mix: Run DMT "Bong Voyage"

"Spirit Molecule"
I mentioned the psychedelic freak show that is Run DMT a few weeks back, but that was before he/she/it sent me this mix, which is also available for download on their MySpace. Bong Voyage. What a term. The mix, which recalls the short form samples often employed by Dilla, floats like a hot air balloon, while, somehow, simultaneously drowning itself in its own twistedness. "Money" is a good example. Chilled out guitar loop, and a bit of spoken word antics high-jacked from the Home Shopping Network. It's the sort of nonchalant, everyday shit that freaks you out. Same with "Baby," a cooler of a subway sax sample, abruptly interrupted by some midi house bass that sounds more a kin to a Mtn. Dew commercial than a vaporizer session. All this and still half the tracks, if expanded beyond a glimpse of themselves, could be tagged as "new age," "spirit psych," or tests from a molecular gastronomy class. 15 songs, 20 minutes. For fans of Dilla, Julianna Barwick, Julian Lynch and Hyphy.

Download Run DMT's Bong Voyage.
Also, peep all the goo over at Run DMT's muxtape.

new: Semya & Run DMT

"Tupper"

Baltimore's always churning out weirdo sample based stuff, but it seems like a new crop of psych explorers are really stepping out from the crowd. Talked about Happy Family a few months back, and now his compadres Semya and Run DMT are making serious moves in candy flipping realm. Loopy and cosmic, rhythmic and glitchy, Semya mixes Peruvian pan flute grooves with dripping BMSR synths and extra driving drumbeats that Dan Snaith would probably dig on. "It's the Sun" is so freaky, Tim & Eric should make a video for it consisting entirely of Apocalypse Now footage. Should also note that the backlooped, freak glitch going on in "Ninja Smoke" is a tweakers dream/nightmare, depending on the night.


Run DMT, as their name suggests, is seriously blissed out. We're talking venturing thousands of years back in time at the creation of the Earth and chilling with Dinosaurs in the Garden of Eden type shit. I think you can hear water being birthed at one point in "Ramona." Run DMT's first "influence" on MySpace is "weed." "good_folks" is some of the most hypnotic hymnal shit I've ever heard, literally the choir at the first caveman church service. Highly recommend indulging in Run DMT's The Life Erotic muxtape before heading out to explore the weekend. Semya's as well.

Not for Parents: Spank Rock

"B-O-O-T-A-Y, YOU AIN'T GOT NO ALIBI, BITCH YOU UGLY"

If you aren't one of the professional geeks who spends hours a day scouring the internet looking for new ass-shaking bangers, then no doubt you've been missing out on the f'ing ridiculous (I can't stress ridiculous enough) Spank Rock tribute to original bad-ass sex machine rappers 2 Live Crew. Yeah, you know the early 90's rap group that made such nursery school classics like "Pussy Popper" and "Me So Horny." Well now, the new milleniums nasty ass crunk king Spank Rock and his partner in perversion, Benny Blanco, sample some 2LC and released these four tracks FREE through the internet. They'd been giving them away each thursday, just in time to offend any cute church going girl you may meet at a friday night house party, but hey, what else can you expect from a guy whose known to spit verses on tracks about Lohan's "baby rat." Not safe for work, not safe for anywhere.
All four tracks below.

Spank Rock & Benny Blanco- Shake That
Spank Rock & Benny Blanco- B.O.O.T.A.Y
Spank Rock & Benny Blanco- Loose
Spank Rock & Benny Blanco- Bitch!