Video: Electrik Red, “Friend Lover”
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Now this is why we love us some Electrik Red. They fucks with the working man! And not the “I’m dressed like the working man, but I’m really god amongst men Bryce Wilson” workout man. Dudes who after this video are probably going back to cleaning pools and delivering packages. And if they can keep up the illusion that the cable guy can become the cable guy, then we can keep up the delusion that blogger guy can become the sex slave to molten hot RnB vixen.
Video: The-Dream, “Rockin That Thang”
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This is basically the exact video we imagined for this song: a Vegas-y marquee of light bulbs, chromatic rainbow rollerdisco neon shooting out of Dream’s pores, quick editing to make it look like Dream’s pop/lock game is extra Matrix, and everyone wearing some shiny latex leggings that we totally need in our wardrobe. Thank you Dream. Bonus: cameo by FADER 59 stars Electrik Red at the end (they’re the four women in black leather doin’ a little two-step)!
Freeload: Electrik Red, “Freaky Freaky”
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We love the coming-soon Electrik Red album, the bangers-Godzilla written for four of our favorite LA-based spitfires by his eminence, The-Dream, with the wizard Tricky Stewart. And we’re consistently impressed with how many different sounds the group is able to graze without sounding impatient or fickle: there are Southern style strip club jernts, techno-y woman power anthems, funky Vanity 6/Mary Jane Girls style dance pop songs. We are in fact so googly-eyed about this music we featured Electrik Red in the upcoming FADER 59, dropping at a newsstand near you in the next week. Indefatigably jamming on our iPods however is the transcendent spectral rainbow vision of a newfangled quiet club storm known as “Freaky Freaky.” It’s a fully assertive booty call track, like if Girl 6 was dialing out to her man from a pile of down feathers. Which is basically like every day of our lives.
Download: Electrik Red, “Freaky Freaky”
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posted on Jan 7, 2009 in MP3 / STREAMS tags Electrik Red, freeload, The-Dream, Tricky Stewart, Vanity 6
Video: Electrik Red, “Drink in My Cup”
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Back in late summer, when we speculated that Electrik Red looked and sounded like nice girls but might be extinct before year’s end, we had no idea they were terrifying lunatics who get buck in filthy toilets and beat the crap out of drunks. Even The-Dream looks nervous in this video and he is ostensibly responsible for it all.
Freeload: Electrik Red, “Drank In My Cup” (Produced by The Dream)
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Way back in the summer of 2006, we ran a Gen F profile on a new ATL R&B trio called Bella. Thanks to the magic of the internet, you can still read it for free. At the time, the girls had it all: a major label recording contract, a fun mixtape with Don Cannon, and best of all, a sound that melded standard issue urban pop with just enough ethereal hoodness to keep things interesting (ask DJ Google to spin “Never Be Me” and see if you don’t believe us), yet even with that buildup, Bella would get dropped before they could even release their first album. This new single from Def Jam signees Electrik Red sounds a helluva lot like those Bella tracks, which makes it a sureshot in your Crunk-N-B iTunes playlist (next to Sophia Fresh, of course!) but probably dooms the girls to an eerily similar career trajectory, despite The Dream’s best efforts to sprinkle extra awesome on the whole thing. Maybe the Cheetah Girls are hiring?
Download: Electrik Red, “Drank In My Cup” (Produced by The Dream)
