Because Sleep is the Cousin of Death: The Most Slept-On Beat Records of the Year (Part II) | December 15, 2010 |
El-P – Wearegoingtoburninhellmegamixxx3 – [Gold Dust] Funcrush this — 15 instrumental odds and ends too haywire to fit onto a solo rap record. Volume III of Wearegoingtoburninhellmegamixx found El-Producto hawking his garbage on iTunes instead of giving it to Goodwill, with previous installments available only as tour-only affairs (and later for free download.) Cannily aligning […]
Part two coming later today, because occasionally sleep can be more than just the cousin of death. Alex B – Moments – Elm & Oak Empirical evidence has long proven that Boulder, Colorado and blunts usually creates something either copacetic or completely hare-brained. Extended Low End Theory affiliate, Alex Botwin opts for the former on […]
The Curren$y Boom | December 2, 2010 |
Renato Pagnani likes it when people talk fast over 4/4 beats. Over the last several years, frequent collaborators Curren$y and Wiz Khalifa have had reasonably similar career trajectories. Both excel at making sleepy stoner jams equally indebted to Lil Wayne and Devin the Dude. Both have seen massive success in 2010 after bubbling for several […]
Ninja Tune Week: Kid Koala’s “Some of My Best Friends are DJs” | October 8, 2010 |
Renato Pagnani is now Diving off Docks. One of the great things about Ninja Tune is that they give guys like Kid Koala a viable platform. Let’s face it, DJ albums are a hard sell. Demand-wise, they fall somewhere below instrumental hip-hop and above klezmer rap. Which isn’t to say that Kid Koala isn’t a […]