The Avalanches - Since I Left You

Easily one of the greatest things ever created by humans. The feeling i get from this record is so unique and poignant. Humorous and good natured without irony. This is an album made for people who love music. hard to believe its like 6 years since it came out, still as fresh as ever. pure genius genius genius genius.....

Some cool shit to check out for now and then some more later again

The Times They Are 'A Changing.

RJD2 - Fire (Magnificent City Instrumentals LP)
Basil Kirchin - Abstractions of the Industrial North LP
Le Knight Club
Mstrkrft - Easy Love
The Band - The Weight
Boards Of Canada - Boc Maxima
Kieran Hebden & Steve Reid - The Exchange Session Vol 2
El Perro Del Mar
First Nation - Coronation 7"
Gescom - Keynell AE Mixes
Tom Moulton - A Tom Moulton Mix

love and peace
all the best for the future.

Quack Quack

Timberland & Magoo - Vulneranble(Feat Pharell)

I used to be such a fan of pharrell, kinda lik a guilty pleasure. Though recently he has become a wanker and his rapping is shite. But this track was done round 1993 I believe with Timberland (who fuckin rules) and magoo featuring pharrell. Very cool track and def a solid classic still sounds fresh today...

insanely amazing album

Boards Of Canada - Music Has The Right To Children
probably one of the most gifted people to ever make music, boards of canada are unique and their sound is personal and truly trancending. i havent listened to it in a while but it still remains a full on classic. like millions of opaque balloons filled with soft, purple mist, floating out over dark, foreign oceans. i dunno. its mad. check it out.

Ten Things To Listen To This Week

I enjoy a spot of tea now and then, and this is some of the music I'm enjoying this week.

in no particular order:

Syclops
Justice - One Minute To Midnight
Gary Higgins - Red Hash LP
Darondo - Let My People Go LP
Felix Laband - Dark Days Exit LP
White Flight - White Flight LP
Madlib -Expressions Instrumentals LP
Mountains
Journey - Dont Stop Believing
Beyond The Wizards Sleeve (I told Richard about this one, as usual)

Right, Thats my list for this week. very exciting, very cool. everythings glorious.

If any of you caught Erol Alkan at Don Hills on Wednesday nite, I don't have to tell you how hard that man can rock a crowd. He really showed people the difference between American dj's and those across the pond.

Yes, Richard is from Sandton, no you can't borrow his pink shoes.

Defender - Defender

Defender - Bliss

This shit is pretty cool. Its under the name Defender, a side project of Alan Braxe and Fred Falke I believe. Very Daft Punk, but then who isn't? Richard would have found them first but the only place he looks for music is under his parent's bed. Very meaty, thick and heavy (not unlike Richard's past girlfriends).
Enjoy.

Gary Morris and The Curse Of Ike Turner

J. Viewz - Your Country(Hakan Lidbos Spectre Mix)
This is really a special track. just the melody the vocal, the chords. I think its just perfect. Its a great song to end the night with. Though Gary may not appreciate it as he doesn't really like music with normal sounds. Nevertheless its a great track and deffiantly worth seeking it out on vinyl.

Magnet - Hold on(Lindstrom Remix)
This is my fave track at the moment. Lindstrom can do no wrong at the moment. Here he turns indie kids Magnet into a stadium disco anthem. It kind of reminds me of a U2 song. Its just top quailty stuff.

Prince Far I

Prince Far I

Most people listen to dub, roots, old reggae, that kinda thing.
Out of the trillions of artists and tracks that occupied space in the history of Jamaican music, many are well-known, even more virtually unknown... lost in the annals of music like a tape delayed snare fading out into hiss and noise. Prince Far I achieved relative notoriety thru his unique executions and toastings over bass heavy slow-dub cuts. The man's voice is one of the deepest I've ever heard in reggae and most music. Chunky, booming yet gracious and almost thoughtful. A preacher among preachers, yet a disciple of some lost ancestral connection. A 'Moses' coming down from mountain, he attains a wisdom that achieves a depth not often found in so called 'toasters'. His stuff is not for everyone, but it is a fresh listen from the usual toastings of girls, ganja and good times. psalms for I has Prince Far I toasting psalms from the bible over meaty bass and sparse instrumentation. The record has a feeling of beginning and ending, yet still carrying on once over. It is a peak into a man's mind, a mind that champions the the beliefs of his elders, yet strives to remain relevant. There is a faint trace of sadness, whether attributed to the aforementioned strive for relevance or a feeling that Far I has seen the future and knows that no amount of reciting psalms will change the youths outcome. Far I leaves a legacy that few have challenged, standing alone on his mountain reading his ten commandments and hoping that down there, somewhere below the mist, people are heeding his reflections and perceptions.

Some Bay Area Funk

Darando - How I got over

Most of you have heard Shuggie Otis. If you havent, youre retarded. I was put on to this dude Darondo. His stuff kinda reminds me of Shuggie, but is more on a funky blues tip. The dude recorded a few albums back in the Bay Area Funk days and then stopped making music pretty much. His arrangements are tight and his voice oozes out the speakers. Whether you want some good shit for your ipod or something to drop early in the set or chilling with some friends, this suites anything. Another lost piece of insanely cool music. This is a track from the album Let My People Go. Enjoy...

Must Have Trax

ok, everyones got their own perspective. i may rate your chick ugly, you may rate richard's jeans way too tight.
but it goes as follows:

Marshall Jefferson - Move your body (the house music anthem)
true founder and still relevant and catchy as hell to this day.
old marshall may not be rockin the sets like he used to, but at least hes left a fucking pearl in his path. funk without irony.

James T Cotton - Oochie Coo
Cotton right now is the master of reuniting the old skool acid house vibes. This man is fucking evil! shit is dark. The synths creep and creep until you think they gonna jump out the fuckin speakers and mugg you. Demonic vocals in the backround, industrial 808's goin off left right centre. Another pearl of wisdom from (in my humble opinion) the most talented man in electronic music today, Mr Tadd Mullinix. Awesome fuckin stuff.

Cuizinier - Simplement le meilleur
The TTC dudes are doing some fuckin sick stuff recently. They've dropped the mixtape Pour Les Filles Street Tape Vol 02 recently and its a full-on assualt of euro-crunk (frunk as we at lagos like to call it) with unusual samples and chopped synths. These dudes should be making beats for swisha house or any of the crunk bitches in America. This track in particular makes fuckin great use of a Tina Turner sample which im sure all of you will recognize and have made out to at some point in your lives. Go relive the better times...

Felix Laband -Donkey Rattle
Felix hails from my old stomping grounds, Cape Town. This dude is a wizard with music. His first album was great chillout sunday afternoon vibes. His second album was like wat the fuck felix??!
4/4 Down The Stairs is a full-on masterpiece of electronic music. I could be extremely patronizing and say "wow, thats great for south africa", seeing that not the most thrilling stuff usually comes from my homeland. But this album is pure beauty and has so many layers of warmness, (k enuff with the moffie talk). This track in particular isnt really like the rest on the album, but it still fits in. Not many of you will know it, and Lagos were plannin on keepin it as a secret weapon. Evil subass, awesome kwaito beat makes for an all-round banger- great to impress your hipster friends and hipster loving djs.

Right, 4 is enuff for this week, anymore and you mullets would get confused. go find em, enjoy em, play em to your parents and their friends.

Next Level Shit

France Copland - Nwas Dopeman
Not much is know about this French Women except she makes fuckin bangin' tunes! Here she uses a cut-up proto/electro beat over NWA's Vocals, I forgot the name of the song, but u'll know it.

Smash TV - The Day
This came out last year on Ellen Allien's B-pitch label.Fuckin great track just been a sucker to these raw beats as of late, Just a faze!

Lagos Disco Machine

The amalgamation of underground and mainstream scenes, part 1

i checked out the Spank Rock show in ny the other night. that shit was insane, with TTC (those of the euro crunk or frunk persuasion) and philly booty bass dudes Plastic Little.
not being from america, its interesting to try and see how shit works and what circles people move thru. at the show, in particular, the crowd didnt seem typical new york hispsters, but rather ppl who appreciate good party music and do not differentiate. stardust is dropped next to crunk next to tina turner beats, mixed with ghetto tech into new french beats.
something is going on in america, and what seems now, its common musical cousin france. but what these scenes are drawing from is common mainstream asthetics with underground intentions, in fact no fucking intentions, its just party music. america still seems thoroughly splintered, but is slowly converging onto a platform where there is no difference between anything and everything is equal and cool in its own context.
k enuff bullshit for now

ll cool j - control yourself
sick fuckin synthed out beat, great comeback into the game, personally i like the instrumental better. juan atkins must be so proud of his legacy.

uffie - ready to uff
this is some of the coolest shit out there. mr oizo pulls out some 80's 909 booty breaks over uffies sexy/bitchy/schoolgirl vocals. this is how shit needs to be!
no pretences, just sick fuckin beats that make you wanna murder the dancefloor.

lark - mouth of me ep
interesting yet ultimately not the most enjoyable stuff. like bjork meets autechre meets undergound music scene 4 years ago. the effort is here, but what is lacking seems to be any fuckin funk or sexiness. south african music is on the rise, and i truly fucking love anythin electronic that comes from my homeland. but dudes, you aint warp! stop takin yourself so seriously. otherwise check it out.

sade - diamond life (1984)
this shit is so smooth. it oozes 80's london/caribeean vibes.
sade is one sultry bitch, and she knows it. beats may seem abit rudimentary and brittle, but drop this one when u with ur lady. smooth operator and your love is king are fuckin classics.

Fuckin' Poser

I recently got sent the Tracklist for the new Evil Nine Fabric mix. Its quite surprising. Check out Fabric for more details. Why the hell is Body Rockers on there.. I dunno I see bandwagon jumpers if you ask me.


01 Will Saul Ft. Ursula Rucker - Where Is It? [Evil Nine Remix] - Air
02 Simian Mobile Disco - Click - Simian Mobile Disco
03 Uffie - Ready To Uff [Dub] - Ed Banger
04 Bodyrockers - Round & Round [Switch Remix] - Mercury
05 Riton - Anger Man [Riton Re-Rub] - Riton
06 The Mystery Jets - The Boy Who Ran Away [Riton Extended Dub] - 679
07 Thomas Schumacher - Kickschool 79 - Spiel-Zeug
08 Paul Woolford Presents Bobby Peru - Erotic Discourse - 2020 Vision
09 Boys Noize - Volta 82 - Boys Noize
10 Bassbin Twins - The Dogs - Bassbin Records
11 John Starlight - John's Addiction - Television
12 Daft Punk - Technologic [Digitalism's Highway To Paris Remix] - Virgin
13 Franz Ferdinand - The Fallen [Ruined by Justice] - Domino
14 The Kreeps - All I Wanna Do Is Break Some Hearts [Boys Noize Remix 2] - Output
15 Test Icicles - What's Your Damage? [Digitalism Remix] - Domino
16 B-Movie - Nowhere Girl [Freeland Remix] - Some Bizarre
17 The Clash - London Calling - Sony BMG7 The Clash - London Calling - Sony BMG

Daft Punk

Daft Punk have really had such an amazing impact on Dance Culture. There first album Homework, pushed down the walls of what a house album could be. There influence however is untouched by anyone, not only in France but in the world. Look how after ten years they are still influencing dance music. Just look at Justice. But enough about shit you already know. Here is a video I found of Daft Punk at Coachella, for the unlucky that did not attend. I hope you enjoy it cos' I did.


Edit - Sorry that shit was to annoying!!

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