These songs beg the weather to get warmer so we can bike in shirtsleeves and eat meals outside.

New hotnessss from our favorite dancehall queen, Cecile. Oh, and a choon from Mr. Vegas that we can’t get out of our head.

Cecile - Hot Like We (remix) [alt link]

Mr. Vegas - Must Come a Road [alt link]

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]

Crazy twist-synth trancehall from the dutty artz cru. We’re posting this despite the fact that the payola didn’t go round to us at all. We dont know what else to say about this one, other than turn it up and play it on a decent system.

Jahdan Blakkamoore - Go Round Payola (Matt Shadetek Bye Haters Rmx) [vsi]

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]

scorcher from ms dynamite. let us dance to the banker bailout.

uk funky, init?

ms. dynamite - bad gyal (radio rip)

alt links: sharebee, ms. dynamite - bad gyal (yousendit, this one’s for you, hype machine)

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

Radio Masala has some amazing shows/mixes up lately. Heard this jammie in one of them and searched high and low fer the track. Here it is.

Wilman de Jesus - Walk Like an Egyptian

via the bizarre Indian blog, Movie Duniya. Check also the bombay remix of the song on that link.

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.

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.

Munga - Earthquake

Foxy Brown feat. Movado - We’re on Fire

You can’t take any old Caribbean beat and turn it into hot shit, can you? Soca? Really?

Time to breaks you off with some real dancehall bangaz:

Jahcoozi - Double Barrell Name (Siriusmo Mix)

Booty Cologne - 8 Drunk Gods (ft Top Cat)