Nguzunguzu’s Bonkers New EP
Dear Los Angeles producer/DJs Nguzunguzu, we need like three more cups of coffee to properly handle this right now, but we’re not mad. They’re offering a free five-song EP that is, if we had to guess, totally interpretive. For instance: “Moments in Sex” possibly samples the sensual moans from Pet Shop Boys’ “West End Girls” and takes us on a screwed down, minimalist beat vacation that’s alternates between desert ocarina jams and spaced-out synths. The rest of the EP is similarly exploratory, emphasizing lasered bass and a quietly meditative intensity, with one track (”El Bebe Ambiente”) a kind of trancey take on speed merengue that is super dope and includes what sounds like ducks quacking in the distance. Ducks!
Download: Nguzunguzu Full EP (automatic download, just keep clicking through the labyrinth) (via Fluo Kids)
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posted on Jan 14, 2010 in MP3 / STREAMS
Just Blaze Plays a House Set, and Other Live Mixes
- story Julianne Escobedo Shepherd
- photo HiFi Cartel
A couple of weeks ago we wondered, “WHERE IS JUST BLAZE,” as he is one of the greatest hip-hop producers of all time and whatnot. Perhaps exactly at that moment, in a stroke of galactic synergy, he was DJing at the Fools Gold/LTD Mag holiday party playing an assortment of his own productions (AKA nearly every rap song that was amazing in the first part of the ’00s) before launching into one of the SICKEST house sets we’ve heard in a hot minute. Even if you don’t like house or hip-hop (WHO ARE YOU?!?), it’s worth listening to for his shout-outs on the mic, i.e. “Shout out to everybody in line for the bathroom, that shit is hella long,” or when he cuts out “Flipside” on Peedi Crack’s intro ad-lib and the entire crowd tries to speak Spanish but just sounds like “Que tu aklajdsfljalkdfjsdalkfjdlsjf SHE SAYS SHE BLOW LA LA!” Bonus goodies: download the rest of the night featuring sets from Nick Catchdubs, Max Glazer, A-Trak and Dave 1 of Chromeo aka the Macklovitch Bros, and Trackademics on the mic. KIND OF EPIC, TOO BAD OUR INVITE GOT LOST IN OUR E-MAIL! 
Download: Just Blaze Live at the Fool’s Gold Holiday Party + Much More
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posted on Jan 4, 2010 in MP3 / STREAMS
Stream: Crookers f. Kelis, “No Security”
What with the epic “Scars” with Basement Jaxx and this sparkly dubstep joint from our Milano party brethren Crookers, we’re impressed by Kelis‘ sudden ubiquity, having just popped a kid and gotten divorced and all. As Annie Mac (that’s Annie Mac, right?) says on this radio rip, the new US mainstream’s interest in dubstep is kind of bazonkers, though we’re still waiting for that Jay-Z/Joker collabo. But then Ms Rogers has always been adventurous—you’ll recall her early work with Neptunes when they were the hottest shit in space—and we hear she’s been working on her new album with our beloved Switch, which sounds like one of the best ideas ever. Until that transpires, we’ll marvel at this YouTube rip of “No Security,” which Crookers put up on their own blog. That’s kind of funny, right?
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posted on Sep 14, 2009 in MP3 / STREAMS
Buraka Som Sistema, “IC19 (Toadally Krossed Out RMX)” MP3
We bought this track off iTunes the other day because we have an obsession with Toads that would rival an ornery 11-year-old Mark Twain character. Toadally Krossed Out’s tracks so far are ebulliently creative, ravetastic little numbers and their sampling of various ribbits, sproings, creepy chortles, and cricket twerks represent the specific coordinates where the natural world, the animated parallel universe, and the demonic flames of hell intersect. Some of it might even be performance art, hard to tell. Regardless, now they’re offering this remix for free and playing LA on Saturday, so you should download it while we wonder if our $.99 was enough, and whether we are qualified to run for Mayor of Stantowne (Toads Province).
Download: Buraka Som Sistema, “IC19 (Toadally Krossed Out RMX)
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posted on Jul 8, 2009 in MP3 / STREAMS
Lemonade, “Big Weekend (L-Vis 1990 RMX)” MP3
This dude, the so-called “L-Vis 1990,” is sort of the scourge of the universe. He is making it really hard to listen to any music that is not made by him, particularly for those of us who are dancefloor killas. Because he is apparently spastic and rad and knows his way around a remix (and WHAT) and a wicked drum pattern, also because he makes cramazing videos. This Lemonade remix is a study in looped batcave drumrolls and placing a synth hammer at exactly the right point, economical and impactful. It’s like deep-sea mindspiral diving.
Download: (via Discobelle
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posted on Jul 7, 2009 in MP3 / STREAMS
Total Freedom & Nguzunguzu, “Wildness (Club Vortex Mixtape)”
Club Vortex is a monthly held at Glasslands in NY where all manner of outré/vanguard worldwide dance musics are played, and prior to each episode the guest DJs make a mixtape. The next installment is Kingdom’s b-day, FADER fave Maluca is performing live (always a rad time) and guest DJs Total Freedom and Nguzunguzu from Los Angeles are bringing the vibe of their Wilderness party to the Brooklyn warehouse setting, which according to this mixtape may include the Keri Hilson vox from “Swag On” over some kind of organic sounding triple-syncopated kinda-ragga rhythms, a possible Bollywood track blended with maybe the song from the “Natasha!” scene in Party Girl, Nicki Minaj “Go Hard” with a total BK-style drumline backing track, and copious drops filtered through a witness-protection-program vocal converter. This is all speculation, not actual scientific tracklistage, but the tape is hot and when you go to the party this Friday, July 10th (details here), you will not be hearing anything boring, played, wack or 100% identifiable. Happy B-day Kingdom!
Download: Total Freedom & Nguzu Nguzu, Wildness (Club Vortex Mixtape)
