All the chains have been disassembled and the hooks have been exported to Tunisia and sold off for, like, pennies per pound. I poured gasoline all over all of the roofs and you are holding the match. The match is the download button for this mix.
You have been warned.
This mix is broken into 3 nondistinct parts.
1. Rap. Some of this is what might be called ‘trap rap’ which is rap whose production has some trappy characteristics. See below.
2. Trap. aka music that will make your neighbours hate you and may cause one or two of your buttocks to involuntarily quake. Trap music is a genre that replaces vocal melodies with screwed up vocal samples and instrumentation with obnoxiously loud, frantic drum machine beats. It is the worst. Thankfully the songs are generally pretty short.
2.5 Garage/2step/UK Funky/African rhythms that are like Trap’s less annoying cousin, and generally more funky and less directly right in your face. There’s even some Cuban piano dubstep kinda bullshit in there.
3. House. Or techno. Or whatever. I don’t fucking care. Still no verse/chorus/vocal normalcy, but some of this is actually downright cheery and sounds like spring has sprung (it has, fwiw). If you make it this far, congrats… that’s fairly stellar of you.
Kendrick Lamar / Look Out for Detox (Freestyle) (2010)
Ace Hood / December 31st / Starvation II (2013)
Kanye West / Mercy (feat. Big Sean, Pusha T & 2 Chainz) / Mercy (2012)
A$AP Rocky / Goldie / Long.Live.A$AP (2013)
Hudson Mohawke / Overnight / Polyfolk Dance EP (2009)
Flosstradamus / UNDERGR☢UND ANTHEM (2012)
Baauer / Harlem Shake (2012)
TNGHT / Higher Ground / TNGHT EP (2012)
Melé / Gold Casio / Melé Vanelé Vol 1 (2012)
ƱZ x CRNKN / Booty 2 The Ground / Balltrap Muzic: Vol. 1 (2013)
BRANKO / Going In Hard (feat. Dominique Young Unique) (2012)
His Majesty Andre / Dry Tool (Elisa Bee “Crazy Sisters” Bootleg) (2012)
Okmalumkoolkat / Boomslang / (2010)
LV / Nothing Like Us (feat. Ruffest) / Sebenza (2012)
Randomer / Zabu / Be Electric (2010)
Bookworms / African Rhythms / Love Triangles (2012)
Mala / Mulata / Mala in Cuba (2012)
MMM / MMM Meets Tshetsha Boys / Shangaan Shake (2012)
Kidnap Kid / Vehl / Alphaville EP (2012)
Julio Bashmore / Au Seve (2012)
Andrés / New For U (2012)
Wiley / Heatwave (feat. Ms D) (DEVolution Extended Mix) (2012)
Anthony “Shake” Shakir / Plugged In / Frictionalism (2009)
Daphni / Yes, I Know / Jiaolong (2012)
Pepe Deluxé / A Night and a Day / Queen of the Wave (2012)
some jazzy soulful kinda stuff off the top, echoing off into some creepier fare – like if you could dance to a nightmare, then waking into some glistening dancepop, with a bit of soul. This one’s a keeper, folks.
Jose James / Warrior / Blackmagic (2009)
Bobby Womack / Please Forgive My Heart (Funk Version) / The Bravest Man In the Universe Single (2012)
Perfume Genius / Hood / Put Your Back N 2 It (2012)
Call me Casey Kasem. These here tunes are downright high-energy! catchy! melodic! mostly-with-vocals! spunky! accessible! (except for the darker, more intense kinda stuff grooving at the beginning, the extended “electronic techno type” tunes in the middle, and the end is poppy… but it’s art poppy.)
Slick and colourful, smooth and upbeat, catchy and warm : magnetic orange.
Jamie Lidell / What A Shame / Jamie Lidell (2013)
Kendrick Lamar / M.A.A.D City (Feat. MC Eiht) / Good Kid M.A.A.D City (2012)
Black Devil / We Never Fly Away Again / Disco Club (1978)
Hip to the hop to the women spitting fire, to the grimy indie NY, hi concept trippin’, waxing political over smooth soulful grooves, harsh or melodic, driving hard and fast, drug dealing and inhaling, jailing, banging bangers and introspective next level mind bending horny bullishittt. Sexy, dangerous and sometimes weird.
And you don’t stop.
And some idiot said that hip hop is dead. And some fools think all hip hop sounds the same. For your listening pleasure: 28 examples of why this game is just starting.
It’s autumn. Falling leaves brush guitar strings as some hippy sings about his bursting heart. twank twank twank. OH GAWD I CAN HAS EMOTIONS. Good for you!(?). It starts to rain and the wind turns cold. Cloud grey, dying leaf yellow, deadleaf rot brown. Misery, hope and ennui. Together in this slow dance of tired metaphors (<-- laaaame). AKA. Autumn birthed folk music and that mmm deep feeling of suspended nostalgia and disembodied sadness.
A lot of songs on parade here that have been in the queue for a long time (Yea, I got a queue of songa waiting for their time to shine. It goes back 5 years, and not as much has been coming out of it lately; you could say there was a bit of a blockage, but please don’t).
A bit of a gamut, but mostly I think you could call it electronica and indie pop/rock.
Warsaw Village Band / 1,5 H / Infinity (2008)
Kno / The New Day (Death Has No Meaning) / Death Is Silent (2010)
Jessie Ware / Wildest Moments / Devotion (2012)
Cults / Walk At Night / Cults (2011)
CFCF / You Hear Colours / Continent (2009)
Pariah / Railroad / Safehouses EP (2010)
The KLF / Wichita Lineman Was A Song I Once Heard / Chill Out (1990)
Twin Shadow / When The Movie’s Over / Confess (2012)
Matthew Dear / Her Fantasy / Beams (2012)
Menomena / Pique / Moms (2012)
The New Pornographers / Crash Years / Together (2010)
Owen Pallett / E Is for Estranged / Heartland (2010)
Arcade Fire / Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains) / The Suburbs (2010)
Brian Eno / Under Stars / Apollo: Atmospheres & Soundtracks (1983)
Burial / Ashtray Wasp / Street Halo Kindred (2012)
As far as invalidating genres, there’s two types of rather divergent ‘garage’ music on here. Mostly though it’s a half of dubby techno and a half of darkish hip hop bookended by proto and posto punkishness. The overall feeling is a bit heavy and unnerving. In a good way of course.
Special shout out to Clams Casino for his production on ‘The Fall’ (and a number of tracks in previous episodes), El-P for his production on Untitled and all of the fantastic R.A.P. Music (and his own track two songs later), and Suicide for showing up to do the original version of the song Neneh Cherry and The Thing covered last time.
Monks / Monk Time / Black Monks Time (1966)
Big Black / Bad Penny / Songs About Fucking (1987)
Porter Ricks / Nautical Dub / Biokinetics (1996)
Cut Hands / Impassion / Afro Noise I (2011)
Sandwell District / Falling The Same Way / Feed Forward (2011)
Ramadanman / Don’t Change for Me / Ramadanman EP (2010)
Instra:mental / Watching You / Single (2009)
Engage / Helium / The Future Sound Of Russia (2009)
Scuba / July / Personality (2012)
The Weeknd / The Fall / Echoes Of Silence / (2011)
Killer Mike / Untitled (Feat. Scar) / R.A.P. Music (2012)
Aesop Rock / Zero Dark Thirty / Skelethon (2012)
El-P / Drones Over Bklyn / Cancer For Cure (2012)
Shabazz Palaces / Swerve… The reeping of all that is worthwhile (Noir not withstanding) / Black Up (2011)
Dr. Octagon / Blue Flowers / Dr. Octagonecologyst (1996)
Freddie Gibbs / National Anthem (Fuck The World) / Str8 Killa EP (2010)
Suicide / Dream Baby Dream / Single (1979)
The Horrors / Sea Within A Sea / Primary Colours (2009)
Just think about the title intently as you listen to each song on this. It will all eventually make sense. No. Not that.
Highlights include: Damon finally pulls out the Mingus, real good groovin’, 2 very hard to beat covers right in a row after the dead boy, plus Dr John’s latest album is everything I could ask for.
Erykah Badu / Window Seat / New Amerykah Part Two (Return of the Ankh) (2010)
Chet Faker / Terms and Conditions / Thinking In Textures (2012)
Freestyle Fellowship / Park Bench People / Innercity Griots (1993)
Charles Mingus / Group Dancers / The Black Saint & The Sinner Lady (1963)
Miles Davis / All Blues / Kind of Blue (1959)
Machine Drum / She Died There / Room(s) (2011)
XXXY / I Know This (Can’t Be Love) / Everything EP (2012)
MJ Cole / Sincere (Re-Cue’d) / Sincere (2006)
Cooly G / Landscapes / Playin Me (2012)
Disclosure / What’s In Your Head / The Face EP (2012)
Maceo Plex / Can’t Leave You (Original Mix) / Sweating Tears EP (2011)
Deadboy / Wish U Were Here / Here (2011)
CFCF / Exercise #5 (September) / Exercise (2012)
Neneh Cherry & The Thing / Dream Baby Dream / The Cherry Thing (2012)
Dr. John / Big Shot / Locked Down (2012)
The Music Machine / Talk Talk / (Turn On) The Music Machine (1966)