For Love I Come

Lil B - emptying his brain on to the internet

Lots has already been written about Lil B everywhere on the internet, which has probably made it harder to get your head around what he is and what he does, it certainly took me some time to figure out if I liked it or not. Simon Reynolds' article in The Wire about too much information to truly identify with an artist nowadays rings true when talking about people like Lil B - "Fanatical identification with an artist/scene has given way to drifting eclecticism and partial allegiance"

I've had 'Red Flame' and 'Blue Flame' for sometime and never really got round to listening to much else. So it wasn't with great expectation that I listened to 'Rain In England' for the first time yesterday (whilst it rained in England), but I am now a total convert. Despite the occasional remedial synth line that interrupts the strings and synth washes, it's totally hypnotic, stream of conscious poetry. Ruminating on the state of earth, how all women are us and we are them and various other stoner theory's.

'My Window Sill' is where the album really coalesces in to brilliance for me



Suicide seem like an influence on this - the minimal backing, the yelps, the beat poetry:



I read an article about the Black Keys in Mojo recently where the writer dismissed hip hop in 2011 as on a downward spiral, but with Lil B, Wiz Khalifa, Wacka Flocka Flame, Odd Future etc I think it's safe to say that he's a fucking dick.

Mercenárias 'Inimigo'

In preparation of my trip to the Central American jungle on Saturday, I've been listening to a lot of Panamanian funk and Peruvian psych (as recommended by El Guincho) and this track from the really quite brilliant Soul Jazz comp, The Sexual Lift of The Savages.

I used to play this a lot at our old club night. Nobody liked it much, except me.

Tom Trago 'Being With You'

Where Smokey goes mid-tempo synth boogie

'Iris' by Tom Trago is out now on Rush Hour, get it here

Mo Kolours

dBridge 'So Lonely'

dBridge - So Lonely (Original) by Exit Records UK

Where UK bass music starts to come to the same conclusions as Autre Ne Veut

James Fox - 'New Jack Swing'

I hated new jack swing when it was in it's heyday. But that was just an early onset of indie snobbery, deep down I loved quietly grooving to Guy and Al B Sure. This doesn't sound like either of those, it's house. Which is also good.

Jacques Greene - 'Another Girl'

The Koreless remix of 'The Look' is also amazing

Dirty Beaches

Easily one of the albums of 2011, buy it from Rough Trade

EMA - 'California'

EMA - California (Official Video) from Souterrain Transmissions on Vimeo.

Get the album from Souterrain Transmissions