Keytar Hero

I don't know who started this whole retro-synth trend in hip hop production, but when I first heard Snoop Dogg's new song I was totally horrified. It's the aural equivalent of a hot pink Members Only jacket, and picturing Snoop wearing said jacket made me sad. Then I saw the video, and I will never doubt Mr. Broadus's choices again. I just wish this was in my size.

Santerror. Saaantasm.

I hope you enjoy this truly remarkable collection as much as I did. That look on the right, Christ, I'm not sure I've ever been that scared of anything in my life.

Vince Guaraldi Trio - Skating

And I'm off!

GhostproofBlanket is out of the office until January 2nd.

me: i personally plan to spend a few days just hermiting it up in my house. maxing. relaxing.

Rawg: yeah, i definitely need some serious me time too

when you say hermitting up, you mean eating pizza and watching porn, right?

me: ohmigod yes!!

i'm going to fold over an entire pizza and eat it like a single slice, while watching the finest porn money can buy.

that's what Christmas means, to me.

Only Journey and Killa Cam can capture how amped I feel right now:
Cam'ron - Just Us

If you're holdin up the wall then you're missin the point

You know what I just can't understand (Andy Rooney voice)? People who are dead from the waist down. No dancing, just stock-still-standing. New York concert crowds are the worst offenders; I've been to too many shows where I've scanned the crowd and wondered whether people are even enjoying themselves. What's the problem? It's good for your brain! It makes you more attractive to others! So dance it out. Crank dat soldjahboy. It's peanut butter jelly time peanut butter jelly time, with ice cream and cake and cake, chicken noodle soup with a soda on the side.

The Rapture - Wooh Alright Yeah! (Scottie B remix)

Rod Lee - Dance My Pain Away

Cat Stevens - Come On and Dance

Wait...what?

How did I never know that Collie Buddz is white? And also really, really hot? He's like Kevin Federline's sexy Bermudian cousin or something. Basically my whole life (since around last July) has been a lie. My foundations haven't been this shaken since I found out Shaggy grew up in Brooklyn.

Collie Buddz - Wild Out

Everyday is B'Day

When I have a busy workday, I listen to the same two albums like clockwork: Fugazi's "The Argument" in the morning and Beyonce's "B'Day" after lunch. Her first album only had four good songs and I pretty much sold it right away. "B'Day," on the other hand, is a mothereffing masterpiece — second only to Destiny's Child's "The Writing's On the Wall" as my favorite work in Beyonce's oeuvre.

If for some twisted reason you don't already love B, you will after watching FourFour's highlight reel of her completely ba-nay-nays concert DVD. Go, go now. I'll wait.
See? She's magic. She wails and flails and and kills it and puts her back into it and sometimes she just plain falls down. You can catch me at her next MSG show, hysterically crying, mouthing all the lyrics and clamoring for her upper-lip schweat soaked towel.

'Upgrade U' is perfection despite "I can do for you what Martin did for the people." She means Martin Lawrence! Healing the world with laffs!
Beyonce - Upgrade U
Beyonce - Krazy in Luv (Rockwilder rmx)

THIS is what color my parachute is.

Dear Sirs,
I would like to express my interest in the position of abandoned baby hedgehog cast-wrapper. Until today I thought my #1 pipe-dream job was 'baby masseuse', but I was wrong, as wrong as Mother Nature is for slapping the caterpillars out of these spiky widdle babies' tiny hungry mouths.

I have so much love/brightly colored gauze to give,
Ghostproof Blanket

R.I.P. Pimp C
Update: Outkast kinda owns this song but Pimp C and Bun B are up for a Grammy now:
UGK feat. Outkast - International Player's Anthem
Jay Z feat. UGK - Big Pimpin
36 Mafia and UGK - Sippin' On Syrup

Cumbia!

I'm too busy to post anything today, so instead anyone who shares my obsession with all manner of Latin American music should go download Diplo's latest Mad Decent podcast (just type "Mad Decent" into the Itunes store, it's free). Cumbia's an old folk dance and its music has been given a big revival in the South American club scene...since he mentions Samim's "Heater" in the podcast description I'm just gonna post this remix real quick. I love me some Pitbull, it's Monday, bleep blorp.

Samim/Pitbull - Heater (Claude VonStroke Remix)/Ay Chico (Lengua Afuera)

Herrrvé

I wasn't sure how I felt about Hervé — aka Voodoo Chilli/Count of Monte Cristal/one half of Dead Soul Brothers — for a long time, but that might have had more to do with my own resistance to the rave-nostalgia trend. Also, the kids call what he's doing "fidget house," which is a dumb name and isn't it just old fashioned tech house with a dash of acid 303 action? Between this Counterfeet EP teaser and his set on Sinden's radio show in which he played House Crew's "Keep the Fire Burning" which I hadn't heard in easily 10 years, I'm officially a fan. Late to the party, as per yooge.

Hervé - Counterfeet EP teaser
Hervé - Cheap Thrills
Roisin Murphy - Overpowered (Hervé and Roisin in the Secret Garden Mix)
*** GPB favorite:
Larry Tee + Princess Superstar - Work It Out (Hervé Goes Low Mix)