2009 November » Passion of the Weiss

Nov
30

Scottish bred bass music prodigy Rustie may or may not sleep. After all, when I was 21, I could subsist on a Lamar Odom diet of skittles and sour patch kids, three hours of sleep, and a half pack of Parliaments. But Rustie may or may not be 21. According to his bio, “Rustie is… Continue reading »

Nov
30

Sach O: Paul White-”Sounds From the Skylight” (Side A)

Not that I’ve had to choose, but I’ve generally preferred Dubstep’s half-speed syncopation and violent bass drops to Future/instrumental Hip-Hop’s 3-minute stoner grooves this year. That said, I’ll gladly make an exception for Paul White’s Sounds from the Skylight, whose ever-so-brief first side dropped last week, threatening to wreck havoc on my end of the… Continue reading »

Nov
27

Black Friday With Daedelus

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYElsvpB8RA Because if nothing else, my jangled mind is a sucker for “whoa trippy” visuals, garish coats, and a tastefully employed Smashing Pumpkins sample. Consequently, Daedelus delivers in a way his hubristic namesake could only manage to descend. Also, because I have an interview up at Pop and Hiss with the dapper dandy himself, discussing… Continue reading »

Nov
25

Legends of Benin> Legends of the Fall>I Am Legend >John Legend

Thanksgiving, blah, blah, blah. Inevitably, there are things that we are grateful for, but blogs are not the ideal forum to fulminate. Or maybe they are. Tucker Max had a movie made based on his sordid chicanery. Diablo Cody turned a season of stripping into stardom. Starting in January of 2010, Passion of the Weiss… Continue reading »

Nov
24

RJD2′s Return To Normalcy

It’s hard not to read into the cover of the Tin Foil Hat EP– a mug shot with a serial number dangling around Ramble John Krohn’s neck– putative punishment for daring to take creative leaps off faulty footing. The Internet might be unparalleled for allowing artists to self-promote, but its punishing velocity leads to a… Continue reading »

Nov
23

The Spread of Nigerian Fuzz Funk

As though to justify my recent rave about their archival efforts, Now-Again strikes uh, again, with the announcement of the Nigerian Fuzz-Funk anthology, a compilation that promises to succeed in being both categorically awesome and sounding like the name of a rare Equatorial disease. Partnering up with Uchenna Ikonne of the phenomenal With Comb &… Continue reading »

Nov
23

Just the Facts: King Midas Sound Podcast

The above photo provides irrefutable evidence that in addition to Lover’s Rock, My Bloody Valentine, and Sade, the men of King Midas Sound, bear the subtle imprint of inspiration via Forsythe Pendleton “Jughead” Jones III. It is widely rumored that Kevin Martin spends all day cloistered in his London apartment reading Archie comics and eating… Continue reading »

Nov
23

Sach O: You Can’t Spell “Rumba” Without Rum

How did Sach O get home last night? Bass. How low can you go? Plenty low apparently because after two continuous nights of getting my chest caved in by pounding sub-frequencies while imbibing a pirate’s share of rum, I can assuredly say I need a slight reprieve from Dubstep and its siblings. Captain Morgan and Jack… Continue reading »

Nov
21

Planet Rock: The Galactic Dubstep of 12th Planet

Thanks to some bulgogi-bloating Korean BBQ on Wednesday night, I missed sets from 12th Planet and Mary Anne Hobbs at the Scion House Party at The Roxy. Such are the consequences of $16.99 all-you-can-eat dinners. Thankfully, the Fullerton Dubstep don dropped a blistering mix on Hobbs’ BBC 1XTRA show last Wednesday, full of rarely heard… Continue reading »

Nov
20

XLR8R: Nosaj Thing Podcast

Photo by Christopher Soltis Give XLR8R credit. While the economic crash has turned most print mags into skeletal shells (shills?) of their former self or has found them unable to find an Internet niche, the San Francisco-based dance publication has survived with its integrity intact. Outside of RA, few places have covered the bass/wonky/dubstep explosion… Continue reading »