June is humming along, and all the current competition sports are getting in the way of us telling you
about what has been good over at the bird. So here it is!
June 1 This tweet landed us in hot water with the one and only Jean Grae, sometimes Talib Kwali associate and the bird who gave us the awesomely titled debut album Attack of the Attacking Things. Offence was taken on account of our innocent comment regarding I AM LEGEND / Will Smith - its got will smith RT @ flavorpill: What are YOU listening to for your BBQ? the mixtape by @ JeanGrae ? Of course you are. http://su.pr/1AhrVC
...To which Jean responded: @sardless if you don't believe "Summertime" is a great fucking song, you're a cotdamn hater. For no reason. So harsh :(
June 2 This day in June was mad, with not less than 4 mixtapes being made available via the @sardless twitter. The Cool Kids give us a mixtape about fishing and shit. Actually very little is said about angling, but it is still OK - Fishing & camping mixtape. Finally..? RT @URBmag The Cool Kids - Tacklebox Mixtape (link foolishly omitted from original post, so here it is)
June 2 The ludicrously named "Com Truise" continues the recent tradition of bands/artists taking lame famous guy pun-based names (see also: Truman Peyote - b.t.w. free download of their fine album Light-Lightning here). Regardless, Com Truise dropped some sweet Commodore-inspired mixtape madness on this day too. - nice Commodore PET. Com Truise / Komputer Cast 1 http://bit.ly/cJl9JG
June 2 Rounding out the day was what must be amongst the finest of the 150-odd XLR8R podcasts to drop thus far, from Teebs. Looking forward to his album that is allegedly coming soon, cos if he is giving shit this good away for free... well YOU DO THE MATH - Sure thing RT @ALPHAPUP RT @BRAINFEEDER: (DOWNLOAD!) @TEEBSIO PODCAST 140 FOR @XLR8RMAG: http://bit.ly/aDK3uC
June 4 The Flavorpill Mixtape XXVIII gets a mention exclusively for the fact that it contains the most excellent track "All Talk" by Kid Cudi and featuring LCD Soundsystem, Chip Tha Ripper and... Christian Bale. While the Bale bit is a tired meme that adds nothing to the track and should die, once you get past this you are presented with the opening riff and the sweet synth bit from LCDs "Dance Yrself Clean" with <some other shit> cleverly put over it, and the final results are outstanding. Get it for this, frankly i cannot even remember anything else from this mixtape - RT: @flavorpill: Flavorpill Mix Tape: Kid Cudi, Morning Benders & mooooooore http://su.pr/2t081D
June 8 Eating Donuts & Other Refined Foods by Jeremiah Jae continues what is quickly becoming a quite common thing to do, remixing J Dilla and giving it away. While it is good and you should check out what the dude did with the donuts, it just seems like every other week something like this hits the wires - MIXED TAPE eating donuts & other refined foods http://bit.ly/cyL6o1
June 10 Ice Cube went on Late Night with The Roots (featuring Jimmy someone), and they did an outstanding rendition of 'Straight Outta Compton', replete with hilarious swear substations that may or may not be more offensive than the original lyrics e.g. "find a good piece of mush / and go up in it", "dumb mo' sucka" etc etc, it is MOTHER MOTHERing excellent - seriously, the video with the suited dudes doing MC Ren and Eazy E's bits (dude nails it) was one of the best things to be seen on the web in early June. ALSO: Ice Cube and Fallon do a duet on 'It was a Good Day', which was... weird - RT: @Awl: The Roots And Ice Cube, "Straight Outta Compton" - http://www.theawl.com/?p=41108
June 11 A guy named Star Slinger gave us his collection of big beat funk good vibes hip-hop instrumentals instrumental hip-hop lo-fi psychedelic pop soul soul beats soulful Manchester on bandcamp for free. If that lot of tags does not give you an adequate idea of what is on the album, NOTHING WILL. Instrumental hip-hop to sooooooooooooth except one track 'Dutchie Courage' that features sped-up vocals from that classic "Pass The Dutchie" and is mostly annoying - Star Slinger - J Dilla / Pete Rock / shoegaze / funk influenced instrumental hip-hop. Check the album (for free) http://bit.ly/9jQjwK
June 15 The bird and one of the dudes from the xx made some mixtapes available, which is weird cos I am sure there is three people in this band? Might be wrong, but if not, feel bad for that other guy. In related news, Safari 5.0 gives a warning that visiting the xx website (www.thexx.info) may harm your computer (Google "Safe Browsing" diagnostic report here for those interested). Must be scared of all the hot XXX action in the URL. Smart - Couple of mixes here. One interesting, one ________ @ thepopmanifesto's mix from @ Romy_oh of the xx, available here - http://bit.ly/bBgc6D
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