Iron & Wine - The Shepherd's Dog

The Shepherd's Dog has got to be my favorite Iron & Wine album so far.

Cannibal Ox - The Cold Vein

Harlem, NY, natives Vordul Megilah and Vast Aire are CANNIBAL OX

"I came up in a house that enjoyed music... always having music being spun in my crib," says the MC. Hip-hop was starting to make itself known and the connection was itself known and the connection was inevitable, "By the time I was ten, I started doin' it myself... I've been rhyming for 14 years now."
Cannibal Ox has made track after track of real, honest hip-hop, something you don't see enough of. With the help of El-P they've released their first full- length, The Cold Vein, on Def Jux Records. If you don't have a copy of this album yet, youl'd be smart to pick one up; you,ll be smart to pick one up; you'll be waiting a long time before you hear another record of it's caliber.
The need to make rhymes about real life and the things that go around you everyday of your life is what will set Cannibal Ox apart from other artists for years to come. The Group's records will be the lost treasures of hip-hop that kids will hunt for and trade twenty 12" singles for, decades from now. And when it's all said and done, what will people be saying about Cannibal Ox? "Forty years from now I'd like people to be saying, 'They held it down."
Tyler Borich



[Vast Aire]
My mother said, "You sucked my pussy when you came out
Don't ever talk back
I handed ya life and I'll snatch it back"
I'm just a latch key kid with a snotty nose
High school drop out
Space, I'm around me whiteout
And I ain't dealin with no minimum wage
I'd rather construct rhymes on a minimum page
Cynical ways, cats sin for nickels these days
Pulling the chrome out
And you actin like pullin the chrome out
Hated the sound of grandma's cryin the crooked letter
You could hear it from the ground or when the sky thunders
Made you wonder 'bout early
Sunday morning
Relatives dressed in black and they all mourning
Flows be bangin in the paint, throwin elbows
My first fight was me against five boroughs
I lost my first wish
But remembered every detail of my first kiss
That's that Bronx Tale bliss
The holiest of holies
Hip hop, it was '88
Even at the age of 10, phrases levitate
Drinkin Lil' Hug quarter waters
Dodgin stray slugs on the corner in that exact order
While you playin, death is what happens
I found the passion: aerosol cans and hands clappin
Backspins, microphones and cats rappin
Linoleum and up rockers, the show shockers
Who rip Lee patches off of imposters
You ain't the Real McCoy, you a wind up toy
And it's gonna cost ya
And that's my B-Boy Alpha


[Vordul]
Straight outta the depths of hell
Reflect the sec-ond
Inhale the buddah wisdom
Envision and edit inscriptions of Vor-Megala spiritualism
Paint a picture from the spiritual
And seriously spit a lyric
That'll rip through a phsyical ligament
Trigger livin in these city limits
Limited with no money, goin through crazy minutes
Crazy thinkin of back in the days
When blazin a lazy ridance
Before we was swallowin duces, poppin with gooses
And rockin the bubble gooses
Trouble lose kid, puffin a loosie
Hoppin off Huffy, stealin Marvel comics and water uzis
All of us canoeing through sewers with juvenile manuevers
Caught up in nooses from borders with troubleshooters
On corners where coppers'll hop outta Dunkin Donuts
Poppin they gun and shoot us
Or more of us aware
Thinkin Rudy Guili really don't give a FUCK ABOUT A MOULE!
Got me woozy, sippin Kaluha's loosin my noodles
Screwed up in the two triple losers
Sprayin it live, b-boy grafitti alpha
Out of rap-palooza
Looza, looza

Cannibal Ox - The Cold Vein

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Iron & Wine - The Creek Drank The Cradle

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Andrew Bird - Armchair Apocrypha

Andrew Bird is a singer-songwriter/multi-instrumentalist from Chicago, he plays the violin, guitar, mandolin, glockenspiel and has great whistle. Armchair Apocrypha is his fourth solo album released march 2007.

"Spare-Ohs" in Paris


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Röyksopp - Melody A.M.

This is the debut album from the Norweigian electronic duo geniuses Röyksopp (Torbjørn Brundtland and Svein Berge). This album definitely changed the way i hear music, Erlend did vocals on "Poor Leno" and "Remind Me" two great singles. If you haven't heard this, you should.

Arthur & Yu - In Camera

Sub Pop Records..... Drawing sonic inspiration from the Velvet Underground as well as the studio experimentation of Lee Hazlewood, each track is a study in expansion, centered loosely around chiming guitars and swirling melodies. Olsen’s hazy croon is lifted by the smooth harmonies of Westcott, and both reel in the influence of Nancy Sinatra between the familiar crash of a tambourine and layers of guitar.

Afterglow

Emiliana Torrini - Love In The Time Of Science

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Ethiopiques Vol 1,2,3,4 and 5

(1998) The Golden Years of Modern Ethiopian Music

(1998) Tètchawèt! Urban Azmaris Of The 90s

(1998) Golden Years Of Modern Ethiopian Music

(1998) Ethio Jazz & Musique Instrumentale, 1969-1974


(1999) Tigrigna Music

Ethiopiques is a series of compact discs featuring Ethiopian and Eritrean singers and musicians. Many of the Ethiopiques CDs compile various singles and albums released during the 1960s and 1970s in Ethiopia. Some of the CD's focus on traditional music, while others highlight individual musicians or specific styles.

Jaga Jazzist - The Stix

If you haven't, you should.

Dj Kicks - Erlend Øye

DJ Kicks started out in 1995 as a compilation of electronic DJ club style mixes in the techno or house genres, with the then-novel twist of being targeted to a home listening audience. It's a sequence of musical tracks typically mixed together to appear as one continuous track. This album has a lot of good mixes, even one with Erlend covering The Smiths song "There's a light that never goes out" and more.

Poor Leno

The Notwist - Neon Golden

Also from Germany, The Notwist.

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Donna Regina - Northern Classic

From Germany a downtempo electronica group, Donna Regina. The group consists of Regina Janssen (vocals), Gunter Janssen (guitar) and Steffen Irlinger (electronic sounds). Donna Regina’s debut album "Lazing Away" was released in 1992, Northern Classic is their fifth release.

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