Tuesday, 28 July 2009
Mishka presents Keep Watch X: by Major Lazer
Here's another filthy sweaty summer mixtape to get you wobbling, this one from Major Lazer, courtesy of the amazing Mishka series, now in its tenth installment. Expect lots of rowdy bass lines and hip injuring beats. Here's the tracklist.
It features some wicked reworkings of the Major Lazer album as well as mighty remixes of otrher artists including the monstrous Switch remix of Bjork's Thom Yorke collaboration 'Nattura'
Download it here!
I've gone on about Major Lazer alot lately, so maybe you would like some of his history...
Major Lazer is a Jamaican commando who lost his arm in the secret Zombie War of 1984. The US military rescued him and repurposed experimental lazers as prosthetic limbs. Since then Major Lazer has been a hired renegade soldier for a rogue government operating in secrecy underneath the watch of M5 and the CIA. His cover is that of a dancehall night club owner from Trinidad and he enlisted the help of long-time allies and uber-producers, Diplo and Switch, to produce his first LP. His true mission is to protect the world from the dark forces of evil that live just under the surface of a civilized society. He fights vampires and various monsters, parties hard, and has a rocket powered skateboard.
Tuesday, 14 July 2009
Buraka Som Sistema - Blood Diamond Mixtape
If there was ever a band to capture the true rumble of tropic thunder, this is it. Buraka Som Sistema are Angola's answer to the Prodigy in a way.
Earthquake bass and bombshell beats explode throughout their work and around their many collaborators and their album Black Diamond is possibly my favourite LP of 2008.
Here is their latest offering, a bloody mixtape through Kuduro, Baile Funk, Dubstep and more inspired by and dedicated to the 3.7 million people in Angola, Sierra Leone, The Congo and Liberia who are believed to have died because of the diamond trade.BURAKA SOM SISTEMA - BLOOD DIAMOND
01. Diamonds are Forever Intro
02. Dj Znobia feat Jaime Foxx- Africa
03. Buraka Som Sistema – Kalemba (wegue wegue) Afrikan Boy remix
04. Os Lambas – Sapo (BSS Edit)
05. Radioclit vs Guns’n'roses – Sweet Secousse of Mine (Bss edit)
06. The Kiss – Black Diamond
07. Tunes for Baby That Won’t Drive You Crazy – Black Diamond
08. Buraka Som Sistema – IC19 (Toy Selecta remix)
09. Buraka Som Sistema – Aqui Para Voces (FAVELA FUNK SAMBA edit)
10. Buraka Som Sistema – Wawaba (James Braun Copyflex remix)
11. Lykke Li – Dance Dance Dance (BSS Remix)
12. Dirty Tricks – Black Diamond
13. Rusko vs Puto Prata – Let’s Go (BSS Edit)
14. Buraka Som Sistema – R.I.A.D.
15. Lil’Joao feat Aloe Blacc – Off with ya head
16. Buraka Som Sistema – Gang Bang feat Blaya
17. David Zé – O Guerrilheiro
18. Johnny Clarke – Come Back To Me
19. Buraka Som Sistema – Sound of Kuduro (D1 remix)
20. Zomby feat Pongolove – Kuduro Rumours (BSS Edit)
21. Rusko – Cockney Thug (BSS Remix)
22. Paul Simon – Diamonds on the soles of her shoes
Troglodyte!
A house with no internet. Not lovely.
Thusly updates here are not gonna be very regular but I will try my best to get on the web as much as possible (else I will go completely insane)
Thursday, 9 July 2009
Saturday, 4 July 2009
I Like Turtles
Here is a really fun mix from a couple of years ago that goes all over the place like a joyous rollercoaster of musical merriment. Hip-hop, dub, dancehall, reggae, drunk, rock'n'roll, it's all there. And Paper Planes into Iko Iko into a choral version of The Knife's Heartbeats is genius. Expect vast amounts of Diplo's trademark tongue-in-cheekiness...
Tracklist
Buy the CD and many other fun things at the Mad Decent store
Thursday, 2 July 2009
Fellini's Nights of Cabiria (1957)
"Welcome to a bittersweet world of episodic adventures and strange encounters. Welcome to a sordid, nocturnal world of ruthless, callous boyfriends and stray movie stars looking for seedy kicks. Welcome to the harsh, unforgiving streets of a crumbling Rome, where hope can still prevail and dreams cradle the lost. Welcome to the world of Cabiria, a feisty, loud, outspoken and somewhat naive prostitute waiting for a miracle, and one of the most unforgettable and endearing characters of European cinema."
Nights of Cabiria is a bittersweet, poignantly moving and often humorous film that marked iconic Italian film maker Federico Fellini's farewell to this gritty emotional neo-realism before venturing into the surreal satire and dream logic of films such as La Dolce Vita.
Starring his wife, the fantastic Giuletta Masina, in yet another breath taking performance equal to her portrayal of the doomed circus girl Gelsomina in the better known Fellini film La Strada, this is a wonderfully made film that will leave you swept away by her tragic existence yet uplifted by her unbreakable lust for life. Superb.
Watch it on youtube here...
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=02AA6643620B0101
Wednesday, 1 July 2009
Etz Limon (2008)
Winner of the Berlin Film Festival audience award, Lemon Tree is the true story of a Palestinian woman's fight to save her beautiful lemon tree grove when the Israeli defense minister who moves next to her demands it be torn down for security reasons. Both an intimate human drama and a powerful allegory to the greater issues of Israel and Palestine, Lemon Tree is a beautiful and heart breaking film.
Watch it here on youtube
(For subtitles click the Closed Caption tab on bottom right of the player, next to the HQ and Volume tabs.)