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The FADER Issue 42: Vietnam, Mavado, Joanna Newsom, Carl Craig, Clubs Across America, Crystal Castles, Duece Tre Duece, Jim White, DJ Mehdi, B Real, Kardinal Offishall, Malajube, J Dilla, Jim Jones, Parisian Sapeurs

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• Vietnam
  No Frills, No Thrills
• Mavado
  Anyway!!!
• Joanna Newsom’s Ys
  Feathers, Fingers, Flowers
• Carl Craig
  Boogie Monster
• Clubs Across America
  Show’s Over
• GEN F
  Crystal Castles / Duece Tre Duece / Jim White / DJ Mehdi / B-Real / Kardinal Offishall / Malajube

• posted on Nov 15, 2006 in The FADER, podcasts pdf tags

Homemade Psychedelics

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The latest edition of The FADER is finally hitting fine newstands everywhere – and as per usual, we’ve got a PDF version available for instant download into your grubby likkle computerized hands. For the last issue of 2006, we take heavy trips into the spaced-out dancehall of Mavado and the BK scuzzrock of Vietnam, get Deanne Cheuk to illustrate Joanna Newsom lyrics, explore Carl Craig’s drum-warped psyche, listen to J Dilla’s collaborators celebrate the master, and generally shine our love light on the latest and greatest in music and beyond. It’s a good one! Get the issue on iTunes, or subscribe via yr favorite RSS reader here. Download the individual F42 full-issue PDF here. Our DJ-mixed podcast of music from the new issue is coming next week, so try and stay focused until then…

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• posted on Nov 15, 2006 in MUSIC tags

Big Time

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Taking a page from the Def Jam playbook (no, really!) Drag City is flooding the fourth quarter with jams that we can’t say enough about. Just yesterday, Chicago’s finest released new albums by Joanna Newsom and White Magic, a new Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy 12″ and a new EP from Mayo Thompson’s the Red Krayola. Shiiiiiit that’s a lot of jams.

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• posted on Nov 15, 2006 in MUSIC tags

Beat Tape

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While Zion I are often thrown into the Jansport with a slew of other “underground hip-hop” acts, their producer Amp Live is responsible for some of the more interesting tracks that have floated out of Oakland in recent years, mixing unexpected tempos, live instruments and electronics in with his boom bap. We talked to Amp while on tour behind the Heroes In The City Of Dope LP; you can read up on his production techniques, the hyphy/”light funk” connection, and what it’s like to share a studio with Green Day after the jump.

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• posted on Nov 15, 2006 in MUSIC tags