THEESatisfaction. Makers of self described “funk-psychedelic feminista sci-fi epics” with a good mix of jazz, hip-hop, warm 70s soul, and hardcore minimalist drum machine beats.
This Seattle duo has been getting a fair amount of attention recently around the blaawg-o-sphere, and it is rightfully deserved. There is a very good chance you’ve already been listening to them, but if you haven’t nows the time to jump on one of the best musical bandwagon’s in recent memory.
THEESatisfaction’s tracks are often short bursts of hypnotic loops are pre-programmed machine beats. They sample old jazz, and often harken back to 70s and 80s dance music with retro sounding synth. Both Stasia Iron (who raps) and Cat Harris-White have mesmerizing voices and deliveries. Harris-White calls to mind India.Arie and Erykah Badu, while Iron’s rapping style is a great break from the hyper active approach many popular acts use these days. She gives her rhymes a lot more space, and it adds another layer to their hypnotic music.
They released their label debut last year on Sub-Pop, but they’ve been making music together since 2008, and a lot of it is available on their bandcamp, so if you haven’t given them a shot yet, now is definitely the time.
Check ‘em out:
Bandcamp
Official Site
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Azealia Banks “Harlem Shake” (Remix)
From the recent conflicts between Baauer and Banks over the remix of Halerm Shake. Baauer had Banks’s remix of the song removed from Soundcloud. This morning, she responded by posting her video of the song on Vimeo. “Sick and tired of these raggedy male musicians and their scarred ego’s trying to block my fucking light,” she tweeted this morning, a few hours after the video went up. “Sick and tired of all the motherfuckers trying to ‘put me in my place.’” Watch the video below.
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“I Couldn’t Be Your Friend” - Tegan and Sara
this damn songgggg. so good.
Tegan and Sara perform acoustic in-studio at KEXP. Recorded on September 24, 2012.
Samples of some of the tracks to be on The Clicks new upcoming album “Black Tie Elevator.” To be released March 2013.
SSION “Psy-Chic” Bent Dovecote 2012
Sex and Sexuality post by Catherine Scott, Submitted by Catherine Scott on August 3, 2012 - 9:45am; tagged Adam Lambert, BDSM, Frankie Goes To Hollywood, Gay men, LGBT, queer, Relax, S&M.
I’m not of an age to remember first-hand just how much of a commotion Frankie Goes to Hollywood caused with their song “Relax,” given that it was released in 1983, the year I was born. But it’s a testament to the power of combining S&M with queerness that it remains a notorious song and video, 28 years later. Media-weary children of today know that the best way to get attention for your product is to have it banned—unfortunately at the time, DJ Mike Read thought he was genuinely doing the right thing when he took one look at the cover of “Relax” (see image at right), heard the suggestive lyrics (including—gasp—the incendiary words “suck” and “come”), and refused to play it. BBC Radio joined Read in solidarity by banning the song, and subsequently BBC TV banned the video too. FGTH could only watch, devastated, as their song climbed to number one in the charts and stayed there for five weeks…
CREEP - Call Her (feat Tricky and Alejandra de la Deheza)
