KiD CuDi – Cleveland is the Reason

Produced by Dot Da Genius

the kind of beat born from late nights in front of the computer screen.

never been to Cleveland, but KiD CuDi and the dood singing on the chorus (anyone know who that is?) make it sound intergalactic-fantastic.

check out the rest of his mixtape, free download on his site and completely diggable.

especially noteworthy:

Day n Nite

Is there Any Love? (feat Wale)

The Prayer

Heaven at Nite

and the Paul Simon sample in 50 Ways to Make a Record cracks me up

Summer’s winding down, but you can still stir the ice in your mojito to this previously unreleased Lupe-worked Kanye beat. The sample seems to be based on the 1969 Lennon-McCartney b-side, “Don’t Let me Down,” sped up (whirrr’d), sprinkled with a faint tinkling ringaling and driven by some beatbombs dropped in true Ye fashion.

enjoy the last days of summer, folks.

Lupe Fiasco – Birds & The Bees (prod Kanye)

(via Fakeshoredrive)

It’s past my bedtime and I’ve already done posted for the diem, but

I just saw that the Homie Kevin Martin finally dropped a full-length on Ninja Tune.

Martin, aka The Bug, is one adem homies whose been in the game for a minute and has got more dubstep and ragga in his swerve than most.

I’m still diggin the track Poison Dart that he released way back when.

When being the last time New England leaves were falling.

Poison Dart

Warrior Queen kills it ridin the bassed-out futuristic synth-war instigated by The Bug.

I mean, the

Shit is Loud.

¡UP.n.UP!

So the Bicycle Film Festival has landed in Boston starting yesterday, the 14th, to Sunday the 17th.

One particular highlight is this screening at 1pm on Saturday:

and later that night they’re having an after party in Allston with Etan and Neptune.

Illy-Vanilly? Quite possibly (have never heard either of their live sets).

The real catalyst for this post though is because of Macaframa, who have been teasing the hell out of everyone with little trailers peppered across the blogosphere.

The homies at H(y)r Collective just did a piece on them.

scope that HERE

(as always, equipped with primo musical landscaping)

and in case you have yet to sample the little visual seasonings by Maca, here are a few:

But please, check the rest of the flock HERE

So simple. So clean.

Made In Queens:

Cause this hyped for different reasons:

Whose swagger reminds me of:

Black Label Bicycle Club’s ’07 Bike Kill

Which harks on craftsmanship of a different note:

Result of Condor Cycles‘ collab with Richard James

Whose poise, if nothing else, lends an ear to the world of the Far-Too-Fast:

]]> http://sumtink.wordpress.com/2008/08/15/bici-beauty/feed/ 0 m http://sumtink.wordpress.com/2008/08/14/life/ http://sumtink.wordpress.com/2008/08/14/life/#comments Thu, 14 Aug 2008 22:03:55 +0000 m http://sumtink.wordpress.com/?p=188 ]]> A pin-up for now is from the new Atmosphere album.

The other day I was on a little get-the-hell-outta-my-mind-and-into-some-new-diversionary-diggs mission, and on track perusing through some musicali at a Borders.

Had no idea Atmosphere had even released a new album (ok, so it got dropped in March).

But the album title was what yanked over the novelty:

When Life Hands You Lemons, You Paint That Shit Gold.

Feelin that.

Physically gold plated and flowing with an introspective investigation characteristic to Atm, the album is a gracefully cohesive scrapbook. From start to finish it see-saws on Life’s harsh beauty.pain

and LightweightHeavy like

(.)

Guarantees

Me

Wild Wild Horses

Toko – Momo Wandel Soumah

We Will Get Them – Udokotela Shange Namajaha

Train to Skaville – Jackie Mittoo & The Soul Brothers

Soul Fire – Lee Scratch Perry and the Upsetters

We Need Love – Johnny Osbourne

I Forgot to Be Your Lover – William Bell

Natural High – Bloodstone

Across 110th Street – Bobby Womack

Do the Funky Chicken – Rufus Thomas

What A Man – Linda Lyndell

The Worm – Jimmy McGriff

Watusi Boogaloo – Willie Rosario and His Orchestra

Search and Destroy – Iggy and the Stooges

Hello Internet travelers, this is my first post for Sumtink. I am the one referred to as “current/soon-to-be-past heady-tour around the U.S.” Heady tour has ended, and tomorrow I begin my job in Boston as an organizer for an environmental/consumer issues group. Borrowing a phrase from Thurston Moore, I hope I will give you much material for your ears to taste, and for your other senses to delight in for that matter.

One of the steps on Heady Tour 08 was the Rothbury Music Festival in Michigan. It was a much-hyped first-time festival, and it turned out to be perhaps the best of the summer. At its core, Rothbury is a jamband festival with Phil Lesh, Widespread Panic, and Dave Matthews Band as headliners, but it reached out to a number of bands from several other music worlds as well.

We saw Panic 7 times this summer, and they delivered possibly the best show of a great tour at Rothbury. After the show we managed to detach ourselves from the intriguing scuplture displays made from wood and recycled materials and ambled over to the electronicaish music emanating from the neighboring stage. Most festivals feature DJ’s and jamtronica bands late-night to cater to the tripping and rolling crowd (fyi, on heady tour, that is called being “spun”). Sometimes these groups can be pretty predictable. Thievery Corporation, however, is another matter.

I had been a fan of the group for some time since I acquired their relatively recent album the Cosmic Game (get this album!). The two primary members, Rob Garza and Eric Hilton, create tantalizing cosmopolitan downtempo grooves that incorporate musical styles from Brazil, India, and Jamaica, often in the same song.
This combines with electronic textures to make some of the most psychedelic music you’ll hear. I figured that their live act would consist of the two of them mostly regurgitating their excellent studio material, and that my familiarity with them would make for an enjoyable but not very novel experience.

How wrong I was! Thievery Corporation travels with the DJ setup plus a bass, guitar, two percussionists, a horn section, a sitar player sitting on a raised dais, an army of vocalists of several styles, and several ornately dressed dancers. Admittedly, the music is not that different from on the albums, but they re-create and tweak the grooves in such an organic way that one gets the sens of on-the-spot creation that comes only from live music. Their band can play legitimate dub that sounds straight from Jamaica (and their Jamaican vocalists are amazing and really pump up the crowd), sensuous samba rhythms, and even Soulive-style jazz-funk. As they played “The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter” with its lyrics about a spaceship, “beautiful forever” (sung by David Byrne on the album but not live unfortunately), we in the audience could sense the possibility of traveling to space and beyond without a tangible vehicle (not just with drugs, haha). Their live energy creates an incredibly optimistic sense of of our human creative potential, as individuals but especially as a collective of individuals. It is one of the few shows that I’ve been to where I felt like I was at an EVENT and CELEBRATION of life instead of simply a concert.

If you get a chance, go see Thievery Corporation! I promise you will dance your ass off and experience something really positive. The recordings cannot even come close to the live sensation, but check it out (on the bittorrent site, bt.etree.org, great site by the way): http://bt.etree.org/details.php?id=516624

If you’re curious about the visual spectacle, check out the videos on YouTube. The sound is typically terrible, but you can get an idea of what I’m talking about. Their website has some videos as well: http://www.thieverycorporation.com/video.htm

I’m excited to see where they go from here, hopefully they won’t rest on their laurels and churn out music with the same formula as some bands tend to do in their genre.

yup, thats right

texas

i feel a little out of touch with with the so called ‘scene’ considering my location (small town) and infrequent glimpses of the internet, but i can throw a bone in here or there. possibly shit that you’ve heard of months or even years ago, but hey, things move kinda slow here.

if you want to know the know about country, western OR swing music, i’m you’re guy. i’m hip deep down here. but i’ll try to stick to the story

luckily i’m in radio distance to houston. heard about jimi tenor, who apparently is the big deal in his finnish homeland (and that funny place we call europe). i need to check out more, maybe get a cd, but heres a few tidbits to get ya goin.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSsNqL9Z4ls&feature=related

and

red kaftans, silvery gowns, and embroidered robes?

why not

http://www.theworld.org/?q=node/19636

allmusic talking about his album intervision “An almost uncharacteristically schmaltz-less collection of minimal electronic jazz, Intervisionblends fat organ leads with horns, raw and treated vocals, and rhythmic and percussive figures drawn from ’60s and ’70s soul, funk, fusion, and psychedelia, as well as contemporary house, downbeat, and techno. Oddly (or not), the album was recorded using only ancient Russian analog gear, in a former Communist dancehall.’

nothing sounds more fun then a former communist dance hall

No One’s Gonna Leave You

Feeling Free
The Rhodes on No One’s Gonna Leave you is just killin me.
Shit, the Rhodes always kills me.
And the steady un-steadiness of the guitar’s pluck-pluck is so on point for this song.
Feelin’ Free is another one of those jams that opens up in such broad terrain. First time I heard it was just on the edge of my seat “where the hell is this going, cause I’m 30 seconds in and I still don’t have a clue what era this is, what lifeculture this is woven from”. Think that all ties in with the song title, lyrics, and hot crisps of Willis’ voice.
Other songs on Keep Reachin’ Up do the same. The song Holdin’ On is one that comes to mind. And it has a Rhodes solo that just blows it up.

In other news, Sesame Street has recently been taken over by MOP.
Yap that fool!

¡Up’n’Up!