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)

Get It Easy

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