We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity – romantic love and gunpowder. – Andre Maurois

We’re stinking filthy busy round here reading, cutting, welding, & greasing. The chain in those handcuffs is high-tensile steel. It’d take you ten minutes to hack through it with this. Now, if you’re lucky, you could hack through your ankle in five minutes. Go

Fingerbanger 1: Lexy Feat. Soffy O – Chronicles (Original Long Mix) (don lowed)

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Something about this song I’m not sure about (the hook sounds a off key mess), but there’s also something about it I really kinda dig (the rest of the song).  Something for smoother riding days.

Fingerbanger 2: The Pharcyde Vs. Finley Quaye – Runnin’ After All (Jimi Needles Melancholy Bootleg) (don lowed)

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Free Chi-Ali

Fingerbanger 3: Chi Ali – The Horns Blow (Feat. Dres, Dove, Phife, & Fashion) (don lowed)

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The need to express oneself in writing springs from a mal-adjustment to life, or from an inner conflict which the adolescent (or the grown man) cannot resolve in action. Those to whom action comes as easily as breathing rarely feel the need to break loose from the real, to rise above, and describe it… I do not mean that it is enough to be maladjusted to become a great writer, but writing is, for some, a method of resolving a conflict, provided they have the necessary talent – Andre Maurois

A “best of” Ebo? Ain’t it about time. The king of Highlife, Ebo Taylor has released just a thing on Strut Records, called  Life Stories, a compilation of his most important works during the 1970’s. If you know whats good for your inner afrobeat, you’ll find this and stick it in your ear like a soul-saving aural communion wafer. Check this amazingly interesting  interview if you’ve got the time.

Fingerbanger 4: Ebo Taylor – Heaven (don lowed)

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From the Monthly Joint Series.

Fingerbanger 5: Amon Tobin – Delpher (don lowed)

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Ovr/end/Out p.tone, larger than life and twice as ugly.