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New Music: Thievery Corporation feat. Chuck Brown - The Numbers Game

Thievery Corporation feat. Chuck Brown - The Numbers Game

At first glance, you would never think that DC’s two biggest musical exports (pre-Wale) would mesh together–with Thievery Corporation being the sometimes sleepy lounge duo, and DC legend Chuck Brown being the King of go-go. But after listening to this track, I gotta say…this ish goes together like cream and coffee. It’s a rather odd paring, but they both pull it off. And in a city that is so divided racially and economically like DC, it makes a welcome pause from the tension.

The Numbers Game is on Thievery Corporation’s latest album, Radio Retaliation, which dropped last month.

Tags: Chuck Brown, Thievery Corporation

Oct

Hip-Hop

Mixtape: Jay-Z vs Coldplay - Viva La Hova

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Jay-Z vs Coldplay - Viva La Hova (produced by Mick Boogie and Cookin’ Soul)

This is probably the 1 millionth mixtape with Jay-Z vs __________ (insert Beatles, Marvin Gaye, etc), but these don’t get old in my opinion.

So far it ranks in my top 5 of Jay-Z remix albums right now, mainly cause I’ve been digging both artists since their first albums. Jay-Z and Coldplay approve, and surprisingly, their lawyers do too cause no cease and desist orders have been handed out yet.

Tracklisting

1) Intro (produced by Mick Boogie & Terry Urban)
2) Public Speeding (produced by Cookin’ Soul)
3) Know My Place (produced by The Amps)
4) Never Changing (produced by nVMe)
5) Miss Trouble (produced by Judah)
6) Back At My Place (produced by Remot)
7) No Love Coming Home (produced by The Kickdrums)
Lost Part 1 (produced by Coldplay)
9) A Spy’s Prayer (produced by nVMe)
10) Science Is Ignorant (produced by Gooch)
11) The Reverse Fix (produced by Mick Boogie & nVMe)
12) Hola Blanco (produced by Garbs Infinite)
13) Take The Hill (produced by nVMe)
14) Lost Part 2 (remixed by Mick Boogie)
15) Cold Success (produced by 9th Wonder)
16) What If We Cry? (produced by Remot)
17) Beach Chair (produced by Coldplay)
18) Falling In Shadows (produced by 6th Sense)
19) Life of Clocks (produced by Terry Urban)
20) X-Y-Z (produced by Hasan Insane)

Tags: Coldplay, Cookin' Soul, jay-z, Mick Boogie

Oct

This Is It

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Vote on Tuesday people.

Oct

Hip-Hop

Zion I Drops New Remixes With Talib, Santogold

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Zion I feat. The Grouch - One(Santogold Starstruck Remix)

Zion I feat. Talib Kweli - Gotsta Chill (Temperature RMX)

Tapes N Tapes- The Dirty Dirty (Amp Live Recession Remix)

Zion-I, the potent Oakland duo of Amplive and Zumbi have been out of the spotlight since around 2006. Amplive, generated interest his own news for his Radiohead Rainydayz Remixes which drew cititcal acclaim from the blogs and scrutiny from Radiohead’s publisher Warner Chappelle. In January, the duo will release their long awaited album The Takeover, which drops in January. However, before that happens, the duo is dropping the Search and Seizure Mixtape on limited edition cassette this month.

Cassette? Seriously? Do we really NEED to be this old school?

Anyway, even though the nature of releasing material on a long dead format can be questioned, the music cannot. The three tracks I’ve heard so far from the mixtape are fire. Amplive does a decent job of flipping Santogold’s “One,” and Talib stop by to drop a verse on a remix of Zion I’s “Temperature.” I really like the remix of “Recession Remix,” of Tapes n Tapes’ (a band that I really didn’t mess with until today) The Dirty Dirty but I can do without the whole “recession” part.

What do you think?

Tags: Amplive, Santogold, Talib Kweli, Tapes N Tapes, Zion I

Oct

Cosmo & Reggie

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Oct

I’m Not Going to Post About Any Obama Mixtapes

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Sorry, until I see more entertainment artists going door to door and using their wealth and influence to get out the vote on November 4th, I’m not going to post any Obama mixtapes.

I will post this video however, and encourage you to get out the vote this Tuesday:

Okay, I lied. I will link to my boy Tashir’s Obama Homestretch mixtape at Physical Form, just cause it’s rather nice.

Oct

Hip-Hop

Video: T.I. feat Rihanna - Live Your Life

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T.I.’s latest album was sort of blah to me (sorry, I’m not a fan), but this is one of the standout tracks by far and will make it onto my top 100 songs list for the year.

Tags: Rihanna, T.I.

Oct

Peter Rosenberg Presents: A Rosenberg Oddisee (Download)

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Click here to download

Tags: Low Budget, Oddisee, Peter Rosenberg

Oct

Common’s Universal Mind Control - tracklist

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Common’s Universal Mind Control drops Dec 9th ‘09.

Tracklist:
01. Universal Mind Control
02. Punch Drunk Love (Feat. Kanye West)
03. Make My Day (Feat. Cee-Lo Green)
04. Sex 4 Sugar
05. Announcement (Feat. Pharrell Williams)
06. Gladiator
07. Changes
08. Inhale
09. What a World
10. Everywhere

Tags: Common, UMC

Oct

Stop Smiling Drops the DC Issue

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It’s been a long time coming, but DC is finally getting recognition from media sources outside of the DMV. Stop Smiling magazine dedicates it current issue to the DC area, with Backyard Band/The Wire’s Anwan Glover and DC novelist/Wire writer George Pelecanos gracing the cover. Despite the gangsta cover, the magazine covers more of “Federal” DC than most locals would like, with politicos such as overexposed writer Ana Marie Cox (Wonkette) and former Alaska Senator Mike Gravel getting features. However, the issue does feature Don Zientara of Inner Ear Studios, as well as a collection of essential go-go and DC hardcore tracks.

Stop Smiling is avaliable now.

Tags: Backyard Band, George Pelecanos

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