People’s Champion: Behind the Battle from Trent Babbington on Vimeo.

Fascinating doc about the “Eli vs Envy” rap battle which blew up in 2008. “I’m the best, mayne. I deeeeiid it”

Long pause

Long pause

From the blub:
“Nine Types of Light is as much an album as it is a movie by TV on the Radio. The movie is meant to be a visual re-imagining of the record, and includes a music video for every song on the album. The band personally asked their friends and the filmmakers they admired to help direct the music videos. Tunde Adebimpe, the director for the full Nine Types of Light movie, storybooked the music videos together with interviews from local New Yorkers on various topics, including dreams, love, fame and the future.”

Listening to the advance notice on the CD from the Guardian Music podcast it seemed to me (Mark) that this CD was definitely worth exploring. Their last was too clever for me, but the “poppier” feel to this one was making me sit up and notice”

Rusko’s new “single” arrived digitally today. While he has been in LA for almost two years now, some prominent members of the dubstep scene have been throwing no so well disguised darts at him, accusing him of foisting “brostep” on us. With this single’s A-side “Everyday”, he continues the move towards the summer festival and the girls which he began with Hold On. It’s almost clinical how this one makes you put your hands in the air and feel the sun on your neck. The single version included above is almost so basic that you can imagine it being used mostly as a transition track in mixes, rather than a destination track. I can even hear the first synth break in a Van Helden or Tiesto set. The rest of the track is so basic as to rely entirely on the bass, which “Hold On” did not do. This makes me feel even more that it is intended for the festival season and the sub-bass setups which can handle the power needed better that the earbuds most folks are using these days.

Other versions of the track, especially Netsky mix, show that it is also going to be a good bed for remixes of many stripes.

Everyday (Netsky Remix) by Rusko

But the The B-side, “Lick the Lizard”, is close to his roots, with wobble and aggro staying just this side of “brostep”. It’s a collabo with Reso

Rusko & Reso – Lick The Lizard from Mad Decent on Vimeo

Rainbow Noise Entertainment is a lesbian owned record label specializing in LGBTQ music artist with an independent name and mainstream appeal; But it doesn’t stop there… We are also committed to representing LGBTQ dancers, models, comedians, and entertainers with something to be proud of.

In french, with subtitles. Hearteningly, one kid figures out turntableism right quick in a hurry…

Jamie Woon collaborated with Burial on parts of this record. One critic thinks that it is “late-night-bus soul”. That’s facile but true. Full LP due in 2011, looking forward to it.

Here’s another fun one from the recent stirrings:

Praveen Sharma (a PoOP contributor in ’01 and ’03) is hard working man. His many projects include PercussionLab and Sepalcure

The former has many interesting electronic music based mixes from around the world.

The latter has a 4 track EP on Hotflush Recordings which will interest fans of Joy Orbison, Flying Lotus, Hudson Mohawke and Larry Heard. And in a coup whose import is difficult to overstate, Sepalcure had a dubplate played on Mary Anne Hobbs’ last Radio 1 show. She’s such a fan that she’s included a song of theirs on soundtrack for the new Daren Aronofsky film

Go get ‘em Praveen!

You can hear samples from the EP at Beatport.