Ok time for another addition of some shit I ripped off from MTV. However these clips you may not have seen in between ‘The Bachelor 22′ or ‘School of Rock of Love’.
These 2 rappers are both from Brooklyn, New York. They are a few of the most consistent MCs that have been doing it since the late 90’s. ‘Society Is Brainwashed’ is from the new album ‘The Hour of Reprisal’. Ill Bill has gone back to a more Non Phixion sound which I’m sure most of his fans wouldn’t have a problem with. The clip is nice AND disturbing, and the beat is by DJ Premier!
‘Coffee’ by TheWeathmens, Aesop Rock is a collaboration with Mountain Goat, John Darnielle that appears on his most recent LP ‘None Shall Pass’. It’s some good ol grindhouse gore I tells ya.
Anyway, I like the videos. Stuff goes to the beat n stuff!
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.
Olwight, here is another 2 for Tuesday serving. These are some classic joints from Return to Forevers masterpiece Romantic Warrior. The performance is from The Old Grey Whistle Test in 1976.
Watch Chick Corea, Stanley Clarke and the rest of em turn it loose.
Good music is good music regardless of how it gets to you. Blogs are raped everyday for their free mp3s. Some artists are pretty much handing over their music for the slightest bit of recognition. Pop Will Eat Itself, It will. I’m feeling it first hand at my place of work….a record store.
Artists and Labels are adapting in different ways. Putting music on the internet has exposed artists music to the world allowing them to tour and sell merch etc from their websites. Living Legend rapper Murs advocates the old Napster days to the fullest.
The coolest shit I have seen by far is the free MP3s with a vinyl album. (MGMT are not only genius for their music!) People like more bang for the buck. A virtually inexpensive idea is keeping vinyl alive. I love it.
Another thing that brings a shred of hope to my eye is the upcoming album Rmxxology from Delicious Vinyl.
My first memory of Delicious Vinyl is a painting my dad did of the instantly recognizable label done up on an old piece of hardboard. He was always on some Pop Art/sign writing shit. I begged for it everytime I saw it. I just liked the look of it. He explained it was from the back of a cassette by his favourite rapper Young MC. Yes my dad has a favourite rapper.
He redrew the logo on some card. I made do till he finally gave in 6 years later. Score!
Delicious Vinyl is one of the longest-running independent labels in hip-hop history. It bought us Tone Loc, The Pharcyde, Masta Ace, Mellow Man Ace, Young MC, Dust Brothers, and J Dilla
Delicious Vinyl founder Mike Ross had an idea: Why not take old school classics and have today’s DJ’s remix them? “The time is right for new artists and producers to take a shot at these classic tracks,” says Ross
Such producers as Eminem, Diplo, Hot Chip, and Peaches have remixed classics by the Pharcyde, Masta Ace and Young MC for the album, which is currently available online and will be released physically on August 11. Some singles have already been pressed and are available now.
Ross said he wasn’t interested in re-molding any of the songs to fit into the mold of today’s hits. “I wanted to make alternative versions,” he said. “I did not want to make dance tracks.”
Ross hinted at the current trend in hip-hop in incorporate “electro-minimal” and disco beats into the songs. He described one remix –Fatlip’s take on “Passing me By” by Pharcyde, a group he used to be in, as an example of how the songs are being re-imagined artistically and not for purely commercial ends.
“It’s almost like a religious hymn, they stripped it down to bare vocals,” Ross said. “It’s like a church choir anthem.”
The remix album also marks the 20th anniversary of Delicious Vinyl. To celebrate the history of the label there will also be a bunch of tour dates with the DJ’s, most likely in the fall, Ross said.
They already have enough mixes for a second volume. “We’ll probably do one of these a year,” Ross confirmed.
Anyway this is my favourite from what I have heard so far. Certified Banger!!!!!!!!
Chances are you already know about this as The Bottleneck is a Fleet blog n all. Maybe not so….
Yes yes yes one more time Fleet FM ventures into the club with the second instalment of FLEETvsSLEEP happening at the DoubleZ Bar (just the right mix of dive and fire hazard…)
FOR YOUR LISTENING PLEASURE=>
The Saturday Sound of Fleet including:
Club Casualties, Super Heavy Pressings, and The Takeover!
The bar and music will be bubbling from 7pm, with a door charge of $5 kicking in at 9 so best to pick out your outfit the night before and take a couple minibar bottles of booze to work. Get surly early!
P.S. $5 jagers, 3 beers for $12 and the staff at FleetLabs are trying to come up with a cocktail worthy of the event.
YUSSSS….
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