How Can You Hate The 808?!

'Cause I certainly don't.

Happy #808 Day!

1) Spastik (12" Version By Richie Hawtin): Plastikman (1993)

2) Xtal (Album Version): Aphex Twin (1992)

3) Voodoo Ray (Original Mix): A Guy Called Gerald ft. Nicola Collier (1988)

4) (You Are My) All And All (Take Twelve) (Remix By Kurtis Mantronik): Joyce Sims (1986)

5) The Way You Move (Club Mix By Carlton Mahone, Jr.): Outkast ft. Sleepy Brown (2003)

6) It's Tricky (Album Version By Rick Rubin & Russell Simmons): Run-D.M.C. (1986)

7) Musique Non Stop (Album Version): Kraftwerk (1986)

8) French Kiss (The Songbird Sings Long Vocal Mix): Lil' Louis ft. Karlana Johnson & Shawn Christopher (1989)

1986: All And All EP: 4

1986: Electric Cafe: 7

1986: Raising Hell: 6

1988: Voodoo Ray EP: 3

1989: French Kiss EP: 8

1992: Selected Ambient Works 85-92: 2

1993: Spastik EP: 1

2003: Speakerboxxx / The Love Below: 5

How Can You Hate The 808?! (47:02) (GD) (M)

Time's A Double-Edged Sword

Forty five minutes of hip hop and rap, featuring Beastie Boys, De La Soul and Run-D.M.C., some next gen artists with Antipop Consortium and Young Fathers, and some lyrical treats bridging Wales and Brooklyn as Green Gartside meets Mos Def, Lee Majors and A Tribe Called Quest's Ali Shaheed Muhammad. 

 

By sheer coincidence, I flip from a young mother to the Young Fathers, with Monie Love's exhortation to Build Relationships Where Education and Enlightenment Dominate followed by Edinburgh's finest who returned after a four year break in July with Geronimo.

 

The selection starts and ends in 1998, with cuts from Hello Nasty by Beastie Boys and Jurassic 5's self-titled debut, two much-loved albums in my collection. As you might expect, a parental advisory sticker is slapped over this selection due to occasional smut and cussing.

 

1) Body Movin' (Album Version): Beastie Boys (1998)

2) The Projects ('Ocean's Eleven' Album Edit): Handsome Boy Modeling School (1999)

3) Say No Go (New Kick Instrumental) (Remix By Pasemaster Mase): De La Soul (1989)

4) War: Outkast (2003)

5) Capricorn One: Antipop Consortium ft. Mr. Live (2009)

6) Born 2 B.R.E.E.D. (The Freedom Mix): Monie Love (1993)

7) Automatic (Jayou Remix): Young Fathers (2010)

8) Feel The Vibe (Album Version): Diamond & The Psychotic Neurotics (1992)

9) Tinseltown To The Boogiedown (Ali Shaheed Muhammad Variation): Scritti Politti ft. Mos Def & Lee Majors (1999)

10) It's Tricky (Album Version By Rick Rubin & Russell Simmons): Run-D.M.C. (1986)

11) Bucky Done Gun (DJ Marlboro Funk Carioca Remix): M.I.A. (2005)

12) Lesson 6: The Lecture (Album Version): Jurassic 5 (1998)

Double-Edged Sword (44:56)

Now Here's A Little Something You May Not Like

Feels like a while since there's been a rap selection and, with Saturday's sunshine, shorts and smiles during the day replaced by torrential rain through the night, something a little less languid for a soggy Sunday seems in order.

A mixed bag, as ever, mostly 21st century, apart from a remix of Beastie Boys from 1999 that I couldn't resist including and which provides today's post title. A little bit of an alternative music crossover here and there, with Lethal Bizzle taking on The Ruts and The Black Keys masquerading as Blackroc, collaborating with Jim Jones.

There's the characteristic nod to my birthplace, care of local boy done good Tricky, and another track from one of my favourite albums so far this year, from Mr. Oizo (yes, really) and Phra aka Francesco Barbaglia from Crookers. 

I'll confess that I haven't listened deeply to the lyrics of all of the tracks featured here, so my apologies for any inappropriate cussing or questionable content.

1) Big 'n Bashy (Original Mix): Fallacy ft. Tubby T (2003)

2) Alive (B.R.A. Remix By Bentley Rhythm Ace): Beastie Boys (1999)

3) Sea Level: Little Simz ft. ALXA & Mick Jenkins (2015)

4) Bristol To London: Tricky ft. Blackman & Marlon Thaws (2010)

5) The City (Remix): Darwin Deez ft. DJ Hummus (2011)

6) Babylon's Burning The Ghetto: Lethal Bizzle (2007)

7) Flip Flop Rock: Outkast ft. Killer Mike & Jay-Z (2003)

8) Queen Of Hearts: The Black Opera ft. Mayer Hawthorne (2012)

9) What It Look Like (Pocketknife's Poppinspiel The Glockenspiel Remix): Spank Rock (2007)

10) Rumbling: Young Fathers (2011)

11) Un Attimo (Album Version): Mr. Oizo & Phra (2022)

12) Ain't Nothing Like You (Hoochie Coo): Blakroc ft. Mos Def & Jim Jones (2009)

13) Ghetto Pop Life (Album Version): Danger Mouse & Jemini (2003)

1999: Alive EP: 2

2003: Blackmarket Boy: 1

2003: Ghetto Pop Life: 13

2003: Speakerboxxx: 7

2007: Back To Bizznizz: 6

2007: What It Look Like EP: 9

2009: Blakroc: 12

2010: Mixed Race: 4 

2011: Tape One EP: 10

2011: Wonky Beats: 5

2012: Libretto: Of King Legend: 8

2015: Age 101: Drop X EP: 3

2022: Voilá: 11

Now Here's A Little Something You May Not Like (46:12)