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nobody@vox.com(Jason) — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 22:00:20 -0700

Top Artists this Week (see more)

9 Mar 2008 – 16 Mar 2008

1		MF DOOM
2		J Dilla aka jay dee
3		The Go! Team
4		Cee-Lo
4		Jenny Lewis with The Watson Twins
4		wale
7		Lupe Fiasco
7		Burial
9		Jay Dee
10		Justice

Last week's purchases/pickups: ...and all the pieces matter, Five Years of Music from The Wire and

Surgelator Action

Chris Joss

Joss’s crisp and clean songs have a throwback feel and could easily be mistaken for some loungin’ oldies but goodies from the ‘60s and ‘70s, but his technical trickery keeps him firmly in the future. He seems to be inventing new hybrids by sampling different vocal textures and playing with tempos and styles that are supposed to be disparate. “Atomic Tape,” for example, melds rockabilly guitar warbles, hip-hop scratches, sitar riffs and samples of sneering young voices. And it all seems to make sense.

- Chris Joss, 'Teraphonic Overdubs', Metromix Chicago, 02.11.08

Last.fm recommended (we're going to go back a couple weeks since I missed last week): Camera Obscura, The Noisettes, Lil' Mo, Mick Boogie & Little Brother, Menomena, and

Black Mags

Cool Kids

From their forthcoming Totally Flossed Out, "Black Mags" starts with a deep, slowed-down voice like the one on another album track, "Gold and Pagers" (which itself opens like Fabolous' "Diamonds"). Here the Cool Kids rap laconically about their bicycle, managing to tie in "MacGyver" and further the Pack comparison with a shout-out to Nike. As usual, the beats are laid-back and streamlined, the bass burbling.

- Pitchfork Forkcast, Pitchfork, 05.17.07

Song of the Week:

D-D-D-Dance

Micatone

or maybe it was:

D.A.N.C.E.

Justice

Whatever it was, we danced it out.

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last.fm says...

Top Artists this Week (see more)

9 Mar 2008 – 16 Mar 2008