Sleepytime Gorilla Museum

TFOTHC Mixtape Vol. 3

So it's finally here...mainly as I have a week off this week and I thought I'd get this out the way first before I go job searching and the like through the rest of the week. Anyways some of the artists on here have been featured here before or have already been included on the other Mixtapes. I'm sorry I couldn't help this but there have been very little in the way of listening to new stuff these last couple of weeks so hopefully for Vol. 4 there shall be a few artists making their debut on the blog =D Here it is anyways...enjoy!

1.Deep Fried Frenz - MF Doom
2.Sweetness - Jimmy Eat World
3.Fireworks - Animal Collective
4.Convalescence - Darkest Hour
5.Holy Water - The Gossip
6.Trevor an'Them - Murs
7.Death At The Chapel - The Horrors
8.Chill out Tent - The Hold Steady
9.Screws And Bolts - The Fall On Deaf Ears
10.This is The Dream Of Win And Regine - Final Fantasy And Cadence Weapon
11.He Knows - The Futureheads
12.Afghani Black - House Of Blow
13.One Hundred Things You Should Have Done In Bed - Snow Patrol
14.16 Military Wives - The Decemberists
15.Imaginary Places - Busdriver
16.Bottle Neck - Gas Club
17.In The City - Good Shoes
18.Graffiti - Maximo Park
19.Gio-Graph-Ick - Subtitle
20.Safe In Sound - Small Brown Bike
21.Winter Month Novelty - At The Drive-In
22.Strange Ways - Madvillian

Mixtape Vol.3

Busdriver - Imaginary Places

So the last few posts of late have had at least sort of hip-hop influence and this one isn't going to be any different.I'm currently still working on the next mix tape and also some of my own music but here's an amazing song from the hip-hop artist Busdriver. This is just a taster of what the man's work is like and there will definitely be a proper post on him in the future but for now enjoy the music.

Banksy

I've become a huge fan of Banksy's work in the last couple of days. I used to talk to a couple of guys who where really into tagging and the like and I always thought it was really interesting stuff ( and it looked cool as fuck as well!). Anyways, Glasgow is over-populated by things called "menchies", a crude form of tagging which involves no skill whatsoever, has no thought behind it and is largely to do with the hordes of gangs that roam the streets.However,there are a few area's in Glasgow where there are some really sweet pieces of art. One that's caught my eye the last few days is a building near the River Clyde and this is how I got into Bansky's work.

The work in Glasgow has nothing to do with the "art-terrorist" Bansky.However it did get me looking into more Graffiti based things and this is where I came across Bansky.

No-one really knows who he is(well there are some, but their not telling) and his work is normally very political based. It's also of very high quality as he uses stencils rather than just doing it free hand. The thing about him which most amazes me though is that fact that even though he is quite well known, he still isn't a celebrity. He actually seems to hate the idea of them (check out the Paris Hilton video below).

Bansky's greatest piece in my opinion is when he Israeli West Bank barrier and painted 9 pictures on it. Check out the video below to see this amazing man's work.


In Palestine



Paris Hilton Get's A Makeover

Cadence Weapon And Final Fantasy

These mp3's are the result of a CBC Radio Live session collaboration between Final Fantasy (AKA Oweb Pallet; a modern genius) and Cadence Weapon (who's album "Breaking Kayfabe", is joint top of my Albums Of 2007 list). Being the two greatest musical exports from Canada (yes, I'm even counting The Arcade Fire in this..there's no way they're better than either of these guys) the collaboration is a great idea considering the artists music couldnt be further away from one another but this collab works well on so many levels as the beats in Weapon's songs are replaced by the wonderful violins of Pallet and it turn Final Fantasy's songs are re-worked with Owen singing over big brutal electro beats.Beautiful stuff...would love an album but if it never happen's we'll always have these!

CBC Radio Session

Isis - From Sinking

From the bands 2002 album "Oceanic". Totally epic stuff....I hate how some people try to write off metal bands before listening to them. Shouting/Growling/Screaming lyrics doesnt make a song or band less amazing. Mixtape Vol. 3 coming soon...

Subtitle - Young Dangerous Heart

Young Dangerous Heart is the first full length album by Los Angeles based rapper, Subtitle, released in 2005.

At the moment I've been going through quite the hip-hop phase(aswell as a hardcore-punk one but the two seem to fit well together anyway).I cant say I was ever really that much of a hip-hop fan until I heard A Tribe Called Quest's "The Low End Theory". I've always had a hatred of the 50 Cent/Snoop Dogg style of rap, that gangster tinged mainstream tosh but ATCQ blew me away and showed it wasnt all bad.

Enter Subtitle, the rapper/producer who is well known for his production and collabarations with various artists from different genres. Subtitles (real name Giovanni Marks)solo work, however, is just as good as any of the work he has done. I've been listening to his 2005 album "Young Dangerous Heart" on repeat for pretty much the last three days. It's an amzing record...one of those pieces of music that you know when the first track kicks-in, you know your in for something special. Subtitles lyrics are smart and quick and he uses various beats to keep songs like "Gio-Graph-Ick" stuck in your head for days.Anyways I guarantee you'll love this record if you have an open mind about music so go hunt it down.And if you want more convincing, try the tracks I've uploaded to get a feel for the album.

I'm hoping for a new mixtape for the next post but I dont have a clue when I'll be able to get that done so keep checking back here for more updates!


Two tracks from "Young American Heart"
Leave Home and another Young American Heart

Glassjaw - You Think Your John Fucking Lennon

Quite a good quality live version of one of the new Glassjaw songs taken from there as of yet untitled new album to be released (hopefully) some time next year. Enjoy!

TFOTHC Mixtape Vol. 2

1.Mr Bungle - Slowly Growing Deaf
2.Rage Against The Machine - Maggie's Farm
3.Mesa Verde - Any excuse For A Waste
4.MF Doom - Beef Rapp
5.Funeral For A Friend - Bullet Theory
6.Tim Buckley - Hallucinations
7.Lupe Fiasco - Kick, Push
8.Shellac - Dog And Pony Show
9.Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - Helpless Corpse Enactment
10.Minor Threat - Out Of Step (With The World)
11.A Tribe Called Quest - Buggin' Out
12.The Spinto Band - Brown Boxes
13.Slayer - Postmortem
14.Black Flag - Six Pack
15.Cypress Hill - How I Could Just Kill A Man
16.Bury Your Dead - Colour Of Money
17.At The Drive-In - Metronome Arthritis
18.Sunny Day Real Estate - In Circles
19.The Sex Pistols - Anarchy For The UK

So my second Mixtape has finally been completed..and it runs just over 80 minutes!!Oh well, anyways this volume has much more of a hip-hop and hardcore feel to it than the last one. Let me know if you like it


Volume 2


Note:Best played in itunes or burned to disk for the maximum listening experience =P

Busy Month

So I haven't done a post since my Mixtape which was a while back now mainly as I've been at College studying Music Tech and been a bit busy but hopefully there should be a proper new post by the end of the week or the start of next week. Right now my time is being divided up between college, getting into town with my mate, reading Rules Of Attraction ( I would recommend it), learning RATM songs, trying to watch my Beloved Detroit Tigers at 1am in the morning, watching my beloved Rangers get beat 4-2 ( :[ )and a few other annoying,but time consuming, things.Anyways, I'll end this post with a video of Rage playing Woodstock '99 since I'm in abit of a RATM mood...enjoy!