Arca's &&&&& Mixtape

This guy is most known as one of the producers of Kanye West's Yeezus, which I could give a shit about but shit do I love this mixtape, which is available to stream or download.  Looking forward to more mixtapes and maybe even a proper album in 2014.

Captain Murphy's The Killing joke video

A fan made music video for the Captain Murphy track The Killing Joke, that Captain Murphy liked so much he made it the official video. Below is a 35 minute video released last year on VHS for the Duality Mixtape that had the internet guessing Captain Murphy's real identity. It was later revealed at LA's Low End Theory that the true identity of the Captain was producer Flying Lotus rap alter ego. A few weeks later on New Years Day I was lucky enough to be seeing FlyLo when he closed out his set with a few Captain Murphy tracks. You can download the whole mixtape at the bottom of http://www.captainmurphy.xxx/


CAPTAIN MURPHY'S DUALITY from Captain Murphy on Vimeo.

The Ego by Nicolas Jaar

Nicolas Jaar track that I have had for a few months but just struck me today how good it is.  Listen or download.

Notorious B.I.G. vs. Boards of Canada: Everyday Struggle

Classic mash-up.  You can download this as well.

Brauheist EP Download

Click on the Album cover above to stream or download the 9 song EP from Brauheist.  Do something rare and spend some money on music so they can record their first album.

Clams Casino: Instrumental Mixtape II

Click on the cover image above to download the new free Clams Casino Instrumental Mixtape II.  I am only halfway listening to it now so I don't know if it is as good as the first mixtape but that would be hard since that was my favorite album of last year.

Black Mountain soundtrack Year Zero surf doc

Vancouver's own psychedelic prog-rock outfit Black Mountain will release a soundtrack to the Surf Doc "Year Zero" at the beginning of April.  It will be a collection of a few old songs, unreleased songs, and a couple new tunes.  Below you can watch the trailer for the movie as well as listen to a new Black Mountain track called Mary Lou (if you click on the little arrow icon on the side you can download it for free.)

Globe's Year Zero (0000) Final Trailer from Globe Surf on Vimeo.

Black Mountain - "Mary Lou" by Jagjaguwar

Santigold: Big Mouth Video

After too many years Santigold finally is about to release a followup to her debut.  It sounds like the same Santigold with more of a tribal sound.  Click here to go to Santi's website and download the track for free.

Islands: This is Not a Song

 
It didn't take Nick Thorburn very long to release a new album with Islands, having just finished touring with Mister Heavenly.  This song is really slow and dark for Islands but the band have sounded different one each of the three previous albums.  The new "This is Not a Song" is from the album A Sleep & A Forgetting and it comes out on Feb. 14, 2012.

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Broke for Free

I don't know anything about this DJ(s?) except that there is this awesome song...


this free remix album...


and a whole lot of remixes and music on their Soundcloud page.  I haven't listened toall of this music yet but I've liked all the music that I have listened to so far.

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Soundtrack

Once again Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross are colaborating with director David Fincher on his newest movie, an adapation of the Swedish crime noir The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.  The duo previously worked with Fincher on The Social Network which they won a best original score Oscar.  The soundtrack for this movie contains 3 hours of music and will be available in Mp3, deluxe CD, and a deluxe 6 LP vinyl box.  If you click on the album cover below it will take you to Null Corporation Records site where you can download a free 6 track album sampler.  Sounds like it will be a very haunting and dark set.

Here is a stream of the first track of the album, a cover of the Led Zeppelin classic Immigrant Song featuring Karen O of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs taking over vocal duties.

Immigrant Song - Karen O with Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross by Fluke Hawkins

Memory Tapes: Magic Sequence

When Memory Tapes released their first album a few years ago they also released Magic Sequence, a mixtape with alternative versions of songs on that first album, as well as many unreleased songs.  I haven't listened to this mixtape in years due to being forgetten because of the perfection of their Chillwave debut.  This morning it came on and thanks to shuffle on iTunes I rediscovered that this is just as good, if not better then the album.  Click on the image to download Magic Sequence for free.

Mr. Muthafuckin' eXquire: Lost in Translation

Huzzah by Mr. Muthafuckin' eXquire

The beat sounds like Wu-Tang but his flow and lyrics aren't quite as dark.  The chorus is pretty funny too.  This is off his free mixtape which you can download by clicking the album cover below.

Mister Heavenly and Nick Diamond

A few weeks ago Mister Heavenly released their first album, Out of Love, and although I am a fan of all the different bands that the members are from I didn't pick it up and listen until a couple days ago.  It is very good.  Dark, slow, menacing, and poppy; it has a little bit of all the members other bands sounds.  Ryan Kattner (Honus Honus the frontman for Man Man) and Nick Thorburn (Nick Diamond the frontman for the Unicorns, Islands, th Corn Gangg, Reefer...) share writting and vocal duties and Joe Plummer (from Modest Mouse, Helio Sequence) plays drums.  Click on the album cover below to stream the album.

Last week Nick Thorburn released a solo album under his Nick Diamond alias to download for a price you choose on his Bandcamp site.  Click on the album cover below to download the album.

††† (Crosses)

 

Last week, Chino Moreno (Deftones and Team Sleep) and Shaun Lopez (Far) released a teaser video for a project that almost everyone knew nothing about and then today they release an EP for free.  Its not metal like Deftones but its still heavy.  Only listened to it a few times but I like it a lot.

Strokes: Is This It Tribute

Stereogum.com has releases a free tribute to the Strokes first album, "Is This It"  Click the image of the cover to download a .zip of the album.  I haven't listened to this yet but I like the original and many of the bands that have provided their version of these songs.

1. Peter Bjorn and John-"Is This It"
2. Chelsea Wolf-"Modern Age"
3. Frankie Rose-"Soma"
4. Real Estate-"Barely Legal"
5. Wise Blood-"Someday"
6. Austra-"Alone, Together"
7. The Morning Benders-"Last Night"
8. Owen Pallett-"Hard to Explain"
9. Heems-"New York City Cops"
10. Deradoorian-"Try Your Luck"
11. Computer Magic-"Take It or Leave It"

More Wu

A mash-up of Wu-Tang and Fugazi and they work so well together.

Wugazi • 13 Chambers by WUGAZI