Episode 1: The Return

Playlist
1. Sugar Glyder: "One More Snow"
2. Rick Ross ft. Kanye West: "Live Fast, Die Young"
3. jj: "Still"
4. Gorillaz: "Hillbilly Man"
5. James Blake: "I Never Learnt to Share"
6. Endgames: "Ecstasy (Jam City Refix)"
7. Velour: "Booty Slammer"
8. Young Galaxy: "Peripheral Visionaries"
9. Chris Brown ft. Busta Rhymes & Lil Waynes: "Look At Me Now"
10. Kanye West ft. CyHi da Prynce: "Christmas in Harlem"
11. Earl Sweatshirt: "Earl"
12. Flying Lotus: "Do The Astral Plane"

MuzjiksFM is back!

Tomorrow night at 10 PM EST, MuzjiksFM will finally return to the airwaves. Watch this space for the streaming URL, the playlist, the podcast link, and the Soundcloud download. Get ready—Sirius XMU has nothing on us. Seriously. We run shit.

UPDATE: Stream here.

Mainstream Pop's First Attempt at Dubstep

Prepare to hear this for the next four months...

Funky disco soul revival?

It's not prevalent enough yet to call it a revival, but with Cee-Lo Green leading the pack with his Stevie Wonder-esque The Lady Killer, it's conceivable that a full-blown resurgence of the funkadelic sounds of the 70s could be on their way back to the mainstream. Perhaps it's just my wishful thinking, but here's a handful of examples of recent music that are fully indebted to the sounds of the yesteryear and give me hope for the future of grooviness. Now we jive.

Estelle (ft. Cee-Lo): Pretty Please (Love Me)

Breakbot (ft. Irfane): Baby I'm Yours

Reset!: The Love Anthem (If We Try) (Broke One Remix)

Duck Sauce: The Motion

Keep your eyes on the throne

This from Kanye's Twitter: Looks like the lead single from Watch the Throne, Yeezy's collaborative album with Jay-Z, is going to be in our hands sooner rather than later—as in this coming Tuesday.

Daft Punk: Unmasked

Really cool article over at Trash Menagerie documenting Daft Punk sans masks. Check it out here.

News from EITS

Received this e-mail today from Explosions in the Sky:

Hi Everyone,

Welcome to 2011.

We're excited (and a little nervous) to announce that on April 6th we'll be playing at Radio City Music Hall in New York City. Radio City is one of the most legendary and beautiful theaters in the world, so we feel pretty honored and lucky. It's like some sort of absurd daydream come true for us. Anyway, we'll be playing a bunch of new songs so we hope some of you can make it out that night. If you're interested in tickets, please go here.

Speaking of new songs...as we'd mentioned previously, our new album will be coming out sometime this spring. We're anxious to get it out there into the world and we'll have more details about it in the next few weeks.

Thanks for caring.

Love,

Explosions

More than just WOMP

Bacon. Related enough.

Dubstep has the reputation—especially in the United States—of being a genre all about devastating bass that sometimes sounds like whales mating, other times sounds like grinding chainsaws, and still other times just sounds like a migraine waiting to happen. However, to reduce the genre to this would be entirely unfair. Although represented more prevalently in Europe, dubstep usually incorporates stuttering, off-kilter rhythms, groovy synthesized lines that reflect UK garage and funky influences, and more explicit dub vibes. You might say that it's the difference between dubstep and brostep, although that comes off fallaciously as sophistication versus novelty, which is not always the case. I will likely put together some kind of longer feature on the difference between dubstep and brostep in the near future, but for now, enjoy some tunes that are about more than just WOMP and WUBWUBWUB.

Also, a side note: if you haven't already, do yourself a favor and get Desto's discography. Dude's the absolute truth.

Desto: Broken Memory

501: Back Up

Fine Cut Bodies: Beaver Blink (Ooah Remix)

A brush with Odd Future

Above is the video for "Clear Eyes" off of OFWGKTA member Domo Genesis' latest, Rolling Papers. As you'll see, there's a shot with a phone ringing and a number being displayed on the screen. It reads "Tyler," so when I called the number, I thought maybe I would get in contact with the leader of the pack himself, Tyler, the Creator. Instead, I reached the director of the video who requested that I post his work on Muzjiks. This is the least I can do. Little does he know that he could potentially be in store for the Mike Jones treatment. Regardless, it's some unsettling visuals for Odd Future's signature drugged-out, listless brand of hip hop. Not nearly as shocking as Earl Sweatshirt's unbelievable "EARL" vid, but still worth a view nevertheless. If you like what you hear, you can head over to OF's tumblr to get Domo's Rolling Papers in full—fo' free.

Clear Eyes

Reupholstering vaginas since 1977

Related.

With its 808s-esque blip-bloop bouncing along and a distorted guitar riff giving the track a certain edginess beneath Kanye's rhymes, this My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy cut didn't quite make it off the Hawaiian cutting room floor. Frankly, I'm not sure where the song would've fit into the retail tracklist without sounding sorely out of place. In fact, before doing a quick Google search, I thought this was a leak from Watch the Throne, as the overall feel of "Eyes Closed" was altogether un-MBDTF-like. But then again, this is likely not completely mixed and mastered as it would have appeared on a final pressing. Regardless, it's is another quality piece of Yeezian hip hop for us to sink our teeth into, so I'm not complaining. Enjoy.

Eyes Closed

Decatur's Finest: CyHi

It's official. I'm on CyHi Da Prynce's nuts. I'm not ashamed. Dude is the next big thing in hip hop. Not only do I have a man crush on the guy's voice, but his flow is dope as hell. If you liked what you heard on "Christian Dior Denim Flow" or "So Appaled," do yourself a favor and check out his two official mixtapes, namely Royal Flush. And you better believe that when CyHi drops his full-length, it's going to be fire. With Yeezy at the helm of GOOD Music production, you know Da Prynce's album is going to be on point. Enough babbling. Listen.

CyHi Da Prynce: "Top of the World"

XV: "All for Me (ft. CyHi, Vado, & Erin Christine)"

Smell ya, 2010

Note: These lists are numbered, but only to satisfy convention. I happen to be one of the most indecisive human being on the planet, so pretty much everything other than my album of the year designation is arbitrarily ranked.

Albums of the year

1. Kanye West | My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

2. Menomena | Mines

3. Flying Lotus | Cosmogramma

4. oOoOO | CDR021

5. Tyler, the Creator | Bastard

6. Earl Sweatshirt | EARL

7. Arcade Fire | The Suburbs

8. Gorillaz | Plastic Beach

9. The Radio Dept. | Clinging to a Scheme

10. Grouplove | Grouplove

Honorable mention: Young the Giant | Young the Giant

Songs of the year

1. Kanye West | “All of the Lights”

2. Gorillaz | “Empire Ants”

3. Menomena | “Taos”

4. Marco del Horno & DJ Swerve | “Ho! Riddim (Vocal Mix) (ft. P-Money)”

5. Zeds Dead | “White Satin”

6. oOoOO | “No Summr4U”

7. Arcade Fire | “Empty Room”

8. Salem | “King Night”

9. Bassnectar | “Bass Head”

10. DJ Fresh | “Gold Dust (Flux Pavilion Remix)”

Honorable mentions: Kanye West | “Christian Dior Demin Flow (ft. Kid Cudi, Pusha T, John Legend, Lloyd Banks & Ryan Leslie)” and Big Boi | “Daddy Fat Sax”

Top personal discoveries of the year

1. Joker | “Psychedelic Runway” (2009)

2. Deadmau5 | “Strobe” (2009)

3. Maserati | “Monoliths” (2009)

4. Xploding Plastix | “Sports, Not Heavy Crime” (2001)

5. Nujabes | “Aruarian Dance” (2004)

6. Deltron 3030 | “3030” (2000)

7. The Soul’s Release | “Elska Min” (2007)

8. Scarub | “If You Only Knew” (1999)

9. Lemon Jelly | “The Staunton Lick” (2000)

10. Ott | “The Queen of All Everything” (2008)

Honorable mention: The Beta Band | “Dry the Rain” (1998)

Most anticipated albums of 2011

1. Radiohead | LP8 (TBA)

2. Joker | LP1 (TBA, Universal)

3. Sugar Glyder | Lovers at Lightspeed (February 11, self-released)

4. Madvillain | LP2 (TBA, Stones Throw)

5. Kanye West & Jay-Z | Watch the Throne (TBA)

6. Anything and everything Night Slugs

7. The Avalanches | LP2 (TBA)

8. Explosions in the Sky | LP6 (TBA, Temporary Residence)

9. Desto | LP1 (TBA) [wishful thinking?]

The Man, The Myth, The Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

The Man, The Myth, The Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

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Kanye West: Through the Wire

Stenchman: Part 1

[video: vaguely related]

This guy knows how to wobble and wobble with conviction. Stenchman brings a unique wobble bass to the bro/dubstep (I can't tell which he is yet) genre. The following are dangerously unclean cuts. The wobble bass on these four is some of the grimiest, wide-wobbling I have ever heard. I'll stop not making sense and come to your own conclusion. Look for another post concerning Stenchman very soon.

His name is Stenchman for christ's sake. Oh, and Swine--the last one is for you.

Burial: "Archangel" (Stenchman Remix)

Phoenix: "Lisztomania" (Stenchman Remix)

Stenchman: "Overtaker"

Stenchman: "Prime Time Swine"

Big thanks to www.likedubstep.com for sharing these.

dw|tb

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