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Thursday, December 31, 2009

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M.I.A. - Arular
by Fusion 45

Fusion 45 Presents Paste Magazine’s Albums of the Decade #10

M.I.A. (aka Mathangi “Maya” Arulpragasam) was a visual artist who began toying with a Roland 505 Drum Machine about 10 years ago. Having secured one of her own via former Elastica member, Justine Frischman, Arulpragasam began programming beats in her bedroom shortly thereafter. When Frischman’s manager who the demos, Arulpragasam was signed to XL Recordings under the name M.I.A.

Arular, named after her father, was the first of her two albums and has been nominated for or won numerous music awards over the past five years.

Banana Skit
Pull Up The People
Bucky Done Gone
Sunshowers



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M.I.A. - Arular
by Fusion 45

Fusion 45 Presents Paste Magazine’s Albums of the Decade #10

M.I.A. (aka Mathangi “Maya” Arulpragasam) was a visual artist who began toying with a Roland 505 Drum Machine about 10 years ago. Having secured one of her own via former Elastica member, Justine Frischman, Arulpragasam began programming beats in her bedroom shortly thereafter. When Frischman’s manager who the demos, Arulpragasam was signed to XL Recordings under the name M.I.A.

Arular, named after her father, was the first of her two albums and has been nominated for or won numerous music awards over the past five years.

Banana Skit
Pull Up The People
Bucky Done Gone
Sunshowers



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Amy Winehouse - Back To Black
by Fusion 45

Fusion 45 Presents Paste Magazine’s Album of The Decade #19

Amy Winehouse’s platinum-selling debut, Frank, released in 2003, when she was just twenty years old, certainly served notice of a considerable vocal talent with a gift for clever songwriting. But nothing could have prepared me for the retro masterpiece she’d follow it up with. I was able to get my hands on Back to Black after it was released in the U.K. in October, and I’ve been listening to it ever since. The album is heavily influenced by ’60s girl groups like the Shangri-Las, and that sound is updated with a hip-hop sensibility courtesy of producers Mark Ronson (Christina Aguilera) and Salaam Remi (Nas, Fugees). But make no mistake: Winehouse is the star here. Her whiskey-soaked voice (when she’s talking about rehab, she ain’t kidding) gives every track a classic feel, and the album contains remarkably insightful lyrics on love, life and relationships. In R and B’s current state, Back to Black is even more important.

The album starts strong with the album’s first single, “Rehab,” before moving right into the big drums and barroom tale of “You Know I’m No Good,” a version of which turned up on Ghostface’s More Fish (somehow, I don’t even really miss the charismatic emcee here). “Me and Mr. Jones,” rumored to be a fictitious gripe directed at Nasir Jones, let’s you know right away you’re not in Motown with the line, “What kind of fuckery is this?/ You made me miss the Slick Rick gig.” It’s this kind of playful inventiveness that makes this album more than just a tribute to sounds past. Nowhere is that more apparent than on “Addicted,” an ode to Winehouse’s greenery vice and a warning to thieving boyfriends. This could pass for a Supremes anthem until you stumble across a line like this: “It’s got me addicted/ Does more than any dick did.”

Song titles like “Back to Black,” “Love Is a Losing Game,” “Tears Dry on Their Own” and “Wake up Alone” should give you an idea of where Winehouse is coming from. The album follows a similar jilted-lover story line to that of Mark Ronson’s other collaborator and U.K. sensation, Lily Allen. “He Can Only Hold Her” uses the same Curtis Mayfield and the Impressions musical base as John Legend’s “Slow Dance,” but to much better advantage. (Legend is undeniably talented, but Back to Black takes all the musical cues and themes he hinted at on Once Again and does them better.)

These days it seems R&B’s brightest stars have either disappeared (Erykah Badu), gone crazy (Lauryn Hill) or both (D’Angelo). At the same time, a wholly original, fully finished album from Bilal is put on a shelf and another one from Musiq Soulchild is right around the corner. Meanwhile, calendar girls like Ciara and Rihanna are being passed off as singers. But Back to Black stands in testament to the fact that talent and originality still exist-and can still create buzz. Last month, both of Winehouse’s shows at New York City’s Joe’s Pub sold out (scalpers were reportedly getting as much as $250 per), and the audience included Jay-Z and Mos Def. Winehouse already won the Brit Award for best British female solo artist (and garnered three other nominations), and Back to Black should wind up at the top of many best-of lists this year. Let’s just hope her shaky personal habits leave her in good enough shape to enjoy the praise that’s sure to come. (Bryan Whitefield, PreFix Magazine;, March 2007)

Addicted

Back To Black

Cupid

He Can Only Hold Her

Hey Little Rich Girl

Just Friends

Love Is A Losing Game (demo)

Love Is A Losing Game

Me And Mr. Jones

Monkey Man

Rehab

Some Unholy War (Acoustic)

Some Unholy War

Tears Dry On Their Own

To Know Him Is To Love Him

Valerie

Wake Up Alone

You Know I’m No Good

You’re Wondering



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Kanye West - The College Dropout
by Fusion 45

Fusion 45 Presents Paste Magazine’s Album of The Decade #17

What is the fuss about his contradictions? The main difference between him and most hip hop journalists is his money. They’d buy the Benz—so would I, Volvos don’t last as long—and probably the gold too. They’d say anything to get laid. They accept the economic rationale of dealing and dig music of dubious moral value. Yet at the same time they do their bit for racial righteousness and know full well how much they need the “single black female addicted to retail.” On Easter Sunday, some of them even believe in Jesus Christ. But none of them are as clever or as funny as Kanye West, and these days I’m not so sure about Eminem either. West came up as a beatmaster, but his Alicia Keys and Talib Kweli hits are pretty bland, and neither his voice nor his flow could lead anyone into sin. So he’d better conceptualize, and he does. Not only does he create a unique role model, that role model is dangerous—his arguments against education are as market-targeted as other rappers’ arguments for thug life. Don’t do what he says, kids, and don’t do what he does, because you can’t. Just stay in school. Really. I mean it. (Robert Christgau, The Village Voice, March 9, 2004)

Intro
We Don’t Care
Graduation Day
All Falls Down
I’ll Fly Away
Spaceship
Jesus Walks
Never Let Me Down
Get Em High
Workout Plan
The New Workout Plan
Slow Jamz
Breathe In Breathe Out
School Spirit (Skit 1)
School Spirit
School Spirit (Skit 2)
Lil Jimmy
Two Words
Through The Wire
Family Business
last Call



Friday, December 25, 2009

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Listen Up! Best Music of the Millennium … So Far
by Wired: Underwire

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In a decade fueled by hyperconsumption and paranoia, some musicians stood out by balancing cultural relevance, technological innovation and raw lyrical and sonic power.

These artists and their recordings — the best of the millennium so far — significantly upped the ante in their respective genres of rock, pop, hip-hop and beyond (usually by obliterating those labels). These musicians’ beautiful noise will only grow louder as the next decade unfurls.

Listen to top tracks by the standard-bearers below, then let us know your choices for the ’00s finest music in the comments section.

El-P: Fantastic Damage (2002), I’ll Sleep When You’re Dead (2007)

It’s apropos that El-P is pictured above in front of what looks like a lie detector, because he’s rock and hip-hop’s eminent truth-teller. His apocalyptic twin missiles Fantastic Damage and I’ll Sleep When You’re Dead may have flown beneath hip-hop’s hopelessly distracted mainstream, but that’s only because their personal and political pain was too much to bear for hearts and minds that sold their souls to the twin hallucinations of reality TV and the war on terror.

Songs on both efforts mashed the political and cultural madness of the decade with sci-fi standouts like Star Trek, THX-1138 and Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer (in “Deep Space 9mm” at right). El-P’s labyrinthine rhymes were backed by beats fed through two Technics, an Ensoniq sampling keyboard, one Vestax mixer, a Korg Chaoss Pad and more comparatively lo-fi recording tech.

His profile escalated sharply on I’ll Sleep When You’re Dead, in the form of a kinetic beat upgrade and cameos from Trent Reznor (in “Flyentology” at right), Cat Power and other all-stars. But even that abrasive classic unsettled more soma-sniffing hip-hop heads than it awakened upon its release in 2007.

“I’m more interested in saying something that will mean something,” the former Company Flow member told Wired.com. The group’s stunning debut Funcrusher Plus was reissued earlier this year. “My solo work made sense of the inevitable Third World War. Which is why I ended up bringing more of who I was into the picture, and became more influenced by matters of the heart and head.”

In the end, it was El-P’s decision to abandon the music industry and form the respected indie label Definitive Jux in 1999, setting the stage for his brilliant bow as the finest hip-hop artist of the ’00s. From its slew of releases from intelligent, talented hip-hop artists like RJD2, Aesop Rock, Mr. Lif and Rob Sonic to team-ups with television tastemakers like Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim, Def Jux turned out some of the most potent artistic work of the ’00s.

Through it all, El-P churned out the best hip-hop of our still-new millennium, and raised the stakes for electronic music speaking truth to power and paranoia. Tell a friend.

Image courtesy Def Jux



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Alicia Keys & Swizzy Celebrate Album Release
by HipHop Gossip



Alicia Keys and Swizz Beatz were caught celebrating the album release for "The Element of Freedom" in NY. It's actually the same day that they were photographed doing some Christmas shopping over in West Village. The album release party was held at club M2 and Swizzy looks like he had a great time supporting his boo! Check out the footage below:

AJ, formerly of 106 & Park, was the host for the evening and Funk Master Flex was on the 1's and 2's!! Everyone seemed to have a good time except for those bodyguards. Those guys were really on their job!!


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Lil Wayne Is Banned From TV
by HipHop Gossip



MTV has been releasing footage of Lil Wayne and his new project called "The Nino Brown Story". I don't know if I would consider Lil Wayne any type of Nino Brown but he's definitely a force to be reckoned with in this music industry. Nevertheless, Lil Wayne is very entertaining to watch and we all know by now his work ethic is off the chain. Watch Wayne in action as he records "Banned From TV" a hot Queens anthem by Nore and friends below: