Music for Perfect People

From Yak Ballz:

MERRY CHRISTMAS! I present to you this gift from myself, Chapter7, and Oliver Cartwright.

A precursor to what is planned for 2011. Enjoy the ride, re-gift this as many times as you wish, and have a Happy New Year!

Check out “Machine” below and make sure to keep an eye out for some fresh hip-hop from Yak Ballz in the coming year.

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The Mallon boys (Aesop Rock, Rob Sonic, and DJ Big Whiz) are back with a teaser of the track “Escape to the Poconos” straight from their couch/studio/car.

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On their debut album Ultraglide in Black, The Dirtbombs covered the funk and soul tracks that bandleader Mick Collins grew up with. Nearly ten years later, the group will release Party Store, which features a shift in focus towards Detroit techno from the 80′s and early 90′s.

Below, we have the first single from Party Store, which is a cover of A Number Of Names‘ “Sharevari”.

Party Store Track List
1. Cosmic Cars
2. Sharevari
3. Good Life (Basement Roots Mix)
4. Strings of Life
5. Alleys Of Your Mind
6. Bug In The Bass Bin
7. Jaguar 1.
8. Tear The Club Up
9. 謎のミスタ-ナイソ(Detoroito Mix)

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Earlier this morning, Dam-Funk treated his twitter followers to a Christmas track titled “‘Tis The Season”, which is better explained in the holiday note below ..

Happy holidays…D-F style.

Equipment used:
*Korg Rhythm 55B Drum Machine
*Roland Juno 1 Synthesizer
*Casio CT-640 Keyboard
*Radio Shack $19.99 Microphone

** All music was played ‘live’ all the way thru. No loops, samples or tricks used…whatsoever.

‘Gon.

DâM-FunK

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Through a tweet earlier today, Penguin Prison released a mashup of his single “Golden Train” and Michael Jackson‘s “Working Day and Night.” Grab the track below!

DOWNLOAD :: Penguin Prison x Michael Jackson – “Golden Train vs. Working Day and Night”

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Earlier this month, we found an awesome mash-up by Wick-It The Instigator of The Black Keys‘ track “Tighten Up” and Big Boi‘s hit single, “Shutterbug.” If you dug that track, then you should get excited that Wick-It has gone ahead and released an entire EP titled The Brothers of Chico Dusty, which finishes off the combination of The Black Keys’ album Brothers and Big Boi’s Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty. Both these albums have been making appearances on many blogs’ year end lists and so a mash-up of the two is certainly worth checking out ..

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Fenech-Soler are set to drop their single “Demons” on February 7th but that did not stop the UK electro-pop group from releasing a video for the track! Follow along after the jump for remixes from the French producer Yuksek and another from Drums of Death.

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For your listening pleasure this morning, we have a mini mix Eskmo recently created for the Tom Ravenscroft show on BBC6 Music. This is a 20-minute look into the music that has moved Eskmo over the past few months.

Tracklist::

1. Prison Songs (Parchman Farm 1947/48) “Old Dollar Mamie”
2. Tom Waits: “Clap Hands”
3. Phosphorescent: “At Death, A Proclomation”
4. The Residents: “Jambalaya”
5. Yeasayer: “Forgiveness”
6. Jónsi: “Kolnidur”
7. Actress: “Futurproofing”
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Creative Control recently caught up with Nick Koenig, a.k.a. Hot Sugar, to grab a little look inside his beat creating process, which includes recording all of the sounds he uses in his compositions and then tweaking them beyond recognition.

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DOWNLOAD :: Hot Sugar – “Don’t Cut Down My Tree”

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Tera Melos released their latest effort Patagonian Rats earlier in 2010 and the overall response to the album was great. Oddly enough, TM frontman Nick Reinhart has released a remix of their single “Frozen Zoo”, which you can view below. Make sure to grab your copy of the Tera Melos remix 7” here.

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Days 1 & 2: Max and the Magic Marker + Twin Sister
Days 3 & 4: Beat Hazard + Girl Talk
Days 5 & 6 & 7: Multiwinia + Black Moth Super Rainbow

As I am writing this post, the ‘Beat Hazard + Girl Talk’ bundle is about to expire and the ‘Multiwinia + Black Moth Super Rainbow’ bundle is about to go live. This is quite exciting because not only do all proceeds go to St. Jude’s Children Hospital but there will also be 5 bonus BMSR tracks included. Tobacco has rumored through facebook/twitter that one of these bonuses is the demo of BMSR’s single “Dandelion Gums”!

You can grab the bundle here!

UPDATE :: I picked up the bundle and the five bonus tracks are:

“We Are the Pagans”

“Untitled Roadside” Demo ORIGINAL

“Chinese Witch Guy with an Ax”

“Unfinished Sketch 3″ (Unreleased 2006)

“The Dark Forest Joggers” (Dandelion Gum Vinyl Exclusive)

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Photo by Dave Hamilton

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