Special Pacific Rim Sunday Edition

A jumbo arigato to our fans across the globe for the Pacific Rim Emmy nomination/Best Baltimore-Based Blog, but we need to talk. It's wack you guys get special "Japanese Edition Bonus Tracks" where artists cough up b-sides and other studio scraps for your ears only. We're OK with the extra Smashing Pumpkins detritus and other stuff no one cares about, but don't hold back Daft Punk.

Daft Punk - Human After All / Together / One More Time (Reprise) / Music Sounds Better With You (bonus from Alive 2007)

Award for best Japanese b-side title goes to Beck for "Crap Hands" - basically the equivalent of Muscles releasing bonus tracks for Guns Babes Remonade.

M.I.A. - Far Far (bonus from Kala)
Beck - Crap Hands (bonus from Guero)
Boards of Canada - Macquarie Ridge (bonus from The Campfire Headphase)
Doves - Far From Grace (bonus from Last Broadcast)
Interpol - Specialist (bonus from Turn On The Bright Lights)
Underworld - Loads Of Birds (bonus from Oblivion With Bells)

Any other special Pacific Rim tracks out there we missed? Let us know.

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100dBs - The Sound Of A One-Handed Man Rapping

New beats for your weekend - 100dBs. Before we say anything, open this link in a new window and bob your backpack while they rock the milk out your cat:

100dBs and Ryan O'Neil - Respect (feat. Prince Po)

100dBs is DJ/producer Dan Brenner, who moved to NY dirty last year after running a two-year house party from an old colonial estate outside of College Park, MD. He spins ragga and dancehall riddims in the East Village and recently teamed with Ryan O'Neil to drop The Adventures of The One Hand Bandit and The Slum Computer Wizard, a familiar flashback to the hip hop golden age that's been pushing my Volvo all week.



Fans of DJ Premier's two-bar cardboard breaks and scratched out choruses come for the production, buhloone mindstate heads stay for O'Neil's graduation ceremony laments on the materialized state of crime n' Crystal n' pissed out elevator shafts. Read the full Beatbots album review here. Close competition for best Paper Planes of the year:

100dBs - Paper Planes
M.I.A. - Paper Planes

100dBs also laid out a dub homage to Hova's Black Album awhile back called The Argyle Album, download the whole thing or grab a few of our favorites:

Lucifer (100dBs Remix)
What More Can I Say (100dBs Remix)

Lastly and most importantly, if you like what you hear (and all the great free music on their site) drop them a line and pick up the new album for only $8 by bob digi download here. It's the sound of some talented, hard-working hip hop heads seeking enlightenment through the hustle.

Update: Check out an interview with Brenner and O'Neil via Urban Species here.

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Butter Team Weekend Beats Vol. 15

Woke up sweating in the American Garden Building on West 81st, peeled back cranberry sheets and an herbal mint facial mask under the horrifying realization that it's the haties and no one has yet caught M.I.A.'s devastating danga dengue fever. For twenty years, no one will feel Junior Senior's sweaty hand claps brush against their cheek(s), master blast OCDJ's frenetic 16-bit Bmore beats down St. Paul, or dance the footloose in a moonlit robot factory with Midnight Juggernauts.

Thankfully it was only a dream within a dream, because Good God man, if even one percent of our loyal Butter Team guests has not yet felt all of these things then we don't deserve sleep. Tomorrow (today), we've baked these beats together to offer a funky pollo, tomate y greens-filled calzone, so with your feet in the air and your head on the ground, try this chicken spinach. Yeah.

Midnight Juggernauts - Nine Lives
OCDJ - Trip Trip
Junior Senior - Simple Minds Do Simple Things
Mountaineers - Apart From This
M.I.A. - 20 Dollar
Daft Punk - Revolution 909

Revolution 909:

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