I usually listen to items numerous times, to pre-approve them as excellent before posting them. There was no need to do that today. Wale is a fresh voice in contemporary music, download all items below and enjoy your brains out.
I farmed this from Basement, now I see that before I could finish getting my post together, Caps has it up too. It's that good. Call this post a simulcast.
Did you know that the technical term for "channel surfing" is grazing. Shout out to a Film Studies degree!
Better late than never. It's not our motto for nothing. Here is a rollicking bit of channel surfing from the recently resurgent Steinski and ever-chilling Coldcut.
The staff here at Grilling It intend on keeping our promise of a bigger, better, badder (meaning gooder) flow of posts. I've had this mixtape for months and in a wintery drought neglected to share it.
The time is now, as the Stanley Cup finals pause for 24 hours and move to Steeltown USA (aka The birthplace of Clifford Heinrichs MAN OF STEEL THE ETERNAL PAPA H).
It is a conflict of youth vs defense, as the bright lights of iced sports are being thoroughly schooled at Osgood Hall (These are hockey references, read on).
It's a meditation on the game we love, by two of Winnipeg's finest. It involves an appearance on talk radio. You read that correctly, the action line. To all the new jack youngblood dj's...they will teach you haw to (publicity) stunt.
I gathered from the clips provided, the CJOB audience was overlooking the connection between criminal violence in service of self preservation in ghetto life, as a reaction to poverty, and the religion of violent sport in Canada, as a reaction to winter.
1. Hockey vs Rap Intro - CJOB / John Smith / Bobby Orr 2. Sexual Eruption / What Have You Done For Me Lately - Snoop Dogg / Janet Jackson 3. Brass in Africa - Hypnotic Brass Ensemble 4. Space Funk - Manzel 5. Don't You Evah (Mike 2600 Party Version) - Spoon 6. Amen Brother (DJ Co-op Edit) - The Winstons 7. Tighten Up - Mophono 8. Conmigo - Nickodemus 9. Night Windows (DJ Co-op Remix) - The Weakerthans 10. Savoir Patiner - Guy Lafleur 11. Interlude - DJ Fin-s 12. Spanky' Sunshine - Bombs 13. Dance With Me - Ben Westbeech 14. Rock and Roll Part 2 / The Whole World - Gary Glitter / Outkast 15. Personal Jesus / Boyz - Depeche Mode / MIA 16. Berimbau - DJ Sandrinho 17. Just Fine / Bad Man Place - Mary J Blige / Movado and Busy Signal 18. Hockey Night in Canada Theme
I know it was a wintry thing, but if the Movado and Busy Signal remix, "Berimbau", The Westbeech tune and the ENORMOUS Gary Glitter/Outkast blend don't make you feel summer, well...I can't do nothin for ya.
If hip-hop hasn't done anything for ya lately, or ever, or whatever...look at the next image and read on.
Resist the urge to skip, or not download the next song.
"Zevon is famous for his ability to stay awake for as long as it takes -- often for 85 or 90 straight hours. "I wrote 'Hit Somebody in 75 hours,' " he said, "and look what happened to that one." -Hunter S Thompson
Hunter's article linked below is as good an elegy for a friend and compadre as anyone could ever want.
Here in the Cowichan Valley (The Warmland)there is an abundance of interesting characters. Today, a preacher/missionary/therapist came into the record store and rapped to me at length.
"God is only love and most people can't handle that" "There is nothing in the scriptures that says we have to work" "Thank god for all the people you love" "When you listen to drums, you are filled with the power of god, and every civilization throughout history have had their drums" "Make your job a mission"
This winter the daytime headquarters of Grilling It, has been a dusty record store, so today, I've ripped a few songs that I enjoyed today and run them through the post-o-matic.
We're working on a return to form. The staff of Grilling It will be warming up the pavement that is the path to summer with a smattering of epic text/photo/song/text/video/photo streams of radness.
As I typed yesterday, BACK TO THE GRILL!
Not epic like the new Hulk movie (more on that gratuitous exercise in needlessness later), but epic like Indiana Jones in the Iron Man suit fighting Charlatan Heshtown for the ten commandments tablets, dipping them in a volcano of gold and handing them to Bun B (who, it turns out, is actually A GIANT).
Epic. Impossible to duplicate. One of a kind.
Every summer is epic in its own ways. Sometimes you have to dig deeper, look harder, or travel further, but that's all mumbo jumbo on a cloudy Vantasy Island day as I yell GIVE ME BACK MY SUN!
Last summer, I had the pleasure of going to a stadium called "The Library":
They YELLED and SCREAMED and CHANTED at a pro athlete: "Have you ever heard of a boy called ASHLEY!" Amidst cries of "poofter!" and a word that rhymes with front. Ashley's the bloke on the right.
Now, summerists version point oh ate!
Have you ever heard of a boy called Alice?
Everyone out there who is sweating all the futuristic noises and robojox jams...well...for you...here's something everyone can enjoy (those hiding in rave caves under their electro blankets will also enjoy):
"Sick of lame dudes, frontin with that attitude, talkin' bout they rims and all they damn tennis shoes," -Dj Quik
All right, you can go now. Here's a gorgeous song that the Alice Cooper reminded me of. In my little corner of the world, this qualifies as "Lovers Rock." LCD SOUNDSYSTEM - Great Release
See you on sunset.
BBQ
PS: For the committed:
PSS: Don't sleep on Wayne's World 2. If you do, sleep upside down.
Some readers of this blog have already ringtoned jams like this. But, for the rest of you, get out of that bright sunshine, because it's the summer of Cave.
"Me, I ain't going anywhere, just sit and watch the sun come up, I like it here I watch the people go ticking past, go hey hey hey, you know I gotta say I like it here." -Nick Cave 2008 NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS - Albert Goes West
For now, dear reader, you can caaaaaaal me Aaaaaaaal.
