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06.03.13

D’Angelo & ?uestlove Rock Brooklyn Bowl

This piece of news is stolen straight from the good people at . News has it that flawed soul-genius by the name of has recently teamed up with recently for a live show at New York's while fans like me sweat and bite their fingernails over the impending release of , D'angelo's long awaited follow up to 2000's . As proof that this gig took place, you're able to scroll through the videos above and excite yourself for the new album release. 1) Go Back To The Thing / Let Me Have It All (Sly & The Family Stone cover) 2) Cosmic Slop (Funkadelic cover) 3) Woman’s Gotta Have It (Bobby Womack cover) / The Line 4) You Caught Me Smilin’ / Africa Talks To You “The Asphalt Jungle” (Sly & The Family Stone covers) 5) Tell Me If You Still Care (The S.O.S. Band cover) 6) Our Love Has Died (Ohio Players cover) 7) The Root 8) Really Love 9) Alright / Mother’s Son (Curtis Mayfield cover) 10) New Position (Prince & The Revolution cover) / Africa 11) Lady (encore)  

06.03.13

Listen to M.I.A.’s Matangi Mix

While we patiently wait for M.I.A.'s latest album, Matangi, to be released (with a mid April scheduled release) we can listen to this mix she made for Kenzo's Paris fashion show. The 8 minute and 27 seconds-long mix is a banger from beginning to end, with a selection of bass-heavy songs mixed together, culminating in M.I.A. spitting a dope braggadocios verse that will most likely appear in Matangi.

05.03.13

OVERVIEW by Planetary Collective

As children, we all learned about our planet's position in the solar system. Some of us might even have fond memories of making dioramas at school. And yet our awareness of our place — or to be more exact, our awareness of our planet's place — in the universe, has gradually been replaced with the joys and sorrows of everyday life. Our routines demand our attention, and we end up confined to our immediate surroundings. We think about the world more often than we think about Earth, even though our existence depends on the latter. While it is indeed unfortunate that we find it easier to think of ourselves as citizens of this neighbourhood or that country instead of vulnerable inhabitants of an even more vulnerable planet, we are lucky to have fellow humans who have had the opportunity to see our collective home from outer space. Planetary Collective documents the stories that these individuals who left Earth as astronauts and came back as enlightened human beings. Packed with deep insights and beautiful imagery, will make you pose a series of existential questions. It is guaranteed to send chills down your spine.  

05.03.13

Unknown Mortal Orchestra “Swim and Sleep (Like a Shark)” Music Video

Eversince it was released late last year with its disturbing image of a bleeding baby's face, I've been bopping my head to Unknown Mortal Orchestra's "Swim and Sleep (Like a Shark)", the single to their sophomore album, 'II', revolves around a very catchy guitar lick that is complemented by a driven drum - it's a good listen. Well now the song has a video to accompany it, and it features masturbating puppets (yes, masturbating puppets). The self-pleasing puppets are only a small (but significant and totally memorable) part of the story of a character going through the motions of self discovery. The creative team did a fine job of making this puppet world come to life - colorful, animated, and detailed. I didn't expect the group to couple "Swim and Sleep (Like  a Shark)" with puppets, and with it dealing with adult situations we're treated to a twisted music video. I like.

04.03.13

RBMA Radio Presents a King Tubby Special

producer for illustrious labels such as , and has teamed up with to present a comprehensive two-hour playlist of the (and also skilled electrician) , better known as . "Way before he was crowned King Tubby – dub originator and reverb re-thinker – Osbourne Ruddock was a little soundbwoy admiring the sound system culture of 1950s Kingston. A skilled electrician, Tubby was a helpful hand to those sound systems whose equipment suffered from tropical humidity and the sabotage acts of rivaling DJs. Producing his first b-side versions for Duke Reid, Tubby created a whole new musical niche, liberating the creative potential of sound engineers in the process. His often vocal-free reworks of multitrack masters by the likes of Lee ’Scratch’ Perry, Bunny Lee, Augustus Pablo, Horace Andy and countless others accentuated every single element of the composition with extreme delays, echoes and phase effects. The outcome was a somewhat eerie yet steaming sonic texture that continues to mesmerize music aficionados all over the place. In 1974, King Tubby released what some call his masterpiece, a dub version of Jacob Miller’s one drop Baby I Love You So, called King Tubby Meets The Rockers Uptown. At the dawn of the digital revolution in the 80s, King Tubby’s focus shifted towards mentoring new talent, most notably King Jammy and Hopeton Brown aka Scientist. On February 6, 1989, King Tubby became another victim of the inexplicable randomness of Kingston’s gun crimes, when he was shot and killed returning home from a session at the Waterhouse studios."

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