Le1f - Dark York (2012): QPOC SHAKUR / #seapunk

argh.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6herO1dIc4s

there

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.

the Mike Q/Divoli S'vere Ha Mix of Soda is also pretty great.

"Soda" wtf
this rules

loving this ep

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

<3 this boody track that dutty artz just put out: https://soundcloud.com/xlr8rmag/boody-guap

late pass but "Soda" is great. Love the video too

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.

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

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"

that's kind of otm

http://www.thefader.com/2013/01/23/stream-le1f-coins/

re-listening to Fresh, oh man! is that the fucking jam

shit. forgot to post it here.

yeah. really like it so far. not LOVE but like.

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.

i mean, i love wut, but it's not my favourite. (yup, & gomorrah, gimme life, fresh, bubbles, my oozy, EMULATOR)

i was just gonna write yup and then realized how many i loved.

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/

Dude's new mixtape, Fly Zone, was supposed to be out January 21, but just got pushed back to the 28th.

― 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/

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.

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

and 'airbending' is built around a wiley sample <3

"Pocahontas ft. Kitty Pryde (produced by Drippin)"

Hrrrm, Hercules ref instead of the expected The Little Mermaid one, heh.

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.

I still can't comprehend people who see the vocal mix on Dark York as a bug rather than a feature.

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.

Yeah, finding it difficult to get excited about. I've only given it one listen.

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

cosign til I die

I haven't had a chance to listen to Fly Zone yet, but I am really diggin the Hate2Wait/Lavandin/Emulator run right now...

in fact I am p much completely down with the back half of DY, which you all probably could have guessed...

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.

Yeah I def need to give it a listen myself

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this is nice

that is nice,

i couldn't get into Fly Zone, it just kinda washed over me without leaving much of an impression.

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.

Tree House has landed.

Roxor.

Stoked!

can't wait til I can listen to this tonight. Love this dude!