Thursday

DOMO GENESIS x HODGY BEATS

They're sounding like two different versions of early Eminem (which is not a bad thing),
Hodgy's voice is cracking at the end. Are they giving into the Wu comparisons?
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Despite this being probably the most normal rap song to come from the Odd Future crew...
This is all very strange.
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Tuesday

MAIN ATTRAKIONZ

LAURENCE DEAN

Art Director: Ed Nottingham

Editor: Simon Bennett-Leyh

Camera: Andrew Nelson

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KANYE WEST'S FIRST BEATS

This is pretty crazy to hear.
You've got the groundwork for not only a lot of stuff he'd be releasing
on College Dropout but even Late Registration (compare Beat 2 with "Celebration").
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This feels like the point where he'd found his sound, and just needed the money
and all the connections he would soon have so he could become... Kanye West, basically.
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Monday

BIG K.R.I.T.

Coming from a cold province on the East coast of Canada,
I can confidently say I know nothing about "country shit".
At least not the kind that K.R.I.T. is rapping about.
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I've always been most interested in rap from the South.
Makes me think of soul food, which I also know very little about,
and having a grandmother who is more like a mother to you.
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Anyway. Big K.R.I.T.
New mixtape.
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If you've been following this guy, I can stop there.
If not, he really embodies all of those interesting qualities
of the South that I mentioned and more.
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Dungeon Family fans, David Banner fans,
fans of music with heart and soul and something to digest,
hop on board.
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ALLEY BOY

Friday

KATY B x MAGNETIC MAN

Lovin' this gal.
And wow what a big track.
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Thursday

BARE GIRLS

"SoB mix for Friends of Friends"

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1. B&Gs – Kitchen Mixer (Field Excerpt)
2. Mndsgn – Bananacase ft Knxwledge and Suzi Analogue
3. Dynooo – Tranch
4. heRobust – Shark Howard
5. B&Gs – Ziplock Pt I (Field Excerpt)
6. Oscar McClure – Grass Cuttings
7. Lapalux – Yellow 90′s
8. Groundislava – Panorama ft Weary
9. Monkey_sequence.19 – Are You Gonna Love Me
10. Knxwledge – Youneedme.Xtro
11. Cupp Cave – Talk Over
12. Cupp Cave – Discrete Mathematics
13. Morpheground – Supernova
14. Flying Lotus – Pet Monster Shotglass (DTCPU Microwave)
15. B&Gs – Belly Of The Bag (Field Excerpt)
16. Fur – Witches
17. Dimlite – Kalimba Deathswamp ft Kurt Feelings
18. Blank & Kytt – Ain’t Nothing Wrong
19. Shlohmo – Sippy Cup (DTCPU Microwave)
20. Samiyam – Lookin
21. Kuhn – Quiet Nights (+weed Version)
22. Olivier Daysoul – Labor (Duke Hugh Futuresoul Remix)
23. Wiseblood – 2 the Bitter End (K-Ci & Jo Jo Rework)
24. B&Gs – Chewy Kerb (Field Excerpt)
25. Sleep∞Over – Sun Spots

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CURREN$Y x NARDWUAR

He seems pretty accepting of Nardwuar's attitude until the end when

he just tries his hardest to get out of there for some reason.

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Why would you say "this is the best interview ever",

and then run away from the gifts he's showering you with?

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People confuse me.

Nonetheless, skrdrdrdrdr...

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GOLD PANDA

Another brilliant laptop artist with simple, brilliant ideas
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MIKE SLOTT

Some great sentiments on making music without really knowing anything about theory.

The process can be just as beautiful as a fully formed idea or product - if not more.

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Wednesday

LIL B x NARDWUAR

SO. ###RARE.
He shouts out 4chan.
Must... breathe.
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Tuesday

ODD FUTURE x NARDWUAR

"Ciara... She's tall as fuck!"
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CYMBALS

This song is definitely fun, but the video is moreso.
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P.M.E.R. x KONTRABAND

"On The Road" is labeled as some "light shit", but that guitar
is pretty intoxicating and heavy to my ears.
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The production is on point as usual and the laid back
delivery from them feels like Curren$y if his voice didn't
sound like my mom's, or Common if he understood rhythm.
(no shots...?)
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WARREN G x NATE DOGG

Discusses making "Regulate" in his bedroom,
sampling the audio from a VHS tape,
and Nate singing in his closet.
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Hits don't require money.
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Monday

ONE MINUTE PUBERTY

Written & animated by Alexander Gellner.
Track and sound design by Niklas A. Kröger.
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JAMES BLAKE

James Blake.
Live at SXSW.
Great video quality.
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PUSHA T

"When I realized I was gonna have to do this project on my own

and my brother wasn't gonna be by my side, I sort of felt the fear of God myself"

-Pusha T

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What do rappers, rap DJs, and rap bloggers have against using a good site to host their mixtapes on?

Fuck a Zshare - I'ma be a mediafire OG 'til the death of me.

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Anyway...

this - combined with The Weeknd's new album - single-handedly ruined

the music industry for me. As in, I don't want to buy music anymore, in the slightest.

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In fact, most of the shit I like right now on my Itunes, I got for free. Legally.

That's weird.

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Pusha T, "I Still Wanna" (ft. Rick Ross & Ab Liva) (MP3)

Pusha T, "Raid" (ft. 50 Cent & Pharrell Williams) (MP3)

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Pusha T, Fear of God (zip)

BLACKBIRD BLACKBIRD (live)

They'd be such a great act for your son's bar-mitzvah or something.

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NINE INCH NAILS (remastered)

Obligatory (to only me) NIN post.
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OM UNIT

Just getting all this dancey shit out of my system

before I post/listen to Pusha T's new album in like 30 seconds.

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APHEX TWIN (live)

SKREAM

Sunday

THE WEEKND (mp3 + new album)

Jesus, speaking of automatic posts.
I haven't even finished downloading this album,
which dropped like five hours ago, but I know already
I'm going to be playing this for the next few months to come.
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I've posted about The Weeknd before, and come tomorrow,
so will your favorite blogs, if they're worth their salt.
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DIDDY x LIL B

Automatic post.
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M83 is perfect intro music but that shit drags on.
And he definitely should've opened on a more upbeat note.
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Nonetheless... Swag.
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MONO/POLY

Superfluous hyphens and other devices are the first things that worry me
when I'm about to listen to a new artist. You know, you find so many
artists with them nowadays on your blogs that you begin to expect
the same tape hiss and crappy drum loops, yet you keep clicking.
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Mono/poly's music is so refreshing, you can put a triangle in your name,
a cross, surround every letter with a period, capitalize it all.
I won't mind.
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Mono/poly's sound - the description is going to be redundant if
you read a lot of indie music blogs - comes off as Samiyam-y,
off-kilter drums, glossy synths and shell shock bass (also synthesized).
It's Flying Lotus-y, which would explain his new album, Manifestations,
coming out on FlyLo's label Brainfeeder. It all makes perfect sense.
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Anyway, just promise to listen until the bass comes in.
Promise, okay?
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Saturday

MIKE G

Most underrated of Odd Future, probably will always to be.
He just sits there thinking while the rest of them are breaking things.
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Produced by Left Brain, expect it on the new Mike G album, Gold.
Also, just realized, the sound quality on his songs are muuuch better than on all the other
Odd Future releases. What's going on here? Who's mixing? Is Syd the only one engineering?
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Wednesday

YOUNG L

Dude always just sounds constipated to me.
But his production is always and forever undeniable.
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THOM YORKE x LOW END THEORY

All Thom Yorke Everything.
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THOM YORKE x BURIAL x FOUR TET

If you now don't believe there is a music god,
I find your lack of faith disturbing.
The pianooo near the end of Ego.
Damn.
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Think I'm more excited about these two songs than the entirety of The King of Limbs.
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Tuesday

TRIM x JAMES BLAKE (HARMONIMIX)

Was it in Vicky Cristina Barcelona where an old man gets back at the world
by making the most beautiful poetry and not sharing it with anyone?
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That's like this, except with "post-dubstep" remixes.
Release this, please, James Blake.
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KLAUS

If you have an MP3 of this... I'll do weird, kinky things for it.
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MOHAMED HANIFF

I wish I could control this skepticism I feel when I get MP3 submissions.

Really love getting them, but when I wake up with some in my inbox,

part of me feels worried I might have to send a "sorry" reply.

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I don't know where Mohamed Haniff's music lies exactly, in terms of genres,

but he definitely won't be getting that kind of email back.

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It's probably the sunniest day it's been here in Halifax since before the winter season kicked in.

The Climate Change EP is playing off this pretty well, but it's not something I'd go out

into the world and listen to - I'm much more content just sitting in my living room,

near the windows, looking at how nice it is outside. Not that it's not active listening music,

but I'd prefer to let it enhance what I'm seeing and thinking about,

not necessarily experiencing or feeling first-hand.

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In terms of the actual tracks, I can't tell what they make me want to do more:

play Chrono Trigger or get dressed up for the nearest ball.

There could be some video game influence here,

there could be some jazz influence,

there could even be some lounge influence -

it's really hard to say. I just know that it's good 10AM music -

nothing to slap you in the face before the world does.

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Haniff's also from Barbados, studying in Ottawa right now...

which is only another factor in making this music (and how it came to be) all the more confusing.

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Monday

ARAABMUZIK

I still cry a little when I realize I missed the

Hudson Mohawke x Araabmuzik x Just Blaze show.

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Unforgivable.

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ZOMBY (live)

ACTRESS

Dude sampled the drums from the band that played before his set.

Creativity exists in laptop music, fuck the haters.

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Saturday

Jessie Ware x Katy B

These English birds, man. I'm tellin' ya.
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ODD FUTURE x NEPTUNES x BEYONCE

They are taking over the world.
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Friday

LIL B

AraabMUZIK

Dipset's current shining star kills it on the MPC, as he does.
That White Stripes sample is brilliant. He uses stuff that seems obvious,
yet you'd never think of it in a million years. When you're hunting for samples
you're usually not flipping through your white boy rock CDs for inspiration.
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But Araab is.
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Tuesday

JAY ELECTRONICA

Let's hope Act II drops some time in 2011.
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Wednesday

SQUADDA B

If you're not riding the Squadda wave, what the fuck are you doing with your life?
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E-40 x STRESSMATIC


Tuesday

LUNICE

Lunice is the fucking Iron Chef.
Like, Gordon Ramsey-status chefery going on here.
Kenny G, Lil B, non-dancing to percussionless music on a boat swag.
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TORO Y MOI x TYLER THE CREATOR

No words. Perfect. Swag.
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HOPSIN