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All in music
I've spent the last three days in the woods with no WiFi, reading actual books (on paper) and looking at squirrels chasing past my window. If you ask me "How are you doing?", my answer is: "I'll be fine." And I mean it, too.
It's fun. It's got a great beat, a chorus that goes like 'ho-oh-oh-ooh-ooh" (a 'sample' of New Kid's On The Block "The Right Stuff") and it rhymes 'faux pas' and 'je ne sais quoi' with oom-pa-pa.
The new Radiohead is not the smack in the face "In Rainbows" or "Kid A" turned out to be. It's not a stadium-filler like "OK Computer", either. What is it then? I dunno. A soundtrack for a fast ballooning head? Static fom the empty space inside your heart? I'm just guessing here.
The Rye Rye gig in Belgium last summer was one of the best things I'd seen all year. Her much-delayed RYEot powRR Mixtape is finally out, announcing the debut album. Almost 90 minutes of full-on rattling, rumbling, eardrum-piercing club bangers.
Smokey Robinson's original "Cruising", transfered directly from vinyl.
It's Gucci Time! Mad Decent drops a second instalment of the Free Gucci Mix Project with nuttin' but British remixers and guest MC's. Some fingerfacetattoolicking' good stuff here. Buuurrrrand new!
Let's see what we can... *folds* Whoa! A genuine rainbow pyramid vinyl.
I've never heard of Kid Fresh before, but anyone who puts Slayer on a mixtape with Rihanna and Lil' Wayne and gets away with it is allright in my book.
Now that we're back from L.A. L.A. Land and almost fully decompressed, I'll start the new year by sharing some of the stuff I've picked up along the way. (Don't thank me yet. The list I've compiled so far includes a dead writer's collectibles and a psychedelic anthem about Chopin's wife dancing a jig...)
"Canada" is one of those artists that could not have come out 10 years ago. As a director, his distinctive visual mix of found images, satanic imagery, sex, violence, funny and pop culture are very *dry heave* 'now'. Expect to see his name on the credits of some heavily funded pop bands soon. (He just joined the ranks of Partizan, the Wu-Tang clan of directors, after his internet succes with El Guincho) For now, his work has been coupled to lesser known artists, like Triangulo De Amor Bizzaro.
A visual mixtape for all of you who are working late and sleepingwalking early. To be played in sequence.
Next summer, Marc Jacobs will have you break out the big floppy straw hats, electric 70's orange flowing garbs and huge flower-like belts, buttons and chokers. Combine this with the hot pants, snake-hips and big glasses we've seen all over and you might as well take your cue from a John Currin catalogue if you're one to follow trends.
I normally don't post mixtapes before I've played them a couple of times, but hell: I know i'm gonna be blasting this one in the car while I put up my deuces and burrrr home for the weekend.
