like vampire's blood

Kashmere's been one of my favourites for a while now. New shit, nicked from UK All Day.

Kashmere feat. Truth - Do You Understand

You can get this on the Three Years High and Rising compilation, available from Rapsploitation Sessions.

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.

compilation procrastination

So on last week's show I played a couple of songs off the compilation Barnyard Soul!: Greasy Gritty Groovy Southern-Fried Soul for this little feature I've got by the name of Compilation Procrastination. The idea is to find a compilation record that I love and showcase it to the listeners, and you-know-what made it onto last week's FLFD.

There's not much detail online for this comp, but let me guarantee you that it's got a wide array of massive jams on it - imagine awesome James Brown-style funk and soul but with some more, well, primal urges attributed to the vocals! It's a great ride. There's another take on it HERE and you can find it on sale HERE - it's totally sold out anywhere else though, so hassle Deep Groove to press it again or get to digging already!

B.B. Brown - Low Down Dirty Tramp

Willie West - Fairchild

goddammit

I haven't blogged since my show on Monday, have I? Bad call. Here's what I played, if you haven't seen it on my Myspace page or Facebook group (search "FLASHING LIGHTS + FLASH DRIVES" in FB to join), here's what I played on Monday nizzight:

MIIKE SNOW - Animal (RCD LBL)
PARETO - This is Where I Draw the Line (self-released)
TEENAGERSINTOKYO - Isabella (Backyard)
BRENDA HOLLOWAY - Til Johnny Comes (Motown)

firsts - NITE JEWEL
WARREN G - ...And Ya Don't Stop (Def Jam)

FUCK BUTTONS - Surf Solar (ATP)
RAEKWON - Surgical Gloves (Ice H20)
CALVINBALL - No Matter How Hard You Try (self-released)
MAYER HAWTHORNE - Just Ain't Gonna Work Out (Stones Throw)

compilation procrastination! (part one)
100 PROFF (AGED IN SOUL) - Somebody's Been Sleeping In My Bed (Edsel)

NITE JEWEL - You Said, "Let's go, the Two of Us" (Italians Do It Better)
BLK JKS - Lakeside (Secretly Canadian)
LLOYD feat. LIL WAYNE - Pusher (self-released)
CEYLAN ERTEM - Gonul Dagi (self-released)

firsts - THIS TOWN NEEDS GUNS
LIT - My Own Worst Enemy (RCA)

THIS TOWN NEEDS GUNS - Lemur (Big Scary Monsters)
S.C.U.M. - Visions Arise (self-released)
DRAKE - Sooner Than Later (self-released)

compilation procrastination! (part two)
STEREO TOTAL - Touche-Moi (Disko B)

KINGS OF CONVENIENCE - Boat Behind (EMI)
GOROD - Splinters of Life (Listenable)

tom waits song of the week
TOM WAITS - Anywhere I Lay My Head (Island)

BIG BOI feat. TOO $HORT & GEORGE CLINTON - Fo Yo Sorrows (Def Jam)
T-PAIN feat. SHAWNNA - Dope (Nappy Boy)
LOS CAMPESINOS! - Frontwards (self-released)

If you missed the show, you can listen to it at Air3 Radio until this Monday coming - and while you're there, go listen to At the Pictures as well (Tuesdays 3-5). As for the compilation of the week, here's a post I did on it back in August. A little post about last week's compilation of choice, Barnyard Soul! is coming up.

and so you should be hung

Last week on FLFD, my compilation of the week was a punk/oi compilation by the name of Still Out of Fuckin' Order. It's a pretty good compilation, albeit one where a lot of the bands sound the same. Blitz, however, have/had (?) a sound that was definitely their own and, hell, a lot more appealling on the ears. Here are two of their tracks off Still Out of Fuckin' Order:

Blitz - Someone's Gonna Die Tonight

Blitz - Razors in the Night

BONUS SHIT: Braindance - Paedophile

Buy Still Out... here from Step 1 Records.

hello gamecube!

So, I haven't gotten round to doing my compilation posts for the past coupla weeks. And I'm running out of compilations for FLFD, so if you've got any ideas, send an email to me or even leave a comment in this post.

Anyways, compilation post! Last week first of all: Soundbombing III, released on Rawkus Records in 2002, mixed by Cipha Sounds and the delicious sounding Mr. Choc, (obviously) the third installment in the series of hip-hop comps. This one wasn't as warmly received as the previous two installments - basically, Rawkus was a long way away from the "independent as fuck" days thanks to a bunch of mini-blockbusters that were inescapable when I was eleven years old: Mos Def's Black on Both Sides, Reflection Eternal's Train of Thought, and Pharoahe Monch's Internal Affairs, the album that pretty much changed the label forever on the back of that single.

So long story short - Rawkus went on a joint business venture with MCA, so everything got a little more commercial friendly (to the disgust of some long-running Rawkus fans) on the following records, but then things weren't working out. Interscope swooped in and bought Rawkus after MCA folded in 2003; the next year, Rawkus split from Interscope with pretty much all its big artists off on other labels. Recently, it's brought out records by Marco Polo and Kidz In The Hall while trying to relabel the brand as less record imprint, and more superblog. No offence to their hustle, but it's a bit disappointing to see.

So even if Soundbombing III is arguably part of the era where Rawkus lost its way, is it any good? Well, like all compilations, it's got bangers and it's got lame ducks - the bangers mostly outweigh the lame ducks here though. The lead single, "The Life" - Styles P on the verses, Pharoahe (the label's golden kid at the time) on the hook - is still gorgeous seven years on, and I played it on my show last week. I also played Cocoa Brovaz' "Spit Again" (featuring, no shit, DAWN PENN) which is just the filthiest, nastiest banger possible. (Note: Cocoa Brovaz had a good run on Rawkus comps - I still know all the words to "Get Up", just like I did when I was in high school. I need to have a Lyricist Lounge post someday.)

But I didn't play all the other cool shit on this compilation: Q-Tip coming across all smooth and impeccable on "What Lies Beneath"; Talib Kweli and (deranged, fucked up misogyny put to the side for one minute here) DJ Quik somehow letting their polar opposite styles melt like gumbo on "Put It in the Air"; world famous granola rappers Common and Kweli cutting a track with Zap Mama, who I remember most for singing "Iko Iko" while Tom Cruise climbed a mountain in M:I-2. And yeah, there's chaff here: Missy Elliott on a Rawkus comp (sorry, shouldn't happen - it's like characters from Stargate SG1 showing up on The Wire); Mos Def slipping into post-BOBS irrelevance on "Freak Daddy"; an all-star remix of Jonell's "Round and Round" that drains all the quiet sadness out of the supreior original remix.

But the good moments are worth it. So check these tracks out already:

Cocoa Brovaz feat. Dawn Penn - Spit Again

Styles P feat. Pharoahe Monch - The Life

Q-Tip - What Lies Beneath

Talib Kweli feat. DJ Quik - Put It In the Air

If you like these, buy Soundbombing III. It's about 60p, so c'mon. (Expect a post on the really interesting The 49th Parallel sometime next week.)