“Africa” is off of Attack Decay’s self-titled from this past December. The visuals are jerky stop-motion puppetry in glorious standard def.
Strange ass puppet narration is perfect for Beardo’s fuzzy ballad thing. The existence of this band blows my mind almost as much as I enjoy them.
About the time I was clicking “New Post” and was figuring out what I wanted to say about this video, I caught myself singing that morbid hook. Creeps itselft deep into your head. The visuals are equally insidious in a bleak domestic stylized kinda way.
ShowYouSuck‘s ”DeadFlowers” comes from December’s “One Man Pizza Party 3: Rest In Pizza,” the final installment in the OMPP series. There’s a whole lotta content on that one slice let alone the whole pizza party so if you aren’t familiar with the rapper then you have some catching up to do. ShowYouSuck presents a unique personality (one man pizza party, yeah?) and easily engages with a dangerously catchy flow. “DeadFlowers” proves he’s got the cinematic game on lock, too.
FANG has me stumbling over too much good music the past few days – four tracks from Smooth’s “Fang Life No Other“, then over double that a coupla days later with Ramel Shakur‘s “Enchanted.”
“Enchanted” will most likely be taking up the majority of my listening time for a while. It’s one of those hip-hop works that gives you no reason to stop listening. That next song comes up and you’re like “oh daaamn smooth flow on ‘Magnificent’” or “fuck I love those horns and hook on ‘All or Nothin.’”
And then it’s too late and you’re trapped.
You can’t just adopt the name Smooth unless you mean business. Smooth, smooth business.
Luckily FANG‘s own Smooth suitably owns his name over these four dreamy beats.
The first time “Hater I.D.” played I did an audio double-take and proceeded to rant and rave about how cool it was. “Be You” is pure inspiration. All of these will get stuck in your head on repeat.
Gotta keep up with FANG for that good music. Just in the time it took me to stop listening long enough to post this, another FANG man, Ramel Shakur, put out “Enchanted.”
Download Fang Life No Other and lean back, with a touch of head bob.
Illinois rapper Ghetty out Riff Raffs Riff Raff on this ridiculous song.
If you don’t remember Ghetty, I think he was in the video for “Cuz My Gear” and has been fuxin with Riff. And Wiz I guess but that’s another story.
The video serves no point beyond the ridiculous intro.
And that screenshot.
[UPDATE: Apparently it wasn't obvious that the screenshot is Diplo and that's hilarious]
There’s a certain way good instrumental albums get into your head. Sounds are drawn and quartered, stretched and filtered, strung together and the result worms its way into a listener’s brain.
“Glitch” will be stuck in your head alot longer than the 40 minutes it took SicksentZ to sit down with a crazy aural palette and put it all together.
SicksentZ has been working hard lately. Hackz was a recent project of edits, and a Death Adders video release party is coming up soon.
SentZ mentioned rjd2 in the album description, and that landmark moment hearing “Deadringer”. That made me think of my first time hearing DJ Shadow or DJ Spooky. “Glitch” is a similar type of revelation, background noise pushed into the realm of music with deft production to create beguilingly simple, infectious songs.
“Glitch” makes me happy that a teenaged SicksentZ was so inspired all those years ago.
Right now “Kinetically Driven Punk(s)” is taking over my ears but it all blends together so well, it’s hard to come out of it with a favorite song. Besides the whole thing, of course.
A coupla weeks ago Magic Fades released their album “Obsession” through Mishka. The titular song is a floaty, echoey R&B creation.
Bruxa pulled the ol’ overhaul on it, amping up the percussion and drone to create a heavier yet airy remix.
I saw the Mishka tag and was like “huh they didn’t post it” then I slept on the track for a few days. And of course they put up some hilarious writing on it over at the Bloglin and I look like a damn fool.
Make sure to get Bruxa’s “Victimeyez” from last year in case you missed it. They are definitely an interesting group making some really fun shit, perfect for those wild parties at the cool kid’s house. Y’know, the place with Meatloaf vinyl covers on the wall illuminated by strands of black lights.
Another from the duo of Deli Mane and Ronald Metellus.
There’s something about that lo-fi hook and simple stunted synth behind it. Deli Mane made the beat, Best Worst Wordsmiths appear as special guests.
They have like ten Soundcloud followers so jump on that Sante Fe shit. BWW are Welsy (Josh Wells) and Dank Nugzz (James McKernan).
Life is good.
Oh and if you’ve been playing a metric shitton of Cruis ‘n World recently like me, this just hits on a whole ‘nuther level.
Okay, it’s a two song album. But you know what they say, if it’s called a horse then it’s a… um. By a different color. Shit
Just listen and download, 80s Stallone is good.
In case you forgot, in an interesting industry move, Rockstar Games got HEALTH to compose the soundtrack to the moderately recent video game Max Payne 3. In this video, the band discusses the scoring process.
Everyone’s favorite Gawker-family gamer site, Kotaku, posted this video from The Creators Project with a light description a few days ago. One of the most interesting parts of the feature rests at the bottom of the page, where the band has released some of the musical stems used in the scoring.
Seeing as how pretty much everyone over there got into HEALTH because of the soundtrack, I figured it was worth putting up over here in a more HEALTH-familiar community, sort of coming from the other angle.
Personally, I never had a real desire to own the game but I repeatedly watched early trailers featuring HEALTH’s work after I found out about their involvement. I was also pretty jazzed about what the whole situation could mean for video games and musical artists. Having HEALTH pen a game’s score is a like a gamer music nerd’s dream.
But I shouldn’t have been surprised. Yes, Max Payne 3 is a big-budget game in a legendary franchise. But there are many examples of indie games that feature extremely well designed soundtracks. Some go even further, such as Superbrothers: Sword and Sworcery EP.
Your eyes do not deceive you, that’s a video game with the EP suffix. The video below to gives a taste of the audiovisual melding that occurs when experiencing the game.
A violent little guy called Hotline Miami features my favorite game soundtrack to date, though. A variety of artists contributed to make a fuzzy, gazey romp through Miami.
Combining good games and good music seems to be a no-brainer. So far indie games are leading the pack but if companies like Rockstar are willing to get HEALTH, I can only see it as a good thing for gamers, music fans and artists as interests cross.
