Throwback Tuesday - Dj Krush vs Coldcut "Cold Krush Cuts"

Last month Tammy suggested, "Instead of always posting new music, why don't you do a weekly blog about some of your old favorite music?" Every Tuesday I planned on starting... One month later we have the first installment of SBA's Throwback Tuesdays.



This album goes WAY back for me. "ColdKrushCuts" is the tag-team mix of Djs Coldcut and Krush. This album alone got me into Downtempo music. The first time I heard this album I was a sophomore in college living off campus. Our dentist student neighbor was really into anything and everything from the Ninja Tune Label. "ColdKrushCuts" the first cd he let me borrow and it changed my life. This once strickly hip hop kid started listening to electronic music. Still to this day, some ten years after hearing "ColdKrushCuts", I get chills when I listen to this mix.



Dj Krush Bonus Video going nuts in Atlanta from '07

SBA Top 40 of 09'

I can't believe how many incredible albums got released in 2009. I sorted my itunes by year last night and was blown away by the albums that showed up. It seems hard to believe that these artist all released new material. I compiled a list of my top 40 artists & song -

Acid Girls - Numbers Game
Adele - Hometown (highcontrast remix)
Anoraak- N.Ever E.Ending R.Omance D.Isaster
Au Revoir Simone - Trace a Line
Beirut - The Akara
Blakroc - Stay of the Fucking Flowers
Boyz Noize - Kontact Me
Calvin Harris - You Used To Hold Me
Little Boots - Stuck on Repeat (Fake Blood Remix)
Danger Mouse & Sparklehorse - Little Girl feat. Julian Casablanca
Discovery - So Insane
Editors - Eat Raw Meat = Blood Drool
Edward Sharp - Home
Fink - Sort of Revolution
Fukkk Offf - I give you Bass
Gossip - Heavy Cross
Ida Maria - I like you so much better when your naked
Jaydiohead - Change Order
John Fusciante - Dark Light
Juon Hopkins - Colour Eye
Julian Plenti - Girl on the Sporting News
Kid Cudi - I poke her face (feat. Common & Kayne)
La Roux - Bulletproof
The Longcut - Mary Bloody Sunshine
The Maccabees - Can you Give it
Major Lazer - Hold the Line feat Mr. Lex & Santi
Matt & Kim - I'll take us home
Miike Snow - Animal
MSTRKRFT - Heartbreaker feat John Legend
Phoenix - 1901
Rodrigo Y Gabriela - Buster Voodoo
Taken by Trees - My boys
Vitalic - Terminateur Benelux
We Were Promised Jetpacks - This is my house, this is my home
Whitest Boy Alive - Timebomb
The XX - Stars
YACHT - Psychic City
Yuksek - Tonight
zoot Woman - We Won't Break

Local Natives Stick

I think this band Local Natives is amazing. I have had the album, Gorilla Manor, now for a week and it is a must play at least once a day. The music is back to the basics for my music listening history. Its everything that made me fall in love with rock n' roll in the first place.
Great lead vocals drive this band. Smooth guitar riffs battle complex drum beats on each song. I think what really makes this band stand out is the unforgetable melodies that are perfectly executed with a full band chorus. Yesterday morning I woke up hearing the chorus of World News in my head. Its been 48 hours and that song keeps playing over and over in my head. For me that is the best indication if a band is going to stick in my rotation.

Friday is Techno Chicken Time...

This post is because I can. And it's Friday! Have a nice weekend. Come back Monday for another week of music. SBA will be reviewing the new Yeasayer, Blakroc, and the First Throwback Thursday.

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Shawn Lee & Clutchy Hopkins

Sometime the best things in life come completely unexpected. Last night I was trying find a use for my final 12 downloads of the month from emusic and decided to revisit my saved folder. I don't even remember putting Shawn Lee & Clutchy Hopkins in there. I started a preview of SL&CH while I continued to search for a good use of my last music for the month. Four songs into it, I was sold and immediately downloaded "Fascinating Fingers".

The LP has been on constant loop today. I got curious on whom these guys were and that lead me to this:



Surely this is a joke. Strange guy in the tiger mask and his mysterious cassette leaving partner. I went to their website, read the bit on Clutchy Hopkins. I half believe them when they say his identity is a mystery. One thing I do know for sure, these guys aren't a joke or gimmic.

Their music is a intriguing mix of live instraments and synthesizers. There is an underlying funk that blends with their trip hop sound. The age difference between the two creates a unique new sound that caught my attention. Maybe they will catch yours.


Mimi Tatonka


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