The original discotheque DJs of the 70s weren’t restricted by genre – they mixed up soul, funk, rock and experimental music to create the nascent disco sound. The
Sofrito sound starts from the same point but draws from the tropics - combining bassline soukous, cosmic highlife, stripped-down drum edits, raw carnival rhythms, Manding vibes, scratchy calypso and modern productions that continue in the grand tradition of the discotheque, from Abidjan to Detroit via London, Paris and beyond...
posted by Tom-B
on May 13, 2013 -
11 comments
Very obscure and super rare
selection of cumbias, gaitas, mapalé, charanguara, musarana, charanga and guarachas for your ultimate enjoyment!
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posted by Tom-B
on Apr 28, 2013 -
11 comments
The new Kitty
(formerly Kitty Pryde) EP,
D.A.I.S.Y. Rage is out today for your free streaming/download. If'n you wanna tumblrize and girlize and otherwise coyly subvert yr hip hop.
☠DEAD❤ISLAND☠ video.
Previously seen on MetaFilter for her
Okay Cupid and
Orion's Belt videos which sparked heated debates.
Noisey has an interview with her, and she's also taking over
their twitter for the day. "If her new EP feels like the work of an artist coming into their own, that’s because it is: It’s as cohesive a body of work as the rapper has ever put out, showcasing the crooked self-assurance that it takes to cop to shit like bed-wetting and making a song with a guy who rejected you."
posted by naju
on Jan 31, 2013 -
27 comments
Tapes on Books: Mixtape soundtracks for beloved classics. Some obvious ("Runaway" by Del Shannon for Ralph Macchio's escape after stabbing Johnny Cade in
The Outsiders), some clever ("If You Got the Money" by Lefty Frizzell as Daisy Buchanan's theme song in
The Great Gatsby), with witty rationales throughout ("If Sauron's evil flaming eye was actually a evil flaming mouth, then it would sing with Lemmy’s voice").
posted by goatdog
on Oct 4, 2012 -
8 comments
Mention the British record label
4AD, and some significant band names usually come to mind:
Bauhaus,
Dead Can Dance,
Cocteau Twins,
Pixies, and
The Birthday Party, to name a few. There is no singular "4AD sound," but there is
an overall aesthetic, with some off-shoots into unusual territory (see:
M|A|R|R|S - Pump Up The Volume). Recently, 4AD added another off-shoot to their roster:
South Florida producer and MC, SpaceGhostPurrp. Purrp took a moment and
talked with MtvHive about his decision to sign with 4AD, his current work, and growing up in Miami. More of 4AD and SPVCXGHXZTPVRRP inside.
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posted by filthy light thief
on Jun 1, 2012 -
39 comments
It started two months ago to the day, when
a stuttering/strobing video of angry man obscenely rapping over a spasmodic drumbeat was posted on YouTube from an unknown group who called themselves Death Grips, with the promise of an album and a mixtape within the year. The next day,
a new track went up, not furious like the day before, but the rapper sounded a bit hoarse now. More tracks were uploaded every few days, and on April 26th
the mixtape was on YouTube,
soundcloud, and available to download
from their website and other places. Still, little is known about the group, beyond that it's probably a trio and
Zach Hill is involved.
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posted by filthy light thief
on May 8, 2011 -
16 comments
On February 3, 2010,
Autechre celebrated the month-early release of their new album
Oversteps with a 12-hour netradio broadcast.
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posted by mkb
on Mar 18, 2010 -
42 comments
The Free Art and Technology (F.A.T.) Lab is an organization dedicated to enriching the public domain through the research and development of creative technologies and media. You may know them from such projects as
How to build a fake Google Street View car,
public domain donor stickers,
internet famous class, the
first rap video to end with a download source code link, or their numerous
firefox add-ons (such as
China Channel,
Tourettes Machine, or
Back to the future). FAT members have been hard at work standardizing various open source graffiti-related software packages, including
Graffiti Analysis,
Laser Tag,
Fat Tag Deluxe and
EyeWriter [previously] to be
GML (Graffiti Markup Language) compliant.
Fuck Google.
Fuck Twitter.
FuckFlickr.
Fuck SXSW.
Fuck 3D. FAT Lab is
Kanye shades for the open source movement.
posted by finite
on Mar 13, 2010 -
8 comments
Looking for Halloween music, but want to avoid the cliché and overplayed
Thriller and
Monster Mash? (
YouTube Links) Three Halloween "mix tapes" have been posted over at the
AMG blog:
1,
2,
3.
(Samples included.) Or, here's
another option.
(Halloween mixtapes were also discussed recently, on AskMefi).
posted by zarq
on Oct 31, 2007 -
15 comments
