Video Premiere: Sticky f. Natalie Storm, “Look Pon Me”

This single’s from the new Jumeirah Riddim EP, which has legendary garage producer Sticky trying out funky bashment for size with our girl, Kingston’s illustrious rising star Natalie Storm (who completely runs shit in this video). UK to Jamaica, ayo! Being some of the FADER staff’s two favorite dream destinations for raving and becoming island-renowned Mexican-American dancehall queens (ahem), the union of UK funky and JA steelo means we’re about to throw a pre-10 AM party in the office. The cake we just ordered from Carvel has Sticky’s name on it, since we’re so stoked he’s making a comeback. Also reminding us how we listened to his Ty remix like 70,000 times in like 2003. And, yo! Hearing it again, the beat is definitely precogging funky. Ahhh, 2-step! What a dude.

Radioclit, “We Like to Party” MP3

Straight from the horses’ mouths: here’s something for the FADER blog maybe? it’s a bit silly, we made it for our drunken australian tour but maybe some other crazy dudes will be into it. We’re not going to ruin the ridiculous sample for you—if you haven’t already guessed from the title—but, yes if helps if you are crazy. And by crazy we mean you were really into Dutch electro jams from 1998.



Download: Radioclit, “We Like to Party”

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Void, “Tetanus Wine” MP3

This is normally the part where we’re like, If you don’t want to feel depressed then don’t listen to this song. But it’s by VOID and it is called “TETANUS WINE,” so you probably figured that one out on your own. For those that are down to, um, feel a little down, play this one loud. It is basically someone blasting all the space effects on a keyboard at once and throwing drums that hit like whips underneath it all.



Download: Void, “Tetanus Wine” (via Don’t Die Wondering)

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Video: Maxx, Dotgoodie, J-Dubb & Purple, “Ima Get It”

“Hustlanity Mobism Ent.” is our new favorite business name/life motto, and these four Oakland rappers are doing their best to live up to it. Initially we were into this track cause the beat goes hard, but Dotgoodie may have newly replaced Fred da Godson as number one in our off-kilter rapper we are suddenly obsessed with. His voice is so high, we are dizzy from the dissonance, and you can’t knock a guy who teaches the kids on his block how to pop-lock (and is not using that as some kind of drug metaphor). Shout out to Purple! (via Southern Hospitality)

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Soft Circle, “Feel the Light” MP3

Hisham Bharoocha, who is Soft Circle, used to be the drummer for Black Dice. They played once in an old Masonic temple in Baltimore. There was either a mosaic ceiling or a wall or stained glass, can’t remember, but somewhere was some blue architectural beauty, something reliant on its connection with light. And Black Dice played on the stage. There was a balcony and plenty of seats, so most people sat, but some stood in the crevasse of floor in front of them. Black Dice didn’t mind. Bharoocha, can’t imagine he noticed. Somewhere in the evolutionary period out of that band and before this one, he sat at a kit half made of electronic pads and intoned wordlessly into a Madonna microphone. It was brutally loud. That was the last time we saw Black Dice with them. Not the next time we saw Soft Circle, but the next time it was how it should be, was in the basement of a museum shaped like stacks of boxes, again on chairs, this time white and museum-like, stacked on risers. It sounded like “Feel the Light” does, wild, open-spaced drone, like a prayer for rain. But with the then drums replaced with the now guitar. “Feel the Light” is almost entirely without percussion (the maraca makes a late appearance), the one instrument we cannot untether from our view Bharoocha. This track is apparently not yet released, so maybe represents a new weeded direction for Soft Circle, a final shoulder shrug to the volume and pace of the drums. This is his Robert Frost moment. (via 20jazzfunkgreats)



Download: Soft Circle, “Feel the Light”

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New Angolan Kuduro from Agre G, Os Vagabanda and Game Wala

The last we heard from Os Vagabanda, they were blowing minds with “Successo” in a Ghetto Palms/Akwaaba special edition podcast. The last we heard of Agre G was “Piké Piké” a couple weeks ago. And the last we heard from The Game Wala was never. So it seemed an appropriate time to check in on the latest backbreakers from Angola, and we found a ton. After the jump are the official brand new video for “Piké Piké”; two more recent jams from Os Vagabanda, including “Tarefa,” produced by DJ Patrick, who also did “Piké Piké”; and two from The Game Wala, who sounds kind of like Slim from 112 only more awesome (make sure to check the live teen show performance at the bottom).


Agre G f. DJ Patrick, “Piké Piké”


Os Vagabanda f. DJ Patrick, “Tarefa”


Big Nelo f. Vagabanda, ” Surra ”


The Game Wala, “The Game é Karga”


The Game Wala, “Kassamuna” (Live on Bounce Angola)

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Little Girls, “10 Mile Stereo” (Beach House Cover) MP3

Initially this seemed like the worst idea in the world. Beach House make delicate music and Little Girls make music that sounds like a dude screaming into a box in a damp basement. Both have their merits, but they probably shouldn’t ever actually meet. Except this cover of Beach House’s “10 Mile Stereo” starts to make a lot of sense. While it’s played probably a little too straight at the beginning (Beach House’s twinkling guitar taps mixed with heavily reverbed dude vocals aren’t exactly a recipe for success), it quickly turns into a Jesus & Mary Chain approximation—every instrument blends together into a warm hum, and suddenly Beach House’s original feels worlds away.



Download: Little Girls, “10 Mile Stereo” (Beach House Cover)

Video Premiere: Cubic Zirconia, “Josephine”

Our girl Tiombe Lockhart doing vampy Josephine Baker here is THAT FIRE. Actually this video couldn’t be any better if Toulouse-Lautrec himself directed it. Pay close attention to the elephant honking samples in the background, they might save your life in a pinch. Also, the dog in this thing is jamming. Let us know if you know him. Cop the “Josephine” single here.

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Stream: Electrik Red, “I’m That Chick”

Electrik Red dropped one of the most criminally unheralded albums of last year, partly because maybe no one knew it actually came out. It was called How to be a Lady: Volume 1, it was written by The-Dream and Tricky Stewart (you’ve heard of them?), we wrote a feature about it and it was basically the feminist album of 2009. Where was everyone? “I’m That Chick” is from How to Be a Lady: Volume 2 and shall immediately commence being the ladies of FADER’s new theme song, barring the line about feeding off drama. We definitely keep the blogs on fire, though!

Midlake, The Denton Sessions

Just recently, Midlake released The Courage of Others. It’s really flute heavy and is an intense downer, but it works because they’re so good at making existential pain fun to listen to. To celebrate the album’s existence on the physical plane, the band got together to record live versions of a bunch of tracks for The Guardian. They stay surprisingly close to the songs on the record, beefing up “Small Mountain” with a heavier whisked drum presence, and generally adding tambourine and bells wherever it makes sense. To be totally real, it is bumming us out to picture the band playing music anywhere but in the middle of a field with a bunch of horses chilling in the background like it’s no big deal… but we’re happy these songs exist anyway.

Download: Midlake, The Denton Sessions (via MBV)

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