Video: Donae’o, “Riot Music”
Donae’o’s breakbeaty protest joint gets an appropriate video with old footage from actual riots, protests and plain old buck situations, both fictional and actual, while advocating peace. It’s nice to get a new jam from dude after having fully worn out our mp3 copy of “Party Hard” from constant rotation the last year or so. Hopefully, his new album (March 2010) will break a little more out of the UK funky mold and lean in more on the drum and bass we’re feeling so much right now.
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posted on Jan 25, 2010 in MUSIC VIDEO
Video: DJ Zinc f. Ms. Dynamite, “Wile Out”
We adore all Ms. Dynamite’s recent excursions into UK Funky, making hype tracks with Geeneus and Zinc and whatnot—the songs are great and conjure our fond memories of her old 2-step/garage jams. In the awesome “Wile Out” she somehow makes the simple act of “walking down a staircase en route to a party” seem like the coolest thing you could possibly do, before rocking a rave we’re sad we weren’t invited to. It’s a simple concept for a fairly straightforward song, but there’s nothing much complicated about wiling out, you’ve just gotta commit to it. (via Bass Music)
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posted on Jan 25, 2010 in MUSIC VIDEO
Video: Busy Signal, “Nightshift/One More Night”
This video is the best underdog-gets-girl movie since that Patrick Dempsey film from the ’80s where he’s like, a nerd, then turns cool thanks to that popular chick. Extremely appropriate for a combo track with Busy interpolating The Commodores and Phil mofo’ing Collins to a reggae track. Also weird: now we are wondering what goes on in our office building afterhours when we’re not here. Is Sal the door guy getting it in? Okay, we’re not gonna think about that for now. (via Imagelala)
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posted on Jan 25, 2010 in MUSIC VIDEO
Video: Ellie Goulding, “Starry Eyed”
Ellie Goulding is looking more and more like the royal leader of the Ice Faeries to us, maybe because she so resembles that one chick in the Neverending Story. OR maybe it’s because her voice is that of a ghost queen, wispy and hovering. OR! Maybe it’s because in this video she is levitating and SHOOTING STARS out of her hands, which is, if asked, the superpower we’d most like to have, but replace stars with lazers. If we shot lazers out of our hands we would be the shit. How can we make this happen? Ellie Goulding is gonna be famous, FYI. You should also download Jakwob’s dubstep remix to this song, it’s awesome.
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posted on Jan 22, 2010 in MUSIC VIDEO
Video: KillaQueenz & South Rakkas Crew, “Double Up”
Weird “Native American headdress” issues aside, is this the best video we have ever seen in our lives? Cooking, wining and taking a bath with some goldfish are things we do/want to do on a regular basis, particularly with a soundtrack that is this next level. We’d also like to be friends with KillaQueenz, we want to eat ackee breakfast with them. Is all of Australia getting down like this? Should we go there? Someone fly us out so we can trade wardrobe secrets with KillaQueenz. (via AudioPorn)
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posted on Jan 22, 2010 in MUSIC VIDEO
Mos Def, “Quiet Dog (Sub Swara RMX)” MP3
Bass masters Sub Swara flipped Mos Def’s ’40s boogie vibe with deeply serious synth stabs, a powerful crescendo of bass melody and a cascade of what are probably live drum samples, since the dudes play live percussion at their shows. Hey! What a great segue to mention their next live show is at SXSW all the way in MARCH (bad news) but the bill is bazonkers and includes Mary Anne Hobbs and Plastician (good news). Can you say “mindxplosion”? Bump this and try to contain yourself and/or buy a ticket to Austin immediately.
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posted on Jan 21, 2010 in MP3 / STREAMS
Video: Eternal Summers, “Secret Language”
You think you might get bowled over with its ramshackle guitars, but singer Nicole’s smooth, sugary vocals stream in and hold the song together like a velvet ribbon on a birthday package, unwavering and fealty. The video is like staring into the afternoon sun and being in love. These folks are from Roanoke, Virginia, which is not the same place as the island where a bunch of British colonial settlers met a different kind of eternal summer in the 1500s, so that bodes well for their music career. (via GvsB)
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posted on Jan 21, 2010 in MUSIC VIDEO
Video: Soulja Boy, “The Best”
Soulja Boy’s videos have taken on the feel of extremely high quality YouTube experiments, which is presumably the kind of video you would make, too, if you were a teenager with 18 gazillion dollars. The lyrics on this thing aren’t even synced with his mouth, but that concern is secondary to the fear that dude is about to fall off his own balcony whilst brushing his hair. No spoilers, but: he doesn’t. Spoiler alert: Don’t ask me if I wanna fuck this cause that question is rhetorical! Goddamn!
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posted on Jan 21, 2010 in MUSIC VIDEO
So Shifty, “Wine (Them Jeans RMX)” MP3
So Shifty’s “Wine” beat was the definition of wilding and also had the advantage of Kunley from Ward 21’s instantly memorable hook: “WINE HAR RUMP.” Hokay, no problem! Now, with the release of their instructive dance extended player “Wine Touch Clap” (also featuring Tifa, Timberlee and Nataie Storm), we can wine (h)our rumps to remixes by folks like Douster and Emynd. (Go here to stream a mix of all of them.) This is like a big FADER love-in, we would definitely go on weekend vacation with any of these people. This Them Jeans remix reimagines said wining as more of a hands-in-the-air-ing, a house track chopping up the vocals into an inspirational shout propelling the flash of synths.
Download: So Shifty, “Wine (Them Jeans RMX)”
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posted on Jan 20, 2010 in MP3 / STREAMS
Blank Point f. Del Patio, “Watagatapitusberry (Toy Selectah’s MexMore RMX)” MP3
Today the Village Voice’s annual Pazz & Jop critics poll literally ROCKED the internet, and though we are generally list-shy, we think it is a travesty that not one single person (including our forgetful selves) voted for the interminable Dominican-American teen hit “Watagatapitusberry” (original video after the jump). Do people not read the YouTubes anymore or something? This post is an attempt to remedy that, with Mexican superstar DJ/producer Toy Selectah’s “MexMore” take on the track replacing DJ Class’s “I’m the Shit” beat with something more cumbia-fied, lending its weirdness to specifically tropical dance sets and hopefully ensuring we’ll be running around our neighborhoods squawking “¿¡EL QUE!?” this summer, too. Go check out the rest of Geko Jones’ top five Latin tracks for January ‘10.
Download: Blank Point f. Del Patio, “Watagatapitusberry (Toy Selectah’s MexMore RMX)”
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posted on Jan 20, 2010 in MP3 / STREAMS
