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My guided tour of the Internet
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Lonely Island - Incredibad

The Lonely Island’s debut is surprisingly good (not amazing, but good). The obvious hits are on there (Lazy Sunday, etc), but some of the new tracks are worth a listen as well. The production is much better than it deserves to be (J-Zone produced one of the tracks), and the whole thing feels like a sillier Beastie Boys album circa 1986.

Update: Nevermind, with the exception of one or two tracks, this got real old real quick.

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Chairlift - Evident Utensil. Using compression artifacts purposefully, well done. (via waxy)

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Top Albums of 2008

I’m a day late, but here are my top albums from 2008:

  1. Girl Talk - Feed the Animals (hip-hop / mix)
  2. Diplo/Santogold - Top Ranking (hip-hop / mix)
  3. Shugo Tokumaru - Exit: Quirky japanese rock that is hard to explain (rock)
  4. Metaform - Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: Required for fans of DJ Shadow circa ‘96 (instrumental hip-hop)
  5. Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours (electronic/rock)
  6. Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend (rock)
  7. DJ /rupture - Uproot (hip-hop/world/mix)
  8. The Cool Kids - The Bake Sale (hip-hop)
  9. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes (folk/rock)
  10. Portishead - Third (electronic/trip-hop)

It’s hard to pick just 10, so here’s 10-20 in unranked alphabetical order:

As expected, a few changes from the mid-year list.

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MusicBox: Cool Music Library Visualization

WANT. Worth watching until the end for the playlist features.

(via waxy)

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Colbert: Operation Humble Kanye

“Why buy Kanye’s album? You can basically hear it for free. Just put a tin can to your ear and lean against a ‘Pac-Man’ machine.”

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George Washington: Last time I looked for this, it was taken offline. Good to see it’s back.

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Datarock - Fa Fa Fa

Happy Friday!

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Forget Rickrolling, this is way better. Seriously — who let New Jersey make a music video?

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Girl Turk: Mechanical Turk Meets Girl Talk's "Feed the Animals"

Girl Talk Sample Release Dates, by Track

The chart below shows the sample release years in more detail, telling another story. Here, we can see how heavily Gregg uses samples from the last three years, and strongly avoids samples for the previous three-year period from 2001 to 2004. (Too old to be cool, but not old enough to be retro?)

Lots more geekiness around the samples used in Girl Talk’s new album.

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Stevie Wonder performs Superstition on Sesame Street. (via kottke)

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Wale - Mixtape about Nothing

Wale’s Mixtape about Nothing: DC’s rapper of the moment releases an excellent mixtape over Seinfeld beats (Download)

Recommended for fans of: Lupe Fiasco, Kweli

posted August 25 | Tagged: | Comments (View)

adamgotterer: Music Nerds (click to view larger version) Guilty as charged.

adamgotterer:

Music Nerds (click to view larger version)

Guilty as charged.

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King Khan & the Shrines

King Khan & the Shrines’ The Supreme Genius of King Khan & the Shrines: Modern rock that sounds old. Good times are had by all.

Recommended for fans of: White Stripes, Garage Rock

posted August 14 | Tagged: | Comments (View)
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Metaform - Standing on the Shoulders of Giants

Metaform’s Standing on the Shoulders of Giants. Great instrumental hiphop.

Recommended for fans of: Blockhead, DJ Shadow

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BajoFondo - Mar Dulce

Bajofondo’s Mar Dulce. Argentine new Tango. Pair with good steak, glass of Malbec, and weak currency.

Recommended for fans of: Gotan Project

posted August 1 | Tagged: | Comments (View)