Wuduup y'all =] I just want to let ya know that I am fucking ecstatic that I'm actually getting a little traffic lol I know, a small accomplishment but whatever I'm happy. Anyways I think I've got some good stuff for ya today. I've been scouring music sites for new stuff and I'm really not sure why I looked on Vh1 for music...like anything is really...groundbreaking on there. After you've tuned your ears to "good" music, the stuff at regular big name channels like MTV and Vh1 all sound the same. Who really wants to hear the umpteenth Nickelback song?
Try this on for size, Immortal Technique. Remember that time I said my friend drove me home and gave me some songs later on to check out, well this was also one of the artists. I didn't review him earlier because I hadn't taken the time out to actually listen to em'. I was playing Gorillaz songs one after another and then Technique popped up and to my surprise this dood is effing great. The guy is a lyrical mastermind. I put this one line from him up as a Facebook status "I jerk off in books and bring life to words." Ha ha come on tell me that isn't quality stuff. I'll let you guys give that song a listen. Ya know I'm a little pissed I haven't heard of him earlier, according to his wiki page the guy has been here forever.
Immortal Technique - Positive Balance
Next on the agenda is best known in the mainstream as the second half of Gnarls Barkley, Danger Mouse. Now this is a producer with a few big name albums under his belt. He released an album called "The Grey Album" which featured some Jay-Z raps put to some of The Beatles songs that were on their 1968 "White Album"....get it, Jay had the black album, Beatles had the white album, now its the...grey...all right I'm done.
Well this guys latest release has a story all its own. No not the album tells a story...well it probably does if you listen in between the lines but no what I'm talking about is how the album go released. Apparently our lovable hero Danger Mouse was having a little legal trouble with his label and couldn't release the album commercially. Well our clever hero came up with a solution with that problem. On June 2nd, Danger Mouse released Dark Night of the Soul as a collection of photographs taken by David Lynch coupled with a blank CD with the message "For Legal Reasons, enclosed CD-R contains no music. Use it as you will." Pure genius. The entire story can be found over at the EFF.
Dark Night of the Soul is a large collaboration with artists of many different backgrounds such as Iggy Pop and Suzanne Vega to name a few. Check out this track featuring James Mercer. I friggen' love it =]
Danger Mouse feat James Mercer - Insane Lullaby
Next post I'll uhh...I don't know I'll find something. Finding good music is hard lol, especially when you've got crap like Miley Cyrus clogging up our musical arteries (ears). Remember guys, I'm always searching for good stuff so if you happen to come across some sick German techno song that puts KISS to shame lol send it here. Oh I know, another friend of mine told me to look at this acid jazz album so maybe I'll do something on the whole album. Till next time, peace out everybody.
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