Tuesday, January 29, 2013

January 2013 Hotlist Week 4

Culprate - "Nightmares In Reality" 2012
I've been into this dude's music for a year or two now, and it seems he's finally hitting the mainstream a little bit and getting some recognition. The problem with this is that it seems as though he's dumbing down his music for the masses. I much prefer his more progressive sounding stuff, but I still like all the songs on this EP except the title track featuring Maksim. I'm just not into the British rapper thing. Check out "Hall Of Mirrors""Tooth Fairy""Diablo", and "Two".

d'Eon - "Music For Keyboards Vol. II: What's My Age Again Variations" 2012
This is some instrumental avant-garde jazz keyboard stuff in the same vein as Shnabubula. It's just what the title says it is, and yes it is the Blink 182 song. It's an interesting listen. Here's the first section of the albumthe 2nd section, and the 3rd section.

Four Tet - "Pink" 2012
So, I finally got around to checking out the new Four Tet album, and it's pretty damn cool. Definitely techno oriented, but he puts so many great layers and textures in here, it works equally well for dance floors and headphones. Check out the video for "Pyramid", also "128Harps""Lion""Jupiters", and "Peace For Earth".

Deltron3030 - "Positive Contact" 2012
Apparently this is some 10" vinyl associated with a beer that was brewed and named after the song from the first Deltron album. I found this as a random download marked as a new release, and there are no real track names, it's 4 tracks long, and all instrumental. I heard there is a new Deltron album coming soon, and i'm assuming these are 4 of the instrumentals from it, judging from the sound. It's definitely Automator and Kid Koala sounding good. This actually has me excited for the new album. I hope Del can get back on track and rhyme good again for this one.

Wiz Khalifa - "O.N.I.F.C." 2012
New official album from him. A good portion of the beats on this album are dope, but it's mostly wasted on Wiz bragging about how rich he is now that he made it big, but how it didn't change him. There's flashes of decent flows here and there, but for the most part, on this album he sounds like a super pansy version of Juicy J or something. This is pretty good for a major label album though. If you're into this style of music, it pretty much bumps all the way through, with maybe only 2 fast forward worthy songs. Check out "Fall Asleep""Got Everything" featuring Courtney Noelle"Time", the ambitious "No Limit", and "Initiation" featuring Lola Monroe.

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