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What More Can I Say? Outrageously camp Curtis may now be richer than God, but he still has trouble finding decent beats. Here Catchdubs is on hand to lends Mr Jackson's nouveau riche rhymes a little old money class. 50 Cent - I Get Money (Catchdubs Top Billin Mix) [mp3] Posted by: Scott 31/07/07 Justice For All Hey Justice fans, ever thought it would be cool if Jackson used his Computer Band to turn D.A.N.C.E. into a lumbering 12-minute rave epic, or if some cuss-named Canadians turned Stress into a hardcore scuzz-rock anthem? Never going to happen. What’s that? Oh. Justice - D.A.N.C.E. (Jackson Remix) [mp3] [Buy] Fucked Up - Stress (Justice cover) [mp3] [Source] Posted by: Scott 31/07/07 Doodles And Noodles David Shrigley is a funny, many-talented fellow. He is a visual artist, sculptor, photographer, filmmaker, video director and a really thorough album sleeve designer. He has some very devoted fans. He’s also a big fat liar. In the forward to Worried Noodles, his 2006 book of song ideas and lyrics he wrote: “I couldn’t be bothered to make a record. It would have been too difficult. It was easier not to make a record.” Then earlier this year Shrigley made a record, a spoken word album that reminds us of Jam. And now, just to ram the point home, he's making another one. Tomlab has gathered an impressive bunch of acts to interpret the absurdist lyrics and scratchy doodles that make up Worried Noodles. Artists involved include Shrigley himself, Deerhoof, Hot Chip, Grizzly Bear, David Byrne, Franz Ferdinand, YACHT, Final Fantasy and, yes, Liars. David Shrigley - What I Ate [mp3] [Buy] David Shrigley - The Jist [mp3] [Buy] Posted by: Scott 30/07/07 Feet Of Flames Dude n Nem - Watch My Feet We've decided to start every week with Dude n Nem. Here is their new video. (We've watched it 43 times in a row.) Posted by: Scott 30/07/07 The Last Days Of Disco Chromeo - Tenderoni While England floods the internets are drowning, but drowning in DISCO! Yeah! Even the Muppets are involved. Friendly Fires - On Board [mp3] [Buy] Studio - Out There [mp3] [Buy] Escort - All Through The Night (The Rapture Hush Hush Remix) [mp3] [Buy] Posted by: Scott 22/07/07 Have A Cuppa Tea We love Wes Anderson movies and Wes Anderson can't get enough of British Invasion bands. His new movie The Darjeeling Limited is set to open this year's New York Film Festival, and though the immaculately preppy Anglophile has plundered Satyajit Ray's films for the soundtrack the trailer suggests a few Kinks tunes might also creep in there. We have our fingers crossed for a Thavakalai cameo. Maybe Madlib will turn up too... The Kinks - This Time Tomorrow [mp3] [Buy] The Faces - Ooh La La [mp3] [Buy] Posted by: Scott 25/07/07 Bitch Slapping We love controlling our hos, so it stands to reason that one of our favourite songs would make hitting a lady sound like the purest kind of romantic gesture. The Crystals He Hit Me (And It Felt Like A Kiss) was creepy long before the band’s svengali Phil Spector started killing women in his living room, but during a recent session for KXEP Grizzly Bear upped the ambiguity and left us with goosebumps the size of golfballs. Grizzly Bear - He Hit Me (And It Felt Like A Kiss) (Live on KEXP) [mp3] The Crystals - He Hit Me (And It Felt Like A Kiss) [mp3] Posted by: Scott 24/07/07 On: Muscles Woo! Our half-arsed new interview feature On: is back. This week's offcuts come from the mighty Muscles. We first spoke to Muscles late last year when he gave us the skinny on Australia's booming music scene. The 22-year-old Melburnian has since signed to Modular Recordings and has spent much of 2007 touring the globe with Soulwax. We caught up with him when he passed through London a month or so ago. He's super-prolific, super-funny and super-sarcastic... Muscles - Ice Cream [mp3] Muscles - Chocolate, Raspberry, Lemon & Lime [mp3] [Buy] Muscles - One Inch Badge Pin (Vanshe Tech City Gym Remix) [mp3] [Buy] On: Muscles continues... Posted by: Scott 23/07/07 Totally Dude La Di Da Di, we likes to party. But only if there is synchronised hip-hop dancing and good snacks. While everyone argues about whether hyphy is dead or not, Chi-Town's twinkle-toed juke music has hoofed through the back door and into our hearts. Sinden has called Dude 'N Nem's Watch My Feet the hip-hop single of the year and TVT seems to agree. Dude 'N Nem - Watch My Feet [mp3] Posted by: Scott 22/07/07 All The Rage When we were young, during the balmy summer holidays of 1992, we enjoyed nothing more than rolling around under the sun bellowing FUCK YOU, I WON'T DO WHAT YOU TELL ME at anyone who would listen. It later dawned on us that these dudes were never likely to lead us to revolution. Yet here to restore our faith in raging against everything is SebastiAn (like us, a fAn of random capitalisation) with his ferocious, cuss-free edit of Killing In The Name Of. Rage Against The Machine - Killing In The Name Of (SebastiAn's Late Night Laptop Edit) [mp3] Posted by: Scott 16/07/07 Dere 'Bout Before they started hawking everything from laptops to Vitamin Water, rappers only advertised one thing: booze. While American greats shilled for St Ides, in the UK Red Stripe employed the Ragga Twins. They dropped a 'w' from the Twins' catchphrase to create the best advertising slogan ever: Ragga Tins Dere 'Bout. The Twins' 1991 album Reggae Owes Us Money is something of a lost classic so it's good to see them on the comeback trail and keeping good company. They've fallen in with the Grecoroman gang and appear on the super sharp-shooting Hot Chip remix of the label's debut release, David E Sugar's Oi New York This Is London. You can catch the awesomely-named Twins along with the gameboy-wielding chip-star Sugar at Yo Yo! on Thursday night (19/07/07). Ragga Twins - The Killing [mp3] David E. Sugar - Oi New York This Is London (Hot Chip vs Ragga Twins Remix) [mp3] [Buy] Ragga Twins - Juggling [mp3] David E. Sugar - Just Like Heaven [mp3] [Buy] Posted by: Scott 16/07/07 A Wale Of A Time While we were in New York we stopped by the East Village Radio studio (we say studio it's more like a shop window) to see FOP Nick Catchdubs host Fader's weekly show, The Let Out. Early on he played an amazing Wale song, a David Beckham-repping freestyle over Camp Lo's classic Lucini. It turns out that this is just one of many ridiculous tracks on the new Wale mixtape that Nick mixed. We don't need to tell you how fucking great this is. Get it direct from here or from Wale's MySpace. Here's a taster... Wale & Catchdubs - W.A.L.E.D.A.N.C.E. [mp3] Posted by: Scott 12/07/07 Justice Timberlake Justin Timberlake has played lots of concerts in London recently. The most interesting thing he's done is wear pink shoes. But now Justice have remixed his new single! But it's pretty underwhelming. But how about those shoes? They're pink! Eh? Oh. OK. Justin Timberlake - Lovestoned (Justice Remix) [mp3] [from Outside Broadcast] Posted by: Scott 12/07/07 Tom Waits For No One Tom Waits sings The Piano Has Been Drinking Not Me on Fernwood 2Nite in 1977 (with a young Fred Willard on the sofa) We know it's probably the thousandth time you've seen that pun, but we love it so too bad. Besides, Tom Waits has always been and continues to be the main fucking dude. Here he sings the Wire theme backed by the Kronos Quartet at a concert Richard Gere organised for the Dali Lama. Tom Waits & the Kronos Quartet - Way Down In The Hole (Live, New York, 2003) [mp3] [Buy] Tom Waits - Clap Hands [mp3] [Buy] Posted by: Scott 11/07/07 Rub You The Right Way Over the weekend, New York club night The Rub celebrated its 5th birthday at Southpaw in Brooklyn. Looks like it was both nuts and bananas. Londoners get to enjoy some of The Rub’s special brand of craziness in a couple of weeks when two of its residents- FOP DJ Ayres and DJ Eleven - head over the Atlantic to help out at Sinden and Switch’s Get Familiar. Not that Graeme and Dave really need the help. Along with Herve (AKA the Count of Monte Cristal) they’ve spent the last year twisting minds and moving feet with their bass-heavy fidget house. Before 2007 is out we fully expect the Fam-lay & Pharrell-sampling Beeper to have been declared the new national anthem. Get Familiar ft. Sinden, Switch, Kool Keith, Kutmaster Kurt, South Rakkas Crew and The Rub is on at Fabric, 20/07/07. Sinden & Count of Monte Cristal - Beeper [mp3] [Buy] Switch - Brick N Lace [mp3] Roisin Murphy - Overpowered (Herve And Roisin In The Secret Garden Mix) [mp3] [Buy] Young Jeezy and Slim Thug - Diamonds (DJ Ayres and Winslow remix) [mp3] Posted by: Scott 10/07/07 Dawn Of The Dead Slow Club - Because We're Dead While we were on holiday the ever reliable Moshi Moshi released the Slow Club's debut single, Because We're Dead. Their warm, countrified folk-pop and playground lyrics may sometimes drift through the looking glass into the land of Twee, but have you seen the weather? It's July and it rains every day. We'll take our sunshine where we can. Slow Club - Slow Club Summer Shakedown [mp3] [Buy] Slow Club - Biology Hearts [mp3] [Buy] Posted by: Scott 10/07/07 On: Josie Stingray You’re probably wondering what On: is. Well it’s a brand new, slapdash feature in which we recycle bits of interviews we've carried out for the man! We ask people about stuff, they answer. It’s simplicity itself. You might get Natasha Bedingfield On: Ethical foreign policy, Mark Ronson On: The perfect cheeseboard or Kasabian On: Being shit… Admittedly we’ve set the bar a little high with those examples, but you get the idea. It’ll never last, but while it does we hope you enjoy it. First On: is the mighty Miss Josie Stingray. The Bay Area rapper has impressed the shit out of us on collabs with J*Davey and Trackademicks and it sounds like there's much more to come. As she tells us, "I got Oprah ambitions." Trackademicks - Grocery Bills (ft. Josie Stingray) [mp3] On: Josie Stingray continues... Posted by: Scott 09/07/07 Lean Like Dora Elbows up, side to side. Posted by: Scott 08/07/07 Wild Strawberries Animal Collective - Fireworks One of our favourite bands, Animal Collective , play in London next week. Though we love their freaky campfire harmonies we've always been disappointed that Panda Bear is the only actual animal in the band. Avey Tare, Deakin and Geologist need to make more of an effort. Their new album Strawberry Jam is released by Domino in September and it is a weird and wonderful thing. Animal Collective - Fireworks [mp3] [Buy] Posted by: Scott 08/07/07 You've Got The Touch "Fucking iPods." Posted by: Scott 08/07/07 Ghetto Jams Who is Hallam Foe? Why he’s Jamie Bell, the Billy Elliot star who always come across as obnoxious in interviews. Maybe it’s because Marilyn Manson stole his girlfriend. David McKenzie’s comedy is touted as the film to finally cement Mr Twinkle-Toes as a leading man, but more interesting is the soundtrack. When we heard it was curated by Domino we expected wall-to-wall G-Funk, but it turns out they meant the label. Still, no bad thing as the soundtrack features label stalwarts like Fraz Ferdinand, Clinic and Junior Boys as well as some of their acts from the Fence Collective: King Creosote, James Yorkston and U.N.P.O.C. You can watch the trailer, apply for UK screening tickets or just listen to these lovely songs: Junior Boys - Double Shadow [mp3] [Buy] Psapp - Tricycle [mp3] [Buy] Posted by: Scott 05/07/07 Forget Your Court Date The original video for Matt & Kim's Yea Yeah found the dementedly happy Brooklynites involved in a gigantic- and very literal- food fight. This new Demonbabies-directed video for the Jaxx-channeling Flosstradamus remix sees them being interviewed by a retarded puppet before growing giant Lego heads in a day-glo apocalypse. Sounds about right. Here's the excellent Bobby Evans remix: Matt & Kim - Yea Yeah (Bobby Evans Remix ft. Jimmy Jamz) [mp3] [Buy some Matt & Kim] Posted by: Scott 04/07/07 Hey Yoo Guys! We're back! Fat, over-refreshed and pinky-brown. Thanks to the fine city of New York for the Best Holiday Ever. The Pinglepad is positively bursting with joy so expect harder, faster, better, stronger crap from hereon in. At least until the holiday shine wears off in about 12 hours. We know you like to steal most of your music off the internet (you thieving bastards), but we heartily recommend heading over to iTunes to spend a few pennies on Smash A Kangaroo, the first fruit of Diplo's non-profit Australian offshoot, Heaps Decent. All proceeds go to future initiatives and if future initiatives include more crazy didgeridoo-sampling, Oz rap fun then it's money well spent. When he's not being super-philanthropic Diplo still cranks out the jams. His new iTunes Live Session EP features a Bonde do Role-starring Pixies cover, a Bmore party starter with the mighty Rye Rye and this Daft Punk cut-up: Diplo - Work Is Never Over [mp3] [Buy] Posted by: Scott 04/07/07