Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Gil Scott vs. Jamie Xx

I came up on this somehow... Jamie XX (of the band The Xx) did a remix of that new Gil Scott Heron joint from last year.

I put it on at work and then kind of forgot it was on, next thing you know I listened to the whole thing. It's pretty good. It was on this embedded player thing that I am pasting here, if it works you can check it out.



This lead me to check out The Xx... meh, it's pretty gay. I guess it could grow on me. Anyone like them?

I'm expanding my horizons. I've been messing with some "dance-y" kind of stuff that I typically don't touch with a ten foot pole: that new Caribou joint (on lots of 'best of' lists for 2010) is pretty fantastic and sounds exactly like Arthur Russell. I also checked out Actress, "Splazzsh" or whatever, mainly because The Wire gave it #1 of 2010 honors, and even though it is mad dancey I can get into it. I even gave that "Burial" joint another listen.

There you go, WWALT bros. Check me out, let's trade some DVD's of MP3's.

d-cheezy

5 comments:

Gabino said...

If you want some cool dance-y stuff capn' crawl a couple of those Kitsuné Maison Compilations

rootless said...

DC expanding horizons, next think you'll be telling me how you're all about Ryan Adams and Wilco now.... But I feel you, I recently re-listened to Burial and liked it more now. Maybe it's the current zeitgeist. I recommend Matthew Dear, which I got hip to on this blog.

Igor said...

At the risk of sounding like one of those guys, I actually liked the Gil Scott Heron record when it came out- although I think I only listened to it once. I haven't wanted to touch this XX thing. I think they're all hype. Like Rootless, I like Matthew Dear, and you can chase that back a few records into the catalog. Check out Jimmy Edgar, too- the Color Strip and XXX are good. It's like Prince/P-Funk/Speaking in Tongues-era Talking Heads keyboards over minimal house and way snappy snare hits. It's repetitive, vocoded. Aphex Twin just came out with two new Global Goon records that are good. The artists Mux Mool and Offshore hearken to Mylo and Brace Yourself era Mu-Ziq.

rootless said...

Thanks, Igor, I think you got me hip to Matthew Dear. I'm listening to the XX album for the 2nd or 3rd time and I like it, but that is an anti-DC band.....

Igor said...

Cool, glad you liked the Matthew Dear stuff. There are links to a lot of the stuff I mentioned in the last comment at nodata dot tv. The Offshore Aneurysm EP is good, good, good.