Treebeats A To Z Posting Compilation Of Really Dope Things. The Letter C

01 - Cake - Friend Is A Four Letter Word
By far my favorite Cake song and not not really sure of what the song is about. It just sounds really good if not a little sad. Cake is a indie rock quartet from Cali that are probably most known for "The Distance" which is off the same Album as this one. Also, you gotta love a rock band with a solo trumpet player.
02 - Camp Lo - Luchini Aka This Is It
I wouldn't necessarily listen to a whole album of theirs but this has got to be one of the illest, most pimped out songs ever. I don't mean "pimp" in a gilded-goblet and douche baggy way. I mean "pimp" in a goldfish in your platforms and a velvet cape kind of way. Go ahead and listen to this song while your walking somewhere and see if you don't start leaning to one side and suddenly feel the urge to have a cane and a feather in your hat.
03 - Casual - I Didn't Mean To
When Souls released 93 til I was blown away. The whole multiple word rhyming schemes they had. The production. Their ill and sometimes humorous lyrics. It had me hooked. Casual seemed to kind of get missed in the Souls and Del shadow but I thought he was just as dope.
04 - Cat Power - He War
If she was good enough to work with Handsomeboy Modeling School, there must be something to her. This whole record was really good and her voice is fucking awesome. Also check out "I don't Blame you."
05 - The Chemical Brothers - Where Do I Begin
The whole beginning guitar riff with the preverb and backwards shit blew me away. Plus, I've had many Sunday mornings where I couldn't even focus on a coffee cup.
06 - Chicago - 25 Or 6 To 4
Even though Peter Cetera is singing this is not a ballad. Chicago was once a pretty funky-ass septet. Check their first couple of records and you will not find the inspiration for "You're the inspiration" The starting riff of this track reels you in and it's just a bad ass song.
07 - Chill Rob G - Let The Words Flow
I bought his record the day it came out because on the back his fan club was based in Providence and I thought he was from Rhode Island (I was living there at the time). In the 80's we had no Sage Francis or Joe Beats to Rep the Biggest Little State in the Union so I was pretty devistated when I found out he was from Jersey. Nonetheless, a pretty solid release from one of the most underrated members of the Flavor Unit. By the way, I didn't find out he was from New Jersey for about 15 years and told everyone I knew he was from RI. I'm Dum.
08 - Chubb Rock - Caught Up (Remix)
I always liked the Chubbster. This was the first song I heard by him and it really appealed to me. His voice is gruff. His delivery was pretty hard and his lyrics were up to par at the time. Also check out Ya Bad Chubbs. Granted his name was a gimmick but Prince Markie Dee he is not!
09 - Coldcut - Noah's Toilet
I was torn with this one because of the spoken word over it but just the production on this track is fucking incredible. I dissected this track trying to emulate what I heard and failed miserably but was quite inspired anyway. That thing they do with the Ape howling made me shart.
10 - Coldplay - Everything's Not Lost
Ever heard of them? This is my favorite song of Coldplay's. I think the first time I heard them was on HBO's old concert series which I can't think of the name of now but they were pretty good. Smug and pompous, but I guess duly so.k
11 - Common - Soul By The Pound (Thump Remix)
I wasn't really a Com fan until he released this record. Can I borrow a Dollar had him squeaking too much but his song was it and Resurrection solidified the deal for me. Who knew he'd do Gap adds!?
12 - Cornelius - Drop
I upped the Cornelius Remixes record a while ago. This track is from his Point disc and it is just another reason why I love this guy so much. No a lot of people blend so many styles and genres together so well to me. He's certainly a bit esoteric and noisy at times but this track is none of that and just a great listen. Now he might be talking about toting guns with nuns and going to hell for snuffing Jesus but it's all in Japanese so it's all good.
13 - Cornershop - Heavy Soup
While Brimful of Asha would probably score high on my list of songs that make me want to chew glass this is one funky ass intro song with Otis Clay doing the introductions.
14 - The Crystal Method - Trip Like I Do
The fact that Crystal Method sampled The Dark Crystal was what made me like them at first. Also, like Common, they are linked to The Gap by use of their "Busy Child" for a commercial. This is electronica at some of it's drug celebrating best. 303's and 808's and tweaked out shit. Pass the biscuits please.
15 - The Cure - Boys Don't Cry
My brother swore to me these guys were good but all I had was a picture of Robert Smith to go on and I wasn't really impressed. Anyway I finally gave them a listen and once again my stinky ass brother was right. I'm more a fan of their earlier and highly depressing stuff but the rawness of this track was just plain good.
16 - Cypress Hill - How I Could Just Kill A Man
For an even better review of their whole album go to Hip Hop isn't dead and read this review.

01 - Cake - Friend Is A Four Letter Word
02 - Camp Lo - Luchini Aka This Is It
03 - Casual - I Didn't Mean To
04 - Cat Power - He War
05 - The Chemical Brothers - Where Do I Begin
06 - Chicago - 25 Or 6 To 4
07 - Chill Rob G - Let The Words Flow
08 - Chubb Rock - Caught Up (Remix)
09 - Coldcut - Noah's Toilet
10 - Coldplay - Everything's Not Lost
11 - Common - Soul By The Pound (Thump Remix)
12 - Cornelius - Drop
13 - Cornershop - Heavy Soup
14 - The Crystal Method - Trip Like I Do
15 - The Cure - Boys Don't Cry
16 - Cypress Hill - How I Could Just Kill A Man



I was looking for a video Of Crazy Legs and found this dude. Just as good I figure.

Wednesday's Cover

So, as continuation of using consistency to maintain a happy status quo, I humbly introduce “Wednesday’s Cover”. In the middle of the week we have time to reflect on all of the mistakes we made so far and how to cover them up properly until the weekend where we are hoping they will be forgotten. What better time to hear someone take credit for someone else’s work? In my opinion a “good” cover is one that doesn’t shit on the original material. I think it’s easy to take a song and make it really bad and then consider yourself clever. I think it’s a lot harder to make a different version of a song that isn’t a mockery but rather, a celebration or extension of the original material (I came up with that while I was burning Nag Chamba and having a Kharmic O.B.E.). I will try to use the latter as examples.

First of all, I gotta big up my brother for hipping me to this song first. You don't want to test my bro yo. He knows more about music than you do.
So, in this high tech age of pro tools and calculator watches some of us may forget that the masters of post production were once a masterful rock group. I give you Radiohead. My main gripe with Radiohead isn't how experimental or impossible to classifytheir music is but how pretentious their fans are. As much as I never liked the Grateful Dead because of my patchouli stinking roommates, it took me a while to listen to Radiohead because everyone said they were the greatest thing since boobs. However, I did and I now I really like them.
Originally, they were a lot rockier and in 95 released a record called “The Bends”. Nestled between a Nice Dream and an Iron Lung was the joy we just call “Just”. An awesome blend of brief, quiet, acoustic moments which are then engulfed by huge guitar assaults (in a good way). I’ve never really understood a lot of what Thom Yorke is talking about, but thankfully he's actually explained that this song is about a narcissistic friend of his. The solo is simply ridiculous and comes in three delicious parts. It's just one of those songs that you really like to act all tortured when you sing along to it in the car.
Mark Ronson decided to re-do, nay, cover “Just” in his own funky style. Well, I'd like to thank you Mr. Ronson. While those irritating Radiohead purists will scoff at it, this is a pretty awesome cover. Ronson has Alex Greenwald of Phantom Planet doing vocals. And look, even if one of his songs (California) was the theme song for The O.C., you can’t hate. Plus, it’s not even a bad song. But I digress. Alex on vocals and the Mighty Mighty Daptones horn section adding the glorious brass (if you don’t know Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings then go check it out now.) It’s a funked out version of a song that was named number 34 in the NME and XFM's "Greatest Indie Anthem Ever" (brought to you by the color Black and the Letter 6)
Aiight den enjoy
Pace.

01 - Radiohead - Just
02 - Mark Ronson & Alex Greewald - Just

Treebeats A To Z Posting Compilation Of Really Dope Things. The Letter B

Alright I decided to change it up. Instead of one record, I’m going to put a mix of artists starting with the appropriate letter. That way you get to hear a bunch of different artists and I won’t post my Barry Manilow’s Greatest hits for the letter “B” installment. So sit back after you’ve downloaded and enjoy. Also, I’m now using Zip files because it’s easier for people that don’t know winrar. So enjoy. Leave a comment and send me some money.
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01 - Badly Drawn Boy - Once Around The Block
First is Badly Drawn Boy doing "Once Around The Block". I heard this track I think on MTV2 first oddly enough. That was back when it didn’t have commercials and TV shows. Anyway I dug it and the rest of the album was pretty good too. He was originally backed by Doves, which I really like a lot too.
02 - Beastie Boys - In 3's
I can’t stand when they rhyme. Conceptually, I like them but besides about 2 or 3 songs unless they are just playing music or playing hardcore, I am not the biggest fan. I love their production. I loved Paul’s Boutique. Blah-blah-blah. This was is one of my favorite tracks.
03 - Beck - The New Pollution
I liked the first 2 records a lot. I also liked Sea Change and Guero. The New Pollution was Beck at his bizarre musical hybrid's finest. You don’t have to like his beliefs and you don’t even need to like him, but you can’t front on his music.
04 - Ben Folds Five - One Angry Dwarf And 200 Solemn Faces
The Ben Folds Five were a piano rock band with a sense of humor and a jazz influence. They had three records and an outtake cd. I like Whatever and Ever Amen the best and I think One angry dwarf is just as bizarre and brilliant a song concept as they came up with. Also check “Song for the Dumped” and “Brick.”
05 - Big Daddy Kane - Wrath Of Kane
I’m saying! I can’t remember hearing Kane for the first time but I remember hearing this track for the first time vividly. I was in high school and the first time I heard that scratch sound I jumped up and said “Ooooooo!” and my friends around me all pretty much did the same thing. I think it’s when I really started paying attention to production.
06 - Bilal - For You
Bilal never got the props he deserved because people thought he was a D’Angelo clone. Granted, "Soul Sista" could have been a B-Side to Brown Sugar but he’s a lot jazzier and apparently can sing Opera in 7 languages. He’s one of those cats that people are always into when I play him for them for the first time. This is my wife’s favorite song and any track that starts off with, “As a matter of fact, I ‘m the dopest nigga you ever wanted to fuck wit.” is either going to be unbearable or it’s going to get backed up. Bilal does the latter.
07 - Biz Markie - Nobody Beats The Biz
T J Swan’s singing was terrible and the fucking shit at the same time. Anyone can sing along and sound just like the record and that’s always satisfying. Biz isn’t the illest MC. Hell, he wasn’t even good sometimes, but the dude is fucking Hip-Hop to me. Not the marketed hip-hop but I just feel like it oozes from every pore of his body. Everyone likes the Biz. How can you not. Plus, I still do the Biz dance anytime I’m at a club.
08 - Black Moon - I Got Cha Opin (Remix)
It was the beginning of the end of an era and the beginning of a new one. I can’t remember how many times me and my boys sat in my shitty studio apartment freestyling over their first joint and smoked Bidis. I liked the remixes of the first record because he re-did the tracks. I was torn between this and the "Buck Em Down" remix and I really just picked it randomly.
09 - Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Red Eyes And Tears
First of all their name is awesome. Second of all they make really good garage rock. The name is a reference to a Brando movie and they are pretty good to listen to. This song has always been a favorite of mine.
10 - Black Sheep - U Mean I'm Not
I was torn between this and putting up Flavor of the Month but I just loved this song for it’s over the top lyrics. “Ma! You broke my fucking egg yolk!” That’s some tight lyrics dun!
11 - Blackalicious - Alphabet Aerobics
The fact that he successfully goes through the alphabet to a constantly accelerating tempo and still sounds dope is cause enough. Blazing Arrow was one of those discs you could listen to all the way through. And I went to the Quannum tour and his does have that breath control. Second only to Abdominal, check the third verse on Breath Later. Holler at your homeboy.
12 - Bloc Party - Like Eating Glass
These cats are an indie rock set from England and while the second half of Bloc Party's debut kind of fizzles out, the first side of this record is the dope. Honestly, I’m getting tired of writing this shit and I have only done one letter but this is great rock. Also check "Blue Light" and "Helicopter".
13 - Bob Marley - Waiting in Vain
Um… it’s Bob Marley. I always loved the melancholy of this song. Probably my favorite song of his.
14 - Bobby Brown - Every Little Step
Coming in live and direct form Roxbury in the 617 is our pride and joy Bobby Brown. It was 89. A lot of my friends had gumby’s and high top fades. While New Edition was good, the combo of Bobby and Teddy Riley made him a super duper star. And somehow he made dancing around a bunch of huge white letter look so cool. He was also amazing in Ghostbusters 2
15 - Boogie Down Productions - 9mm Goes Bang
Um… it’s BDP. My friend and I rode around in his jacked up Fiero that only had sound on the left side in the Barrington High School parking lot shouting "Wa da da dang, Wa da da da dang" out of his window. We didn’t know what it meant but that was one of my favorite moments in my love affair with hip-hop.
16 - Brother Ali - Prince Charming
Oddly enough an artist friend of mine hipped me to this. I was in one of my “God, rap sucks nowadays” funks and he gave me this disc. “It’s some albino Muslim rhyming.” Not the greatest sell and sounded more like a gimmick than an actual person, but then I heard the record and was hooked. I'm also a fan of stories and this dude sounds so logically insane you gotta love it.
17 - The Beatnuts - Story
The flute sample is what did it for me and the beat is bizarre and it’s The Beatnuts for fucks sake. My buddy played this shit for me after he picked it up and we sat in my Ford Tempo, on blast, and listened to it twice through. I think I was 20 then and any time I heard a song about sex I thought it was cool. This one is ridiculous and pretty funny.
18 - The Black Keys - The Desperate Man
The Black Keys are 2 dudes that fucking jam. Very Bluesy and very distorted and really rough sounding. I think they have about 4 records out. If you don’t like one you probably won’t like the others. They have a formula that works and they stick to it and it’s really dam good.
19 - The Breeders - Cannonball
Any chick that plays the bass is hot. Kim Deal is hot. She was also in one of my top ten groups of all time. After The Pixies she got back together with her twin sister and worked more intensely on their side project The Breeders. While "Cannonball" is obvious it’s still a great song.


01 - Badly Drawn Boy - Once Around The Block
02 - Beastie Boys - In 3's
03 - Beck - The New Pollution
04 - Ben Folds Five - One Angry Dwarf And 200 Solemn Faces
05 - Big Daddy Kane - Wrath Of Kane
06 - Bilal - For You
07 - Biz Markie - Nobody Beats The Biz
08 - Black Moon - I Got Cha Opin (remix)
09 - Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Red Eyes And Tears
10 - Black Sheep - U Mean I'm Not
11 - Blackalicious - Alphabet Aerobics
12 - Bloc Party - Like Eating Glass
13 - Bob Marley - Waiting in Vain
14 - Bobby Brown - Every Little Step
15 - Boogie Down Productions - 9mm Goes Bang
16 - Brother Ali - Prince Charming
17 - The Beatnuts - Story
18 - The Black Keys - The Desperate Man
19 - The Breeders - Cannonball

Beat Street Battle

Treebeats A To Z Posting Compilation Of Really Dope Things

So all these other bastards with there 1000+ daily readership have daily or weekly themes and as a Kindergarten teacher, I realize that people need consistency. So I am going to kill 2 birds with 1 stone while maintaining a finite start and end point. Bear witness to the one and only “Treebeats A To Z Posting Compilation Of Really Dope Things.” While I like to think I am a creative guy, the cleverest concept I could come up with is alphabetic. So we start with a group, individual, or other noun starting with A and then make our way through the alphabet. It will be filled with omissions and you will probably have much better ideas of what should be posted. That’s fine. Go to Blogger . com and click on the arrow that says “Create Your Blog Now.”

The Avalanches, “Since I Left You” record is made up of 1 disc, 6 DJ’s, 18 tracks, 60 minutes, and somewhere around 900 to 3,500 samples, or so they say. “They” being the proverbial “they” not a specific they “they.”) If you’ve never heard The Avalanches then you don’t live in Australia. Also, you are missing out on a really great record. They hail from Melbourne Australia, the birthplace of Hip-Hop and Midnight Oil. They started out as a garage punk outfit and then one day… (it always starts with “One day a guy had an Akai S900” )they got a sampler and went from punk to funk (thank you Fatboy Slim and further, thank you Housemartins because one day I did indeed grin myself nearly to death, so I know how it feels.) So the Avalanches started putting together glorious, sample-heavy compositions that borrowed from everything from Boney M to Madonna to The Main Attraction. It is not the typical “DJ” record you may think of with some scrub showing off what he learned how to do in his bedroom while other people had sex and went outside, but rather a humorous celebration of everything that is music (up to 2001) and an expansion and reinterpretation of it. “Since I Left You” is both the title track and the most radio friendly track there is also “Frontier Psychiatrist” which is hilarious and pretty fuking banging at the same time. "Electricity" is also one of my favorites for some other snobby reason I can’t articulate right now but trust me, I’m really intelligent and my music taste is impeccable and I never ever where the same outfit twice. They’re just a really tight set, and while I never saw them live there is, and has been for six years now, talk of a new album. One band mate is quoted as saying, “We have over 40 tracks to select from blah-blah-blah.” In other news, P-Diddy was quoted as saying, “I feel safe in white because deep down inside, I'm an angel.” Word up to you Sean combs and thanks for keeping it real!!! While the whole Puffy thing is irrelevant, The Avalanches Record is really dope so listen to it or end up like Diddy (1. I think I used all of Puff Daddy’s (now I have) monikers. 2. It really is a great record.)
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01. Since I Left You
02. Stay Another Season
03. Radio
04. Two Hearts In 3/4 Time
05. Avalanche Rock
06. Flight Tonight
07. Close To You
08. Diners Only
09. ADifferent Feeling
10. Electricity
11. Tonight May Have To Last Me All My Life
12. Pablo's Cruise
13. Frontier Psychiatrist
14. Etoh
15. Summer Crane
16. Little Journey
17. Live At Dominoes
18. Extra Kings

Video for Frontier Psychiatrist. This is a really cool concept.

When Bizarre Things Happen To Bizarre People....

Honestly, I think it speaks for itself. But this is Johnny Depp getting interverwed in Japan. Another reason to move to the Land of the Rising Sun is there stellar television.

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When Bad Things Happen To Good People...

So since I’ve been working on a remix post and there have been lots of other remix posts in other blogs and my cover post is not completed, (don’t bite bitches) I have decided to post a record that has a remix on it and is relevant to my life.
So I’m going down to Atlanta on Friday for a weekend of drunken debauchery. Stunts, blunts and hip-hop, knowhatimsayin!?!? Also, I used to live in Atlanta and worked at a studio as an intern and engineer for a few years. So one day Lauryn Hill came there and this was when The Score started blowing up. Now I was one of the eight fools that bought the Boof-Baf record mostly because it had the word “blunted” in it and I thought that anything that alluded to smoking pot had to be good and was cool. Anyway, I see her at the studio and I was really digging their new record and had dug the "Nappy Headz" and "Vocab" singles so I’m like, “What was so different about those two records? It sounds like you guys had a great time making The Score.” And she just looks at me thinking “White blood-clot raison” (I’m white by the way so it made some sense although the ‘blood clot raison’ part was just nasty and not very helpful) So there is an awkward silence and being sometimes a glutton for punishment I proceed, “I mean it almost sounds like two completely different groups.” She rolls her eyes at this and responds “Not really” and walks away.
“Not really?! So you’re saying that Blunted On Reality was up to par with The Score and "Boof-Baf" and "Ready Or Not" are equals you stank ass skeezer!?” I didn’t actually say this but thought it really hard and gave her an evil look as she walked away. I then proceeded to tell all my friends that I had met Lauryn in the studio and basked in my celeb status.
Anyway, another group that recorded there was Y’all So Stupid. They dropped Van Full of Pakistans in 93 and had a sense of humor, pretty dope lyrics, and decent production in a time where I feel that all three were beginning to dissolve out of hip-hop. Well maybe not production. Well even production insofar as originality. It kind of leveled off for a while for me. Anyway, these cats, H20 (dude from Mass Influence), Uncle Buk, Logic & Sha Boogie get together in the south and make a North East rap record that's pretyy fucking dope. A couple tracks were produced by Majesty from Da King & I fame (I should post that record too). They weren’t ground breaking, but they went against the grade (there were pictures of them skateboarding in the jacket.) Sadly and oddly fittingly) they stole a bunch of equipment from the studio and got kind of blacklisted. It was a pretty prominent studio and they don’t like when people take their shit. Who does?
So there are 14 tracks and 8 skits, the skits are funny enough and maybe I like them because they are doing crank calls and shit. It just sounds like a group of talented cats that got together and had a lot of fun putting together a really dope project. Check “Introduce Me” “Bootleg Beatdown” “The Plant”. Really, it’s not a hard record to like as long as you like juvenile humor mixed with dope beats and witty lyrics.
Aiight, I’m off to Atlanta for a long weekend starting Friday.
Pace.

01 - Introduce Me
02 - 85 South
03 - Interlude
04 - Van Full Of Pakistans
05 - Interlude
06 - Bowl Of Soul
07 - Interlude
08 - The Plant
09 - Interlude
10 - Bootleg Beatdown
11 - Interlude
12 - Family Tree
13 - Dirt Road White Girl
14 - Interlude
15 - Monkey Off My Back
16 - Interlude
17 - Super Nigga
18 - Yall
19 - On And On
20 - Interlude
21 - You Wouldn't Understand
22 - 85 South (Remix)

The volume is way low but I had never seen it.

David Chase is a tremendous bag of douche juice!!!!!!

I would put a spoiler alert but what would be the point. The Sopranos series finale was already spoiled when it showed. For those of you that have never heard of the Sopranos tv show, don’t worry about it. It will leave you with the taste of hot garbarge in you mouth. I have invested 8 years into this god-awful show and only enjoyed the first 3 or 4. The first 3 or even 4 were really good, thus creating the first high that I and a nation of millions tried to feel again. It never happened. I recently read an interview with Mr. Chase saying that the Sopranos was like real life. No sir, it’s not. It’s fucking tv show. Make a documentary if you want real life. The point of art is for people to enjoy it. I assume there is probably like 5% of artists that need to produce art to release or they will end up dead. Another 90% of artists claim the same thing. If you were stuck on a deserted island by yourself, you wouldn’t make art. And if you did, it would be for someone else to know you were there. My point? Don’t make a final season of a show that is a huge success something that pretty much only you and your gaffer find entertaining. It’s pretentious and I think you’re a dork for doing it. And not like a “dork” in a cool self effacing way you would try to endear yourself with but “dork”: in a “you’re-a-sweaty-dingleberry-shit-licking-fuck-ball-and-I-would-call-you-that-but-I’m-only-in-second-grade-so-the-strongest-thing-I-can-come-up-with-is-dork” kind of way.
Good day to you sir!
Pace.

This is how a good mob movie ends!

I know this record is corny...

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Before I get to the post I just wanted to hit you up with a little 555-1212. There are a lot of blogs out there. A lot of them post a lot of the same stuff. I guess this is inevitable with a finite amount of records in recorded history and a seemingly infinite amount of blogs. Because of this, I have decided to only post 50 cent or related material. Nah, I’m buggin.
Because of this, it’s hard to know what sites to go to without feeling a little deja vous.
Because of this, it’s hard to know what sites to go to without feeling a little deja vous.(get it?)
Trav, at Wake Your Daughter Up has posted a few times about blogs he’s digging recently (big up rude bwoy yute). But I’m not going to do that since I steal everything else from him (conceptually and monetarily) but there are a few blogs you can go to that have posted stuff that not everyone else, or in some cases anyone else, is posting. So why not start with my man Trav.

Recently he re-upped his WYDU classics Vol 1-12 of last year. That’s 12 times 20, which if you do the math equals around 3 billion songs. It’s essentially just a bunch of records he likes and there is no real logic to it (that my simple self can decipher) but his taste is impeccable and if you listened to hip-hop in the late 80‘s or early 90’s will be sublimely satiated. There is also a “Trav invented the Remix” post that has a whole bunch of remixes on it. Granted there are no buxom broads in the post (Trav, ya slippin) but there is a lot of dope shit there too.
Second up, Mr. Mass has bee posting the DJ Eleven mixes (WYDU also mentions these mixes) the great thing about Masscorporation is the dude adds a slew of chronologically relevant pics along with it. It’s really fun to look through and listen to. The track listings are bananas and if you came up during those times, it is an amazing trip to reminisce through. Oooo segue. Eric on When they reminisce has been slowly posting Eric's "Top 100 Tuesdays." It's his top 100 hip-hop records of all timeand he’s up to 62 so that’s like a google plex more songs he’s dumpin on you. I am the master of the segue. Mike Dikk and the essential Expert Whiteboy Analysis vitamins and minerals are slowly releasing there EWA 100 MASTER LIST (their top 100 songs) at Dumpin.net If you add it all up that’s at least 14 songs for you guys. Plus, these are all blogs that I go to often and they are run by a solid group of cats that are either funny or knowledgeable or both.
Now, on with the post...First off, before I get started, I realize this isn’t Illmatic. I realize Pete Rock didn’t produce it. I also realize that he’s not a royal prince. That said, “Free” by Prince Markie Dee was a fun enough record. It came out in 92 from Columbia Records in the dawn of a harder “realer” style and Rap & Bullshit was phasing out. The reason I’m posting it is two fold. First, Eric at When they Reminisce, has a guilty pleasure’s section in his blog where he posted the “Mack Daddy” record which I haven't heard that was when he was with Motown. Second, Biff over at Biff’s Hp-Hop Section posted a Billy Lawrence record. Now I'm not sure, and you can correct me if I'm wrong, butI don’t think it’s the same chick because of age discrepancies but Prince Markie Dee’s Soul Convention had a singer named Billy Lawrence as well and the post was born. And there was much rejoicing. The "Trippin Out" song was probably my favorite (I would never repeat that in public) and there are a few others of that style that are equivalent. However, you can’t go though the whole record in one listen or you brain will leak out of the holes that were once your ears but had apparently ripped themselves off of your skull sometime during the fourth song. But it’s fun anyway. I really don't know why I like the Fat Boys anyway because besides "Stick 'em" and "All You Can Eat" I can't immediatly think of any other songs I liked by them. Whatever. Aiight, I gotta go back to work.
Pace.

01 So Very Happy
02 Trippin Out
03 Typical Reasons (Swing My Way)
04 Trilogy Of Love
05 Free
06 Addict 4 Your Luv
07 Back To Brooklyn
08 Foreplay
09 I Don't Wanna Lose Your Love
10 Ghetto Bound
11 Something Special
12 I'm Gonna Be Alright
13 The Aftermath

Video for Trippin' Out with a young Billy Lawrence.

The World Is Spinning Too Fast

Alright all you crackers and nappy headed hoes, today we got some dubbed out old world monkeez crossed with some cosmic simianz. The whole Laika Come Home (Laika referring to the first bitch in space and “Come Home” referenceing “Lassie, Come Home”) was done by this one off (apparently) dub outfit named Spacemonkeyz. I really don’t have a whole lot of info on these cats. The three members, Darren Galea, Richie Stevens, and Gavin Dodds had other projects. Darren was a DJ named DJ D-Zire (Ooooo, dead sexy name, that is.) Richie was in a group named Well Red (that’s a pun by the way and not mine.) that I have never heard of before, and I have nothing on Gavin. However, the three of them came together for what seems to be one record and made it a banger. Most everyone has heard the Gorillaz or probably at least the Soulchild remix of "19-2000" or Del on "Clint Eastwood." This was nothing like that. This was a really good Dub record. A lot of the tracks are nearly unrecognizable from the original and there’s plenty of repetitive bass line and atmospheric blips and sounds that delay into themselves into infinity. It’s just a relly well done record and if you like dub it’s fire. If you like the Gorillaz, then it isn’t really anything like them in the sense that it isn’t pop but is in the sense that it’s a different take on how music should sound. For me the stand out tracks are probably "Tomorrow Comes Today" and "Punk (De-Punked)" but it really is a solid record. I recommend a hot day, a pitcher of mojitos, and a few fat spliffs. It should all go down quite well.

Pace


01 - 19/2000 (Jungle Fresh)
02 - Slow Country (Strictly Rubbadub)
03 - Tomorrow Comes Today (Bañana Baby)
04 - Man Research (Monkey Racket)
05 - Punk (De-Punked)
06 - 5/4 (P.45)
07 - Starshine (Dub 09)
08 - Soundcheck (Gravity) (Crooked Dub)
09 - New Genius (Brother) (Mutant Genius)
10 - Re-Hash (Come Again)
11 - Clint Eastwood (A Fistful Of Peanuts)
12 - M1A1 (Lil' Dub Chefin')




This is by far the least dubbed out track they have but it was the only video as well.