MP3: Shabazz Palaces x Lushlife
Shabazz Palaces give their warped re-take on the new Heems-assisted single from Philly-based Lushlife . Check the Shabazz-appropriate title: “Hale-Bopp was the Bedouins (Shabazz Palaces remix feat the palaceer, fly guy Dai and Thadillac. mixed by Blood in palaGlow).” The original version, which can also be heard below, appears on Lushlife’s new record Plateau Vision, out now on Western Vinyl:
DROSS GLOP 2: SHABAZZ PALACES REMIX BATTLES
Battles Dross Glop 2 – the second album in a 4-part Battles remix series, out on 12-inch vinyl (Feb 21), features remixes of their recent Gloss Drop by Shabazz Palaces, Kode 9 & The Alchemist. You can listen to Shabazz reworking “White Electric” above with Ishmael Butler waxing poetically on “Reaganomics, Bushonomics, Obamanomics”. Subscribe to […]
SHABAZZ PALACES: BLACK UP
[rating: 4.5 stars] Shabazz Palaces: Black Up Label: Sub Pop Release date: June 28, 2011 Black Up is a hip-hop album that sounds unlike any other hip-hop album this year. Borrowing from African roots, jazz, ambient, electronic and dub-step and led by enigmatic Seattle based rapper Ishmael Butler aka ‘Palaceer Lazaro’, once ‘Butterfly’ of Digital Planets, Black Upis […]
top 10 albums of 2011
Now that it’s 2012, here is a look back at the past year in music. We’ve rounded up the usual suspects, sat back, reflected and squared in with discosalt Magazine’s “top 10” best albums of 2011. Twenty-two tracks of flawlessly crafted synth drenched in intrepid, day-glo, art-pop scenery, without a wasted moment. Citing Billy Corgan’s […]
Best Albums of 2011
Now that it’s 2012, here is a look back at the past year in music. We’ve rounded up the usual suspects, sat back, reflected and squared in with discosalt Magazine’s “top 10” best albums of 2011. Twenty-two tracks of flawlessly crafted synth drenched in intrepid, day-glo, art-pop scenery, without a wasted moment. Citing Billy Corgan’s twenty-eight-track, […]