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A few hip-hop artists - Raekwon, UGK and others - dropped worthwhile major label albums in 2009, but hip-hop’s true current is carried forward on the hundreds of blogs that drop mixtapes, tracks and videos every day.

#Lupe fiasco mixtapes torrent free#

This year’s crop of free mixtapes drove home a point that grows more clearly true each year: the traditional record-company-as-gatekeeper-and-tastemaker model is, and always was, inadequate. Luckily, record company people hold dwindling influence over what hip-hop music you get to hear. “Good Evening” is quieter and sparser than most of their previous works, a little bit Abba and a little bit Air.Industry rule number 4,080, as set forth by A Tribe Called Quest on The Low End Theory, is still true.

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Swedish indie poppers the Concretes are back with a new album full of sweet, refreshingly simple melodies. It’s like spending a meandering day at a lake.

Some are more laid back than others - like this track, a sort of mild and pleasant stroll of a song. Some are harmonic, some lean towards the electronic. was another CMJ star, transcending their silly, ungoogle-able name with their breezy folksy jams. “Nothing But Our Love” by Dale Earnhardt Jr. They replicate an earnestness in this track that can only come from trying and failing to be Kiss. This track, off the upcoming rarities album, Death to False Metal, reminds us of why we liked Weezer in the first place. Despite it all - the Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen collaboration, the bizarre pop ballads, the choice of Hurley as the face of their new album - we still have a soft spot for Weezer. “Unbreak My Heart” by Weezer (Toni Braxton Cover) There are lots of sounds in here, but fuzz isn’t one of them - more like blips and bloops and the sort of noises you wish that lasers would make. Clean of N.A.S.A.’s new Spectrophonic Sound label, is actually a misleading moniker. FuzZ, the first artist signed to Squeak E. This is the sort of spooky, buzzing track that you might want for a goth party or as the soundtrack of a short film about the life of David Bowie. This disco-infused reworking of MGMT might not be totally well-chosen - we can think of other MGMT tracks more in need of a good tweak - but producer Erol Alkan turns it from mellow beach soundtrack to mellow dance jam with the aid of some funk guitar. “Congratulations” by MGMT (Erol Alkan Rework) Her voice has the roughness and urgency of Lil Mama on “My Lipgloss” but she’s much less subtle about the whole thing, and she has a long-haired dude with a Casio behind her instead of a host of producers. “Show My Ass” makes a great party jam, but it also shows off Dominique’s flow, which is appealingly unpolished. Dominique Young Unique was one of the best discoveries we made - she has awesome outfits, sass in spades, and a pretty foul mouth for such a young’un.

Fiasco’s got swagger, and the rapping chops to blow Kanye out of the water, if he uses them to the right effect.Īfter we slept for about three solid days post-CMJ, we recovered and reassessed. Which isn’t a bad thing, necessarily–you just might do a double take when it comes on the radio. This track, the first single from Fiasco’s upcoming album, samples Modest Mouse’s “Float On”–it ends up sounding kind of like a rap version of the song. At least if “Green Onions” isn’t cued up. This is the kind of song you want playing behind you as you make an entrance into a party, kids. Things get even more fun when Lykke Li brings her supple Swedish voice into the mix, and the combination is almost criminally catchy. The beginning of this song sounds like the riff in The Strangeloves’ “I Want Candy,” but that’s not even the best part. If this track is indication, we can expect more of the same entrancing and subdued dance-rock. We’ve been fans of Fujiya and Miyagi for a while now - their last album, Transparent Things, is excellent - and so we’re looking forward to their second album, Ventriloquizzing, due for release in January. “Sixteen Shade of Black and Blue” by Fujiya and Miyagi Plus, it’s nice to have one of those fantasy music mash-ups we dream about actually come true. Why yes, that is Robert Smith from The Cure singing on the newly ramped up “Not in Love.” His voice is basically perfect for the glitchy, new wave electronic sounds that Crystal Castles produces in torrents.