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The Courage to Be An Absolute Nobody (An Ode to J.D. Sallinger)


Aside from the title – borrowed from Franny and Zooey, a book by author Jerome David Salinger, to whom this whole compilation ... read

J-Illy
The Honorable Art of Ventriloquism


J-Illy has entertained friends and family with the random hip hop mixtape here and there; now he takes it public. But, don&rs ... read

Super Chron Flight Brothers
Cape Verde


For the proper follow-up to their debut album Emergency Powers, the Brooklyn-based duo of rappers Billy Woods and Privilege o ... read
 

Various
Goosebumps 3.0

For the third installment in Milled Pavement’s Goosebumps series, label head Moshe has combined 44 songs for almost three hours of music spread over three CDs. That’s a lot of music, and it sets a dangerous precedent for the series. Will we see a 4-disc 4.0? Still, out of this global grab bag of electronic- and urban-based musical experimentations and throwback styles – an equal mix of instrumentals and vocal tracks – I have compiled my own abridged 1-disc version with my favourite vocal tracks that would earn a respectable rating of 4.5/5. Shoe-in songs include: from disc one, Pierre the Motionless is creepy but catchy while distrusting “Garden Dwarves” (what the French call “garden gnomes,” apparently), Lexington + Whatevski’s Canuck horrorcore masks mellow love song “Lesbian Vampire Slayer,” Denmark’s antenne’s gives trip hop his illbient interpretation with “Thru the night #5,” and Germans Ira Atari & Desad team for a soulful, downtempo “Sweet Distance”; from disc two, Belgium emcee Velvet Sick’s vulgar flow holds down the southern-styled “KB” while Miss Fairchild singer Daddy Wrall holds down C Money Burns’ silly, funky “Hook, Line and Singer”; and from disc three, hard slamming tracks “Kommunikationsproblem” from Sweden’s MDRSKP1 and “Khiru” from Oldominion member Azrael the Silent Angel. If I get around to making an instrumental mix, it will definitely include disc two’s lush “pt2 continuity of dawn” from Poland’s idepthz and disc three’s dark, downtempo “Her Look” from France’s Shitao. Those are my picks, but with the volume and variety of this compilation you should have no problem picking your own. [Thomas Quinlan]

Milled Pavement

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