Booo!

It's not Halloween yet (what are we celebrating anyway?), but any excuse to post some Designer Drugs. Here's one they made earlier...

I've got a bad cold and I'm not sure if this has anything to do with me seeing faces in the stone walls of my house, but it's starting to get a bit freaky. Whatever's happening in my feverish mind though this new Weezer collaboration with Lil Wayne has certainly brightened my night. Aceness

Weezer feat Lil Wayne - 'Can't Stop Partying'

My Tiger My Timing

My Tiger My Timing - 'I Am The Sound'

Also some rather tasty breaks from Splitloop

Splitloop - 'Ghetto UK'

Dave over at Shitboyfriend draws our attention to Radiofail, featuring funny ass mess ups from, well, the radio - obviously. Loving these two in particular. You can just imagine the shaking head in hands moment that follows each

DJ Mehdi has a remix album out on November 2nd. He's done a mix of tracks that couldn't feature on the album, because of copyright infringement, 'inappropriate tempo' and other such record label bollox. Here it is -

DJ Mehdi - 'Forbidden Mix'

1. Bless

2. BUSTA RHYMES ‘World Go Round’ Remix

3. GHOSTFACE KILLA ‘ Hey Hey’ Remix

4. XXXXX ‘Xxx Xxx Xxxx’ Xxxxx Edit

5. CROOKERS/KID CUDI ‘Embrace The Martian’ Remix Demo

6. MAPEI ‘Leader Of The Pack’

7. MIIKE SNOW ‘Burial’ Remix

8. NOTORIOUS B.I.G ‘Nasty Boy’ Le Cirque Mix

9. JUST JACK ‘Glory Days’ TV Track

10. BUMBLEBEEZ ‘Drop The Bomb’ Ed Rec Allstars Mix

11. MAPEI/SPANK ROCK ‘Public Enemy’

12. JAY-Z ‘I Will Not Lose’

13. NAS ‘Have Fun’

14. Peace

May68

Manchester does it again with May68

Sounding a lot like The Whip, a little like Chromeo (a little, in their disco moments), a smidgeon like Klanguage and with vocalist Jude Wainwright sounding almost La Roux at times , May68 are destined for big stuff. Unless they go the way of Klanguage, of course, and dissapear off the face of the earth (note to self: find out what happened to Klanguage...).

Check 'em

May68 - 'The Duke Is Dead'

May68 - 'Carla'

May68 - 'The Last Mile'

The Sundays - Can't Be Sure

This is such a blast from the past. Early 20s, drink and drugs, bored out of my head, shit job, playing away with the then girlfriend, room a mess, great tunes, no worries (apart from getting caught two timing the girlfriend), mammoth Mario Cart sessions, smash get mash, Britpop, Nirvana, dreaming of sunny climes, pissed in the Quarry, no sleep straight to work

New The Whip!!

Excitement here in The Cellars as The Whip showcase one of their new tunes 'Secret Weapon'. Been awhile since I've heard anything new from them, so this has tightened my pants a bit.

Pay Attention...

I only realised what an attention deficit I had after watching my kids get into music. They're into Arctic Monkey's, Kasabian and The Maccabees at the moment. My eldest is getting into The xx aswell, but as we've only got a couple of their tracks, it's a fledgling love. They can listen to an album over and over. And I mean over and over. It started with the last Kasabian album, which was in the car one day when I was driving them to school. I put on 'Fire' and that was it, nothing else was allowed for at least a month, until Miss SS hid the disc. They learnt the words, or at least approximated what the words sounded like to them and would sing them raccously when a bit they liked came on. My favourite moment has to be my five year old singing that he 'was the laaaast heretic', at the top of his voice. Or the three year old asking if you'd 'ever take a punch in the rib cage, sonny?' Probably bad parenting even letting them listen to it, but fuck it, they're teaching them hymns at school and we've never actually mentioned God to our kids.They don't know heretic, they don't know God.

Anyhoo what I mean is that when I was younger I used to listen to albums over and over again. I remember being given the Jam's back catalogue, on vinyl, when I was about thirteen and listening to them constantly for weeks. I knew every word to every song, I knew what chords were coming and where the beat came in and when it was ending. I absorbed those records as if my life depended on it. I still know them by heart now and hearing them is like a flashback to that spotty hormone ravaged time.

With the last Kasabian album I listened to it maybe three times, picked four or five tunes that I liked and labelled it a 'good album'. Then I slipped it away in the glove compartment of the car and probably wouldn't have listened to it again, if the kids hadn't claimed it and hijacked my listening for a month. Same with the last Arctic Monkeys album. It's a brilliant album, but on first listen I didn't really get it, wrote it off and packed it away.

Maybe it's the same with everyone these days, with the I-Tunes, pick the tracks you like, sort of mentality, but it worries me that I'm not really as 'into' music as I was when I was younger. It's all just snatch and listen nowadays. Get a tune, play it to death for a while, then find it on my hard drive six months later and probably not remember what it was, or even like it that much anymore. I can't remember the last time I listened to an album again and again, outside of the school run. Maybe it's just that albums aren't as good as they used to be. Maybe the acts know how we're listening to music these days and have adapted. Who know...

Right. This is a track by White Belt Yellow Tag. It's not their newest (that's 'Remains', which is released through Distiller Records on October 19th), but it's the one I like the most.