"if too many man wanna fly, i'll send them to NASA"

Oh my word - last night on Cameo's 1Xtra show, P Money and his crew (Blacks, Drifter, Roxanne, Kozzie) hosted a fucking clinic in their freestyle session. Every thirty seconds or so, screwface was definitely happening. The radio rip is courtesy of the folks over at Grime Forum - who have a treasure trove of live sets up on Mediafire by the by.

P Money, Blacks, Drifter, Kozzie, Roxanne - 1Xtra Live Session (24/11/09)

Oh, and P Money fired a couple of shots at Ghetts last night, if that kinda stuff interests you. Whateverrrr... Listen to the full show here.

EDIT: Laura at Hyperfrank touched on the Ghetts/P rivalry. 'Rivalry'.

i couldn't help it, haha

Numerous versions of "I Can't Help It", inspired by this blog post by Mike Cruz.






Jokes on that last one, sry.

wat no "unloved in the dialtone"

Christopher at Fuck Do I Look Like? just went and posted a compilation called Bannon Ballads, which as you'd imagine, is a bunch of the "slow songs" from Converge's discography lumped together. It sounds like a good idea. No J. Bannon stuff though, but if someone has a copy of that, let me know about it.

Download the mini-comp here.

PS. Talking of Converge-related UCC, have I ever posted Jane Slow? Put that on the to-do list.

my heritage rules!

Quickly! Before I have to go back and do "real" work!

If you hit up the FLFD Myspace, there's tracklistings for the shows since the start of the semester, and I realise I haven't posted some songs from the past couple of comps used in the show's Compilation Procrastination feature. So, from the OOP Back to Peru: The Most Complete Compilation of Peruvian Underground 64-74 (used on the 09.11 show), here's a few tracks:



That Texao track is my shit. I looooove that! Because the jawn is OOP, I may just up it this week. Maybe. In case, you may be able to get it here, and the UK part two from here, but if you're reading, lemme know how that works out.

I'll post about this week's compilation, A Whiter Shade - A World of Hits, next week - you can still hear my selections from it up on the Listen Again. Fast-forward to 1:43:30 and relaaaaaaaxx, man.

moths to the head

I like this. That's it, simple.

I Am The Dot - Middle of April
(via Pasta Primavera)

Find out more about this skinny cat here.

french-argentinian-japanese-love-music-jazz

Oh my days.

I've been listening to Mama!Milk's Fragrance of Notes quite a bit - that and George Russell's (R.I.P.) Jazz in the Space Age, both make for good "shit-I-have-to-do-work-for-uni" type of music. But they both stand up on their own - anyway, you should play the video above, which is Mama!Milk playing their gorgeous "The Moon" live at a temple in Kyoto. It's as lovely as it sounds.

If you love the show, please feel free to buy this on vinyl for me.

blackout!

I'm going to get to putting up Karriem Riggins' mix from last week's Benji B soon, people - I'm just very damn busy so not many posts recently. At least I'm still doing FLFD, people!

One of the things Riggins played on said mix was some unreleased Black Thought from Masterpiece Theatre - i.e. the unreleased solo album he did that got scrapped in favour of The Roots' Phrenology (if I remember correctly, I think "Rollin' With Heat" was originally supposed to be from that). I think the track's with Madlib? Anyway, I'll have it up soon. And here's a goodie that I forgot to post about last week:

Black Thought - The Professional

On other related Black Thought stuff, if you haven't yet seen that cipher with him, Eminem and Mos Def, stop being an idiot and click here already. And click on this old freestyle vid of Black and ?uestlove minus an afro. Weird.

"what the fuuuck just happened?"

Classic shit right here. Is that Lukas Haas? Sorry the quality isn't great.

Gilles Peterson's show this week revisits the N.E.R.D. x Spymob Maida Vale session from 2002 - remember when these guys seemed like the next, next until Pharrell fell into "twelve pages in women's American VOGUE"/La Vegas schintz mode and Chad went seemingly into hiding, producing intermittently for nameless RnB divas? And they have a sense of humour on this shit, too, Pharrell sings with a cold!

I've got an untitled jam that they played live around the time of the In Search Of... tour at home (I remember that, I travelled down to LDN with my dad to see them at the Brixton Academy - thanks Dad). I'll up that this weekend if I remember, it's a nice listen.

let's take another journey...

Jazzfreeka's Blackclassical blog(s) is a year old! Psssh, congrats dude.

New podcast from the gentleman to celebrate, the link is his. Tracklisting can be found right here.

BLACKCLASSICAL 1st BIRTHDAY
(via Brownswood forums)

"bye now! bye now"

So, a couple of mixes I've had kicking about from the net recently...

Tokimonsta, who's signed to Flying Lotus' Brainfeeder label, is getting praised for her spacey, sometimes glitchy sounding beats - a perfect fit for her label boss IMO. This is an exclusive mix she did for Donky Pitch ahead of her live set in Brighton on the 26th. If you get a chance, check her out you lucky dogs. And can anybody let me know what the beat that kicks in at 7:48 is? I've heard it before and it's bugging me trying to remember what it is exactly...

Tokimonsta - Donky Pitch Mix
(via Sonic Router)

Something I've been meaning to post about for a minute - this mix from Robot Koch, who I first read about over at Passion of the Weiss, has a reeeeall nice sway to it. Check it out - I played dude's "Death Star Droid" on FLFD the other week there and that has a definite cool vibe behind it. So best get to it, kid. Dude's also done a mix for Brainfeeder - that's cyclical writing, people! Connections!

Robot Koch - Robots Don't Sleep
(via Passion of the Weiss)

And THIS has been kicking about on my flash drive for ages - Jimmy Green, he of "what if Dilla produced The Blueprint" fame, giving the greatest voice of all, Marvin Gaye, the once over. This is dope. Don't sleep on it like I did.

Jimmy Green Presents: The Marvin Gaye Mixtape (ZIP file)
(via Certified Banger)

that's free, that is; that's heavy, that is

Now, UK hardcore label Thirty Days of Night have brought music to the world the following: Bring Me The Horizon, Gallows, Gold Kids, Azriel, D-Rail, November Coming Fire, Send More Paramedics, The Hunt For Ida Wave, The Plight, etc etc etc. That is a lot of bands.

Well, to celebrate the label's fifth birthday, they've got a compilation, TDON EST MMIV, for free download right now from their webstore. Pretty thing, that.

TDON EST MMIV (left-click)

like a bulemic on a seesaw

Another late pass post - an amazingly atmospheric piece of user-created content for Nas' "Queens Get the Money". Remember The Nigger Tape and how good it was and then Untitled came out and it was real disappointing? This intro was a red herring. Insane track.

Oh, and I slept real long on Jay Electronica but paid for it by losing it when I heard "Exhibit C". INSANITY!!!

Jay Electronica - Exhibit C (Radio Rip)

i kinda approve, kinda

Well now, this is an odd song.

Jamie Foxx feat. Gucci Mane - Speak French

Really.

So, late night studying gets you going through some amazing oddities on the internet. Here's some gorgeous psychadelic pop, courtesy of Chimera. Read up here.

If you follow me on Twitter - and let's face it, you probably should - then you would have noticed I like remembering that things are still great. Case in point: Crime In Stereo. Last night I relistened to their last full-length "...Is Dead" (FLFD #2 album of '07) for the first time in a while and yup, still amazing. So if you're not familiar with it, listen to these two highlights then go buy the damn thing. If you're familiar with it, smile at the dopey video above for one of the most affecting punk songs written in living memory, "Small Skeletal".

Crime In Stero - Small Skeletal

Crime In Stereo - Vicious Teeth

The guys have just finished off an amazing-sounding US tour with Polar Bear Club, Strike Anywhere and Ruiner and are putting out the follow up to "...Is Dead" in February, probably on Bridge 9 Records. They are also touring some places in the US with Brand New and Glassjaw so fuck you if you're going, you lucky fucking prick.

these giants are just like all of us

Ghostlimb are fucking great. What, you didn't know that already? Then get on their ENTIRE DISCOGRAPHY HERE. Then we'll talk.