A new mix under my new DJ name of lightsdownmusicup, for those of us who just wanna dance. MP3: lightsdownmusicup - soyouthinkyouknowelectro (2008) Bookmarkz
ok, so its been a long time since the last post for which I apologize, just kinda lost steam. I have been checking the traffic stream though and am somewhat suprised to see that people were actually reading this thing. Anyway, 'cause I've been gone so long, I gotta come back with a track that will just kick ass. So here it is, an absolute classic. Dreamer G's "I Got That Feelin'" produced by house legend, Kerri Chandler. This is my own vinyl rip, but you can get the song on a compilation CD called "10 [...]
Sorry for the lack of posts. Promise some more once I get back into the swing of things. Anyway, this is a reblog from rock the dub featuring some of the best of the golden age of hip-hop. DJ Ayer's goes back to 1994 and brings back some of the best hip-hop ever produced. Check out the rest of DJ Ayer's "The rub" series, they're all pretty much phenomenal, this guy know's his shit. Tracklist 1. Craig Mack f. Notorious B.I.G. & Busta Rhymes – Flava in Ya [...]
Last night I was lucky enough to see Shadow and Cut Chemist perform "The Hard Sell" the third in their series of 45 endevours. Amazing as you could guess, one of the high-lights was a giligan's island vs. stairway to heaven track that blew everybody's mind. Its nice to see shadow still doing b-boys stuff after "the outsider". heres a video i shot of a little intro movie they did which explains the concept of "The Hard Sell" check the links below to buy the CD. [...]
Topper Headon got up and played "Should I stay or should i go" and "train in vain" with carbon/silicon (Mick's band). Apparently its been 25 years since the two were on stage together. RIP strummer. read an article here also, dare i say, best interview ever?
So I just picked this up in the "dubstep" section of a record store. putting the needle on the record I was kinda dissapointed until I got to the end of side B. sure, it's not dubstep, but DAAAAAAYYYYYYUUUUUUMMMMMMMMM it was funky. and with a cover like that how can you lose? enjoy MP3: OI BERLIN, THIS IS LONDON (Jesse Rose Garage Dub) [...]
while it was released in 2006, I was still listening to it well into this year. Faithless's Rennaissance Mix CD's were filled with some of my favorite, and new favorite tracks. Probably the best of these being LSK's "the takeover". While I do have the album, unfortunately this is really the only standout track. enjoy MP3: LSK - The Takeover (2003) [...]
While this is probably one of the most absurd songs ever made, damn is it catchy. support/links: Buy all the mixes on iTunes Bookmarkz
time for some serious soul-searching. With every other blogger putting out top-ten lists of their top albums from 2007, I'm going to mix up the formula a bit. So the next several posts will be songs that were played far too much on my stereo this year, weather they were released in 2007 or not. #1, Joy Division. Transmission. With the movie "Control" I went on a Joy Division kick I still haven't gotten out of, and hopefully won't for a while. I hoping to do a remix sometime soon. [...]
Despite having Daft Punk on the cover (please tell me i'm not the only one who's sick of hearing about them?), i picked up the latest Clash Magazine in my never ending search to fine a replacement for The Face . Suprisingly, the included CD entitled "Ones To Watch" was a very nice suprise. Included on it was this track TTTicTicTac by Marbert Rocel. It's a nice blend of acoustic guitar, with a slow house beat and a beautiful female vocal. Its a nice break from the glitch-fest that is the "latest and greatest". [...]
going in kinda in the same musical vein as the last post... Another find, a while ago actually, from one of my favorite music blogs, Analog Giant . Elliot Lipp. I'd heard the name before but never heard a track. Thanks to that blog though I did, and fell in love. He's a pretty easy man to find on google so i wont bore you with details. Suffice it to say that he's my new RJD2 replacement after RJ's last album which didn't really hit the spot with me. [...]
Found this in the local record shop this weekend. Straight up dark, electronic, and funky with a real analog feel to it. MP3: A1 People - No One Likes A Smartarse (2005) support/links: Official A1 People website A1 People on itunes [...]
I've never really been one for the holidays, and dubstep seems like a delightful genre of music to put on the headphones during the holiday travels and smirk gleefully at how cool and underground you are while all the other idiots in the airport are listening to britney spears. Am I right? anyway, november brought us not only albums from two of the biggest dubstep producers, Burial and Boxcutter, but also the amazing compilation for soul jazz records, "Box Of Dub 2". This is basically a who's who of dubstep and its phenomenal. Really [...]
Dunno why but I was in the jungle mood today, and you shall reap the benefits. While I'm not usually the biggest fan of artists purposefully misspelling their names, one of the exceptions I make is for early rave/jungle duo Altern8. Starting in '89 and breaking up in '93 these lucky bastards got to see the unfolding of the UK rave scene while putting out a couple of albums with a handful of singles that got some chart attention. Secondly I'll throw in a Prodigy song. I'm sure that [...]
Quite a while ago i was digging and found this white label which just said "the end" on it. Thinking it was either some Door's remixes or a promo from end recordings i decided to lay down two bucks and see what i was gonna get. Putting the needle on gave me a thumping straight up acid techno tune that sounded straight outta detroit. looking up the serial number on the record i found i had come across a promo copy of "The End" by Circuit Breaker (aka Richie Hawtin) on Hawtin's short lived lable Probe [...]
So quite a while ago, a month or two there was quite the uproar in the blogosphere about Zach De La Rocha's solo album and when it was gonna come out. Someone compiled a mixtape of all the stuff that Zach has done solo called Keep It Zipped. . I was little surprised though to see that there was no mention of Zach's first musical venture, Inside Out . So here I am to fill the void. They only released one e.p. once as a 7" and once as a tape apparently. So here's [...]
Where to start with this i'm not quite sure. Checking out this month's Wire magazine i was shocked, shocked i say, to see such old timers on the cover as Underground Resistance. For those that don't know UR, Underground Resistance is a label/collective of mainly techno artists thats been around about as long as i have. I can't recall the first time i heard a UR track, but i remember being struck by it's ability to convey such a sense of revolution in a lyric-less song. Its pretty much the purest techno your gonna get. Driving, flashing, in [...]
Once again, inspiration comes from others. Imitation is the most sincere form of flattery, right? So a couple of months ago one of my favorite mp3 blogs, analog giant , posted a live set from Prefuse 73 . Now i'm not the biggest fan, but this liveset really hit the right spot. Perfect blend of abstract and head bobbing, electronic and hip-hop, just right. There was one song that came on about 2/3rd's of the way through the mix that i just couldn't get out of my head, kept on fastforwarding in itunes to get the song. It [...]
So a couple of weeks ago I was cruising around on my usual mp3 blogs (I forget which one, but it's somewhere on the right) and found this Youtube video . After listening to it about a hundred times I decided to actually buy the single and now its pretty much a regular in my room. Anyway, this song is pretty much a precursor to the current dubstep sound that has been dominating my head. Organic, but still has a new-age electronic feel. Enough talk, tune time. [...]
acid & bass
No Church In The Wild
Nas - Daughters
The Rains of Castamere by The National
CHROMATICS "THESE STREETS WILL NEVER LOOK THE SAME"
DIIV "How Long Have You Known?" (OFFICIAL VIDEO)
[LISTEN] Gotye (Passion Pit Remix)
Big Boi & Theophilus London (feat. TRE LUCE) - 'She Said OK'
