wow!

Jay Electronica is coming to Way Out West!

Ha Ha Ha HA

Exceptional beat from the Italian born Fid Mella! Ha Ha Ha Ha is from the new album Hi-Hat Club vol 4: Chop Shop, together with fellow producer Brenk. And as the name says, a lot of chopping going on here.

World Unite/Lucifer Youth Foundation

New song from a mysterious Manchester band, I’ll leave you with that. Very good though.

One more

Do you remember OK Go? I posted their video for This Too Shall Pass a while back (if you haven’t seen it already you should definitely check it out here). Now they return with another phenomenal video, the new song, End Love, isn’t as good as the previous one but it doesn’t matter with a video like this.

Go West!

When The College Dropout came in 2004 I'm sure DJ High School already knew what was coming, but I was blown away. Who's this West fella? A producer? What a producer. The followers though hasn't been as good (if you ask me) and his behaviour at the VMA last year was best described by Barack Obama. September 14 it's time for his fifth album with the somewhat interesting title Good Ass Job. When I first heard this assumed first single it reminded me a bit of reverend West, and now I'm looking forward to September 14.

Kanye West – Power (Feat. Dwele)

V A C A T I O N

Sleep, eat, coffee, bathe, sleep, stroll, Tour de France, sausage, cheese, ham, sleep, eat, bathe. An extract from my week so far, and the rest will look pretty much the same. What's not to like. I've also have had the time to find some nice tunes to put in my pocket for upcoming strolls.



Making Fever Ray sound so jolly is just fantastic.




Fake Blood makes wicked remixes, and apparently he also knows how to make a disco anthem in 2010...




While one A-town rapper releases a long expected album, another one is about to release his first. Donnis "Fashionably Late" mixtape was released a few weeks ago, and this is my favourite, with a nice sample from La Roux In for the Kill.




Speaking of La Roux. She's the perfect example of an artist-whose-music-is-really-ordinary-and-dull-until-someone-talented-comes-along-and-saves-the-day. As in this case, datA.




And to round off this evening, from my OldiesGoldies-collection. The only thing I know is that they are from Belgium, but that's also everything I need to know as long as they keep doing what they do.

Too long I know, but what the hell. It's my vacation.

Dangeresque

This was the beginning of a love affair. Since then, Danger and I have had a lot of great moments. Now I'm feeling like Brian May, there's a new kid on the block. Ishivu is a youngster (17...) from Gothenburg who sure knows how to crank the filter knobs. I think this is the beginning of another beautiful friendship.

A-team

A while ago this years weirdest collaboration was released; MF Doom's and Sacha Baron Cohen's EP "The Mask and the Moustache". They call themselves MF Borat, and I don't know how closely they have worked togehter with the EP, or if MF Doom just have been inspired by Borat, but I do know the music is good.



MF Doom has done alot of great - and strange - music since the late 90's/early 00's, such as Operation Doomsday (1999), Vaundeville Villain (2003), MM..Food? (2004 - my favourite) and The Mouse & the Mask (2005) as DangerDoom, together with Dangermouse, and he's used almost as many aliases as Kool Keith (who has the world record in alias-using). Below is "Rap Snitch Knishes" from MM..Food?

Finally here!

Late last night I got a text message from Bob, reading something like "feels like Sir Lucious Left Foot The Son Of Chico Dusty can be the album of this summer, it's fkn nice", and I couldn't have said it better myself.

I've had high expectations for this album ever since I first heard Big Boi was releasing a solo album, and I've mentioned it here on the blog at least twice. Now that it's here, it's not letting anyone down, and I'm sure it will be seen as one of this years best albums when 2010 is summarized. Go listen to it!

Southern slang

I've been listening to some new rap lately, but I havn't really found anything worth posting. Instead, I'll throw out a tip of a classic: Scarface's "The Fix" from 2002. In many ways, Houston naitive Scarface (together with Outkast) was the first rapper from the south who really gained respect all over the U.S., and he truly broke stride for the wave of rappers we've seen coming out of the south this last decade.

"The Fix" is a brilliant album from start to finish, with bangers such as My Block (feat. Kanye West), In between us (feat. Nas), and below Guess who's back (feat. Jay-Z & Beanie Sigel).



While I'm at it, I might as well give you a track from another H-town rapper, Slim Thug. This song was released on a mixtape for the NBA all star game in Dallas earlier this year, and it's kinda' suitable now that "The summer of Lebron" has got its ending with him joining up with D-Wade and CB4 in Miami. Nothing but a ring would be a disapointment, right?

Swedish open

Although the name of the band is Tennis I don’t think that this song will be heard at Peppes Bodega this week. It’s a nice summer song though and a band that we will hear more from in the future.

In the summer

Crystal Fighters, one of the coolest bands around are back with a follow up to the epic Xtatic Truth. This song is called In the Summer and I tip my hat, they have done it again.