Certified geniuses A-Trak and El-P in a song with some other people in that style the kids like. Fine, fine, okay, the end makes it worth it.

That thing when your favorite band talks about their favorite band. Geoff Barrow of Portishead mentions Can, and wow. Vitamin C (from Ege Bamyasi). I couldn’t tell if I’d heard it before or if it was just one of those songs that’s so funky that it feels like it always existed? I checked whosampled.com and nothing was familiar, but either way, wow. Also, this post was inspired by a ridiculously serendipitous moment. I’d heard the song earlier in the week and was thinking about it driving to work when it CAME ON THE RADIO right then. Obviously, courtesy of FSU’s V89, for no one else around here would possibly ever ever ever play such a...

Dang, I was just listening to F*** Compton the other day. Longtime Ultramagnetic associate (and recent Dateline subject? weird) has passed away. (Click through, apparently he went at Kanye and Jay-Z recently too! Which I find quixotically...