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
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― blinded by aggro (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 8 August 2013 03:21 (ten years ago) link
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― we run zings, zings don't run we (The Reverend), Thursday, 8 August 2013 03:45 (ten years ago) link
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― emil.y, Thursday, 8 August 2013 13:52 (ten years ago) link
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― precious bonsai children of new york (Jordan), Thursday, 8 August 2013 15:07 (ten years ago) link
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^might actually use this somehow
― the butthead frond (Drugs A. Money), Thursday, 8 August 2013 19:33 (ten years ago) link
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― Stupor Fly, Thursday, 8 August 2013 23:33 (ten years ago) link
♛ LIL UNIT ♛
― i better not get any (thomp), Friday, 9 August 2013 00:00 (ten years ago) link
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― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Friday, 9 August 2013 05:54 (ten years ago) link
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― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Friday, 9 August 2013 05:56 (ten years ago) link
https://soundcloud.com/le1f/damn-sonthis is nice
― YOU FOOLS PAY OVER $2.50 for a comic book (forksclovetofu), Friday, 23 August 2013 06:11 (ten years ago) link
that is nice,
i couldn't get into Fly Zone, it just kinda washed over me without leaving much of an impression.
― gregus, Saturday, 24 August 2013 00:23 (ten years ago) link
I must be alone in liking Fly Zone way better than Dark York. Either the vocal mix was greatly improved this time out, or Le1f's particular style was better suited to Fly Zone's more uniformly hazy, echoey atmosphere.
Looking forward to the new mixtape.
― the vineyards where the grapes of corporate rock are stored (cryptosicko), Saturday, 24 August 2013 14:44 (ten years ago) link
Tree House has landed.
― the vineyards where the grapes of corporate rock are stored (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 18 September 2013 15:20 (ten years ago) link
Roxor.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 18 September 2013 15:36 (ten years ago) link
Stoked!
can't wait til I can listen to this tonight. Love this dude!
― the tune was space, Wednesday, 18 September 2013 17:07 (ten years ago) link
this is fucking good
― One burly voice screamed and that was one of many. (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 18 September 2013 18:06 (ten years ago) link
i probably like this more than anything he's done tho i still can't totally get into him
they need to mix his vocals higher and/or he should stop rapping in a whisper
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 19 September 2013 02:08 (ten years ago) link
he does that live too so i think it's the latter
― One burly voice screamed and that was one of many. (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 19 September 2013 02:11 (ten years ago) link
totally on board with this. it's like an entire tape of "Lavendin"
― The Reverend, Thursday, 19 September 2013 06:54 (ten years ago) link
and still this, still still still...
― The Reverend, Thursday, February 14, 2013 10:39 AM Bookmark
― The Reverend, Thursday, 19 September 2013 06:55 (ten years ago) link
good call on the lavendin comparison, all very croaky and melodic without the wild dips into lynchian weirdness
― One burly voice screamed and that was one of many. (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 19 September 2013 08:14 (ten years ago) link
yeah, I'm way more into Tree House than Fly Zone
― nypc blue (Drugs A. Money), Saturday, 19 October 2013 09:35 (ten years ago) link
Seems to be the consensus, but I haven't found a way into it yet. Fly Zone, otoh, I'm still really enjoying.
― the vineyards where the grapes of corporate rock are stored (cryptosicko), Sunday, 20 October 2013 18:03 (ten years ago) link