I feel that every year, March 9th, Google should roll out a themed Biggie Smalls logo on their homepage. I've seen it done for far less important people, I'm sure the entirity of Thomas Edisons contributions to the modern world still wouldn't stack up against "Gimme the Loot".

All the Videos.

3 videos actually, and sticking firmly to my tradition of seemingly only plugging rap music from Minneapolis (I'll branch out geographically I swear), new videos from Atmosphere (cute dog!), Sims (cute bear !) and Blueprint (just Blueprint really).

F.Stokes

This is from last year, F.Stokes from the Lazerbeak produced EP "Death of a Handsome Bride". Beat reminds me of some old Atmosphere business and I like it very much. Get it from doomtree.net for a meager 6.95 ish.

Affiliyated

Last year Gayngs put out the 'Relayted' album, featuring a slew of Minneapolis musicians including Doomtree's Dessa and P.O.S, the latter crooning like a gent. The album was slooow, mellow, cheese laden and contained enough electric bass and sex-sax to make it an adequate soundtrack to Lethal Weapon 5 (should they bastardise the worlds greatest film franchise sometime).

The Doomtree crew were given bits of the record to grind up and smush together into a sticky paste of a free remix project. Havn't checked it yet but you probably should (though the link is currently down).

Tracklist as follows, link after yo.

01 “Fight, Fuck, Fall Asleep” (Sims:vox Cecil Otter: regrind)
02 “Coercion Van” (MK Larada: regrind)
03 “Cologne & Water” (Paper Tiger: regrind)
04 “Draper Drunk” (Mike Mictlan: vox, The Chocolate Ox: keys, Plain ole Bill: regrind)
05 “No Scrubs” (P.O.S: vox, regrind)
06 “Sprinkle Juice” (Lazerbeak: regrind)
07 “Sand In The Lotion” (Cecil Otter: regrind)


Invite me to your Hard Drive

or stream on Soundcloud

Yes to themed months.

Because, as brothers, we decided to print off the wikipedia list of bands that suit the "post-rock" criteria. We may now begin the rummage through hard drives and cd's to compile a months worth of noodling and pretense.

We'll be starting with Talk Talk though because, for those who weren't aware, they were the best band in the fucking world and everyone who's anyone rips them off on occassion.

Standardly late on this, new(ish..) Blueprint, new album April. S'good.

Toro Y Moi

The internet is alive with Toro Y Moi praise, by all sorts of people more authoritative than me on the subject. Many seemed to praise him for moving on from a prior chillwave inclination. I have zero idea what chillwave is meant to sound like, to be honest it fills me with the same sense of dread that 'Witch House' did and I know what that is, it's fucking rubbish. Anyway, it's mad decent and it makes me do my funk dance, which is my favourite to do.

The new TYM album is called "Underneath the Pine". Here's a track what I like.





Realised I got the Sims album posted to the wrong address, so I only got my hands on it at the start of this week. It surpassed all my expectations and is easily my favourite Doomtree release of all time. Sims is so good at doing the simple things pefectly and Lazerbeaks production, which sometimes suffers from being a bit one paced and having a lack variation in drum sounds, trys all sorts of new things. He kills it. It does end with a fairly rubbish Cecil Otter produced hidden track though. I'll let them off and begin construction on my paper animals.

This track features P.O.S. Swaggered to death and going hard in the paint. I know what that means, honest to goodness.