Metal Lungies

Watch as the electronic duo that’s going to be at multiple festivals that ML is geeked about fights the good fight. If you don’t get anything out of this, at least you’ll learn how to say Soulja Boy in Danish.

“somebody tell Roth I don’t love college”

You are probably wondering who these dudes are, as chances you are like me and you haven’t heard of this Philly group before, but if you don’t listen to this, you lose. This isn’t a Jim Jones jack move, they remix/sample the og monster MGMT track to impressive results.

Chiddy Bang X MGMT – Kids

Credit goes to Luis at Pretty Much Amazing (one of my fav. blogs, so RSS his shit)

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I guess it takes Kanye to bless a track with a verse to really catch on. Knobbz let me know recently that our previous post with the OG Remix of the redic club banger is one our most searched posts on google. So, it’s only right we post another remix featuring Kanye. Kinda sick to hear an auto-tuned Kanye shout out Baltimore’s legendary Unruly label.

DJ Class – I’m The Shit (Remix) (Ft. Kanye West)

Stolen straight from Eskay’s house.

If you are looking for a dope electronic show to check out tonight and you happen to be in NYC, check out Calvin Harris with DC locals Nadastorm at Webster Hall. I’ve never heard of Calvin Harris before but since he was playing with Nadastorm, I checked out his myspace. I ended up listening to all the tracks on his page. If you dig Chromeo, Justice type stuff check this guy out tonight.

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So, i found out the other day that one of my favorite bands, The Disco Biscuits, covered ML Hollers @ subject Flo Rida’s song “Low” during a recent gig in Colorado. Naturally, I immediately checked youtube and found the video. Needless to say, there’s something funny about watching an electronic band and mostly white crowd get down while singing “shawty had them apple bottom jeans, boots with the furrrr…”

What made this little nugget even juicier was this interview I found on MTV.com showing Flo Rida’s reaction to the cover. Dude was psyched! Check it: Flo Rida’s Reaction

Here’s the vid of the Biscuits covering “Low.” Enjoy.

Via Stones Throw

Here’s a great interview with the heads of two great record labels, Pedro Winter (aka Busy P) of Ed Banger and Chris Manak, aka Peanut Butter Wolf of Stones Throw. There’s some interesting back story behind both labels and Busy P’s answers are all in charmingly broken English  (the title of this post being the best example).

Particularly interesting: Pedro explains how Slum Village ended up remixing Daft Punk’s “Aerodynamic”.

Pedro, how did the Daft Punk remix by Slum Village/Jay Dee occur?
Pedro: You all probably know the classic “Raise it up” from Slum Village. This beat was insane at the time. Jay Dee as usual came up with an avant-garde beat. I did not notice the sample at first sight, but a friend of us was there and say, “Hey hey hold on, isn’t it a Daft sound?” And fuck yes! It was in fact a sample from Thomas Bangalter’s solo project for his label Roulé.
Instead of loosing our time and react as ass holes and ask for money or shit, I propose to the Daft boys to take care of it and ask a remix in exchange of the use of that sample. I met Dilla in Miami and he was of course up for it and was really friendly. He is from Detroit and electronic music never scared him. We were so happy with the result and the shout out. It was a simple and nice adventure. I feel really lucky to have met Jay Dee it was 8 or 9 years ago.

Download: Daft Punk – Aerodynamic (Slum Village Remix)

Download: Slum Village – Raise It Up

And of course, the sample for “Raise It Up”, Thomas Bangalter of Daft Punk’s “Extra Dry”:

Don’t you love that feeling when you hear a track so good from an artist that’s new to you that you seek out their whole catalog. That’s the feeling I had when I had this funky electronic track come across the ML e-mail box a few day ago. I went in search of more music, only to find out their debut isn’t even out, but they do have some samplings on their myspace. The group is from Portland, but their debut, Mind Chaos is coming out in the UK first on Virgin in June, shortly followed by their Stateside debut on Capitol. Plus, how can you hate on a band named after the best sport ever?

Hockey – 3am Spanish

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The Bmore Club legend that brought the legendary Tear Da Club Up (and the only ringtone on my phone.. since like forever.), brings us more fire. These 2 remixes of his single, I’m The Shit from the forthcoming Alameda Coldspring are… well bananas (no Gwen Stefani). If you are at any party, or even a funeral.. play this.

Check the heat rock:

DJ Class-I’m The Shit (Lil Jon Remix) (Intro Dirty)

Via Mad Decent

DJ Class-I’m The Ish (Remix) (Ft. Jermaine Dupri & Trey Songz)

Via FirstUp (Youtube studio footage here)

(Note: Remix of the same og song but the difference in name is because the remix is clean?)

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RJD2 is one of the many dope artists that doesn’t get enough deserved shine around here, only a mention here and there.

With that said, a step in changing that- Ben at AlwaysHustle posted up some new tracks RJD2 released on his myspace blog. In my personal opinion, Song For You is the stand out cut of this bunch, but all are worth a listen. RJD2 has worked with a lot of underground cats like Blueprint, but I’d love to hear him work some mainstream Hip Hop acts, the results could be as hypnotizing as Mos Def on the Wylin remix.

Edit: Read comments, tracks were fake?

RJD2 – Song For You

RJD2 – Morning Break

RJD2 – Time Has The Final Word

From their album, The TakeOver coming out February 17th. On some electronic shit. Check out The Search and Seizure Mixtape while you’re at it.

Download: Zion I – DJ DJ