TAG: remix

Dec20

jesse’s awards of 06

since i'm a big fan of both music and sports, i figured i'd give out a few music awards in the name of some athletes we're all familiar with. if you don't get this, you shouldn't even be online.

1.DEREK JETER award aka whether you're a yankees or red sox fan/ whether you're a hip hop backpacker or a silk shirt wearing dutschbag, you respected this artist(s) in 06.

GNARLS BARKLEY (winners)
– what can i say? they graced our dec cover as URB's artist of the year. you can argue that it's a homer pick but no artist(s) got as many rave reviews while going platinum in 06.

T.I. (”urban” category) – with a multi-plat album (king) and arguably the biggest club record of the year (what …

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Dec19

Kirby hates rap (and the Brave Little Toaster)

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Reading the subtext in this shit could inspire the next great Spike Lee film—assuming Spike Lee has a second another great film in him. These ads have apparently been running on a few radio stations and Hoover is depending on the fact that you hate Southern rap (you probably do) and that your mom wants to feel like a third-rate Donna Reid when you get her a vacuum cleaner for Christmas (she probably doesn’t). Complex has the link and we give it a week before Diplo uses that intro/fake-out beat in a B’more remix of “Fergalicious” “Thriller” “Jingle Bell Rock.”

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Oct09

Arthur Russell – Springfield (DFA Remix) (Review)

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Arthur Russell

Springfield (DFA Remix)

Released by Audika


Talk about a dream disco pairing of yesterday and the ultra-modern today. 'Springfield' is one of the last songs the sorely underappreciated Arthur Russell wrote during his brief career. (He died of AIDS complications in 1992.) As with many of his visionary singles, it still sounds years ahead of most dance music, made even more so by the tasteful disco, new wave and electro undertones the DFA piles on like pastrami in a New York deli.
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