212 featuring Lazy Jay from Azealia Banks on Vimeo.

This man deserves the recognition he is getting now

Love this song

GHOSTRIDERS II X GESAFFELSTEIN music video from Anto Hinh-Thai on Vimeo.

Not a huge diplo fan, but this video is pretty cool.

This album is going to melt our faces off

Another sneak peak:

YTGvB: Grimes "Nightmusic" from Yours Truly on Vimeo.

This is definitely my favorite group of the last year

Nothing sounds like they do. This video is a collection of all the songs off there latest album. If you liked this album get the previous two, they are just as awesome. These Seattleites deserve your hard earned money.

This would be great if it wasn't for the huge converse symbol directly in the middle

Address is Approximate

Address Is Approximate from The Theory on Vimeo.

The Weeknd

Humans

Demo Reel from Taylor Loughran on Vimeo.

Sometimes its just right

I don't own one dirty vegas song, but that doesn't mean they (he/she? goes to show I have no idea) are bad artists in any sense. But sometimes a video/song pairing is just awesome.

All we ever wanted was everything

Mixtapes you should download

All these albums are better than anything you can buy.
Number one and so good is ASAP Rocky.

Second is 88:88 (called Missing Digits).

Third is jj - Kills mixtape.

So f*cking awesome

Earth | Time Lapse View from Space, Fly Over | NASA, ISS from Michael König on Vimeo.

Sickboy - Heaven & Earth from Mark Warrington on Vimeo.

Revok: "Triumph and Tragedy"

REVOK / TRIUMPH & TRAGEDY / VICIOUS GALLERY / DEC. 3RD from WWW.REVOK1.COM on Vimeo.

WORD TO MOTHER 'ESSENCE OF ADOLESCENCE' from Viktor Vauthier on Vimeo.

Rad-ish

The blues is when your love is 2000 miles away

Mister Heavenly

Plus some more Man Wolf action.

Real Estate

Keep Time by Gauntlet Hair from Secretly Jag on Vimeo.

Mix 3: Mind Over Matter

This is my favorite mix yet. Faster, Energizing and more Purple, all in only around 30 min. So... upgrade your gray matter. Cause one day, it may matter.

MindOverMatter by mnakamura
Download this mix by clicking on the "down-arrow" button on the far right of the embedded player.

Thom Yorke and Modeselektor

SUPAKITCH & KORALIE "Euphorie" Paris from Raphaël Hache on Vimeo.

M83

M83 - Midnight City from naiverecords on Vimeo.

New Mixtape Download: Diurnal Rituals

Available Again! (07-18-12)

Download Mixtape | Free Mixtapes Powered by DatPiff.com

I have FINALLY finished everything, well almost everything I wanted, for the second mixtape. This mix's songs actually come from songs I listened to this summer, but that doesn't mean they were all written in the last decade. I have been studying our climate and the dynamical systematic changes that occur between night and day. While doing this I noticed my favorite songs started to subconsciously order themselves in a diurnal cycle. Moods changing from dark to light and back to dark again. So I wanted to explore that concept of cycles or rituals that occur in our every day lives, be it natural or human, and structure the mix as the cycle of our day on Earth.
I say that I almost did everything I wanted because I truly wanted to collaborate with my friend Ronnie too. I wanted a written word aspect that accompanied this theme. Maybe a short story that had this mix as the soundtrack of sorts. But, Ron being the awesome guy he is, is swamped with being a student again and a new husband. I wouldn't completely rule it out from happening in the future though.
I am re-posting the mix because I fixed some glitches with the physical music and I have created some new back cover art that now has the track listing on it.
I hope you guys enjoy it and spread it along. It is being published so late that I already have quite a long this for the third mixtape. Be on the lookout.
Enjoy.
Comments always welcome.

As always download the mix by clicking on the "down-arrow" button on the mini player.
DiurnalRitual by statrat333

My sister pointed me to this band, big thumbs up

Jamie xx - "Progress" from disco naïveté on Vimeo.

Wu Tang

Back when Andre 3K wore cloths you could purchase at a store

Youth Lagoon

lp out now.

"Posters" Youth Lagoon from ChambersVsDolph on Vimeo.

The Alphabet

When I have kids I hope they are still making stuff like this to stimulate there little brains.

Aryz

I love Aryz work. His work has an illustration feel, but it is so well done and complex on a large scale you barely notice it.

Aryz x Public Provocations 3 from dans fovs on Vimeo.

check them out: king midas sound

bam

Yourstru.ly Presents: Washed Out "Far Away" from Yours Truly on Vimeo.

One of the best new groups

So simple and so effective.

YTGVB: Shabazz Palaces "The King's New Clothes Were Made By His Own Hands" from Yours Truly on Vimeo.

I love this song

"Evrything you get ... you gotta work hard for it!"

Yes please!

Active Child

Boys II Men would be proud:

Playing House Feat. How To Dress Well [Official Video] from Active Child on Vimeo.

Download: Jamie xx - FACT mix

If I haven't pointed you to enough music lately, this ones for you. Jamie xx is one of my favorite producers of the moment. These mixes are usually only available for download for two weeks, so get a jump on it. I am sure you will not regret this one. Get it here.

New Mix: Diurnal Ritual

Diurnal Ritual by statrat333

The "download" button is on the right hand side of the mini player, marked with a "down-arrow" symbol.

eye rays

synched up

The Dark Side of Oz from Bryan Pugh on Vimeo.

The Cults

A sunday in HELL

Battles

The Funk Is Back MF

Ridiculous

Fully Recommend: Earth Girl Helen Brown

“Helen Brown was born in Vancouver, Canada, but raised in an Athens, Georgia-based religious cult, and was blinded in one eye from a childhood baseball injury. As an adult, she dropped out of Evergreen and traveled the country for a while as a nomadic psychedelic folksinger, before forming her first band One Eyed Tramps. For years, she lived alone in a mountaintop in southern Alaska, where she befriended a Cherokee Shaman (later revealed as a fake) who encouraged her to pursue a frustrating academic career. Rampant drug use, frequent fainting on stage, and occasional self-inflicted knife wounds on stage led to more interest in her stage antics than her music. However, a few sides did emerge in the late ’90s (recording dates unknown), which feature a unique mix of country, girl group, R&B, and ghoulishness. Crude and amateurish at best, these recordings are appreciated for their sincerity and intensity of feeling.”

Download the song here at Pitchfork

Keep Shelly in Athens

Keep Shelly in Athens // Running Out of You from Wooden Lens on Vimeo.

Keep Shelly in Athens // Fokionos Negri Street from Wooden Lens on Vimeo.

Sleep Over

Sleep ∞ Over - Casual Diamond (OFFICIAL VIDEO) from Christine Aprile on Vimeo.

Toro!

Toro y Moi - I Can Get Love from young foodstamps gihad on Vimeo.

"even better"

Strata #4 - Teaser 1 from Quayola on Vimeo.

"boom bap"

PTA 01 from Quayola on Vimeo.

Gettin busy with Vizie

Artist Driven - Vizie Night from LRG on Vimeo.

some nice moving pictures

SUPAKITCH x KORALIE x POSCA from elr°y on Vimeo.

Trek Madone

Gomez's Madone ass should like this:

Wugazi: Free Download

Some young gents had the brilliant idea of mixing the Wu Tang Clan's lyrics with instrumental backing from Fugazi. They have released a couple singles over the last couple of weeks, but the full album is finally out. Check it out. I like SREAM (Sleep Rules Everything Around Me).
Wugazi • 13 Chambers by WUGAZI

Shabazz Palaces

Sorry its been a long time since my last post. I started a new blog with my family, a way to keep in touch, and summer vacationing has also got in the way.
Beside that I have been listening to the new Shabazz Palaces album a lot. Peep a segment here:


Also been really digging the new Washed Out album. They were great live, I have a little video form that show. I may post that soon.

"your such a tease"

Mount Kimbie

Grimes

Grimes is an artist out of Montreal getting all sorts of attention right now. Her music is low and dreamy psychedelic instrumentals with sparse vocals from Claire Boucher herself. Its all made with drum machines and keyboards. One of her eps Geidi Primes is available for free download from her site here. I think its worth the hard drive space.

d'Eon

Montreal based musician d'Eon released the instrumental version of his songs from Darkbloom, a split ep with Grimes. (More from Grimes soon).
Latest tracks by cdeon

One of my favorite songs of the past week

Now with a badass video

Radiohead - Staircase

ROA

White Walls: ROA 'Four Horses' from Unit44 on Vimeo.

SBTRKT

SBTRKT is coming out with a self titled album June 28th on Young Turks label. The same label that hosts the XX, Jamie XX's solo stuff and much more. You can stream the whole album and see if its the right flavor for you. "Wildfire" features the vocals of Yukimi Nagano (of Little Dragon) and I really dig it. Check it out.

These are a few of my favorite things...

Specialized Beats from WhiteNoise | Lab on Vimeo.

New song from The Weeknd

The Weeknd is preparing two more mixtapes to be released. One names Thursdays that will be released this summer and another named Echoes of Silence that will come out in the fall. I am not sure if this new song, "The Birds (Part 1)", will be on either.

Frank Ocean

frank ocean [novacane] from christopher francis ocean on Vimeo.

Panda Bear

PANDA BEAR "Surfer's Hymn" from m ss ng p eces on Vimeo.

"Dedicated to all the surfers taken by the sea"

tv on the radio

HTDW x Jamie Harley

How To Dress Well - "Ready for the World" from Jamie Harley on Vimeo.

HOW TO DRESS WELL - "Decisions" (feat. Yüksel Arslan) from Jamie Harley on Vimeo.

How To Dress Well - "Lover's start" from Jamie Harley on Vimeo.

Get lost

CLAMS CASINO - I'm God from kohnkepik on Vimeo.

Memory Tapes

Memory Tapes "Yes I Know" from Najork on Vimeo.

slow down

LOVE SPELLS - Collapsed from kohnkepik on Vimeo.

Balam Acab

I have been excited for the new full length album coming out from Balam Acab entitled WANDER/ WONDER. It will be released August 29th on the label Tri Angle, which hosts the gloomy electronic bass heavy soundscapes of recent. I found this interesting quote from Robin Carolan who runs the label about what genre the label will be catering to,
"It's like a witching-hour vision of Cocteau Twins dream pop, meshed with the soundtrack to a particularly angsty Gregg Araki film full of Gen X shoegazer atmospherics and industrial beats, brought bang up to the date by the influence of raw hip-hop mutations like chopped and screwed and juke."
If that isn't enought to convince you to check out this album when it comes out, Tri Angle has released two very short snippets to wet your chops:

WONDER from Tri Angle Records on Vimeo.

WANDER from Tri Angle Records on Vimeo.

Then Fact Magazine pointed me to a free download of one of the new tracks to really sink my teeth into.
Download: Oh, Why

Tracklist:
1. Welcome
2. Apart
3. Motion
4. Expect
5. Now Time
6. Oh, Why
7. Await
8. Fragile Hope

Active Child x How to Dress Well

One of the better EPs I have listened to this year has been from Active Child. I have recently got in the habit of listening to HTDW while doing work. I was very pleased to hear that on the full length album Active Child there will be a song with HTDW producer Tom Krell. You can hear the song over at pitchfork.

Country Sh#t

I am lovin' the big K.R.I.T. especially when you add in a little Ludacris.

Simpsons x Pulp Fiction

James Jean

Some great Moleskin art. Click the images to get a better peep.