STREAM: Drake – Over

I wonder if dead prez appreciate the “homage” in that second verse. I kinda doubt it.

DOWNLOAD: DJ Mathematics Presents Meth, Ghost & Rae – Avenging Eagles (Mixtape)

Mathematics has put togther this awesome and official compilation to get figgas hyped for that Wu-Massacre. It’s ill, although I am not over-feeling the Empire-esque drops. And sheee-it, I’m hyped already. Preorder that ish here.

STREAM: Chilly Gonzales – Pianist Envy

From the desk of The Gonz:

I am Chilly Gonzales, the sad musical genius. Some of you may know that I was born Jason Beck, but Jason is dead to me now. I have permanently and legally changed my name to Chilly Gonzales.

The Canadian name police finally found a young Mexican-Canadian boy with the name Chilly Alejandro Gonzales.

To trademark this name I had to buy his identity for a pretty penny, much as my fellow piano-man Billy Joel™ had to.

Money changed hands.

And I believe that my name change has already brought some positivity into the world, if only by lifting a large Mexican-Canadian family out of poverty into middle-class aspiration.

To celebrate me becoming me, I offer to you the first-ever piano mixtape “PIANIST ENVY”. My declaration of defiance to the rappers and beatmakers who, unbeknownst to them, leave space for my musical imagination.

You know those rap beats and electro songs – the ones with almost nothing in them? Tipsy, Grindin’, A Millie, Rollin’ and Scratchin’, Single Ladies? Well, I go all Liberace on these beats with my piano and my orchestra. Claude Von Stroke, 50 Cent, Kelly Clarkson, Rocky Balboa and Gonzo himself all make cameos.

Go here to get something ( a free download of the mixtape ) for nothing.

So, I’m sat here packaging up the Security T-shirts that arrived today, listening to Curren$y, and I’m thinking, sheee-it, this is some fly ass music to package Security T-shirts to, but I wish there was some new shit to bump, ‘cos I’m almost out of this. So I have a peep at Nahright, and guess what dropped today?

BRAND NEW HOT SPITTA!

Amazing. I am downloading that ish right now. Join me!

DOWNLOAD: Curren$y – Smokee Robinson (Mixtape)

STREAM: Chilly Gonzales VS 50 Cent – Many Men (Pianist Envy Remix)

And he’s off! Behold! The first leak from Gonzales’ forthcoming mixtape, Pianist Envy, on which he adds piano and orchestra to minimalist rap tracks. This is how he thiunks he’s gonna worm his way into Dr Dre’s affections. Nice try Gonzo! Ha!

Gonz actually asked me if I could think of anything or this. I think I missed the deadline, as the tracklistings been announced. Oops! Check it:

Tipsy
Many Men
Touch It
Vocal Chords (Claude Von Stroke)
A Milli
Grindin’
Rollin’ and Scratchin ‘
Single Ladies

Also, Gonzales will be in doing his world famous Piano Talk Show in NYC this month at Joe’s Pub every thursday with a different guest:

Feb 4th (with Sia)
Feb 11th (with Andrew WK)
Feb 18th (with A-Trak)
Feb 25th (with Princess Superstar)

Then he’ll be coming back to the UK for a star studded show at the Bloomsbury Theatre, as he’ll tell you in this vid:

Gonzales at the Bloomsbury Ballroom (London)
Uploaded by gonzales. – See the latest featured music videos.

Props to discobelle.net

Oh boy! Brand new B.o.B. mixtape alert! And I bet its better than that slightly dodgy leak of the Asher Roth joint I posted last night. I BET IT IS! Dude ain’t let me down before! No sir!

DOWNLOAD: B.o.B – May 25th

Props to those 2DopeBoyz.

Akira The Don – ATD20
Uploaded January 29th 2010

Buy CDQ. BUY CDQ + T. DOWNLOAD 190kbps MP3 (Right click and save as).
Sweet Baby Jesus and the orphans.

IT IS DONE.

What a trip that was! What a wringer I put myself through! I felt joy! I felt fear! For three hours between 2 and 5 everything I did sounded amazing, then betwen 5 and 10 it sounded frightful! AND NOW I CAN’T TELL ANYMORE! I haven’t slept in 40 hours or something, and I am hallucinating, I can’t hear sound properly anymore, and I nearly went quite batty earlier and felt as if I might tear all my hair out and weep loudly…

…but ATD20 is ALIVE.

And it is jam packed with insanely ace stuff! FOR YOU! You can listen to the stream above, and you can download the one track 192 kbps MP3 for free! Or you can buy a CD quality track seperated MP3 bundle for £4.50, which will get mailed out to you straight away by my robot helpers. There is also an accompanying T-Shirt, a thing of rare and tremendous beauty, printed on a carbon neutral, pixie-friendly, deeply luxurious organic cotton, called Security, which ships next week, and you can get them both for the discount price of £15.99.

Get the CDQ MP3 bundle here.

Get the MP3 + T-Shirt here.

The tracklisting is below. If you need lyrics or anything, let me know, and I shall see what I can do. I shall add more details and the back sleeve over the weekend… I hope you enjoy it! I am off to collapse in a small gibbering heap now.

PAX!

Akira The Don – ATD20
Tracklisting

1: Akira The Don – There Will Never Be Enough RAM (The ATD Story)
2: Akira The Don & Joey2tits – Surrender
3: Blonde Jeremy ft Akira The Don – If You Seek Amy
4: Akira The Don VS Richie Beretta – I’m Not A Troll ft. CopperCap
5: Akira The Don – Decending Disasters ft Sage Francis
6: Akira The Don – The Real Baby Jesus ft Gonzales & ODB
7: Akira The Don – Black Zombie Decendant ft Nas
8: Mothboy ft Akira The Don  – Johnny Nemo (Snippet)
9: Akira The Don – Screw That Wonderful Money ft Drake, Birdman & Lil Wayne *
10: Akira The Don – 5A Forever (A Space Oddessy) ft Drake, Kanye West, Lil Wayne & Eminem
11: The Gay Blades – O Shot (Akira The Don & Joey2tits Carjacker Mix, ft Littles)
12: Akira The Don ft Pixel, Trencha Narstie & Littles – Got Money (Krucy Darkstar Remix)
13: Big Narstie ft Akira The Don  – Thanks For All The AIDS
14: Akira The Don VS CCHG – Happy When It Snows
15: Akira The Don – Bare Necessities ft Jay-Z, Dizzee Rascal & Baloo Bear
16: Akira The Don – Security
17: Akira The Don – Glory & Triumph In 2010AD
18: Outage

* Synth bass by Joey2tits

The fine folks over at the admirably comprehensive Andrew W.K archive site, www.andrewwkmusic.com have just put up the long-lost first AWK LP, We Want Fun,  for download.

It’s the album he made before the Island Records deal, much of which got rerecorded for I Get Wet and The Wolf, but some of the songs were never heard from again, notably Kill Yourself, a poor quality version of which I posted here late  last year.

Anyway, you can download the thing RIGHT NOW by clicking here – you’ll need a password, and that is whatdowewant. Go here to read the full history of the record.

STREAM: Raekwon – Happy New Years

“Cuban Linx II, album of the year!”

Chef did good, word bond.

DOWNLOAD: Kotreg – I Don’t Hate The Beatles Anymore

Our transatlantic friend Koltreg, AKA Luke Herr explains:

I Don’t Hate The Beatles Anymore has been recorded as part of a school sound editing project to learn the very basics of applying effects and mixing tracks in ProTools. The idea was to record a monologue that held some personal value to the person recording it and as a resident denizen of the Internet, I Don’t Hate The Beatles Anymore has some good lessons on giving everything a chance or at least ignoring it instead of trashing it. The Reading was done by Rico M. (http://www.notregret.com/ArtSouls/), Produced and Mixed by Luke “Koltreg” H (www.koltreg.blogspot.com/), with Illustrations by Blazel (http://twitter.com/blazeldude).

School sound editing project? You kids these days don’t know how good you’ve got it! When I was at school all we had was recorders and some bust up violins. Pah!

For really though, excellent work gents. It sounds great, and the picture is awesome. Win!

In the spirit of giving, here’s the OG, from this year’s The Omega Sanction.

Akira The Don – I Don’t Hate The Beatles Anymore

Produced by Akira The Don. Backing vocals by Martin Carr and Mary Wytcherly. Guitar and synths by Jeremy Allen. Keyboards by Ginge. Prgramming and sytnths by AK Donovan.