Dec
06

DITDC: Jay-Z – In My Lifetime, Vol 1

 Sach O is the one that got away. “What I did with ‘[In My Lifetime] Volume One’ was I tried to make records. I had just made ‘Reasonable Doubt’ … it wasn’t successful in music industry terms. It was a cult classic on the streets, but it wasn’t successful in the music business and I… Continue reading »

Sep
14

DITDC: Rage Against the Machine – RATM

Fuck you, Sach O won’t do what you tell him. Motherfucker. Rage Against the Machine’s self-titled debut is the best rock album of the 90’s. OK, it probably isn’t but that’s not nearly as ridiculous a statement as some of our more “tasteful” rock-crits would have you believe and it’s certainly less of an exercise… Continue reading »

Sep
08

DITDC: A Bluffer’s guide to LHF

It’s been a long time, Sach O shouldn’t have left you… without that dark urban hardcore futuristic beat shit to step to. With approximately 700 releases flooding the Internet per second, cutting through the noise is just as difficult for artists trying to get noticed as for discerning listeners searching for that next shit. Somehow,… Continue reading »

Jul
06

DITDC – Bass Music Singles of the Half Year (Pt 1)

Because I can no longer focus on pieces of music longer than 6 minutes or deal with rappers who didn’t come up in the 90′s. Also because I hate straight edge people, anything with a narrative arc and guitars but love beats and try to leave my computer as much as humanly possible. Youtube links… Continue reading »

Apr
26

DITDC: Deep Medi Releases Volumes 1 & 2

Sach O only publishes 1 out of every 10 posts he writes, the rest are exclusive dubs given out to Jeff Weiss, Nate Patrin and Matt Shea. I suspect our audience can be divided into two camps: those who worship at the altar of the Digital Mystikz (Mala, Coki and Loefah) and those who have… Continue reading »

Mar
04

DITDC: Eli et Papillon – Demo

Sach O endorses ONE indie band a year. This is that band. Listen. Before carpet bagging, indie-rocking Leafs fans that wouldn’t know a Smoked Meat sandwich from a proper bagel invaded Montreal*, my city already had a vibrant, self-sufficient music scene en francais. Content to move units among the Province’s 6 million Francophones, local musicians… Continue reading »

Feb
02

DITDC: RSD – Good Energy (A Singles collection)

Sach O bringin’ ya Badman Sounds. I know dear readers, I know: enough with the bass/dubstep already. Jeff lives next to Low-End Theory, that’s his excuse but shouldn’t I be reporting on Studio 1 obscurities or the latest in (potentially but not really) game changing rap? The truth is even more sinister than you think:… Continue reading »

Nov
02

DITDC: The Heptones-Party Time!

Sach O can’t stop partying. When it came to vocalists, Reggae fans became increasingly open-minded in the 1970’s. From weirdo toasters to Rastafarian firebrands, Jamaican audiences quickly embraced the unique voices that followed Reggae’s creative boom leaving a number of wonderful Rocksteady acts in the dust. Thankfully, not all soul-influenced groups faded into the sunset–many… Continue reading »

Oct
13

DITDC: A Bluffer’s Guide to Dionne Warwick (Pt. 2)

Sach O never joined the Psychic Friends Network. Paper Mache Dionne Warwick built her career by flipping the conventions of easy listening and infusing them with soul and passion but it’s still shocking to hear her weary, resigned kiss-off to the 60’s consumer culture she was supposed to embody. While the hippies were raging from… Continue reading »

Oct
12

DITDC: A Bluffer’s Guide to Dionne Warwick (Pt. 1)

Sach O would have totally hit that back in the 60’s. When it comes to pop music idolatry and indie cred name-dropping, composer Burt Bacharach, lyricist Hal David and singer Dionne Warwick are simultaneously too conservative and too radical to get theirs. They didn’t rock the pop world like The Beatles, waste-away in an acid… Continue reading »

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