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Kid Sister

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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!

Favorite Video(s) of the Week: Choli Ke Peeche

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From the film Khal Nayak- Choli Ke Peeche (1993)

Plot summary of the film Khal Nayak:
An female undercover cop fronts as a prostitute to catch a bad guy but finds out the bad guy is really a good guy and only became a bad guy because of his poverty and a case of mistaken identity. Out of the goodness of her heart, she attempts to rehabilitate him while they are both on the lam from the authorities. One of the authorities happens to be her cop boyfriend. The good bad guy doesn’t know this and falls in love with her. It’s unrequited. A scandal breaks out and the female undercover cop’s name is smeared for cavorting with bad guys and being a prostitute but the good bad guy comes in to save the day at a dramatic trial and her reputation is restored. We all still wonder though, Choli Ke Peeche? Translation: What’s behind the blouse?


Azis – Choli Ke Peeche (Anti geroi) (Churulyke)

I first heard this song through Bulgarian Chalga star Azis. One of the most famous gay, cross-dressing Gypsies in the world! And a favorite of artist of this here blog. Read this previous Chimatli post for more on Azis.

Quote from Youtube:

Azis sings Hindi songs because the Gypsy/ Roma people which he is are Indian people living in Europe. Gypsies/ Roma understand a lot of our Hindi & Punjabi language because it is very similar to his Romany language. Their dancing & singing style is also reminiscent of our own Indian songs which they continue to uphold in Europe.

Favorite Song(s) of the Day: Falling Fruit

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James Blake – Limit To Your Love

I just heard this song yesterday and I was like seriously, what just happened? When the dubstep bass kicks in at about a third of the way, it really does feel like some kind of an earthquake. It’s totally unexpected but in the best possible way. A rumble that matches the uneasiness of the lyrics, reminiscent of the tension that underlies all social relations causing them either to unravel or recombine in unexpected ways. Blake’s ability to fit in varying emotions into even the smallest bit of phrasing creates a song filled with all sorts of intensity, just the kinda thing one should expect from a good love song. Thanks to the producers who were careful with the construction of this track and didn’t make it a saccharine, everyday-ish ballad.


Jape-Floating

This song is verging on the cliché, the kinda declaration of universal love the hippies co-opted and ruined. The kinda cliché Crimethinc regurgitated from the texts of Situationists and Eduardo Galeano. Jape dodges cliché and instead, it finally feels like the real thing – the perfect antithesis to Blake’s Limit to Your Love’s “maps without oceans.” It’s about what’s beautiful in love and it’s possibilities for creating new worlds within the context of knowing deep down we are are all rather insignificant.
“We laid by the river, we looked at the stars. I said how tiny we are girl, how tiny we are…It feels like floating…”

Favorite Video of the Week: Marian

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The Sisters Of Mercy – Marian

“In a sea of faces, in a sea of doubt
In this cruel place your voice above the maelstrom
In the wake of this ship of fools I’m falling further down
If you can see me, Marian, reach out and take me home…..”

A soundtrack for the dark days of winter.


Nouvelle Vague – Marian

Slightly more upbeat but still melancholy.

Favorite Song of the Day: Bogus Totem Summer

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Two guys from Glasgow, Scotland made this song. A song which I really enjoy. They didn’t make this video though.
I was in Glasgow for a week once in March, it was cold. I saw a Rangers-Celtic game on St Patrick’s Day in the university pub where pints of Guinness went flying across the room when the Celtics tied Rangers. I was told by a crying drunk Celtics fan “Ya don’t understand the passion!”
The next night, a drunk Glaswegian guy talked to me for like fifteen minutes at a rave at the People’s Palace, a museum for the working class of Scotland. For fifteen minutes in a glass house surrounded by palm trees that grow out in the open here in Los Angeles, this guy went on and on and I did not understand one single word he said but nodded my head like I did until he finally yelled “Yuh doonut unduhstand a single wud I’m saying!” I’m sorry, I replied. There were so many things I didn’t understand in Glasgow like Branston pickles, for instance.

People do lots of drugs in Glasgow…when they’re not drunk. In Glasgow was the first time I met poor White people. My friend (who went by the name DJ Loco, do you know him?) said I was from Mexico because he didn’t like Americans. Someone asked me how I spoke English so well. I would not recommend eating a burrito in Glasgow unless you like white rice wrapped up in a cold flour tortilla.

This is what they sound like.