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The Roots Picnic - June 7th

June 7th The Roots are Playing at the Festival Pier with Gnarls Barkley, Sharon Jones + The Dap Kings, Santogold!, Diplo, Cool Kids and more.

Get your tickets now. They're $50, but I think this might be worth it.

SXSW Day 3

Real quick like some pics. More coming soon.


Santogold staright killin it.
Special guest appearance by one Spank Rock
Lee Mayjahs at the 5 6 Media / 215 Mag party
Nikki from Nouveau Riche
Nikki and Dice Raw
The man King Britt
Miss Amanda Blank
After party with Diplo, A-Trak and Blaqstarr
Peace, We's out

Santogold - L.E.S. Artistes (video)

Santogold's L.E.S. Artistes video is up at Warner Bros. Watch it here. Totally awesome first video. Definitely an eye catcher. UPDATE: Will update and post up a more friendly version as soon as I find one.
Youtube link thanks to Rory at Swurdin.net. Be sure to check out his blog as well, its dope, covers alot of the same content we cover but in Dutch (I believe.)

Current premieres "The Fix" with Santogold

Brand new show on Current.tv premiering tonight at 10 PM and 1 AM ET. Miss Santogold will be kicking things off along with The Thermals, Dropkick Murphys & The Daily Fix, hosted by Hot Chip.

Current TV

Santogold Mini Mix

Holla! Just got this direct from MarTelo. This is the minimix he did for Santogold on Annie Mac's Mashup on Radio1. Annie Mac asks 1 or 2 artists each week to cram all of their influences into a 5 minute minimix. Last I knew Aquasky still held the record with over 150 records in their minimix.

• Santogold 5 minute minimix by Martelo

Tracklist:
Pixies – ‘Alec Eiffel’ (Elektra)
Chickenhead feat. La Chat – ‘Project Pat’ (Hyptonize Minds/Epic)
Sir Mix A Lot – ‘Posse On Broadway’ (Nastymix Records)
The Police – ‘So Lonely’ (A&M)
Bad Brains – ‘Banned In D.C’ (Revelation Records)
Skream – ‘Stagger’ (Tempa)
Santogold – ‘Shove It’ (Atlantic)
The Pretenders – ‘Precious’ (WEA Records)
Khia – ‘My Neck, My Back’ (Epic)
Trouble Andrew – ‘Uh Oh’ (Unknown)
Spank Rock – ‘Backyard Betty’ (Big Dada)
N.W.A. – ‘Straight Outta Compton’ (Priority)
Solid Groove – ‘Overbooked (Switch & Sinden Remix)’ (Atlantic Jaxx)
Lee Scratch Perry – ‘Unknown’ (Unknown)
Nina Simone – ‘Do What You Gotta Do’ (RCA)

Bonus

• Kesh & Martelo - Do You Have Your 3D glasses?

MarTelo, Santogold, Kesh

Santogold - Creator (Scottie B Remix)

Scottie B just blessed us with his remix of Santogold's "Creator". Since we left last our heroine, she has been receiving lots of love from BBC radio, shot two videos, appeared on MTV, has two dates booked for SXSW and is scheduled to perform at Coachella. Meanwhile, her full length album is scheduled to come out later this year on Downtown Records. You can download singles including "Creator" now on iTunes.

• Santogold - Creator (Scottie B Remix)

Santogold Space

NY Times: Hip-Hop’s Newest Faces: Indie, Fierce and Female

Santi, Amanda and Rose on the set of B.O.O.T.A.Y

The NY Times profiled the new crop of female MC's this past weekend, many of which we've been covering for awhile, including Amanda Blank, Santogold, Kid Sister and Yo Majesty (playing this Friday at 4am, guestlist here).

But in the wake of the critical favorite M.I.A., a new crop of young, multicultural, female hip-hop acts is causing a stir on the Internet and in indie-label conference rooms.
There’s Kid Sister, a cheeky, charismatic rapper from Chicago who recently released a video featuring Kanye West; Amanda Blank, a nasty-mouthed M.C. from Philadelphia who is associated with the hipster male hip-hopper Spank Rock; and Santogold, a new-wavey singer and dub-style rapper from Brooklyn who toured with Bjork last fall.

Holla! This is going to be a huge year for these three girls as all three expect to release albums this year. The only qualm I have is that they say Santi is from Brooklyn. They later go on to correct themselves and say that Santi is "now living in Brooklyn" but don't mention that she is from Philly.

NYTimes: Hip-Hop's Newest Faces: Indie, Fierce and Female

Santigold 20 Min Mix

Just lifted this from the Mad Decent blog. Its a 20 min little mix by Santogold's Dj Martelo. Its a lot of dancey rock, Miami Bass, punk, the switch remix of the awesomely produced disco d track Shove It, some reggae jawns, and a bunch of other shit.

Pretty refreshing for a Wednesday afternoon.

• Santogold X Mad Decent Mixtape Madness teaser

Sangtogold 12" also for sale over at TTL

8 for '08 from the Inquirer

(photo from Diplo and friends at Mummers Museum)

The Inquirer just released their Spring music announcing 8 in '08 to watch out for and it features some of our favorites on the list including the power couple above.

The YMD: set for the spring release of the hilarious Excuse Me, This Is the Yah Mos Def on Princeton's My Pal God records.
Santogold: Santogold, her self-titled debut, comes out in April.
Nouveau Riche: A new EP is due next month, and a full-length by year's end. They play Silk City, with TuPhace, on Feb. 12.
Diplo: putting the finishing touches on a Brazilian music movie called Favela on Blast that dazzles even as a work in progress. He's got a solo album coming with vocal tracks from artists as varied as Cat Power and rapper Bun B, and a reggae dancehall album with British DJ Switch. And, oh yeah, he's spinning on the MySpace tour as the opening act for Justice, at the Electric Factory March 10.
Spank Rock and Amanda Blank: both will have albums out on the Downtown label.

Philly is doing it real big in '08.

Link

N.A.S.A. Ft RZA MIA AMANDA BLANK SANTOGOLD SPANKROCK GEORGE CLINTON

I try to stay away from excessive youtube postings since I can't watch this shit at work but I just saw this promo thing for North American South American were these dudes got all these fucking pretty cool artists together to make music. Some of the stuff sounds like its gonna be wack, like dope on paper but wack cause the executive producers are on some super West Coast Hip Hop shit. But then some of those tracks sounded really fucking incredible. Like that shit with Amanda Blank and Sizzla.




Shit could be EPIC.

N.A.S.A on myspace, I added them.

keep abreast on this shit. Over 4 1/2 years these dudes look like they have collected some serious heat.

Spank Rock and Benny Blanco - B.O.O.T.A.Y.

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We are proud as punch to unleash the video premiere of "B.O.O.T.A.Y", from Bangers & Cash, aka the twisted minds of Spank Rock and Benny Blanco. The song and video also features the talents of the lovely Illvia (of Kudu) and Santogold (of her own damn self). Directed by Jesse Engaard, known for his much-loved video for Spank Rock's "Rick Rubin"

Holla. Recognize where its shot at? Yo, so I had issues with the player (on the rcrd lbl site) where it would stop and start over if it hadn't finished loading. Hit play now, and go check your email and then come back to it. Hey, its better quality than YouTube and the video is the jump off.

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MIA Presale Tix Available Now

M.I.A. presale tickets available now until midnight for her show at the Electric Factory on December 1st. Tickets are only $20. Opening up for M.I.A. are the Cool Kids (did you see the Black Mags video?) and 5151 favorite Santogold. Presale tix are only available to midnight, so pick them up now before they go up in price and sell out.

Flash invite or direct to UWishUNu for the "password" and buy link.

What It Do

Image found on a search for July 20 from NOAA.gov

I really have nothing to say, so I'm not going to say anything.

Friday

• Gravy Train, VIP, Gang and MC Digga - $10, 8 PM at the Church (22nd & chestnut)
• Did you read Casi G's post about the last time they played? I highly recommend it
  
• Gravy Train - Darque Tan
• Gravy Train - Hella Nervous
  
• Crew Love Brah! - White Tees + Seclusiasis + Philadelphyinz + BYOB + West Philly
• Reduced list: crewlovelist[at]gmail[dot]com
• Drum n bass at Transit

Saturday

• Punk Rock Flea Market - 10 - 5 $3, Starlight ballroom, 9th and Spring Garden
• Artscape - Roadtrip to Baltimore to see Santogold, Vadim, Lupe Fiasco and Scottie B in just enough time to go to
  
• Roll Call - Emynd + Caps + Bo Bliz + Jones + KMass at M Room. Guestlist. get there early cause it gets crowded
• Mojito on the Moshulu - You know, ship, brendan on the beat in the back, percussion, latiny summery vibes.

Ongoing

• Summer sale at WTHN - 25% off Nike + T-shirts+ fitteds, 30% off Alife and Adidas, 40% off Vans (17 N. 3rd)
  

What it Do

Normally, this is where I ramble on and you have already skipped this part. One thing I do want to say is wow, there are crazy amounts of DIY or house or whatever parties popping up right about now. Anyways without further ado...

Friday

• Mia Fundraiser at the Khyber - $10 for a good cause features K Mass, DJ Deejay and more (56 S. 2nd)
• Lymbyc Systym w/ Crooked Looks - The Fire at 4th and Girard
  
• [Click] - Its like Ibiza and Germany combined in there with partytrainsoldiers Dave P and Adam Sparkles now at Fluid (613 S. 4th st)
• Sugar Shack - til latenight at 2nd and Cecil B or so. with The Swede, Deluxxx, Reef the Lost Cauze and more

Saturday

• 8th Annual BBoy BBQ - 12 - 8 with break dancing and food and graf and Illvibe crew and Skeme Richards and vendors and live webcast by Uwishunu. Hawthorn Rec Center at 12th and Carpenter.
• Art for the Cash Poor 8 - Hundreds of vendors nothing over $199. Saturday and Sunday 1 - 6 PM. Stop by 1040 N. Hancock street when you're in the neighborhood from 1 -3 for a bbq and free vodka tasting from your friends at Paper Street. AFTCP8 at the Crane Arts 1400 N. American Street
• Architecture in Helsinki with 5151 favorite Santogold. This is all ages, 21+ to drink at the Starlight Ballroom, 460 N. 9th Street. (via R5)
  
• Santogold - Creator
• Tastytreats with Mike Nyce, possibly ?uestlove and DJ Red Alert- Official after party for the BBoy BBQ.
• DJ Red Alert on Kiss FM in 1988
• Mojito is back for the Summer now on the Moshulu (Delaware and South)
  
• Philadelphyinz vs Hurrah at Medusa (21st and Chestnut)
  
• Inciting Claptrap is Back featuring gully street ghetto tech bass music featuring DJ Surgeon form Detroit
  
• DJ Surgeon on Youtube
• Outlaw Shakedown - House music all night long, like literally (5th and Cecil B)

Sunday

• AFTCP8 continues 1 - 6 PM (1400 N. American Street)
• Sundae Block Party with King Britt!!, 3PM on - 34th and Sansom at the Bubble House
  
• Theres some sort of international bike race. What this might mean for you is an excuse to start drinking along the Manayunk Wall. Still haven't been yet. Probably not this year either.
  

Dumpster Diving with Local Hero

How awesome is it that I go to a "Trouble and Bass" last weekend at Don Pedro's Rave Cave (dirtydown gots some great pictures up) and I run into the dudes that have been running things in Chicago for a while. It was really awesome to find out that I actualy know Dj Local Hero and that he has an incredibly great taste in music. He passed this CD into my hand that night and I have been listening to it non stop and tracking down these remixers myspaces to hear more of that good good. Then I end up going over to Trash Menagerie and find out that they got that freakin blog on lock. Posts about obscure Spanish casio electro, a great write up on Santogold, and they also have the mix up for free download.

Go get it here......
Dumpster Diving #1
00:00 Chromeo – Fancy Footwork (Guns ‘N’ Bombs rmx) [Turbo]
02:36 Baobinga & ID – Recognise [Fat!]
04:29 Dynamix II – Pledge Your Allegiance to Electrofunk [Monotone]
06:51 Daft Punk – Too Long (Acid Girls Re-edit) [acidgirls.com]
09:13 Math Head – Do Damage (Passions rmx) [Trouble & Bass]
12:59 Edge – Compnded [Edge]
15:35 Unknown – Luxury II [White]

17:43 Zebo – We Likes [None]
19:50 Justice – D.A.N.C.E. (Tittsworth rmx) [None]
22:26 Modeselektor – Silikon (Siriusmo rmx) [BPitch Control]
25:01 The Killergroove Formula – Out of Money (Malente’s Crazy Ass Dub) [Lounge]
27:55 Steed Lord – Dirty Mutha (Crookers rmx) [None]
30:01 Sinden & The Count of Monte Cristal – Beeper [Counterfeet]
32:37 Armand Van Helden – NYC Beat (MSTRKRFT rmx) [Southern Fried]
34:30 Sneaky Soundsystem – UFO (Van She Tech rmx) [Unknown]
37:44 Goose – British Mode (Jester rmx) [None]
41:29 Lillica Libertine – Loose Lips Sink Ships [None]
43:35 Klaxons – Gravity’s Rainbow (Soulwax rmx) [Rinse]
46:45 Maelstrom – Disto Funk [Menu]
48:37 Mr Hudson – Ask The DJ (Ocelot Express Mix) [Universal]
51:47 Aaren Sen - Osc Low Nyzz (Blende rmx) [Aelaektropopp]
53:25 Armand Van Helden – This Ain’t Hollywood [Southern Fried]
55:31 Bass Kleph – Coup D’Etat [Vacation]
58:36 Lazaro Cassanova – Shorts and Heels [None]
60:17 Acid Girls – Crystal’s Apartment [None]
62:08 Gwen Stefani – Wind It Up (Kissy Sellout rmx) [None]
64:41 The Lowbrows – Doo Pa Pa [Delicatessen]
67:03 Sneaky Soundsystem – Pictures (Tonite Only rmx) [Whack]
70:18 Deaf and Dumb Crew – Stay [Dust Traxx]
73:47 The Scanners – Lowlife (LA Riots rmx) [Dim Mak]
77:23 Kasabian – Club Foot [Botchit & Scarper]

No press is bad press

Ok now in the Philly blogosphere. Jay Simplefly sends out a weekly email about Fluid happenings since he has now taken over booking duties. Highlight of the announcement is the Kids With Guns (myspace featuring Santogold remix) party featuring Sinden. Phillyist has a regular post entitled "Proofreading Philly." Well since Jay has never really focused on spellchecking etc, he got picked up again. I email Jay, choices lines include "haaa. they just played the shit out of me!" "they sound like my mother actually. lol." and of course "I spell horrible because Im so busy making it the fuck happen! ;)". So Jay and Tommy Up respond in the comments, and of course our resident snarklog Philebrity picks it up. So I am all but forced to pick it up to continue a story that isn't a story. Speaking of stories that aren't stories, did you know/notice that the AP refused to report on Paris Hilton for a whole week? Moral of the story: Really you're still reading this?

Stella McCartney Runway Show

Not sure who djed it but they started out with the Spank Rock/Pase Rock/ Santogold "Lindsays Lohan's Revenge" track aka Baby Rat. Wow, like really, whoa. Really, really NSFW video here. I would not suggest watching if you just ate or plan to eat for the rest of the day, just sayin. Meanwhile next track was MIA - XR2 and then later they play Santogold - Find A Way. I have Santogold's EP and will be doing a full post about them next week. Needless to say, check out her MySpace. This girl is about to blow.

Watch and download the show here.

New Three 6 Mafia - Dope Boy Fresh

Switch was incredible last nite. I had the most fun I've had in a really long time. Got to meet Scottie B and saw Amanda Blank, Spank Rock, Santi from Santogold, Benja Styles, DSJ, Cullen Stalin from Baltimore, Seclusiasis crew and more. Incredible nite, incredible music.

Meanwhile, I've been listening to this song nonstop. It has shot to number one on my playlist.



For all you DJ's I got you with the instrument and acapella here.