Continuing, or perhaps initiating, TMYLM’s proud, sheep-like infatuation — and heady confusion — with current musical trends, we’re more than happy to offer up a mindfuck of fads this beautiful Friday morning: Lil Wayne, Cumbia, and the ever-expanding constellation of the mash-up. With even less relationship to reality than that weird tourist meme about September 11th, you can be sure we’ll always be here for you.

DJ Stuart - Lil Wayne vs Los Palmeras

Who wouldn’t respect an erstwhile anthropologist drop-out from the University of Minnesota who decided to become a ranchera folk singer in Oaxaca? Lila Downs has a voice that sounds like it’s coming from a deep cavern of sparkling brass, but the production tends to go overboard with faux-indigineity, crossover electric guitar solos, and Sandra Cisnerosesque sentimentalism. These two tracks, from her newish album La Cantina “Entre Copa Y Copa…”, largely avoid those pitfalls.

Lila Downs - Cumbia del Mole
Lila Downs - La Tequileria

Plunking along the BQE, one cherishes Sir John Bejtman’s* flamboyant call for the destruction of publicly funded shitholes rather than a cheesy epic sonata celebrating their existence. The English have some sort of knack for grand explosions, which probably includes some lame excuse for why their bars still close at 11pm and something about the War of Independence and gunpowder, though I’m in no mood to do any real research about it. That’s why, then, it comes as no surprise that a bomb-worthy megahit comes in the new Kate Nash song about kissing boys and not getting into relationships. Where would-be clusterfucking Americans reach transcendent heights by trampling each other for discounted spatulas, Nash’s bomb eviscerates any kind of real connection by just being a cheesy bitch. And that’s pretty cool.

Kate Nash - Pumpkin Soup
TS Eliot reading Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock

* This link indicates quite nicely why Brits trained at the Oxbridge institutions are the biggest wanks in the world. Read it and see if it makes any fucking sense.

Imagine sutured ears listening to inane philosophical arguments. Imagine a pulse pounding beat so full of liquid gold it makes the Gowanus Canal seem like the fucking Aral Sea. Trip-hop double-duo single-quartet band Professor Murder kicks off their annual Italian Street Fair Festivals Festival with a piece so wonderful you gotta wonder where they got the drum samples to make the thing fall so quickly in line. Paired with a great drink, this new track has all the makings of a four-million-dollar condo, and then some.

Professor Murder - Flex-It Formula

it occurs to you as the nights get darker and the air gets colder that the bike ride becomes less tenable. you think of trains more during this time. it isn’t as easy to stand still outside.

Gal Costa - Vapor Barato
Kelly Hogan - Papa Was A Rodeo (Magnetic Fields Cover)

The Racionais MC’s do a nice turn on a trip-hop standard, if such a thing can be said to exist. The original sample is from Isaac Hayes, “Ike’s Rap III,” in case you care to care.

Racionais MC’s - Jorge da Capadacia

Break out the incense and hang those tapestries!
Tricky - Hell is Round the Corner
Portishead - Glory Box

David Lynch and Donovan are both totally into Transcendental Meditation [TM(tm)]. Last week, Lynch went to Berlin and got up on stage with a Tranzendental Deutchmann who promised an Invincible Germany–awkward!!! Trentemoller’s (more tolerable) remix of Moby’s rave anthem ‘Go’ samples the Twin Peaks theme. We’re not sure if Moby is a TMer, but he does sell very expensive tea under the guise of cuteness. In 1996 I was at a corn-cob barbeque in upstate New York with the guy. He had a young blond girlfriend and my friends and I got drunk and danced the Macarena on the dock in the lake.

Donovan - Get Thy Bearings
Angelo Badalamenti - Twin Peaks Theme
Moby - Go (Trentemoller Remix)

we’re going to set up a music blog with mixes and other some such links to music. please stay tuned. te quiero.