New Music: Chris Brown – Beautiful People

MP3: Chris Brown – Beautiful People by latroywatson

I go back and forth on these Euro-dance-flavored urban records but this one I think I like. With a few hits in a row now, is Chris Brown fully-rehabilitated now? In the eyes of core urban fans, I think he is. As for the mainstream media and pop marketplace though, I’m not so sure…..

New from Keys N Krates: Give Me the Night w/ Grand Theft / Lyrics Born – Lies X3 (remix)

MP3: GIVE ME THE NIGHT – KEYS N KRATES & GRANDTHEFT by Keys N Krates

This collab with Grandtheft is apparently the official first single by Toronto live remix crew Keys N Krates (?). I’m confused, it still sounds like another refix/remix track instead of an orginal track??

Hit the jump for their remix of Bay Area MC, Lyrics Born‘s “Lies X3”

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Throwback Music: DJ Still Life pres. Aaliyah – Tropicaaliyah

This is from two years ago but I never got around to posting it back then and Aaliyah’s birthday was yesterday. She would have been 32 was she still alive. Can you believe it it’s been this long? Happy Birthday, baby girl!

MP3s: Tropicaaliyah by djstilllife

[via Couch Sessions]

R.I.P. Trish Keenan (of Broadcast): 1968 – 2011

Trish Keenan was the lead singer of UK indie-electronic-psychedelic group, Broadcast. Never heard of them? Hit play on the player above. Not sure you want to hit play? You like Stereolab? You like Portishead? Then HIT PLAY ON THE F-CKING PLAYER ABOVE and experience something real and beautiful, then leave me a comment saying, “Thank you!”

Boradcast was one of my favorite groups that I discovered when they happened to sign to the label I used to work for many moons ago. Always a good thing when work and pleasure can meet like that but at age 41, her passing from pneumonia (who dies from that still??!) in Australia yesterday morning is a tragic, tragic loss. R.I.P

Read more:

Recollections of Broadcast and their singer Trish Keenan. [Spectator UK]

RIP Trish Keenan 1968-2011 – good bio and selection of Broadcast’s videos. [The Line of Best Fit]

New Music: Hyper Crush – Kick Us Out feat. Clinton Sparks & The Cataracs (Get Familiar Remix)

MP3: Kick Us Out Feat. Clinton Sparks & The Cataracs (Get Familiar Remix) by clintonsparks

As we continue on with the weekend party vibes….

I was gonna say something smart in response to hearing this track like, “Remember when Clinton Sparks was making hardcore hip hop records?” and then note that that was before he went out to Vegas to start DJing the clubs out there and got influenced to start making electro pop records like this, but when I went to his website, I noticed that amazingly enough, he’s actually still making hardcore hip hop records! Well to be fair though, there’s actually some pretty big drums on the chorus to this so-called pop track. Speaking of which…..