Indie/Alternative Rock
[MP3] Rage Against The Machine – Clear The Lane (Demo)
As spotted on NME:
Twenty years ago this month Rage Against The Machine released their now immortal self-titled debut, fusing rap and rock and switching a generation of music fans onto radical politics. Before they made that record in 1992 they produced their own demos, some of which have never been released before. We’ve got one of those original demos for you to hear now, taken from anniversary boxset ‘XX’. ‘Clear The Lane’ is propelled on a rolling funk, and if you listen closely you can actually hear the sound of the band sparking the match that set the world alight.
[MP3 + Music Video] D-Sisive – Don’t Turn The Lights Out (feat. Neverending White Lights)
This is not really my bag, a little too top 40/alt-pop sounding for my ears but, ‘objectively’ speaking, not a bad track from one of the T.dot hip-hop scene’s finest. Here’s the official blurb with more…
There was a time in Derek Christoff’s life when he didn’t have many words. It’s not that he didn’t have a story; but he was stuck on the start.
In the late 90s, the young MC known as D-Sisive came up quickly in the Toronto hip-hop community with a string of well-liked singles, but his burgeoning profile was stopped cold with the illness and death of both of his parents in a six-year span. Grief and depression stole his creativity and motivation for the better part of a decade, but in a moment fit for fable, his lyrical inspiration returned suddenly one day while singing along to the Beach Boys on the radio. It was the new start D-Sisive’s story needed. And he hasn’t stopped since.
2008’s The Book EP was nominated for a Juno and its single “Nobody With A Notepad” won the SOCAN ECHO Songwriting Prize. 2009’s Let the Children Die was long-listed for that year’s Polaris Music Prize (and would later get an elaborate send-off with a full-band live funeral after legal issues forced it out of production). The same year, he released Jonestown as a free download. Less than a year later, we got Vaudeville, and a year after that, the Jonestown sequel, Jonestown 2: Jimmy Go Bye Bye, back and forth between his story and others’. Along the way were a series of Hijacked singles, with D-Sisive rapping his own words over the music of such songs as Grizzly Bear’s “Two Weeks” and Sigur Ros’ “Festival,” an homage to just some of his comprehensive influences and tastes.
On 11-13-2012 D-Sisive released his latest project, Run With the Creeps (TheD-LuxeEdition), it’s a deeper dive back into himself and with his wide-open online look at the creative process along the way, his most honest yet. The hunger, pain, humor, and scrutiny have been on display every day; he’s forever brazen in ambition and as credulous as a kid. He’s writing the whole thing down, sparing no detail and certainly no time.
D-Sisive is a disciple of hip-hop and a Bowie devotee. His eleven-year-old imagination was captured by Fresh Prince and DJ Jazzy Jeff’s “Nightmare On My Street,” and later, by a legendary punk spectacle as heard on Creep single “GG Allin.” There’s something new everyday, and so he’s running, trying to keep up with himself, trying to connect with his fellow creeps. There was a time he didn’t have these words; didn’t know how to say them. So now he’s making sure he doesn’t miss even one.
[Album Stream] Jck Dvy – L0-F! EP
Recently-released music from J*DaVeY lead singer, Jck Dvy:
On November 6, election day, sultry genre-bender Jck Dvy, one half of the champions of electro soul movement, J*DaVeY, is releasing the second part of her three-part album entitled L0-F! Side B through J*DaVeY’s own label, iLLaV8r. The trilogy’s first release, Side A, featured a raw, stripped-down selection of grunge-tinged songs, hinting at Jack’s recent evolution into becoming a rock musician. A more polished Side B, which was entirely produced by her boyfriend Joey Strat of The Knux, features the single “Like That,”and is now the first music video to debut along with today’s release of Side B.
Straying farther away from her roots in electro-soul and hip-hop, Side B involves much more instrumentation and a wider array of guitar techniques than Side A, complements of her beau. “Side B was such an organic experience,” says Jack. “Joey and I were so inspired that it only took us two weeks to get all the instruments and vocals down. There’s no mix or master on this; it’s just raw sound, and that’s what makes it special.” The progression from Side A to Side B is gradual yet noticeable, especially with Joey Strat at the helm. “Working with Joey is a breeze, he brings something really great out of me,” says Jack. “He’s a great producer and musician, and he inspires me to be better.”
In the new music video for “Like That,” directed by Nai Vasha, Davey performs to a distorted lens with pieces of politically charged ransom notes drifting across the screen. The song is about rejecting the falsehood and hypocrisy of society, and simply wanting “my freedom, my herb, my word.” Dressed in a sci-fi inspired outift by her friends at Chromat, Jack will catch your eyes as well as your ears. “I felt like a bit of an outsider wandering through the streets of Hollywood late at night in all black and leather, to wear anything but Chromat would have been criminal,” says Jack.
[via Audible Treats]
[Album Stream] Stumbleine – Spiderwebbed
Nice late night, wind-down chill-out vibes:
One of the members of UK dubstep trio Swarms has splintered off from the pack to release a solo LP under the moniker Stumbleine. He’s offered up “Honeycomb,” one of the tracks from his Spiderwebbed LP, which was recently released via London outpost Monotreme. The song unfurls in layers of warmth and easy-going, soft-hitting beauty; quiet hip-hop samples are nestled between clicking rim hits and blunt kicks, while slow-paced synth stabs flicker overhead.
[MP3 + Music Video] Di’zain – Play The Game
Nice UK-style vibes. Good way to wrap the weekend:
Cooking up a perfect storm of bass-heavy soul, crisp beats and lilting late-night melodies, “Play The Game” delivers a seductive introduction to brand new London based artist Di’zain.
The accompanying promo clip (above) is directed by rising fashion photographer Giovanni Martins (who recently shot for Vogue amongst others) and a remix from acclaimed Canadian producer Ryan Hemsworth (Frank Ocean, Grimes, Lianne La Havas).
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