Got a few items for you to rock in your iPod rotation (formerly Walkman) for the next few weeks so take a look, listen and get to know these great producers…
This dude really blew me away after getting the KILL SWITCH split with Doomtree’s Lazerbeak and seeing him last night open up (quite literally) the night for Busdriver and Aesop Rock in Oakland I had to throw a post up about him.
Also known as Cassettes Won’t Listen, DFault will be releasing an instrumentals collection called the Helsinki Beat Tape Part 1 on Daylight Curfew this summer. Get to know some of his earlier works with a track from his Ableton (yes the actual company) collaborative release ‘Greyscale’.
So the site has been remixed (literally just in time) and overhauled totally to make way for exciting new additions that I am sure to get slacking on updating immediately. First thing’s first I updated all the pages content so you can get a better idea of what I have been up to in the Live Events page, see AND hear all my newest remixes and tracks in the Producer & Remixer page. I spiffed up the Official Releases, Free Mixes and Podcasts page as well as condensed my Broadcast Show Archive to just one handy dandy page (no more blah show archive and this show archive) with sweet title headers for easy navigation. I changed much general aesthetic (why you gotta get all aestheticamalogical on me son?) of the site as well: new banner, fonts, background, etc. Lastly, and this is the biggest deal, I will start posting other people’s music on my site on a regular basis along with periodic album reviews (really this time not like when I started the site and ‘said’ I would). Please always feel free to comment on it! I think that’s about it for the overhaul news, thanks for checking the updated site and if you have any questions or whatnot <holler.@.your.boy>, you know where I beez.
New Ish for Your Earhole…
Hear is the first installment of other cats music on my site. This post is HUGE with something for everyone (well maybe not everyone; I don’t have country or jungle or symphonic music, but thanks for bringing it up…jerk) but, I will try to be posting 3-4 new tunes a week from now one. Up this week is tracks from Last Child, Dirty Vegas, Justice, Co$$, Hess is More, SBTRKT and more. Please click all the links an support these labels and artists. Peep game fool!
From the Amazing ‘Humble and Low’ EP which was recorded in early 2000’s but shelved until now. I remember to homie Haiku in Chicago playing it for me on tour about 4 years ago and being blown away by the incredibly poignant, forcful, and ultimately depressed his lyrics were. A TRU throwback to a bygone era in Hip-Hop history (ala Funcrusher Plus, Cannibal Ox, The Lucy Ford, etc.) where dusty breaks and well penned lyrics met on the regular. RIP Last Child. Available @ Galapago4.com, be on the looks for the G4 edition of Subways & Sidewalks verrrrry soon!
Voted ‘Most Underrated LA Rapper’ by the LA Times, Co$$ has been making a name for himself for a while now. Title title track from the 12″ EP is full of analytical flows over jazzy piano loops with a little twist to give it that West Coast flavor.
Jump off track from SBTRKT’s debut LP and it’s goooood! This one has been burning up my broadcast shows since I got it in the mail. Out now on Young Turks and you can peep SBTRKT’s site for more audio as well
Brand new track from stellar DJ/Producer from Scotland on Electro/Dubstep label from Amsterdam, Basserk. Really bouncey drums with that gritty synth you know and love. I just happened to have recently done a Podcast for the fellas as well which you can check out HERE…
New track from the BK now LA Transplant homie. Great music, plain and simple…taking that producer based indie rock to the next level. Also check the new collective he has formed with long time friend and collaborator Bisco Smith called Daylight Curfew as well as their group called The Freeze Tag. Be on the looks for The Freeze Tag Subways & Sidewalks coming out soon!
Lastly, I will be periodically posting videos that I am feeling or are throwbacks to my youth or whatever, it’s not going to be a regular thing just an add on to my site post every so often…This video is HILARIOUS, old skool MTV from the liquid television days (I still have the VHS compilation). Peace to my sister Rikki (who is a really stellar photographer and blogger) who found this video in the wilderness that is YouTube. Enjoy!
