WU HENDRIX

Posted on September 3rd, 2011 by ekko

1. (00:01:18) Wu-Tang Clan & Jimi Hendrix – Intro
2. (00:03:33) Wu-Tang Clan & Jimi Hendrix – House Of Flying Daggers
3. (00:02:20) Wu-Tang Clan & Jimi Hendrix – When The Fat Lady Sings
4. (00:01:16) Wu-Tang Clan & Jimi Hendrix – Collector’s Material
5. (00:01:24) Wu-Tang Clan & Jimi Hendrix – Special Delivery
6. (00:03:01) Wu-Tang Clan & Jimi Hendrix – Last Call
7. (00:02:41) Wu-Tang Clan & Jimi Hendrix – P.L.O. Style
8. (00:02:47) Wu-Tang Clan & Jimi Hendrix – The Wind Cries Mary
9. (00:00:42) Wu-Tang Clan & Jimi Hendrix – The Experience
10. (00:02:27) Wu-Tang Clan & Jimi Hendrix – I Don’t Live Today
11. (00:03:13) Wu-Tang Clan & Jimi Hendrix – 10 Bricks
12. (00:00:55) Wu-Tang Clan & Jimi Hendrix – Star Spangled Banner
13. (00:01:53) Wu-Tang Clan & Jimi Hendrix – Hey Joe
14. (00:03:47) Wu-Tang Clan & Jimi Hendrix – Tooken Back
15. (00:04:57) Wu-Tang Clan & Jimi Hendrix – It’s Not A Game
16. (00:04:38) Wu-Tang Clan & Jimi Hendrix – The Switch Up
17. (00:02:45) Wu-Tang Clan & Jimi Hendrix – Kff2000
18. (00:01:21) Wu-Tang Clan & Jimi Hendrix – Kiss The Sky
19. (00:03:02) Wu-Tang Clan & Jimi Hendrix – Dirty Fox
20. (00:02:49) Wu-Tang Clan & Jimi Hendrix – Holla
21. (00:01:09) Wu-Tang Clan & Jimi Hendrix – I Can’t Wait
22. (00:01:12) Wu-Tang Clan & Jimi Hendrix – Summin Gotz To Give
23. (00:01:31) Wu-Tang Clan & Jimi Hendrix – Street Rap
24. (00:01:22) Wu-Tang Clan & Jimi Hendrix – Burning The Midnight Lamp
25. (00:03:39) Wu-Tang Clan & Jimi Hendrix – What’s Happenin’
26. (00:02:54) Wu-Tang Clan & Jimi Hendrix – The Hood
Get it!

Tags: Hip Hop, Mash Ups, Mixtape

BONANZA! BANZAI! BAMMA-LAMMA!

Posted on May 28th, 2011 by ekko

- Comics Alliance‘s weekly review of great art includes Wolverine and Thor pics by Bill Sienkewicz, Mike Deodato’s portrait of Joker, a Nightwing kissing booth(!), and much, much more.  One of my favorite weekly articles.

- The archive has a new Drive-By Truckers show, with a great cover Mavis Staples’ Respect Yourself.  Check out the whole show here.

- Go here for the Heart Shaped Tron mashup.  I’m guessing just based on the title you’ll be checking it out.

-People are still remixing Siqo????

-CD’s write up of Fuel Box is pretty damn funny.

-Illroots has the new Chiddy Bang mixtape, titled “Peanut Butter and Swelly.“  I haven’t heard the whole thing yet, but these dudes tend to be damn good.  Start off with this one:

When You’ve Got Music (feat. The Knocks)

- I love this.  It’s genius.  Genius!  HATE MACHINE.

-AD has a Neil Young boot from 2008.

-And last but certainly not least, Paper Bag Records has (another!) free compilation available for the price of an e-mail address.  Go here.  Here’s the terrific track list:

CFCF – How Bizarre (OMC cover)
Winter Gloves – Smells Like Teen Spirit (Nirvana cover)
Woodhands – Electric Avenue (Eddy Grant cover)
Sally Shapiro – Dying in Africa (Nicolas Makelberge cover)
You Say Party! We Say Die! – Falling Out (Rikk Agnew cover)
Josh Reichmann – Daniel (Bat For Lashes cover)
Laura Barrett – Gamma Ray (Beck cover)
Rock Plaza Central – I Want You (Bob Dylan cover)
The Acorn – Strange Animal (Gowan cover)
Little Girls – Heinz (Artery cover)
Slim Twig – Behold A Lady (Outkast cover)
Under Byen – Du er min øjesten (Peter Malberg cover)

Tags: Bootleg, Covers, Go away, Hip Hop, Mash Ups, Mixtape, Thor

ELEMENTAL ZAZEN + JAY-Z + ELVIS P

Posted on May 11th, 2011 by ekko

Nothing to Lose But Change.  Great album title.  Jason Trefts’ latest politically agile rap album.  Guest shots and production by lots of good names, like Canibus, Jean Grae, Kno of Cunnylinguists, Eligh, Jake One, Fashawn and more.

On Gnawledge Records.

Words That I Write

And if you dig that, the latest Cookin’ Soul mixtape is a runner-up for best Mash Up collection of the year . . .

Get the whole damn thing here.

Taste it here:

Ignorant Shit

Hello Brooklyn 2.0

Tags: Hip Hop, Mash Ups, Mixtape

DA WEEZY MASHUP REKKID

Posted on December 16th, 2010 by ekko

Courtesy of Sunset in the Rearview, and you can cop the whole thing at their site.

Circadian Rhythm (Lil Wayne & Birdman + Shitdisco + Minus the Bear + Beastie Boys + Local Natives + T La Rock & Jazzy Jay + Tears for Fears + Bone Thugs N Harmony)

Officer Hangover (Weezy + Lady Di)

Tags: Hip Hop, Mash Ups

KOTCHY-Baggy Spandex

Posted on October 21st, 2010 by ekko

Kotchy is super cool.

Kotchy samples Don McLean and Elvis Costello.

Kotchy also samples a lot of other artists, like Neil Young and Billy Joel, but it’s often so subtle you can’t quite tell who he’s biting off.

Kotchy isn’t offended if you call his Baggy Spandex release a mash up.

Kotchy knows it’s so much more than just a mash up.

Kotchy says he made it from a bag of records he found in the trash because he thought the records looked like they would belong to the the secretary from Ghostbusters.

Kotchy saw someone running down the street wearing baggy spandex shorts when he found the aforementioned albums.

Kotchy is kinda weird, in a cool/retro way.

Kotchy’s name was given to him by his granma (isn’t that sweet?).

Kotchy doesn’t have a band–it’s just him.

Kotchy’s Baggy Spandex is truly awesome, and probably pretty different from anything you’ve heard before.

Kotchy’s Baggy Spandex might just be the best free album of the year.

Kotchy will let you have it for free by clicking here.

Kotchy tastes like this:Norman Costello

Kotchy also has lots of other free stuff here.

Tags: Free Album!, Indie Pop, Mash Ups

WU TANG VERSUS THE BEATLES

Posted on February 16th, 2010 by ekko

I heard this mash/blend album about six months ago, but the link on producer Tom Caruana’s website went down fast and I couldn’t find another, so I figured Yoko and Richard had sicced their lawyers on it, peace and love peace and love.  But thanks to Smoking Section, I found a new link and feel comfortable sharing it with you.

I liked the Gray Album (and all the other colors), but didn’t love them.  They were the best of this type I’d ever heard, but they still didn’t work for repeated listens.

This one does.  It’s extraordinary.

Cutting It Up

Get the whole album here, from Tea Set records.  (Rapidshare link.)

Tags: Free Album!, Hip Hop, Mash Ups

DILLA TRIBUTES (R.I.P.)

Posted on February 10th, 2010 by ekko

Dilla died February 10.

Terry Urban’s tribute to J. Dilla

1. Biggie Feat. Kanye West: Love Or Money (TU Remix)
2. AZ & Nas: The Word Up Firm (TU Remix)
3. Black Moon: How Many MCs? (TU Remix)
4. Common Feat. Jay Z: So Far To Go (TU Remix)
5. Raekwon Feat. Ghostface: Criminology (TU Remix)
6. Nas Feat. AZ: The Flyest (TU Remix)
7. Clipse: Mr. Me Too (TU Remix)
8. Mobb Deep: Hell On Earth (TU Remix)
9. Jay Z & Kanye West: Diamonds Circulate (TU Remix)
10. Redman & Method Man: How High (TU Remix)

Link

J. Dilla and NaS-Dillmatic.

Link.

Fire Wood Drumstykx w/J Dilla (YSI)

Tags: Hip Hop, Mash Ups

VAMPIRE WEEKEND-Contra

Posted on January 22nd, 2010 by ekko

I have a question.  But before I ask it, I want to make one thing clear: I’ve listened to Vampire Weekend’s debut album quite a few times (I’ve played the song “A-Punk” 13 times, according to iTunes) and I enjoy it.  I also enjoyed Contra quite a bit.  But now that that is out of the way, here’s my question: Does anyone really love Vampire Weekend?  And by “love” I mean, does anyone feel an emotional connection to their music?  Does it move you?  Does it speak to you?  I find the music catchy and clever, and it definitely makes me tap my toes, much like The Talking Heads but without the R&B influence.  But David Byrne’s disaffected, disenfranchised pop still managed to connect–with moments of humanity (“Stay Up Late”), vulnerability (“Memories Can’t Wait”) and rebellious alienation (“Burning Down the House”).  I don’t get that from VW.  In fact, I often feel like they think they’re better than me–like they don’t want to connect, they just want to show how hip they are.  Like some of the kids I used to resent in college who never fought for anything but, nevertheless, had their own particular talents.  If I’m writing about it, I must have liked it enough to recommend it, so don’t take this all the wrong way.  The band is a lot of fun.  I guess I would have liked a little more substance to the whole thing, since the individual members clearly have so much talent.

That said, Contra is much like the band’s eponymous debut: It’s a collection of infectious, toe-tapping, perfectly timed and crafted pop songs.  There’s a little more Elvis Costello here than Paul Simon, making this album a little rougher (but only a little) and, in that regard, a little more interesting.  But if there’s one word to sum up the album it would be “cute.”  Very cute, charming pop.

Horchata (mediafire)

BONUS VAMPIRE WEEKEND!

Exit Music for a Film (Radiohead cover)-VW (mediafire)

Pina Horchata (Rupert Holmes vs. Vampire Weekend) (mediafire)

Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa (Vampire Weekend Cover)-Peter Gabriel and Hot Chip (mediafire)

Tags: Covers, Indie Pop, Mash Ups