October 2009
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“You might call Nuclear Evolution a consolidation of a certain anti-gangsta trajectory in hiphop — Dilla, Outkast at their most Afrodelic, Kanye West — but everything is so deliciously deliquescent, so woozily gooey, that it doesn’t feel sordid at all. What you hear is a return of the loose booty and the cosmic slop that hiphop eliminated when it disciplined funk into...
RE: Pitchfork blows
towerofsleep:
perpetua:
Tickley Feather “Keep It On Ice” Live at Cake Shop, 4/27/2008 My review of Tickley Feather’s second album is up on Pitchfork today. It’s kind of rough on her, but I think that this video proves that she’s got a lot more potential as an artist than her lazy recordings would indicate.
Good lord, 3.3? Hors D’Ouvres is one of my favourite albums of this year! Admittedly,...
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With Bevan clear that all he wanted was a quiet life, Gordon Smart, editor of...
– Hyperdub label celebrates fifth birthday (via clubmoss)
Thursday Mixes
Kode9’s Bubble ‘N’ Squeak mix over at XLR8R. “Originally aired as part of the special 25th-Anniversary broadcast of Radio Lancashire’s On the Wire,” Kode spins only classic and forgotten UKG and 2-step, time travelling the hardcore continuum and freaking it like grime & dubstep never happened.
‘Happy Birthday, Flying Lotus’ at Brainfeeder....
I was ready to jump off the balcony of my office,” (Randy) Phillips says. “We...
– From the Entertainment Weekly cover story about the documentary about Michael Jackson’s preparation for his come-back shows immediately before his death in July.
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A pair of otherwise distinguished physicists have suggested that the...
– The Collider, the Particle and a Theory About Fate
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Released in 1994 by a hacker known as “Da Chronic”, AOHell provided...
– AOHell