Boom Boom Music Vol 7

My mixtape series continues with Boom Boom Music Vol 7 (for those that aren't in the loop, this mixtape is something I make for my car and "Boom Boom" is in relation to the noise that comes out of my car speakers when these beats hit yall).

This time round Boom Boom returns to it's routes with lots of heavy hip hop beats that are designed to shake the speakers as well as a few straight up rock tunes. It kicks off on a dark note with Kanye West's Love Lockdown which has narrowly avoided the Boom Boom series for quite some time, then into the highs of Missy Elliot's We Run This. Already I'm regretting including Calvin Harris and Ready for the Weekend, it's completely out of place, and not for the usual Boom Boom reasons (I usually include a random track, normally the closing track).

Volume 7 closes with possibly the best closer I have included on a mixtape, The Beatles - Here, There and Everywhere. In fact, it's unintentionally Beatles-heavy too with a couple of inclusions with two inclusions from Dangermouse's masterful Grey Album.

Enjoy and burn.

Side A

• Kanye West - Love Lockdown
• Swizz Beatz - Top Down
  
• Missy Elliot - We Run This
• Jay-Z & DJ Dangermouse - Dirt Off Your Shoulder
• Dizzee Rascal - I Luv U
• Korn - Here to Stay

Side B

• Queens of the Stone Age - Medication
• Calvin Harris - Ready for the Weekend
• Thom Yorke - Black Swan
• Dizzee Rascal - Da Feelin'
• Jay-Z & DJ Dangermouse -Allure
• The Beatles - Here, There and Everywhere
  

Pavement Reunite!

I have had the words "Pavement" and "Stephen Malkmus" as a custom RSS feed for Google News in my RSS reader for months waiting for this news, then it lit up yesterday with 5 items, that's 5 more than normal. I nearly had a stroke.

Turns out my favourite guys from Stockton, CA are playing a show in New York next September, I must be a part of this, I need to see this happening LIVE! In the meantime, I'll have them on repeat in iTunes and my DVD player will contsantly be playing Slow Century (with a region hack).

Enjoy Shady Lane, (everybody needs one!)

Paramore cover Use Somebody

These guys managed to grab a coveted place on my Jordie's Boom Boom* Music vol VI mixtape with Misery Business (I know I'm late to the party on that one, I ignored it for too long). They seem like an ok little band, KROQ introduced me to them, they're one of the better bands on Kevin & Bean's playlist.

*Songs that make my speakers tremble

Boom Boom Music vol VI Tracklisting

It's Goin' Down The X-ecutioners
Sirens Dizzee Rascal
Izzo (H.O.V.A.) Jay-Z
Deeper Underground Jamiroquai
My Way Limp Bizkit
Misery Business Paramore
Revelations Audioslave
Bête Noire The Gutter Twins
Ride The Sky II Revolution Mother
The Fixer Pearl Jam
Just Like a King Seasick Steve

Beck's record club

This is why the information superhighway is the future, great artists like Beck are using it as a way of releasing new music to the masses. In this project, Beck re-records classic albums and posts them on his record club.

http://www.beck.com/record_club

Via Wired

At the Drive-In - Relationship of Command

I have rediscovered this fantastic album, I bought it after their insane performance of One Armed Scissor on Jools Holland (below). It contains completely impersonal lyrics, "you", "me" and "I" are hardly ever used, but at the same time Cedric sings the irrelevant lyrics with such heart and soul you can't help but relate.

Standout tracks - Enfilade, One Armed Scissor, Pattern Against User.