Yes. ok, wait… No. Well, maybe. But not tonight. I’ve got no time this morning either… so like it love it or hate it, this is all your going to get today. A woefully inadequate edition, rendition, sedition.

Fingerbanger 1: Young Athletes League – Monaco Sunglasses (don lowed)

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Fingerbanger 2: French Films – Golden Sea (don lowed)

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I really should, but I don’t care to.

Fingerbanger 3: Gold Panda – I Suppose I Should Say Thanks Or Some Shit (don lowed)

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Fingerbanger 4: Lykke Li – Get Some (don lowed)

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Ender ender.

Fingerbanger 5: Goose – Synrise (don lowed)

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We’ve done it again. Tunawax is the 2011 Intercontinental Dryhump Champions. But rather than hold it over your heads, we’re giving back…Finely picked dance tracks to go cotton to cotton with.

Einstellung Effect: the idea that we often try to solve problems by using solutions that worked in the past instead of looking at each situation on its own terms.

Dryhump Champion: D.I.M. & Tai – Glass (Original Mix) (don lowed)

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By the age of five we’re trained to not to poke, not to push the envelope because we discover that if we do that we might get punished, we might get pushed back and so very few people […] are ready to stand up for an idea that may not match the status quo. The answer is to reassure yourself, […] to feed yourself a steady diet of reassuring, inspirational, insightful work that maybe, just maybe helps you find the guts to do the work that you know you need to do. – Seth Godin

This has been playing in my jeep for a week straight and every time I hear it I kinda lose my shit. Push back.

Fingerbanger 1: Paragons – Wear You To The Ball (don lowed)

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Fingerbanger 2: Barbara Lynn – Nice And Easy (don lowed)

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Nobody beats the Biz

Fingerbanger 3: De La Soul feat. Biz Markie – Lovely How I Let My Mind Float (Slight Remix) (don lowed)

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I somehow missed this song when it came out, but I’ve been making up for it pretty heavily lately. Those drums and that repetitious guitar riff  at :28 have a steady New Order feel to them. How endearing and heartbreaking.

Fingerbanger 4: Datarock – Amarillion (don lowed)

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WTF winter… I’ve got cycles to ride, boats to sail and trails to hike. Let it go man, just let it go.

Fingerbanger 5:  Happy Mondays – Harmony (don lowed)

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Throwback: The Cure – Boys Dont Cry (Original 12 inch Mix) (don lowed)

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Throwback: Altered Images – Don’t Talk To Me About Love (Extended Version) (don lowed)

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We’ve done it again! Tunawax is the 2011 Intercontinental Dryhump Champions. But rather than hold it over your heads, we’re giving back…Finely picked dance tracks to go cotton to cotton with.

What difference does it make! Makes no difference! Don’t have time for that! Got it, Bob-san? Just psych yourself up, and quick! Look straight at the camera. At the camera. And slowly. With passion. Straight at the camera. And in your eyes there’s… passion. Got it?

Dryhump Champion: Andre.Soulmate & DeVanna – Moena (Original Mix) (don lowed)

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Unexpected gifts are the best.

Mixtape: Mighty Mouse – Upside Down Mixtape (don lowed)

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When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

If you’re not familiar with The Bongolian, I know you’re hurting and you’re scared… but  there is hope. I’m working on a cure for your disease right now…

Fingerbanger 1: The Bongolian – Talking Synth (don lowed)

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The Bongolians newest album Bongos For Beatnikswill be released on Monday 9th May

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From Wagon Christs new album Toomorrow comes this Saturday morning sliding, beach bum baking, cereal crunching chunkothy. Don’t you just love being in love?

Fingerbanger 2: Wagon Christ – Chunkothy (don lowed)

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Two Amon Tobin things equally worth noting: 1.) After almost 5 years since his last official release, the solo jarringly-abstract Foley Room, there is a new album ISAM due for consumption on May 23. Previews for the album are curious, and lead me to believe that the album wont be in the same vein as the more beat driven Monthly Joint Series he just did, but continues in the sci-fi-tronic direction , where sounds all but earthly.  2.) and Completely out of nowhere came Chaos Theory Remixed, which is a updated and transformed version of Tobin’s ‘Chaos Theory’; the original soundtrack to Tom Clancy’s seminal game ‘Splinter Cell’. While I’m not much for soundtracks or remix albums, this thing easily holds it’s own with remixes from (among others) Eskmo, Kid Koala, Daedelus, and (see below) The Qemists.

Fingerbanger 3: Amon Tobin – El Cargo (The Qemists Remix) (don lowed)

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Check out the boss on broadway down to walkways
Suckers with mics that end up with tooth decay…

Fingerbanger 4: Dr. Octagon – 3000 (don lowed)

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By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest. — Confucius

Ever Vigilant, Ever True

Fingerbanger 5: Kahn – Like We Used To (don lowed)

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Shout out to hip hop pre 2000. I still love you, come back and we’ll make up. I promise.

Throwback: Crooklyn Dodgers (Buckshot, Masta Ace & Special Ed) – The Crooklyn Dodgers (don lowed)

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Throwback: Crooklyn Dodgers (OC, ChubbRock & Jeru) – Return Of The Crooklyn Dodgers (don lowed)

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We’ve done it again! Tunawax is the 2011 Intercontinental Dryhump Champions. But rather than hold it over your heads, we’re giving back…Finely picked dance tracks to go cotton to cotton with.

Pinched helter-skelter, you’ve got to be ready to give it all up and go.

Dryhump Champion: Brodinski – Arnold Classics (Tony Senghore Staggering & Daggering Remix) (don lowed)

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Our conscious motivations, ideas, and beliefs are a blend of false information, biases, irrational passions, rationalizations, prejudices, in which morsels of truth swim around and give the reassurance albeit false, that the whole mixture is real and true. The thinking processes attempt to organize this whole cesspool of illusions according to the laws of plausibility. This level of consciousness is supposed to reflect reality; it is the map we use for organizing our life. — Erich Fromm

Fingerbanger 1: Common – Break My Heart (Golden Child Remix) (don lowed)

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A quick reference to yesterdays post, but on the fake-out remix tip. I wish I could smack every kid that called a mashup a “remix”. It’s not a remix. It’s sorta like how living in a cool city for a few months doesn’t make you “from there”. Or how you scammed some backstage passes, and now you tell people you’re “friends with the band”. All classic mistakes that make people think you’re a clown. I still sorta dig this mashup.

(Update: Ha! Yes has said that the “remix” in the title was added by someone else. I believe there is a pretty good chance of that. So… there’s that.)

Fingerbanger 2: Notorious BIG + The XX – A Juicy Intro (Ha! Yes Remix) (don lowed)

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Has it really been 11 years?  shit.

Fingerbanger 3: Deeds Plus Thoughts – Dayton Bumps (don lowed)

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It has been said, that “common souls pay with what they do; nobler souls with that which they are. — Emerson

Carl Nordström aka Affictionados once again brings Ms. Owman into her element with dripping triphop vocal that swings and sway in an eerily familiar way. These two are building quite an impressive sound, both independently and together… I urge youhttp://revolvingrecords.com/

Fingerbanger 4: Affictionados – Bow And Arrow (feat. Christine Owman) (don lowed)

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Meh… I’m not much of a review guy. I sometimes try, but it’s plain to see that here, since I by and large don’t write long sanctimonious arguments on the validity of any artist. I find most reviews to be banal, reaching for pseudo-intelligent comparisons and picking at impossible to defend weaknesses. Always trying to value an album based upon technical merits of specificity. Which is a sort of sad thing to do in my opinion; mechanically dissecting something that is ultimately an emotional movement. IMO,all that stuff is close to missing the point, and really what is there to understand about someones music besides how it moves you. Unfortunately, in the case of Starfucker, they move people with melodic pop music that must in some way make them feel guilty for enjoying such lightheaded happiness ( albeit sometimes with subtle melancholy undertones), and so the justifying technical arguments come out in droves, at which point all hope is lost. New album Reptilians Here.

Fingerbanger 5: Starfucker – Astoria (don lowed)

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