Fabric Birthday Treats: Caspa & Baobinga’s Promo Mix MP3s
This weekend Londoners will not sleep for three days straight if they are lucky: legendary club Fabric is hosting its 10th birthday party and everyone who is awesome in the general vicinity of the UK will be DJing a citywide housequake whose reverberations are so big we may feel them on American shores. Does the phrase “10 pm to 6 am” mean anything to you people? Actually just looking at the lineup here kind of makes us want to cry with longing. In advance of Baobinga’s set (on Friday, room three, before Rusko), he made a hot autumn mix showcasing a lot of the nuevo bass musics gripping the London scene, by some of right now’s hottest producers (also, The-Dream). And dubstep captain Caspa, who plays there tomorrow with fellow bass warriors Skream and Benga (ahhh), and is still amazing despite the fact that he likes the worst American sitcom of the last decade, ponied up some subterranean tremors for his own mix promoing Fabric’s bday. Full Baobinga tracklist after the jump, download Caspa’s mix here. We are still crying, all stuck in New York like it ain’t no thing.
Download: Baobinga Promo Mix
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posted on Oct 14, 2009 in MP3 / STREAMS tags Baobinga, Benga, Bok Bok, Caspa, dubstep, electronic/dance, Fabric, L-Vis 1990, skream, The-Dream, uk funky
Rustie, “FACT Mixtape 79″ MP3
The Glasgow-based producer/DJ Rustie just won our hearts with his latest mixtape for FACT Magazine: he put like everyone we love (Sweat.X, Hudson Mohawke, The-Dream etc) on it. He even included our longtime favorite “Georgia Peach”—the Atlantan “downtown” rapper Rasheeda! Like dude, people in America don’t even check for Rasheeda! How focused is your game! He also mixed some of his own sickass productions—like kicking back in the “strobe” room with a pack of gum and a bubble bath—with Ace Hood and Lil Scrappy. What do Southern rappers sound like in Glaswegian? How can we be down? Cop the mixtape over at FACT mag and check the bazonkos track list after the jump.
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posted on Sep 2, 2009 in MP3 / STREAMS tags Ace Hood, Cool Kids, Hudson Mohawke, Lil Scrappy, Rasheeda, Rustie, Sweat-X, The-Dream
Shawty Lo f. Ludacris, Gucci Mane & The-Dream, “Atlanta, GA” MP3
- story Peter Macia
Atlanta’s had so many solid dedications (+ another million) to its awesomeness that seeing this lineup and having it not be as good as it should’ve been is even tougher than it would’ve been for say, New York. Big Apple rappers make bad songs about this town all the time, but these guys ostensibly represent the top echelon of Atlantans not in the Dungeon Family or locked up and not one of them really shows up. Even Gucci and The-Dream, who lately can fart on the mic and get the club poppin’, contribute throwaways. Oh well, at least they still have some of the finest gentelmen’s clubs in the country.
Download: Shawty Lo f. Ludacris, Gucci Mane & The-Dream, “Atlanta, GA” MP3 (via Nah Right)
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posted on Aug 21, 2009 in MP3 / STREAMS tags Atlanta, Gucci Mane, hip hop, Ludacris, Shawty Lo, The-Dream
Video: Jamie Foxx f. Drake, The-Dream & Kanye West, “Digital Girl (Remix)”
- story Peter Macia
There are three former TV stars in this video, one Dream and a Kanye. Drake shows why he’s on our cover with a covertly wild nerdy first verse, Jamie wears glasses to hide the dollar signs rolling before his eyes, Dream is Dream and Yeezy cleans up with one for the Golden Agers. But the real star of the show? Coo-coo Jade from American’s Next Top Model Cycle 6! Peep her with the gigantic frizz and histrionical non-dance moves. Don’t change a thing, girl. Coincidentally and unbeknownst to even the most psychotic FADER acolytes, Jade modeled in a FADER fashion spread in an issue to rename numberless. If you find it, tell us in the comments and we’ll send you something (broken VCR). (via TSS)
Christina Milian f. The-Dream, “Chameleon” MP3
- story Matthew Schnipper
This song has no hi hats. The intro with Christina Milian humming doesn’t have her gasps for air edited out. There are people yelling instead of big drums. I can be the biggest in the room, like an elephant/ I can be the quiestest, shhh, irrelevant. She whispers that last bit, then whispers on and off for the rest of the song. “Chameleon,” produced by Milian’s fiance (and final Vibe cover co-star) The-Dream has the super sparse skeleton of Cassie’s “Me N U”, and with Cassie going beefier in her song selection, maybe the upcoming Christina Milian album will further the sub-genre of simple, creepy R&B so deeply slumbering.
Download: Christina Milian f. The-Dream, “Chameloen”
Freeload: The-Dream f. R. Kelly, “Kelly’s 12-Play (Remix)” MP3
- story THE FADER
We must confess, The-Dream told us he had written “Kelly’s 12-Play” before we ever heard it. He told us this in a kinda noisy bar so we didn’t fully grasp the concept—we were convinced it was a song he had written for Kellz, not about him. Because, like, why would an R&B dude sing about doing it to another R&B dude’s late-career album? Isn’t that kind of weird? Wouldn’t Dream be freaked that his girl would be thinking about Kellz mid-”engagement”? Then we finally heard it and understood its greatness, but still felt it BEGGED for a Kellz version, because singing about doing it to his own album is basically the most Kellzian thing we can think of at this point. And, voila! It’s Kellz singing about himself in a Dream voice. Now, question three: When is this track gonna get the Charlie Kaufman treatment? Let’s go full pedal Möbius strip, dudes.
Download: The-Dream f. R. Kelly, “Kelly’s 12-Play (Remix)”
Exclusive Stream: DJ Skee & DJ Drama Present R. Kelly, My Demo Tape
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The thing about R. Kelly singing/rewording/remixing today’s popular hits is that he kind of bests them. This is not a surprise, considering it’s, you know, ROBERT MFing KELLY, but it breathes new life into songs you maybe thought you hated because the radio plays them 74 times an hour. (NYC morning radio rotation: “Birthday Sex,” “Best I Ever Had,” “Knock You Down.” Repeat.) Of course Kellz kicks it off with The-Dream’s “Kelly’s 12 Play” because the man will never refuse an opportunity to be meta. This is Drama’s best Gangsta Grillz in a hot minute, no?
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posted on Jun 2, 2009 in MP3 / STREAMS tags Drake, Exclusive Stream, Jeremih, Kanye West, Keri Hilson, Ne-Yo, R Kelly, R&B, The-Dream
Video: Fabolous f. The-Dream, “Throw It In The Bag”
- story THE FADER
Aaaaand here’s part three of Def Jam’s videopocalypse, a lesson for all you ladies out there that shoplifting might put you in the bing but also might get you boned by Fabolous. It’s your choice ladies. Loso bonus clip, “It’s My Time,” with the ridiculous “Your Baby” joint with Ryan Leslie tacked at the end, after the jump .
Video: The-Dream f. Kanye West, “Walking on the Moon”
- story THE FADER
Part Two of Def Jam’s video takeover makes us wonder how many times we would’ve watched Attack of the Clones if it was Dream and Kanye attempting to “clone” themselves via intimate relations with alien babes. Probably one or two times at least.
Video Snitchin The-Dream, Fabolous, Kanye
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Last night Def Jam had this elaborate “Spring Preview” of their new videos and releases at a fancy place with dinner. We didn’t go because we were still tired from the Sean Paul show the night before, and also it was nice out and who wants to sit in a banquet hall for five hours on the first nice night of the pre-summer. Luckily dudes cannot be trusted and LowKey flip-cammed everything, so if you wanna preview three pretty fucking amazing videos, The-Dream in space and/or half a Mariah track upped by somebody else, you should go to his vimeo spot before LA Reid sends over some robocops to reprogram his brain and ship him away to somewhere weird like Wales. Above: our summer recession-boyfriend anthem “Throw it in the Bag.” Sidebar: LowKey, are you the dude that bootlegged our copy of that Lindsey Lohan doppelganger stripper movie? Cause the sound was reallllay crappy.
