I love Hip-Hop. I’m a white boy, but I know when a beat is fresh or not. When it comes to Mainstream, Jay-Z rules, and Lil Wayne can suck it (no-homo). However, Soulja Boy, T-Pain, Flo-Rida, and even 50-Cent have taken it upon themselves to suck the life out of hip-hop. It’s lifeless, nothing but whips, niggas this, bitches, drugs, liquor, killing folk, nigga that, no-homo’s, killing folks, chains, gold, bling… all wrapped into a hastily drawn beat meant to get people dancing.

WHO THE FUCK DANCES TO HIP HOP LIKE IT’S THE ELECTRIC SLIDE?

American Idiots. Shit, it’s not our fault… We’ve been fed the mainstream soup so much that we don’t know when the recipe changed. I agree, music should evolve, but not for sake of the rhyme.

All is not lost however, you just have to find your hip-hop elsewhere. Where? Get your headphones, and click through the jump, we are going to Europe.

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The Crookers always cook up a good beat, and I’m digging the electro dancehall thing that’s been going on lately. Here’s “Put Your Hands On Me” featuring Kardinal Offishall. I hope you like grannys…

Kingdom of the unreal but also a higher state of being, ultimately free of the limitations of the material world through the agency of science, technology, and imagination.

This video is a near perfect idea, executed with perfection. check out www.neurosonicsaudiomedical.com for more info and credits

The Yeah Yeah Yeah’s have been cool since “Maps,” check out their latest single below, “Heads will Roll.”
I do love the DIGIRAATII remix though.

The Super Viral Brothers are a Producer + Vocalist Duo from Sweden, and their first single “Hot Chocolate + Polar Bear Rug” is an absolute banger…. even if it makes no sense at all. The video is even more absurd, as the “brothers” are birthed, along with a bunch of groupies, all from this poor trashy blonde girl. Not really work safe due to ridiculous amounts of gorey birth goo, and some language in the lyrics. The single belongs to their first release “Wires In Love”, coming soon. Remixes of “Hot Chocolate” from Dada Life, Maskinen, and Stay Gold, are available and the Dada Life mix will tear up any club. (via Discobelle)

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I’m really liking Ghislain Poirer’s sound of late.. Here is the video for “Wha La La Leng”… directed by Thibaut Duverneix featuring Face T.

• Artist: Poirier
• Title: Wha-La-La-Leng feat. Face-T
• Album: Soca Sound System
• Label: Ninja Tune
• Director: Thibaut Duverneix
• Producer:  NùFilms – Patrick Chevrier
• Director of Photography: Guillaume Simoneau
• Assistant Photography: Hajra Waheed
• Makeup Artist: Jennifer Dionne
• Performers: Face-T, Ilya, Lunice
• Post Production: Departement

Bonus! Here is the Poirier Remix to Major Lazer’s “Hold the Line.”

Urban Dictionary: Definition of  “Cosby Sweater”

1. The sexual act of eating Fruit Loops, Fruity Pebbles, Trix, and Boo Berry- or any other ‘bright, colorful’ breakfast cereals- and then vomitting the tacky, dazzling mixture onto your partners chest. The result should look similar to the incredible sweaters that Bill Cosby wore during his highly successful 1980’s sitcom “The Cosby Show”.
2. A: A oversized, hideous looking sweater with ugly patterns and colors, often worn by old men or hipsters with no taste.
3. The multi-colored lint left in one’s ass crack after wearing flannel boxer shorts.

I absolutely love this track. I’ve been banging to the B-More version from Kazey and Bulldog, but now its time to give the Wax Motif remix a spin. This one is a little heavier, and definitely bangable.

Give Oh Snap! a peek, peep the video below, and check out hype Machine for remixes

via – Pitchfork

I was turned onto Thunderheist when Brodie  (Huw’s Furry Loverboy) dropped me a few tracks… I love sexy-mess-quasi-ghetto-chic MC/songtresses and Isis is that girl. Isis may be the Thunder, but the Heist is DJ GrahamZilla who steals the ground from under your feet with his sweet electro grooves. Thunderheist’s debut self title drops like right fucking now, so go get it [cd, mp3, vinyl]

WxAxRxP from Francesco Calabrese on Vimeo.

The Bloody Beetroots are my superheroes of Electro. Add a little Steve Aoki, some slow-mo HD cinematography, and a whole bunch of hipsters…  have a good time.

I found this video this morning and I don’t know much about it except its directed by Oren Lavie and freakin amazing. All stop-motion, with clothing for props.