Crystal Castles

Defeat the evil Dr. Wiley and his robot hoard to the sounds of "1991".

Four Tet - DJ Kicks (2006)

The 27th installment in the DJ Kicks compilation series. Found this one in the record bin a few months back and bought it simply because I had not seen any Four Tet albums before (probably because I had never really looked). I've only listened to this one a couple of times, and can tell you that it is not the best example of Four Tet's music; careens crazily from one track to another, but still worth checking out.

Medeski, Martin, and Wood - Electric Tonic

Recorded live at Tonic.

"None of us are going to deny what other people are doing. If saying bullshit is somebody's think, then he says bullshit. If somebody is an ass-kicker, then that's what he's going to do on this trip, kick asses. He's going to do it right out front and nobody is going to have anything to say about it. He can just say, 'I'm sorry I kicked you're ass, but I'm not sorry I'm an ass-kicker. That's what I do. I kick people in the ass.' Everybody is going to be what they are, and whatever they are, there's not going to be anything to apologize about."

Ghostland Observatory - Paparazzi Lightning

Dark and Stormy.

Salmonella Dub - Heal Me

A friend of mine hooked me up with this album after a year of living in New Zealand. By his account, the country sounds overtly chill. A great place to hitch hike, or put day-glow orange flames on the roof of your $400 van.

Wale - The Mixtape About Nothing

Hip Hop is dead?

Hepcat - Right on Time [1998]

Those Sennheiser CX400s (which I spoke of in a previous post about earbud shopping) turned out to be crap. So back to the drawing board it was, which lead me to the Kicker EB141 Earbuds. Now these are a superior product. A little more expensive-- granted-- but substantially clearer sound quality, and bass response like you read about. Not the most comfortable things I've ever worn, so the quest for the perfect earbud will continue once these blow out.

Fabriclive 29 - Mixed by Cut Copy

This is a DJ mix compilation by synthpop Australian duo Cut Copy. Included in this full range of remixes, you'll hear the familiar sounds of Daft Punk, Justice, Soulwax, Mstrkrft, The Faint, Goldfrappe, Daniel Diamond, Joakim, Riot in Belgium-- or maybe none of this you recognize. Guess there's only one way to find out...

Burial - Untrue [2007]

Welcome to Dubstep (Trance, on heroin). Burial's second studio release, Untrue, is one of the darkest, spookiest, most hypnotic displays of inner city drool to come out of Hyperdub (that I've heard anyways). It's rain soaked, bullet laden, post-apocolyptic, depraved- and worth listening to a hundred times over.

The Avalanches - Live on the Breezeblock 2-26-2001

This is a radio recoding from BBC Radio One's Breezeblock hour. As good as it gets, really.