Demons of the Static Age

Word has it that with super high bit-rates this video appears to be more than it is...I haven't actually been able to watch it yet, and certainly not download and watch it proper, high and defined, but yeah check this shit out. No lie I've listened to this song more than any other in the last couple of months(beating out Joanna Newsom, Big Boi, Isobel Campbell...that is one large feat). While static is an interesting medium, they really need to get someone with a Carpenter/Kubrick aesthetic up on their videos and start churnin' out the new DARK...you can pick up a super Fidelic version of the video somewhere on this website but not entirely sure how...how helpful

Balam Acab - "See Birds (Sun)" from stereogum on Vimeo.

balam acab - see birds (moon) from allblurry on Vimeo.

watch this dude cuz he's definitely on the up and up

fuggit go krayzay

Shangaan Electro....Agaan

CANNOT get enough of this shit. I don't have words to extrapolate...sorry.



as long as marginalized people like the Shangaan of Limpopo have a vehicle to share their souls with the rest of the planet, the internet will get a pass in my book.
If you can buy this album I would highly suggest it, these guys are from South Africa...which you know has a whole can of problems-poverty being right there on the top of the list

Get Naked You Beezy

Dr. Laura, what can be said that you haven't already said yourself? appreciate the n00dz though!

Dance till ya can't Dance till ya can't Dance no more

It seems every coupla months I will find out about some new crazy-ass region specific dance that is just coming out and every time I get my head blown off. You can tell waaay more about a group of people by what they create rather than what a Rand McNally picture atlas could tell you. The newest dance music craze sweeping the internet is from South Africa, it sounds like the soundtrack to the cheaper N64 games like Bust-A-Move or Diddy Kong racing....but sped up to impossible speeds with super mechanical yet polyrythmic drums and a notable lack of low-end. But the way these girls are dancing to it is what gets me, crazy crazy hypnotic....there is no reason to try and describe just let it explain itself. All-in-all it reminds me of something you'd see on Sesame Street or Gullah Gullah Island, it's a feel good vibe and a reminder that Americans are way to stiff and neurotic to have a pure good time compared to some others in the world.

If you don't have any patience for the music the dancing starts a minute in....

Shangaan Electro from outsidemusic on Vimeo.

This video is admittedly pretty ridiculous, I don't know Im a weird dude those vocals do it for me though

SHANGAAN ELECTRO 6 from outsidemusic on Vimeo.

This last song I actually kind of dig, but you might want to take that with a grain of salt because I've been lately feeling like C+C Music Factory is one of the best bands of the 90's, and I always have room in my heart for a saccharine sweet ode to love.

Nwa Gezani My Love / SHANGAAN ELECTRO from outsidemusic on Vimeo.

If you're interest is in any way piqued

Stompin' N Da Rompa Room

Just finished this book on Federal Prisons. The Hot House is a doozy for sure, the journalism is a little jaundiced, but that doesn't mean none of this stuff has not happened. Anyways it got me thinking about Mac Dre who spent some time incarcerated in the early 90's. While in jail he recorded raps over the phone and released an album.
A lot of people will talk shit on The Furl but I will save my arguments on his lyrical supremacy for a later post. Right now I just want people to hear some of the shit he was spitting in jail.

Cop It



1 Back N Da Hood
2 '93
3 Love Dat Donkey
4 My Chevy
5 It Don't Stop
6 Im N Motion
7 Young Mac Dre




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