Coco Black (who we chatted w/ here) has relaunched her website and it’s marvelous. Seriously – her eye never ceases to amaze, and her perspective is truly admirable. You’d do well to head over, put on some tunes and sift…for a while.
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Blank Point feat. Del Patio – “Watagatapitusberry” (Toy Selectah’s MexMore Remix)
The latter is a remix of the song in this video which is amazing and I’m absurdly late on but felt a little better and less old when a younger associate had no idea what it was when I asked so word. Both snatched from fader.
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Some visuals have emerged for “Me And The Devil” , the beautifully morose track by Gil Scott-Heron that we posted not too long ago, and they’re rather stunning. Kudos to Coodie & Chike as well as Michael Sterling Eaton on the job they did on this one. Look for Gil’s new album on XL 2/22.
Also just learned that this is a cover of “Me And The Devil Blues”, originally sung by blues legend Robert Johnson circa the late 1930’s. Johnson’s biography is interesting to say the least, and he’s cited to be the source of inspiration for Muddy Waters, Eric Clapton, The Rolling Stones and host of others. Catch the OG version accompanied by some artwork by an unnamed author after the jump.
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If you ask me, 20min is the perfect mix length. It’s nice to have epic mixes every once in a while, but just on the regular day to day, 20min is just enough to not send ADD infected synapses into a paniced frenzy. Mind you, this shouldn’t happen considering mixes by definition already mix different tracks and should already be doing plenty to hold your attention but hey…blame America for my attention span.
Anyway, this one from astreet homie Sonora is dope and in just a few tracks explores several chambers of styles thunn dunn. Heard “Kamhopo” by The Very Best and a joint that uses Totó La Momposina’s “Curura” (the same sample that Timbaland flipped for “Indian Flute” some years back). Grab the art/tracklist here and check out more from Sonora on soundcloud.
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Thunderheist’s self-titled lp was one of our favorites from last year (a fact you’d know if we actually got around to finishing that year end list thingy but ah well). In any case, frontwoman Isis is back on the solo tip with some amazing new wave feels like I’m in a slicker version of Blade Runner and all I can see are out of focus orbs of light ’cause I’m going DUMB fast right now type shit. The second joint came out a lil’ while back and it’s cool too and I snagged it from the beast. But yea yo, “Avenue” in all of it’s vast interplanetary highway largesse is all kinds of proper.
New mixtape from global bass dj/producer Maga Bo featuring his production work from the past year. Download by clicking the arrow thingamabob on the player above and grab the playlist after the jump.
Writer, director, visual artist and vigilante visionary Tim Burton has an entire retrospective exhibition and film series of his works on display at the MOMA. The exhibit began November 22, 2009 and runs until April 26 2010. The exhibit occupies two theaters that display his work on screen, the lobby area where stop motion animation can be viewed and the most extensive section of the exhibit is on the 3rd floor of the museum’s Special Exhibition section. It is here where the intimacies of Burton’s visions are apparent the most. The artist’s thoughts as an adolescent and as a young and seasoned adult are channeled into drawings, paintings, storyboards, puppets and more. Some of the pieces date as far back as 1971.
The most common reaction to the displays of Burton’s dark emotion by the museum’s patrons is laughter. Not pleasant light-hearted laughter but rather the uncomfortable laughter that looms over conversation after the elephant in a room has been spotted. His work shines a light on the American nightmare: lonely, incommunicado outcast characters that are surrounded by well-adjusted individuals situated in suburban success content with consuming warm apple pie while watching television.
Burton was a scholarship student in the Disney Animation program at CalArts in Valencia, CA in 1976. Upon completion of the program he entered into a four-year apprenticeship with the Disney studio. In an interview with MOMA, Burton confesses that he spent a bunch of time at Disney not doing what he was assigned to do. Instead he says he did work that helped “keep me sane.” It is not surprising that, none of the hundreds of his non-conformist drawings made The Black Cauldron, a Disney movie that premiered in 1985. Although not shown in major Disney productions, it is a relief that his outlandish illustrations are on display for this exhibit.
The simple doodles that align the walls in a schizophrenic order are not avant-garde fine art, but they are honest. Burton’s stream of consciousness waters your imagination with concepts of truth, trauma, beauty, the unsightly, rebellion and discontent. -Janine
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Saw this via Zuzuka’s twitter earlier – the file didn’t have a title though and I wasn’t familiar with the OG. Thanks to BGM for assisting in my quest for full itunes taggery.
