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Weezy’s Kobe homage — which leaked today, hours before the opening of what should be a dizzying NBA Finals series — is hopefully the only time we’ll ever hear an Elie Seckbach sound clip used to dramatically punctuate the ending of a rap song.
Lil Wayne: Kobe Bryant | MediaFire
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1. The Long Lost, ‘Overmuch’ | ZSHARE
2. Grizzly Bear, ‘Two Weeks’ | ZSHARE
3. These Are Powers, ‘Glass Blocks’ | ZSHARE
4. Prefuse 73, ‘Hairy Faces (Stress)’ | ZSHARE
5. Tanya Morgan, ‘So Damn Down (DJ Mix)’ | ZSHARE
6. Odd Nosdam, ‘Fly Mode’ | ZSHARE
7. Swan Lake, ‘Paper Lace’ | ZSHARE
8. Carlos Nino & Miguel Atwood-Ferguson, ‘Fall in Love (Slum Village cover)’ | ZSHARE
9. Eleni Mandell, ‘Personal’ | ZSHARE
10. Here We Go Magic, ‘Fangela’ | ZSHARE
11. Wild Light, ‘Lawless River’ | ZSHARE
12. Camera Obscura, ‘French Navy’ | ZSHARE
13. Yeah Yeah Yeahs, ‘Hysteric’ | ZSHARE
14. Restiform Bodies, ‘Interactive Halloween Bear (Lazer Sword Wizard Manhole Remix)’ | ZSHARE
15. Röyksopp, ‘Vision One’ featuring Anneli Drecker | ZSHARE
16. Circlesquare, ‘Hey You Guys (The Juan MacLean Remix Edit)’ | ZSHARE
17. The Ting Tings, ‘That’s Not My Name (LA Riots Remix)’ | ZSHARE
18. Phoenix, ‘1901′ | ZSHARE
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As they’ve done in the past with indie-hop labels Stones Throw, Chocolate Industries and Definitive Jux, [Adult Swim] — purveyors of fine midnight-hour weirdo programming — have again collaborated with a renowned progressive electronic imprint. This time around it’s paragon of the (self-coined) Avant-Pop, Ghostly International, a label that’s home to such as acts as downtempo bedroom crooner Milosh and popular minimalist house producer Matthew Dear. With Ghostly Swim, the listener spans the far reaches of the noted IDM label’s roster (and beyond, with a few non-GI performers contributing), hitting every dark corner and touching upon a vast multitude of approaches to contemporary electronic dance music.
To close out this brief post I’ll share my two early favorites from the collection, as offered up first by the boom-&-glitch mastery of Cepia, and secondly by School of Seven Bells, whose velvety, modulated vocals and old-school future-shock backdrop on the track “Chain” hearken vaguely to the detached cool of 80s freestyle singers such as Debbie Deb.
Cepia: Ithaca / MP3
School of Seven Bells: Chain / MP3
Smash these here words to beam over to [adult swim]’s page for Ghostly, where you’ll be able to download all of the album’s tracks for free, either one by one or as a single zip bundle.
Now if the guys on Williams Street would only bring back Perfect Hair Forever and churn out those episodes of Venture Bros. with a bit more regularity…
Following up a bit on that last post, here are some photos from this past weekend’s Dirty Projectors and No Kids show at The Echo. As is the case with all show photos I take, several more can be found on MySpace. And, as is also the case with all show photos I take, they’re not that great. But I’m getting better! I think.
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+ My two favorite songs from what was, as expected, a terrific set through and through. They sprinkled in a couple of new ones as well — check the set list.
Dirty Projectors: Thirsty and Miserable / MP3
Dirty Projectors: Imagine It / MP3
Purchase Dirty Projectors releases from Dead Oceans!
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Homespun visual accompaniment for the song “Perverted Undertone” (from the second — and last, so far — of Scott Herren’s great albums under the Prefuse 73 handle, One Word Extinguisher). Not my favorite Prefuse song by any stretch, but that was easy to overlook, as I enjoy what gentleman BossQuito has done with the video, clipping mostly just the graceful moments from some dreamy, melodramatic, mid-sixties space adventure flick. If you’d be interested in seeing more of his work, head on over to his YouTube to check out the rest of the stuff he has posted.
Prefuse 73: Perverted Undertone / MP3
Please enjoy what is perhaps the most effective commercial on television today.
Oh man, that kid is such an asshole!
Someone needs to get to work on a documentary in which a camera crew follows around this fictional child all day long, and just records him mocking everyone he comes into contact with, just as he does his poor grandfather who is a dead ringer for Celtic legend Bill Russell.
Like, he’s eating lunch at an Italian restaurant and he’s helped by an acne-riddled young waiter and so when the boy gets his pizza he spreads it all over his own face and yells something at the waiter, or, I don’t know, I’m not good with ideas.
A tiny clip of vague inspiration from John DeLorean: worldwide hustler, bon vivant, automobile engineer and developer of the eponymous muscle car (and chariot to one Martin Seamus McFly), the De Lorean DMC-12; also, the man whose story is told through the context of Stainless Style, the new record by super-duo Neon Neon.
The collaboration between blip wiz Boom Bip and super furry singer Gruff Rhys brings its DeLorean-devoted sonics to the platform at Amoeba Music in West Hollywood tonight, playing a free in-store for what should be an early evening crowd filled in equal parts by fans of the Echo Park transplant’s local DJ sets, a number of SFA loyalists, and innocent Amoeba regulars whose hopes for a quiet Monday of shopping will be trampled by thumping party jams curved by Italo disco and the life of an undersung playboy.
As for the gentlemen playing said jams, their pulsing duet feels the warm gallery light of North American record stores tomorrow (though its international release actually occurred today). Nearly as thick in guest accompaniment as it is in strobelight-sharp synthesizer strikes, the album finds folks like Fat Lip, Spank Rock’s Naeem, and Har Mar Superstar all contributing in their own ways to a Cobrasnake-sponsored dance party that’s as kitschy as it is catchy. Although I’m still a bit mixed as to how I feel about the record as a whole, I’d like to share with you here two songs from Stainless Style that my ears have embraced pretty snugly.
Neon Neon: Belfast / LISTEN
Neon Neon: Luxury Pool, with Fat Lip / LISTEN
but I overheard on an escalator that former Panamanian military dictator Manny Noriega was kicked off the show last night (just missing The Top 12 by the pock-marked skin of his teeth). I can only imagine how heated the competition must be this cycle.
Here is what I think is the last of the bunch, out of all of the photographs taken during our trek up north a couple of weeks ago on the trail of St. Vincent. Credit goes to Belle for all the swell flickery.
I’ve strung together a quick mixtape as well at the bottom of the post, comprised of songs written about photographs.
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Spoon: I Turn My Camera On / LISTEN
Margo Guryan: Take a Picture / LISTEN
Bishop Allen: Click, Click, Click, Click / LISTEN
Astrud Gilberto: Photograph / LISTEN
Elliott Smith: Pictures of Me / LISTEN
Inlets: Pictures of Trees / LISTEN
Steely Dan: Peg / LISTEN
Dr. Teeth and The Electric Mayhem (The Muppets): Can You Picture That? / LISTEN
Paul Simon: Kodachrome / LISTEN
Ola Podrida: Photo Booth / LISTEN
The Faint: Some Incriminating Photographs / LISTEN
Braid: Killing a Camera / LISTEN
The Kinks: Picture Book / LISTEN
The Sea and Cake: All the Photos / LISTEN
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All of the original albums on which the songs above were featured can be purchased through Amazon.
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*birdcall*
From ESPN:
“Chris Andersen is set to make his return from an NBA drug suspension after being reinstated by commissioner David Stern on Tuesday.
Andersen’s rights belong to the Hornets, provided they offer him a contract in the next 30 days, which they are expected to do. The team scheduled a news conference following practice Tuesday.
“We were always more concerned with Chris Andersen the person rather than Chris Andersen the player and are pleased that he has taken the appropriate measures to get himself reinstated by the NBA,” general manager Jeff Bower said in a statement.
“We will now begin the process of getting him back on the court and back in a Hornets uniform as quickly as possible.”
Andersen was dismissed and disqualified from the NBA on Jan. 27, 2006 for violating the league’s drug policy. He first became eligible to apply for reinstatement to the league late last month. Since he was “dismissed and disqualified” for a specific violation, he was forced to wait two years to apply for reinstatement.
According to the league’s collective bargaining agreement, a player can only be disqualified for a fourth positive test for performance-enhancing drugs, or a first positive test for “drugs of abuse.”
The drugs on that list are amphetamine and its analogs, which include methamphetamine; cocaine; LSD; opiates, including heroin, codeine and morphine; and PCP.
Andersen, 28, averaged 5.0 points and 4.8 rebounds in 32 games in 2006 before his suspension, his fifth season in the NBA. He played three seasons for the Nuggets before joining the Hornets.
Known as “Birdman” for his high-flying dunks, Andersen was a fan favorite among Hornets fans.
He is best known for his performance in the NBA’s dunk contest in 2005 when he needed eight tries to finish his first dunk.”
Welcome home, oh fine-feathered friend.
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Birdman, featuring Clipse: What Happened to That Boy / MP3 / $$$
