Friday Free Download

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Friday then. Time for some free music.

The much-talked about Santogold/Diplo mixtape has leaked online and you can download it here.

I'm particularly looking forward to hearing the Diplo remix of Santogold's album track 'I'm A Lady', as it features one of my favourite female rappers, Amanda Blank. The mix also features Santi's reworking of The Clash ('Guns of Brooklyn') and the Radioclit remix of Santogold's 'Get It Up' featuring M.I.A. (presumably recorded before she announced her retirement from the world of music).

Enjoy!

Hitz from Finland vol. 14

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One for the emo* crowd: Disco Ensemble, the (mini-)Primer.


I really had several other themes slated to post before this one, but it got bumped up the queue because I finally heard the second single off Magic Recoveries the other week, and OH MY GOD.

If they'd made this the lead single instead of Bad Luck Charm, I wouldn't have taken two months to get the album, is all I say, ahaha. (Totes candidate for one of the singles of the year!)


That said, let's get digging into some history:

( Primer-y stuff below )

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*) Disclaimer: only call these guys emo if you want to watch Proper Fans have conniptions, haha. (Which I grant has its uses wrt entertainment value!) They def cross over to the emo demographic, though.

A few pinches of freshness

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I've been meaning to post a couple of album tracks from Ashanti's new The Declaration for a number of weeks, but she totally beat me to the punch by making one of them the second single!

Production courtesy of Jermaine Dupri, smashing stuff. The 'wooo!'s = gold. And adorable video! The visual style suits the song to a T.

(The other track I had set up is Rodney Jerkins brainchild So Over You: kind of turn-of-the-millennium retro, and a right stomper.)

Elsewhere, summer movie season brings us this:

The tinkly/sparkly backing is sort of completely addictive, and the beats are killer. Keri Hilson's contribution is pretty minimal; mostly she provides atmospherics (if very effective atmospherics!). [Produced by poptimist favourite Polow da Don; he's really shaping up as a producer of the year, isn't he?]

Speaking of Keri Hilson, we FINALLY have a debut solo single:

It borders on the nice but eh until the moment in the chorus when that THRUM (like the one in Danity Kane's Is Anybody Listening! read: OMG) slides in under the music, and the emotion just SWELLS -- and then that middle eight, omg! It's been a looong wait for her official solo career launch, but this certainly fulfills all the heightened expectations I've built up over all that time. CANNOT WAIT FOR THE ALBUM.