Whether or not the new Bonde Do Role album is actually called, as Pitchfork will report sometime this week, BONDE DO ROLE WITH LASERS, we can tell you that the anticipation on this thing is beginning to get hyper. Their holdover EP full of "Gasolina" remixes is barely out and people are flipping. Above and below: some examples of what to expect. Children love kuduro, and this Baraka Som Sistema joint shows why. Extra points for some insane Third World triangulation type shit, which is currently blowing First-World off the dancefloor. Also, we emailed Mad Decent to find out whether there's any metal on the new Bonde record, and we got two words for you: ZOMBIE DANCE. Keep an ear peeled.

Bonde Do Role track listing (not in order):

Bondalica
Caminhao do Gas
Gasolina
Jeremia
James Bonde
Marina do Bairro
Micose
Office Boy
Querro Te Amar
Rap do CB
Sobe o Som
Solta O Frango
Melo do Tabaco
Tieta
Danca du Zumbi

DOWNLOAD: Bonde Do Role, "Gasolina (Buraka Som Sistema Remix)" (mp3 at Fluo Kids)
DOWNLOAD: Bonde Do Role, "Gasolina (Scottie B and King Tutt Remix)" (mp3 at 20 Jazz Funk Greats)
VISIT: Mad Decent
FRIEND: Bonde Do Role

2/6/2007 8:38:49 PM by On the Download | Comments [2] |  

Pour one out for Dave "Disco D" Shayman. Disco D, the producer who introduced Kevin Federline to baile funk and crafted K-Fed's infamous debut single "PopoZao," commnitted suicide on Monday at the age of 26. Catchdubs, the Urb, and the Hollertronix board give him thoughtful eulogies. According to a post by a friend on Hollerboard, a funeral service in Michigan and a memorial service in Washington, DC, are planned for later this week. Shayman was a regular poster to the Low-Bee board, which was where the news of his work with Federline and, later, snippets of "PopoZao" first leaked. Although the song was received by the world as a weird joke, D had long since earned his street cred, first as a teenage DJ who helped to popularize ghetto-tech -- the raunchy, uptempo sound of Detroit strip clubs in the late '90s -- with his album A Night at the Booty Bar. And later, in his career-defining moment, producing the track "Ski Mask Way" on 50 Cent's The Massacre. He'd also produced numerous tracks for artists from Princess Superstar to Trick Daddy. D had reportedly been diagnosed with bipolar disorder, and according to Allhiphop.com, was "distraught over breaking up with his fiancee" at the time of his death. An old interview with D posted on the Hollerboard yesterday quoted him thusly: "Shit, I ran around Detroit since I was 15, I ran around Kingston. I mean, dude, I’m bipolar, I tried to commit suicide twice, like, I’m not scared of anything, know what I’m sayin’? I don’t give a fuck, dude—to me, life’s a big video game."

DOWNLOAD: Cabal feat. DG and Mr. Bomba, "Cabana" (from Disco D's Gringo Louco: Welcome To Brazil) (mp3)
SEND REGARDS: RIPs and tributes at Disco D's MySpace

 

1/24/2007 12:50:20 AM by On the Download | Comments [0] |  

DOWNLOAD: DJ Mark E. Moon, "Kidzmix" (mp3)

In case you missed him spinning at the Children’s Museum a couple of weeks ago, DJ Mark E. Moon — the nom de guerre of a prominent local cartoonist/indie-rocker/party-rocker — has uploaded an ingenious mixtape that brings the anything-goes strategies of 2ManyDJs and Hollertronix to the Kidz Bop crowd. Matching pre-tween fare like "Since You Been Gone" with mashed-up SpongeBob SquarePants cameos, remixing Cookie Monster in a baile-funk style, and unearthing priceless rarities like "Elmo’s Rap Alphabet," it’s the cool-kid hit of the fall.

Tracklist:

Do the Lollipop-Sweetness
Summer Nights-Olivia Newton John and John Travolta
C is for Bolinho-Cookie Monster
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles theme song
Clementine-Eject
The Two Little Squirrels (Nuts To You)-Louis Jordan
LY-Tom Lehrer
Since You've Been Gone-Kelly Clarkson
Spongebob Squarepants theme song
Eep Opp Ork Ah-Ah (Means I Love You)-Violent Femmes
Sesame Street theme
Smurf Rave
Meow Mix theme-Paper Rad
Oye Mi Canto-Reggaeton Ninos
Elmo's Rap Alphabet
8th Wonder-Sugarhill Gang

9/7/2006 9:13:47 AM by On the Download | Comments [0] |  

Yo, everybody work your way over to the Mad Decent tourblog and cop Bonde Do Role's freestyle over the "Still Tippin'" beat, recorded live on Houston's essential Damage Control radio show. (This was before Bonde singer Marina busted her arm at the Pitchfork festival the other day.)

What Lemon-Red declines to mention is that, during the same session, and while taking over the Damage Control decks, Diplo oopsie-previewed an unnamed new song presumably from the next M.I.A. album. That's about all anyone seems to know about it; yes, we're too lazy to throw it into Audacity and pull it out for you. We're sure Stereogum or someone will do so presently. As it is, you should totally download the whole 3 hr/143 mb file -- if not for Diplo's set (more bonkers than usual) then for what's good in Texas, which still marches to its own beat even now that the MSM circus has left town. Like, that Jokaman track (with "real monkeys!") is real ruthless. Oh, and if you just want to skip to the M.I.A., then you can just slide on over to 2:33:10. Before you get too excited, Maya's snippet is under a minute and less than one verse. Sounds . . . well, it sounds real weird. Which is what you wanted, right?

DOWNLOAD: Damage Control Radio feat. Bonde Do Role and Diplo (mp3)
DOWNLOAD: Jokaman, "Monkey Do" (mp3)

8/1/2006 2:28:54 AM by On the Download | Comments [1] |  

Flicks by Cami.

DOWNLOAD: CSS, "Music Is My Hot Hot Sex" [mp3]

Lemon-Red already gave you the merchboy view on Monday night's Diplo/CSS/Bonde De Role throwdown. Suffice to say, show was awesome, hotter than shit and sweatier than your ass crack. Our personal favorite parts of the night almost all involved BDR's bad-ass frontlady Marina: watching her pull a Brazilian-flavored Courtney-Love-minus-the-drugs onstage; trying to help hold her up as she crowd-surfed; finding her washing her blonde locks in the nasty Great Scott ladies' room sink right after their set.

CSS was all guitars, awesome girls, "art tits," alcohol serenaders, and cool sneakers. Sorta like this, except wetter.

And without the runway.

Diplo, holy fuck: TV on the Radio, "Hustlin," Spank Rock/Amanda Blank, MIA beats, Bonde de Role (who joined him briefly), and everything else that makes your hips sore. All that, despite mumbling into the mike that it was so hot onstage, his records were melting.

TD from Big Digits chided us for briefly sitting at the back of the room and yelling over Diplo's insane set with Mr. Merch, saying something like, "Get out there and dance because you aren't going to see another DJ this good in-" shaking his head, furrowing his brows, and pausing for TD-style effect, "A long time." We reported directly to the dancefloor, where we got to watch another Marina moment: her grinding with some tall Boston dude who was clearly having the Best Moment of his Month (possibly year) and then watching his face completely pale when another girl with expectations of him dramatically swooped in between them, like a mom trying to save a baby from a fall. Sorry, dude. Too bad she didn't join in and try to help you hit the three-pointer.

7/19/2006 12:36:45 PM by On the Download | Comments [1] |  

Sorry, but they're already all sold out!

 

1. See Piles at Charlie's Kitchen in Harvard Square with American Business Machines and Dead Like Death.

DOWNLOAD: Piles with Animal Hospital's Kevin Micka, "Divided Binomials"

2. See our buddy Wayne Marshall at Enormous Room's Beat Research with DJ Flack. Wayne sez, "I plan to mix all sorts of things into a dembow salsa stew, if you will, merging recent reggaeton with classic nuyorican soul and throwing in a pinch of dub for good measure. I may even break out some ol' raps. I'll also be joined by an exciting band outta Brooklyn, Aa (say 'BIG A little a'). They mix up a tangle of percussion, synthesizers, and "screamoy" vocals to make music that defies category, and they've apparently cooked up a special set just for us Cambridge folks. They also do their own light show! Should be a blast."

3. Read Lemon Red's tour blog over and over until you can smell the Jager on DJ Gorky's breath.

4.


5. Cry

7/17/2006 5:30:35 PM by Cami | Comments [0] |  

So, how've you been?

We've been trying to work our way out from under the avalanche of site-clogging traffic generated by our blogging bretheren over at Slop Culture, who just had the internet version of a runaway, chart-topping, Beatle-mania-type hit single. A ridiculous little idea they had called "The 100 Unsexiest Men in America" -- a parody of lad-mag "100 sexiest women" features -- became a bona-fide internet meme. A couple weeks ago it got Farked. On Friday, our pops called us up to say that Dan Patrick was big-upping us on ESPN radio. Twenty minutes later Keith Olberman called up and wanted someone to come on his show. On Monday, Regis and Imus picked it up, as did the AP wire, which also made its own video to accompany it. Then MSN wrote a story about our story, and Yahoo put it on the homepage, and at some point yesterday "The 100 Unsexiest Men" was the #1 story on CNN.com -- meaning it was more popular, for a few hours at least, than Tom Cruise's baby. Apparently we also made The View and Fox News, and some blogs, too. The Unsexiest Man in the World was hounded until he responded.

(Also -- small potatoes -- Google Images seems to think that OTD is hosting this ridiculously popular photo of Bow Wow at the American Music Awards, even though we aren't. So fuck it. Now we are.)

We had to ask our techies what "bandwidth" means -- we always figured it was some formula based on the girth of Tad's ass -- but apparently it is currently in short supply, which is why it has been taking us three hours to check email.

In any case, we had some long-winded rants to throw your way, but now we're gonna keep it short. Speaking of novelty memes, Peaches finally got round to giving it up the butt to "My Humps."  And some Financial District jokers ganged up to rap out against K-Fed, landing them in the Track. In related news, we just got the new Disco D baile-funk mixtape, "Gringo Louco," which is also the title of his new baile/riddim, which you can download from MySpace, albeit without the Spank Rock and Elephant Man cameos. Yes, Virginia, we too hear that Diplo is about fed up with this dude ripping him off. But anyone who has been listening to Mr. Pentz's unfuckwithable Mad Decent Podcast fire knows these guys aren't even in the same league. Latest NPR for the streets is up right right now: e-40/mia blend, gnarls barkley, future Bonde/Diplo tourmates Cansei Der Sexy's pre-subpop track "Wanna be Yr J-Lo," catchdubs-cosigned SNEEZ RIDDIM. (Aside: Cami was in charge of posting OTD birthday photos, but somehow she ended up dancing on top of bars halfway across town at night's end, and to top it off we had some email screwup, so for now you should treat Catch's photos as the official record.) Also, we finally got the Gnarls Barkley advance in today, so the OTD crew wasted a good two hours mulling that shit over. The concenus: DAAAAAAMN. (Record companies: don't blame us for the leak, that thing was torrented like way before last week, which we would've grabbed it back then except our Oink ratio is hella low right now, but we're gonna have to murk this shit eventually because this CD is totally unplayable on anything except a three-year-old discman we bought at CVS.) The rest of you who don't have Oink or unrippable Gnarls Barkley advances will have to make do with the videos for "Crazy": rorscarch test version and live on Top of the Pops insanity.

Here are some songs that are good for dancing with a girl or a boy in the hopes of fucking them:

DOWNLOAD: Nelly Furtado, "No Hay Igual" (mp3)
DOWNLOAD: Ali & Gipp, "Go Head" (mp3)
DOWNLOAD: Crime Mobb, "Rock Yo Hips" (mp3)
DOWNLOAD: Clipse, "Me Too" (mp3, via Faderblog like forever ago)
DOWNLOAD: New York Dolls, "Dance Like a Monkey" (mp3)

Yes, that last song is off the new New York Dolls album. It's really only sort of OK, which is so much better than we expected that we are practically jumping up and down.

Also, while we were pinned behind the firewall, our inner pimplefaced 16 year old starting wilding out so we went looking for the new Tool, AFI, and Thursday jawns. We love Maynard. He's like almost the Cam'ron and the Ghostface of alt-metal. Killing it for seven minutes, which if they want to go cock to cock with newkids like Mars Volta had better be the goddam shortest song on the album. 

4/20/2006 2:19:03 AM by On the Download | Comments [0] |  

We've been telling you about Bonde do Role for a minute, but for those of you just joining the discussion, Leon gets you up to speed in this week's fishwrap. After that hectic moment a couple months ago where Mr. Spears stole the baile-funk storyline, these three kids from Brazil are fixing to take the spotlight back. Back when we first wrote about the Bonde kids, we got an excited email from them thanking us for the post; this week they're doing it real big on Rolling Stone's 10-to-watch list. We still haven't gotten bored with their debut EP, that place where Rio funk hits Alice in Chains square in the jaw. But we've also been loving the "Melo do Tobaco" remixes (thoughtfully provided to us by their label manager), which you'll be hearing lots more of soon over at Mad Decent HQ. The first remix trickled out the other day, by Kanye West's DJ A-Trak. Today, we feel extra-special priveleged to debut our personal fave of the bunch, a "Melo" remix by none other than Paul Devro, whose "Toma" mixtapes did more than anything save Diplo's Favela on Blast tapes for turning us on to the in sound from way South.

One additional detail not in the piece: Diplo and Bonde have confirmed a July 17 date in Boston at Great Scott, with support from fellow Brazilians Cansei de ser Sexy, of "I Wanna Be Your J. Lo" infamy, who've just signed to Sub Pop. [Ticket link] [Listen to Bonde at MySpace] [Buy the Bonde do Role EP]

DOWNLOAD: Bonde do Role, "Melo do Tobaco (Paul Devro Sweet Mango Mix)" (mp3)
DOWNLOAD: Bonde do Role, "Melo do Tobaco (A-Trak Remix)" (mp3, via Mad Decent)

4/4/2006 11:41:21 PM by On the Download | Comments [1] |  

Follow-up to last night's post, from the typepad of columnist/DJ/record promoter David Day:

"this kfed shit is completely fucking up our sets. I dropped popazuda by Edu K, a real banging baile track for real, last night and I could tell people were thinking, is this k-fed?

"ugh. baile will never be the same. that fucker."

Speaking of which, Edu K! This is the frontman of the Brazilian hard-rock band Da Falla, whose crossover hit "Popozuda Rock N Roll" is sort of the "Walk This Way" of baile-funk. Now he's signed as a funk solo act to Man Recordings, the label that put out that Nao Wave reish last year, and has an album coming next month. Below: video-style (since that's how this baile thread wants to roll) representation of his brand-new "Sex-O-Matic" (thanks, David!) also featuring Deize Tigrona. Deize's single Injecao was the basis (at first uncredited, and now fully credited) for M.I.A.'s "Bucky Done Gone." Check Just for a Day blog for mp3s, including GNR-sampling remix.

WATCH: Edu K & Deize Tigrona, "Sex-O-Matic" (.mov)

1/29/2006 8:34:57 AM by On the Download | Comments [1] |  

You knew there would be consequences. After the initial rush, it seemed like the whole K-Fed baile-funk thing was going to sneak out of mass consciousness, no harm done. A couple weeks went by. And then . . . well, shit's metastasized fairly quickly. We're done blaming Disco D; now we're just blaming YouTube.

Click away:

WATCH: Kevin Federline, "Popo Zao (MTV NEWS)" (video via YouTube)
WATCH: Attack of the Show's "Cottage Cheese Thighs" (video)
WATCH: James Lipton reads "Popo Zao" lyrics on Conan (video via YouTube)
WATCH: K-Fed, "Popo Zao (Peanut Butter Jelly Remix)" (video via YouTube) 

1/28/2006 7:27:33 PM by On the Download | Comments [1] |  

1. A belated welcome to the new-look OTD. In case we didn't mention it before, that sweet logo is by Jef Czekaj, with whom any regular reader of this blog is already familiar via his numerous musical endeavors, most of which he chooses to pursue under one pseudonymn or another. Besides all that he's an awesome cartoonist. Even Dustin Hoffman thinks so, or so we've been told. If you ever forget where he's at, just click his signature above to check out his site.

 2. Let's pretend this item is unrelated to the one above. Mark E. Moon -- the dude who wrecked the internet with last week's all-world Neutral Milk Hotel remix -- has done it again. He was a little bummed we didn't mention him in our baile-funk rundown a few days ago, but that's only because we hadn't checked the Compound 440r blog in a whole five minutes, and in the interim those dudes had lit up, like, three yards of posts. Including a couple of distinctly non-C440r leaks -- like the first single off the MSTRKRFT album, which, goes without saying, we're totally stoked on. Plus the Big Digits dudes took a videoblog ride with that dude Raji that Miliard wrote about a while back. To get back on track, though, Mark E. Moon has posted two more songs from his upcoming Last Nail in the Coffin mixtape: a reggaeton remix of Unrest and (the source of his protest to OTD) a baile-funk remix of Belle & Sebastian. Fuck's sake, why isn't this kid famous already?

LISTEN: Mark E. Moon, "Legal Man (Baile & Sebastian Remix)" (mp3)
LISTEN: Mark E. Moon, "Isabel (Reggaeton, Eventually Remix)" (mp3)

3. Deserving of its own post: Wayne "& Wax" Marshall's definitive two-page Reggaeton essay in the Phoenix this week (actually even longer online). We were super, super inspired by reading Wayne's now-famous blog post "We Use So Many Snares," which subsequently became the inspiration for a couple of MSM reviews, including a widely-read one in the Times by a former Phoenix hip-hop critic . Wayne didn't really get as much credit as he probably deserved for steering the critical discussion about reggaeton, and OTD thought it was really important to get him into ink-and-newsprint to set the record straight. In any case, we feel this is an important and definitive piece of criticism, and it's one of the things we're proudest to have published. Even better, Wayne has put together a 40-minute annotated soundtrack for the piece that's downloadable for free over at this place, tracking many of the musical moments he elaborates on in his piece. We got giddy listening to it and reading along with it: this is what music criticism should be like. Period.

LISTEN: Wayne&Wax, "Dem Bow Mix" (mp3)

3. Apparently everyone else had this already, but now we got this thing where you can see what Google searches people did to end up at OTD? And then you're supposed to post about it when you get a funny one? OK, best one so far, just the other day: someone landed here by searching for "Jordyn Bonds nipple." Dream on, duder.  

4. The Chop Chop's Catherine Cavanaugh checked in the other day -- hi, Catherine! -- to clarify that we were not crazy, they really did have an mp3 up, they just took it down to save on bandwidth. "And plus," she writes, "I'm fascinated with myspace....which is lame, I agree." Not at all. We love social networking as much as the next hopeless web addict, we just can't take myspace with us on the train. So consider yr iPod satiated: here's the track . . .

LISTEN: Chop Chop, "Mixtape" (mp3) 

1/21/2006 11:05:24 PM by On the Download | Comments [2] |  

1. You may recall that, once upon a time, a Florida DJ helped a Sri Lankan MC in British exile to gain international exposure by producing a song that borrowed liberally from a form of music popular in Brazilian ghettos that had in turn been derived from a style of hip-hop indigenous to Miami. Which, as you may recall, is a city in Florida. The relevant point here being: the part about the Florida DJ borrowing liberally from the Brazilian song caused a bit of a fuss.

Now comes something that feels inevitable: a trio of good-looking baile-funk teens who are seeking revenge (or so you could say if you're kind of fudging the details, but what the hell, let's invent a storyline, shall we?) by borrowing liberally from popular American hard rock and Broadway showtunes. The best part? Yes, the Florida DJ is involved again.

In case you ain't heard, the group in question is Bonde Do Role ("The Rollercoaster Band"), they have a 12-inch EP coming out next month, they are from Brazil, and they are fixing to blow the fuck up in a minute. Discovered by Diplo, they're the first signing to his Mad Decent record label. Mad Decent's label manager was nice enough to give us the heads-up about this a couple weeks ago, and recently leaked a song to the world. In true label manager fashion, he didn't leak the best song on the disc -- he left that for some blogger guy to do -- but we'll spell it out for you: funk carioca + Alice in Chains's "Man in the Box" = genius. (OTD's dream of a real-deal baile-metal song, first dredged up by Da Falla's Popozuda Rock N Roll, has been realized.) Ditto for the songs sampling the Darkness and the Grease soundtrack. Crass? Yezzur. Dope? You don't know the goddamn half of it. CD version will appear at a later date with remixes from Diplo, Brucker & Sinden, DJ/rupture, DJ Marlboro, and Paul Devro -- i.e., the only baile-funk DJs that matter. If you hadn't slept on these kids, you coulda downloaded the Bonde demo at their MySpace page: now you'll have to stream it like the rest of the early adopters.

LISTEN: Bonde Do Role, "Funk de Esfiha" (mp3 over at Lemon-Red)

2. Hearing the Bonde EP had us thinking yet again about what lies down the pike for favela funk. Mere weeks ago, Disco D introduced the tabloid and mainstream press to baile-funk by producing a funk track -- in Portuguese, no less -- by Britney Spears's husband. Now he's turned around and produced a b-funk single by a Brazilian group who sing in English. (We could claim it's the first b-funk single in English, but we have no idea whether that's the case.) Clearly, this is the shit people are going to be talking about this year. Whether anyone who heard Diplo and Paul Devro's mixes in 2004-05 will recognize the funk in 2007 is another question. But if it sounds anything like this, we won't give a shit. Disco D: consider yourself forgiven for K-Fed.  

LISTEN: Braza, "Welcome To Brazil" (mp3)

1/17/2006 12:57:32 AM by On the Download | Comments [1] |  

 
How do you say "Vanilla Ice" in Portuguese?

1. Before you embark on your subculturally-programmatic mocking of the new Kevin Federline single -- and yes, it is in fact a baile-funk track produced by Disco D, and yes, that means this will be most Middle Americans' introduction to baile-funk, and yes, there are already people who are mad at it -- consider these four arguments, put forth by no less than Disco D himself on Hollerboard the other night, after asking the question of all questions, "How is this more of a cultural infringement than M.I.A.?" (Low blow, D -- nobody up in your grill asking who named a white boy the king of ghetto tech, right?) So here goes, inna direct quote stylee: Disco D's top 4 reasons K-Fed is more authentic less reprehensible more enviro-friendly (insert-value-judgement-here) than M.I.A.:

"1) He actually pays homage to the type of music referenced and shouts it out and where it came from.
2) The beat isn't a straight bite of anything else in existence, where as M.I.A. just took someone elses' rhythm
3) Every Brasilian I've played it for, including DJ Marlboro and DJ Juliao (the biggest funk DJ in Sao Paulo) loves it.
4) He is shooting the video in Brasil, bringing tens of thousands of dollars in commerce as well as countless amounts of exposure to the country."

Can OTD just chime in hurrr and opine the following: There's nothing more embarassing than turning in your Pazz and Jop ballot with a baile-funk comp on it, only to turn around and find out that Britney Spears' babydaddy just rubbed one out for his debut single. Why bother doing all the hard work of being an early-adopting hipster when some Mickey Mouse millionaire is just gonna come shank your game in the back? (Uh, quick: what's the html for <sarcasm>?) That said, a little perspective, folks: no, it's not gonna replace De Falla's "Popozuda Rock N Roll" as the greatest baile-funk song ever, but it's a big step up from Kelly Osbourne's faux-"Favela Funk" mix of "One Word." Word?

LISTEN: Kevin Federline, "Popo Zao" (mp3 via this site, beware the popups). There's also a Megaupload link over at Do It Old Maid.

2. Pre-K-Fed (as all time before now in the history of favela funk shall be henceforth known), Paul Devro made one of our fave baile-funk mixes. Go figure: his new mix, next up in the world-beating Lemon-Red mix series brought to you by URB's hip-hop blogger of the year, has not a lick of funk carioca on it. "No baltimore, no grime, no baile," he tells L-R. "Some bollywood, some iraqi, some italo, some p funk. one new rap song, some old ones." The first song sounds like some third-world transmogrification of "My Humps," (we mean that as a compliment), and it only gets crazier from there. OTD has a soft spot for rap answer tracks, so Icy J gets vigorous nods and rockist overbite, too. Devour, study, surrender:

LISTEN: Paul Devro, Lemon-Red January Mix (mp3)

3. And while you're over there, Mr. Lemon-Red got hisself added to Pazz and Jop, but was not silly enough to add a baile-funk comp to his albums list. He was, however, generous enough to post his entire singles list as a motherfucking zip file. Dope. Since everyone seems to be doing it -- and though no one asked -- here's OTD's P&J Ballot:

Albums
1. Kelly Clarkson - Breakaway - RCA (15)
2. LCD Soundsystem - LCD Soundsystem - Capitol (14)
3. MIA - Arular - Interscope (13)
4. System of a Down - Mezmerize - American (12)
5. Bloc Party - Silent Alarm - Vice (11)
6. Young Jeezy - Let's Get It: Thug Motivation 101 - Def Jam (9)
7. Lightning Bolt - Hypermagic Mountain - Load (8)
8. Various Artists - Slam Dunk Presents Funk Carioca - Mr. Bongo (7)
9. The Illegible DJ Caps and Pandemonium Jones - Moving In Stereo - nolabel (6)
10. Say Anything - Is a Real Boy - Doghouse (5)

Singles
1. Amerie - 1 Thing - Sony
2. Beck - Girl - Interscope
3. Black Eyed Peas - My Humps - Interscope
4. Three 6 Mafia - Stay Fly - Sony
5. Paul Wall - Sittin Sideways - Swishahouse/Atlantic
6. Doomriders - Black Thunder - Deathwish, Inc.
7. As Long As We're All Living We're All Dying - Fatigue - Teenage DiscoBloodbath
8. Kano featuring D Double E & Demon - Reload - 679
9. Sufjan Stevens - Concerning the UFO Sighting Near Highland, Illinois -Asthmatic Kitty
10. MIA - URAQT (DJ C Remix) - XL

4. David Banner, New York Times columnist. Bet he'll get a P&J ballot next year.

5. You did whispers and whistles. You ate some Laffy Taffy and got your sugar fix. What's next? Oh, snap!

LISTEN: Dem Franchize Boys, "Lean Wit It, Rock Wit It" (mp3)
LISTEN: D4L, "Betcha Can't Do It Like Me" (mp3)
LISTEN: BHI, "Bubblegum" (mp3)

6. Ghostface Killer doll. Accessories: "Real 14 karat gold chain. Real GFK Robe Gold Chalice with Swarovski crystals. Each doll will include a Ghostface Killah Doll mixtape by a world-famous DJ TBA. Real 14 karat gold avenging eagle accessory (extra). Each collector will have a 1 in 500 chance to spend a day with Ghostface Killah himself. Each Doll will come in a limited edition gold sealed box. Ghostface Killah is fully involved in all aspects of the project from manufacturing to promotion. Each Doll speaks original recordings of Ghostface Killah catch-phrases."

7. Obie Trice kicks off official marketing campaign for new Eminem-produced album by getting shot in head.

LISTEN: Obie Trice, "Wanna Know" (Real Audio stream)

8. Winner: best post combining Johnny Damon abuse and a song by the Hives, awarded to Badminton Stamps. Winner: best post combining Johnny Damon abuse and two songs by the New York Dolls, also awarded to Badminton Stamps.

9. Remember back in 2002 or whenever when every third and fourth word out of everyone's mouth was "no wave"? Prepare for that again this year. JD Twitch of Optimo DJs fame gets you caught up with a 45-minute mix featuring traxxx from Contortions, DNA, Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, Y Pants, and more:

LISTEN: JD Twitch, "No Wave Mix" (mp3) (annotated tracklist)

10. Yet another reason never to use Explorer again.

11. Not sure what the headline is here: that Amazon's giving away lots of mp3s, or that Apollo Sunshine (Boston's answer to the Flaming Lips, or maybe just to the Flamin' Groovies) has two of the top 8 songs on Amazon's free-mp3 chart. Whoa.

12. OTD faves Ponies in the Surf shouted out by Gorilla Vs Bear. Rad.

13. Boston's DJ BC owns CultureBully's list of the 10 Best Mashups of 2005. Reasons?

LISTEN: DJ BC, "Yoshimi Battles Snoop Dogg" (mp3)
LISTEN: DJ BC, "Can You Hear Biz Knockin'?" (mp3)

14. We love DJ BC, but with all due respect, what about this one?:

LISTEN: DJ Mei Lwun, "You Humped Me All Night Long" (mp3)

1/3/2006 12:10:09 AM by On the Download | Comments [1] |