MEATY!!!

Today I'm gonna make an effort to beef this bastard up with less fluff and more stuff.

Translation: Here's a fat gaggle of mp3s.

I'm going full on menagerie mode here. Genre's are just a crutch for the weak. Now get to getting.

Hot Chip-Colours

Hot Chip-The Warning

Normally, I am kinda flabbergasted by how hard people dickride everything the DFA do. However, I gotta give them respect for swooping on Hot Chip and giving them the coveted James Murphy nod of approval. These nutty little English dudes are making some fucking SONGS and they are crazy original. There's some electro, some dance, some idm, but the key component is just really really awesome melodies and lyrics. Their new album, The Warning, is similiar to their debut, Coming On Strong, just a little more polished, and a little bit DFA-ified. I love the single, boy from school, but it's actually their goofy/sweet shit that really does it for me. Colours and The Warning, for example, are mad tender, even if the chorus on the latter is "hot chip will break your legs, snap off your head". Sensitive thug's take notice.

PS Shining Escalade (off their first album) is the bizness. The tenderest of all thuggage.

DJ Shadow-This Time (I'm gonna try it my way)

From his forthcoming album, The Outsider, this one isn't all hyphy like 3 freaks or that David Banner song. It's actually a really authentic sounding soul jam with some soaring strings plucked straight outta Marvin Gaye or Bobby Womack's arsenal. Super shitty mp3 quality though, but it should be enough to wet your whistle for the album.

Bronx River Parkway- Nora Se Va

Jackie Mitoo- Black Organ

Some more badass old shit. The first is a sick latin jam and the second is some dope roots reggae.

Brookville-Nothings Meant to Last

This song is pretty soft but whatevs...I dig the lounge tropicalia and that chicks voice in the chorus.

Jamie Lidell-What's the use (Mocky Remix)

Best song off the otherwise mediocre remix album, Multiply Additions. Stick to the original Multiply. It's pretty timeless and amazing.

Dabrye- Encoded Flow

I was anticipating Two/Three pretty heavily. While it doesn't quite live up to my (really high) expectations, when it does hit, it hits hard. This beat sounds something like listening to an Apache helicopter stalling while being swallowed in a pit of quicksand. Meanwhile, back on the surface, newcomer Kadence spits the cold, hard factual. It's the type of track that should make El-P and Co. wanna step their game up (or at least sign Kadence). Bleak Futurism at it's finest.

Dabrye-Air (featuring MF DOOM) (Remix by 100dbs)

The homey 100dbs snagged DOOM's verse from Air a little while back and whipped up this headnodder. If you ask me it's even better than Dabrye's version. It's featured on his new album, Brenner's Breaks, which should be dropping very shortly. You can also download his ridiculously good Black Album Remix project, the Argyle Album, on his page. Dude is sampling the Cure, Modest Mouse, Aphex Twin, all kinds, putting the Grey Album to shame. Expect big things from this guy in the future.

tstewart- A World Generated Every Answer Ever for All To Know

Known primarily as machinedrum, Travis Stewart proves on his latest outing, Living Exponentially, that he's much more than Prefuse 73-lite. His work as tstewart shows that his compositions have progressed significantly in complexity and scope. This track has a live jazz feel, with subtle strands of idm and hip hop woven through it. I bet you could slap Four Tet's name on this and people would eat it up. Point being, this kid deserves more shine. Also, the Machinedrum remix album, Mergerz and Acquistionz, is surprisingly good. You'll be hearing tracks from it shortly when I finish (PLUG!) Random Access Melodies.

Drumcorps- Grist

May seem a little to generic-deathmetal-meets-electronics at first, but at about the two minute mark, these gatling gun drums come careening out of the time-stretched oblivion and the next thing you know, the walls are painted with the remnants of your melted brain. Yeah, no you've got it, your face exploded because that shit was so fucking hardball. And even though the last thing you thought was "but I don't even really like metal", the epic stadium riffs that are unleashed henceforth demand that your headless corpse throw up "the horns" and start wriggling like an epileptic. I hear Satan is so impressed by this shit that he actually gives you a minute after the song ends to let it all just soak in before he devours your everlasting soul. Full length album coming in September.

Metronomy- You Could Easily Have Me

Post Punk Munster's theme song? You tell me. Alls I know is that if I ever made a hardcore haunted house, this song would be playing on loop in every squatter-filled room.

Plastic Little- I'm not a Thug

Best opening skit for a rap song ever.

David Shrigley-Dont's

A dash of the twisted, delivered with that deadpan british wit.

Caribou- The Snow Capes

Caribou had a tour cd he made while touring around promoting the Milk of Human Kindness last year. I thought it was almost better than the real album. Here's a nice blurry downtempo number.

Pepe Deluxe-Real Simple

One from the archives (meaning 2003: not new, but not old enough to be "rediscovered"). Still, an overlooked gem in my opinion. A lazy downtempo track with some nice wispy vocals.



Hmmm, yep.

The gamut has definately been run.