Singleversity #4

Audiversity’s weekly column on random music in a predetermined number of words. This week's randomly generated number: 133. (We got sick of 144)

(Ed. - Originally this was called Threeversity, but in the spirit of simplicity we've decided to retroactively relabel all of these posts. The content remains unchanged.)

MA:
(#133 of a random playlist generated from my ever-changing database of 12,500+ songs)



Bigg Jus - Anything You See Fit (Change by Design) - Poor People's Day (Mush 2005)

When we think Company Flow, we think the reinvention of underground hip-hop in the mid-90s, we think aggressive, witty, dense, unrelenting rap, we think Rawkus, we think El-P, we think Funcrusher Plus and the knowledgeable of us think DJ Mr. Len. How many of you had Bigg Jus immediately cross your mind after I mentioned Company Flow? Probably none. Jus was the last in, first out of the prolific NYC crew, but his as-impenetrable lyrical flow counterpointed El-P’s with skill and aptitude. These days he runs with the colorful Mushonauts, unsuccessfully searching for beats that can hang with his snaking vocal prowess. “Nutrients feed the life oxygen to my brain, vibration, wisdom / ignorance and knowledge through experience guided by intuition / this is gunships.” This is battling in the cerebral.

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Northstation, a guy about as far removed from the intensity and activity of the Big Apple or the City of Lights as you can get. Steve Fanagan is the one-man machine behind "This Town is Drunk Again," a sparkling instrumental culled from The White Noise Revisited who culled it themselves from Norman Records in Leeds. Awesome thing about Northstation: The album Wagtail was only 121 copies strong, sold through three record stores (the other two were in Germany and Hong Kong), and individually hand-stitched in packaging with names so you know exactly what yours is. Though Fanagan also works under the Moose Eats Leaf and Wrecking Ball aliases, it’s Northstation and Wagtail that stand as his most outstanding works. Dear Steve: The White Noise Revisited aren't the only ones out here listening. Cheers.

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Whats on French TV these days? Lyon's wrapped up Ligue 1 yet again, and I doubt that Foucault v. Chomsky intellectual cage matches still grace the public awareness, despite France's status of Intellectual Holyland. Judging by this sleek vid for Thomas Bangalter's edit of the DJ Mehdi burner "Signatune", Pimp My Ride has captured the imagination of young Frenchmen. I wasn't aware that we exported car culture across the pond, but I guess that mode of transportation as status symbol is engrained into our collective unconscious. Bangalter understands how to tap that Jungian shit, penetrating the depths of your being, shaking loose that primal desire to get up and get down for a truly sick groove. Check this French chav anthem, world-beating drama unfolding to blissed out dance music for the ages.