New productions from Madlib; an ode to the current zeitgeist of weed even in the eyes of hip-hop; medical marjiuana.
MEDical Card from Stones Throw on Vimeo.
The End of The World is Bigger Than Love
If there’s anything that makes fall fell even closer than all the back-to-school displays lurking every big-box store and the mere three weeks remaining until September it’s a new Jens Lekman song. His last lp “Night Falls Over Kortedala” is a classic in my books, and one of those albums that remains in constant rotation for me as a nice piece of nostaligia from a strange time in my life… if you will 
His new single “The End of the World Is Bigger Than Love” from his upcoming LP is a classic Jens pop affair with his quintessential quirky lyrics to boot. Enter your e-mail in the little box below to snag the download from Jens’ website.
FUCK YEAH FEST !!!
An amazing line-up, for an even sweeter price? Mp3 spam 2 follow.
Chilled.
I’ve always had an affinity for electronic music compilations, from bassline & d’n'b shenanigans to campy ibiza house music, I hoard those compilations like no other. Lately there’s been one series that I’ve found myself listening to constantly; Ministry of Sound’s “Chilled” series. As opposed to most chillout albums that are either too down or have too much vox on all the songs, but “Chilled” is neither here nor there (I mean that in the best way possible…) A nice mix of current tunes, classic chillout stuff, more acoustic and “indie” music, all carefully curated over several discs; worth checking out for sure.
From Chilled
Koop – Waltz for Koop
Groove Armada – Fireside Favourite
From Chilled II
Jean Jaques Smoothie – 2 People
Fatboy Slim – North West Three
From Chilled Acoustic
MyloSunworshipper
Lindstrom & Prins Thomas – Feel AM
Your wish is my command
Anyone who keeps up with indie/electronic music has probably seen then name Breakbot before, having remixed the likes of Sebastien Tellier, Pnau, Royksopp, etc. He finally dropped his first single on Ed Banger last month, reminds me a lot of Gonzales, think the aforementioned style of piano pop meets french touch, pretty infectious.
Breakbot – Baby I’m Yours (Feat. Irfane)
Breakbot – Baby I’m Yours (Siriusmo Remix)
Breakbot – Make You Mine
Oh, and he did a pretty cool mix for Dazed Digital, and of course, the essential “minimix” for annie mac as well. Cheers.
The Notorious XX
Although I can already hear the everyone exhalting their sighs at the idea of another mash-up album, but this one is actually pretty fresh. The XX’s self-titled and Notorious BIG. His rhymes chill perfectly with The XX’s post-punk jams. My fave is probably “Juicy-r” (VCR vs. Juicy), but all of them are pretty good… I thre up a few gems below, the whole album can be downloaded over at the creator’s blog, Wait What Music.
The Notorious XX – Juicy-R
The Notorious XX - It’s all about the crystalizabeths
The Notorious XX – Basic Hypnosis
Non Plus One
non plus one final from Tracy ANTONOPOULOS on Vimeo.
I’d forgotten about Opening Ceremony for a moment there, but after a visit to their epic new flagship in Tokyo I’ve been following the label once again. They just released this promo for their S/S2010 collection, a nice nouvelle-vague inspired bit from the Coppola clan (directed by Gia Coppola and starting Jason Schwartzman.) Of course OC’s so-cal preppy musings only make me yearn for summer even more.
Jesus Christ (the indie band)
Not a band, but a sound project, or possibly just an indie blogsphere meme in the making, Jesus Christ (the indie band)’s new song is currently making the rounds. It reminds me of that other blogsphere meme band, BMX, or am I the only one who remembers them? Or maybe The Teenagers. Just remember, with the premature jocking of blog bands we must collectively shrug them off by the time they have any official releases.
Jesus Christ (the indie band) – Is this really What You Want?
I love me sum rumorz.
Music blog SketchyTown posted a little riddle as to which LA noise-punk band is disbanding in the very near future, let’s dissect these hints really quick
- Had new album with awesome new cover art but not so awesome songs, see above
- Played Fuck Yeah Fest, and will be playing Fun Fun Fun Fest coming up
- “Raucously awesome live shows
I was hoping there would be a bit more mystery to this one, but a quick browsing of the FYE line-up and FunFunFun line-up reveals that the only band playing both would happen to be Mika Miko, ding ding ding. Their presence will be missed, and the “growing up and moving on” bullshit that’s cited in their break-up is so fucking trivial when we all know they’ll have new projects in a matter of weeks. Whatever, at least they’re not calling it an “indefinite hiatus.”