Metal Lungies

I didn’t realize how much I needed Flying Lotus to score an anime.

Putting The Weeknd on the Fifty Shades of Grey soundtrack sounds like somebody’s C+ Twitter joke, but here we are. What’s crazy is that it’s one of the rare Weeknd singles that’s actually pretty great, following “Often” and “Kiss Land”. Crazier still: barring any subliminal messages, it’s squeaky clean. Like Michael Bublé clean. Go ahead and throw it on your ‘when mom is in the car’ playlist.

I picked this little gem up yesterday at Unique Thrift.

We all remember the classic film; but what about the album it inspired? This late 90’s comp included the likes of Will Smith, Jermaine Dupri, Snoop Dogg, Ginuwine, a young Alicia Keys, The Roots, D’Angelo, Trey Lorenz (his name will be the answer to a jeopardy question one day), Nas, Emoja, ATCQ, an early Destiny’s Child, 3T, De La Soul, Buckshot LeFonque, and the legendary Danny Elfman.

Read the track by track review, after the jump.

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Train! Fight! Die?!

DJA and Dirty South Joe have distilled the essence of motivation and physical and mental exertion into musical form. The product of their labor is Heaven 2 Hell, their second 80s action soundtrack mix. As with any action sequel, the stakes are higher and the danger level has doubled (maybe even tripled). Put this on and get inspired.

Find the track list after the break and don’t forget about part one. Keep it locked for Blood Bros 3!

via Mad Decent

Action has a new hero.

Blood Bros (DJA and Dirty South Joe) have created the soundtrack to your next arduous challenge. They compiled the greatest moments in 80s action movie soundtrack history for a mix that will get you pumped in times of adversity. Now go chop some firewood!

via Mad Decent

Screw hip-hop for a second. A group called Zelda Reorchestrated spent the last six years recreating the soundtrack to The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time to sound like it was recorded by live musicians. Ocarina is possibly the greatest game of all time and the soundtrack is freaking timeless.

Zelda Reorchestrated almost realizes the dream of a fully orchestrated Ocarina soundtrack – the project uses a virtual orchestra, which sounds good, but isn’t entirely convincing. We’ll have to wait until another day for the real deal.

Download ZREO’s Ocarina of Time Soundtrack

via Joystiq

Like I mentioned before, I rarely post videos..but I had to chirp in about this video, just because of the WTF values of the song/video. This song itself is like as if Lil Kim was itching to make an anthem dedicated to Motorola 2 Way pagers, but didn’t have time to release it (I wonder why?), so she tried to modernize it as an anthem about the internets. Who is this even geared towards? The group of dudes that were in amnesia for the last decade and are desperately looking to Lil Kim to school them on the topic of the internet? At least, there is home honesty in the video, Windows XP reigns supreme! Also, Charlie Wilson (who I do enjoy normally) is not needed in this video..at all. Lastly, you know we are in a recession when instead of using Minority Report style super computers you’d expect to see ala Hype Williams video, you get sub-$300 acer notebooks?? No matter what, in the end, it’s safe to say that Lil Kim is proponent of sexting.

There’s nothing quite like listening to Ghostface tear apart a RZA beat. The Afro Samurai Resurrection soundtrack is out January 27th.

Download: RZA – Whar (feat. Kool G Rap, Ghostface Killah & Tash Mahogany)

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Biggie is one the few artists whose work I’ve made a point of fastidiously collecting. I’ve tried to get my hands on everything he’s ever laced. Besides his albums, there’s Mister Cee’s Best of Biggie Part 2 mixtape, which contains most, if not all, of Biggie’s collaborations, the recently released “O.G. Edition” of Ready to Die, and countless other tracks and such that are floating around and continue to pop up on rare occasions. The release of the Biggie biopic Notorious, of which I remain extremely skeptical, is one of those occasions. Here are three rare (unreleased?) demo tracks off the movie’s soundtrack.

Download: The Notorious B.I.G. – Love No hoe (Original Demo Version)

via 2dopeboyz

Download: The Notorious B.I.G. – Guaranteed Raw

Download: The Notorious B.I.G. – Microphone Murderer

via Xclusives Zone

In related news, Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz is attending a screening of the movie Thursday night and will present a proclamation to Biggie’s family. That’s what’s up.

Brooklyn Borough President Press Release via Vulture

I just got this in the e-mail. I love Afro Samurai, and that first soundtrack was my shit. This looks to be just as good. If you haven’t seen the show its on Spike TV, it was a miniseries, so it only ran for 5 episodes but it was the best shit ever!!! The next season is called Afro Samurai: Resurrection and I am psyched as hell for it.

Trailer for Season 2 after the jump.

Tracklist:
1.   Combat (Afro Season II Open Theme) – RZA; P. Dot
2.   You Already Know – Kool G Rap; Inspectah Deck; Suga Bang
3.   Blood Thicker Than Mud “Family Affair” – Reverand William Burke; Sly Stone; Stone Mecca
4.   Whar – Kool G Rap; Ghostface Killah; Tash Mahogany; RZA
5.   Girl Samurai Lullaby – Rah Digga; Stone Mecca
6.   Fight for You – Thea Van Seijen
7.   Bitch Gonna Get Ya’ – Rah Digga
8.   Bloody Days Bloody Nights – Prodgical Sunn; Thea Van Siejen
9.   Kill Kill Kill – Rugged Monk
10. Nappy Afro – Boy Jones
11. Bloody Samurai – Black Knights; Dexter Wiggles; Thea Van Seijen
12. Dead Birds – Killah Priest; Prodgical Sunn; Shavo
13. Arch Nemesis – Ace; Moe Rock
14. Brother’s Keeper – Reverand William Burke; The RZA; Infinite
15. Yellow Jackets – Ace; Moe Rock
16. Take the Sword pt. III – 60 Second Assassin; Leggezin; Crisi; Christ Bearer; Rugged Monk; Tré Irie; Kinetic; Reverand William Burks; Bobby Digital
17. Number One Samurai (Afro Season II Outro) – The RZA ; 9th Prince

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