Category: Music

Claiming that he has re-invented disco music, backed up with his forthcoming album’s sly title, “I Created Disco“, Calvin Harris has produced some prime examples of success on a budget. Vinyl spinner and soon to be CD release, Acceptable In The 80s, is no exception.

It contains all the synthesised beats and homegrown vocals you’d expect from a lad hailing from Dumfries in Scotland. Especially one who’s reminiscing about an era filled with skintight jeans and huge hair. Wait a minute…

This track does just that, paying homage to club bangers of the decade of cheese. While it seems self-indulgent at times, it’s a grower. I’m yet to decide whether this is a bad thing, but I must pay the man his dues for plugging a song into my head and sticking it on repeat for the past 4 days. Listen at your own peril!

I’m almost certain that the nanosecond this song comes on in a club, my head will be relieved and I will bop along relentlessly feeling like a GOD. This is eau de fromage to the extreme, and as much as it pains me to say it, I love it.

When Fantastic Damage came out, every underground hip hop head loved it, whether it was the sludgey beats or the dynamic rapping that got you, you were hooked. So after years and years of waiting for the follow up, it finally arrived and it is about as perfect an album as you can ever imagine.

It’s more listenable than Fantastic Damage, but still retains that typical El-P sound. The production is unlike anything else in the world of hip hop, his style of fast paced and action packed beats is so distinctive its unreal and his lyrics are as on point as they ever were.

With a whole host of guests, such as The Mars Volta, Trent Reznor and Cat Power, he shows his willingness to experiment, but thankfully the tracks remain definitively El Producto style. With track titles like Tasmanian Pain Coaster and The League Of Extraordinary Nobodies, you know this album’s going to bring it hard. And boy, oh boy, it does just that.

So sit back, relax and enjoy this track, Smithereens. It is quality.

Sometimes you want to hear tracks with insightful lyrics, tales of interweaving lives, dramas of everyday life, that kind of thing. And sometimes you just want to hear some filth.

So when the chorus hits in with “I hope the DJ will play me a club banger, bring your banger to the club, find a bitch, bang her, in the bathroom at the club“, you can be pretty sure you know which category this track falls into.

Philly’s Plastic Little are straight out of the Spank Rock mould, dirty beats, massive basslines and a measure of 11 on the dance-richter scale. Their album, She’s Mature, is a rollercoaster of party tracks, featuring the likes of Spank Rock and Amanda Blank. So then, enjoy this song, which will be featured on the next Hip Hop Radio Show, get yo’ banging going and grind away to your heart’s content.

Booooom!

Yes! Career Suicide are back with another explosive dump of toxic hardcore that should keep your veins fully charged with fresh blood within the first song. Attempted Suicide, the follow up to the Anthology series was immense but the satisfaction to finally get hold of 25 minutes of the best hardcore on offer right now was a result to say the least when this turned up at HQ.

Opening track ‘Play the Part‘ leaps into all your worries and decimates them all in 1 minute 17 seconds flat followed by the detonation of the powerful and out of control ‘Saving Face‘. From here on in this album is doused in the same quality with Jonah Falco’s schreeching guitars (who also plays drums in Fucked Up), David Brown’s outragiously fast drumming, pumping basslines from Mathew Miller and the vicious infectiousness of Martin Farkas’ amazing vocal delivery that leaves you firmly on the edge of your seat throughout and wanting to start a fucking riot. There are no duffers on this record, it’s all 100% amazing and will leave your ears on the critical list.

If you have spent your life listening to hardcore like Minor Threat and Black Flag and and are looking for something just as exciting in 2007 then look no further. Alternately, if you have just discovered hardcore and this is your first ever installment, then you are the luckiest person ever to read this as Career Suicide will be your new favourite band in one listen!

Go to www.careersuicide.net for more.

Zac