Not saying this is what's happening in every case, but I think the fact that it's mixed more like a dance record than a rap record is throwing some people off?
― chain the color of am0n (The Reverend), Thursday, 19 July 2012 19:30 (eleven years ago) link
i need to listen to more of this but "wut" is rad as fuck.
― This clam, stranded on someone’s floor, is trying to dig itself (forksclovetofu), Friday, 20 July 2012 23:56 (eleven years ago) link
v glad that he's put the lyrics up
can't watch the video
mixtape keeps on giving
it seems "seapunk" in the thread title is understandable putting people off (INCLUDING ME tbh), can we delete it? it makes me cringe
― bitch I'm on the 242 (lex pretend), Saturday, 21 July 2012 09:53 (eleven years ago) link
Don't delete it until we've found out what "seapunk" is!
― that one guy (loves laboured breathing), Saturday, 21 July 2012 11:34 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.itisamystery.com/itisamystery.gif
― chain the color of am0n (The Reverend), Saturday, 21 July 2012 11:50 (eleven years ago) link
Been googling it on and off for the past couple hours and am now searching southern Michigan for a place that sells turquoise hair dye.
― that one guy (loves laboured breathing), Saturday, 21 July 2012 15:00 (eleven years ago) link
so long as his lyrics still include lines like "i'm such a mermaid that I stay in your waves"
and "i'm banji, i'm foamy, i'm kunty believe me"
and as long as he keeps producing gorgeous instrumentals that sample erykah singing 'i was born underwater' i will continue to jokingly include him in #seapunk
― twinkin' and drinkin' and ready to fly (Alex in Montreal), Saturday, 21 July 2012 15:48 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah all that stuff just makes me love it more tbh.
― that one guy (loves laboured breathing), Saturday, 21 July 2012 15:57 (eleven years ago) link
damn, I just realized no one had posted "Born Underwater" itt
http://soundcloud.com/le1f/boody-le1f-born-underwater
― chain the color of am0n (The Reverend), Saturday, 21 July 2012 18:45 (eleven years ago) link
song (wut) is pretty cool. he has mad swag and i like his rapping mostly but his double time flow is srsly cringe.
― hardhouse banter (tpp), Sunday, 22 July 2012 21:11 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah. My one critique is that sometimes his fast raps are a little forced and out of sync with the beat. Especially on Wut.
― twinkin' and drinkin' and ready to fly (Alex in Montreal), Sunday, 22 July 2012 22:35 (eleven years ago) link
damn, mind/body
― I dont even know that I think this sucks per se (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 31 July 2012 04:50 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.npr.org/2012/08/30/160324187/guest-dj-pulitzer-prize-winning-author-junot-diaz
― fauxmarc, Tuesday, 11 September 2012 14:21 (eleven years ago) link
New EP out today with Boody, featuring early banger Sweet Tea and also SODA which has an amazing video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=6herO1dIc4s#!
― twinkin' and drinkin' and ready to fly (Alex in Montreal), Monday, 19 November 2012 19:58 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=6herO1dIc4s
argh.
― twinkin' and drinkin' and ready to fly (Alex in Montreal), Monday, 19 November 2012 19:59 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6herO1dIc4s
there
― thraeds of life (The Reverend), Monday, 19 November 2012 22:59 (eleven years ago) link
Thanks, rev!
Anyway, it is the greatest and the EP is pretty great too.
Apparently the 12" vinyl opens with 'Born Underwater', that amazing track Boody & Le1f did that flips a Badu sample.
Also, the final mix of Sweet Tea on this EP gets rid of all the verses and just leaves the chorus and bridge in place - the rest is instrumental
The verses reappear on the Cedaa Remix but it's weird to not hear them after getting used to them on the demo for so long.
― twinkin' and drinkin' and ready to fly (Alex in Montreal), Monday, 19 November 2012 23:17 (eleven years ago) link
the Mike Q/Divoli S'vere Ha Mix of Soda is also pretty great.
― twinkin' and drinkin' and ready to fly (Alex in Montreal), Monday, 19 November 2012 23:18 (eleven years ago) link
"Soda" wtfthis rules
― billstevejim, Saturday, 1 December 2012 23:18 (eleven years ago) link
loving this ep
― these bitches is my sons and i make dad jokes (The Reverend), Saturday, 1 December 2012 23:36 (eleven years ago) link
also this jubilee (one of my favorite djs right now) mix opens with the cedaa remix https://soundcloud.com/heartymagazine/jubilees-space-heater-mix-for
― these bitches is my sons and i make dad jokes (The Reverend), Saturday, 1 December 2012 23:38 (eleven years ago) link
<3 this boody track that dutty artz just put out: https://soundcloud.com/xlr8rmag/boody-guap
― have a sandwich or ice cream sandwich (Jordan), Saturday, 1 December 2012 23:52 (eleven years ago) link
late pass but "Soda" is great. Love the video too
― that's the way to choke a jiving spirit (Drugs A. Money), Sunday, 2 December 2012 04:33 (eleven years ago) link
just saw him last night <3 <3 <3 played for an hour at 1 am and it was breathtaking. so many jams. endless jams. so much dancing. so many people.
― twinkin' and drinkin' and ready to fly (Alex in Montreal), Sunday, 2 December 2012 21:30 (eleven years ago) link
recently came around to this guy... don't have anything to say but he is kind of a genius and should be a pop star
― flopson, Saturday, 12 January 2013 23:26 (eleven years ago) link
venus in furs, boys in nothing
― hologram ned raggett (The Reverend), Tuesday, April 24, 2012 6:27 PM (8 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Dude's new mixtape, Fly Zone, was supposed to be out January 21, but just got pushed back to the 28th.
Coins is the lead single, dropping some time this week. Production by Drippin & Souldrop.
"Coins is like a gay brick squad song"
― twinkin' and drinkin' and ready to fly (Alex in Montreal), Tuesday, 15 January 2013 04:22 (eleven years ago) link
that's kind of otm
http://www.thefader.com/2013/01/23/stream-le1f-coins/
― The Reverend, Thursday, 24 January 2013 04:48 (eleven years ago) link
re-listening to Fresh, oh man! is that the fucking jam
― flag posts in the dust (Drugs A. Money), Thursday, 24 January 2013 05:19 (eleven years ago) link
shit. forgot to post it here.
yeah. really like it so far. not LOVE but like.
― twinkin' and drinkin' and ready to fly (Alex in Montreal), Thursday, 24 January 2013 05:49 (eleven years ago) link
yeah. I like it more than "Wut", but I never liked that one as much as a bunch of other people and that was never one of my favorite songs by him.
― The Reverend, Thursday, 24 January 2013 05:52 (eleven years ago) link
i mean, i love wut, but it's not my favourite. (yup, & gomorrah, gimme life, fresh, bubbles, my oozy, EMULATOR)
― twinkin' and drinkin' and ready to fly (Alex in Montreal), Thursday, 24 January 2013 06:01 (eleven years ago) link
i was just gonna write yup and then realized how many i loved.
― twinkin' and drinkin' and ready to fly (Alex in Montreal), Thursday, 24 January 2013 06:02 (eleven years ago) link
wut blows up a dance floor tho, which is important.
have you heard the new cakes track?
http://soundcloud.com/bloglin/cakes-da-killa-goodies/
― The Reverend, Thursday, 24 January 2013 06:11 (eleven years ago) link
― twinkin' and drinkin' and ready to fly (Alex in Montreal), Tuesday, January 15, 2013 4:22 AM (1 week ago)
http://www.thefader.com/2013/01/28/download-le1fs-fly-zone-mixtape/
― etc, Monday, 28 January 2013 20:16 (eleven years ago) link
been posting about it on twitter/tumblr/etc.
all pretty great stuff on first listen. vocal mix is up front esp. compared to dark york. less experimental in some ways but gets weirder as it goes on.
might love dark york more but i'll be playing this a lot.
plenty more nerd stuff, including lots of x-men and avatar: the last airbender references.
― twinkin' and drinkin' and ready to fly (Alex in Montreal), Monday, 28 January 2013 20:50 (eleven years ago) link
favourite line the first time around is a rakim-via-eminem flip:
I am whatever you say I am / Stop worrying about how gay I am / Or how gay I’m not / Does my shit not knock? / Are my people getting tipsy til they piss the pot? - Airbending
― twinkin' and drinkin' and ready to fly (Alex in Montreal), Monday, 28 January 2013 20:53 (eleven years ago) link
and 'airbending' is built around a wiley sample <3
― twinkin' and drinkin' and ready to fly (Alex in Montreal), Monday, 28 January 2013 21:06 (eleven years ago) link
"Pocahontas ft. Kitty Pryde (produced by Drippin)"
Hrrrm, Hercules ref instead of the expected The Little Mermaid one, heh.
― etc, Monday, 28 January 2013 21:18 (eleven years ago) link
Couldn't get through Dark York due to the mixing on the vocals (though "Wut" made my various 2012 singles ballots), but this new one sounds pretty great on first listen. The Kitty Pryde track is a definite highlight.
― Public Brooding Closet (cryptosicko), Thursday, 14 February 2013 18:09 (eleven years ago) link
I still can't comprehend people who see the vocal mix on Dark York as a bug rather than a feature.
― The Reverend, Thursday, 14 February 2013 18:39 (eleven years ago) link
New one's cool but doesn't have anywhere near the same "omigod what the fuck is this?" factor as Dark York let alone hearing "ΩΩΩ" in contextless isolation on soundcloud a year earlier.
― The Reverend, Thursday, 14 February 2013 18:42 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, finding it difficult to get excited about. I've only given it one listen.
― MikoMcha, Thursday, 14 February 2013 19:19 (eleven years ago) link
I still can't comprehend people who see the vocal mix on Dark York as a bug rather than a feature.― The Reverend, Thursday, February 14, 2013 1:39 PM (4 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― The Reverend, Thursday, February 14, 2013 1:39 PM (4 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
cosign til I die
― the gospel of meth (Drugs A. Money), Sunday, 7 July 2013 02:55 (ten years ago) link
I haven't had a chance to listen to Fly Zone yet, but I am really diggin the Hate2Wait/Lavandin/Emulator run right now...
― the gospel of meth (Drugs A. Money), Sunday, 7 July 2013 02:56 (ten years ago) link
in fact I am p much completely down with the back half of DY, which you all probably could have guessed...
― the gospel of meth (Drugs A. Money), Sunday, 7 July 2013 03:18 (ten years ago) link
I should go back to Fly Zone. I'm not sure I gave it a fair shake. I was just kinda like "THIS ISN'T DARK YORK!" *knocks everything off table* about it.
― lady steendriver (The Reverend), Sunday, 7 July 2013 05:06 (ten years ago) link
Yeah I def need to give it a listen myself
― the gospel of meth (Drugs A. Money), Sunday, 7 July 2013 06:52 (ten years ago) link