HudMo goes all the way back on this remix of Jamie Woon’s standout “Lady Luck” track. Mohawke rewinds back about 15 years here to a time when the beats were fat, the keys were heavy, and the slow jams shook. An ace look as Hudson Mohawke tips some straight vintage Timbo-type shit. Yeah!
Jamie Woon – Lady Luck (Hudson Mohawke’s Schmink Wolf Re-fix)
Jamie Woon: (Amazon) (Official) (Myspace)
Hudson Mohawke: (Amazon) (Official) (Myspace)
Rating: 8.4
Our man Shook flips the script on Ellie’s latest. Taking it coast to coast, first with a bit of east coast swing on the now jazzed up bass track and then a little wild west with the yacht-smooth synth flourishes. Lightspeed.
Ellie Goulding – Lights (Shook Remix)Ellie Goulding: (Amazon) (Official) (Myspace)
Shook: (Soundcloud) (Official) (Myspace)
Rating: 8.7
Interactive/Film SXSW 2011 geeks and Austin music enthusiasts alike were treated to a surprise set from 6 time Grammy-award winning recording artist Big Boi, along with Indie darlings The Sounds and Locksley. Pepsi Max and Foursquare made their viral presence at the Seaholm Power Plant set to a roaring crowd of fans whose tickets came from no other than a Facebook scavenger hunt. Such marketing = “welcome to SXSW 2011”.
The free booze were flowing as Madison, Wisconsin’s Locksley took the stage. Ever think of what it would sound like if Weezer rocked with The Kooks? Add slick early American style punk, some jangly-strat with up-beat vibes, and meet Lockley.
Locksley – The Whip
Early aughts indie-pop stars The Sounds took stage next. Brandishing seriously lethal legs, Swedish rock icon Maja Ivarsson leads a band whose sound always seems to (at least partly) encompass nearly every indie rock cliche from the last 15 years. Between smoking cigarettes and frequent spitting of luggies (btw sexy and impressive even by frat party standards), she and the band rolled through their attitude-pop friendly catalogue. New material from their forthcoming Something To Die For sounded promising. The band closed the set with their latest single “Better Off Dead”. Check it out below:
The Sounds – Better Off Dead
Big Boi hit the stage with big energy and the Outkast classic “Rosa Parks”. And that was to be the mode of the set as the classic Outkast shit came fast and furious, “So Fresh So Clean”, “Ms. Jackson”, “Bombs Over Baghdad”. Big Boi brought Vonnegutt onstage to spit his feature from “Follow Us” and the crowd went bananas. To describe the set, the bass was heavy… especially during “Shutterbugg” as was the set’s strong Atlanta/Southern Rap sound that Outkast helped pioneer to the mainstream. For “The Way You Move” Big Boi brought what looked like a hand picked collection of females from the audience to get down with him on stage. Totally entertaining, and definitely helps sum up the good party time vibe of the event.
Big Boi – General Patton
“All At Once” is the title track from the forthcoming and sophomore LP from the Airborne Toxic Event. This stripped down live take is solid. The, dare we say, Spingsteen-like qualities also heard in “Sometime Around Midnight” are showcased in a fresh and inviting type of way.
Airborne Toxic Event – All At OnceGet the new single “Changes” on iTunes
rating: 8.3
Yes! Grooves in rock and roll! We need more of this! Grooves and guitars! Rock and roll is the devil’s music, kids. The devil’s been keepin’ tabs on you, indiesphere, and the shit he’s heard lately, he’s just not that into it! Dudes would sell their soul for just a little bit of that rhythm, that groove. Alison Mosshart-1, Jamie Hince-2, add in the devil, and the devil makes 3.
The Kills – DNARating: 8.28
New track here spotted on Gilles Peterson’s Wednesday show from UK Nonplus+ artists Instra:mental. As called by Gilles during the broadcast the track is somewhere between dubstep and drum & bass. We love that it melds in sounds from other spaces of electronic music as well; deep house, downtempo, etc. “Waterfalls” is an excellent mix of sound diverse yet complementary sounds. We’re into it.
Instra:mental – WaterfallsInstra:mental: (Myspace) (Facebook)
Rating: 8.3
Contributed by Bruce Rave
I should ask the B3Sci dudes if I can post the entire Elbow album Build A Rocket Boys. It’s that fucking great. Their sound is lower-key than on the last two, but it’s beautifully done and really majestic. I feel like Elbow are picking up where Radiohead left off after OK Computer. I’m predicting right now that they’ll be nominated next year for another shot at winning the Mercury Prize. Check out “High Ideals”.
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Rating: 8.3
Everybody’s fav bearmored turkey Cee-Lo Green gets his single “Bright Lights Bigger City” re-taylored (haha, get it?) by the Taylor Gang’s chief chiefer Mr. Wiz Khalifa. Accompanying the new remix is a vid for the tune that looks, well, pretty much how the song’s title would indicate it would. BRIGHT lights (All of the Lights?) BIG city. How’s Wiz doing here? Let us know.
Cee-Lo Green – Bright Lights Bigger City (Remix) (Feat. Wiz Khalifa)Cee-Lo Green: (Amazon) (Official) (Facebook)
Rating: 8.0
Probably the freshest T.I. has sounded since Paper Trail. Plz Tip, from your friends at b3sci, we need less crappy ballad jams (we’re begging you, none of that Skylar Grey shit on your next comeback record) and more heat like “Ready Set Go”. The beats/features are out there, name an artist in rap (OK, maybe not Ludacris) that wouldn’t drop 16 bars on one of your songs. Fuck, we’ll figure it out, Tip call us up, we’re talking that King/Urban Legend shit but better! The streets, the pop charts, it all can be yours, all it takes is one phone call.
Killer Mike – Ready Set Go (Remix) (Feat. T.I. & Big Boi)Killer Mike: (Purchase) (Official) (Myspace)
Rating: 8.2
OK, so we’re not really the most major of Asher Roth fans (“I Love College” was awwwwright), but we’ve got to give it up, this new track for “Back Home” is a megaton bomb sized heater. Being real, I only initially gave this one a spin cause Chip Tha Rip was on it (repping the 216 ’til the day we die.) but damn, the second that beat Blended Babies-produced dropped and that soulful sample came in, we were hooked.
Asher Roth – Back Home (Feat. Chip Tha Ripper)Asher Roth: (Amazon) (Official) (Myspace)
Rating: 8.7
