sound is criminal: May 2006

I can't stop!

hehe.. one day I'm slagging off Baile Funk, the next one I'm milking the very same Cariocan titties myself!
Here's a wee mashup between (what is probably the best production by these guys ever) The Wiseguys' remix of West Street Mob's "I Can't Stop" and Bonde Do Role's "Melo Do Tabaco". Old skool in tha house!

Check Mad Decent for some other, wicked remixes.

West Street Mob meets Bonde Do Role: Wiseguys Can't Stop Smokin Tabaco (Jaa Liq mashup)

milkshake re-bottled

A little mashup of MF Doom and Kelis for y'all... exclusively put together by the enigmatic Jaa Liq.

Kelis meets Special Herbs: Black Snake Root Milkshake (Jaa Liqs it up)

for you sample fanatics out there, also check
Boz Scaggs: Low Down

going east

OK, folks, funk Carioca has been rinsed to death the last year or so, and doesn't it amount to a degree of colonialism when you get tanned Swedish brats with backslick haircuts dancing their Mastercard-toting, coke-fuelled Moet&Chandon strut to similarly coke-fuelled (hey, at least one link there!), gun-praising, bum sex-extolling, impoverished scruffy beats from the favelas?
Hey, rich European kids - try not to just hype one 'ethnic' style at a time, or be honest about it and admit that you just read about M.I.A in some fashion mag, and your DJ friends said "this is the coolest thing". The world is a big place, you know, and there are other parts of it out there!

So, here goes:
Balkan Beat Box: Bulgarian Chicks
featuring the "Bulgarian Chicks" Vlada Tomova and Kristin Espeland on vocals.
Taken from the Balkan Beat Box compilation on Essay Recordings. Check it out.

rare sh*, pt. 1

Can we speak of such a thing as rare mp3 files?
For something which is so easily duplicated, isn't that a contradiction in terms?
However, these are some files that I found being only very temporarily available at the various places I found them... The internet is often not only about being in the right place - it's ever so often also about being in the right place at the right time.
So, for a limited period only, here goes:

Omar: It's So
Sought-after also as a (promo 12") record, this is London style broken soul at its best!
Sunshine Anderson: Heard It All Before (Quantic Soul Orchestra remix)
Great tune, a real classic - here in an unbeatable, live sounding funk version by QSO. Hard to find on vinyl these days, and a bit tricky to find even online...
Amerie: 1 Thing (Siik remix)
The Siik remix is siiick! This guy made this brilliant remix but only posted it for a short while on the wonderfully eclectic step off the frankfurter.