Salt Pepper Ketchoop For Here Or To Go?

Not saying…

Just saying…

Threw together a little 8tracks retrospective of my favorite dancehall/roots/rocksteady covers of mj tunes.

2 Busy Signal Remixes, Some TOK, Tarrus Riley, Derrick Laro, Shinehead and Olly Buck to round things out.  Enjoy

Here’s some stuff that’s been rocking my earholes lately.  These aren’t reviews, because I see no reason to give shine to music I don’t really like.  They’re also not necessarily the newest albums.  Just what I’ve been enjoying and think you should too.

Hatchback – Colors of the Sun

Lo Recordings, purveyors of all things cosmic disco, released this badboy back in september.  Sam Grawe does a great job of blending the electronic and the organic here, resulting in the perfect music for cruising.  I had this pumping in my ears while skiing earlier this week and it helped make sitting on the lift a little bit more bearable.

Jalapeno Records and Funk Weapons Present: The Raid Part Deux

The raid is a compilation series wherein Jalapeno records highlights the back catalog of like minded albeit smaller record labels.  The first in the series focused on the DC funksters Fort Knox.  The second installment sticks to the beltway and takes on the All Good Funk Alliance.  The cd features original tracks along with remixes from jalapeno artists.  The whole album is about as solid as it gets.  Highly recommended.  Also, if you’re in NYC, they’re playing at APT with Ursula 1000 this friday.  I picked the wrong weekend to go to Vermont, but whatever.

DJP – Hot Winter (Direct Download Link)

Here’s a free one for you guys.  Fueling my strange obsession with dancehall reggae this week is DJP, a Costa Rican (WTF?) dancehall dj and remixer.  It’s a pretty solid mix, not mindblowing, but hey it’s free and I figured it’s poignant this week since it starts off with an Obama song.

Enjoy dudes, I’ll be back with more soon.Technorati Tags: hatchback, all good funk alliance, lo recordings, jalapeno records, dancehall, djp

Bar prep’s got me a little preoccupied, but here are some things that have given me some much needed smiles over the past few weeks.

Kylie Auldist – Just Say, Australian songstress’s jazzfunk laden debut album featuring the bamboos.
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Carlo Van De Roer’s “Orbs” Series

my new wallet (fu jfold ebay sellers)

This dude held up a Mickey D’s and sserved 12 years and is now winning a jingle contest for the Big Mac.

Chinese Assassin ‘s dope new mixtape:

Lisa Candela’s new stuff:

Some other stuff too but that’s enough for now.