JEANS WILDER

With his distant melodies appearing as if they were recorded beneath the floorboards of a derelict house, Jeans Wilder is the lonely guise of San Diego's Andrew Caddick. With songs brushed in dust and solitude, it could be none more apt that he has chosen to entitle his forthcoming tape due through Night People "Antiques'.

DOWNLOAD: 'International Waters' - Jeans Wilder

DOWNLOAD: 'Tough Guys' - Jeans Wilder

THE TOP 5 MOST OVERRATED RAP ALBUMS OF ALL TIME

First of all, obviously all UK rap albums have been disqualified from this list. I mean, I honestly can’t even be bothered to put finger to keyboard to describe why Run Come Save Me by Roots Manuva isn’t that good, and it’s pretty evident to anyone who isn’t a drum n’ bass fan from Bristol that Skinnyman is fucking rubbish. Secondly, although it didn’t make my list, I do think that Illmatic by Nas is a bit overrated, but I think that’s more to do with the fact I don’t listen to lyrics and jazzy saxophones give me a severe migraine.

5. ‘Paid in Full’ – Eric B & Rakim

Rakim is often praised for his complex internal rhymes, his literate imagery, his velvet smooth flow and unpredictable off-the-beat rhythms. What Rakim is rarely praised for, however, is having any good songs. If you can hum the tune of one other track on this album asides from ‘Paid in Full’, I will quite happily remove this album from the list and replace it with another De La Soul album .

4. ‘The Low End Theory’ – A Tribe Called Quest

Again, I suppose this comes down to me hating jazzy saxophones, but seriously, who in their right mind, would make an album that features a jazzy saxophone on every single track? Can’t you give me a break from jazzy saxophone for like ten minutes? Just ten fucking minutes dudes. Seriously, even Kenny G albums don’t feature as much jazzy saxophone as this does.

3. ‘All Eyez On Me’ – 2 Pac

I’m pretty sure I’m not the only person who ran all the way home from the record store with this in my hands, excitedly ripped-off the packaging, put the disc in the player, immediately fast-forwarded to ‘California Love’ and then nearly cried with disappointment when it transpired it was some shitty remix and there were no other good songs on the album.

2. 'Three Feet High & Rising' - De La Soul

This is pretty much the most pussy rap album ever made. In fact, the only album in the entire recorded history of music that I can immediately think of as being more more pussy than this, is ‘Bryter Layter’ by Nick Drake.

1. ‘It Takes A Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back’ – Public Enemy

The most annoying thing about Chuck D is that he doesn’t seem to realize that if black people really wanted someone to marshal considerable revolutionary force, fierce intelligence, and a boundless vocabulary into the world of rap music, they would pick someone with a sense of humour and good dress sense. Like Chris Rock for example.

A GRAVE WITH NO NAME/NATURAL NUMBERS CASSETTES

A Grave With No Name/Natural Number Split Single (free download)

very ltd. edition red cassette (100 copies only):

'Sleep Through Today' - Natural Numbers

'The Tapes Inside My Closet' - Natural Numbers

'Silver' - A Grave With No Name

'The Underpass' - A Grave With No Name

Click here to order.

A Grave With No Name are playing a show alongside the awesome Lucky Dragons and Crystal Antlers tonight. Go here for more info.

DJ TEENAGE WOLF MIX

About a year ago, Seb was in Texas and described hanging out at a party where this dude was djing as mix between being in Kids and Superbad. That kind of makes sense seeing as this awesome mixtape sounds like a Kid 606 album tanked on Budweiser and stripped of it's distortion.

DJ Teenage Wolf is also part of the Culnsweet Art/Dj collective who throw monthly parties in Austin Texas & Mexico and he should be dropping his debut E.P. with them real soon.

Download: DJ Teenage Wolf January Mix

Tracklisting:

hijack & flinch - check this

oliver $- the greatest

Loveys & yussef-insects

campbell- Slush Puppy

pette Vaydex-My orange Vacuum Cleaner

aninki- Heavy Sound

WolfGang Gartner- FlashBack

Dj Spin Laden- Whip That(Ruff Edit)

Aniki- Evil Nuggest ( Van Villian remix)

Tom eq - Skewer

Lazy Bass- Never Thinking

Norrit- Feel The Rhythem ( Dubbel Dutch remix)

A1 BASSLINE VS KID CUDI VS CROOKERS VS RUSKO

Bored of 'Day n Nite' yet? No? We are a bit, but here's a lil free bootleg from our boy A1 Bassline anyway, which is about is so stupidly fun, that we just had to share it with you. As Christian says in his own words...

"Also seeing as i keep on saying im going to be giving free tunes out and never do, i made a bootleg of day n night. I sampled the rusko intro and made my own drop, let me no what you think!"

Download: Day N Night Vs Rusko Vs A1 Bassline Bootleg

You can buy A1 Bassline's Meal Deal release 'Girl Thing' from here. Unfortunately the 12"s are still on lockdown in Pinnacle's broke-ass warehouse, but they'll be available soon with a bit of luck.

And just because we're in a good mood, here's another free remix of the lead track by our family A.T.L.

Download: 'Girl Thing' A1 Bassline (A.T.L.'s Women Behind Bars Remix)

'YES' - LIL WAYNE FEAT. PHARRELL

Only an additional verse from Kanye West could confirm my suspicions that this track was tailor-made for The Fader blog. Regardless, it sees Lil Wayne back in furious form after the half-hearted, auto-tuned mess that was 'Dedication 3'. Also, Pharrell seems to have been bothered to actually be good for pretty much the first time since that Clipse album a couple of years back. If he makes another jam as good as this, I'll consider forgetting how bad all the tracks he produced for the Common album were.

Download: 'Yes' - Lil Wayne feat. Pharrell

I DON'T WANNA (SMOKE MARIJUANA)

This track came out as a 7" nearly a year ago, but seeing as the rather awesome Nodzzz have just released their debut album packed full of awesome 1980's New Wave jams that sound like The Knack eating out Nick Lowe, I thought it was as good an opportunity as any to post it here.

P.S. I'm not into pot myself, but that time my friend Simon's brother Nick made those hash cakes and then felt so high he thought he had shingles was pretty funny.

Download: 'I Don't Wanna (Smoke Marijuana)- Nodzzz

PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCERS - MONEYBLIND (BEAT TOTEM FOREST FLOOR REMIX)

A song that's been haunting my hard-drive, going under the project name Beat Totem.

Hope you like.

Seb

Download: 'PSA - MONEYBLIND (BEAT TOTEM FOREST FLOOR REMIX)

'LAVENDER' - A GRAVE WITH NO NAME

I wrote and recorded this track in about 40 minutes when I was back at my parents' place last night.

Download: 'Lavender' - A Grave With No Name

We are also playing a show on Tuesday in support of our good friend Banjo or Freakout's single launch.

ETERNAL SUMMERS

Originally hailing from DC, but now residing in the mountainous areas of VA, Nicole Yun started recording these “simple and pretty songs” along with her good friend Gary as a contrast to her other “more electronic and intense band” Mommies. Now, Eternal Summers are making some seriously sweet sounds inspired by the likes of Stereolab, Spoon and David Bowie and coming off sounding like a more heartfelt, more stripped-down Giant Drag, or even those early awesome Throwing Muses records.

Here’s an exclusive track from their self-titled E.P. due to drop on 14th January:

Download: ’Able To’ – Eternal Summers