LMFAO
I love these guys. I know they get blogged a lot. I posted their Katy Perry remix a while back. Yesterday I posted two of their Kanye West remixes.
They’re uncle and nephew. They rock sunglasses with the lenses popped out. They often collaborate with Pitbull, which makes sense since they both make uptempo hip hop that samples house.
Their work could be described as comedy electro-hop. Yes, that’s comedy rap over electro house. They have a song called “I Am Not A Whore” which is pretty much every single Benny Benassi song but with tongue in cheek lyrics about being taken advantage of by women for sex. (Yeah, right.) They have the best shot drinking song ever created: “Shots”. They also had a Top 40 51 hit with “I”m In Miami Bitch Trick”.
David Rush ft. LMFAO, Pitbull & Kevin Rudolf - Shooting Star (Party Rock Remix)
Here are 3 remixes of "their most serious song", in their words not mine,"La La La":
LMFAO – La La La (Hypercrush Remix)
LMFAO - La La La (Terror Dactel Remix)
LMFAO - La La La (Death to the Throne Remix)
I ♥ Kanye West Remixes and Mashups
KANYE WEST IS AWESOME. HE TYPES IN ALL CAPS. HE GETS DRUNK AS A SKUNK DURING THE VMAS AND ENTERTAINS MILLIONS. HE IS A DECENT PRODUCER AND A BRILLIANT SAMPLER. I HAVE MIXED FEELINGS ABOUT HIM ON THE MIC, BUT HE’S A HELL OF A LOT BETTER OF A RAPPER THAN KID CUDI WILL EVER BE. FUCK KID CUDI. CUDI SHOULD THANK HIS LUCKY STARS COOKERS REMIXED HIM, HE’S WACK. ANYWAYS, BACK TO KANYE. ALMOST ALL THE KANYE SINGLES HAVE AT LEAST ONE GOOD REMIX AND/OR MASHUP. THIS IS BECAUSE PRODUCERS USE KANYE’S WORLD FAMOUS EGO TO SPICE UP THEIR PRODUCTIONS, JUST LIKE I DUMP SEASONING SALT ON ALL THE FOOD I COOK.
Kanye West – We Major (Kickdrums Remix)
A hip-hop remix with scratching, pitch changing, and a funky beat. Must be from some mixtape since it cuts off early.
Kanye West feat. Chris Martin – Homecoming (Discotech Remix)
A fun remix, expertly looping and cutting the vocals with a warm electro synth. Discotech picked a pretty cheesy song to remix, and with that in mind, I think they did a phenomenal job. With this said, I often just loop the beginning--“JUMP, JUMP, JUMP IN THE CROWD!”--and mix in another song.
Kanye West – Heartless (DJ Kue Klub Mix)
Fairly simple electro house remix. Rough and punchy stabs of a synth with Kanye’s sometimes filtered vox.
Kanye West – Paranoid (LMFAO Remix)
Kanye West – Love Lockdown (LMFAO Remix)
Both are ruckus party jams with LMFAO adding their own vocals. The Love Lockdown remix has the following line: “You broke my heart into a million pieces, I can’t love you but I can fuck you till you call me Jesus.” What?
Kanye West – Love Lockdown (1994 Pilotpriest Remix)
A weird and fairly original electro remix by Pilotpriest that I always pitch up. (It’s a bit slow.) I think it’s a great track, but because of the kind of creepy vocal loops saying “I love you so much” or something, you have to be smart when you’re mixing in into a party. You might get weird looks.
Kanye West – Stronger (A-Trak Remix)
Fantastic, upbeat remix. Electro -- with a lot of breaks but easy to mix. Remixes with the Harder Better Faster Stronger sample are difficult to sound like they belong to a new song, but this one does.
N.A.S.A. feat. Kanye West, Santogold & Lykke Li - Gifted (Steve Aoki Remix)
Kanye’s flow actually shines on this remix. Tip: Mix out before Lykke Li comes in.
Kanye West & Lil Wayne ft. M83 - Lollipop (The Remix of the Remix by Team Teamwork)
I know Lollipop was played out in 2008, but this mashup is noteworthy for how well Kanye on Autotune sounds with M83’s We Own The Sky.
An Afternoon of Poetry and Jazz - Volume #2
Meditation at Lagunitas
by Robert Hass
All the new thinking is about loss.
In this it resembles all the old thinking.
The idea, for example, that each particular erases
the luminous clarity of a general idea. That the clown-
faced woodpecker probing the dead sculpted trunk
of that black birch is, by his presence,
some tragic falling off from a first world
of undivided light. Or the other notion that,
because there is in this world no one thing
to which the bramble of blackberry corresponds,
a word is elegy to what it signifies.
We talked about it late last night and in the voice
of my friend, there was a thin wire of grief, a tone
almost querulous. After a while I understood that,
talking this way, everything dissolves: justice,
pine, hair, woman, you and I. There was a woman
I made love to and I remembered how, holding
her small shoulders in my hands sometimes,
I felt a violent wonder at her presence
like a thirst for salt, for my childhood river
with its island willows, silly music from the pleasure boat,
muddy places where we caught the little orange-silver fish
called pumpkinseed. It hardly had to do with her.
Longing, we say, because desire is full
of endless distances. I must have been the same to her.
But I remember so much, the way her hands dismantled bread,
the thing her father said that hurt her, what
she dreamed. There are moments when the body is as numinous
as words, days that are the good flesh continuing.
Such tenderness, those afternoons and evenings,
saying blackberry, blackberry, blackberry.
Jazz:
Wayne Shorter - Smilin' Through
BONUS:
Robert Hass - Meditation at Lagunitas
Robert Hass' poetry reading at Berkeley.
fun.
Think indie rock/pop meets Broadway. That’s the best way I can describe the style of “fun.”
(fun., by the way, needs to change their name. Putting a period next to a lowercased word that’s impossible to Google is a BAD IDEA for a band name.)
fun. – At Least I’m Not As Sad (As I Used To Be)
When My Mood Ring Is Blue, It Means I’m Satisfied.
image via lookbook
The particle separation room is made without tables and chairs. They say it’s because they don’t fit in here, we don’t need tables and chairs.
Thao with The Get Down Stay Down - Geography
Florence + The Machine - Kiss With a Fist
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