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WUGAZI

Posted on Thursday, July 21, 2011 by Gus


WUGAZI


get up in this.

13 chambers is a slick mashup of wu tang clan and fugazi from cecil otter and swiss andy.

such a flip mixtape. jump over to wugazi dot com and get the lot.


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ALL GREAT AND PRECIOUS THINGS ARE LONELY: PLAINS, TYLER THE CREATOR, PURITY RING, JAMES BLAKE

Posted on Sunday, February 13, 2011 by Gus

i'm moving to sydney next week to start a new university course. so ima be busy sorting myself out here and there over the next few weeks and thus there won't be much posting going on. here are some words and songs and moving pictures to keep you sated.


I can believe things that are true and I can believe things that aren’t true and I can believe things nobody knows if they’re true or not. I can believe in Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny and Marilyn Monroe and the Beatles and Elvis and Mister Ed. Listen - I believe that peope are perfectible, that knowledge is infinite, that the world is run by secret banking cartels and is visited by aliens on a regular basis, nice ones that look like wrinkledy lemurs and bad ones who mutilate cattle and want our water and our women. I believe that the future sucks and I believe that the future rocks and I believe that one day White Buffalo Woman is going to come back and kick everyone’s ass. I believe that all men are just overgrown boys with deep problems communicating and that the decline in good sex in American is coincident with the decline in drive-in movie theaters from state to state. I believe that all politicians and unprincipled crooks and I still believe that they are better than the alternative. I believe that California is going to sink into the sea when the big one comes, while Florida is going to dissolve into madness and alligators and toxic waste. I believe that antibacterial soap is destroying our resistance to dirt and disease so that one day we’ll all be wiped out by the common cold like the Martians in War of the Worlds. I believe that the greatest poets of the last century were Edith Sitwell and Don Marquis, that jade is dried dragon sperm, and that thousands of years ago in a former life I was a one-armed Siberian shaman. I believe that mankind’s destiny lies in the stars. I believe that candy really did taste better when I was a kid, that it’s aerodynamically impossible for a bumblebee to fly, that light is a wave and a particle, that there’s a cat in a box somewhere who’s alive and dead at the same time (although if they don’t ever open the box to feed it it’ll eventually just be two different kinds of dead), and that there are stars in the universe billions of years older than the universe itself. I believe in a personal god who cares about me and worries and oversees everything I do. I believe in an impersonal god who set the universe in motion and went off to hang with her girlfriends and doesn’t even know that I’m alive. I believe in an empty and godless universe of casual chaos, background noise, and sheer blind luck. I believe that anyone who says that sex is overrated just hasn’t done it properly. I believe that anyone who claims to know what’s going on will lie about the little things too. I believe in absolute honesty and sensible social lies. I believe in a woman’s right to chose, a baby’s right to live, that while all human life is sacred there’s nothing wrong with the death penalty if you can trust the legal system implicitly, and that no one but a moron would ever trust the legal system. I believe that life is a game, that life is a cruel joke, and that life happens when you’re alive and that you might as well lie back and enjoy it.

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CLOSE YOUR EYES AND DREAM B.I.G. LIKE FAITH EVANS

Posted on Wednesday, December 22, 2010 by Gus



CLOSE YOUR EYES:

THE BULLITTS starring Jay Electronica &
Lucy Liu as Amelia Sparks:

"And then there was him. Without words, he told me I was all needed. He transformed my entire outlook on life. He made me believe again. And just like that... I was whole."

"I was on to something. I knew there was more. Before there was nothing. With him I had all."

THE BULLITTS:

Monogram hologram, Seeming realistic in a dream, My phonogram, Analogue emotions in a stream, Wave radio, Beautiful fire gasoline my love,

Running like railroad train. Whistle like wind in rain. Bitter moon and sun exchange a glance,
Turn away...

Close your eyes. Radio lies. Here's dynamite sonic in real-time. This is your life. Cradle and knife. Everything grow until die.

Here we go, stereo. Turning volume down again. My merry go, Mystical reflections call a pen, Write heat explode, Falling nearer to the end my love,

Running like railroad train. Whistle like wind in rain. Bitter moon and sun exchange a glance, Turn away...

Close your eyes. Radio lies. Here's dynamite sonic in real-time. This is your life. Cradle and knife. Everything grow until die.

Jay Electronica:

Have you ever had that feeling like you been falling for weeks in a well? I was on the verge of dying like E.T. in the bald spot in the forest, right next to the speak and spell...Tryna phone home but the signal wouldn't reach the cell...Tryna hold on a little longer teeth and nail
without a hand to wipe the tears away from my cheek when they fell. When I couldn't get peace from a pipe or chiefing an L, I thought of the words of pastor Dunn when he said;

"Son, at first they screamed hosanna on the highest then turned around and crucified the christ after a week in jail"

Stick to the script like paper clips and coffee stains, Never let a seed of doubt deter you from your lofty aims, The will us much stronger than the flesh, And it only grows stronger when you're going through duress, Imagination is the factory that makes legends...Close Your Eyes and dream B.I.G like Faith Evans.

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RHYTHMIC POETRY: EMAY

Posted on Monday, December 6, 2010 by Gus


EMAY - epic talent. i get such a jay electronica vibe when i hear this dude. which is huge. jay electronica is fucking all time. mubarik adams is a poet. producer. rapper. concious wordsmith. and he's only 18. he's also collaborated with two of my favourite artists, star slinger and blackbird blackbird, as the group seeing suge. their single 'breaking' is so fucking dope. be conscious. hear emay. man's got swag.
FFO: jay electronica, blu

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ANOTHER DAY ANOTHER STRUGGLE: BUCK 65+E-DUBBLE+KANYE WEST+CHIDDY BANG+MAC MILLER+FREDDIE GIBBS+GILBERE FORTE+CHILDISH GAMBINO+BRENTON DUVALL

Posted on Friday, October 8, 2010 by Gus


BUCK 65 - paper airplane feat. jenn grant.mp3
(from jjj's free downloads section)

E-DUBBLE - get on board.mp3
(check out his freestyle fridays. fucking sick)

KANYE WEST - lost in the world.mp3
(samples BON IVER'S 'woods' from his 'blood bank' EP)

CHIDDY BANG - young blood (feat. the naked and famous).mp3
(they played this for jjj's like a version. win.)

MAC MILLER - kool aid & frozen pizza.mp3

FREDDIE GIBBS - the ghetto.mp3

GILBERE FORTE - cold summer feat. brian underwood.m4a
(see more gilbere here)

CHILDISH GAMBINO - bitch look at me now (two weeks).mp3
(danny glover from 'community'. that show is the tits)

BRENTON DUVALL - stop making sense (BIG and snoop).mp3
(more brenton duvall here)

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SEX DRUGS AND MONEY, OR HOW I FOUND HAPPINESS: G-EAZY + GILBERE FORTE + BRENTON DUVALL

Posted on Tuesday, October 5, 2010 by Gus


G-EAZY - great production on 'waspy'. tennis's 'marathon' is a great track in its own right but this is a killer beat right here. check his bandcamp for some free/pay what you feel music.


GILBERE FORTE - released his debut '87 dreams' this year. guys been writing songs for 11 years and he's only 23. he's getting attention for his sampling, same vein as hoodie allen and chiddy bang.


BRENTON DUVALL - guys a remix/mashup genius. great music taste too. get 'the potomac boys club demos' here. stupid good. biggie, raekwon, jay-z, hall & oates, gary jules and j0nsi are all there.

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a little or a lot

Posted on Wednesday, August 25, 2010 by Gus


cee-lo green - cee-lo fucking bleeeds r&b. have so much respect for how he's brought funk and soul back into the mainstream. whether it's through his work with gnarles barkley or other collaborators or in his solo work he makes a great genre relevant to a whole generation that it could've been lost to. his new solo album 'the lady killer' is due later this year


dan black - great hip/hop influenced electro-pop. he'll be out here for parklife. these tunes are off his 'weird science' mixtape. debut album 'UN' is out now.


daniel lee kendall - is from central coast, nsw. these are really great pop songs. sounds like a little bit of jonathan boulet, little bit of whitley and alot of daniel lee kendall. he's in brisbane for big sound in september. check his unearthed page for free downloads and show your support.

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hip hop is a state of mind

Posted on Thursday, August 19, 2010 by Gus

this guy's a fucking brilliant artist

PaperMonster Ate That Little Boy @ Vincent Michael Gallery Time-Lapse from PaperMonster on Vimeo.

......

now for some hip hop.

my sick uncle - lil wayne Vs (500) days of summer OST = (500) days of weezy. a mixtape of acapella weezy over samples built from the (500) days of summer soundtrack. verse like...

'she pulled me over... pulled me out the rover
 then she pulled me closer... do me in the back of the car
 Put me in handcuffs start ripping my pants off'

...over regina spektor's 'us' should sound like sacrilege. but it doesn't. it sounds great. get the full mixtape here.

hoodie allen - new york based rapper doing what chiddy bang did so well last year. takes hooky indie tunes, mixes, layers with verse, and produces good summertime hip hop.

mouth's cradle - solid summery mix of hip hop, pop and electronica. facebook bio;

'Kevin Hegedus made music with his body ... Brandon Linn made mashups... they met at a party...they formed Mouth's Cradle and havent made a weak beat since.'
k.flay - according to her...

'i currently live in san francisco, hobnobbing with lunatics and writing music. i’ve played shows all over the country with a bunch of different artists. this past fall, i wrote, produced, and recorded a non-edible mixtape called MASHed Potatoes. if you were to put hip hop, indie rock, and electronic music in a blender, it would sound like me.'

isaiah and hovey -richmond, VA based duo isiah clements (rapper) and hovey benjamin (producer) released their debut 'dante's love inferno machine' in may.

binary star - alt hip/hop group formed in '98 composed of pontiac, michigan rappers one be lo and senim silla. their debut album 'waterworld' which was recorded, mixed and mastered on a $500 budget. all verses were recorded in one take.

honest expression.mp3
reality check.mp3
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also, i finished reading dave eggers's 'a heartbreaking work of staggering genius' this morning. phenomenal. he writes so vibrantly, so real, so inclusively that it's hard not become emotionally invested in even his most trivial thoughts and actions. and it's the understated moments that cut deepest, his anger and almost innocent hope, and always that underlying fury, feeding him, polarising his opinions. his work is heartbreaking and staggering and genius. it's so good, i mean so fucking good. you have to read it. you must. you owe it to yourself and to the author. he is owed.

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have mercy on me

Posted on Wednesday, June 9, 2010 by Gus

photo courtesy of jacoblambert.blogspot.com

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fee.fi.fo.fum.

Posted on Thursday, June 3, 2010 by Gus

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