You know when your little and you get the idea that you should take your bike off a jump for the first time, so you take all morning to build what you think is a sweet jump, but in actuality is a bunch of scrap wood ramped up to a cinder block. And then you get your mom to come watch you take your first leap into the abyssal sky like the love child of Evil Knievel and Christian Hosoi. So your barreling down on this magical jump and in your head your going to fly a mile, maybe clear some buildings, but your mom face looks pale and she has her hands over her eyes, just peaking through her fingers. Thats sorta how this post is…

What am I thinking? My first Cut Copy post was last week and now I’m doing it again??? Is Cut Copy the beer of music? Once you break the seal, you gotta keep going and going…? And on top of that, its that same goddamn song, just a different remix! So what is my problem? Maybe, it’s just a good song… or maybe Cut Copy is paying me in Charleston Chews. You decide.

Fingerbanger 1: Cut Copy – Far Away (Hercules and Love Affair Remix) (download)

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Here is a band I discovered this week… French Miami. Back to this math-rock rock thing, which sorta reminds me of avant garde jazz where you really got to know why it’s cool before it sounds cool. But some of it still sounds cool… this sounds cool.

Fingerbanger 2: French Miami – Multi Caliber Rifles (download)

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I’m not sure what to make of this, I expect only time will tell. Illa J (who will forever be referred to as Jay Dee’s younger brother) has gone and made an album (Yancy Boys) using beats from his deceased brothers archive of unused songs from his ’95 – ’98 years (Think De La Soul, Pharcyde, Slum Village). So it’s no secret that J.Dilla made some classic shit, and now Illa J is tapping into that vein with his debut release Yancy Boys (Delicious Vinyl). Is this legit? Why didn’t Illa J do this while his brother was alive? Is this a Delicious Vinyl money idea (they seem to be riding the pharcyde fame for all its’ worth; check out their websitess “New Release” section, notice that 5 out of the last 6 are Pharcyde/Jay Dee related. They’re not even trying to be clever about it.) I will give Delicious props for sticking with Fatlip tho.

According to Mr Illa J, this is all a tribute to his older brother. He says, “One of the things I learned from my brother is that you don’t get that much time, so make the most of it. That’s why I’ve decided to dedicate my life to doing what I love : music. To work with Delicious, the label that released those hits my brother made with The Pharcyde (“Runnin’” and “Drop”) is really special.”

But I’m a skeptical SOB and I mean… where are the dues? First album, first mention of this kid.

All that being said, the beats are nice (of course) and Illa J, well, I grade him a B- cuz his flow is kinda choppy sometimes. So I hope that this isn’t going to be his legacy, one or two albums using Dillas beats posthumously and then gone.

Fingerbanger 3: Illa J – All Good (download)

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Domino Records sent me this thing about Max Tundra and that got me looking into what they have been doing, which led me to looking at this collabo between Four Tet’s Kieran Hebden and legendary drummer Steve Reid. Their album NYC was recorded over two days in the also famous Avatar Studio with the intention of connecting with the inner pulse of NYC. I will admit that it’s not often that I find a whole album worth buying ($6 download), but I did just that. http://www.kieranhebdenandstevereid.com/

Fingerbanger 4: Kieran Hebden and Steve Reid – Between B & C (download)

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I’m going to end this off with a hot head nodder. Talib and Hi-Teks launch pad called Mood… don’t forget J.Rawls too. The Doom album should hit any hiphop fans music player at least once a year to remind them of what hip hop culture was all about. Inspired beats, concious rhymes, uplifting the state of the mental… the good shit. Then POW over night everyone went either poor me emo backpacker, or mysogonistic ignant sex music. Yeah, Dj shadow made Why hiphop sucks in ’96… but I don’t think he could have predicted where it went.

Fingerbanger 5: Mood – Karma (download)

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This long ass post is overENDout – P.tone

(Dont forget… Hip Young Gunslingers returns to Oblios this Saturday! Be there.)