Easy Street – Queen Anne Closed

Posted on April 15, 2013 by waxramble

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During my little break from this site I had found out that the Queen Anne location for Easy Street was being closed which really bummed me out. Since starting this site I had posted about checking out the shop here + here and had even ultimately decided that this was the better of the two Easy Street locations for finding hip hop on wax. It sucks because according to the folks who run the shop, 2012 was actually a really good year. The details about what happened can be seen over on their site.

A friend and I were able to visit one last time about a week before the store closed for business (they were having a store-wide 20% off sale which was nice). Seattle really doesn’t have too many great spots for vinyl (at least compared to Portland/CA/NY/etc), so it’s especially sad to hear about quality shops like this closing. Their West Seattle location is still open and while I haven’t had a chance to check it out since the closure of the Queen Anne store, I imagine their inventory might have become bigger and improved as well since the time I visited last year.

RIP Easy Street – Queen Anne

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Django Django – WOR (Video)

Posted on April 9, 2013 by waxramble

I’ve never listened to Django Django before but this has to be one of the coolest videos I’ve seen so far this year. The description for the video on Youtube is perfect:

Mercury music prize nominees Django Django became obsessed by the infamous Indian Well of Death riders in Allahabad. So, naturally, they asked Noisey if we’d be up for travelling over to India and standing right in the middle of large lumps of precariously speeding metal for a day, to film a video for their track “Wor”. We happily obliged, getting our shoes stolen in the process, but it was worth it to meet a bunch of guys with the most rock solid testicles we’ve ever come across.

The song is also really good too, will have to listen to some more of this stuff for sure.

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Madvillainy Samples Mix

Posted on April 6, 2013 by waxramble

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Fantastic mix with every sample from Madvillainy presented by Hip Hop Is Read. Listening to this all the way through with the samples put together in order by each song is quite an experience! You’ll always see lists with all of these samples for classic albums but it’s really cool that someone took the effort to put it all together for everyone to listen to all the way through. If you’re feeling this, go ahead and follow @IvanRott. Looks like he’s covered a lot of other classics with sample mixes of their own, check it out over here.

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Some New Avant-Garde

Posted on April 2, 2013 by waxramble

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It’s been about a year since sharing some of Avant-Garde’s music last and I’m happy to say there’s even more stuff to share with you now. Spent the last hour checking this new work and I have to say while his old stuff was very good, you can definitely tell that he’s been hard at work lately creating an even more refined sound. I said it last time and I’ll say it again, if Trevor doesn’t get some decent following sometime in the future I figure everyone is just sleeping big time.

It’s looking like a new release will be coming out later this month titled Pigeon. Be sure to keep an eye out for this, I imagine it’ll be even more good stuff. If you are digging what you hear, be sure to follow Avant-Garde over on Twitter and check out his blog Endless Euphony.

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Needle Drop x Nardwuar

Posted on April 2, 2013 by waxramble

Two of the internet’s best music nerds together for an awesome interview. Everyone saw pictures of this a little while back from SXSW 2013 and I’ve been excited about the video to come ever since. Nardwuar put it out today and it was a really good interview. I thought I knew about most releases from Stones Throw but hadn’t heard about the Connecticut Hip Hop compilation that Nardwuar gave to Anthony. My wish now is that the both of these guys could get together for more videos in the future, it’d definitely be very entertaining.

If you are unfamiliar with either of these guys I’d highly reccommend checking out Anthony Fantano’s work at The Needle Drop and Nardwuar’s huge archive of video interviews over at his website.

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Ahu Mixes Paul White (2007)

Posted on March 13, 2013 by waxramble

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I will usually try to avoid posting about an artist two times in a row, but I ran into this awesome mix that I have to share. This was uploaded over on Paul White’s Soundcloud just yesterday, though it was originally made back in 2007. According to this older upload, Ahu had put together a selection of tracks from early Paul White beat tapes to create this 45 minute mix. A download can be found over here. Definitely worth checking out!

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Paul White & Danny Brown – OLD Tracks

Posted on March 12, 2013 by waxramble

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Spotted this over on Paul White’s Facebook, very happy to see he’ll be working with Danny Brown on his new album OLD. Danny confirmed this late last year, but it’s a bit surprising to me to see how many tracks might actually make it on to the full record this time around (Paul White had three beats on XXX and Danny did a song on Rapping with Paul White).

I’ve been a big fan of Paul White for awhile now and it’s always awesome to hear some new stuff coming from him. Fields on XXX is definitely up there as one of my favorite Danny Brown songs, check it out in the player below:

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Nicolay & Kay – Tight Eyes Ft. Oh No & The Luv Bugz (Kensaye Remix)

Posted on March 12, 2013 by waxramble

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I’ve been getting some new music sent to my e-mail (waxrambleATgmailDOTcom) the last couple of weeks and while some of it has been alright I haven’t felt inclined to post over here until now. Kensaye sent this track my way and I have to say I really like the remix. I hadn’t heard the original track before, it is really good too! Kensaye did a nice job putting his spin on it and a review of his Soundcloud shows some other good remixes too (especially diggin the Roots rework). Follow him over @Kensaye1.

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Daft Punk SNL Teaser

Posted on March 4, 2013 by waxramble

Saw this tonight and thought it was great. I didn’t catch this during SNL last night which is too bad, seeing it during a commercial break would have been sweet! They haven’t put out a record in years so it is exciting to get even just a tiny glimpse of what’s to come. I was looping it up in Audacity myself but found someone else did a fancy loop already over here. I like the sound a lot so far, I imagine the new album is going to be an awesome return for them when it is released later this spring.

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J Dilla the Greatest

Posted on February 27, 2013 by waxramble

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Today is the last day of Dilla month, so I thought I would share a cool video from Karriem Riggins that was put out recently. This is the final track of his excellent Alone Together album. It is interesting to hear and see the process of how the song is put together. The sample he is referring to in the video is from Featuring Phat Kat of Welcome to Detroit. A fantastic tribute to J Dilla, RIP.

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