (Kdz) and Tha Grimm Teachaz were signed to Jive Records in '93. After a Teachaz performance at the label's showcase in Philly (other performers included the Fu-Schnickens and Tevin Campbell), Shaq-Fu got brazen and mocked Kenny's mustache live on-stage. "Shazam" is the 'stache's revenge. Shaq don't want none. How can he in the [...]
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Shlohmo's Vacation

Feb 7, 5:25am The Passion of the Weiss
Shlohmo's Vacation Jonah Bromwich's favorite vacation spot is the Isle of Wight. There's only so much concrete meaning that we can infer from beatmakers' music. Without lyrics acting as signposts, all we have to go on is tempo, mood and the occasional sample. Not much really. That's what makes it so fun when a producer like Shlohmo drops a few more clues to puzzle over. His excellent new Vacation EP plays the meaning game extremely well. At first, the title seems like a [...]
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Blu Jesus

Feb 6, 6:07pm The Passion of the Weiss
Blu - Jesus (Official Music Video)
Fun fact: this video was created entirely out a photo collage of pictures taken from Blu's Instagram page. Media TakeOut told me that Lana Del Rey demanded her swag back after watching this (and a full definition of what swag means in 2012). Madlib is credited with the beat. Only the IRS knows if he got paid.
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Ugandan Warhorns and Eagles

Feb 6, 3:13pm The Passion of the Weiss
Ugandan Warhorns and Eagles Dear Internet, Remember that one time when a bunch of you gave money to foot the bill for the weed carrier in Animal Collective to travel to Mali to play a concert and buy all sorts of exotic sandals. Well, this time I have an even better and less culturally noxious offer for you. Mike Eagle and Ras G are two of the best musicians that Los Angeles has yielded in the last decade. The former coined the phrase "art-rap" to make Animal Collective fans feel guilty for ignoring experimental rap in favor of exclusively [...]
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Artist:Ras G & Open Mike Eagle
Title:Warhorn
Link Text:Open Mike Eagle & Ras G - “Warhorn”
File Name:Ras-G-Open-Mike-Eagle-Warhorn. mp3
Genre:Other

Ride the Pace Like At 33 Dark Shades: Gangrene, Evidence & Roc C Throw Shade

Feb 6, 2:15pm The Passion of the Weiss
Ride the Pace Like At 33 Dark Shades: Gangrene, Evidence & Roc C Throw Shade Jonah Bromwich moves on to the year 3000. The knock on Gangrene is fair: the beats are mostly more interesting than the raps. The easy fix is Evidence, the slow-flow professional, who adds his pedigree to a beat which echoes the dank inter-workings of a futuristic factory - the slow-clanging and gurgles suggesting the mechanical movements that murderers move with. Evidence is in his element here. His sharp pronunciations rings out above the clamor, clearing the way for humanity amidst the dusty and dirty sounds - as though Pigpen [...]
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Artist:Gangrene
Title:Dark Shades
Link Text:Gangrene ft. Roc C & Evidence-”Dark Shades”
File Name:11-Dark-Shades.mp3

Son Raw: Araabmuzik – Vocal University

Feb 6, 5:00am The Passion of the Weiss
Son Raw: Araabmuzik – Vocal University Son Raw was bored so he made this. If aggregating Hulkshare links can be considered "making something." Newsflash: rap beats almost always sound better when emcees rap over them, so while Araabmuzik's Instrumental University may be of great interest to aspiring swag rappers from Harlem to Houston Street, there's not much there for the rest of us who enjoy hearing songs in their final form. That's a shame though because while Electronic Dream remains one of my favorite releases last year, there's a whole side of Araabmuzik's production that doesn't revolve around making [...]
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Artist:Styles P
Title:Ryde On Da Regular
Link Text:Styles-P - Ryde On Da Regular
File Name:04.-Ryde-On-Da-Regular.mp3
Genre:Hip-Hop
Year:2011
Artist:Vado
Title:Snapped
Link Text:Vado - Snapped
File Name:11-vado-snapped.mp3
Bitrate:159 kbps
Genre:Hip-Hop
Year:2010
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