1. Bob Dylan - Shelter from the Storm 2. Avey Tare & Kira - Lay Lay Off, Faselam (Unreversed Version) 3. Panda Bear - Take Pills 4. Animal Collective - Fireworks 5. Final Fantasy - This Lamb Sells Condos 6. Arcade Fire - (Antichrist Television Blues) 7. Born Ruffians - This Sentence Will Ruin/Save Your Life 8. Tokyo Police Club - Citizens of Tomorrow 9. Broken Social Scene - Canada vs. America 10. The Walkmen - The North Pole 11. Frog Eyes - Bushels 12. Destroyer - Painter In Your Pocket 13. The Constantines - Soon Enough 14. Sunset Rubdown - Us Ones In Between 15. Laura Barrett - Robot Ponies 16. Johnny Cash & Bob Dylan - Girl From The North Country 17. Akron/Family - Love and Space
1. UGK feat. OutKast - International Players Anthem 2. Ghostface Killah - Holla 3. J Dilla - Two Can Win 4. Charles Mingus - Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting 5. Clark Terry & Chico O'Farrill - Spanish Rice 6. Caetano Veloso - Marinheiro so 7. Animal Collective - Winter's Love 8. Akron/Family - Running, Returning 9. J Dilla - U-Love 10. Prince - I Would Die 4 U 11. Parliament - Flashlight 12. Ghetto Brothers - Ghetto Brothers Power 13. James Brown - Get Up, Get Into It, Get Involved 14. Incredible Bongo Band - Apache 15. Tom Tom Club - Genius of Love (Long Version) 16. Brother 'D' and the Collective Effort - How We Gonna Make The Black Nation Rise 17. Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five - Scorpio 18. T.I. - What You Know 19. Young Dro - Man in the Trunk 20. Jaylib - The Red (Produced by J Dilla, vocals by Madlib) 21. Mobb Deep - Shook Ones Pt. II 22. Rick Ross - Hustlin' 23. Simian Mobile Disco - Hustler 24. The Juan Maclean - Give Me Every Little Thing 25. Hot Chip - Over and Over 26. Robyn - Konichiwa Bitches 27. Cadence Weapon - Oliver Square 28. Yo Majesty - Club Action (Bagraiders Sailing to Baltimore Edit) 29. Kelis - Milkshake (FBS JQueen Remix feat. Tigarah) 30. Cansei De Ser Sexy - Let's Make Love and Listen to Death From Above (Spank Rock remix) 31. Justice - D.A.N.C.E. 32. SebastiAn - Walkman 33. The Rapture - Out of the Races and Onto the Tracks 34. The Gossip - Standing in the Way of Control 35. Gang of Four - Ether 36. ESG - Moody 37. Liquid Liquid - Bellhead 38. New Order - Age of Consent 39. Kate Bush - Hounds of Love 40. Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart 41. The Walkmen - The Rat
My officemate/friend/"mate" Nick is going off to Cambridge to do his PhD in Old English (aka Anglo-Saxon) Literature and here's the mix I made for him. There's a couple things (Roots, especially) that I don't really like that much anymore but he's still into....also, excuse the Dilla-overload at the end.
1. Afrika Bambaataa & the Zulu Nation - Punk Rock Shout 2. The Roots - Thought@Work 3. KMD - Sweet Premium Wine 4. Organized Kongusion - Late Night Action 5. Black Milk - Shut It Down 6. Prodigy - Return of the Mac 7. Joe Budden & Redman - New Jersey Drive 8. Psalm One - Rapper Girls 9. UGK feat. OutKast - International Players Anthem 10. Mos Def - Ms. Fat Booty 11. Charizma & Peanut Butter Wolf - Talk About A Girl 12. Murs - Freak These Tales 13. Big Youth - Same Something 14. Count Ossie - Count Ossie Special 15. Charles Mingus - Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting 16. Ghostface Killah - Charlie Brown 17. Madlib - Montara 18. The Watts Prophets - A Pimp 19. J Dilla - One Eleven 20. Augustus Pablo - King Tubby Meets The Rockers Uptown 21. Jacob Miller - Baby I Love You So 22. Al Green - Look What You Done For Me 23. J Dilla - Dilla Says Go 24. J Dilla - Shouts (Alt)
So, I just geeked out when I found out I'll be presenting on the same panel as Oliver Wang aka O-DUB from the mighty Soul Sides blog, probably the most prominent if not best rap blogger ever. He's also apparently an academic at CSU Long Beach in Sociology and he's talking about Joe Baataan. I'm on first and my paper's on Charles Mingus. I better not suck.
I'm going to email him and see if we could go out for drinks or something. He's bound to have some sort of hip-hop related hook-up in NYC that I should attach myself to.
We're on at 3:30 on Saturday April 7th somewhere in the Grand Hyatt Hotel, New York (opposite Grand Central Station).
1. Peter Tosh - Igziabeher (Let Jah Be Praised) (Live at the One Love Peace Concert 4/22/78) 2. I Self Devine - Can't Say Nothing Wrong 3. Brother Ali - Truth Is 4. Nas - No Ideas Original 5. Black Star feat. Common - Respiration 6. Cage - Middletown New York 7. Blackalicious - Rock the Spot 8. Lyrics Born - Do That There (Young Einstein Hoo Hoo Mix) 9. Viktor Vaughn (MF DOOM) - Saliva (Produced by Rjd2) 10. Cali Agents (Rasco & Planet Asia) - Neva Forget 11. Cam'ron feat. Juelz Santana - We Make Change 12. Charizma & Peanut Butter Wolf - My World Premiere 13. GZA & RZA - Pass the Bone 14. Spoonie Gee - Spoonie Rap 15. A Tribe Called Quest - Luck of Lucien 16. Styles P feat. Talib Kweli - Testify 17. Immortal Technique - Freestyle 18. Sean Price feat. Rock - P-Body 19. Little Brother feat. Chaundon - Starvation 20. Lil' Wayne - Oh No 21. Buck 65 - Centaur (from the Vertex cassette) 22. Blackalicious - Alphabet Aerobics (Cut Chemist 2.5 Minute Workout)
Curse ov Dialect - token local, somewhat bad rappers. Danced around like fools. No one cared.
Archie Bronson Outift - likely would have killed late at night in a packed club but was only OK at 1 PM on a Sunday in an alleyway. Swamp blues type shit - I was into the first song but after I realized every song was the same, it got boring quick. I liked this music better when they called this the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.
Camera Obscura - laughably bad stage presence and plagued by bad sound. The first half of their set was terrible but got somewhat better, although only passable, as it went on.
Love Is All - the first good to great set of the day. apparently they were partying until 6:30 AM that morning but they still gave it their all. the singer had awesome shades.
Youth Group - generic alternaindieschlock. Die OC Die. The singer was a wanker. Worst set of the day. By far.
Crayon Fields - locals who look all of 16 years old. inoffensive indie pop. we stayed for only a song and a half.
The Sleepy Jackson - they really knew how to put on a festival show, playing to the back of the alley. The first two thirds of their set was intense and pretty great but it lost steam when they played some slower tunes before closing with aplomb. I don't think I'd ever listen to them but they sure put on a good gig. After Youth Group, they redeemed Australian music.
Holly Throsby - nice folk-ish type singer songwriter material with vocals from the Newsom school.
The Walkmen - killed that shit dead. Best set of the day. Dressed as if they had just attended a seminar on Deleuze.
Peter Bjorn and John - everybody seemed to be there for these guys and the first half of their show was decidedly underwhelming. But then they played "Young Folks" (with the singer from Camera Obscura subbing for Victoria Bergsman), everybody went crazy, jumped around, sang along. Afterwards they turned up the guitars and were pretty amazing. Too bad the whole set wasn't as intense as the last half.
Midnight Juggernauts - locals from the vein of the Avalanches and Cut Copy in Melbourne's scene. They closed the mainstage and were pretty fucking great, getting everybody dancing and going crazy with their slick beats, squeeling synths and anthemic vocals. their recorded material doesn't come close to matching their live show.
All in all a surprisingly good day. The best: Walkmen, Juggernauts, Love Is All, Sleepy Jackson, 2nd half of PB&J. The worst: Youth Group, 1st half of PB&J, Camera Obscura.
I'm back from the trip. The return to Melbourne felt like coming home off a tour. Melbourne > Sydney > Brisbane.
The new El-P record, I'll Sleep When You're Dead, leaked thanks to one Matthew Snider (from Pop Matters, I think?). That guy's an idiot (as if DJX is ever going to send him anything ever again) but the album is pretty incredible. It's not as noisy and jangly as Fantastic Damage and not nearly as funky or simple as Producto's work with, say, Cage but still it bangs like a mu'fucker and crushes heads when it needs to. Too bad El-P can't really rap well. I'll talk about this one more on the real blog. The new Aesop Rock NIKE workout mix also leaked and it's actually quite good too. Def Jux is back (said in the same way I've been saying it since 2002 always to be disappointed by the next mediocrity they release).
I've nearly finalized the course reader (scholarly mixtape?) for my class on cultural studies and semiotics. It's pretty Raymond Williams and Barthes heavy; I tried to make it quite readable and relatively short and lacking in any Foucault or Derrida. Here it is:
1. Raymond Williams - Culture is Ordinary 2. Ferdinand de Saussure - Nature of the Linguistic Sign (from the Course in General Linguistics) 3. Roland Barthes - Dominici, or the Triumph of Literature (from Mythologies) 4. Roland Barthes - Ornamental Cookery (from Mythologies) 5. Stuart Hall - Encoding, Decoding 6. Raymond Williams - The Technology and the Society (from Television: Technology and Cultural Form) 7. Clifford Geertz - Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight 8. Marshall McLuhan - The Medium is the Message 9. Naomi Klein - Brand Bombing: Franchises in the Age of the Superbrand (from No Logo) 10. Eric Lott - Racial Cross-Dressing and the Construction of American Whiteness 11. Jean Baudrillard - The Gulf War Will Not Take Place (from The Gulf War Did Not Take Place) 12. Lev Manovich - Principles of New Media/What New Media Is Not (from The Language of New Media)
1. Lou Reed - Street Hassle 2. LCD Soundsystem - All My Friends 3. The Arcade Fire - Intervention 4. Wolf Parade - Dear Sons and Daughters of Ghosts (EP version) 5. Animal Collective - Winter's Love 6. The Books - Take Time 7. J Dilla - Nothing Like This 8. Dudley Perkins - Falling 9. Mos Def - Undeniable 10. Styles P feat. Pharoahe Monch - The Life 11. Ghostface Killah - Holla 12. Little Brother - On the Way 13. Jean Grae - Don't Rush Me 14. P.O.S. - Music for Shoplifting (Live) 15. Cadence Weapon - Turning On Your Sign 16. J Dilla - Time: The Donut of the Heart 17. Laura Barrett - Robot Ponies 18. Akron/Family - Love and Space
1. Spank Rock - Backyard Betty 2. T.I. - What You Know 3. Rick Ross feat. Young Jeezy & Jay-Z - Hustlin' (Remix) 4. Young Jeezy - Streets On Lock 5. The Clipse - Momma I'm So Sorry 6. Ghostface Killah - Shakey Dog 7. Lupe Fiasco - Kick, Push 8. The Game - 360 Degrees 9. Nas - Where Are They Now? 10. J Dilla - Two Can Win 11. TV on the Radio - Wolf Like Me 12. Hot Chip - Over and Over 13. Be Your Own Pet - Bunk Trunk Skunk 14. Destroyer - Priest's Knees 15. Final Fantasy - This Lamb Sells Condos 16. Peter Bjorn & John feat. Victoria Bergsman - Young Folks 17. Bob Dylan - Workingman's Blues #2 18. Joanna Newsom - Sawdust & Diamonds
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