Press Love For Blogger CDs
Nice words for top-notch music blogs Music For Robots, Lemon-Red, and Soul Sides in the new Entertainment Weekly. The three sites are taking on the music industry not by leaking unreleased albums but with highly-acclaimed mixes curated by the bloggers themselves. From EW (purchasing info available via the blog links in the first sentence.):
MUSIC FOR ROBOTS: VOLUME ONEColor me impressed. Or lemony red. B/B+/A ... on par with the same issue's Built To Spill rating! Congrats, guys.
For those who never had cool older sibs to guide them, last year's compilation from indie gurus Music For Robots is a helpful primer to underground bands. From the calm atmospherics of El Ten Eleven to radical raps from Mr. Lif. It defies genre specificity, yet remains uniformly listenable. BLEMON-RED MIX SERIES: DJ AYRES
What do Björk, Kelly Clarkson, and the Notorious B.I.G. have in common? Nothing, really. But they all show up on this beat-crazed mix from hip-hop-centric site Lemon-Red and NYC-based DJ Ayres. The unpredictable release rarely loses its wild, smashed-up pulse. B+SOUL SIDES: VOLUME ONE
Courtesy of funk blog Soul Sides, the new disc boasts a bevy of deep grooves. Old-schoolers will love Donny Hathaway's sorrowful take on John Lennon's "Jealous Guy," while youngsters will recognize Linda Lyndell's "What A Man" from Salt-N-Pepa's sample-laden hit. A
Of course here at the 'Gum we tried to release our own mix, but getting Donald Fagen's, Wolfmother's, and K-Fed's lawyers to allow their clients on the same CD was a logistical nightmare. Until we figure that shit out, download this familiar funk tornado from Soul Sides' Volume:
Linda Lyndell - "Whatta Man" (MP3 Link Expired)
I've always loved the infectious, Lyndell-sampled Salt-N-Pepa/En Vogue hit. Especially when my straight male friends can't help but sing along. (Though my married buddy Andy's "Shoop" rendition is even more amusing.)
Speaking of blogger forays into old-school media ... if you're as into rap sample origins as I am check out my Before They Were Rap Songs playlist (pg. 299) in Ultragrrrl's The Pocket DJ. I get 0 cents for every copy sold. Woo hoo!
Posted at 8:08 PM in MP3
Wow, I can't believe bloggers are making CDs, that's *CRAZY*
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Yeah. Except for the fact that it looks like at least 2 of those websites are profitting from those CDs. That's just shifty as fuck.
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I think the bloggers involved cleared everything with the necessary parties for their compilation or mix CDs. Dunno about the mix by DJ Ayres, but I'm pretty sure about the two compilations.
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Cool, you are in the book. Flipped through it the other day. Shame that you don't get any money for it.
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Should've given a shout out to the-breaks.com. Awesome search engine for rap samples. Incomplete, but great.
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Find a guy, who calls you beautiful instead of hot.
Who calls you back when you hang up on him.
Who will stay awake just to watch you sleep.
Wait for the guy who kisses your forehead.
Who wants to show you off to the world when you are in your sweats.
Who holds your hand in front of his friends.
Wait for the one who is constantly reminding you of how much he cares about you and how lucky he is to have you.
Wait for the one who turns to his friends and says, "...that's her."
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Thanks for the Lynda Lyndell track, I never realised the En Vogue was a cover!
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Thanks for the love-upon-love, Stereogum.
To lil dude who said that making money is "shifty" - put the pipe down, son. It's real, real cool that Oliver has a PhD and a family and can still afford to give his profits to charity, but some of us are just trying to eat.
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That Linda Lyndell track is sweet but it's corrupt at the end - does anyone have a good version of the MP3?
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