Lupe’s debut Food & Liquor featured a politically charged song called ‘American Terrorist’ – like most of his work on that LP it displayed Fiasco’s vernacular adeptness. Last night the Chi-Town native took to his twitter to unleash part III of that song (not entirely sure what happened to part II, but we continue) which like it’s predecessor is aimed at the social landscape of his/our environment.
Fiasco’s ability to effectively deliver intellectualised messages while staying relatable/digestible to a mainstream audience has always been worth admiring. And despite the pitfalls of his last long player, this proves he still has the passion and prowess to deliver good, thought provoking material.
… And lyrical content aside for a moment, it’s the Kavinsky ‘Nightcall’ instrumental borrowed that unashamedly earns him a full gunfinger salute – the brooding, swaggerific, 80′s themed song is taken off one of this year’s best motion pictures, “Drive” (starring man-crush Ryan Gosling).
Probably the most frequently refix-prone nineties R&B star, here’s another treatment. UK producer Hourglass Sea goes absolutely nuts with this classic, giving us a neck snapping cosmic-Metal gem to help you get your gurn on. A nice slab of musical pie to have pre Sunday lunch.
With it’s deep wintery bass licks, twinkling keys and soothing instrumentation, ‘Midnight Kids’ should happily aid any hangovers and/or S.A.D related symptoms one may be experiencing on this seventh day. Mecca:83 who back in July released The Life SketchesEP has just unearthed this new bonus song featuring Kan Sano & Buscrates. Deep rooted in Soul, Mecca’s compositions are heavily seduced by Electronica – incorporating subtle glitches while maintaining an audible heartbeat.
‘Midnight Kids’ is offered as a free download, listen & grab below…
Ignore the song title. This one’s a smooth, butter-moist slow jam for the Winter hibernating, Sunday morn, baby engineering duos. Thick, hazy, with little rolled-off the bass-drum for woofer’s sake, and slinkiest red light synths with the harmonics opened right up, as an ass clap reverbs long-tailed through hallways. Just a cockle warming mug of minimalist R&B ear porn from New York vocalist/producer who also goes under the alias of Shen07.
It may be far from a Summer night on this ultra nippy London day as it breaks – here’s your transport…
Deviation will be celebrating the festive season at Concrete this coming Wednesday (December 14th), with a special 5-hour set from Benji B. With a successful year behind them the Dev crew will be closing the year with a proper salute to the very best sounds that dropped over the past 12 months.
Tickets are £7 on the door. 9pm-2am. Arrive early.
Weather praying for rain or summoning spirits in a flood, Canadian singer Zaki Ibrahim gets daring as always with her dove-like intonation over a little diaspora-Step for this new single, taking kalimbas, shakers, rainsticks and a dosage of electronic modulation to buss’ a tribal skank on the riverbank.
Debut full-length Every Opposite drops Jan (or possibly March) 2012 on South African label Motif Records and reportedly features production from South London’s LV, so eyes peeled.
Sleepy sub, ember crackles and a gorgeous heart-melting harp go into this lovingly crafted Bass cut from a South West London musician, whose previous input can be found on PinBoard favourite Jono McCleery’s debut Ninja Tune album There Is. Stay with the track, it’s tender, poignant yet l’heure bleue sensory aware work. Emosh.
A certified Garage-finger bubbler from across the pond, Brooklyn beatsmith Obey City drops off this jumping jack flash of a jam with the loveliest, lucid toy keyboard percussion. Still it’s for all the growed up, po’ed up and severely sexy skankers. Wait for the b-line drop. Joyous stuff.
Boston producer Doctor Jeep taking us deep into the night owl hours with this bottom hefty slab of positively neo-medieval R&B that takes digital pan pipe flight, whilst in tongue-in-cheek fashion chipmunking and screwing Jodie Aysha’s sample off T2′s bassline smash ‘Heartbroken’ from a few years back.
Bumbaclaaaart! Pure heavy, octave see-saw 2-Stepper from Bristolian badman Kahn whose stuff we fell in love with earlier this year off this 12 inch. Featuring a dirty toast from Ragga legend Daddy Freddy, this one’s a guaranteed wicked an’ bad dry hump down the dual carriageway delight.
This one really throbs, and breaks into a new age, tree-hug, Stonehenge-fest of aerial layers and Casio-sounding beeps on E Numbers, nicely. The Dre cans are fizzling right now – and I’m certain it’s more than a worn out wire. 808 kick-intensive workout from versatile Glaswegian producer Dam Mantle, as he half-time snares with paced footwork filler, London popster Yadi’s recent release.
Not music made for laptop speakers. ‘Phones or subs on. Let’s set Saturday night into Sunday morning off right.
Fascnating how Cassie’s lack of presence created some sort of icon for trendsluts. In the last few years, her vocals have been sampled via numerous electronic/underground records, giving her a kind of vain relevance. But many producers stand by it, saying she creates enough space between anti-inflections to make chopping the voice up and placing over other rhythms a doddle. Crikey, who knew a science would develop from one of the most written-off R&B princesses of the Noughties…
Now Puffy’s got her werkin’ that sh*t, as she returns with this trailer for the first single since criminally ignored ‘Must Be Love’. A sophmore album is expected in 2012.
First featured Vince Kidd a little while back, since then he has gone on to support blog darling Lana Del Rey at her Scala gig in London as well as paving out some nice movements on his own which. This video is a stripped down version of his track ‘Smother Me’, as always really capturing Vince’s stunning vocal range, his voice gets me every time. Really looking forward to more new material in the new year!!
Last year Janelle Monae’s debut surpassed all other albums and pipped the top spot for PinBoard’s Album of the Year. In a stunning display of what true creativity can producer, she accomplished a conceptual and sonic feat by releasing her Grammy nominated LP The Archandroid.
With very little word from the lady herself in a while, curious minds were beginning to wonder what follow up plans were being put in place – in terms of delivery, but also more importantly of direction. With Monae it’s never “how will she follow up”, as it is “what will she follow it up with?” – her debut featured orchestras and musicians from around the world – once you go there, what else is left?
… While the aforementioned musical questions are yet to be answered, new information has emerged about her plans for 2012. In an interview with Back to Rockville, Monae says “I stopped touring so I could finish the album. Actually, I plan on releasing two albums next year. 87.799 percent of the writing is done… I will release them according to my soul clock. But I will try to stick to the scheduled release dates, which I know but can’t say. We already have a tour set but it hasn’t been announced yet. I’ll be with some really big artists. We’ll hit the Staples Centre three nights in a row in L.A. It’s a really big band. I can’t say who it is. I think next week you should probably hear something”. [via]
You wouldn’t expected anything less than for Diplo & Switch’s breakthrough electro-bashment mechanoid Major Lazer to drop this thoroughly silly, deadpan video for the new single. A sophmore LP from the duo is expected next year, and should be well in time for mash-out-poom-poom Carnival season.
