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Ghostface feat. Pharoahe Monche - Metal Healthy Things This track is from a CD of bootleg remixes that came with some copies of Blockhead's (excellent) debut album . Ghost and Pharoahe are pretty much my personal dream team, so I was geeked to see this on the tracklist. Blockhead Omega One is best known for his production on Aesop Rock's albums, but he shows his versatility here. The beat is rugged as hell, a relentless bassline slithering under some absolutely filthy drums. Listen to it on your walkman while you beat up little [...]

Sorry if things have been a bit terse here lately. I have some stuff going on that's been cutting into my blogging time. I'll make it up to you soon, I promise. Ciara - Oh (Ghislain Poirer remix) RE-UP

Prefuse 73 Reads The Books - Pagina Cinco

I went to the Prefuse/Battles/Beans jumpoff last night, and it turned out to be the best show I've seen in a while. Fun crowd (except for the shirtless dude with marker writing all over his body who tried to sell me weed), and as a bonus for me, Cabaret is non-smoking now. Oh yeah, and the music was dope, too. I've never really liked Beans as a solo artist. His "hibbety hibbety hooblah" flow gets annoying really quickly when it's not offset by the other APC cats. However, at this show he shared the stage with four white [...]

I spent two days packing up and moving into a new apartment, which is just enough time to enter the early stages of internet withdrawl. Let me play catch-up... ? A-Trak feat. JR Writer, Hell Rell, and 40 Cal - Don't Fool With the Dips Get it here (or here ). Fresh off tour with Kanye West, Montreal's own A-Trak links up with Dipset . The result is that proverbial crack. Semi-related, does anyone have audio/video of a DJ juggling "Crunk Muzik?" T'would be ill, methinks. ? [...]