Anytime we get new music from Burial it’s cause to get pumped. “Ego” is great and we gotta admit, this is better than just about anything on King of Limbs. Sorry, Thom! We still love you!
Burial, Four Tet, Thom Yorke – EgoBurial, Four Tet, Thom Yorke: (Info)
Rating: 8.3
Love this. K.R.I.T. is positioned for massive things in 2011. “American Rapstar”, which K.R.I.T. also produced, showcases the rapper’s urgent visceral flow, like K.R.I.T. needs to rap this, he needs to be heard. Ace shit. Into it.
Big K.R.I.T. – American Rapstar via illRootsBig K.R.I.T.: (Myspace) (Twitter)
Rating: 8.2
The forces of b3sci descend on Austin, TX today for the SXSW festival. We are super super psyched. (There aren’t enough supers we can qualify that with. We’re stoked.) What shows are on our radars? Where might you be able to link up with the b3sci crew? All very important questions! We’ve put together a guide (our battleplan) to the must see b3sci-approved Night showcases and Day parties. Now all we need is that teleportation device!
Shows are color-coded together. Some day party times are approximate.
Download: b3sci Guide to SXSW 2011
A new Deadmau5 track everyday, that we can get into. Here, Growl & Co. get the Deadmau5 treatment. RCA A&R, put this shit on the radio! It’s a hit!
Foo Fighters – Rope (Deadmau5 Remix) via SKOAFoo Fighters: (Official) (Myspace) (Facebook)
Deadmau5: (Official) (Myspace) (Facebook)
Rating: 8.5
b3sci fav B.Lewis offers a ‘choice’ of “Tea Leaf Dancers” in the form of two remixes. The first, “Stay,” is mellow and groovy. The second, “Leave,” takes a different direction with syncopation and harmonic accompaniment. Staying true to the original, both are worth checking out.
B.Lewis/Flying Lotus – Choice One: Stay (Feat. Andreya Triana)B.Lewis: (Myspace) (Bandcamp) (Soundcloud)
Rating: 8.2
This sweet track shows just how much Daedelus’ upcoming LP, Bespoke, has in store. Check out the preview at Ninjatune and tour dates at FoF.
Daedelus – Overwhelmed (Feat. Bilal)Daedelus: (Official) (Myspace)
Rating: 8.3
Using hardware only, Pierre LX’s debut album Out 1 mixes genres in a unique way, with heavy UK bass influences. Enola nailed the remix with a driving beat and smooth transitions.
Pierre LX – Winter Light (Enola Remix) via XLR8RPierre LX: (Myspace) (Soundcloud)
Enola: (Myspace)
Rating: 8.0
Not gonna front, kinda sounds like the Clipse. (which is freaking AWESOME). Great beat, great rhymes, and even a (sorta) great 50 feature. Get psyched, “Fear of God” is due March 21.
Pusha T – Raid (Feat. 50 Cent & Pharrell) (Prod. The Neptunes)Pusha T: (Official) (Facebook) (Twitter)
Rating: 8.1
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
