This Should Be Illegal

Vanaprasta - All My Friends (LCD Soundystem Cover)

Lushlife

My favorite aspect about running this blog (besides sharing great music with all you random folks) occurs when I start researching a new artist after hearing a song or two, and finding a collection of great, largely unheard work. So happened this past weekend with Lushlife.

Raj Halda is Lushlife; He is also an MC, producer, remixer, and classically trained pianist and Jazz drummer. His voice sounds like Nas, and his sample-heavy beats sound like the work of Dilla himself. Either way you would never guess he is an Indian kid from Philly.

Lushlife gained some notaraity in 2007 with his West Sounds album in which he mashed up Kanye vocal tracks with beats that sampled The Beach Boys. His debut album Cassette City was released last year via Rapster Records.

Be on the lookout for Lushlife at SXSW, on the Hype Machine and blating out of my car stereo. His wide musical knowledge (check out his raps over Washed Out below), spot-on production and recognizable East Coast flow make his music something both the rap and indie games will welcome.

Washed Out - Feel It All Around (Lushlife Version)


Bottle Rocket


The Kindness


Cassette City EPK:

Friday Hotness #118

Minus The Bear - My Time


Aloe Blacc - I Need A Dollar


Little Dragon - Twice


Infinite Body - Dive

Friday Hotness #117

Rogue Wave- Right With You



Broken Bells - The Ghost Inside



Sugar Tongue Slim - In For The Kill



The Crashlanders - Samantha

Foals - Spanish Sahara

Wow, what a powerful track.

Foals - Spanish Sahara

Jay Electronica

I have been sleeping on posting about Jay Electronica, but I heard a few more tracks of his this weekend and I just can't contain my enthusiasm any longer. The New Orleans native comes with a style that melds gangsta and backpack, and has some of the hardest hitting beats I have heard in a while.

"Get that type of media coverage Obama get, spit that Kurt Vonnegut, that blow you brain that Kurt Cobain, that Nirvana shit"

"I swam down shit's creek and came up clean, with a new lease on life like Andy Dufrane"

Exhibit C


Exhibit A (Transformations)


Reflection Eternal- Just Beginning (feat Jay Electronica, J Cole and Mos Def)


Exhibit C (Ted Smooth Remix)

Feb 2010 Mix

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1. Two Door Cinema Club - This Is The Life
2. Miike Snow - Animal (Christian TV Beast Mode Remix)
3. Freeway & Jake One - She Makes Me Feel Alright
4. The Joy Formidable - Whirring
5. Evan Voytas - I Run With You, Spirit Animal
6. Volta Cab - We Are Marsians
7. The Kissaway Trail - SDP
8. Broken Social Scene - World Sick
9. Javelin - Tell Me What It Will Be?
10. Wale - Chillin (Benzi & Willy Joy Remix)
11. Eddie Vedder - My City of Ruins (Live From Kennedy Center Honors)
12. Lemonade - Lifted
13. Active Child - When Your Love Is Safe
14. Enya - Sail Away (Missions Orinoco Re-Flow)
15. Major Lazer - Good Enough (feat Lindi Ortega & Collie Buddz)
16. Pacific! - Hot Lips
17. Pantha Du Prince - Stick To My Side (feat Noah Lennox)
18. Savage Snobs - Global
19. The Low Anthem - Charlie Darwin
20. The XX - Basic Space
21. Jupiter Skydive - Doin' Laundry