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...

Been too long, but Jean Grae just elevated the hip-hop video as an art form. More in common with the great mindbender/plot-twisty films than pretty much any music video. There are already sites and pages dedicated to figuring this thing out, but finding those, I’ll leave as an exercise for the reader. 🙂 KILL SCREEN VIDEO from W.A.R. Media on...

“DJ Magic Mike and the Royal Posse,” the album, is especially interesting; it came before that deeply disappointing brand of geographic discrimination against the south even had a chance to develop. This why I think the track “Def and Direct” is so interesting — emcee Infinite J seems to be channelling Keith Murray before there was even a Keith Murray. Love them big...