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January 2012
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[DJ Mix] Jeremy Glenn - White Light Mixes #51
New mix by Kitchen favorite, Jeremy Glenn sent by the homie, Chilly at 2plustwo. Love how the classic late 80’s/early 90’s deep house sound is coming back into vogue (pun not intended… seriously!)
Playlist:
Soul Clap – Dreams of Tomorrow
Boris Werner – How Far Can I Go
Dinky – This is Your Heart
San Soda – Cocomo
Motor City Drum Ensemble – Raw Cuts #3
Eddie Amador – House Music (Message Mix)
Hannah Holland – Paris Acid Ball
KINK & Neville Watson – Night Time Raw
Virgo Four – It’s A Crime (Cariboo Mix)
B.D.I. – City & Industry
Sasse – Hot For You
Greg Paulus – Nightime (Crazy P Remix)
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New York Times crossword editor, reader clash over definition of illin’
Via @torontodotcom
A clue in Saturday’s New York Times crossword has caused an Internet uproar over the correct meaning of the word “illin’.”
The divisive clue, 28-down, read, “Wack, in hip-hop,” and the correct answer provided was ILLIN.
New York freelance writer Julieanne Smolinski noticed what she thought was a mistake and sent an email to the paper’s correction line. The next Monday afternoon she got an email from the esteemed New York Times crossword editor, Will Shortz…
CLICK HERE to read the full article. [via DJ Anousheh]
NO TRIVIA: 10 Records From 2011 That You Probably Didn’t Hear Or Maybe You Heard Them But Didn’t Realize Just How Great They Were? →
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- B L A C K I E, True Spirit And Not Giving A Fuck: So, if Death Grips is “Waka Flocka Flame for grad students,” that makes B L A C K I E “Waka Flocka for angsty idealistic high-schoolers,” which is preferable. Rites Of Spring raps right here. Fuck with it! Thanks to Jawnita and Monique_R for telling me about this one.
- Dark Castle, Surrender To All Life Beyond Form: Dude/chick metal duo do EyehateGod strangled doom while conjuring up John Carpenter, D&D, and something that could’ve popped up on a Will Oldham record. Despite the mannered metal weirdness, these guys never turn into producer Sanford Parker’s guinea pigs.
- Dope Body, Nupping: Punk-funk grunting and super dynamic metal-not-metal riffing that boldly enters RHCP and RATM territory, unashamed. For real, like this thing’ll get funky from time to time, shoving some genuine grooves into defiantly sludgy noisy angry stuff. I got yelled at for listening to this loudly on the train once.
- James Nasty, The Truth About James Nasty: Scrunches up the feeling of a night of rocking off into 30 breathless minutes, culminating in a near-sober, morning light refix of the Temptations’ “My Girl.” Baltimore Club is a missing piece in this whole global dance music turned American pop phenomenon happening right now.
- Los, Worth The Wait: This Baltimore Dude’s got that Lil Wayne ability to take popular radio hits and rap his ass off over them and make them feel new and vital once again. Original songs are something he’s still figuring out, but freestyling over nearly every relevant hip-hop hit from 2011 makes this one thrilling enough.
- Mama’s Mustache, Next Level: Dirty South space R&B from the duo of Jeff B. and the great Mr. DJ. Big Rube shows up! Pair this with Nappy Roots’ Nappy Dot Org and you can pretend Cee-Lo doesn’t exist and still observe that the Dungeon Family did really well last year. You didn’t hear this because you had to buy it. Shame on you.
- Nacho Picasso, For The Glory: When this self-effacing Seattle rapper got to that Beta Ray Bill reference on “Marvel,” it became clear he wasn’t mining entry-level comics references. The Frazetta-esque cover says the same thing. That’s pretty much the story of this entire tape: A whole lot of thought and effort put into a rarefied, regular dude milieu.
- No Gang Colors, Honorary Cop: Casually collapses subgenres (grindcore, boom-bap, screw music, doom) into one big fast wail and brings back hatred for the pigs months before #OWS did that for all the rest of us. The lyrics on “Helpful Asshole” are screamed-out poetry. And it’s all over in less than seven minutes.
- Robag Wruhme, Thora Vukk: Tasteful field recordings amplify the warm-hearted emotion throbbing along to these halcyon house beats. Man, who had a better year than this guy? January’s mix Wuppdeckmischmampflow, this one in April, and Donnerkuppel in November. Robag is that dude right now, even if nobody knows it.
- Zilla, Zilla Shit: Confessional, pissed-off street shit featuring most of Huntsville. Zilla’s got clever, off-to-the-side hooks, can molt into a wizened O.G. type when necessary, and does sad and angry as good as anybody in Brick Squad. Raps over OutKast’s “You May Die” which I’ve wanted someone to do since I first heard ATliens.
This list seriously needed some embed streams but I guess Brandon couldn’t make it too easy for you. Now go google some of these albums and see if you agree with him….
Girl (I Used To Know) (feat. Boldy James)
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[New Music] @iamjmsn - girl i used to know (MP3 stream)
|| song of the moment: @iamjmsn - girl i used to know
Next thing poppin’ out of Toronto after Drake, The Weeknd, Kardi, Anjulie and Keyz N Krates??
[Mixtape] Listen to Thaddeus Clark's Dubtape (FULL album stream)
New project from the homie, Thaddeus Clark.
Dig what you hear? Download it here: hellabasic.com/dubtape [code: heartfelt]
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Jay-Z - GLORY feat. B.I.C | Life + Times →
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Jay-Z - GLORY feat. B.I.C [@LifeandTimes via @Caramanica / @artsbeat]
Kid was just born and already made it on a record with Hova, lol! Benefits of nepotism….
Kenyan director, Wanuri Kahiu sees opportunity in sci-fi for African film
Kenyan helmer see opportunity in sci-fi
Two years after her first feature film was released to critical acclaim, Kenyan helmer Wanuri Kahiu is poised to make a splash on the international scene — and she’s hoping the notoriety lets her challenge some of the lingering stereotypes about her homeland.
“I think it’s time to imagine a different type of Africa,” she says.
With two features in the pipeline and a TV pilot for Turner Broadcasting recently wrapped, the 30-year-old has come a long way since she left Kenya as a teen to study management science in the U.K., then moved to the U.S. and enrolled in a filmmaking course at UCLA.
After working on “The Italian Job” and other Hollywood productions, she returned to Kenya in 2006 and realized she’d found her life’s calling. Her feature debut, “From a Whisper,” which focused on the aftermath of the American Embassy bombing in Nairobi in 1998, won a slew of awards, including best picture and director at the African Movie Academy Awards in 2009.
Kahiu went on to become part of the inaugural class of filmmakers chosen for Focus Features’ Africa First program, which helps five young African helmers produce short films each year.
Her short, “Pumzi,” envisioned a dystopic futuristic world whose inhabitants fight for water and pay for air. After screening at Sundance and Berlin, it established Kahiu as a promising director willing to push boundaries.
The exposure “Pumzi” gave her opened up opportunities. Last month, Kahiu wrapped the Turner-commissioned pilot for “Sauti,” a drama series about a Kenyan news magazine in Nairobi. The skein would be a promising step for Kahiu: The helmer realizes Turner would allow “Sauti” to have a more pan-African reach than local broadcasters, and would offer her more creative freedom.
Most Kenyan nets, she says, lack the coin to produce the ambitious series she envisions. Many are reluctant, too, to get behind a skein that tackles politically charged stories.
And Kahiu is moving ahead with other projects.
A plan to adapt a Kenyan novel for the screen is in development with South African producer Steven Markovitz — part of an initiative by Markovitz and Congolese helmer Djo Munga, dubbed ImagiNations, to produce six films based on contemporary African novels.
Kahiu is also planning to continue her pursuit of sci-fi themes with an adaptation of the Nigerian-American writer Nnedi Okorafor’s post-apocalyptic novel, “Who Fears Death.” Working with U.S.-based Completion Films, she’s planning a pan-African production that would lens in three countries.
In sci-fi, she’s found a genre to match the scale and creative bent of her storytelling ambitions.
“I really like the flexibility of the genre,” she says, “and the ability to use metaphors to say a lot more challenging things about the political or social climate in Africa.”
New Music: 50 Cent - “Girls Go Wild” feat. Jeremih (MP3)
Download/stream “Girls Go Wild” from Jeremih and Fiddy HERE.
Read The Standard Hotels' interview with Le Bain regular, Eli Escobar
Read our interview with Le Bain regular, Eli Escobar
