Via SBTRKT’s Soundcloud:
made this edit to play at my williamsburg gig last week in NY. its nothing crazy. just some beefed up production over an already dope track….
Tag: Odd Future
Photos by Elizabeth Weinberg
A lot’s happened since the last time self-titled spent an afternoon with Das Racist, exploring the Queens neighborhood where MC Heems and hypeman Dapwell grew up. For one thing, the Brooklyn trio—rounded out by Kool A.D., possibly the only rapper we’ve ever seen rocking a pair of Zubaz pants—finally released its first proper album, Relax, a record that rightfully earned the group a Spin cover and the tagline “hip-hop’s smartest smartasses.” Relax has also kept Das Racist on the road for the past few months.
So rather than grill them about their role in underground rap or what it was like working with members of Vampire Weekend, Yeasayer and El-P, we asked the group about 25 of 2011’s most talked-about tracks…
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[FACT] Check out the original version of the Internet‘s “Cocaine” single in video form—featuring cameos from Syd the Kid’s Odd Future cohorts—below…
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Photos by Andrew Parks
If you can’t tell by the delay in posting our final set of Pitchfork Music Festival photos, last weekend kinda left us feeling like the guy in the above photo. Here’s what wore us out as we tried to hit every act across three stages…
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Words and Photos by Andrew Parks
“Where’s the mayhem?”
A fair question, really; one that was posed by Dimitri Coats when we ran into the OFF! guitarist on the second day of the Pitchfork Music Festival. At the time, we’d both walked out wondering why the site decided to end the night with the pleasant but predictable folk music of Fleet Foxes. That answer is quite simple, of course: because the band’s in the same bearded breakout family as Bon Iver and My Morning Jacket. And many people like pleasant but predictable folk music.
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Photo by Nick Helderman
When Odd Future‘s de facto frontman told Twitter to download all of their DIY releases before they take them down the other day, we went one step further. Wading through a slower-than-molasses server, we snagged every last mixtape and re-uploaded the entire lot to Soundcloud for the rest of you. You can stream or individually download everything from Tyler, the Creator’s breakthrough LP, Bastard, to Earl Sweatshirt’s fan favorite full-length below…
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Photos by Nick Helderman
For more of our SXSW 2011 coverage, head here or take a look at the lion’s den below…
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As the Odd Future hype train continues to clobber every weak-willed writer in its path, some actual concrete interviews are starting to pop up beyond predictable blog posts about how “crazy” and “edgy” these kids are. Interviews like the SXSW Q&A Pitchfork ran today, which including the following Tyler, the Creator tidbits…
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Apparently, someone got their nose broken and a bunch of people left the above set bloody? Leave a comment if you were there and have something to share. And be sure to check out the FADER’s Odd Future footage after the jump…
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