Soooorry

Excuse me for the little week break, there have been some mixups, problems and shit going on here… but!

They say what don’t kill you makes you stronger – and since my last post on here I have flown halfway across the globe in a little change of permanent residence. More on the influences and inspirational stuff happening to me here will surface on this site quite soon and promptly i guess.

Just to say Mr.Oda is back here, and things are looking up.

Here are a few tunes that made some long hours shorter and hard times easier over the past month for me just to get started and into it again. I’d love to know what you think of them

Before I Move Off – Mount Kimbie
(Gotta love this tune, (via the sweetest punch) that lovely hiphopbeaty guitar, and when the vocals come in after that simple tiny drop at 2:15, you just feel the fucking groove here)

Winter Rose (Nicolas Jaar Remix) – The Bees
(This is one of those songs that gets stuck in your head so badly you wont be able to get it out for a few days. It’s one of the best songs to not leave your head for a while. Trust me. Nicolas Jaar’s first majorlabel remix – and this is so so great)

Fog (Original Mix) – Nosaj Thing
(This dubstep track by Nosaj Thing is one of the ones that show where dubstep and electronica merge to form the perfect genre for clubs,cars and badass moments soundtracks. To be honest, this would be perfect for the new Tron Movie i think. Starts off kinda evil, brooding and pumping, and then switches key, adds a high melody and suddenly has a sad and melancholic appeal to it. Love this)

I have been to the mountaintop

‘Jazzmatazz’ is Jay Elec’s tribute to Guru, who died in February 2010. Gifted Unlimited Rhymes Universal, Guru translates, was Keith Elam, one half of Gang Starr and the initiator of the Jazzmatazz series that featured folks like Herbie Hancock and Isaac Hayes, and also Jay’s girlfriend Erykah Badu – people who forged jazz and hiphop into one. The repetetive, bouncy beatloop is part of the intro from Group Home’s album ‘Livin Proof’, and the beautiful voice on the hook is Tone Trezure.

One of the freshest HipHop tunes I have heard in a while, Jay again delivers brilliance on the lyrics, Tone’s voice compliments the beat in such a relaxed, swaying, roadtrippy, sunrise-dancy way.
Fresh.

“Better known as back home, where they treat the Arabs and the Spanish and the Blacks wrong”

Jazzmatazz feat. Tone Trezure – Jay Electronica

i can die now

seriously – i haven’t been here for you so f*cking long and yeah i should be sorry.
But right now – in this moment – i would like to tell you that all that time i was gone and the time this here was more stop than motion – i was lying dead still in the same spot of my room, headphones on and listening to the James Blake album.

Officially due for release in february, it leaked a few days ago, somewhere in the wide yonder of the internet.
Personally, i feel bad for him – the hype he has been getting was so deserved, and in current state of music industry, people need every record sold. So I’ll preorder this anyway, on vinyl if possible.

And you, you all. You need this album. Some sneering voices might have predicted Blake not delivering on this, but boy, i was hooked after the first track.
Sporting ‘Limit To Your Love’ as its first single, it also holds so many new gems to indulge into.

From EP to EP, his style was constantly evolving, from ‘Air & Lack Thereof’ to the cleaner ‘CMYK’ and spinning into other directions on ‘Klavierwerke’.
‘James Blake’ his self-titled debut album, seamlessly gets in line behind his latest releases and leads into a more emotional, personal more artistic James Blake that is not afraid to just let the piano be his only instrument at times.

Most of these tunes aren’t club bangers, as some would have expected in his R&S times, they are songs to listen to, to listen to consciously.

I’m pretty sure this text is shitty and not up to the real emotions I’m feeling for this record, and the spelling is wrong at times, and i have forgot about the shift key at times. But that is because i was listening to ‘James Blake’ by James Blake while writing this. And so I couldnt really concentrate.

I love this. With all my heart.

Here are two of the albums tunes –  ’Wilhelms Scream’, a beautiful track with such a progressive sound and Blake’s perfectly produced vocals. (The Wilhelm Scream is, by the way, that one scream you hear in nearly every movie. Look it up on youtube) This song is quite a journey, from drum intro, voice, slowly building synth lines, 808 cowbells and then white noise and a change of drum shape – an addictive piece of melody.

And ‘To Care (Like You)’ that guides a bit a of a pathway from old stuff to this album. The old hiphopsampling technique’s, perfectly, beautifully, chopped, pitched, distorted vocals and unexpected, experimental Wooah – moments using the drumpad and minimalistic paths of silence. James layers his own voice in so many ways on this song, transforming it into something androgyn, not yet female, but not recognizable as his own at times. This song is a crossover, junction or roadmap from old Blake to new Blake to ever transforming and surprising Blake.

James Blake – Wilhelms Scream

James Blake – To Care (Like You)

 

The Only Christmas Song That Ever Mattered

via www.boston.com/bigpicture/

‘Some people don’t even know if it’s Christmas time.
Some people think it’s Christmastime all the time.
Some people think it’s Halloween.
Some people think they’re in a magazine.’

Daniel Johnston – Some People

For Your Information

“While you was blowin’ X amount of dollars on a bracelet,
The sovereign nation of France was openin’ they files on a UFO phenomenon:
i.e. spaceships
Its just the facts, Jack
may as well face it

Every rhyme I write the seal get cracked in the chapter of Revelations
A atom get cracked in the blackness of meditation
Mysterious shit
Call me Jay Dogon I’m on some sirius shit
Scholars wonder why do he bust
Allah blessed me with a Midas-y touch
Everything I lay the hands turn to Ethiopian gold: shiny and buffed
I got a firm understandin’ on the minus and plus

So I ain’t got time to argue with a rapper bout how he ain’t got rhymes
That’s fuckin’ with mine’s
I’m trying to kill Lucifer, so if I have to brake
‘Cause a rapper in my face
Tellin’ me that he the great
You can bet a shiny nickel I’ll blast his motherfuckin’ ass way past Jupiter
couldn’t be stupider
Fuckin’ with the nuc-u-lear
Mayan, Aztec lion
Asiatic black man from Zion
Quetzalcoatl supreme, lettin’ off steam
Dimethyltriptamine make a man dream

But y’all would much rather hear me rappin’ bout trash
The size of Erykah’s ass, blunts and cash
We need savin’
Minds are consumed with swine we need bathin’ “

Jay Electronica – F.Y.I. (off ‘The Pledge’)

 

xx is killing me

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Gil-Scott Heron’s whole 2010 album ‘ I’m new here ‘ get’s a little xxtra on top – the full LP will be released again on February 21st 2011, completely remixed by The xx’s beat producer and ‘drummer’ Jamie.

Judging by this, Jamie XX’ dubsteppy,electronica banger rework of ‘New York Is Killing Me’, it’s going to be pretty much off the hook. Mister Oda is excited.

 

Sun & Lack Thereof

Kenton Slash Demon are two parts of a whole wich is that band “When Saints Go Machine” (remixed by dOp and Koze) who everyone was talking about a few months ago.

Now here are two of those guys from our favorite city of Copenhagen, producing their fresh young take on House music – deep disco house music.

They are still quite new and therefore unknown, 12.367 clicks on youtube’s first match ‘Sun’ tell the story. Still, when i checked last week, it were quite a bit less. (And they got a great RA review now!)

So anyway we’re here to help them:

‘Sun’ is a killer of a track, really organic and raw, pumping, euphoric and with some of those suprising “Oh damn!” moments.
Give it a go kiddos – this is it