Lil Wayne “Lollipop (Nasty Ways Remix)”

Hot off the press comes this remix of Lil Wayne’s “Lollipop,” which marks one of the first tracks producer Eprom and Boreta of The Glitch Mob have made under the Nasty Ways moniker. Here, the well-known rapper’s lyrics are chopped, stirred, and manipulated, then thrown atop a thick layer of synths, feedback, and dubby, glitchy programmed beats. One doesn’t normally associate laptop-produced music with the word sexy, but that’s an apt term in this case. A few wavy synth melodies interspersed with the heavy beats add a layer of gentleness as a final touch.

Lil Wayne – Lollipop (Nasty Ways Remix)

Paris Readies New Album

Always an outspoken and emphatic activist when it comes to politics, Guerilla Funk label boss, Public Enemy collaborator, and artist in his own right Paris is ready to unleash another solo album, just in time for the 2008 elections.

As expected, Paris leaves no stone unturned on this new album. Acid Reflex, set for release on September 9, traverses a wide range of topics lyrically, from police brutality to the war in Iraq, to Darfur, the Congo crisis, and religious fanaticism. Musically, the album will feature George Clinton, Chuck D., and Paris protege T-K.A.S.H. Rock the Vote might sway a few young people, but nothing gets a listener fired up about corrupt politics quite like Paris.

01 Don’t STop the Movement
02 So What
03 Blap That Ass Up
04 The Trap
05 Get Fired Up
06 Neighborhood Watch
07 Acid Reflex
08 True
09 The Violence
10 Winter in America
11 The Hustle
12 Don’t Stop the Movement (Warrior Dance Mix)

Architecture in Helsinki Release EP

Like it or Not seems an apt title for the latest offering from Architecture in Helsinki, a band that proved with its last release, Places Like This, that any direction is possible and the band will choose any path it pleases in terms of its musical evolution.

So, for this EP, Cameron Bird and Co have delved even deeper into the realm of eccentric indie-pop with some remixes of tracks from Places, as well as a couple of new cuts. Barcelona-based producer El Guincho and Max Tundra lent their skills on the mixing board, and the title track is an inside out version of the original track that ran on Places.

The Melbourne-based band is said to be working on another full-length for the rest of the year. In the meantime, pick this up on Polyvinyl.

Like it or Not
01 Like it or Not (Version 2)
02 Beef in Box
03 One Heavy February 2008
04 Hold Music (Max Tundra Remix)
05 Like it or Not (El Guincho Remix)

Rainbow Arabia “Omar K”

Rainbow Arabia is the married couple of Danny and Tiffany Preston, and the two have risen from the L.A. underground with their amalgamation of experimental dance music and Middle Eastern flavors. The resulting sound, which can be heard in full on the duo’s forthcoming EP The Basta, is a mix of up programmed electro beats, riffing guitars, strange, call-to-war vocals, and an endless amount of energy. The duo is finishing up a full-length now, slated for release in late 2008/early 2009.

Rainbow Arabia – Omar K

Various Buzzin Fly: 5 Golden Years in the Wilderness

What, exactly, is the “wilderness” to which U.K. house label Buzzin’ Fly refers in the title of this new anniversary compilation? The wilderness of wild success in a shrinking milieu? No matter. Over two “retrospective” CDs, Wilderness proves that Buzzin’ Fly has managed to churn out some of the finest club-house (Justin Martin’s breezy “Sad Piano”) and gastro-pub soundtracks (Jimpster’s downtempo masterpiece “Square Up”) of the 21st century. The third CD is a look at things to come–essentially Discs One and Two combined into a kind of über-house exemplified by Stimming’s Mozart-meets-Villalobos “Kleine Nachtmusik.” It’s evidence that Buzzin’ Fly’s mission of pushing dance music will continue to bear fruit for half-decades to come.

Banksy Identity Revealed?

Despite Hollywood elite buying his paintings and worldwide fame for stunts like placing a Guantanamo Bay prisoner replica at Disneyland, Banksy has remained an elusive figure in the art world.

However, U.K.-based news source The Mail claims to have uncovered the identity of the famed guerrilla artist. According to the BBC, the paper says Banksy is 34-year-old Robin Gunningham, and this information was found by tracing a Peter Dean Rickards photograph that showed Banksy at work in 2004 in Jamaica. Peter Dean Acquaintances supposedly confirmed the person in the photo to be Gunningham.

Naturally, debate has ensued over whether or not the picture is legitimately of the Bristol-born artist, with different parties claiming different sides of the issue. Banksy’s spokesperson declined to comment, saying “I never confirm or deny these stories.”

Above: Banksy’s Barely Legal show in downtown Los Angeles in 2006. To see more pictures from the exhibition, click here.

Alex Moulton Goes Sci-Fi on New Album

Expansion Team label boss Alex Moulton is set to unleash his debut artist album to the masses on August 5, and the producer has gotten all sci-fi on us for the occasion. Cover art aside (which is simultaneously tasteless and intriguing), Exodus finds the New York-based maker of techno and electro immersed in storytelling, letting the album tell a kind of sci-fi/romance adventure from track to track that includes an operatic overture.

Moulton collaborated with numerous individuals for Exodus, including Grammy-winning engineer Marc Urselli, Nilesh Patel (Daft Punk), Groove Collective’s Jonathan Maron, and DJ Afro of Los Amigos Invisibles. And instead of releasing the album, then waiting a couple of months to drop the remix disc, he’s bundled the entire package together, including reworkings of the album’s track “Love is Alive,” as well as some of his own interpretations of other artists tracks.

Finally, the cover art:

Exodus
01 Overture
02 Out of Phase
03 Flaming Swords
04 The Prophecy
05 Meridians
06 Together
07 The Sacrifice
08 Paradise
09 Vicious
10 Together Again
11 Pandemonium
12 Exodus
13 Ad Astra
14 L’Arc En Ciel
15 Love is Alive (Original Mix)
16 Love is Alive (Addeboy Vs Cliff Remix)
17 Love is Alive (Alex’s 4AM Mix)
18 Love is Alive (The G:Neus ‘Check the Kick’ Remix)”
19 Addeboy vs. Cliff “Red Button (Alex Moulton Mix)”
20 Ready Fire Aim “So Fine (Alex Moulton Mix)”
21 Genji Sirasi “Surviving Freedom (Alex Moulton Mix)”
22 Ror-Shak “Fate or Faith (Alex Moulton Remix)”

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