Big Shots / Charizma and Peanut Butter Wolf / 2003

Big Shots is Charizma and Peanut Butter Wolf's first album. While the tracks for Big Shots were recorded in the early 90's while signed to the Disney owned Hollywood Basic record label, an album was never released due to artistic conflicts with the labels executives. Peanut Butter Wolf retained the tracks and released Big Shots through his label Stones Throw Records in 2003, 10 years after Charizma's death. The album's first single, entitled "My World Premiere", was originally released in 1996.

More of that old school shit for you to check. Mad props to my man T Elms for peepin me to this shit. 

GIRLFRIENDS-GIRLFRIENDS-2009

Jerry Joiner, aka Girlfriends, hails from Pullman, Washington, bringing with him dance-y guitar and all the and all the charming indecipherable vocals you could ever hope for. It's delightful, it's local for some, it should be a nice addition to your library.

ba da bing ba da boom. that easy.

Nujabes / Mellow Beats, Friends, and Lovers / 2009

Nuajbes does the chillest fusion of jazz and hip-hop out there. Too bad he is gone now...

RIP Nujabes

GZA / Liquid Swords / 1995

What the hell is even going on in this album. What hardcore hip hop album has a 2 min long intro ripped from a martial arts movie? What is up with that shit? Regardless, this album has some of the darkest, most hardcore lyrics and beats out there and it's a must listen if you consider yourself an uber-hipster hip hop head. Wu Tang Clan is an aquirred taste if you ask me, they are just so different from thier peers.

THE GZA..... THE RZA..... THE GHOST.... FACE.... KILLLLLLLLLAHHHHHHHH

Daedelus / Love to Make Music To / 2008

Very experimental shit. This guy makes his music in a program called Max, which is like a "visual programming language" for music. Very interesting. Some of it is rap, some of it is complicated percussion. 

TRY / GET THAT SHIT

Cormega / The Realness / 2001

The Realness is the debut studio album by Queensbridge rapper Cormega. Cormega rose to fame in the mid-90s as an original member of The Firm crew, along with Nas, AZ and Foxy Brown, appearing on the song "Affirmative Action" from the Nas album It Was Written. After being booted from the group, Cormega signed a record deal with Def Jam Recordings, and recorded The Testament. The album was shelved, and Cormega was dropped from label, joining LandSpeed Records for his first official release. The Realness was re-released in 2007 with The True Meaning, Cormega's second album, from 2002, in a double special-edition package.

East Coast till I die. This is some early 00's shit with the flavor of those early 90's.

well congrats to will for fucking up the blog

Edit: I think i fixed it for now. Motherfucker is asking for some priviledge revoking already.

WARNING: FLOOD DETECTED

DMS ADMIN NO# 1 is back in TOWN!!!! Get ready for my monster queue to unload all up in yo ears over these next two weeks!

Also, Congrats to wpaulsen wpaulson for being promoted to admin status! His job is to help me keep the throngs of badly edited and formatted posts, broken links, and other bullshit your faggots try to pull off this site! Hell Yeah!

The more you give the more you get kids! Sharing is caring! Lets keep DMS strong!

( jesus will your edit to this post in small text fucked over the entire blog and i just spent 45 mins trying to figure out what was wrong. by the way I did not see "changing the header of the blog to some ridiculous bullshit" in your list of duties above. dont FUCK with me)

(edit: how was i supposed to know using small text was going to fuck over the rest of the blog. and yes, the header was ridiculous, but that was a joke. i'll be good now. it looks better now anyway)

THE BOOKS-THOUGHT FOR FOOD-2002

The complexity of the songs with all their layers and textures keep your brain working. And the duo gets pretty bizarre with their multitudinous samples, which is always a plus. I couldn't help but get into the next couple of following albums The Lemon of Pink and Lost and Safe.

From Wikipedia:

Zammuto and de Jong first met in New York City in 1999 as they shared the same apartment building.De Jong invited Zammuto to dinner at his apartment, where he played him some of his collection of audio and video samples, including a Shooby Taylor record.Zammuto said of their meeting that "we both kind of knew at that moment that we listened (to music) in interesting ways and had similar approaches to music."Soon after, they began playing what they considered to be pop music, in comparison to their own works, under the name The Books. In 2000, The Books started work on what would become their début album Thought for Food. Zammuto and de Jong moved locations constantly during this time, recording in New York, Los Angeles, Boston, and finally in the basement of a hostel in North Carolina where Zammuto worked for a while after hiking the Appalachian Trail.

Why not give it a shot, eh?

Iron and Wine-Kiss Each Other Clean-2011

For some strange reason I was under the impression that Samuel Beam was no longer making music and that he had reverted back to making movies or being a professor or working on his beard. Not so! This is his latest album and I'm trying to squeeze in a listen before work while I post this. You can hear the classic whispery folk stuff but over that are arrangements and song structure that you don't hear quite as often in other pieces of Beam's work. I might go so far as to say that it reminds me of Fleetwood Mac a little. I already regret saying that. Give it a fucking listen, aight?

This album doesn't come out for another week, lol.

Twin Shadow - Forget - 2010

A likely candidate for Sasquatch this year. A electro-melodramatic breakdown of the things you wish you didn't tell your therapist about.

Similar to:
• Caribou
• LCD Soundsystem
• Washed Out

Momma...

Ugly Casanova / Sharpen Your Teeth / 2002

"From the rustic pop of "Barnacles" to the wispy shades of "Hotcha Girls" and the understated, anthem "So Long to the Holidays" Sharpen Your Teeth is an album with depth and warmth. When the autumn winds pick up speed and the waves of Lake Michigan freeze in place, I'll be home listening to this album and howling She Shaw She Shaw until the sun rises over a frozen city and I have to go back to work. And this project turned out to be a particularly fruitful collaboration with a roomful of songwriters holed up in the Pacific Northwest with a box of demos and creative energy. They set about working on the album sitting around a kitchen table." -Derek Phillips

Sharpen Your Teeth

The Roots / Right On (feat. Joanna Newsom & STS)

A very interesting and must listen remix.

empeethreepeeoh

Jeff Mangum-Live At Jittery Joe's-2001

Live at Jittery Joe's was an album released in 2001 by Jeff Mangum of Neutral Milk Hotel to battle the high prices of bootlegs oneBay. It was recorded by filmmaker Lance Bangs at the Athens, GA based venue Jittery Joe's on March 7, 1997 during a live solo performance featuring only Jeff. Jeff had not prepared a setlist, so some of the songs were chosen by the audience. Most of the songs included on this album had studio versions on the earlier Neutral Milk Hotel releases except "I Will Bury You in Time" (which appears on several live bootlegs) and the cover of Phil Spector's "I Love How You Love Me." It is worth noting that the version of "Two Headed Boy part 2" is different from the version that appears on In the Aeroplane Over the Sea, as this performance occurred before the release of of that album.

This is perfection. I like that there's a crying baby in the audience that you can hear on some songs.

Gauntlet Hair-I Was Thinking... 7"-2010

Andy R. and Craig Nice have been making music together since they were fifteen years old and are currently working on a new album. For now we will have to get by with the smooth sounds of their ambient two-piece rock shizz they have going on. The Denver based duo recently came out with a 7" with two of their best songs on it, but the file linked at the bottom includes a third song called "All Eyes" that is really good.

Here is the video for their song, and my personal favorite, "I Was Thinking..."

Reverby vocals is the new auto-tune...

Dinowalrus-%-2010

Fuzz pop and noise rock. Is it really "musical"? Brooklyn's Dinowalrus answers with a resounding MAYBE. Included with this album is a video for their single "Bead" which can be viewed below.

This album is has the danks/dankz/danx.

Eero Johannes-Eero Johannes-2008

Eero Johannes is an electronic music artist from Finland. He released his self-titled LP over two years ago, but I only just recently downloaded it myself. It was recommended to me as a good example of the musical genre Skweee which is supposed to be some kind of "cousin" to dubstep. And if you have spent any amount of time on Dats My Shit, you know how we feel about dubstep.

Skweee is a musical style, with origin in Nordic countries Sweden and Finland. Skweee combines simple synth leads and basslines with funk, r'n'b or soul-like rhythms, overall rendering a stripped-down funky sound. The tracks are mostly entirely instrumental, though there are exceptions... The name refers to the use of vintage synthesizers in the production process, where the aim is to "squeeze out" the most interesting sounds possible... Producers such as Rusko, Gemmy, Joker, Zomby, Rustie, Jamie Vex'd among others, have given their take on the sound resulting in several interesting releases on the boundary between skweee and dubstep.

Skweee FTW!!

I think this shit is hawt.

Aziz / Leave Me Aziz / 2010

Aziz is a fresh face in the rap scene. This is the second mixtape he has released, the first one being "Point of You" released early in the Summer of 2010. His music video for the song "Power of Attention" garnered this young emcee some well deserved attention on the interwebs last Summer. He has mad flow.

Notice the headphones he is wearing on the album cover. Represent.

Starfucker - REPTILIANS

TYPICAL

This time Starfucker has gone into the stars for a heady-electronic "dreamtime". Strategically paced album with rhythm like a black man. That same fucking dude talks during the album, but he tells you some seriously crucial information. Prepare to dance to this man talking you through the grooves.

let the lava flow

The Decemberists-The King Is Dead-2011

This is the latest from one of my favorite bands, The Decemberists, and it's not supposed to come out for a couple weeks still, I think. Anyway it's got a lot more alt-country and folksy influence than their other work so if you aren't into that move along. However, while it might not be the best representation of what The Decemberists are, it is still a great album.

Chexxx it out b4 the big bad DMCA comes after me!

shit mang... the dmca got me. they even took down the album artwork. jerks.

pssssssssssssssssssssssssssst.

strike three... go find it somewhere else i guess

LONE - Ectasy & Friends

I won't lie to y'all the first thing that attracted me to this album was the album art. but this is some good spacey jazz, it sends you through the classic rock station that you expect to hear on hold, but i believe the groove was glitched to (somewhat)perfection.

glitch witch itch