There's hip-hop....and then there's....?

There's hip-hop/rap, then there's good hip-hop/rap. Then, well, there's Themselves. I've posted there stuff all over the place, like here and here and, probably my favorite son by them, here. Anyway, I'm stoked on them, and I'll argue that Doseone is probably the most charged musician currently out there in terms of raw (albeit wayward) creativity and, well, just damn well being out there. Anyway, here's a rad video of Jel and our man Doseone that I'm rather stoked on. Indeed!

Themselves @ Camp Basement with livemusic.fm from anticon. on Vimeo.

If you get nothing else out of this but that Doseone is mad sexy, your life is nonetheless better now.

Anyway, here's Baths's new (and premiere) video for my favorite song off of his debut, Lovely Bloodflow. I find it to be one of the more beautiful things I've seen lately really.

Baths - "Lovely Bloodflow" from anticon. on Vimeo.

Anyway, guess I should toss up some new stuff--or just stuff here...These next tracks go in conjunction. Nothing super epic, just a good beat and a good sound that caught my ear. Perhaps it'll catch yours too (both by the Bomarr Monk):
a1 - green gold fronts
a2 - large happy fat

This song is just real pretty:
Modeselektor - The White Flash

A little abject, this post be, but we all need such a thing...from time to time.

Marc out.

Hootin' and hollerin'

Why does electronic music have a (coupla) step(s) up on classical? Many many, but here's a few: no need for a whole damn symphony (that's what comps are for!), it has drumbeat, and any 'ol body can do it! Classical, however, has that enduring devotion that people like Chopin, Rachmaninoff, or hell even that crazy bastard, Scriabin had. But, do I hope we're getting there. Anyway, I'm stoked on this:


....DJ Egadz everyone. Give him a couple more years and he'll no doubt rival my current favorite electronic artiste, Tony Simon
DJ Egadz - White Flag

By the by, that new favorite artist I've probably told everyone about? Yes, Nujabes. I found his source (and Mr. Simon's source as well!). The throughly fantastic (yet older) jazz musician, Yusef Lateef. One of my new favorites, still putting out music/teaching at 90. Plus he was part of the Black Muslim movement of the 60s(ish), which is one of those marginal little pockets in history that I love to know everything about. Now, find me three songs in this one:
Yusef Lateef--Love theme from 'The Robe'

Ahhh, yes, up and coming beauty Andreya Triana has recently put up her debut. You may recognize her from Bonobo's newest masterpiece, Black Sands. Here's the title track song:
Andreya Triana - Lost Where I Belong

And this song is just too damn cute:
The Hundred in the Hands - Gigantic Tom Tom

As regards other brilliant media, Julian Schnabel is my director of the week because he makes beautiful, meditative films about liminial individuals and he paints and shit. Most presently, his film Before Night Falls is one of the best bestowed upon mine eyes and soul in the last year. Additionally, Revanche is my individual film of the month.

Anyway, to add an animal kingdom atop my preexisting capitol of Alderaan, I've been caught up in between James Baldwin's Another Country and Douglas Hofstadter's newest essaie, I am a strange Loop and have found myself in a piecemeal niche--along with the Jazz and beats that is the new metronome for my biology--where I'm digging my teeth into a kind of uncannily beautiful mist of romance, dreaming again and walking on water upside down...and I feel like my mind built this when I wasn't looking...

Well, tomorrow I part for NY. Boy am I stoked to see some of the most beautiful people I've ever had the abounding luck to meet and befriend....who knows where I'll be after that?

Feather

Well, August has already befallen us. Seems odd; yet seems to make sense. I can't seem to tackle this inchoate sense of waiting--which I fear August will bring; a wait for something unnamed and not really acutely planned for or in range. Perhaps August is just an aspiration, as I yet remain unsure where the rock may roll.

Backpacking with Jillian went well--albeit it's shortness. Boef. The 4-day trip to the San Juan Mountains was...decent. Really having more and more difficulty being comfortable around my father. Just so reactive. Anyway, climbing Sneffels was a blast. Hats off to 14er #24. Holla. Biggest downside, however was the fucking rain. Spent about 4 days practically soaked. Pwnd par la nature...

I'm stoked:

Mad stoked on heading out to NEW YORK in about a coupla days or something of the like. Gonna see a whole onslaught of Amigos à la Pairs that I haven't seen in well over a year. So here's a shout out to all'o'y'all!

Stoked to get out of the shitty, house I'm currently in with beer cans and dog shit all over the place. Best location I've ever been in, worst housemates I've ever had (well, 3 awful, 1 good).

Stoked to be chillin' well past September.

Stoked on the amazing people in my life (you know who you are).

Stoked that things are getting better (or back to how they were).

Stoked to go to Costa Rica in September.

And, of course: Stoked on some new-ass music I'm about to share with y'all! There's a lot of it here, and it's all good.

Let's get started:

This one I have a hunch my amigo Ted0 will enjoy quite a bit. Not sure if he's totally your groove, but Wax Tailor is a fuckin' master. Check it!
Wax Tailor--The Games you Play

Because I'm _______, all I can seem to want to listen to these days is mostly sans-parole, jazzy...ish, chill stuff with a good beat...or Hip-Hop. If anyone can help me with the name of this category of music, that'd help. So I'll throw out a whole handful...
Pt. 1 of all I can listen to:
Fat Jon - Mira
Nujabes - A Day by Atmosphere Supreme
They loose their minds on this track:
Cinematic Orchestra - Man With The Movie Camera (live)

Pt. 2: Hip-Hop (most of it Jazzed-up):
Blessin' it

Feather

This one I really was digging earlier this week after getting lost in the rain, after dark, no shirt on a run while camping, there you have it:
Highs 2 Lows
This one goes out to that special someone in my life.
(These first couple come from one of my new favorite artists, Nujabes. Who, tragically died in February of this year as I came to learn upon reading more into him after being substantially impressed by his album Metaphorical Music (which is what some of this is off of...) Kinda a bummer when you get really stoked on someone and find out he's recently deceased. Putain.

...and one more:
Blue Scholars - The Inkwell


Also, I meant to throw this one up last time, but didn't. A really beautiful song.
Florence and The Machine - Cosmic Love (Short Club Remix)


Ok...Well, that's about an hour worth of listening. Enjoy!

Be ready for even fresher scratches and beats within the week!