OK, It seems I’m not the only one who tries to beat match Porno for Pyros with hip hop. Nick Catchdubs & Mr Ducker have got this out just in time for me to get all nostalgic in the sun on my ’stoop’ out front. God Bless these mans and their guilty pleasures! Les Claypool still kills anyone on the bass gat!
The mix features seemingly every single band that played Lollapalooza from ‘92-’96, or ended up on A Trip Compilation, not to mention every other band you liked in the ’90s, including Nirvana, Buthole Surfers, Body Count, Pavement, Beck, Meat Puppets, Sonic Youth, Beastie Boys, L7, Temple Of The Dog, The Breeders, A Tribe Called Quest, Dinosur Jr, and many more, as well as countless recognizable audio snippets from your favorite ’90s flicks/cartoons. Catchdubs says:
“Even with double digit-old tunes, Radio Friendly Unit Shifter feels right on time, connecting the dots between Sonic Youth breakbeats, weeded Lollapalooza rap, gloriously fuzzed-out one hit wonders and much more. No irony, no empty nostalgia, just a lot of music we love that shaped what we do today.“
Ok, I’m going through a bit of a backbacker/hip hop nerd phase again. I like all types of shit. I’m not even gonna break it down, but I love hip hop and I like to know where that sample came from. Ok maybe I am breaking it down!
10cc wrote most of those songs you knew all the words to as a kid and didn’t have a clue who it was. Come to think of it so did J Dilla. Pharcyde’s ‘Runnin’, ‘Vivrant Thing’ by Q-Tip, and De La’s ‘Stakes Is High’ were up there with ‘I’m Not In Love’, ‘Dreadlock Holiday’ and ‘Art For Arts Sake’ for classic tracks of their time.
Jay Dee had such a skill for digging it was scary. 2006’s Donuts was a mastepiece as far as raw sampling goes. The track ‘Workinonit’ took pieces of 1Occ’s ‘Worst Band In The World’ and ‘worked on it!’
I am not going to link ‘Workinonit’ because you are going to buy that shit innit. I am sure Dilla’s mum could still use the money! http://stonesthrow.com/catalog
Anyway, enjoy the mix, peop the 10cc video (here) and check out a current Top 10 from the one like Scratch 22
Scratch 22 - August Top 10
1 Orchestre Poly Rythmo - Gbeti Madjiro 2 Nina Simone - It Be’s That Way Sometime 3 Hopeton Lewis - Take It Easy 4 Can - Moonshake / Future Days 5 Mujava - Township Funk 6 Optymus Grime ft Billy Fluid - A Billy 7 Beck - Chemtrails / Gamma Ray 8 The Crazy World of Arthur Brown - Fire 9 Sigur Ros - Gobbledigook 10 Sun Ra - Sleeping Beauty
Murs’s Warner Bros album ‘Murs For President’ is due out later this year. Expect a bit of everything including the Rick Rock produced hyphy joint ‘Dreadlocks’. Until then though hold tight with this 3rd edition of the Murs/9th Wonder partnership.
The new Girl Talk album came out last week. Though I haven’t had a good listen, I think GT is the master of his craft. + if you are straight outta locash you can pick it up for FREE!!!
So here’s the deal: “any price grants the download of the entire album as high-quality 320kbps mp3s, $5 or more adds the options of FLAC files, plus a one-file seamless mix of the album, $10 or more includes all of the above + a packaged CD (when it becomes available).”
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