EL-P: I was asking people who follow me on Twitter about who the most anti downloading/digital music musicians were and we landed on Metallica (who I dont give a shit about) and Prince (who is one of my biggest influences). For fun, I put this thing together comprised of Metallica’s “Unforgiven Part 2″ and Prince’s “Purple Rain.”
This actually exists.
DOWNLOAD: El-P – Unforgiven 2 Vs. Purple Rain Mashup
via COC
The best part of Lost In Translation (for me at least) is Mr eXquire skillfully taking over a classic piece of Def Jux dystopia for an ode to a fried chicken spot on “Chicken Spot Rock”. That, in a roundabout way, encapsulates what this guy brings to the slowly re-emerging NY underground rap scene – the half hardcore/half quirky talent and style weaned on and reminiscent of the late 90s indy boom, but without that era’s often damaging high-minded pretensions.
DOWNLOAD: Mr. Muthafuckin’ eXquire – Lost In Translation (Mixtape)
El-P just dropped this via his official.fm page. Doesn’t quite have the oomf of the original, but lost minutae like this is always fascinating, especially when it’s brimming with nostalgic value as is the case here.
Details on the upcoming Comp Flow reunion show at Santos HERE, in case you haven’t heard about this yet.
Thanks to Brougham33 for the heads up
New visuals for an unofficial remix that was so good that it became official. El-P and Nocando should collab more.
DOWNLOAD: El-P – Time Won’t Tell Rmx Ft Nocando
Just a short snippet, hopefully more will materialize soon.
What’s really cool about this, aside from the music itself, is that after a very long career of working almost exclusively within a mostly closed circle of friends/co-conspirators, El-P is finally turning his talents toward a wider area of possible collaboration. Aside from Killer Mike, work with both Big Boi and Yelawolf has been hinted at via twitter and hopefully there will be more. Consider Freeway’s EMG freestyle as another example of the possibility at hand. Hypothetically speaking – a producer driver album ala Pete Rock’s Soul Survivor series or Doom’s King Gheedora, featuring a mix of established affiliates like Aesop and Breeze Brewin with newer acquaintances like the ones mentioned above – that could be great.
KILLER MIKE “UNTITLED” SNIPPET (PRODUCED BY EL-P) by PRODUCTOMART
The snippet of this song that appeared on weareallgoingtoburninhellmeggmixx3 was already one of my favorite songs of the year, and now El-P let loose the full version and my initial reaction is a mild acid flashback followed by a rapidly spreading warm and sticky sensation in the crotchal region.
The description that came with the song promises good things on the horizon:
this is the full version of the song that appeared on my weareallgoingtoburninhellmeggmixx3 (gold dust) by my favorite performer in the world wilder zoby. wilder sings and produces, i co produce. its going to be on his upcoming solo record tentatively entitled “wildcat”, which i co produced with him one freezing month in louisville kentucky. wilder is on some serious smoked out space pimp shit with this one. in fact the moog keytar-through-guitar-pedal solo at the end was done drunk and high as the dickens at 5am in one take.
The upcoming album should be great, as historically Wilder (with Chin Chin) has showed plenty of aptitude for “some serious smoked out space pimp shit”. Like on GG And The Boys and Go There With You for example.
I have been waiting to hear this for quite some time now. Thanks to El-P and Def Jux for making this so readily available. RIP Camu Tao.
DOWNLOAD: Central Services – Forever Frozen In Television Time EP
Back cover with track list and details is below. Also, go to El-P’s Tumblr for more details about Camu’s upcoming solo album King of Hearts. Also, don’t sleep on El-P’s latest megamixxx when it comes out, it’s quite good.
Thanks to Brougham33 for the heads up.
So for the most part the new El-P album/megamixxx sounds like you think it would – its a dense and cluttered dispatch from a dystopia populated entirely by brain stomping mechanical drums. Then at track 14 there’s a sharp left turn, and the suffocating claustrophobia suddenly gives way to an airy 3 minutes of proggy guitar and synth. And for a moment El-P comes kinda close to sounding like his acronym namesake.
This departure makes sense considering it’s credited to ‘Wilder Zoby ft. El-P’. Zoby is one of the co-founders of Chin Chin, and Contagious Snippet actually feels more in line with some of their work than it does with El-P’s. Regardless of who’s leading who on here, these two need to make more stuff like this asap.
DOWNLOAD: El-P / Wilder Zoby – Contagious Snippet
Unreleased track from 2005, to be included on the upcoming Central Services EP Forever Frozen in Television Time. Gotta love the unhinged quality here. Camu probably knows he can’t ‘sing’ in the traditional sense of the word, but he just doesn’t really seem to give a fuck and plows through the song with the confidence of Tony Bennett doing the second encore of a permanent weekend engagement at The Bellagio. It’s the Mike Tyson “I’m gonna fuck you till you love me” strategy.
WHERE IS YOUR GOD NOW?
STREAM/DOWNLOAD ‘JUSTING BEIBER – BABY (EL-P DEATH MIX)’ FROM THE DEF JUX SITE
