Bit of a hiatus for the daft dodgers in the area; when we get back it’ll be better, never needed a shell before the warm weather. Two of the most entertaining Emcees, strictly because intelligence isn’t a spelling bee, but where the words should be, thats where the ideas are. Punch & Words. Oh… and lyricist lounge. Whatever happened to the Emceeeee?

Tonic: Punchline And Wordsworth – Da Cipher (don lowed)

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Put a scrambler or a hard tail in that picture and I’d be down for a death deed.

In my head these two songs go together like bangers and mash, and one makes me think of the other as I recall riding with my dad in a 67 Buick Skylark, skin stuck to the vinyl bench seat with no AC, in the exhaust filled stifling dead heat of summer, down to the docks to go boating. It’s not the memory, but the feeling that brings these songs together. Nothing is ever perfect, but there is something good about that too, if you choose to find it.  Besides, by the time you get to perfect, it’s done gone and changed when you weren’t looking.

Throwback: Jimmy Soul – If You Wanna Be Happy (Never Make A Pretty Woman Your Wife) (don lowed)

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Throwback: Mungo Jerry – In The Summertime (don lowed)

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Ooohh Baby I like it Raaawwww… with a little dubstep slap in the face. Rough.

Dryhump: DJ Donna Summer – Raw ( Hostage Remix ) (don lowed)

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Can’t get away. Citadels.

Makeout: Citadels – The Chemical Song (don lowed)

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Its been so long since I’ve thrown out some Reats & Bhymes you probably forgot I know anything about serving up a meal. Aint True tho. No, not vain, just wanting to share a good thing. I think it pisses God off when you walk by the colour purple in a field and don’t notice it.

No lie. When I was younger, one of the first TV shows I remember really liking was Get A Life. I think it just happened to be on at the time when I started to turn from “I’m a kid and I like everyone and everything” to ” now I have an opinion about shit”. Fast forward… Prince Paul & the Automator drop Handsome Boy Modeling School like someone got in my head and shook it out. Being a kid is great. Being juvenile is even better.

Fingerbanger 1: Handsome Boy Modeling School – Once Again (don lowed)

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shhh….it this was some goods that didn’t last. Canada was kinda hittin back then.

Fingerbanger 2: Da Grassroots – Eternal (Feat. K-OS & Thrust) (don lowed)

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Fingerbanger 3: Various Blends – Levitude (don lowed)

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I think Ack always wanted this song… so here it is.

Fingerbanger 4: V.O.B. – City Lights (don lowed)

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Cyclops 4000

Fingerbanger 5: Sir Menelik – Physical Jewels (don lowed)

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My favorite thing this week. yup.

Whenever a new genre of music comes along, those that like it are convinced its going to take over the world. I remember as a kid thinking that everyone would like electro, freestyle, & Miami Bass more than Wilson Philips, if only they could hear it. And shortly after memorizing the lyrics to the Rappin’ Duke ( I still say, “What I do on your grave won’t pass for flowers either” under my breath), believing similarly that hip hop (or rap, whatever) was going to be every song on the radio. And at times, those predictions almost seem to come true. Not for electro really, but when Biz Markie hit top 40 with Just a Friend, I’m pretty sure I called the radio station and requested it 1,000 times in a row, approximately 5 minutes after they just played it. It was proof that rap was legitimate music, and I knew it. A few years later it was all MC Hammer & Vanilla Ice, and that was about the time I stopped listening to the radio at all. I just couldn’t understand why Young MC wasn’t what people wanted to listen to… I mean… hadn’t they heard the cassette? It was fucking ILL! Well, before my time, was someone elses time, and Jazz was the music that (according to Jazz heads) was going to take over the world. And yes, they had their moment of proof too… and it was Brubecks Take Five. It’s easy to hear why this song catapulted Time Out to #2 on the pop charts and became the first jazz album to sell 1 million copies. In my world, rap would go on to climb the pop charts over the years, eventually becoming a form of ignorant pop that I wouldn’t scrub my toilet with, but seems to spread std’s right out the speakers at your local campus meat market. However, jazz never really recovered from 1959, as Kind of Blue fell into Davis being beaten of loitering, and heroin turned Harlem into the Harlem that you’re picturing in your head from the late 70’s. C’ est La Vie.

Throwback: Dave Brubeck Quartet – Take Five (don lowed)

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Another song that resonated with the masses, and is also enjoyed by me at often intervals.

Throwback: Herb Alpert The Tijuana Brass – A Taste Of Honey (don lowed)

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I can’t get that cossack P.tone to shut up these days. On the otherhand, songs about hammocks should be a genre. I mean, swings got a genre, rocking chairs got a genre, even the sound of creepy old guidos making out with teeneagers got a genre; donk that is. Hamaca should definitely be a genre, and it’s aural feature should be the sound of me in one of these.

Dryhump: Kike Serrano – La Hamaca ( Electro Mix ) (don lowed)

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What about little microphones? What if everyone swallowed them, and they played the sounds of our hearts through little speakers, which could be in the pouches of our overalls? When you skateboarded down the street at night you could hear everyone’s heartbeat, and they could hear yours, sort of like sonar. One weird thing is, I wonder if everyone’s hearts would start to beat at the same time, like how women who live together have their menstrual periods at the same time, which I know about, but don’t really want to know about. That would be so weird, except that the place in the hospital where babies are born would sound like a crystal chandelier in a houseboat, because the babies wouldn’t have had time to match up their heartbeats yet. And at the finish line at the end of the New York City Marathon it would sound like war.
— Jonathan Safran Foer

Tonic: Iron & Wine – Freedom Hangs Like Heaven (don lowed)

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I had a different song in my head this morning, but found this one instead.  Don’t worry about the little guy… he makes it across the road.

Makeout: Tortoise – Tin Cans & Twine (don lowed)

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You might be wondering why we’re black and white. I don’t really know either. Things change, and sometimes they change back, nothing is guaranteed. As my psych teacher once taught me,  There are absolutely no absolutes, and… There is always an exception to the rule. He also taught me that if you want to change something, you have to change it from the inside.

Here is an absolute, and a guarantee. This song is Rad. Like more than the raddest of awesome rads. Level 1000++ infinity+1. Not only that, but it’s a 7″… limited and such, so do what you know you should and buy this HERE.

Fingerbanger 1: Hawa – DANCE (don lowed)

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Fingerbanger 2: DTA & Magic Disco Machine – Make The People Sway (don lowed)

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Erlend is well known to have one of the smoothest voices in history, and since I”ve been sniffing the Phonique, it’s hard to kick the habit, and the combination is slightly more addicting.

Fingerbanger 3: Erlend Oye – The Black Keys Work (PhoniqueRemix) (don lowed)

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I hate to be so cliche, but spring is certainly in the air. And fuller sounds always seem better when the sky is getting lighter and the pressure releases us back into the back yards. Unless you’re a southern hemispherian. Tough luck listening to good music? It’s always good when TROY is in the air.

Fingerbanger 4: J Rawls & The Liquid Crystal Project – Tribute to TROY ( Turntable Jazz 7 Inch Edit) (don lowed)

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Long time listener, first time caller here. Always love this track. Always.

Fingerbanger 5: Hugh Masekela – Grazing In The Grass (don lowed)

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