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Blake + Budos = Bangin'

Tue, 24 Aug 2010 22:30:05 -0400

Emcee John Blake and musician Chris Renn�, two of the guys behind Jailbeat Productions' amazing “The Blakes Have Got New Faces” remix of Vampire Weekend's “Blake's Got a New Face” from a few years back are doin' it again!

This time Blake and Renn� took tracks from Brooklyn retro-Funk orchestra The Budos Band's 2009 self-titled EP, remixed/rearranged them and laid a bunch of blustery, braggadocios raps over top on ‘The Budos (Blake Style).’

John Blake ‘The Budos (Blake Style)’ (.ZIP)

Remixicans With Guns

Tue, 24 Aug 2010 22:06:53 -0400

If you didn't get enough or Ernest Gonzales, a.k.a. Mexicans With Guns, from his “Dame Lo” video or “Me Gusto” EP you should download the 14-track ‘Remixican’ LP.

‘Remixican’ collects a whole buttload of the many, many remixes Mexicans With Guns has done for the likes of CYNE, Bassnectar, Faunts, Rainbow Arabia and many, many more.

Mexicans With Guns ‘Remixican’ (.ZIP)

With Beats From Batsauce the Livin' is Easy

Tue, 24 Aug 2010 20:44:16 -0400

The folks over at Modern Shark are paying you back for giving them your hard-earned $2 for that Iller Than Theirs digital 7'' the other day with more totally free music!

This freebie comes from Floridian/German beatmaker Batsauce, who crafted a bunch of tracks out of samples of different versions of “Summertime” from ‘Porgy and Bess’ and gave them to the likes of The Perceptionists, Baje One, Paten Locke and others.

‘Summer Time’ is the The Smile Rays producer's first project for Modern Shark, for whom he's also working on a forthcoming free EP project with the label's founder Baje One.

Batsauce ‘Summer Time’ (.ZIP)

Black Spade Stacks the Deck Only to Knock it Over

Mon, 23 Aug 2010 00:28:04 -0400

We haven't heard from St. Louis-bred emcee, singer and producer Black Spade since his 2008 debut ‘To Serve With Love.’ He still hasn't served up the official follow-up to that outstanding breakout release. But he has given us something to hold us over until he does in the form of an 18-track “mixtalbum” titled ‘Build & Destroy.’

Whether album or mixtape it's good to hear new material from Spade, a.k.a. Stoney Rock, who builds the beats on the mostly self-produced set around familiar samples from the likes of Ramsey Lewis, Stevie Wonder and The Beatles among others. Guests and guest-producers include Onra, Coultrain, J*Davey and Miguel Atwood Ferguson.

Black Spade ‘Build & Destroy’ (.ZIP)

You‘re Gettin’ Your Kicks Scuffed, By Iller Than Theirs

Sun, 22 Aug 2010 20:16:44 -0400

Brooklyn emcees Kray and Tone Tank, otherwise known as Iller Than Theirs, are back, with support from fellow Nuk Fammer Scott Thorough, with a double dose of late-‘80s-inspired fastrap!

The two-track single, available as a “digital 7’'” from Modern Shark, boasts the scenester-smashing “The Goodest Look!!!” on one side and the fashion-rapper-bashing “Sneaker Kids” on the other.

The Goodest Look by modernshark

Sneaker Kids by modernshark

You should buy it, because these dudes have already given you a ton of free music, and it only costs a measly $2 to download it from either iTunes of the Amazon MP3 download stores!

No, No Antony...Thank YOU

Sun, 22 Aug 2010 01:12:23 -0400

Composer and performer Antony Hegarty, lead-singer of Antony and the Johnsons, is a very pretty boy with a very pretty voice.

I love him.

I also love his new single and video “Thank You for Your Love.”

The “Thank You for Your Love” EP is out August 23rd and 24th in the UK and US on Rough Trade and Secretly Canadian respectively.

It's also on Antony's forthcoming fourth LP ‘Swanlights.’

‘Swanlights’ is due in October.

Mexicans With Guns, and Girls, and Blood, and Bass

Sun, 22 Aug 2010 01:01:09 -0400

You‘ve heard music from San Antonio-based beatmaker Mexicans With Guns on Imageyenation a few times before. And now that I’ve found a version of the video for his new track “Dame Lo” that's not hosted by some blog in their proprietary player you can see his music too!

The track is a sexy-but-sinister murderer that‘ll crush both trunks and dancefloors alike with its heavy load of low end. The video is one of the most striking clips I’ve seen recently thanks to its mixture of streetwise seduction, shamanic diabolism and graphic violence.

“Dame Lo” is the b-side to the “Me Gusto” 12'' which is out now on Innovative Leisure Records.

Just A Friendly Reminder

Thu, 12 Aug 2010 11:01:03 -0400

Hang Loose.

URBALTcast for 08/10/10 � From Blammo!

Tue, 10 Aug 2010 16:08:29 -0400

The only thing longer than the wait between episodes of the URBALTcast was the wait between new episodes of ‘Ren & Stimpy!’

This new URBALTcast episode is another special “crossover” with littlefishik's Head-Scratching Awesome podcast!

Enjoy...you eeeediot!

Playlist --

1. Ira Lee �Your Little Sister's Bike�
2. Grovesnor �Find a Way to Stop Him�
3. Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti �Fright Night (Nevermore)�
4. Homeboy Sandman �The Carpenter�
5. Junk Science �No Matter Rap�
6. V8 & Shortrock �Sewer Ruby (Rosepitich Dark)�
7. Mantler �In Stride�
8. Brian Wilson �Vega-tables�
9. The Younger Lovers �Hey Jody�
10. Young Marble Giants �Choci Loni�
11. Major Lazer �Jump Up (Thom Yorke Remix)�
12. Big Urban �Henry Miller�
13. Mexicans With Guns �Me Gusto� feat. Chico Mann
14. Jo Yeong-Wook �Cries and Whispers�
15. ???

Background Sounds --

1. Shlohmo �Spoons (Shigeto Remix)�
2. Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti �Reminiscences�
3. The Slits �Liebe and Roamnze�
4.Black Moth Super Rainbow + The Octopus Project �Psychic Swelling�

Urban Alternatives PODCast - 08/10/10

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Gonzales' New Video is a Movie With No Plot, Written in the Back of a Piss-Powered Taxi

Fri, 6 Aug 2010 20:01:49 -0400

What happens when songwriter and producer Gonzales makes a movie and brings his friends�like Peaches, Tiga and Boys Noize�along for the ride? Well, this...

The song is called “I am Europe,” and it's from Gonzales's forthcoming album ‘Ivory Tower,’ which is also the soundtrack to the film of the same name.