PackFM – I Fucking Hate Rappers (2010)

01. The Support Group

02. I F*cking Hate Rappers – Produced By Tonedeff

03. The Show

04. Nasty – Produced By Domingo

05. Wanna Know (ft. Deacon The Villain) – Produced By Kno

06. The Kanye Look

07. Flux Capacitor – Produced By J-Zone

08. Take Our Place (ft. Dominion) – Produced By Domingo

09. Step On My Kicks

10. Tough Talk (ft. Poison Pen) – Produced By Marco Polo

11. Here We Go (Come On) – Produced By Domingo

12. Sire – Produced By Domingo

13. I F*cking Like Everything – Produced By Deacon The Villain

14. Closure

15. Absolutely Positive(Bonus Track)

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We cannot go back

Maybe art, maybe some art, maybe this art, maybe some of this art, serves turning the absence opaque, that is, making it at once palpable and impenetrable, so we cannot go back, so we are stuck in the appreciation of this strange, utopic now, and any attempt to overcome it, to look for the actual empty space, meets the opacity of an object, an image, a substitute, substitute not of a reality, but of what ceased to be, of the void that hence remains beyond us, happily or unhappily, hard to say, replaced by the fundamentally meager and helplessly sublime moment of a hesitant, aesthetic, experience, too private to be credible, too credible to be intimate, and yet ours, because we want it to be, because we claim it as such, because we know we inherited it from the silence that came before.

The picture - entitled (...) - is by Marek Wykowski. (Found by Gocha)

Apollo Brown - The Reset (2010)

01. Our Time

02. Hungry feat. Rapper Big Pooh & Black Milk

03. Lower The Boom feat. Oddisee, Kenn Starr & Sareem Poems

04. Beauty Of A Day feat. The Regiment

05. Real Detroit feat. The Left

06. Seasons feat. Stik Figa

07. Brag Language feat. Buff 1 & Magestik Legend

08. Streets Won't Let Me Chill feat. Diamond District

09. Balance feat. John Robinson & Kenn Starr

10. Turn & Run feat. Med & Rapper Big Pooh

11. Odds Ain't Fair feat. Hassaan Mackey

12. Brainwash feat. yU, Grap Luva & Finale

13. Just Think feat. Magestik Legend

14. Propa feat. Oddisee & Tranqill

15. Ghetto Soul Music feat. Declaime, Prince Po & Finale

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Joshua Barton Brooklyn, NY 9/5/2009

In observation of the ongoing tradition to release something (anything) musical on my birthday, I offer here the audio & video of some backyard tunes recorded in Brooklyn in September of 2009. Though the video makes it look like I was pretty lonely out there in the dark, I was in fact joined by dozens of good friends, and hosted by the generous Gina Pensiero at her 50/50 Space (aka her basement and/or backyard). Gina gives of herself to music in many cool ways, including her band and her blog. Getting to participate in her ongoing monthly series of shows was a fantastic experience, and it was only the beginning of what turned out to be a fantastic night.

Special thanks for this release go out to Dax Monta & Graham Mason for recording it, and doubly to Dax for bringing the final recordings together as a package. I was joined on mandolin for a few tunes by Tristan Dreisbach. Matt Richman helped out with editing.

Download the audio here.

Watch the video here.

Tracks:

1. Introduction

2. I've Got Something To Say To You

3. We'll Always Have The Oasis

4. Going Home

5. Don't Stay Away (Till Love Grows Cold) [Lefty Frizzell]

6. I'll Fly Away [Albert E. Brumley]

7. Eugenia

8. Ypsilanti Is Seething

9. Sick Of America

10. Unknown Legend [Neil Young]

11. Point Of Contention

12. Pillaged Land

13. Roll Another Number (For The Road) [Neil Young]

14. I've Seen A Light

60 Second Assassin - Remarkable Timing (2010)

01. Words From The Assassin

02. Sword Style

03. M.O.A.N.

04. Clockz N’ Kingz feat. Timbo King, 12 O’Clock & Chi-King

05. Remarkable Timing feat. Masta Killa, Popa Wu & M-Eighty

06. War Zone Remix feat. RZA, La The Darkman, Prodigal Sun, Timbo King & Da Division

07. Cloud 9 feat. Heaven Razah, Shabazz the Disciple, Son One & Kristina Green

08. No Face

09. Paradise feat. Killah Priest, Timbo King & Kristina Green

10. Love Burns feat. Prodigal Sunn & Phillie

11. The Throne feat. Planet Asia

12. Dead Flowers Pt. 2 feat. Bronze Nazareth & C-Rayz Walz

13. Fizza Funky

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When movement becomes dance

11 min, 16 mm film, B/W, no sound
Camera: Bill Rowley
Edit: Elaine Summers
Dir: Elaine Summers
Prod: Hans Breder, Iowa University

There are two things about this short fragment I love.
The first is the choreography of joy. The slow-motion allows us to better appreciate the flow of the common movement, the combining of the bodies, the contrast between them and everything that happens around them.
But there is something else. The dance becomes obvious at the end, when the movement continues beyond what we expected. Yet there is one earlier moment, one step of the girl coming from "our" side, which makes that clear. At a very precise point, she deviates from the way she has been running, her body bends like a bow and then moves sideways. That is when the simple vectors of meeting become something else - something more complex, less obvious. The bodies, now, create a space for our meeting to go beyond the embrace.

Reflection Eternal - Revolutions Per Minute (2010)

01 RPM's

02 City Playgrounds

03 Back Again (ft Res)

04 Strangers (Paranoid) (ft Bun B)

05 In This World

06 Got Work

07 Midnight Hour (ft Estelle)

08 Lifting Off

09 In The Red

10 Black Gold Intro

11 Ballad Of The Black Gold

12 Just Begun (ft Jay Electronica, J Cole and Mos Def)

13 Long Hot Summer

14 Get Loose (ft Chester French)

15 So Good

16 Ends (ft Bilal)

17 My Life (Outro)

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Declaime-FONK(2010)

01 03:33 Declaime MC

02 03:13 Light

03 03:31 Hungry

04 03:15 Warrior

05 03:09 Dad

06 02:45 Fame

07 03:51 Gangsta

08 03:01 One

09 05:08 Dreamer

10 05:51 Brotha

11 03:37 God

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Access Immortal - Birth Of A Dream (2010)

01. Red Dawn (Intro) w/ Verse Essential

02. Block Star

03. Everything I Know

04. What The Game's Been Missin feat. Silent Knight & Fresh Daily

05. I Got Em

06. Why It Gotta Be Like That feat. Medinah Starr

07. Talk About It

08. I'm On My Way

09. I Love New York feat. Karniege, Vast Aire, C-Rayz Walz & Poison Pen

10. Ya Lose

11. Aphrodite

12. Spotlight

13. Giants feat. Double AB

14. Culture Shock

15. Life Is Gangsta

16. Against The Odds

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Ursa Major - De Gre Ou De Force (2010)

01. Juste un extrait - 2Spee Gonzales & Evil Shiro

02. Triste sont nos ames - 2Spee Gonzales, Babli & Evil Shiro

03. Dangereux Feat Two Face

04. Patates en guise de caresses - Big Twin, 2Spee Gonzales& AKI La Machine

05. Shiri Shiro - D.Wan Shiro

06. La verite en face - Ursa Major Feat Killabizz

07. Revolte - Babali, 2Spee Gonzales & Ex.Mortis

08. Gangster - Kherozen aka Al Quaid

09. Tristes sont nos ames(Remix: Hommage a Fredy K)

10. Traiteur - Poops One & 2Spee Gonzales

11. Marlbare - Ursa Major

12. Darkness - Negrocentrik

13. Jeune damoiseau - Poopss One & 2Spee Gonzales

14. Rap de rue - Babali

15. 1ere approche - Ursa Major, Fredy K & Oxmoze

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Sage Francis - Li(f)e (2010)

01. Little Houdini

02. Three Sheets To The Wind

03. I Was Zero

04. Slow Man

05. Diamonds And Pearls

06. Polerzeitgeist

07. The Baby Stays

08. 16 Years

09. Worry Not

10. London Bridge

11. Love The Lie

12. The Best Of Times

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