sorry folks.

replace the Crystal Castles song on the playlist with this one

cccrimewave

Enjoy

Winter Run Mix 08

Hello again, kids. Over the past three years, I have amassed a large quantity of beats, melodies, and lyrics to be used on some mysterious project in the future. Like Dr. Dre, who has refused to release an album because of relentless sonic tweaking, I have consistently put off the difficult task of compiling all this bits and pieces into an honest-to-goodness album. The time has come, however, to lift the skirt of decency and unveil my true secrets. I will release an album in the first half of 2009. Consider it my offering to the gods that killed Robert Johnson, Janis Joplin, Kurt Cobain, and many other 27 year old icons.

But instead of having you hold your breath until that one fine day, I am going to asking for your help to pick and choose the best of the over 500 beats, rhythms, melodies, and lyrics, and be a part of the process from the beginning. If your reading this blog, I probably have a close association with you, and therefore, trust your opinion, musically or otherwise. If you were sitting right next to me, I’d ask for your feedback. Since you’re not, however, I’m going to post material to this address, and ask for your opinion; digitally. We’re all ripe brides anyway, waiting to be plucked and gathered.

So please join me in the mix.

-mateo

from his site

Thoughts?

Download audio file (brandyofthedamned.mp3)

Nickel Eye - “Brandy of the Damned”

Still relevant. Still brilliant. Still Summer 2008, bitches.

Nothing is missing from this record, Douglas Wolk. This album is amazing, especially considering the current trends.

“Well, here’s the deal. We can’t actually praise an album like this with the current trends. People would think we’re too erratic. Let’s give it a 6.8 (definitely not anything in the 7’s - good god!). Now write a review that justifies that!”

Al Green - “All I Need”

Download audio file (all-i-need.mp3)

mattwooddc.muxtape.com

Download audio file (what-new-york-used-to-be.mp3)

The Kills - “What New York Used To Be”

Download audio file (tape-song.mp3)

The Kills - “Tape Song”

Click here to listen to my first muxtape. Tracks from No Age, Black Dice, Shy Child and more (even Lil Wayne).

Kurt, welcome back from the dead.

Download audio file (teen-creeps.mp3)

No Age - “Teen Creeps”

Springtime is here, and its time to make a new love. May I recommend the lyrics of the great poet collective know as the Splack Pack?

Lyrics after the jump:

From their emotional triumph, “Shake That Ass Bitch”:

Shake that ass bitch and let me see whatcha got
Just shake that ass bitch and let me see whatcha got
Just shake that ass bitch and let me see whatcha got
Just shake that ass bitch and let me see whatcha got
Just shake that ass bitch and let me see whatcha got

Go ‘head
What up though, ho? I wanna see ya ass on the dance flo’
Aint no time to be thinkin trick, on the fo’ real I wanna see that ass bitch
Drop it down a little low like that, hit it in the front with the Splack Pack
Palm Beach County style from the bottom

Uh, uh
Shake that ass and do somethin, ho
Splack plack in the house stop frontin, yo
G-strings from the back, just shake that ass for the Splack Pack

Chorus

Yo Money
Come here girl step to the front
Now make that ass hole jump
Kid money like to get buck
So come here girl cuz your ’bout get fucked
Splack pack be rockin it
All the hoes ji-jockin it
Kid money be rockin it
Fo real though so lets go, uh
I wanna see you sweat trap
So get in my face and make that ass clap
G-strings from the back, just shake that ass for the Splack Pack

Chorus

Hey baby hey baby, drop that thang down, uh

All the hoes be shake shake shakin it
All the hoes just shake shake shakin it
All the hoes be shake shake shakin it
All the hoes just shakin it
Say scrub da ground (SCRUB DA GROUND)
Let me hear you say scrub da ground (SCRUB DA GROUND)

So now you know what time it is
I knew you was wit it one time for Mac Ten
Stay in the house
Splack Pack came to turn it out
This one’s for the booty shakers
I wanna see it all no fakers
Cuz kid money’s on the beats freak
So open up and let me take a peek
Bend on over now touch yo toe
Grab da pole let me see that pussy hole, yo
Yeah, like that
Just shake that ass for the splack pack

Chorus

Uh, I kinda like what I see
But you gotta shake for this money
One time for my dogs in the pack
My niggas from the bottom down with the splack
So drop it down if you wit it
Don’t stop just get it get it
Let pump the back up
Shake them titties, now make that pussy jump
Now bend ya ass on over
Spread it wide let a nigga get on ya
I’m comin straight up the back
Kid money down with the Splack Pack

Chorus

Drop it down a little low like that
Drop drop it down a little low like that
Drop it down a little low like that

Kids. You can download the DJ sets from the March 1, 2008 show at MoMA. Click here for four mp3s.

Photos here

Download audio file (das-claudia-woelkey-massa.mp3)

Modeselektor - “Das Claudia Woelkey Massa”

Download audio file (04-panaria-is-in-bukarest-20.mp3)

Modeselektor - “Panaria Is in Bukarest 20″

Khia - “My Neck, My Back”

Kids, “you can’t beat the Axis if you’ve get VD”

Download audio file (happiness-is-a-warm-gun.mp3)

Beatles - “Happiness Is A Warm Gun”

Warm weather is finally heating our cold, cold hearts in the city, and with that comes a whole new set of playlists. While winter woes cause us to wallow in depression, the springtime sunny days always allow us to wake up and remember the good things in life.

Every active listener should take the time once a year to experience an old musical friend with new ears; ears that have matured (or in my case, withered) always seem to find new points to ponder in the new soundtracks of their (previous) lives.

Here are five artists who have been creeping in every year. Pretty cliche, but relevant nonetheless.

Who’s catalog do you pillage on an annual basis?

• James Brown
• Stevie Wonder
• A Tribe Called Quest
• The Roots
• Grant Green

Obviously there’s a theme, but listen, kids, you don’t become an asshole overnight; it takes years of training!

Download audio file (the-baskervilles.mp3)

Tokyo Police Club - “The Baskervilles”

From my boy Sean Condon!

Welcome Bardhi.

Welcome Bardhi.

Welcome Bardhi.

Download audio file (hello-brooklyn-20.mp3)

Jay-Z - “Hello Brooklyn 2.0″

In the case of Okay, the pseudonym for one-man band Marty Anderson, once you’ve learned he suffers from a strain of Crohn’s disease and is more or less house- and IV-bound, the urge arises to hear his twin debuts, Low Road and High Road, as expressions of his medical condition, perhaps even as meditations on encroaching mortality.

Download audio file (16-huggable-dust.mp3)

Okay - “Huggable Dust”

The latest record “New Amerykah Part One (4th World War)” from Erykah Badu sent chills down my spine this weekend. Walking around Greenpoint Saturday night, I had the chance to listen to the entire album. This sweet, lonesome woman needs to keep doing what she’s doing. Track 2 and 4 (”The Healer” and “My People”) both sweat of the late J-Dilla’s groove, and the third in the middle, “Me” is just the right mix of Roy Hargrove and bar grooves.

Download audio file (me.mp3)

Erykah Badu - “Me”

Download audio file (my-people.mp3)

Erykah Badu - “My People”

Download audio file (the-healer.mp3)

Erykah Badu - “The Healer”

“Scientists, come out with your scales up!/ Get baptized in this ocean … Hip Hip is bigger than religion, Hip Hop is bigger than money, Hip Hop is bigger than the government/ This one is for Dilla - hip hop!”

lyrics and TONS of videos after the jump…

(dude, lighten up, it’s a Saturday night)

Venture to come out the closet
uncover yourself, remove the enamel
stop covering yourself,
nobody is going to portray you
get up “ponte hiper”
take out the spark from the “estalter”
catch fire like a lighter
twitch the sweat as you were a wiper
since you’re a vagabond, a street fighter

change this serious face of yours
this intellectual face of encyclopedia
or I could inject bacterium to you
so that you can go around like a fair machine
intellectual girl
I already know you have an abdominal area
that you use as a patronal festival
that you use as a “palestino”

I know you like the latin pop rock
but this raggae goes in your gut
underneath the skirt like a submarine
and it takes out the Indian “taino”
you already know, inside the loincloth
in the name of “agueymama”, there is not more
I will never lie to you
I know I want to consume your parsley too
and you came Amazonian like Brasil
you came to kill them like Kill Bill
you came to drink beer from the barrel
you know you can be refilled with me

venture to come out the closet
uncover yourself, remove the enamel
stop covering yourself,
nobody is going to portray you
get up “ponte hiper”
take out the spark from the “estalter”
catch fire like a lighter
twitch the sweat as you were a wiper
since you’re a vagabond, a street fighter

hello, go away from the show
lift your mini-skirt until the shoulders
lift it, go away from the show, lift it higher
now we’re going to dance all arounf
now, baby, you want your “zipi”
it doesn’t matter if you’re “rapera” or hippie
if you’re from Bayamón or from Guaynabo city
don’t be picky with me
that’s all, go away from what is hard
this is easy, this is a “mamey”
what matters if you like Green Day
what matters if you like cold play
this is direct without stop, it’s one way
I swear, by law all the women know karate
they cook using tomato sauce
they douse rice with a little bit of avocado
to reap 14 carats buttocks

venture to come out the closet
uncover yourself, remove the enamel
stop covering yourself,
nobody is going to portray you
get up “ponte hiper”
take out the spark from the “estalter”
catch fire like a lighter
twitch the sweat as you were a wiper
since you’re a vagabond, a street fighter (x2)

Oh, you thought that was cute? Try a few more. Whoever made these videos deserves a drink. The translations and interpretations are like a gringo found a spanish/english dictionary in the subway and mixed it with google images, then baked it in iMovie.

enjoy.

Then, some legitimate versions:

We had a long conversation the other day explaining to my friend Craig the revolutionary series that changed teen drama forever. Before Beverly Hills: 90210, before Saved By The Bell there was Degrassi. I just learned through the intercow that there was even an elementary school version of the show.

From Wikipedia:

The Degrassi series is a Canadian drama that follows the lives of a group of teenagers who lived on or near De Grassi Street in Toronto, Ontario. The three main series were The Kids of Degrassi Street, Degrassi Junior High and Degrassi High.

I’ve compiled some clips to tribute the original after school special:

We need something like this. This track blends everything that’s right and wrong with the world today.

Enjoy.

Download audio file (cosmic-rapp.mp3)

James Pants - “Cosmic Rapp”

And, because the album continued, and was just as beautiful… I present the next track.

Download audio file (were-through.mp3)

James Pants - “We’re Through”

Click on the link here to see a google maps street view of a dude dealing drugs.

Download audio file (flyaway.mp3)

Alison Krauss & Gillian Welch - “I’ll Fly Away”

This hallucinating clip. From the video art of Ryan Trecartin, brought to you by the Saatchi Gallery, squished through Youtube, and delivered straight to your seratonin…

Enjoy.

Ryan Trecartin’s film A Family Finds Entertainment is a camp extravaganza of epic proportions. Starring Trecartin’s family and friends, and the artist himself in a plethora of outrageous roles, A Family Finds Entertainment chronicles the story of mixed up teenager Skippy and his adventures in ‘coming out’. In this over the top celebration of queerness, Trecartin’s film mines the bizarre and endearing in an unabashed pastiche of ‘bad tv’ tropes. Cheesy video special effects, dress-up chess costumes, desperate scripts, and ‘after school special’ melodrama combine in the fluency of youth-culture lingo, reflecting a generation both damaged and affirmed by media consumption.

From Saatchi Gallery