I’m pretty sure I wasn’t meant to work today. I think I’ll have to align myself with that course of nature … shortly. Brain off.

Fingerbanger 1: Marvin Gaye – Inner City Blues ( Drilla Edit ) (don lowed)

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I’m not sure where I got this song from… maybe it was slipped it into my duffle bag while I tied my shoe… or maybe it was implanted into my music folder by mind control warriors. What I do know is that I have this inexplicable feel that I’ve posted this before, and it’s making me nervous. how odd. sensualharassment.com

Fingerbanger 2: Sensual Harassment – Fever (don lowed)

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Trademark put down a double EP release, one called Earth & the other Space on Intelligent Audio. Now that we’ve got that out of the way, I’m loving the Roots Manuva style lyrics on this from MC Manic over some good breaks & piano loops. Nice work.

Fingerbanger 3: Trademark – Loki’s Lament (feat. Mc Manic) (don lowed)

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It’s not often that I get a good dose of brand new dub/breaks/drum & bass all at the same time. However, Dexter Dub’s debut album Dexter’s Dub Dimensions proves a solid understanding of production and is worthy of a solid listen. Traversing through genres, he manages to avoid the pitfalls of relying on the beats to make his songs and comes out with some really interesting styles he calls dubbeats. Listen to more here.  Dexter Dub.

Fingerbanger 4: Dexter Dub – The Hypnotist (don lowed)

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Catacombkid sent me a heads up his new album ‘Deep Sleep‘ and much like his previously featured stuff (here), he’s put together some really ill sounds that you can really get lost in. The new album definitely shows a marked progression and a growing depth of maturity…  If I had a label, I’d be looking to put this kid on it.  Download the whole album here.

Fingerbanger 5: Catacombkid – Glass Mountains (Feat. Max L ) (don lowed)

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Fingerbanger 5.5: Catacombkid – Ghastly Sounds (don lowed)

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Despite the cheese music and editing at the end… it gave me chills. It’s going to be fun to watch.

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I don’t prescribe to this, though I believe my neighbor does. A  cure-all; mix jimson weed with sulphur and honey. The mixture is placed in a glass, which was rubbed against a black cat ( which surprisingly can be found hanging around my house), and then the mixture is slowly sipped.

To stop a Voodoo spell being placed upon you, acquire some bristles from a pig cooked at a Voodoo ritual, tie the bristles into a bundle and carry them on you at all times.

Hoodoo Throwback: Jimi Hendrix – Voodoo Child (don lowed)

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You can harm a person in whatever way you want to by getting a lock of his hair and burning some and throwing the rest away.

Hoodoo Thorwback: Minuteman – Voodoo Slaves (don lowed)

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If a woman wants her husband to stay away from other woman, she can do so by putting a little of her blood in his coffee, and he will never quit her.

Hoodoo Bonus Beats: The Natural Yogurt Band – Voodoo (don lowed)

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In Wolof  the term hepicat is, “one who has his eyes open”.

3 things you can do when the snow has melted and it’s too hot to go skate (or move). 1. Buy a bottle of jack & some roofies… Wake up when it’s cooler out. 2. Search Craigslist for a slurpy machine… brain freeze yourself until you can’t remember what year it is. 3. Put on your snowboard gear, strap in, and have your roomate heave ice at your face until you’re “over it”.

Slow Networks first release is a sexy disco-y (aka french) house track that is actually from the netherlands & vinyl only (unless they give a way the mp3… which they did, so now I’m confused). Anyhow, webqueawry aka Martijn Poulus hit the sweet spot on this sound and made one of the most feel-good house burners I’ll probably hear this summer. Is it even summer?

Dryhump Champion: webqueawry – Searching (don lowed)

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…And I don’t know why the heartbreakingest things are the ones that go the distance – that get closest to meeting and shaking me. And they’re not the balance of life of course; but somehow it is the plain and somber things that you’ll remember and ponder on late at night when the wind kicks up along  your bedside window or you’re driving in to work in that sweet spring morning coma – hypnotized by the proud new leaves and the vines revived and the honeysuckle. So young amidst all those aging words and photographs – Erica @ Been Thinking (beenthinking.tumblr.com)

Tonic: Ariel Pinks Haunted Graffiti – Round And Round (don lowed)

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Revolution is a serious thing. – Fuzzy Codgitator

1773 (MDCCLXXIII) was a relatively uneventful year in which things like The Public Advertiser published a satirical essay titled Rules By Which A Great Empire May Be Reduced To A Small One, written by Benjamin Franklin, among the most notable occurrences, unless you consider a bunch of people dressed as Mohawk Indians dumping all the British East India Company’s tea into the harbor a “happening”. Seriously though, they did that shit in December. Last time I was in Boston, it was about 90 degrees & I dumped some snapple into the harbor, later on I ended up at the Middle East where I saw the death of hip hop. Which brings me back to 1773 (Just J & Wisdm O.N.E.), who are doing their best to resurrect it… quite successfully I might add. This duo from the sleeper cell of ChicagOh have dropped a new mixtape called Mixed Signals. Listen & download it here. Good stuff.

Fingerbanger 1: 1773 – Make A Smile ( 1773 Remix feat. Bill Withers) (don lowed)

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Fingerbanger 4: Alex Seda & Phabulous Phunk – Brass Junkie (don lowed)

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Up Bustle & Out (soundsystem) continue to just make teh most amazing music. If I could follow bands on tour, this would be one of the top 3. This song is from the Mexican Sessions. Listen & buy more of their awesomeness at upbustleandout.co.uk

Fingerbanger 3: Up Bustle & Out – All Out King ( feat. Romanowskiy) (don lowed)

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Start the week with MillionYoung and end the week coming full circle.

Fingerbanger 2: MillionYoung – Day We Met ( Golden Ages Remix) (don lowed)

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Songs like this deserve days like today. Thank you Yousef Lateef.

Fingerbanger 5: Yusef Lateef – Spartacus (don lowed)

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I shall consider it a great success to float through my years even-keeled. To let life wash over me, around me and through me. To let it tousle my hair and tickle my feet. To surrender to its wake, but never let it drown me. – K. Johnson

Soulback: Aretha Franklin – Son Of A Preacher Man (don lowed)

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Soulback: Barbara & The Browns – To Know I Can’t Touch (don lowed)

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Two is better than one.

Dryhump Champion: Ark And Dolibox – Be My Baby (don lowed)

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Dryhump Champion: Le Le – Ich Clack Dich (Marco And Orpheo Remix) (don lowed)

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Vibrant vibrations today with one of Brazils most influential bands, Azymuth and their samba jazz-fusion funk from their 1975 debut album re-released a few years back (with remixed versions of most of the songs).

Tonic: Azymuth – Linha Do Horizonte (Kashmeer Brothers Remix) (don lowed)

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Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! rage! blow!
You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout
Till you have drench’d our steeples, drown’d the cocks!
You sulphurous and thought-executing fires,
Vaunt-couriers to oak-cleaving thunderbolts,
Singe my white head! And thou, all-shaking thunder,
Smite flat the thick rotundity o’ the world!
Crack nature’s moulds, and germens spill at once,
That make ingrateful man!

[ FOOL: O nuncle, court holy-water in a dry house is better than this
rain-water out o’ door. Good nuncle, in, and ask thy daughters’ blessing: here’s
a night pities neither wise man nor fool. ]

Rumble thy bellyful! Spit, fire! Spout, rain!
Nor rain, wind, thunder, fire, are my daughters:
I tax not you, you elements, with unkindness;
I never gave you kingdom, call’d you children,
You owe me no subscription: then let fall
Your horrible pleasure: here I stand, your slave,
A poor, infirm, weak, and despised old man:
But yet I call you servile ministers,
That have with two pernicious daughters join’d
Your high engender’d battles ‘gainst a head
So old and white as this. O! O! ’tis foul!

— William Shakespeare {from King Lear}

I’ve been reading about how the new Groove Armada album Black Light is all like “the dark side” and shit of GA, but really they are just the newest electro crossover. I’m a little dismayed in a sense, just for the contrarian part of me that thinks if everyone is on it, it’s time to get off. The other part of me has always loved both GA & electro, so this would be something I would think might be cool anyhow. Maybe I wasn’t overly impressed with everything, but this song is the Gary Numan spirit incarnate with a little stuffed MGMT crust.

Fingerbanger 1: Groove Armada – Warsaw (don lowed)

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With nothing better to do, I thought I’d run down how Gold Panda stacks up against Real Pandas on the 7 Deadly Sins:

Fingerbanger 2: Gold Panda – You (don lowed)

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Fingerbanger 3: Nujabes – Luv (sic) Pt.2 (don lowed)

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The female Emcee has had brief moments of come-uppance, but like all mens & womens sports, there just isn’t the same love. It’s not that they can’t compete, but that you can’t root against them without feeling like a shmuck. We’re ruthless humans, and we like to hate on the king when we’re not on top, and hate on the underdogs when we are the king, figuratively speaking. Even those (not as hot as everyone thinks) woman nascar drivers fuck up the game. No one cares who finishes first, nascar fans watch cars go in circles upon circles x 100 waiting for someone to fuck up. When a guy dies in his car, they get celebrated as having paid the ultimate price with shitty stickers on ugly pontiac cars. You just can’t root for a woman to crash in the same way… no one wants to see a woman catch a bad one (so to speak). But I digress. The problem is, once in a while there comes along a voice like Jean Grae that splits a headphone just right and has the most flawless delivery, but never seems to “get hers”.  From Natural Resource, to What?What? (with Herbaliser) to Jean Grae… she has always been ‘about’ to blow. I should have just made a whole post on this. oh well.

Fingerbanger 4: The Herbaliser – New + Improved (Feat. WhatWhat? aka Jean Grae) (don lowed)

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Was chillin to some Unwed Sailor the other day while driving through the spring rains that finally showed up.

Fingerbanger 5: Unwed Sailor – Aurora (don lowed)

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