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Friday, December 24, 2010

song of the day: "ebony glass" by nancy priddy

“ebony glass” by nancy priddy

eerie phil ramone-produced psychedelic folk by christina applegate’s mom.
(new york, new york, usa; 1968)

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song of the day: "let’s get ready to crumble" by the russian futurists

“let’s get ready to crumble” by the russian futurists

melodic electronic one-man-band indie pop.
(toronto, ontario, canada; 2002)

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daft punk samples


here’s a cool video illustrating the samples daft punk used to make some of their songs. did the detective work.

video: "you’re the kind of girl" by mixel pixel

check out the new video for “you’re the kind of girl” by . awesome!

and don’t forget to pick up a copy of the meanest man contest / languis split cd, featuring “they do,” an mmc duet with kaia from mixel pixel. yes!

song of the day: "after laughter (comes tears)" by wendy rene

“after laughter (comes tears)” by wendy rene

heavy memphis soul song from 1964 sampled by the rza.

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friday means rap music

nothing terribly revolutionary here, except for a good sack of memories! we went to great america for 8th grade graduation and the pharcyde was playing there. instead of going, my friend decided to use a slingshot he smuggled in to shoot one of the chinese acrobats. he never got caught. guess he was just good at runnin’.

oh yikes! how fitting!! - back in the day when they had j-swift and fatlip.

song of the day: "i can see it now" by the walker brothers

“i can see it now” by the walker brothers

lovely 1966 soft pop track written and sung by scott walker.

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white collar workout this saturday – with special guests!


get ready for some hot sweaty all night dancing, featuring the bomarr monk and the return of dj ray liotta. special performance by neurotic city.

madrone lounge, 500 divisadero (at fell), san francisco.
saturday february 24, 9pm to 2am.
free before 10pm, $5 after 10pm.

seti at home finally discovers something–new rap tracks on missing computer

it’s likely that we’re all familiar with the seti at home screensaver program that uses your idle computer’s processing power to help scan the cosmos for life. using the phoned-home ip data, one man was able to , fully intact but with some interesting additions:

But the returned computer contained 20 tracks of rap music with unintelligible lyrics, possibly from the person who stole the computer or bought it on the underground.

“It’s really, really horrid rap,” Melin said. “It makes Ludacris look like Pavarotti.”

oh man, please get those tracks online!

song of the day: "miami life" by ras kass



“miami life” by ras kass

this is an underground hip-hop track from 1996 by a severely underrated rapper.

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