The Count & Sinden, “Mega (Camo UFOs RMX)” MP3

We could barely resist screaming “BIGGGG CHUNNNNE” when Toddla T dropped the original “Mega” at his Flashing Lights gig a few weeks back, and we never thought the Count & Sinden’s massive brain-thrower could possibly get any bigger. Enter the Camo UFOs’ earnest excursion in pure-ass junglism, and a song that threw our resident Brit ex-raver Chioma Nnadi for a loop when she heard these dudes live in Los Angeles and had not teleported in from the “Helter Skelter” rave at club Telepathy, Central London, 1996, which was her first rave: “I had to buy an outfit specifically for it.” What did you wear? “This cropped Adidas shirt with long sleeves and a combat skirt.” Of course, and “cropped Adidas and combat skirt” is the essence of this song, all swampy triplets, jiggling breaks, saucy sub-bass in the quasi-bridge, vocal sample so metallic and doing guttural shimmies. Camo UFOs are Mike B and Nate Day and we’re hoping this track sparks up a full-on revivalist movement with its eyes to the trippy sky. Meantime, though, download Sinden’s sick new podcast for Bodytonic over here, which includes the original and several of our top tunes of right now, cause he’s just good like that.


(Via Nicholas P. Catchdubs over at Fools Gold)

Video: Gucci Mane f. Usher, “Spotlight”

People (us and everyone else) have been wondering why anyone in his or her right mind would assemble this song, let alone make it the lead single for Gucci’s new album. BUT, having now watched this video twice through, it is clearly just a means to this hilarious visual end. It’s like, look how not bummed Gucci is when Eddie Murphy’s daughter busts him in the club partying with Nicki Minaj. Look how not bummed Gucci is when he’s dancing with Usher. Look how extremely not bummed Gucci is wearing a chain that is a claw from one of those stupid toy vending machines that are impossible. Gucci is so not bummed with all of it that we’re just going to call him Doctor Not Bummed from now on. Paging Doctor Not Bummed, there is a record label hemorrhaging money, please report to the ATM stat.

Video: Bot’ox, “Blue Steel”

A friend was telling us about this foot fetish video him and a bunch of friends watched once, either on vacation or in a rental car with a DVD player. He said they just kept watching and it was the weirdest thing, kind of gross, kind of odd, kind of tantalizing, naked woman smoking cigarettes with her feet. It’s crazy to think about what happened to a person that they are like “Feet! That’s it for me! Bunions on the big toe all day!” Like, did your mom not have hands and swaddle you with her arches? But dude, more power if you know what you like, get yours. This video, for French duo Bot’ox’s new single, “Blue Steel,” continues their car crash fetish. Peep their video for “Crashed Cadillac.” “Blue Steel” tones it down, lowers the BPM and makes the impacts a lot softer. No doubt someone has made out to this song. Dudes must have lost their virginity watching “Bullet” or some shit. Also, is that a Ford Taurus because if so that is weird. Dudes jamming minimal techno driving their kids to suburban schools in their Ford Taurus then making crash fetish videos in it. Kinda fucked up, just saying.

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Pill, “Hear Somebody Comin” MP3

Toward the end of “Hear Somebody Comin,” Pill stops his Kool G Rap-esque flow to breathe heavily before launching right back in, and the whole time it sounds like he’s having fun. All we can ask is: is anyone out there still complaining that hip-hop is dead? Any dinosaur rap backpackers lamenting a dearth of lyricism? What’s up with that? What are you listening to?



Download: Pill, “Hear Somebody Comin”

Pocketknife, “Get Around To It (Ray Burst Remix)” (Arthur Russell Cover) MP3

Electric Minds‘ tribute album to Arthur Russell features a cover of his song “Get Around to It” as re-imagined by Brooklyn-based DJ, Pocketknife. It is decidedly more disco than the original, but Joe Worricker’s vocal tones are almost tantamount to Russell’s, feeling like an update Russell would have given himself. Rough Trade’s Ray Burst continues the transformation by remixing the cover into whirl-y millennial disco that is fun on its own, but finds itself most attuned with the original song’s theme of desperation by obscuring Worricker’s vocals. They are muted into indecipherable parts of the beat that loom over the track, dissenting from Burst’s sanguine interpretation. A noted revisionist with a propensity for abandoning projects entirely, Russell would have appreciated all of the tinkering.

Stream: Black to Comm, Alphabet 1968 (We Hadn’t Heard of it Until Yesterday, Either)

Pretend you are a baby and very tired but simultaneously very fascinated by your new universe, thus at a loss about whether you should sleep or just glaze over and stare at your own toes because, Holy shit you have toes. Then imagine you got a crazy mobile. It’s got colors and wind chimes and the light reflects off it and it spins, but never in too many full circles because that would get boring. This mobile is a microcosm of all of the earth’s natural wonders. There is the pounding stream of rivers, the thin air of mountaintops, the green grass of pastures, the warm silk of a horse’s coat. You’re there, you’re fucking in there little baby you, right in morning Scotland—you’re running with hunting dogs and the dew is fading and the sun creaked up above the horizon and there’s a crack and it’s your bone, you’ve fallen against a rock you missed in your furious pursuit. There’s pain but there’s so much light. You’ve never been so alone before but it’s surprisingly serene. Who could have imagined there was so much time and space in such a stockpiled world, people buzzing around into each other like cockroaches. You’re alone and it hurts acutely, but you’re a baby. You know it’s not real but you haven’t yet figured out what reality is. So you cry, and, now sharp, you see this mobile for what it is, a bunch of cheap plastic that just hums a tiny bit. But you know now it’s your portal and you stop crying because, as you are just beginning to learn, there is always understanding in ambiance. Anyway, that’s what listening to this Black to Comm album is like. Thanks for sending us this link yesterday, Simon. In a cold world it’s nice to have caring friends.

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Mannie Fresh, “Like a Boss” MP3

Mannie Fresh hasn’t exactly been blowing our minds recently, but that doesn’t mean we won’t keep a vigilant ear on everything he does just in case. Now he’s back with “Like a Boss,” which, based on name alone, you’d expect to be another version of “Real Big,” (also known as one of the most fun songs ever in the history of recorded music), but is instead an occasionally self-deprecating career retrospective for Fresh.



Download: Mannie Fresh, “Like a Boss” (via BLVD ST)

Darkstar, “Aidy’s Girl Is A Computer (Kyle Hall Oats b So Good Mix)” MP3

The FADER Internet and FADER Magazine collide in this new remix of Hyperdub band Darkstar, who Scott Wright wrote about recently in his Dollars to Pounds column, and Detroit house wunderkind Kyle Hall, who is a Gen F in our current issue. In fact, Wright wrote about this very Darkstar song, and we wrote about “I <3 Dr. Girlfriend” in the magazine. Close enough to perfect synergy as we can get. Hall’s remix has been streaming on Darkstar’s MySpace for a little bit, but 88 Days has the mpfree. Or you can pay pennies for the single and the remix over at Juno and support them all.



Download: Darkstar, “Aidy’s Girl Is A Computer (Kyle Hall Oats b So Good Mix)” (via 88 days in my veins)

Theophilus London & Dam-Funk on BBC Radio

Our dudes Theophilus and Dam shared the spotlight last night on Gilles Peterson’s show. TL was in studio after finishing up a jaunt through the UK with Jack Penate and Dam beamed his section in from Planet Funkazoid (his house in LA). Before and after, Gilles plays his regular mellow jams. Light some “incense” and get your day going.

Stream: Theophilus London & Dam-Funk on BBC Radio

Bonus Dam with cat photo from FADER Issue 64 by Jason Nocito.

Video: Freddie Gibbs f. Pill, “Womb 2 the Tomb”

There have been some excellent arguments for a full-on collab album between two of our favorite working rappers Freddie Gibbs and Pill, and this video for “Womb 2 the Tomb” (which comes from Gibbs’ most recent mixtape), is just another reason to lock them in a studio together. They could be rapping about the phone book, and as long as it was delivered with Gibbs’ ominous control and Pill’s completely off the rails rasp, we’d be into it.

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