Jay Electronica - Electrochemicals

I finally got around to listening to Jay Electronica. I'm late but I've been making up for it over the last week by listening to heaps of his stuff. He might not 'save hip hop' but the mixtape is definitely one of the highlights of the year.

You should check it out if only for the song 'Dimethyltriptamine' where Jay's in the Tom Waits zone over a sick Dilla beat:

"Pigs with the heads of men spat acid
That lasered my third eye closed like lasik
A midget in the casket like a baby in the bonnet
With a bottle and a basset horn
Playing the theme song from Children of the Corn"

Classic.

Jay Electronica - Electrochemicals
From Think Differently through Passion of the Weiss

this blog referred to on another blog

i don't know if you already know about this but...

Australia Loves Them Some Dingos, Curly Castro
http://beatgardensite.com/

nick's post about curly castro and dj ambush (dec 1) got picked up by the beat garden entertainment blog (dec 1)

well done my man!

5 O'Clock Shadowboxers - High Noon

I like this from Douglas Martin's blog: "fuck all that “shameless promotion” shit; this video is objectively great."

Witness the Fitness

I haven't listened to Roots Manuva's album Run Come Save Me for a couple of years at least. It's just one of those ones that's faded behind all the new music I've been listening to. But I'm just giving it a burn now and it's a really solid album. Dude has a sense of humour but also real honesty and a British accent, a recipe for success.

I remember when this was on Rage a bit. Good times:

Curly Castro & DJ Ambush Present Phatman and Likkle Bwoy

I'm pretty late on this one but it's totally worth getting your hands on. It's the latest release from Zilla and Co's Beat Garden Entertainment. On the first listen I got a Champion Sound vibe. Curly Castro is great, he's got a wicked flow and I'd like to hear more of him. Check out the tracks Frankenstein, Keychains and Boxin'.

Curly Castro & DJ Ambush Present Phatman and Likkle Bwoy