By
Jason Grishkoff
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Aug 27, 2010
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As mentioned earlier this week, we've got two more singles off of Wait What's upcoming August 31 release, "This is Real Life". The first is a mashup of MGMT's "Electric Feel" and Nas' "Got Yourself a Gun". I was definitely familiar with MGMT's song b...
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By
Jason Grishkoff
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Aug 24, 2010
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Bit of an unusual Song of the Day here on Indie Shuffle: we're premiering new work by Wait What, a Bay Area mashup artist who experienced breakout success on the blogosphere with a mashup of The Xx and Biggy. His follow-up mixtape, "This Is Real Life...
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By
nolan
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Aug 14, 2010
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Mashup mixtapes are often tiresome and repetitive. With two mixed artists, the sound gets boring after a couple of tracks; the tape loses your interest and you skip to the end. That's where this tape is different "” it's Weezy, whom we all know and l...
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By
Jason Grishkoff
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Aug 11, 2010
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A week's worth of listening to Kid Cudi's new album Man on the Moon: The End of Day has been good to me. I'm not sure whether to call it hip hop or pop music and I expect the truth lies someplace in between. The mark of a great lasting album for me i...
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By
Jason Grishkoff
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Jul 21, 2010
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Ratatat's signature baroque-synth-and-guitar style meshes with the likes of Young Buck, Kanye West and Devin the Dude without forcing itself onto those tracks awkwardly. Notorious B.I.G.'s classic "Party & Bullshit" trades in aggression for ultra...
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By
Jason Grishkoff
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Jul 4, 2010
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The epitome of fun times rhymes, J5 was perfect for chillin or partyin too, a great soundtrack for life. Very few hip hop groups are capable of creating such cohesion amongst such distinctly different MCs, but J5 did it, and they did it damn well. J5...
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By
Jason Grishkoff
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Jun 16, 2010
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Given the tempo shared by both songs, it doesn't take much to realize that mashing together Radiohead's "15 Step" with Dave Brubeck's "Take Five" makes perfect sense. But upon hitting play, the beauty of these two tracks intertwining becomes quickly ...
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Jason Grishkoff
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Jun 1, 2010
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Alright, starting off this beautiful afternoon with a bleed in from the last post. I meant to post this in the afternoon, but the holiday got in the way... And lastly, SposhRock's mash-up of Ratatat Drugs and Lupe Fiasco Kick, Push. It works surprisi...
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