Friday Slink: Basement Jaxx - Scars (feat. Kelis, Meleka, & Chipmunk)
Thumps.
Friday Slink: Wiley - “Time Flies By”
A rare half-time Wiley track, off his latest album, Race Against Time [iTunes]. (Previously)
Friday Slink: Santigold - “You’ll Find a Way (Switch and Sinden Remix)” [Amazon]
This kind of track comes on when movies need a late-night lounge montage of women grinding on inanimate objects while bad guys smoke cigars. Put on your grown-up headphones to hear all that bass.
(N.B. Santigold had to change her artist name from Santogold for legal reasons.)
Friday Slink: Lykke Li
Lykke Li - I’m Good, I’m Gone (Van Rivers & The Subliminal Kid Remix) by Van Rivers
Side note, we’ll be using SoundCloud for our new RRR site and I am PUMPED.
[via SoundBoard]
Yelle - Tristesse/Joie
When this thing morphs into its alter-ego at 3:44 it’s magical. “Je suis en vieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! a mort…”
[via @sarawajn]
What up, Bumbalo
Just discovered this Bay Area rapper, who packs some sick synth beats. Turns out the album’s production is anchored by Asa Taccone, whose credits include SNL shorts “Dick in a Box” and the Natalie Portman rap.
My favorite three tracks (read: instrumentals) on this self-titled album: BUMB, Hyphy Cat, and The B Side.
Unrelated: I discovered him via the bandcamp demo video. Bandcamp rules; can all bands in the world please stop using Myspace now? Just look at the embedded song player. Oh, and let the song finish. See how it goes to the next song on the album? Yes, that’s cool, too. And we haven’t even talked about purchase options and visualizations, yet.
Shawty Redd - Who’s With Me
Here’s the deal. When Young Jeezy’s first album came out in 2005 (“Thug Motivation 101”), I had some favorite songs—they were all the ones that thumped a certain way. Turned out Shawty Redd had produced almost every single one of my favs (though not a majority of the album). So I’ve been following Redd’s MySpace.
Last October, I stumbled upon an instrumental to this track. I flipped. Listened on repeat on headphones alone at night, played it for everyone at pregames.
Then it disappeared.
I checked his page today randomly and, lo and behold, it’s back as a fully recorded song (or demo?). I still love it, so here it is. Pardon the quality.
I still think Redd is the producer who best demonstrates the currently trendy combination of banging Southern Rap with Trance flourishes. No GarageBand needed.
Pow Boom Boom
This is the Black Eyed Peas song “Boom Boom Pow” with the beats reversed using the Echo Next remix API, which lets you remix automatically by writing code. (Fergie’s section at 2:20 in this remix is my fav; compare to around 0:45 in the original.)
As Andy writes, the mashup possibilities are endless. Code-oriented VJs can make some magical things happen on dance floors.
The core logic for this transformation is one line of code:
av.audio.analysis.beats.reverse()
There are more remix examples of that same video, including a 5/4 version.
[via Andy Baio]
