holy shiv this is amazing. Bonus: 16 page argument on the *&!@# difference between SOCA and Calypso.

Amoco Renegades - Pan in A Minor

Skeet skeet that ass indeed. We’ll leave the more sincerely prancing commentary to other music blogs on the internets out there and instead, suckpants-style, riff on the last few days:

• TMYLM music received its first official email from a record label that didn’t mostly suck.  Todays postings come from Ruff Riddims records outta Bostwana and the shit they handed off is amazing… Must mean we’ve made it (kinda).  anyways, to paraphrase professor murder, their science is just too tight! you gotta download it - and now you know its not illegal - music blogs holla yo!
• Seders are cool, but preseders are better because then you can calm down and then keep pumping away… and pregnancy is minimized
• Spring came and went, but yessir the park sitting is back…
• You light up my life was also used to get this girl into bed [nsfw]…
• its SPRING BREAK!! so say goodbye to these weird covers [sorry i missed that party yo!]

Tebza - ROCKA [altlink]

Skeat - Basimanyana Mamela Meropa [altlink]

Yes, it’s intrepid friend Andy Blumpkin’s birthday, but differently-named and unarguably much more tasteful Uproot Andy has put out a effing bangin new mix titled Guacharaca Migration.  You should go to his myspace to download the whole thing, but here are sum tasters:

Kingston Town - Uproot Andy RMX [alt]

Vale La Pena - Uproot Andy RMX [alt]

['De la serie: La Cumbia eres tú' by ojjo on flickr]

Its a far cry from our normal blog posting schedule, but this ultrapoppy song just begs to be heard.

K’naan - Waving Flag [alternate]

Yo yo yo yo how is everyone enjoying this weather?  We don’t really have much to say that isn’t covered much better elsewhere - deaths, economic and otherwise, shattering crises that somehow perpetuate capitalism’s magic through thinkers, and of course springtime is on its way.  We really don’t have much to offer to repair these movings on, but we do have reparations for them… Enjoy and move around:

Luis Vargas - Tranquila

DJ Dollar - Affaire de Wolosso

Well… Its February 14 evening and we certainly aren’t vivo-ing per lei, I tell you.

It’s been a long time for TMYLM and, rather than adding to the economic nationwide collapse of blogs, we thought it’d be better to look on the upside.  We’re coming back, and it’s gonna involve much more than some software upgrade.

Let’s talk a little about music, the world, and world music.  Some choose to tattoo it on their arms; others choose to listen to the music when it comes to you.  And others, those well-moneyed types, can afford to actually travel in these awful times.  Well, TMYLM is at least one of the above, but certainly just came back from some long, ambiguously deserved trip.  And brought these two Belizean (well, actually Garifunian) gems for you:

Reckless - Don’t Discriminate

Umalali - Yuendueya Weyu

We could discurse randomly on these pieces (hybridity of Garifuna culture; the internalization of medical debility through HIV culture in Belize; women’s agency via song, etc) but actually, the songs are great and you should enjoy them.

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!

TI - Whatever You Like

Timbaland ft James Fauntleroy - Back Together

Eva Ayllon - Cuando Llegue La Hora

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

T Raumschmiere - E

Hail Social - No Paradise (Adeyhawke Mix)

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!

Fay Lovsky - Automatic Pilot

Italoboyz - Zinga

Long-time-no-post. Two thirds of TMYLM absconded to Sud Amorica to promote Carla Bruni-Sarkozy’s new album (pick it up when it drops, its hoooooooot!), while the remaining third (turd?) is stuck in Armpit City, waiting for the other shoe to drop. Anyway, in the spirit of roof top pool barties and sweaty bottles of Amstel, here’s to you, summer.

Casxio - Seventeen (Noel Zancanella Remix)