In which we are lazy bloggers and present a few jammies all at once, mostly synth-hop (vocoder bop), with a little crossover dancehall and a touch of house bliss to end the night. We love you!
fabolous feat t pain - baby don’t go
kanye west - love lockdown (vtron remix) -
sophia fresh feat. kanye - what it is
air france - collapsing at your doorstep
Categorically speaking, hip hop, pop-fuck-electro, trendy
Add comment | November 11th, 2008
R Kelly, genius, hits us with some countdown-sampled fire-hotness. Is Keri Hilson singing those lyrics about putting it to a female? Or is it Omar from The Wire dressed up as a cop and pitchshifted to sonic ecstacy? Don’t know now, do I.
R Kelly feat. Keri Hilson - Number 1 Sex
Categorically speaking, hip hop, pop-fuck-electro, racial idn't it, trendy
Add comment | November 11th, 2008
Welcome to Donkey Disco - the final days of the campaign. First we go from a stale debate (which your correspondent couldn’t avoid) to a genuinely funny one where, nevermind the winner (McCain), the general consensus is that our first black president will inherit our tremendous financial collapse. What is there to do but to rejoice that some kind of change is gonna come, and to be happy for the good things we have in life (namely, girls?).
Eleni Mandell starts off todays discussion.. A seemingly chickrock song actually is a pretty provocative digression on obsession and nostalgia, a welcome theme thats infected both sides (unfortunately, there are only two) in the election. Baby Huey picks it up next with a psychedelic masterpiece version of the classic song. We can only hope the candidates have as much sense as this tweaked out freakface.
I wonder how you feel when you kiss on election night?
Baby Huey - A Change Is Gonna Come
Categorically speaking, 90s, arockinandarollin, covers, folkish, racial idn't it, soul
Add comment | October 17th, 2008
TMYLM conspirators Hotshit and Fuckyeah are throwing a jammy jam on Friday (that’s tomorrow the 26th). Come out if you’re in the city. But we’d never shamelessly self promote without throwing you some tunes. So here are some finds from our recent research for your enjoyments.
Categorically speaking, hip hop, pop-fuck-electro
Add comment | September 25th, 2008
Ok hai - we’re back. Though many vacations and ups-and-downs have taken us, your resident geniuses, away from the computer, we thought we’d take the opportunity of this economic mindfuck to shoot you some songs detailing the economic relationships embiggening this perfectly cromulent country.
In the first, from the Republican aisle, TI enjoins the banks, indeed the financial institutions glueing this country together to do Whatever They Like. Yes, they can have whatever they like. They can go wherever you like. TI will be there to bail them out: just pick up the telephone, Goldman Sachs, you want your $5 million dollar home? You can do whatever you like, do the infectious beats and catchy hooks not convey this financial bailout to you?
BUT WAIT… doth exclaim Timberland & Little Lord Fauntleroy, darling butterflies of the revolution. They are problematizing this distinction of the banks/commerce society AND the government on the one hand! In this song, the US Government recognizes that they smashed the economy apart - and they’re a’gonna put it back together! Through the pounding bassline, the fiction of the economic neoliberalist empire is revealed; indeed, the commerical industries are seen to ask, plaintively, to get the direction from you. Lets IMMERSE together, they shout in unison.
Well, we need a mediator. And who’s a better mediator than a woman? Eva Ayllon steps in (who wants to go with me to the show in November at Carnegie Hall?) to enjoin us that when the hour arrives, one must break up. Time was good - oh, times woz very good - but in all the streets, listen to our voices, its time to just separate! Ultimately, government, the market loves you!
Timbaland ft James Fauntleroy - Back Together
Eva Ayllon - Cuando Llegue La Hora
Categorically speaking, 90s, covers, cumbia, dance, hip hop, hispánica, racial idn't it, soul, trendy
1 comment | September 23rd, 2008Check these two hep tracks from some gangbangaz circa 1959. Ah Folkways Records, the Death Row of yesteryear.
(Shitty lofi audio samples from the record at Smithsonian Folkways)
Categorically speaking, folkish
Add comment | August 5th, 2008
As we’re just about primed for the big 90s hipsterevival, we think it’s high time to bring back some rave-core casio samples with our thump thump.
Can’t quite let go of that dirty synth though.
Todd Edwards - The Messenger / So Real
Hail Social - No Paradise (Adeyhawke Mix)
Categorically speaking, 90s, dance, pop-fuck-electro, rave
Add comment | July 11th, 2008
We heard this dancehall (trancehall?) anthem blasting from a (Bob Dylan endorsed) Escalade creeping up the block and geeked the fuck out and googled the lyrics. It’s a jam called Earthquake by Munga and they ride the vocoder like Ginuwine ride a pony.
Also: Brooklyn’s best ghost-written female wrapper gets down with Movado.
Foxy Brown feat. Movado - We’re on Fire
Categorically speaking, dancehall, trendy
Add comment | June 30th, 2008
Vampire Weekend can suck my nuts. Wait…did I miss the backlash bandwagon? Sheet.
Tineyi Chikupo & The Mother Band - Sirivia
Categorically speaking, info, psych, racial idn't it
Add comment | June 17th, 2008
what better way to unwind on a hot sticky summer night than an iced cold glass of neo world folk anthems ? stock up now, before there’s a run on the banks!
Categorically speaking, dance, folkish, indierrrific, techno
Add comment | June 16th, 2008
