ธงชาติ ไทย: January 2010

Sunday, January 31, 2010

The FEBRUARY'10 soundtrack! Απόκριες suck!

Hey hey hey σε όλους!!!!

Ήρθε κι ο "κουτσός" μήνας! Ή αλλιώς το χειρότερο μου! Εκτός του ότι σιχαίνομαι τις απόκριες, ένας λόγος που δεν την παλεύω με τον μήνα αυτό, είναι το ότι "πήρε" από κοντά μου πριν μερικά χρόνια, ένα από τα πιο αγαπημένα μου πρόσωπα.

Δε θέλω να γκρινιάζω όμως, καλό μήνα να έχουμε, με πολλά χαμόγελα, λαγάνες, νηστίσιμα (μπλιαχ!), χαρταετούς...και να ντυθείτε με ό,τι πιο τρελό βρείτε για να βγάλετε το άχτι σας!!!

BEST SONGS OF THE MONTH

# 3OH!3 feat. KATY PERRY Starstrukk

# 16B feat. MOREL Escape (Driving to heaven)

# ADAM LAMBERT Whataya want from me

# AIRSCAPE feat. JES My love (original mix)

# ALICIA KEYS Try sleeping with a broken heart <---R'N'B SONG OF THE MONTH

# AMANDA JENSSEN Greetings from space <---BALLAD SONG OF THE MONTH

# ANNA FREE Keep on walking

# ARTIE CABRERA feat. LISA PURE Rainfalls (DJ Doves Bright Lights Remix)

# BEYONCE Broken-hearted girl (Lost Daze extended mix)

# CELTIC WOMAN Fields of gold

# CLAUDE CHALLE Orgasmus (Encore Une Fois Mix)

# CRAIG DAVID One more lie (standing in the shadows)

# DJ ANY Day after day (Roberto Bedross remix)

# DJ DINO & DFS feat. KATHY Bust your windows

# ELISA feat. ANTONY HEGARTY Forgiveness <---ACOUSTIC SONG OF THE MONTH

# ELIZA G Summer lie (extended mix)

# EMMA SHAPPLIN Jealously yours

# FERGIE Be Italian

# FRANCESCO RENGA Io che non vivo senza te

# GOLDFRAPP Rocket

# GORILLAZ Stylo

# GURU JOSH Eternity

# INGRID MICHAELSON Maybe

# JASON DERULO In my head

# JES Lovesong

# KATHARINE MCPHEE It’s not right

# LADY ANTEBELLUM Need you now (2010 mix) <---COUNTRY SONG OF THE MONTH

# LADY GAGA Monster <---POP SONG OF THE MONTH

# LEIGHTON MEESTER Your love’s a drug

# LEONA LEWIS I see you (theme from ‘Avatar’)

# LUDACRIS feat. SHAWNNA How low can you go

# MADONNA Across the sky

# MARIAH CAREY feat. NE-YO Angels cry

# MARINA & THE DIAMONDS I am not a robot

# MASSIVE ATTACK feat. DAMON ALBARN Saturday come slow

# NICOLE KIDMAN Unusual way

# NOISETTES Io bacio...tu baci

# OCEAN COLOUR SCENE The word

# PIXIE LOTT Cry me out (Bimbo Jones Radio Edit)

# PUSH PLAY My everything

# RAY & ANITA (ex-2 UNLIMITED) In da name of love

# RIHANNA Rude boy

# ROSEBLEED I promise

# ROUS Εξαιρέσεις <---GREEK SONG OF THE MONTH

# SADE The moon and the sky

# SERENA RYDER All for love <---ROCK SONG OF THE MONTH

# SHONTELLE Impossible <---BEST SONG OF THE MONTH

# SIMON BLOOM Circles

# T.A.T.U. White robe

# THE BURGER PROJECT Take my breath away

# THE TEMPER TRAP Fader

# TIESTO feat. NELLY FURTADO Who wants to be alone <---CLUB SONG OF THE MONTH

# VEGAS Ήρθε η στιγμή

# WILDBOYZ feat. AMEERAH The sound of missing you

# ΑΝΤΩΝΗΣ ΡΕΜΟΣ Τέρμα η ιστορία

# ΓΙΩΡΓΟΣ ΜΑΖΩΝΑΚΗΣ Η καρδιά μου

# ΗΒΗ ΑΔΑΜΟΥ Α.Γ.Α.Π.Η.

# ΚΑΙΤΗ ΓΑΡΜΠΗ Σκέψεις

# ΜΙΚΡΟ Robonation

THE BEST ALBUMS OF THE MONTH

# Sade SOLDIER OF LOVE (soul) (8)

# Ingrid Michaelson EVERYBODY (indie pop/acoustic) (8)

# Soundtrack AVATAR (classical/score) (8)

# Soundtrack NINE (musical) (8)

# Celtic Woman SONGS FROM THE HEART (folk/celtic) (8)

# Massive Attack HELIGOLAND (trip-hop) (7.5)

# Ocean Colour Scene SATURDAY (rock) (7)

# The Burger Project WE LIVE IN ATHENS (reggae/ska) (7)

THE REST

# Adam Green MINOR LOVE (indie rock) (6.5)

# Lhasa LHASA (acoustic) (6)

# Katharine McPhee UNBROKEN (pop) (6)

# Tindersticks FALLING DOWN A MOUNTAIN (alternative rock) (6)

FOR THE POUTS KAVALA

# Holly Miranda THE MAGICIAN’S PRIVATE LIBRARY (indie) (4.5)

# Νίκος Οικονομόπουλος ΚΑΤΑΘΕΣΗ ΨΥΧΗΣ (λαικό) (4)

# Vampire Weekend CONTRA (indie rock) (3)

# Heidi Montag SUPERFICIAL (pop) (2)

HOT

ΓΙΩΡΓΟΣ ΜΑΖΩΝΑΚΗΣ: Πολύ καλή η διασκευή του στο 90s alternative classic των O.P.A. «Η καρδιά μου». Ευκαιρία να μάθει το αριστουργηματικό αυτό τραγούδι και η νέα γενιά!

MARINA & THE DIAMONDS: To next best thing της Αγγλίας ονομάζεται Marina Diamandis και είναι ελληνίδα! Ήδη υπάρχει hype γύρω από το όνομά της, και καθόλου τυχαίο μιας και τα πρώτα δείγματα (“I am not a robot”, “Seventeen”) είναι εξαιρετικά! Αναμένουμε το πρώτο της album με τίτλο “The family jewels”, στα μέσα του μήνα.

ROUS+THE BURGER PROJECT: Ναι! Η εναλλακτική σκηνή υπάρχει ακόμα και συνεχίσει να βγάζει αξιόλογα νέα ονόματα, όπως τον Rous που το κομμάτι του «Εξαιρέσεις» ακούγεται παντού και είναι super αγαπημένο μου, και τους Burger Project που η πρωτότυπη reggae διασκευή τους στο κλασικό “Take my breath away”, μας κάνουν να ανυπομονούμε για την συνέχεια!

COLD

EUROVISION 2010: Φέτος παίζει να’ναι η πιο αδιάφορη χρονιά για την Eurovision. Κανένα ενδιαφέρον, τουλάχιστον για μένα προσωπικά. Υπάρχουν και κάτι φήμες ότι θα καταργηθεί ο θεσμός αλλά δεν ξέρω αν ευσταθούν.

ΑΝΝΑ ΒΙΣΣΗ: Η εμφάνιση της στο X Factor ήταν άχρωμη, αμήχανη, κλισέ, βαρετή, και δεν τραγούδησε και live όπως περιμέναμε.

KE$HA: Απορώ πραγματικά πως κάνει επιτυχία αυτή η γκόμενα, και πήγε και #1. Τι να πω, η μετριότητα σε όλο της το μεγαλείο!

Saturday, January 30, 2010

Roger wilco, deez nutz over and out

As-Salāmu `Alaykum, no oink for me
and I never let a d-boy boink for free

Young Money - Roger That

There really aren't enough rap songs which use the word boink, are there? Ever since Rob Breezy alerted me to the charms of Nicki Minaj's verse on Young Money's Roger That (you can mute it for a minute or so inbetween Nicki and Wayne's verses when Drake's pansy ass is rapping) last week i've been looking up at least 1 Nicki Minaj song on Youtube ever since. Female rappers are generally shit but Nicki has joints, and her cover of Warning is particularly interesting :

Not even because saucy interpolations of Biggie classics are always good or because Nicki managed to ape every nuance of Biggie's flow so perfectly. What really impressed me here is that she managed to hold her phone and gesticulate animatedly into it exactly like Biggie and Puffy too :

So, um, anybody know any good monitor wipes which don't leave your screen streaky as fuck?

Thursday, January 28, 2010

Hoggin' in my old school

J-Zone is perhaps the finest renaissance man in rap of the past decade and change : patron saint for those of us who base our life decisions on Eazy E lyrics, creator of the best indie-rap albums not made by DOOM, Count Bass D or R.A, producer of bangers for the likes of Akinyele and R.A, mixtape compiler extrodinaire, ig'nant gang$ta-rap tastemaker, HHC and Fat Lace column writer (I'm sure Robbie over at Unkut would admit he's borrowed liberally from those columns over the years) and a pretty fine blogger to boot judging by his posts on Dante's site.

So back in 2006 I greeted his collaboration with Celph Titled as the Bo$$ Hog Barbarians with trepidation. Oh sure, Celph killed the 'Zone tracks he guested on on $ick Of Bein' Rich like Steady Hoggin' and Eatadicup, but at that point Celph Titled was just some humourous punchline rapper dude whose 12"s I'd always see gathering dust in Bongos, who was primarily known for getting into fights with turd burglers like Cage. Was he really worthy of holdin' down a full album with 'Zone? Turns out he was, but the biggest suprise of their combination was that Celph had beats himself. And not just any old let-the-other-guy-pad-out-the-album-to-appease-his-producer-aspirations beats, but that ol' robotic, futuristic, George Jetson sounding Bay type shit that E-40 was rockin' from, like, '98 - '02. Dayum, these shits are lethal :

Bo$$ Hog Barbarians - You Got Mail

Bo$$ Hog Barbarians - Dog Show Pageant

Not one to be outdone by his compadre channeling other producers on his own shit, 'Zone managed to summon up the spirit of Just Blaze for Celph to go all Akinyele on Celph Destruction which outdid any of the discordant bollocks or lazy beatjacks one Justin Blaze esquire dropped that year, bar Dynomite by Rhymefest or I'm Talkin' To You by T.I, which basically is standard Just Blaze circa '06 discordant bollocks but good standard Just Blaze circa '06 discordant bollocks that you makes you wanna reenact scenes from Hard Boiled and Hard Target.

Bo$$ Hog Barbarians - Celph Destruction

'Zone needs to make some new music, and someone needs to mention to Celph's that there's a guy called Turf Talk who'd sound pretty, pretty good over his beats if he still has any in the same vein as You Got Mail and Dog Show Pageant lying around his crib.