DOWNLOAD: Major Lazer - Jump Up (Laza Beam Remix)
Been a minute since we've had some Major Lazer on the site, so we'll welcome this new Laza Beam refix like the friend we made in the summer and just ran into in biology class. The Trinidadian producer filled out the Crookers-assisted "Jump Up" with more squelch and rotundness, additions we've never been averse to hearing. An EP of originals is due soon through Jillionaire's Feel Up Recordings.
Major Lazer - Jump Up (Laza Beam Remix)
Previously:
Major Lazer - Hold The Line (Prince Zimbo Freestyle)
Major Lazer - Hold The Line (LehtMoJoe Remix)
Major Lazer - Hold The Line (DJ Edit)
Major Lazer - Hold The Line (Poirier Remix)
Major Lazer - Zumbi (Feat. Andy Milokanis)
Major Lazer - Lazer Boom 1 (Album Mix by Diplo)
Major Lazer - Hold The Line (Tommie Sunshine Reggacid Mix)
Major Lazer - Hold The Line (Tommie Sunshine, Il Diablo & Mixin' Marc Remix)
EXCLUSIVE CMJ DOWNLOAD: Jahdan Blakkamoore - She Said (feat. 77Klash)
77Klash introduced grime to the Jahdan Blakkamoore party, so the story goes, but it’s tough to gauge who’s bringing more to “She Said.” Jah’s golden voice breezily sweeps the floor, allowing 77Klash’s riddim jaunts to grit-pop even more against one lone basement beat. The girls seem to be asking a lot of the Brooklyn boys, but it’s all massively movable. Hit up Dutty Artz for all the details on how Jahdan, Blitz and more are going to ease us out of this CMJ marathon with a killer performance and closing party. Buy tickets right here and catch the tunes on Buzzrock Warrior out now.
Jahdan Blakkamoore - She Said (feat. 77Klash)
Previously:
Jahdan Blakkamoore - The General (Remix) (feat. General Steele)
Jahdan Blakkamoore - Go Round Payola (Matt Shadetek Bye Haters Remix)
Jahdan Blakkamoore - Never Gonna Stop (prod. by DJ /rupture & Matt Shadetek)
77Klash - Call Me (Produced by Dre Skull)
77Klash - Pressure (feat. Matt Shadetek)
77Klash - Dangerous Nights (feat. Drop The Lime)
77Klash - Code For The Streets
EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Flow Dan - Vurderas
Vampires are everywhere. Not, like, physically everywhere - that'd be alarming, but culturally their stock's never been richer: True Blood, Let the Right One In, Thirst, Twilight, Vampire Weekend... Why, though? Why the recent resurgence? I've read articles today that have linked the phenomenon to the recession, 9/11 and the latent urges of straight, young women who long to have sex with gay men. Whatever the logic behind it, these draculas are almost always portrayed as misunderstood heroes, but Flow Dan ain't having it - he's after them in "Vurderas", making prey of them at the plaza while thunder booms and lightning crashes, all over the top of an old reggae sample. More fire! Sweet death to the bloodsucker scum! Wait, what? Immortal?!
Sounds Like: The Bug, Trojan Sound System
EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Trojan Sound System - Love We A Go Spread (Trojan Sound System Special on Rusko's "Jahova")
Go outside. Look at the size of the building you've just vacated. Double it, square that, add three storeys less than you had to start with, take a sip of cola, double it again and this track will still be bigger than what you just built in your head. Trojan Sound System MCs Superfour and Jah Buck do the hard work here, grappling with Rusko's "Jahova" then beckoning Chuckie Banton in for a gimme of a chorus. Get on it - colossal, strident, humping bass weight.
Sounds Like: The Bug, Joker, Pendulum
Trojan Sound System - Love We A Go Spread (Trojan Sound System Special on Rusko's "Jahova")
EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Dave I.D. - X–F
Dave I.D.'s music lives in dark places. I know this because I used to live with him and we always kept the lights off in our house to save money on the electricity bill. Dave would spend most of his time in his bedroom with the door closed and the rest of us would stumble past hearing these insane fucking sounds, not knowing if he was making music that took influence from This Heat as much as it did dancehall or if he'd simply installed a factory in there. Well, I guess "X-F" makes it known, unrelenting barrages of drum THWACK cannoning through a fog of haunted-man vocals and synth swirl. It's awesome. What? Nepotism?! I was there a whole year and I never saw anyone from The Guardian, Dazed or Boomkat loitering in the hallway, though maybe if they had been I would have saved money on subscription and postage costs. A missed opp, methinks.
Sound Like: These New Puritans, Placebo, This Heat
DOWNLOAD: Jahdan Blakkamoore - The General (Remix) (feat. Steele)
While we've been waiting for Jahdan Blakkamoore's Buzzrock Warrior LP (it's finally out September 15th), the Dutty Artz guys have been mercifully placating our hunger with mixtapes, singles, and leaks like this remix of "The General" with Smif-N-Wessun's Steele. Jahdan played with his Boot Camp Clik pals a few weeks ago, now Steele's singing over this cloudy reggae tune in return, perhaps avoiding straight rapping because he doesn't want to harsh on Jahdan's perma-smooth voice. And it works! Video footage of the remix session is here, New Yorkers can catch Jahdan live at Santos next Thursday (September 17th) for the album release party, full info here.
Jahdan Blakkamoore - The General (Remix) (feat. Steele)
Previously:
Jahdan Blakkamoore - Go Round Payola (Matt Shadetek Bye Haters Remix)
Jahdan Blakkamoore - Never Gonna Stop (prod. by DJ /rupture & Matt Shadetek)
DOWNLOAD: Poirier - Enemies (feat. Face-T)
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(Photo: John Londono)
Recently forename-less Poirier has a new EP out through Ninja Tune called Run The Riddim, second in a series of three he's doing for the label (the first was February's Soca Sound System, the last will be October's Low Ceiling.) "Enemies," with frequent partner Face-T, sounds like each of its kick drums is actually four separate ones fused together–little sandwiches of brain-gouging bass. Also, here is some footage of Poirier and his cronies getting wild with about five thousand Montrealers in the middle of the street. That place evidently goes very hard.
Poirier - Enemies (feat. Face-T)
Previously:
Poirier - Get Crazy (feat. Mr. Slaughter)
EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Chrissy Murderbot - Whine U (Bok Bok Remix) + The Limelight (feat. MC Zulu)
On floors across town lines, a new brand of Diplo-approved ghettotech’s been dropping on the regular. Chrissy Murderbot’s LP swings from happy hardcore to bubbling juke, dupstep to dancehall. Sounds impossible, but dude’s come off stellar Professor Murder and Ssion remixes to invoke Major Lazer on the first track and synth-grime B-sides on the second. Rinse and repeat.
Chrissy Murderbot - The Limelight (feat. MC Zulu)
DOWNLOAD: Jahdan Blakkamoore - Never Gonna Stop (prod. by DJ /rupture & Matt Shadetek)
Crooner of the Dutty Artz fam and recent Major Lazer collaborator Jahdan Blakkamoore finally has his debut album, Buzzrock Warrior, in the can; now all it has to do come out in September via !K7 imprint Gold Dust Media and he will, presumably, take over the world with his honeycomb pipes. Before all that, dude will release a new mixtape called Bazooka Shot, source of this tune with synths like Snoopy ears and production from Matt Shadetek and DJ /rupture.
Jahdan Blakkamoore - Never Gonna Stop (prod. by DJ Rupture & Matt Shadetek)
Previously:
Jahdan Blakkamoore - Go Round Payola (Matt Shadetek Bye Haters Remix)
EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Major Lazer - Hold The Line (Prince Zimboo Freestyle)
So who the hell is Prince Zimboo, the man behind the sunglasses, dashiki, and too many "heh"s? Due to his association with Major Lazer, the dancehall comedian wound up the subject of a recent Slate piece, which called his music "deliriously funny" and classified him as the "African Borat" (a questionable description but worth noting). His "Hold The Line" freestyle–a mild YouTube hit a few weeks ago–just came in from Mad Decent, who are releasing a Zimboo single, "To The Rescue" b/w "Lightswitch", in August. Now if only someone would put out his MySpace gem "Love Diarhea" (sic!).
Major Lazer - Hold The Line (Prince Zimboo Freestyle)
Previously:
Major Lazer - Hold The Line (LehtMoJoe Remix)
Major Lazer - Hold The Line (DJ Edit)
Major Lazer - Hold The Line (Poirier Remix)
Major Lazer - Zumbi (Feat. Andy Milokanis)
Major Lazer - Lazer Boom 1 (Album Mix by Diplo)
Major Lazer - Hold The Line (Tommie Sunshine Reggacid Mix)
Major Lazer - Hold The Line (Tommie Sunshine, Il Diablo & Mixin' Marc Remix)
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