My last post of 2010

Ending this first blog-year with latino rapper Kurious, and a nice tune from his very good album "II" from 2009 where he has joined up with MC Search and MF Doom. Apparently they had a video budget comparable to Guns 'n' Roses' "Estranged"...



Me and the boys will return after new years eve with a top ten of 2010. Happy new year!

Zweitausendzehn

Alrighty, my posts have been few and far between - shame on me.

But just as you use christmas presents to make up for time lost with family - here's my christmas present to you: something close to a "best of 2010".

Category A - Mad Bass

Mark Ronson - Bang Bang Bang (Russ Chimes Remix)

That slappy bass after 1.30 is just off the hook.

Mark Ronson - Bang Bang Bang (Russ Chimes Remix) by Yobbin

Afrojack - Pacha on Acid

You know you're on to a hit when every act at the festival plays it as a main number. Even if it sounds like a total "Teasing mr charlie" rip off.

Afrojack - Pacha On Acid by STrance

Category B - Mad Beat

N.E.R.D. - Hot n Fun (Boys Noize remix)

Still disappointed it hasn't hit home more, I just love that mad bass beat.

NERD-Hot-N-Fun-feat-Nelly-Furtado-(Boys-Noize-Remix) by Electronic Glasgow

Carte Blanche - Gare du nord

this is just an mf techno dance anthem, period.

CARTE BLANCHE - GARE DU NORD by Riton

Category C - That Friday Feeling

Aloe Blacc - I need a dollar

Don't know what it is, but it's a f*n catchy tune.

Aloe Blacc - I Need A Dollar by stonesthrow

Tensnake - Coma Cat

OMG, the friday feeling, OMG the friday feeling!

TENSNAKE - Coma Cat (Radio Edit) by onelovemusic >

Duck Sauce - Barbara Streisand

I thought you could not follow up on aNYway, damn it I was wrong. A-track + Armand = magic!

duck sauce barbara streisand by perff

Category D - Album

For me it's really only one contender, subjectively, but because it's the only artist who's been consistent enough to have me prefer the album over other artist's songs in the itunes list. Congrats Oskar Linnros.

Oskar Linnros - 25 by underhisempire2

Peace Love and a prosperous 2011.

Good Day Today

A dope beat from Pharell and Chad.



A great tune from, apparently a multi talented, David Lynch. It comes with a couple of remixes due to be released next month, listen to the Boys Noize version below. I’m looking forward to hear what Norway’s Diskjokke makes of it.

Have a merry Dipset christmas!

Juelz Santana knows how to celebrate christmas...

When The Saints go Machine

Here you go; some great Danish indiepop/scando-disco.

(Piano + Electric Guitar) x Rock'n'roll = The shit

This week I finally got to see my favourite swedish band, The Soundtrack of Our Lives, and while listening to a great version of Saturation Wanderers I got inspired to make a post about perhabs the best kind of rock: piano based classic rough rock'n'roll. Adding piano to electric guitar, a simple drum beat and bass in the right way - like in the examples below - makes magic.

Starting out with Stones, who really mastered this kind of rock on their masterpiece Exile on main street:


After their raw debute, Guns came back with slick and bombastic productions on Use your illusions I and II, including a lot of piano:


Movin' on up by Primal Scream was released the same year as Use your... and is a bright spot on an otherwise mediocre album (Screamadelica):


Last but not least our swedish heroes TSOOL, and the song named above in a aucustic version:

Go Norway!

I’ve posted a lot of Hip Hop today so I’m signing off with something a bit different, something old but gold; Titanic with the song Sultana.

The Joy pt 2

The Joy, the best beat and perhaps the best song of 2010? Well, before Mr West paid a lot of dollars to Pete Rock for it, Strong arm Steady used it and the result is presented below. However I’m still sold for Jay Z’s verse in the “official” version, it’s funny though how similar Kanye and Kid Cudi sounds. Don’t be surprised if this beat shows up in a lot of mixtapes the coming months, Rah Digga has already used it. If I can make a wish for Christmas I would like to get a Curren$y/Lill Wayne/Wiz Khalifa collaboration or perhaps an Andre 3000/Raekwon/Ghostface/Bun B version.



And here’s the Mr West version once more, since it disappeared from the first post a couple of weeks back.

Black man is God, the Black woman is Earth

Grand Puba, KRS-ONE and DJ Premiere enlightens us about the forgotten 5% movement, The Nation of Gods and Earths. (Unfortunately only a Radio Rip)

NYC Thugcore

Some excellent dark and raw NYC Thugcore from Roc Marciano. His latest album Marcberg was released earlier this year and it’s well worth a listen. The song below; “Scarface Ni**a”, will be included in the updated version of the album.