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• Lykke Li - Little Bit (Loving Hand Remix)
• Lovelock - Don’t Turn Away (From My Love)

New Soca mix from DoubleL & El Professor. I just got done listening to the mp3 mix and it’s good. It nicely spans the range from “happy soca” to more reggae-ish heavy tunes.

Can’t wait for the CD to show up.

More information (including samples) at These Rocks Pop.

This original record is stupid rare. I had one copy two years ago, burned it to a CD, and sold it to some Limey shitbox for $250 thinking I really got over. A couple weeks ago I see it going for $877 on eBay. Fuck. By now you know Peter Brown produced a million records in the late 70s that all sound basically the same, but I guess people really sweat this one as a more standard disco affair- nice clean horn arrangements and some top of the cry baby wah guitar. None of that dusted out warbly synth action, which to me is actually the best thing about his records. Either way, I can only imagine what this does to a British dancefloor. Probably a fucking tornado of arms and teeth and fingernails. Sometimes I really wonder why it takes some across the pond dudes to sweat shit like this. It must be that organ all high in the mix. Hammond disco groover, mate. Chune caning status to the maximum, bro. Wait, I forgot my little black glasses, close-cropped balding-disguise haircut, raw denim jacket and Bapestas back at the flat. I guarantee you I could play this for just about any NYC DJ and tell them it was a $900 record and they’d look at me like fish guts were oozing out of my mouth. But for 2 bucks, reclaim this shit on some reverse imperialism, and play it at a little bar weekly while you go take a shit.

God bless you Bob Bannister, and your Turntable Lab review.

You waited and waited and waited… now go get it!

Wale: A Mixtape about Nothing

It should take you less than 2 seconds.

Edwin Birdsong - Cola Bottle Baby

Rob tried to comment got both a rejection by WP-IDS and a nice PHP error message about missing paths. Woo boy.

The error was probably caused by a configuration error that I think I fixed. But I’ve got no idea why the comment was rejected in the first place.

If the same thing happens to me let me know and I’ll try to fix things.

I mentioned Lamaraba, but here’s where I hear about most of my other tunes:

• Disco-not-disco: Indie, hipster, electro
• Discobelle: ditto
• First Up: same (ignore the obnoxious HTML)
• Palms out: same but with awesome remix collections
• These rocks pop: same
• Mad Decent tracks: more electic
• Lamaraba: All the left-field awesome you need
• The Smoking Section: hip-hop!
• The TTL daily: no mp3, just good reviews of what’s hot
• Boomkat weekly: get your music with a side of electro, noise and IDM

The ever-awesome Lamaraba comes through with Girls With Attitude.

After stuffing my brains back in my head, all I can say is: The girls have trouble staying on beat, but that’s understandable because the beat was apparently made on a very, very ill Casio. I listened to it twice, it’s that much of a train wreck.

I know they’re only 12 or whatever, so… well whatever. It sure makes me think that Another Bad Creation was pretty damn good. Check out that beat on Iesha [Youtube].

And it’s more confirmation that The Wilcannia Mob are freakin’ geniuses.

Wilcannia Mob - Downriver

And while we’re talking about kids…

When I first heard Hear It Races I thought the lyrics were saying “hot and racist”.

Since Wordpress 2.3 added support for tags, I’ve moved my old categories to tags and created some new ones:

Cycling

Info about bikes

LOTD

Link of the day

Misc

Everything else

Music

Chunes

Programming

Computer related

Categories will be stable and let you filter down to the posts you care about. So if you find yourself saying “cygwho?”, maybe Programming isn’t for you.

The plan is to add some display of tags later. But man, tag clouds sure are ugly.

Implementation

Moving the categories around wasn’t too bad using the built-in cat2tag and Rob Miller’s Batch Categories plugin.

Due to continued space and power constraints in our primary data center,
we will be moving the “randy” cluster to one of our newer data centers.
This move will begin Friday, February 8, at 10PM PST, and is expected to
last up to 8 hours, until Saturday, February 9, 6AM PST. All web servers,
mail servers, file servers, and MySQL servers in the randy cluster will be
unreachable during this time.

Fear not, loyal readers! It is only 8 hours.

New Re-Up Gang mixtape!

It’s good.

Folksy covers of gangsta rap. Way to take NWA’s stories of ghetto life and destroy them. I’m sure your suburban Jersey childhood has given you an understanding of Compton.

Beatport has the exclusive MP3 release of Radio Slave’s Bell Clap Dance.

The site has lots of problems. It’s flash based so you can’t open up lots of Firefox links. You can’t deep link or bookmark pages. Doing certain searches will reload the page and stop playing the audio samples. The interface is too cluttered.

And it’s slow. There’s lots of loading, and it’s only NaN % done? At this rate it’s going to take INF!

The best song from Dixon’s Body Language 4 mix is available on 12″!

1. In The City (Extended Version)
2. Ambient Strings
3. In The City (Zombie Vocal)
4. In The Headlites (Extended Version)
5. I’m On Fire (Crosstown)

Chromatics “In the City” is a beautiful slow disco number. Adam Miller plays guitar and Johnny Jewel (from Glass Candy, also a recent obsession since I got the Miss Broadway single) handles synths and production, but it’s Ruth Radelet’s smooth-as-Caffrey’s voice that’s the fatality.

Take a listen to the MP3:
A01 - Chromatics - In The City (Extended Version)

But I strongly recommend buying the single straight from Troubleman Unlimited. It’s only $9! And it’s got a smoking (pun intended) cover of Bruce Springsteen’s “I’m On Fire”.

PS: boring video, but:

• Bjork, Homogenic
• Wu-Tang Clan, Enter The Wu_Tang (36 Chambers)

1. Lou Reed, Transformer
2. Deathprod, boxed set (yes, the whole damn thing)
3. The Pogues, If I Should Fall From Grace With God
4. Clipse, Hell Hath No Fury
5. Gravediggaz, 6 Feet Deep
6. M.I.A., Kala
7. Miles Davis, Kind of Blue
8. Sebutones, 50/50 Where It Counts
9. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Nocturama
10. Sonic Youth, Dirty
11. Mogwai, Happy Songs For Happy People
12. Radiohead, Ok Computer
13. Velvet Underground, White Light/White Heat

By no means exhaustive.

• Cambrdige Audio Azur 540R v2
• Velodyne VRP-1000
• Optical digital cable for DVD Audio
• Speaker stands

(I’m much more excited by this than the radiohead album)

And the best Throw some D’s [youtube] remix award goes to Soulja Boy!*

Soulja Boy - Reportcard [mp3]

The rest of the album? Decent. The first mistake was putting “Sidekick”–whose lyrics made me laugh in the wrong way–after “Crank That”. The second is “Soulja Girl”, the ridiculous slow-jam track. Hideous, but someone must like it since they put out a video [youtube].

“Crank That” is of course the highlight. “Report Card” makes me laugh–the right way–so I give it thumbs up. “Yahhh!” also goes with the humor for the win.

Most of the rest is bounce with Soulja’s (I’m on a first name basis) mediocre lyrics about booties and money. Although these are two of my favorite things, hearing other people go on about them just makes me jealous. (Though speaking of booties I might have to get Casey a pair of these hot numbers).

Finally “Don’t Get Mad” is the slow introspective closer. The beat switches to a fake kick and some high synthy strings and Soulja Boy slows down and doesn’t rap about money & strippers. Towards the end a bunch of little kids come on the track to tell us how much they love Soulja Boy. It’s not a great song but it’s a good closer. +1

* Runner up goes to Kanye, mostly for the Lohan/Spears line and the video [youtube].