Archive for the Ones To Watch Category
Along comes a video for yet another totally ill track off Skewby’s epic “Proving You Wrong Since 1988″ mixtape which, if you don’t have already, you can get by clicking here and downloading it, aiight?
Charlotte Gainsbourg – Heaven Can Wait from Charlotte Gainsbourg on Vimeo.
The new video from Charlotte Gainsbourg, “Heaven Can Wait”, is ostensibly the first single from her Beck-produced album IRM, due for release in very early 2010. Enjoy.
For three years now, we’ve watched as Beach House has gone from humble, subtly hypnotic Baltimore slack-key-core twosome to a fully realized and accomplished recording act. With the forthcoming release of Teen Dream on their new home label of Sub Pop, the team of Victoria Legrand and Alex Scally will have completed a transformation that has allowed them to take on a new sense of direction in the music and in their lives.
Check out this track, “Norway”, from the forthcoming album & head over to Sub Pop for further details on the band and their new record.
I don’t know anything at all about O’Spada, but I intend to find out more. The Stockholm act’s soulful funk, reminiscent of Prince, Rick James’ production style or the Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis grooves of the 80’s, is getting some heavy attention and rotation. Apparently their last single “Time” got out in the world and received some praise and attention from THE FADER, Monocle, BBC Radio One’s DJ Annie Mac, and they’ve been Band of the Day in The Guardian.
Check out this new track, “Ten Strikes”. We’re digging its distinctly 80’s retro-electro feel, and it’s purposeful similarity to Teena Marie, Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam and Janet Jackson is off the hook. Get this, do it now.
There is nobody in music quite like the one known as Res (pronounced ‘Reese’). A classically-trained born-and-raised Illadelphian vocalist with a soaring range, Res was raised on the strains of Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, and Teddy Pendergrass. However, as her musical boundaries expanded, she developed a prurient interest in rock music — diverse artists like Berlin, Pearl Jam and The Eurythmics. Res’s understated power as a songwriter and vocalist first came to light in 2001 with the release of her album How I Do, fusing her vocal fury with a series of rock and soul tracks which many (including me) felt solidified her position as the shape of things to come. The album, which yielded the single “They-Say Vision”, preserved Res’s incomparable collaborations with an equally-young-and-hopeful former A&R rep named Santi White, who so believed in the project, she quit her A&R job to work full-time with Res. (Today, of course, the world now knows her better as the massively successful Santigold)
But back in those strange salad days, the music business became cruel and dark to many artists. Layoffs and broken contracts became a touchstone of the early-mid 21st century, and Res got caught in the crossfire of record labels who couldn’t figure out how to market her music. Was she a soul singer? Was she a rocker? To her hardcore fans, the delineation hardly mattered; they knew what she was capable of, and Res did too.
More info and a free MP3 after the jump.
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Prince Klassen is one of my favorite DJ / Producer / Remixers in the world at the moment. Roxy Music is one of my favorite bands of all time, a master act of the 1970’s and 80’s who straddled the lines of rock, dance and pop music, led by the inscrutable Bryan Ferry. This re-edit of “Love is the Drug”, nearly a perfect song by our standards, just popped fresh into our inbox. And it’s impressive — another in a series of outstanding edits that Prince Klassen has given us of classic tracks. Like a damn Reeses Peanut Butter Cup, this is two great tastes that taste great together
(From Prince Klassen about this track):
I first heard this tune on Depeche Mode’s 101 tour video in the earlier 90s. I never knew who it was until way later. While ripping vinyl the other day, I thought I would give it a go. The groove and feel of this record is uneffwittable.
Roxy Music – Love is the Drug (Prince Klassen Edit) (124 BPM)
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Skewby, “Proving You Wrong Since 1988 – The Mixtape”
Hip-hop heads, Skewby is in the house and he’s letting you know right up-front: this ain’t what you’re used to. Proving You Wrong Since 1988 is a warning filled with shots fired at the status quo of Memphis’s traditional style of rap. I’ve had this sitting in my queue for a couple of months now, and to say I slept on it would be an understatement. Don’t you be a sleeper, too — if you do not have this mixtape, you are sleeping on one of the illest mixtapes I’ve heard come out of Memphis in my life.
If you’re looking for another gangsta rap mixtape, you’re in the wrong place — this is straight original styles mixtape with the love and respect to the masters I have never seen the likes of here. Shouts to DJ Crumbz and DJ Charlie White. Wake up and download it here now now now gooo.
Skewby – “I’m Here Now”
Skewby – “No Critics Allowed”
(You can find out more about Skewby over at his blog, Something About Skewby or follow him on Twitter)
Is the world ready for Total Savage? Fresh off an opening bid with the Mashter of Ceremonies Girl Talk, Memphis rapper Total Savage is about as next as it gets. I think this video, directed by Brad Phelan, speaks for itself — so let there be no question. Tonight, he’ll be blowing up the stage at Hi-Tone with the grand masters of Aristocrunk, Lord T and Eloise. Get ready to get it bumping out the frame, Memphis.
Respect @Ninjasonik for his take on this Major Lazer jawn. This track is officially bumping out frames at the Loudersoft crib. ENJOY!
This is a promo video for the new Ninjasonik release “MИWKA presents Darth Baño”, featuring 17 new tracks by Telli of Ninjasonik.
The CD is available for free download by clicking here
Two of my favorite talents in the extensive world of music remain the illustrious DJ Day and Kansas City’s #1 soul brother, soul singer and virtuoso Miles Bonny. DJ Day, whom I have written extensive praises of, wrote on his own blog, Like A Throttle, about how he came to generate this genuinely soul-stirring rendition of “Still Ray” by Raphael Saadiq.
I came home and listened to it, figured out the piano part and played everything else from there. Once I was finished I called my man Miles Bonny to lay down vocals and trumpet like only he can and here it is, free for you.
Word is this may yet still come out on vinyl, but it’s way too good to let collect dust. Enjoy this track and let it fill you with the essence. Keep up with DJ Day over at Like A Throttle.
