Reflection Eternal - 3peat!

As previously pointed out( here , here and here) by Bob"bleading edge" Hurts, Reflection Eternal (Talib Kweli + Hi Tek) are out with a strong album this year.

I've been giving it a fair amount of airtime and cannot stop playing "Midnight Hour" featuring Estelle. I just fell in love with the mix of "doo wop", fidget and smooth beats.
Maybe not something for the clubs, but something to enjoy.

Over-n-out

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A trippy video and not the official one but I think this version fits better with the lyrics. Taken from MGMT’s latest album that unfortunately doesn’t contain all those remix-friendly dance floor hits as Oracular Spectacular.

DJ Highschool is giving you that midsummer vibe...

...just as MLK in his post below. Here's Sleepy Brown with "Me, My Baby & My Cadillac" and I can just say that's the way life suppose to be...

Bust a move!

Time for some old school stuff.

This beat/hook is just so good. Kind of forgot about this track for a while - but now it is back.

The video is just pure gravy!

But it is midsummer - so cannot let you go without a little something something for the weekend.

This remix of one of the most suited songs for a summer (after-)party just has a wicked rmx.

Fleetwood Mac Everywhere (Psychemagik Edit) by Psychemagik

Have a good weekend boys and girls!

The Whining Swedes ride again

Only six months after their latest release (Röd) the depressed Eskilstuna boys are back again. The new record "En plats i solen" is said to sound more like the early Kent, congratulations to all depressed emokids out there! The first double(?) single is out now, and with a name like this it's hard not to like it.

Kobeee!

Last night I sacrificed my sleep to watch LA Lakers beat the Boston Celtics in game 7 of the NBA finals, becoming back-to-back champs. I just felt like celebrating Kobe, Pau, Ron-Ron, Fisher, Lamar and the others in purple and gold (Sasha with those two critical freethrows in the final minute!) with this banger from a Staple Center regular.

Greater and Greatest!

What a night in terms of musical findings.
One from Chemical Brothers "Escape Velocity" which must be this years summer/Radio1 Banger!
Amazing electronic battle weaponish sound, gotta love it and looking forward to catching them at WoW or maybe more likely dance my ass of when Erol (or someone with equally good taste) drops it.



2nd one is a pure steal from friends over att Oddly Amazing (big up!) and features francolectro at it's best with kick as videos, snare drums and amazing funk. Breakbot really made Amsterdam's Paradisio come to live earlier this year, and let's hope he keeps going!

Breakbot - Baby I'm Yours (feat. Irfane) - HD from Ed Banger Records on Vimeo.

Over-n-out!

Keith Schofield = Genius

In my last (and first) post, I discovered director Keith Schofield. I'm just gonna leave you with a potpurri of great stuff he's been involved in. Enjoy!







and as a bonus...


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Venison

Back together and on tour this summer. Apparently there is also a new album in the works. This video is from a show in London last week.

Not that great rappers, a terrible video, and a quite ridiculous name. But I like it anyway, especially the hook. Here's Playaz Circle with "Look what I got".

Great Outdoors

Been away for the weekend reworking the world with a bunch of cool kids, unfortunately not with these two though. Great outdoors is taken from the mixtape Tacklebox, get it here.

Multi-tiered-love

Yesterday Oskar Linnros' (ex. Snook, Maskinen, Veronica Maggio Producer) pre-released his album "Vilja Bli" to Spotify Premium Users.

That in itself is a blogpost suited for businessmodel blogs - but let's just agree that he's made a marvelous job in the virtual space to be #1 at tracks (swedish radio 1 chart) with largely a digital presence and solid fan base!

My personal feeling - the album is short but sweet and clearly influenced by Hakan Hellstrom with self reflecting texts, samba drums and choruses.

If you're a Spotify Premium User you can listen to the album here.

For everyone else (and Bob Hurts in particular) here are two teasers from Oskar's official page :

Straight outta: NY

A couple of weeks ago I was on vacation in New York together with MLK, and in a post I made over there I said that I’d come back with some sort of a longer, city specific post about the birthplace of hip hop and rap, presenting some of the music that I’ve been listening to from the big apple through out the years. I’ve been stalling a bit, but here it is at last.

I might as well start by saying that I’m purposely jumping the most obvious tips (such as Ready to die, The Blueprint, Illmatic, Enter the Wu-Tang, etc.) to avoid repeating what’s already been said a hundred times before.

Also, here's a Spotify playlist with som NY rap that I've made for this post.

When I began to listen to rap in the mid 90’s, NY had been the epicenter of hip hop for over a decade and some of the greatest rappers of all time were dropping dope albums one after the other. Back then, I really was a NY-purist, and it actually took me some years to widen my perspective and accept that there were good rappers outside of the five boroughs. Anyway, a rapper that never really got the big break was Gangstarr associate Jeru the Damaja, and that despite a cool name and a nice voice. Can’t stop the prophet (Pete Rock remix) from 1994 is a true banger.



The following years, two of my absolute favourite albums were released; Dr. Octagonecologyst (1996) by Dr. Octagon (Kool Keith) and A prince among thieves (1999) by Prince Paul (I’ve already discussed the former in an earlier post). A prince among... is some sort of hip hop opera, where Prince Paul plays the role of Tariq, an upcoming rapper who’s hustling to get a record deal. The album is featured by many big names (Kool Keith among them), and should be listened to from start to ending at least once. This specific track is about dealing dope to crack fiends, played by De La Soul.




It’s no secret that I like Wu-Tang, and when it comes to the nine members’ solo projects, Ghostface has always been my favourite (even though Raekwon has had extremly high standard on the two albums he’s released) with his strange lyrics and seemingly huge imagination. All of his albums has high standard, but to mention a few; Supreme Clientel (2000) is nothing but great, and the two fish-albums (Fishscale and More fish) he released in 2006 are both really good.



Lately, NY has lost a lot of its reputation as the rap capitol of the world and hot rappers nowadays comes from all over the US. But them New York cats still know how to do it, and haven’t totally lost their touch. Consequence has been around for a while (as member of A Tribe Called Quest) and released a great album in 2007, Don’t quit your day job. Just like A prince among thieves it has some sort of plot, and apparentaly that’s something I like...



Another veteran from another (in)famous group is Prodigy (who’s apparently back in jail). 2008 he dropped Product of the 80’s which I highly recommend. Actually, I think its the best he’s made since Mobb Deep’s classic debute The Infamous.



One promising young rapper is Corey Gunz, a second generation rapper (son of Peter Gunz) with a great flow. No album releases so far, but alot of mixtapes that are making me sure it’s only a matter of time before he drops one.



I know that this post was too long, anybody still reading?