Weekend Mix #1 – A Message From Ghost Dog

 

Okay, so this is the first of what is (time and interest willing) going to be a regular feature on this here blog; (mostly) weekly mixes. I’m doing this mainly because I keep making them, and should probably do something with them.

The mixes themselves may be based around a lyrical or musical theme, the bands themselves, or just stuff I’ve been listening to that week (I tend to get obssessed with a band/style of music in little spurts – at the moment, as you can probably tell, it’s been dance and hip-hop).

The inagural Weekend Mix is ‘A Message From Ghost Dog’, full of down-tempo, piano sampling or just generally good hip-hop songs that’d sound at home on the soundtrack to Jim Jarmusch’s film Ghost Dog (which I, er, just saw). Oh, and a couple of the songs on this mix – The RZA tracks which serve as bookends, opening and closing it – are actually from the Ghost Dog Soundtrack, which is also pretty cool.
Tracklisting
1.The RZA – Ghost Dog Opening Theme (Raise Your Swords)
2.Lupe Fiasco – Hurt Me Soul
3.Genius/GZA – Duel Of The Iron Mic
4.MF DOOM – Vomitspit
5.Pharcyde – Passin’ Me By (Danger Mouse Remix)
6.DJ Shadow – Midnight In A Perfect World
7.Tricky – Overcome
8.Roots Manuva – Mind2Motion
9.Gnarls Barkley – St. Elsewhere
10.The RZA – Flying Birds

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State Of Flux

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Hey hey, it’s time for some new(ish) music.

Today, it be Bloc Party’s new single, Flux. And it’s a doozy. Flux sounds incredibly disimilar to pretty much any of the bands’ output thus far, but it’s a change for the better.

Their sound was, in my opinion, not really going to stretch to another album of good indie-rock; if they did (or indeed, do) stick to that formula for album 3, they’re going to go the way of The Futureheads.

Aaaanyway, as I said, Flux is quite a departure. Mainly because of, instead of choppy 70s-80s post-punk, this song is 90’s-00’s dancey house music (so, sort of like the music Factory Records started with, and moving onto the Hacienda days). This single will probably lose the band as many fans as it will make new ones, but I’m certainly not one of them (the fans they lose, that is. I already like Bloc Party).

Along with the (extended 12″ mix) of Flux (all dance singles should be required to have an extended 12″ mix…unless it’s Fede Le Grande or other such shite), for your listening pleasure, I have for you Fury666’s remix of Hunting For Witches, the choice track from the Bloc Party’s last album, A Weekend In The City.

I have no idea who Fury666 are, but, apart from having an awesome name, it seems they’re pretty good at the old glicthy/dancey/synth stylee. Check ‘em out.

Flux (Extended 12″ mix)
Hunting For Witches (Fury666 Remix)

Thunder Lightning Strike

Steven Seagal has his own energy drink.

It’s called Steven Seagal’s Lightning Bolt. Oh yes.

According to the wbesite, it’s “The First Of It’s Kind”; apparently it’s the first energy drink to contain ‘Tibetan Goji Berries’ and the first to contain ‘Asian Cordyceps’. Having not tasted the drink, I cannot yet comment on whether there is a reason these ingrediants have never been used before.

As for the drink’s name…

‘The name Steven Seagal’s Lightning Bolt was an inevitable afterthought. When Steven Seagal finished creating a drink that holds untold natural power, there was only one equivalent in nature- The Steven Seagal’s Lightning Bolt. Both mysterious and powerful, it’s a symbol of the untold energy the earth has to offer- Such is Steven Seagals Lightning Bolt energy drink.’

Steven Seagal? Star of films like Renegade Justice? Is he really a ‘symbol of the untold energy the earth has to offer’? For those who don’t know, here’s a picture of what Mr. Seagal looks like nowadays -

Wow, he must have a lot energy. Like, tonnes.