Animal Collective - Fireworks

i listened to this like 6x in a row. today.

Top 5 MCs

Andre 3000
edit:: Old Dirty Bastard
Guru
Nas
MF DOOM

honorable mention:
Devin the Dude

Clutchy Hopkins - The Life of Clutchy Hopkins (2006)

Man, oh man. This album is sweet. And Its all live Gs. Made by the mysterious Clutchy Hopkins featuring funky drums, bass, rhodes keys, a couple types of flutes, oh yeah and can't forget the guitar. This album rocks, knocks, and thumps so hard all there is to do is bump it over and over.

The man who is known as Clutchy has a dubious but entertaining back-story floating around the webosphere (just look around this website ) and is now supposedly residing in the Mojave desert in some cave. there also exist a few theories on his true ID that can be found as well. To suit his mysterious and such nature, the track titles are all numbers. somewhat close to the duration of each song. my personal favs right now gotta be:

Track 2:
If you were wondering why I was calling this album funky, well here is a perfect answer for you. Love the live loops. I just got say, listen to that flute.



Track 4:
Smooth and classy is what i would call this song. I can picture ghostface tearin this track a new one. damn. so gangsta, groovin, and then sudenly Hopkins unleashes a radiohead esque guitar riff. complex at first but consistent. sounds like someone knows their hip-hop... oh yeah, how about a nifty bongo groove breakdown to fade out....



Track 5:
If you thought that was good well don't bust one yet, cuz this next one is a heater. Funky bass lines all up in it but then! thats right we gotta chill out again. so much grooves in here.



Track 10:
This one brings a funk that is distinct from the preciously mentioned tracks. This is like some deltron ass beat. funky but twisted. groovin but not with that james brown/parliament funk. these kinda of combos are what keep this album fresh.



Overall i think this is a stellar album. Don't sleep on it. Clutchy also mashed some of his instrumentals over MF DOOM acapellas if you wanna go look for that.

btw i CAN'T STAND the last song. is it just me or does this track blow 37672978379201.23882382999999 more times than anything else on this album? it reminds of some crappy modest mouse song on off sad sappy sucker.


anyway enough of that...



Clutchy Hopkins - The Life of Clutchy Hopkins (2006)

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1 3:06
2 3:02
3 4:08
4 3:25
5 2:15
6 3:11
7 2:07
8 3:26
9 3:34
10 3:05
11 3:14
12 3:24

Kid Koala- Carpal Tunnel Syndrome (2000) & Your Moms Favorite DJ (2006)

Kid Koala is a canadian DJ. Carpal Tunnel Syndrome (2000) & Your Moms Favorite DJ (2006) are Kid Koala's first and third releases. He's done work with the Gorillaz and Deltron 3030. This is a real quick post in between studying that may/or may not be expanded upon.


Kid Koala- Carpal Tunnel Syndrome (2000) & Your Moms Favorite DJ (2006)

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*this post is dedicated to Chavez who is most likely going through some withdrawals from losing all his music.

Van Morisson - Astral Weeks (1968)

Mellow, flowy, and clean. So chill so good still. Another great album straight through.


Van Morisson - Astral Weeks (1968)

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1 Astral Weeks
2 Beside You
3 Sweet Thing
4 Cyprus Avenue
5 The Way Young Lovers Do
6 Madame George
7 Ballerina
8 Slim Slow Slider

Pelican City - The Chilling Effect (1999)

You all know who Danger Mouse is. Rolling Stone's current "producer of the year." well he is a pretty sick producer and he did produce during this year so.... Anyway, if you are a fan of that whole producing/Danger Mouse thing then you might be interested in peeping his early work as Pelican City. Massively chill beats at that down-tempo pace. You know the type. Very consistent album which is both positive and negative but it definitely adds to the cohesive album feel of all the tracks.


Be sure to check out Danger's take on Neutral Milk Hotel's "Fool" on track 6 for all that are wise to NMH. Now thats how you flip a beat.


Pelican City - The Chilling Effect (1999)

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1. Over From the Start (Intro/Outro)

2. The City

3. The Bleeding Fader

4. Still Alone

5. The Search

6. The Fool (Neutral Milk Hotel)A Pelican City Experiment

7. Danger's Theme Part I

8. Danger's Theme Part II

9. Calling the Birds

10. The Chase

11. Come On Air (Wunderkind) A Pelican City Experiment

12. The Bedroom

13. The Rainstorm

14. The End of Life

15. An Exodus

Diggin this song. it must be heard.

Madlib on the boards and soul sister Erykah Badu on the vox present to us a real rugged and raw joint from Badu's new album New Amerykah Part One. QUALITY QUALITY QUALITY QUALITY QUALITY. You'd have be a fool to not check this track out. can I stress this enough?

I can't stop bangin this one like i'm some kind of nympho/
beautiful voices over madlib instrumentals/
it's so sinful it's soul in full/
windows open letting in new info/
we know, we grow, hearts we win those/
everybody just go....

it's bigger than religion, HIP HOP
it's bigger than my nigga, HIP HOP
it's bigger than the government
this one is for Dilla, HIP HOP
this one is the healer, HIP HOP

"you don't have to believe everything you think, we've been programmed wake, up we miss you."