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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 Heart 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:
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 – Report Card

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].

Earn your hot electro wings: check out DJ Howler Monkey’s Crystal Caves mix.

Tracklist:

1. Magic spells – Crystal Castles
2. Make it Hott (crystal castles remix) – Uffie
3. Knights – Crystal Castles
4. Leni (crystal castles remix) – Goodbooks
5. Crimewave – Crystal Castles
6. Alice Practice – Crystal Castles
7. Atlantis to Interzone (crystal castles remix) – Klaxons
8. Divebomb (crystal castles remix) – The Whip
9. Trash rental (Crystal castles remix) – Soho Dolls
10. Hunting for Witches (Crystal castles remix) – Bloc Party
11. Lovers who Uncover (Crystal castles remix) – The Little Ones
12. It fit when I was a kid (crystal castles remix) – Liars

(full disclosure: I know howler monkey and he’s a good guy. But it’s still a really good mix)

Got an email from Grevious Angel today with a link to the latest Dubstep Sufferah mix. It’s really good. I haven’t been reading enough of Grevious Angel’s or Blackdown Soundboy‘s blogs to classify this as grime or dubstep or whatever, but it is definitely on the dark dub-reggae tinged side and not at all the neuvo-goth that the lab talks about.

I’m not sure if the link’s gone public, but grab the mix when it’s up.

Tracklist:

[00:00] Narcossist: No Love (CDR)
[03:36] Caspa: Homesick (CDR)
[04:24] DQ1: Gud Money (CDR – forthcoming on Tectonic)
[05:24] Kano: Mr Me Too (Kano Mixtape)
[10:43] Side 9000: Dhun (CDR)
[13:42] Massive Music: Find My Way (Kode 9 remix) (Hyperdub)
[16:52] TimeBlind: Copy Copy (Soot)
[18:31] Roll Deep: Celebrate (Rules and Regulations CD)
[21:28] DJ JSL: Coyote Dub (CDR) / Slew Dem: Bumbaclaat Badman
[23:19] Monochrome: Mine a Kill Dem (CDR)
[26:44] Narcossist: White Lotus (CDR) / Scare Dem Crew: Take Off
[30:18] Skream: Make Me (Tempa) / Timbaland & Magoo: Get Crunk / JME: Deadout / Caspa : LFO King (CDR)
[33:36] Cloaks: Dark (Version) (CDR) / Kano & Jammer: Tapout (Jah Mek The World The Classics Mixtape)
[37:40] Komonazmuk: Fear (CDR) / Roll Deep: Babylon Burners (Rules and Regulations CD)
[40:55] Coki: Tortured (Tempa) / Ruff Sqwad: Down (Gun and Roses Mixtape)
[43:44] Cloaks: Too On Top (CDR) / Trim: But I Still (Soul Food mixtape)
[47:17] Loefah: Voodoo (666) / Lord Finesse: Check the Method (DJ Premier Scratch Mix)
[52:20] Loefah: Natural Charge (Grievous Angel Edit) (CDR)
[56:40] Loefah: Disko Rekah (Deep Medi) / Cluekid & Cotti: Sensi Dub (White)
[59:41] Cluekid & Cotti: Flashback (White) / Ruff Sqwad: When Itz On (Guns and Roses Mixtape)
[63:07] Skream: Losing Control (Grievous Angel Edit) (Tempa)/ Trim: In the Ghetto (Soul Food Volume 1 Mixtape)
[65:28] Grievous Angel: Culture Killer (CDR) / Trim: Wot Part One (Soul Food Volume 1 Mixtape) / JME: 96 Bars of JME
[70:39] TRG Vs Selector DubU: Losing Marbles (CDR)
[73:37] Kode9: Magnetic City (Hyperdub)
[78:33] ENDS

Kaos – Panopeeps

…Or at least your Panopeeps single.

I don’t know enough about you or your other work to make much more of a judgment than that. But the low elastic synths, the delicate high-hat and the spacey tremolos had me happy. But oh when those stirring synth melodies started! They are the refined yet earnest evolution of the music from The Legend of Zelda. Indeed, the entire song made me feel like the hybrid child of Link and Megaman. And I was on a very important quest. And with that bouncy low end, it made me think it had something to do with Donkey Kong.

Keep up the good work!

Yours truly,
Dave

PS: The Shit Robot remix on the B side was also good, but nowhere near as great as your original.