PASSION PIT STRIKES AGAIN

never mind that this new track was done for an American Express ad campaign. Passion Pit is awesome and we love them.

All These Trees - Passion Pit

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moar mau5, yeah yeah

photo by rukes

yeah yeah yeah more deadmau5

limit break - deadmau5

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happy birthday jesus, now heres a new mix

no such mix!?

As i usually do when i fly across the country, i made a mix yesterday. I call it the No Such Mix because theres a good amount of Nosaj Thing-related tracks on there. Enjoy it, i think its one of my best. Any silences are not errors - they are there for effect, yo. If there any tracks you think i should post, let me know in the comments. let 'er rip!

Tracklist:
Islands (Nosaj Thing Remix) - The xx
BRKLN CLLN - Joy Orbison
Drop It Like Its Not (James Blake Harmonimix Remix) - Snoop Dogg
Voiced (Dorian Concept Remix) - Nosaj Thing
Archipelago - Teebs
Lovely Bloodflow (Nocando Remix) - Baths
Other Side (Nosaj Thing Remix) - Pollyn
Into The Sun, Out In The Cold - Shigeto
Caves (Teebs Remix) - Nosaj Thing

No Such Mix

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also, if you haven't checked out the shit below this, DO IT NOW.

HE'S BACK

"@ZEROHG7 | LIGHT SOURCE | LOVER | PHILOSOPHER | SOUND SHAMAN | BLAQBIRD | W.D.I.C. | N 0. V8 R | EVOLVER | HEALER | TRILL ASS RHYMER"

So proclaims the ressurrected tumblr of legendary Long Beach underground rapper and producer 0., who now appears to go by the name of Zeroh G7. It's relevant because he just released a new (FREE) tape, G7 University, and it does those descriptions justice.

GRAB IT HERE [TL;DR LINK]

Lacing beats by both well-established beat scene names (Flying Lotus, Teebs) and up-and-coming producers (Juj, KNX), Zeroh is absolutely on FIRE here...literally. Full of references to his favorite psychoactive herb, G7 University is Zeroh's most cosmic, intricate effort yet.

His work has expanded brilliantly with regard in detail and scope. These aren't just hip-hop instrumentals: here there be FlyLo jams. That means crazy experimental beat scene shit, and Zeroh rides these waves effortlessly, matching the often uneven beats with equally trippy vocal production techniques and deftly written, agile lyrics. The result is a novel, innovative synthesis of rap and beat, one that maintains a beautiful sense of aesthetic unity. In my opinion, this is the closest thing I've heard to a rap Cosmogramma, excepting its length.

But at the same time as it's big, it's also brilliantly focused: lyrically, Zeroh has always been brilliant. But here I perceive more purpose in his writing, more of a higher mission, if you will (pun semi-intended). He's acquired an eye, an ear, and a tongue for speaking about our generation, and although truly appreciating his wisdom takes some sifting through layers of wordplay, it's an enjoyable quest, high or sober, and the tape lends itself to repeated listens.

That is, however, my only caveat regarding this album: it's an extremely new sound. Spun of both cannabinoid and lyrical magic, it may lose you on the first listen, or even offend you. But keep at it. The dialect may be "intellectual-neo-hippie-with-soul," but the wisdom is universally human. Habituate yourself to the language and sounds, and the knowledge will shine through. This is a beautiful and inspiring work, currently on repeat in my iTunes. But I understand that it may not click with everybody, at least not immediately.

The future is at your fingertips...just click the link.

OH YES BITCHES.

want this man's earlier work? THIS LINK will aid you in your quest.

also, on a less profound but still badass note, wolfgang gartner has some new shit. go get it HERE.

Various Beats

here are just some various beats i've had in my collection that i haven't shared yet. Few comments cause i have to get to sleep...

SLNGBNGrs! - Blu (Prod. Dibiase) (excellent hip hop + beats with epic intro)

Africa (Original Mix) - The Goonies (awesome tech house with heavy, hollow bass... mmm)

Pregaming the Rapture (Juno Mix) - Groundislava

Wax Rose Saturday (Remux Edit) - Mux Mool

Into The Sun, Out Of The Cold - Shigeto (really awesome)

My Neck My Back (Shlohmo Remix) - Khia (el langosta gave me this... epic epic epic remix)

From Home (Mux Mool Remix) - Tycho

Alpenglow - TOKiMONSTA, Lunice and Swede:art (don't know who Swede:art is, but this is really great)

Admit Defeat - Daedelus (very interesting, from a newer EP)

NOT IN ZIP: Pretty Boy Swag (Shlohmo Remix) - Soulja Boy (the GREATEST remix off of Pop Massacre.. you need to listen to this, no matter who you are.)

Bonus Tracks (aka tracks that don't fit the theme even remotely)

Single Ladies (Beyonce Cover) - Mr. Little Jeans (i love this so much)

Rock On (Siriusmo Remix) - Adam Freeland (this is mostly for el langosta, i have to post some even better siriusmo stuff soon)

Beats dump, zipped

enjoy

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Joy Orbison - Joyous Orbit Sounds

its 7:49, and J.O. is NOT pleased with dis bitch in his bathroom.

Okay, i don't know where that post title came from. Mostly me being tired and attempting to be clever. Anyway, we have talked about this Joy Orbison guy before, but not enough. True name: Peter O'Grady. He apparently started DJing at 13, and started building tracks with Fruity Loops. Now what he produces is 'a mixture of dubstep, jungle, funky, garage, and house.' To me, this is tech-y house with epic bass, minimalistic but catchy loops, and very infectious beats. That said, there are clear influences from dubstep, funky and even beat music. I want to call it Bass House (but when will we actually need another genre?). Listen to these songs – you will be dancing before you even know why. Just be sure to bust out the good speakers because that low end... seriously, its low. All these tracks are SEX.

I Might Be (Joy Orbison Remix) - Todd Edwards (SEX)
Love Cry (Joy Orbison Remix) - Four Tet (SEX - it drops, it drops. you'll know)
Wet Look - Joy Orbison (SEX - sounds like Mux Mool behind a speedboat)
BRKLN CLLN - Joy Orbison (SEX - this has the greatest bassline evar that you won't be able to hear without good frequency response)
The Shrew Might Have Cushioned The Blow - Joy Orbison (SEX - The TITLE)
Hyph Mngo (Original Mix) - Joy Orbison

Orbison, Zipped

i like the bass, but i digress.
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GO GO GO GO GO GO GO GO GO AND GET THIS

Nocando raps over Baths' "Lovely Bloodflow." If it jars at first, listen again and let the mindfuck wash over you.

SERIOUSLY CLICK THIS LINK

cool post to follow this cosmic blessing.

lobster out.

Blogs We Like: |•| Altered Zones |•|

Altered Zones is a mega-blog of sorts. According to their about page, it acts as an international conglomerate of 15 different music sites/blogs/labels, with an emphasis on "the proliferation of home-recorded sounds, small-scale releases, and pockets of underground activity all over the world." Notable contributors (i.e. you may have heard of them) include:

~ Gorilla Vs. Bear ~

~ Yours Truly ~

~ International Tapes ~

~ Get Off The Coast ~

In short: vibes galore. Such an incredible spectrum of music. ((disclaimer:)) I'm recommending these guys with the caveat that I download only maybe 50% of what they post; much of it isn't all that accessible (to me, at least). However, there are really some wonderful gems on there, so here's some stuff to preview before you zip over and CHECK EM OUT...maybe bookmark them if you're looking for a new blog to read. They post TONS of stuff.

~\/~ SUM TRAXXX I GOT FROM THERE: ~\/~

Heart Attack Kid - Bass Drum of Death

Distorted garage rock from a band with the coolest name ever, Bass Drum of Death. Badass song with great vibes, kinda like a pissed off/indie-punk take on surf rock.

I'm Gonna Try - Shimmering Stars

More indie stuff, this time it's 50's pop drowned in reverb, with lyrics like "walking down the street/I wanna kill everyone I see." Love this song. Shimmering Stars ftw.

Wind Stone - Sumsun

Sumsun is a name I need to check out. He's on matthewdavid's Leaving Records label, and unsurprisingly the two seem to share a lot of similarities. But this track has a sort of funky, tropical brightness that distinguishes his sound. There's a lot of noise for your ears to sift through in this track, but if you're patient it's quite a rewarding listen...and once the beat comes in you should be sold. Really cool beat/experimental stuff.

So Clear - Yanqui

This is really neat. Radiohead-esque indie jam, but with with retro drum machines and synths. Great song, check out their free EP HERE.

Round & Round (Little Loud Remix) - Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti

Synthpop, kinda chillwavey but with a wicked 80's beat and a super happy/poppy vibe...wait, chillwave already has that...GOD DAMMIT, IT'S CHILLWAVE. BUT IT'S STILL GREAT. Blast this and dance with a smile on your face.

no zip cuz my internet sucks at home. but yay for finals being over!

lobster out!

Bossasaurus - Lacerta

Bossasaurus is a bay area experimental electronica meets trip-hop-and-beats group (read: this is epic shit). Although they have put out a lot of creative hip-hop remixes (the likes of Tribe Called Quest, Busta Rhymes, Wu-Tang Clan..), many on their 2009 mixtape STFUYMCA (Shove These Fossils Up Your Magnificent Creationist Ass), this is far from the limit of their creative repertoire. 


This clearly shows on their new EP Lacerta. I don't really know how to describe the sound of this album. It definitely fills some of the classifications for experimental electronica, dubstep, dance, beat music, and hip hop. The result is an extremely varied EP that is danceable and listenable. Beginning with a beautiful, multilayered and ethereal intro, Lacerta travels through multiple styles and feels, and ends with a dance anthem or two. Its definitely worth the ride.

The EP Lacerta is offered on Bossasaurus' bandcamp on a name-your-price basis, so you have NO EXCUSE not to check it out. At the very minimum, enjoy the fat bass in "Light Pollution" below. 

Bossasaurus - Light Pollution (from the Lacerta EP)


COP IT!
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Friends of Friends - Pop Massacre

The influential blog Friends of Friends has just released a compilation called Pop Massacre - essentially, they challenged some of the best names in the beat scene (Daedelus, Shlohmo, Dntel, GroundIsLava, Strangeloop, Asura, My Dry Wet Mess... the list goes on!) to remix a pop song. Shlohmo, for example, takes on Soulja Boy; Dntel, Lady GaGa. The result: SEX. 

MORE SEX: ITS FREE

GO GET IT

so excited
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Indie/Synthpop Batch

patkins is gonna jizz his pants over this one.

Just a miscellaneous little Indie batch, following an electronica/synthpop theme. Enjoy!


~ *~ * f a n c y * + * b o r d e r * ~ * ~

Nikki (I Am Not The-Dream) - GOBBLE GOBBLE

You may not have heard of him, but The-Dream is one of the most prolific Top 40/pop songwriters of the past five years (e.g. "Single Ladies," "Umbrella," "Touch My Body," "Baby"). He's also done some solo stuff, most of which tends towards the absurd (e.g. "Falsetto," in which he boasts that his sexual prowess causes an instantaneous upward pitch change in the voice of his beloved, and which features an electric guitar solo on the bridge). "Nikki" is one such solo effort, a bitter message to an ex-lover, here covered by one of my favorite artists, Canada's Gobble Gobble. While it's a tad odd at first to hear Cecil Frena trading his usual vivid, grotesque lyrics for "shawty, I been making love to Nikki," this jam still delivers a healthy dose of brilliant-but-off-kilter production, and for the umpteenth time proves Frena a mad scientist, but one reanimating dead pop music instead of corpses.

Faces I Can See - Oh Fortuna

Another oddball indie take on standard pop music. Here it's more chillwave-does-Top-40-Hip-Hop, saturating a familiar-sounding (i.e. you've definitely heard it before) beat in reverb, synth washes, and ethereal vocals. Oh Fortuna ftw! [[I got this (as well as the next 3 tracks) from a really cool //free// compilation arranged by none other than Gobble Gobble, in honor of the artists they toured with this year. You can grab that HERE.]]

Lemonade - Braids

Glasser comparisons may be made, but Braids comes across as a little less tender than my co-blogger's recent muse, at least in this track. Awesome Indie/Synthpop track. Really cool production, and epic vocals. (Braids is also about to support Baths and Star Slinger on probably one of the coolest fucking tours to grace the surface of the earth, so check the dates here and get on that shit!)

The Breathing Fire - Candy Claws

An otherworldly, gorgeous intro of colorful synths paves the way for a hushed lullaby punctuated by magical synth strings being plucked underwater...all with a distinctly classical feel (and real strings at one point!). It's kinda like the intro to The Shins' "Sleeping Lessons," reimagined by a very shy baroque-pop group (how's that for an analogy?). This is a standout track from the mixtape, I can safely say I have never heard anything like it before in my life. Really cool production and composition going on here, even if it's not the catchiest tune ever. Check out Candy Claws, I know I'm going to.

Poster Boy - Old Arc

This one's a fucking jam. Glitchy as fuck, but with a wicked bassline and a hard-hitting beat; it's like SebastiAn + 80's bass synths + soul...Old Arc is another name I will be looking further into.

Wherever We Are - Human Life

Love these guys. Found em' on Apes With Barrels, who have great taste in electro-pop artists as well as their more rave-oriented counterparts. Funky, catchy well-produced; and that fucking lead after the chorus gets stuck in my head every time I hear it. Hooray for Human Life!

Enjoy, children!

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Lobster out.

(((BONUS))) [[zip only!]]: Crawl Back In (Baths Remix) - Brad Laner
Oh yeah. You know you want it now. Because everybody loves Baths.

New TEED song and Video!

in case you haven't gotten your *electro house* dancehall fix for today.


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NPR and Ghostly International

As part of NPR's 'First Listen' series, they have posted stream links for every track on Ghostly International's new compilation "We'll Never Stop Living This Way." You should check it out - its a great overview of the label's talent, from indie pop to ambient beatmaking. To lure you, there are tracks from Mux Mool, Shigeto, Tycho, Gold Panda and Cepia, plus much more. Great stuff!

http://www.npr.org/2010/12/05/131767799/first-listen-ghostly-international-we-ll-never-stop-living-this-way?ft=1&f=1039

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untitled

from npr.org:

"Hip-hop is alive and well, and Flying Lotus is a big reason why. Of all of the records I heard in 2010, none took as many chances, or broke as many conventions, asCosmogramma. Listen to "Do the Astral Plane": Driven by a looping bass riff, the piece uses samples to not only add texture to the beat, but also provide focal points for the listener. Throughout Cosmogramma, Flying Lotus stretches the palette from which most beat makers work, fitting jazz and dub-step into unconventional nooks and crannies. By leading with synths, saxes, harps and strings, he's moving focus from the MC to the beat maker. Hip-hop is moving in many directions, but it's safe say that Cosmogramma offers a glimpse into the genre's future by championing a sound that celebrates its founder, the DJ." (Sami Yenigun)

yeeea.


Bonus:
Hootenanny - Cepia
More from the newest addition to Ghostly International Records. 


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3x gbl gbl + beats + awesome bonus

STOP. NO. CALM DOWN. this is NOT turning into a hipster photo blog. its still a music blog run by two dudes with awkward sensibilities. i just couldn't find anything to put up to catch your eye so i gave you a pic of mine. anyway, heres some stuff fo choo. the three gobble gobble tracks are all different.. just goes to show that they do all sorts of stuff. (if you haven't figured that out yet.. well.. you haven't been paying much attention to them)

Boring Horror - Gobble Gobble (fave)

At Night, The Sun Comes Out (Gobble Gobble Remix) - Coma Cinema (of montreal-y?)

Hey, in place of a third track, how about their entire discography? (yeah, that's right. they put it online, for free, by choice. they're that awesome. go check it out) -El Langosta

Horizontal Figuration (Tokimonsta Remix) - Take

Rabbits - Betas (note that 'betas' is an anagram of 'beats'....lol. i like it though)

Garden (Jesse Ross Remix) - TEED (a teed remix? hmmm. interesting)

BONUS
SLEEPING LESSONS (RAC REMIX) - THE SHINS

this is what precipitated this post.. this is really cool. preserves the original feel of the song while brightening it up a bit. Remix Artist Collective is something you should really check out if you enjoy indie music, electronica, and/or indie electronica. which should be all of you. (langosta, they have bloc party and kele remixes too..)

enjoy the end of your november

///patkins///

11/24/10 Wavelength of the Moment: NEW L.E.T. PODCAST!!!

On yet another Low End Theory-related note, their monthly podcast is up!! Featuring mixes by L.E.T. resident DJ Nobody (my favorite of that crew, whose production work with Bomb Zombies you can check out HERE), and the up-and-coming wunderkind producer/MC jonwayne. This is one of those "no excuses" posts. Especially if you want a crash-course in what the L.A. beat scene is all about.

Or if you're just feeling particularly dark, heavy, and otherworldly today. :D

+ + + + +
[[right-click//save-as]]
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~ !! ~ FOR THE LOVE OF BASS, CLICK THIS LINK ~ !! ~

+ + +
[[or just click it if you prefer to stream it]]
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Also, to my exuberant joy, I get to actually go to Low End tonight, since I'm back home for break. Patkins is burning with jealousy. Review to follow (because two posts tagged "Low End Theory" in a row is not nearly enough)

Lobster out.

BOMB ZOMBIES. BOMB ZOMBIES. BOMB ZOMBIES.

Music AND titties?! It's a good day for America, ladies and gentlemen.

Oh yes oh yes oh yes. If this post doesn't convince you to shell out a tenner, then I've failed to do my job....also it means you don't trust me. Which hopefully you should, seeing as we've been together for well over six months now...I THOUGHT WE HAD SOMETHING SPECIAL, INTERNET!! *sobs*

...ahem.

We posted this track a while back. It's pretty fucking awesome. Listen to it while you read our review.
Bomb Zombies "FWUH (Fuckwhatchaheard)" by Hellfyre Club

For y'all who don't know, Bomb Zombies is undeniably the best collab since Lennon/McCartney. Low End Theory residents DJ Nobody + MC Nocando = Bomb Zombies (though Nobody raps on a couple tracks too). Best name ever (and the music lives up to it). Their debut, Sincerely Yours, just came out this week on Nocando's label Hellfyre Club, and it is freaking awesome.

Just as with our loves 0. and Jonwayne, the best and most appropriately pretentious way to describe Bomb Zombies would be "the future of rap." That means screwed-up beats pulled directly from Low-End-Theory-land and brilliant, innovative lyricism to go along with it. But Nobody and Nocando manage to bring something else: the fucking party.

This isn't just what happens when a great rapper laces beat-scene instrumentals. Nocando comes off as more playful here than on his debut, Jimmy The Lock, forgoing brilliantly-penned angst, threats, and rants for proclamations that "young, dumb and reckless is the modus operandi" and homages to chicks with bangs (no joke. bonus track is called "Bangs"). And this is hardly just a Nocando solo show: Nobody throws down on a couple of verses, letting loose such absurdly brilliant gems as "who's your daddy girl?/is he the shit like me?/I didn't think so, girl" and "she got bangs, bangs, she got bangs, bangs/rock her hair in her face like it ain't no thang" (the hook from aforementioned bonus track).

Nobody's production also seems to take itself a little less seriously without sacrificing quality. There are a lot of mainstream elements here that you'd expect to hear from KIIS FM, not Low End Theory: cheesy pitch-shifted hooks, kitschy drum sounds, and auto-tune up the wazoo. But he takes all these things that we usually groan to hear and twists them all in just the right way to make something really new-sounding and hard-hitting: yes, you've heard that drum sound or synth before, but here there's something deliciously off-kilter about the way he's strung the song together, and no song is left without a neck-breaking beat; yes, he turns the auto-tune knob to 11 on most of the hooks (and a good deal of Nocando's verses), but here it's a stylistic choice: it's like mad-scientist-does-Top-40.

And I'm not just pulling these analyses out of my ass. The two were listening to a lot of Drake and Lil Wayne while on a tour of Japan, when Nocando uttered the prophetic words, "We should do a whole project where we try to do these kind of songs." (from this interview)

And that's what I love most about this record: it's innovative and aesthetically pleasing, but it's undeniably a take on mainstream rap. It manages to simultaneously deliver heavy bass, crisp beats, sick raps, and pure unadulterated swag. You get your pop hip-hop fix without the unsavory aftertaste of crap lyrics and mainstream production. These are two fantastic artists getting together and just playing. And the result? A great album full of funky, catchy jams. So stop reading this and get out your credit card/debit card/paypal password.

~

ITUNES ($9.99, m4a, you probably already have an account)

BOOMKAT ($11.00, mp3, you might not already have an account)

~

I'll provide some teasers to sway you all over, but no downloading cuz the point of all this is to get you to buy the album. Yes, it's unauthorized, but if it convinces you to pay up, then I've done my job.

Payola - Bomb Zombies

Sick shit. Fits in nicely with the Top 40 radio theme I was playing around with.

Get 'Em - Bomb Zombies

This is them doing a sexy club banger. And while the hook definitely sounds like it came straight out of commercial rap ("get em high/get em low"), the verses aren't just a bunch of simplistic tripe about how "shawty got a body like oh-oh-ohhhh." No, instead we get Nocando lacing words together like no other, which (aside from managing to be actually sexy) actually redeems the relatively inane hook.

Bangs (Bonus Track) - Bomb Zombies

Yeah. I had to. So great.

You get the idea. Buy this album, you will NOT regret it. And if you choose not to/are morally against buying music for some reason, then you can probably find it on mediafire somewhere. The primary point here is that you should get this album.

Lobster out.

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ITUNES

BOOMKAT

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11/18/10 Wavelength of the Moment: GOBBLEDAZE

Gobble Gobble remixes Teen Daze! And vice-versa! This is a good day for any fan of these producers, as they've released a split EP with two original songs and each others' remixes thereof. It's pretty fucking awesome. So get it.

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[[ Read about it on Gobble Gobble's Tumblr. ]]
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[[ Then grab the EP for free here. ]]
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Tha traxx:

Shine On You Crazy White Cap (Gobble Gobble's Dive off the Beach Pier into a Lake of Clotted Blood) - Teen Daze

Hits much harder than the original, thanks to Cecil Frena's typically glitchy, distorted pop production, which complements the dreamy synths of the original quite nicely. To quote the man himself, "this remix is a bit evil. To borrow a term coined by Shaun Durkan of Weekend + Grem, one might even call it… chillgrave."

Lawn Knives (Teen Daze Remix) - Gobble Gobble

Same concept, in reverse. He takes the glitch-pop original and chillwaves it up with a smooth beat and the grand synth washes he's known for. Great track as well, though this one is probably more accessible than the other. I would guess this is because "Lawn Knives" is a better stand-alone pop song than "Shine On;" Teen Daze may bring the vibes in spades, but I've always enjoyed Frena's writing more, the man knows pop music. But that shouldn't discourage you from getting all this!

Download the EP to grab these tracks! [[ CLICK THIS SHIT ]]

Also, accept the goat above as your god.

Lobster out.

The Masters At Work

Stray Light (Bastille Remix) - Night Eyes - Free Download by Bastille

Oh yes. The Electro House Pirate Barons of Apes With Barrels, also known as Bastille, have made what I deem to be their best track to date. The intro is pretty simple, but the buildups are freaking cool and the DROPS (both of them)...my god, the drops. They masterfully combine the detuned high synth blips of their beloved Techno and Tech House with a dirty, dubstep-worthy bassline and a smashing Electro House beat. Really detailed, hard-hitting, and a fucking jam.

Hit their Soundcloud for moar freee trax.

Lobster Out. (for now...many posts in waiting to outdo Patkins)

This Is What Happens When Patkins Out-Does Himself

Well, I'm sure that my co-crustacean's recent tsunami of posts has kept you all very busy for the past couple days. The man had a lot of music to share, and BOY did he share it. But, given the outcome of the latest midterm election, I think it's about time for a change in leadership. So here's my first new contribution. Think of it as me overturning Obamacare, or something along those lines.

I made this mix during a campus-wide lockdown due to a murderer being on the loose nearby. Only way that relates at all to the actual content of the mix is the pun with the first track. Otherwise, it's a good-sized mix, half beat stuff, half electro house with a prog bent. I like it. Let's hope you do too.

The "Campus-Wide Lockdown" Mix - DJmus ∆

1) Love Lockdown (Flying Lotus Remix) - Kanye West
2) After The Rain (Floating Points Remix) - Little Dragon
3) Quartz For Amber - Take
4) And We Gonna (Samiyam's Chopsticks Remix) - Shigeto
5) Maximalist - Baths
6) Talamak - Toro y Moi
7) Silent Alarm - Dntel
8) Flares - Dntel
9) Need To Feel Loved (Adam K & Soha Remix) - Reflect ft. Deline Bass
10) Move For Me (Extended Mix) - Kaskade & Deadmau5
11) Sasha Don't Sleep (Pance Party Remix) - The Dance Party
12) Seek Bromance (Porter Robinson Remix) - Tim Berg
13) Sofi Needs A Ladder (Original Mix) - Deadmau5
14) [Secret Track That Will Really Piss Patkins Off The Moment He Hears It]

amazing

Secret Garden Video Series: The Tallest Man on Earth from hoovesontheturf (sarahana) on Vimeo.

Autumnal Harvest Post

So I'm getting a little tired of taking in so much music and not being able to get it out fast enough. Because of this I have decided to write a MASSIVE post with tons of stuff in it so i can stay away for a while. There are three categories: Indie, Beats, and Mixes. Look for folders at the end of each section to download everything.


INDIE
Postcards From Italy (Beirut Cover) - Florence and the Machine
Self explanatory. I love florence.

Like The Wheel - Tallest Man On Earth
King Of Spain - Tallest Man On Earth
This guy has literally become one of my favorite artists of all time. These songs have so much soul, so much spirit, so much beauty...

The Blues Run The Game (Jackson C. Frank Cover) - Laura Marling
Another great folk song.. Laura Marling rules.

Cold House - Teen Daze
Chillwave meets the beat scene - lovely, delicate arpeggiated synths and atmosphere. perfect homework music...

Minequest Try 03 - Deadmau5
This is a lot like the above, except its Deadmau5. Essentially a re-edit of Everything You Are, i wish this could go on forever...

Scandal At The Parkade - Owen Pallett
Classic Owen Pallett.. sounds like a string quartet sensibilities meet indie lyrics and vox. So good.

Travel Broadens the Mind - Deerhoof
Very interesting Deerhoof. Based on Congolese street music, this song reminds me of some of the beat music we post - complicated rhythm meets deerhoof's bass heavy/high lyrics sound. loovveeeee

Down By The Water - The Decemberists 
This is going to come out on the Decemberists' forthcoming album in January.. they have this out for free for the price of my email. Enjoy. 

Good Night - Ellul
I don't know anything about this because i found it in a mixtape. However, this is like Owen Pallett + Shitgeto + Teen Daze + awesome. Worth the listen.

South Carolina - Tennis 
Okay, i DO know about these guys. Tennis is a husband-wife duo-turned-trio from colorado. They produce really warm, happy, vintage pop-inspired songs that make you just want to dance around with someone you love. Here is a collection of a few of their songs: Tennis.zip
Their album, Cape Dory, comes out January 18.

Gold Panda - Parents
For El Langosta, because he likes Gold Panda.


INDIE FOLDER

BEATS
Mmmm. Beats. This is a mostly Flying Lotus-centered post, but there are some others in here too.

KeepItGoing (feat UGod) - Blu
Flying Lotus produced this track, and it shows. Again, beat producers getting back to their rap track roots... mmm.

Do The Astral Plane (Them Jeans House Remix) - Flying Lotus
THIS IS AWESOME! very well crafted!

Swimming - Mike Bigga
This is another FlyLo produced rap song.. but, do you know that track from anywhere? OH YEAH, THATS CAMERA DAY FROM Pattern + Grid World. What a concept!

Rip - Dorian Concept
..speaking of concepts, here is an awesome tease that got ripped off of dorian concept's myspace. smack in the face, those synths are.
Love Lockdown (Flying Lotus Remix) - Kanye West
Old Flying Lotus. Beat + Autotune + reverb = awesome

PieFace (My Dry Wet Mess Remix) - Flying Lotus
Notable and interesting.

HARVEST BEATS FOLDER

MIXES
Mixes? WHAT? Well, theres one of mine and one that belongs to the Second Coming of Christ. yes, wolfgang gartner.


Wolfgang Gartner Essential Mix at Salacious Sound

Concentration Mix - DJmus* (dedicated to our friend Mariel)
This is supposed to be something you can play in the background while you are working on something important... mostly beats but also some various indie selections.

Track List:

Weird Fishes/Arpeggi - Radiohead
Everything In Its Right Place - Radiohead
Mouthwash - Kate Nash
Moon Hits the Mirrorball - Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs
In Heat (Javelin Remix) - Health
Comeandgetme - Steveandi
Mirrorage - Glsr
Gravel - Juj
Tokyo to LA Steez - Hashim B. 
Nemo - Gobble Gobble
Light #1 (Take Remix) - Nosaj Thing
7am (Devonwho Remix) - Shlohmo
Trilingual Dance Sexperience - Dorian Concept
Adrift (Shigeto's Adrift Adream Remix) - Tycho
And We Gonna (Samiyam Chopsticks Remix) - Shigeto
Bestdream - Etherea
Wayward (Gobble Gobble Remix) - The Joe
Sounds of Symmetry - Dntel

....and thats about all the cool stuff i have at the moment. Hopefully i will be able to leave you with this for a while and let El Langosta put something up. But for now, i hope you enjoy all this stuff!

w/love

///patkins///

also, this....

... is just too amazing for you not to have. we usually don't do mashups.. but this one.. is really something.

ups to Chubby Beavers for posting this.

Intro (Tuna Mashup) - The xx vs. DMX vs. Sander van Doorn

Los Angeles, St. Paul, London. Beats. CC's 100th Post

If you pay much attention, you can feel the beat [scene exploding]. Here is a new Shlohmo track, plus some stuff from up and coming acts/people you probably didn't know about... enjoy! I know El Langosta will.

Fax Shadow (Shlohmo Remix) - Toro y Moi

Feels like you are in a cave, dripping with water, with an indie band at the very back of it playing. One of CC's favorite indie bands, I might add. Ethereal processing and shlohmo's characteristic staccato synth lines... awesome.

Tokyo To LA Steez - Hashim B. 

I don't know anything about this guy (mostly because i failed to do any research), but this is really cool. Awesome percussion and groove, with 'motivational' samples throughout... really cool. I play this a lot.

The Undeniable Bend - Cepia

This guy is signed to Ghostly International Records (Gold Panda, Shigeto, Mux Mool).. so you know he keeps good company. He is relatively unknown (a recent addition to the label), but his Shigeto/Mike Slott-like atmospherics sound pretty nice.

Lumberjack - Dibiase

Another up-and comer.. Dibiase is from LA as well (El Langosta posted video of him spinning with Zeroh a few posts back). This track is very rap track-y.. in fact, i think he may have even played it in that set i parenthetically mentioned. Anyway, worth checking out.

Hemlock Clips - Fantastic Mr. Fox

This guy is from London. He's awesome. Besides the fact that anything with the word 'fox' in its title makes me happy, Fantastic Mr. Fox makes more forward things (think Flying Lotus' Do The Astral Plane more than, say, Matthewdavid or Shigeto). Anyway, i think this is a bunch of clips off of one of his singles.. i really can't find much from him. It's all buried in shit related to some stupid movie... 

Everything collected in a folder: Beats + Hobbits

love,

///patkins///

BONUS:

Concerning Hobbits - 8 Bit Mix

Further proof that 8 Bit lives, and that so does Lord of the Rings. lol.

also:

100th POST

an epic load of good dubstep

wobble. mmmm.

Dubstep definitely isn't something that is posted often on this blog, but thats mostly because a lot of dubstep really isn't any good. Anyway, I have found a lot of epic stuff recently that is worth sharing, with some extra goodies as well. Pick it all up here: Dubstep + Goodies

U Don't Like Me (Prod. By Diplo) - Lil' Jon

This is dubstep. This is rap. This is angry as fuck. This is epic as fuck. Download this and blast this. 

Gimme Shelter (Zeds Dead Remix) - The Rolling Stones

Exactly what it sounds like. Confuse everyone you know.

Hello (Trumpdisco Remix) - AC Slater

Although Trumpdisco themselves deny that this is dubstep, this is awesome dubstep. The original is good too, but this just kicks asssssssssssssssssssssssssss. If you downloaded the minimix i made for Langosta, then you would have heard this.

Blue Skies (Flux Pavilion) - Jamiroquai

This is Flux Pavilion. He makes amazing dubstep. He uses crazy arpeggiated synths and heavy bass. This is what dubstep should be. If i can hear something like this played on speakers the size of my body, i can die happy.

Animale (Datsik Remix) - Don Diablo Ft. Dragonette

This is perhaps the best track of this entire post. Datsik kills it almost every time, and I love Dragonette's voice.. (she was on a Martin Solveig track that i posted here as part of my mix). This is just so well crafted. God i love...

Mykonos (Barbaric Merits Remix) - Fleet Foxes

Yes, fleet foxes dubstep. No, its not bad, either.

Bonuses (aka not dubstep):

Super Sharp Shooter (JB Remix) - DJ Zinc

Further proof that Fidget House isn't dead. Awesome. The bass might be mixed a bit too heavy, but still. you can't not dance to this.

Flan - Hog

Awesome Tech house... excessively catchy bassline and about as indie a dude as it gets (he's living in berlin to work on music and a moustache.. and quotes thoreau).

Dubstep + Goodies (collected in a folder)

love,

///patkins///

this may or may not be worth your time

love,
///patkins///

When Planets Explode Ladders

I posted a couple Dorian Concept tracks a while ago. Yeah. That was before I listened to THIS entire EP. THIS IS FUCKING AWESOME SHIT. THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN PLANETS EXPLODE, I GUESS. Dorian Concept is a young beatmaker from Austria... and i love him. His sensibilities extend deep into his music and he makes prrretttty complicated stuff. Take the first track for example, Clap Beep Boom - he fucks with time but keeps the 16th note constant... first switching from sixteenths to triplets to pentuplets to sextuplets... but that one pulse stays the same. The rest of the ep continues this very clever use of Dorian's musical resources. Give this a good good listen. (Check the image for a link).


ALSO: THIS FINALLY DROPPED, after much much anticipation. Love this track to death.
Sofi Needs A Ladder (Original Mix) - Deadmau5


Expect more soon
///PaTkInS///

11/7/10 Wavelength of the Moment: GOBBLE GOBBLE BEATS

Hip-Hop keys get chopped and screwed to high heaven, drums stutter and skip frantically, and Canadian rapper The Joe drops some serious knowledge, all over a thick, buttery bassline. God dammit Cecil Frena. Save some of the awesome for us, why don't ya?



Gobble Gobble killin some beat music. And of course, why shouldn't they? They do share a label (Heart Music Group) with beatsmiths Baths and Star Slinger, after all. So you can understand why it warms the cockles of my heart to hear on their blog that they "want to do more of this kind of thing." What a brilliant time to be alive and musical.

Click that "Download" link on the player to zip over to The Joe's bandcamp and grab this baby for free. You do have to give them your email address, but bandcamp doesn't give it to spammers or dislists in my experience.

~Logos~

"In the beginning there was the Word,



And the Word was with God,



And the Word was God."

-John 1:1

Word.

Dibiase on the decks while Jonwayne and 0. bless the mic. Wish I'd been in L.A. for this, but still. The point of this post is: beat music might be in the spotlight, but the future of rap is waiting in the wings...and I love it.

Batch of the Absurd

Yeah, this was one of those "god I love these fucking songs...how can I get them all on the blog without cluttering up the main page with a ton of insignificant little posts?" sort of things. So here you go. dadadadadadadadadadadadadada

Light #1 (Take Remix) - Nosaj Thing

This is like if Jupiter remixed Saturn (i.e. it's of planetary proportions). We here at Crustacean Cognition love both of these men very much, being the two giants of the L.A. beat scene that they are, and this track lives up to my expectations. Incredible drum work by Take, as usual...but the synths, the chopping of Nosaj Thing's original elements, and everything else is just as fantastic.

Clockwork (Valerna Remix) - Juelz Santana

Valerna kicks ass. Electro at its finest, such an awesome bass.

Sasha Don't Sleep (Pance Party Remix) - The Dance Party

Takes elements of progressive house (i.e. chords) and electro house (i.e. bass) and fuses them seamlessly into THIS fucking track. Makes me want more Pance Party.

Hardtack (Original Mix) - Pance Party & Valerna

A collab?! Seriously?! FUCK YEAH!! This kills so hard.

Sparc (Original Mix) - ThreeSixty, Jay Ferro

That's right. Mother. Fucking. Techno. No, not "techno" as in "generic term for dance music." Real techno. The cold, ominous, minimal sort of techno with all the weird noises. The kind of techno that people call "too repetetive." Except it's really not, if you give it a chance and listen close enough. Grabbed these last four tracks from Apes With Barrels, who aside from being the foremost authority on hardcore electro bangers, also loooove their techno.

Hole in the Floor of the Plane - The Sparrows

And because this wouldn't be an absurd batch without at least one "WTF" track...this one's a jam by an indie/bluegrass band called The Sparrows. And it's banjo-centric. This is normally Peter's domain, I know, but my friend Marty showed me these guys recently and they're great.

"Sounds of Symmetry" Proton Drive Theme Song - Dntel

Beautiful work from mister Tamborello, as usual, done as a promo for dublab's ongoing fundraiser. If you read this blog and have money (fat chance), you should head over and donate, they do beautiful work over there. But in any case grab this tune. So good.

'@˚ ~ AbSuRd Z¡P ~ .>#™

We hope you enjoy the divers tunes.

Beware the night poodles.

Lobster out.

~ ~ ~

BONUS [zip only]: grab the whole batch and we'll throw in a little minimix that patkins made to help me through a nightmare week. Sure, the support mix I made for him was a real mix, not a 5-minute one, and it had real dance music, not dubstep, but the thought was nice. Just kidding, it's boss. TURN YO SPEAKERS UP