Apr
04

Sach O: Mr. Scruff – Sweet Smoke Video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJQ2jKvPjHI Sometimes we write long-winded pieces exhorting you to give Nicki Minaj a shot, other times we post old Ninjatune cartoons about pie and the citizens who love it. Hopefully your weekends looked something like this.

Apr
03

Sach O: Ellijah & Skilliam – FACT Mix

It’s going to hit 27/80 degrees here in MTL today which surpasses the area of “unseasonable” to land in the vaunted realm of “holy fuck, that’s insane” so I’ll make this quick. If you’re in need of free musical sustenance of the mixed variety, I highly recommend Skilliam & Elijah’s recent contribution to FACT’s on… Continue reading »

Apr
02

Passion of the Weiss Mix Series – Volume 1: Robot Koch

Last year’s “Death Star Droid” established Robot Koch’s reputation as one of the most gifted producers in the bass music world. Incorporating warped Dubstep, stoned Low End Theory drum machines, and a readiness to assimilate hip-hop sample culture in a subgenre occasionally overly cold and digital, Koch’s funkiness belies his mechanical moniker. With his love… Continue reading »

Apr
01

Dam Funk – Things That Dreams are Made Of (Human League Cover)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLDiUvFeOic Dam-Funk covering Human League. Cupcakes, Spiders, Syringes, fruit loops.Pretty standard, really. Download: MP3: Dam-Funk  – “Things that Dreams Are Made Of”

Apr
01

Erykah Badu on Gilles Peterson Worldwide

Ms. Fatbellybella commandeers the spaceship that is the Gilles Peterson show and steers it exactly the way you’d expect: a healthy dose of George Clinton, Madlib, Alice Coltrane, Jay Electronica, and material from the excellent New Amerykah Part II.  Additionally, she and Gilles discuss haikus, her early Baduizm days, balancing music with parental responsibilities, the… Continue reading »

Apr
01

Sach O: Drake vs. Nicki Minaj – One of them made a dope single.

Sach O actually had to listen to that Drake song several times to write this post. Drake’s “Over: is easily the most pompously bombastic rap song since :Empire State of Mind: and may well signal the codification of “Arena rap” as the major labels’ latest and saddest strategy to wring every last dollar out of… Continue reading »

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