Hoja en Blanco (not sure of the artist)
Los Caminos de la Vida · Los Diablitos
Los Angeles Azules – Como Te Voy A Olvidar
Cumbias heard in the streets of Mexico and in the cars of Los Angeles reminding listeners it’s possible to dance to your own heartache.
Kid Sister – Big N Bad
Never disregard dance music that comes outta Chicago and that includes Juke the up-tempo, electro-hop style of dance music that spawned one of my favorite female rhymers Kid Sister. (She got her name cause she was kid sister to her popular DJ brother, Flosstradamus founder, Josh Young.)
Not everyone is so hot on her music and imagine hip-hop purists probably grumble at stuff like this but I like her response:
I hate to be cheesy, but cheesy is kind of my thing. I’m not ashamed of it.
Recognize the sample in this song? It’s “Don’t Go” by Yaz
Kid Sister-Switchboard
B-side of her breakout hit, Pro-Nails which was released on Kanye West’s record label. Produced by Chi-town juke house hero DJ Gant Man.
The Count and Sinden feat. Kid Sister – Beeper
Another favorite from Kid Sister!
Theoretical Girls – Theoretical Girls
“1, 2, 3, 4!”
Theoretical Girls – U.S. Millie (1978)
Do you have ideas or do ideas have you?
I have nothing prepared for Christmas this year, so here’s an old post I did on LA Eastside a few years back.
Recipe for an excellent Christmas video:
1. Start with the best Christmas song ever, El Burrito de Belen – a festive cumbia tune sung by a chorus of kids backed by nalga-shaking rhythmic accompaniment.
2. Give a group of Peruvians in the Andes access to a video camera and editing software.
3. Dress one of the Peruvians in a donkey suit and futbol gear.
4. Add one fed-up burrito.
5. Voila! You got the above video, bizarre and silly, my kinda Christmas entertainment.
It’s so donkey! 😉
This was one of my top listened to albums of 2010. It was released in 2008 but I’m always behind on these things. Below are three tracks from the album.
Deux – Game & Performance
GAME AND PERFORMANCE
You can be someone
If you grow with me
Your simple Song
Is something else
You simulated
your love for me
You can be someone
if you grow with meYou just need
Game and Performance
Your Life is a prospecting Company
Business Man
Yet you kill the Boss
Computers programs shadows in the Night.
More at the Deux website.
Comix – Touche Pas Mon Sexe
Marie Moor – Pretty Day
More on French New Wave at this website.
Another favorite from the album, Ruth’s Poloroid Roman Photo here.
Guerre Froide – Demain Berlin
Guerre Froide – Ersatz
French Cold Wave circa 1981
A cold wave is expected to hit Los Angeles today and the chill is making it’s way through the cracks in my house.
A northern cold front is expected to move into the Los Angeles Basin early Tuesday, colliding with subtropical moisture that has been sitting off the Pacific coast for several days. Periods of intense rainfall through Wednesday will bring an additional 5 inches to coastal plains and valleys and up to 10 inches in the mountains, Meier said.
Swayzak feat. Kirsty Hawkshaw-State of Grace
“I will pull you out of modern secrets”
A dubstep favorite from years past.
The Fall-Mountain Energei
“Water’s flowing down the mountain
But a tree is blocking the water coming
Mountain energei“
The English Beat-Twist and Crawl
“Are we really happy or maybe just pretending, I can’t tell the difference…”
The first twenty seconds of this song are perfection. The rest is pretty good too.
ESG-UFO (original version, slightly sped up)
Oh, you thought the whole Secret Disco thing was over, eh? Not yet. I’m hoping to wrap it up by the end of this year and I still have a few more entries. For now, there’s this well-known and heavily sampled song by the Brooklyn family known as ESG. As far as I know the fast version is the original and the slower version was the one favored by break-dancers and hip-hoppers.
ESG-UFO (33 1/3/slow version)
Amen break in full effect!
For a list of songs using UFO samples, see here.