EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Fannypack - Hit It
Sometimes we like jams that are like MC Hammer pants: funny, inappropriate, sparkly and bodacious. Half the old school playah rap songs of 1995 were just like that (We're talking to you Cyprus Hill); they made us laugh and then do the sprinkler and humpty-dance on the dance floor. After all we like our oatmeal lumpy. Anyway, Fannypack brings us back to those carefree, grinding, Fresh Prince of Bel-Air times. With "Hit It" and "The Theme From Frank" they bring rap back with beats like it's 1995 and transform them into late night electro bangers. Perfect for getting busy in a Burger King bathroom. Kinda. (If you don't get that reference I can't help you).
Sounds Like: Cypress Hill, Afroman, MC Hammer
EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD - Restiform Bodies - A Pimp-like God (Anon Day Remix)
Yeah that's right; we're talking about hos and gold again. Um sorry, sure, this is whiteman's rap (these guys are with Anticon Records, the experimental hip hop label out of the Bay Area)- but at least it's good whiteman's electronica rap. Meaning you'll dig the glitched out back-beat and smirk at the lyrics about how "hos are just witches with ring-fingers hungry for gold." You may even try to rap along. I wouldn't recommend it but I aint' gonna stop you. Oh- and in case you're curious, Restiform Bodies consists of vocalist David Bryant, beatmater Matt Valerio and synth man George Chadwick- and there's probably more coming from where this came from. So sink your teeth or grillz into this.
Exclusive New Download: Restiform Bodies - A Pimp-Like God (Anon Day Remix)
DOWNLOAD: Grampall Jookabox - The One Thing
It's shitty weather, raining, deary, and defiant. Fall has essentially stomped and exinguished summer and you can sense it most from the faces on the subway. So it pretty much brightens our day to know music madman Grampall Jookabox is coming to NYC. Tonight at Death by Audio and Tomorrow at the Knitting Factory. Like the song attached, Grampall Jookabox is known for shocking ones senses- with precussion heavy experimental songs over which David "Moose" Adamson heaves rap speak. Some call it "Jungle Folk." Others just shut up and let the Yamaha DD-9 and Adamson do the talking.
Sounds Like: Animal Collective, Tickley Feather, Why?
Download: Grampall Jookabox - The One Thing
Download: Grampall Jookabox - That Steamboat Gothic Stomp
DOWNLOAD: Kid Sister - Family Reunion (feat. David Banner)
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We know its like almost October at this point but damn if "Family Reunion”—the instantly enjoyable lead single from Kid Sister's debut album Dream Date—isn’t the Indian Summer Jam we’ve been waiting for. Over a sticky breakbeat and looping organ from globetrotting producer Diplo, Kid Sis spits - and sings! - about Chicago, cousins and everything else she holds dear, while David Banner pops in remind us "most of Chitown from Mississippi anyway!" and cha-cha through an uptempo guest verse. This thing sounds great on loop right now, we’re feeling like grilling out and getting some friends together but it's actually overcast and cold out. Who cares! BBQ in gloves! Head below for this first taste of the Kid Sis’ debut full-length, dropping soon on Downtown/Fool's Gold.
Sounds like: David Banner, Teyanna Taylor, Estelle
Download: Kid Sister - Family Reunion (feat. David Banner)
Previously:
Download: Kid Sister - Control (JFK Remix)
Stream: Kid Sister - Pro Nails (feat. Kanye West)
Download: Kid Sister - Pro Nails (Bag Raiders Remix)
EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD - Dan Le Sac Vs. Scroobius Pip - Thou Shalt Always Kill (Raiders Of The Lost Ark Remix) & TICKETS!
The English rappers Dan Le Sac Vs. Scroobius Pip, have a distinctive Essex accent and a distinctive sense of humor, as seen in the remixed "Thou Shalt Always Kills." Listen in depth to their list of "Thou Shall Not"s.....and laugh out loud as they forbid using poetry art or music to get into girls paints (only into girls heads), reading NME, making noise for Detroit, or shaking it like a polaroid picture, amongst others.
Hell- We've been digging em so much that we come baring gifts. Since the duo are heading to Mercury Lounge on the 25th and 26th of September.........we're giving away a pair of tickets to the 26th show! Alls you gotta do is sign up for the newsletter on RCRD LBL's main page and email contests@rcrdlbl.com with the header: Dan Le Sac. Next thing you know, you could be dancing riotously and laughing sardonically to these novel British blokes in the depths of the Lower East Side. Till then, desk-groove to the tracks below.
SOUNDS LIKE: Dizzee Rascal, Jamie T, Mike Skinner
Exclusive New Download: Dan Le Sac Vs. Scroobius Pip - Thou Shalt Always Kill (Raiders Of The Lost Ark Remix)
Download: Dan Le Sac Vs. Scroobius Pip - Look For The Woman (Fake Blood Remix)
Download: Dan Le Sac Vs Scroobius Pip - For The Woman
DOWNLOAD: WHY - These Few Presidents
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Even after repeated listens, I haven't quite sorted out the whole story behind this standout track from WHY?'s full-length, "Alopecia," on Anticon, but I'm pretty sure that there is a Chinese assassin involved. Plus, I love any song that fades out and then back in, and the sudden arrival of an approaching helicopter in the last few seconds (there to pick up the assassin?) really makes it for me. Download now and be sure to check them out at the Bowery Ballroom in a few weeks. Hopefully we can sort this all out together.
Sounds Like: They Might Be Giants, Magnetic Fields, New Order
EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Grampall Jookabox - The Steamboat Gothic Stomp
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There was this game I played as a little kid, where I'd sit in a circle with 5 other mates and we'd clap our hands together and start rhyming? Once one person finished the sentence, the next in the circle would start randomly rhyming along to the beat? Then again, this was back when I lived in Vancouver, where most of my playmates were all raised by hippies with pyromaniac tendencies. So there's a mild possibility that game only transpired in the land of maple leaves and a whole lot of 'eh.'
Regardless, this new song by Grampall Jookabox is a similar stream-of-conscious rhyming game. The rhyme-speak begins in frantic freakish tone and slowly progresses into various forms of confession and nonsense, with the aid of knee-slapping, tambourine, home-made-drum-tapping and references to moonshine and sons-o-bitches. The second track "The Girl Ain't Preggers" has similar schizophrenic avante-garde folk feel- like Arcade Fire did a lot of cocaine and started to bang on every instrument on stage.
SOUNDS LIKE: Arcade Fire, Daniel Johnston, Born Ruffians
EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Time Machine - Beat It Up + Stream
Despite their name, LA’s Time Machine aren’t some sort of vintage-jocking hip-hop outfit, instead rocking their tracks with the same psychedelic wallop that hallmarked much of the Dust Brothers’ work on albums like Paul’s Boutique and Odelay. But unlike their famed LA brethren, the three dudes in Time Machine inject the sort of humming, 8-bit synthscapes into their tracks that would make the whole Wham City collective proud. Today we’ve got two tracks from the group, “(If You Know) What I Mean” is a flirty recount of a night out between a dude and girl that’s laden with ham radio effects, and “Beat It Up,” which sounds like Bonde Do Role jamming with the DeathSet and Spank Rock and was written EXCLUSIVELY for us here at RCRD LBL. Thanks for the gem guys, and everyone else cop it below!
Sounds like: Spank Rock, TheDeathSet, The Pharcyde
Exclusive Download: Time Machine - Beat It Up
DOWNLOAD: Common Market - Crucible (feat. Geologic)
It's not every day that you hear a rapper rhyme about "hundred-dollar" jeans. That's a pretty modest boast, and Common Market seem like humble dudes, rapping about CSPAN, elitists, and rap's history over a beat of filtered Moogs and snappy drums in "Crucible". I like that. Grab the track below and watch for some solid record cutting at the end, making us wonder whatever happened to rap songs with scratching? I know: autotune.
Sounds like: Atmosphere, Aesop Rock, Spank Rock
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