Fall 2k14 Mix

Fall 2k14 Mix (right-click to DL mp3)

De La Soul - Fallin'
Spoon - Inside Out
Ghostface Killah - Love Don't Live Here No More
Les Sins - Why (feat. Nate Salman)
Brian Reitzell and Roger Mann - On the Subway
Kele - Coasting
Grimes - Go (feat. Blood Diamonds)
Fruit Bats - When U Love Somebody
The Zombies - Nothing's Changed (backing track)
Action Bronson - Easy Rider
Air - Alone in Kyoto
Lykke Li - I Never Learn

get more context behind the playlist on my tumblr

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Butteriest 2K8 Butter Team Content

We enjoyed providing you with lumpy mounds of moist, crescenfresh content last year; a random smattering of which can be found below for your perusal. Be sure to sign up for quasi-regular email/Greader updates so you don't miss anything new (special shot out to the sharebro community), and thanks for reading.

Investigatory Journalism/Conspiracies
Life Before Interstella 5555?
Count Duckula/Danger Mouse
Planisphere/Interstella 5555
Adventure vs. Air Wolf/McGyver/Nintendo
The Real Creed Bratton

Zany "Mashups"
Air France vs. Doves
Cut Copy vs. Rad
Girl Talk vs. Legal Community
M83 vs. Donnie Darko
Avalanches/Go! Team vs. Foam City
Vega vs. Rad
Bonde do Role vs. Bollywood

General Shenanigans
Teen Chat: The Teenagers Talk 90210
The Ultimate Cougar Muxtape
Ludacris Area Code Map/Jazz Tribute
Table Dance Fail
Make Out Fallout
'Til the Night Closes In

"Traditional Music Blog" Coverage
Whartscape
Weekend Beats
Misc. Party Pixx
Celebrating Chromeo/Spank Rock/Cut Copy/The Zombies
Independence Day Friendstival
Bmore Round Robin
Walkmen interview

Original Samples
Avalanches
More Avalanches
De La Soul
Eazy-E
Mos Def/Rza

Stimulus Packages
Diplo/Dan Deacon
Ratatat
Sebastien Tellier
Gza
Cut Copy
Hot Chip

We'd also like to thank all the label reps and new media/blog outreach coordinators who e-blasted their hot rmxs in 2K8 - this classic De La joint is dedicated to you.


De La Soul - Ring Ring Ring (from De La Soul is Dead)

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I Like It (More Than U Know)

The Avalanches' Since I Left You (a BT top 5 all-time fave) contains more than 900 original samples, 99% of which I haven't recognized, but you might enjoy the lineage behind "Flight Tonight."


The Avalanches - Flight Tonight (from Since I Left You)



The repeating vocal sample is taken from De La Soul's Posdnuos on "More Than U Know," part of Prince Paul's 1999 classic A Prince Among Thieves, where the crew offers a series of creative metaphors comparing frequent crack use to commercial air travel and Julies, respectively. This song doesn't appear on any De La albums but it's still one of their best, and the lyrics are top gear.


Prince Paul feat. De La Soul - More Than U Know (from A Prince Among Thieves)

"More Than U Know" contains a sample of Rockmaster Scott & the Dynamic Three's recording "The Roof Is On Fire," but most of the backing track is taken from The Extra T's 1983 electro-boogie "I Like It (Corn Flakes)," a tough-to-find track the Wax Poetics crew was overheard spinning a few weeks back.


The Extra T's - I Like It (Corn Flakes)

Play these in reverse order at your next helipad jammy for mad cred, even though know one will probably notice.

See also: Messages From Black Men

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I Once Got Bubbly in a Burger King Back Room

Homey decided to wash his tendercrisps in the sink at the BK Lounge, film it, and post on MySpace. Burger King stock is also taking a bath today.




De La Soul - Bitties in the BK Lounge (from De La Soul is Dead)


Jarmels - A Little Bit of Soap (sampled in Three Feet High and Rising)

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3 Feet High and Rising - Original Samples

Game changing, son - not sure what else needs to be said about De La's 1989 debut. In a genre where original expression is king, this album redefined rap's role in projecting cultural positivity while presenting a radical style and format change from everything released at the time (or since). Homeys also invented the now-standard hip hop skit along the way.

Most notably, Prince Paul built a name for himself here by permanently upping the creativity bar for sampling (even though The Turtles later sued them and won). You might have already recognized some of the more obvious samples like Hall & Oates in "Say No Go," but PP slipped in 75 other classic cold BBQ cuts you can check out and download over at Kevin Nottingham's hip hop sample emporium.

Some of our favorites:


Sly & the Family Stone - Crossword Puzzle (from "Say No Go")


The Mad Lads - Make This Young Lady Mine (from "Eye Know")


Jarmels - A Little Bit of Soap (from "A Little Bit of Soap")


The Turtles - You Baby (from bonus track "What's More")


De La Soul - Say No Go

Sample issues will keep this album from iTunes for the near future, but it's worth picking up from Amazon no question. Some people call this the critical/commercial peak of De La/Prince Paul - what's your top De La rekkid?

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Butter Team Weekend Beats Vol. 13

We sprinkled some Tang crystals over our random sequence generator to determine the winners of Dan Deacon's Crystal Cat vinyl getaway, and they be: shipshape and ginny! Email us with your full address and you'll be keeping it solid steel as soon as we figure out how to mail records with integrity. Our legal team has asked us to clarify it's technically not a "getaway" but we encourage you to travel with your winnings regardless.

We also forgot to announce the winner of May's Choose Your Own Adventure Getaway Contest where readers were tasked with naming the third best CYOA title of all time.

The correct answer (third best) was "Mutiny in Space" (#90), in which you're an apprentice crew member aboard the Baruna, a space transport ship. After three months in space, things get twisted when trouble breaks out between Captain Tyler and Jack Barnes just as the ship encounters a fierce ion storm. Drink two Sundrop/Mylanta cocktails and get busy sons.




The second best title, of course, is Vampire Express (#31) where you're on a vampire hunt in deepest Romania with your uncle Andrew and your "lady friend" Nina. You're riding horseback toward an eerie castle when a thick fog rolls in, which is always troubling. Then you're surrounded by wolves! Your uncle races ahead but Nina is thrown off her horse and disappears into the fog! It's business time.



And the most premium Choose Your Own Adventure ever is Vampire Invaders (#118) which combines vampires and space for one ridiculously good looking book. You are the world's leading expert on vampires, attending an emergency conference at the National Space Institute, where you and the top FBI officials are examining evidence that vampires from outer space have invaded the Earth, so.



Final Fantasy - Adventure.exe

The winner, James Smith, receives a copy of Vampire Invaders signed by Alec Baldwin (but Butter Team reserves the right to substitute his signature with that of another Baldwin).























If you didn't win any of these 'ganzas, no fear, our fave DC site Brightest Young Things is giving away TEN PAIRS OF TICKETS to the Blonde Redhead show at Ram's Head Live in Bmore on Wednesday, August 8th. But this contest requires more than dropping your least favorite email address into the comment pot, you actually have to use some of that art minor.

To enter, take a bob digi of yourself saying “I love Blonde Redhead” or even better "I love Butter Team who in turn is a big fan of Blonde Redhead" or if you have panoramic maybe "I love Brightest Young Things for having this 'I love Blonde Redhead' contest and certainly hope to win" etc. then shake your polaroid here.

Now to the beats, breaks, decks and crates, come up in your face oops pow surprise:

Jungle Brothers - Because I Got it Like That (Ultimatum mix)
Big Daddy Kane - Warm It Up, Kane
Clockwork Voodoo Freaks - Deaf Mick's Throwdown
De La Soul - A Roller Skating Jam Named Saturdays (feat. Q-Tip)

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