fred-wilson:

Star Of Wonder/None Shall Pass - Tor/Sufjan Stevens - Illinoize

Tor’s a producer who made a remix of Sufjan’s Illinois

it’s a free download which i did yesterday. i’m digging it.

Nice - especially for the Aesop Rock samples; I’ve been listening to None Shall Pass all week.

tuneage:

Take - “Fall in Love Again”

Take, aka Thomas 2000, aka Thomas Wilson can be found on the lefty spectrum of hip-hop. If the likes of Kanye and Jay-Z can be considered the center (it is sad that those are the two names that came to mind), and the conservative right is anything from the bass-heavy southern rap to the Bay Area’s hyphy movement, Take dabbles with instrumental and experimental beats. On a related note: conservative rap is shaping out to be pretty shite!

While his usual stuff is akin to Flying Lotus, Daedelus, and Dabyre, this song — from his album The Dirty Decibels Of Thomas Two Thousand — is definitely leaner and toned down. It’s easy on the electro-synth and generous with traditional acoustics. The brevity of the song seems to underscore the talent - you will definitely be using the repeat function.

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Mos Def - Auditorium

I’ve only listened through once so far, but I’m already loving Mos Def’s new album…he hasn’t enjoyed himself this much since Black on Both Sides, an all-time favorite. This one is the immediately gratifying single, with production from Madlib and a guest verse from (the ageless?) Slick Rick. Good stuff.