| Beat Traps: Knxwledge is Self | October 28, 2011 |
Chris Daly cons comics and not the other way around. It’s a bitch to live up to prophesy. Just ask Darth Vader. In his preordained role to reign supreme over nearly everyone, Knxwledge has demonstrated a propensity and proclivity towards Madlib-ian consistency (alliterations rule, bitch; look it up). Since the end of June alone, the […]
| Beat Traps: Seekae’s +Dome | September 30, 2011 |
Chris Daly owns at least four Traci Lords albums. Look, I’ll be honest, I was initially kind of disappointed when I learned I was going to review the new Seekae album and not the new Seka album. Let’s be honest, it’s not every day that a 70s/80s porn icon makes a beat album. Apparently, it’s […]
| Beat Trap: Falcons – Indian Summer | September 20, 2011 |
Chris Daly once dressed up as Falcor for Easter. FALCONS are a weird bird, to say the least. Whereas many of their contemporaries look to myriad sources for inspiration, I believe the Vancouver/ Oakland-based duo of TightMike and KayleoStocko is possibly one of the fww to adhere to the tenants of the world weary Bud […]
| Beat Traps: The Third Eye of Free the Robots | September 1, 2011 |
Chris Daly has eyes in the back of his dread. It has come to my conclusion that Free the Robots is not the moniker of one alleged Chris Alfaro, but is, in fact, a prime directive from a funkily deranged Mother Ship floating just above the planet’s atmosphere. Think I’m lying? If his latest Alpha […]
| Beat Traps: Rapping with Paul White | August 29, 2011 |
Chris Daly brings the Rocky Road while others bring vanilla. There are those of us of a certain age who recall with fond clarity the early heyday of rap, waaaaay back in the 80s. Pull up a chair, kids, because I’m about to give a lecture. In some of its earliest incarnations, hip hop had […]
| Beat Traps: Pregnant’s “Life Hard: I Try” | July 27, 2011 |
Chris Daly has seen Akira 76 times. Daniel Trudeau and I have something in common. While I cannot attest to whether or not he shares a similar fondness for uber-obscure, Asian, ninja-zombie movies, I do know that both of us recently fathered our first child. Not together or anything, but we’re both daddies now nonetheless. […]
| Beat Traps: Small Professor, Beats, Rhymes, & Jawns | July 18, 2011 |
Chris Daly did not consult the urban dictionary for this post. Jawn. It’s a Philly thing. Like liquid cheese on a Pat’s steak or an insistence that the weather is always pleasant. For one’s beats to qualify for the category, crisp drums, tight horns and soul are an absolute must. Repping the City of Brotherly […]
| Beat Trap:ㅣcㅐㅣRㅇ’s Noon EP | July 13, 2011 |
Chris Daly was thrown out of at least four Band Camp’s during his youth. Based on sheer volume alone, the likelihood of “accidentally” stumbling upon a gem at Band Camp is about as probable as finding the proverbial needle in a non-tattooed arm. Who the hell has the time to winnow through the hundreds, if […]
| Beat Traps: Mecca83 and the Solar Sound System | June 30, 2011 |
Chris Daly owns six lava lamps and four dark light posters. Mecca:83, for one, would like to welcome our alien overlords, apparently right into his bedroom. Following the freshly blazed path of dropping albums on the heels of one another (no Shlohmo), the Manchester producer has stacked a collection of interstellar grooves worthy of your […]
| Beat Traps: Alex Ludovico’s “Fame Kills” | June 28, 2011 |
Chris Daly hates to advocate drugs, alcohol, or violence to anyone, but they’ve always worked for him. Alex Ludovico wants you to understand that drugs are bad, m’kay? Except when they’re good. And celebrity is a bitch that will get you in the end. Except when it doesn’t. As a concept album, I think I’m […]
