Who will survive in America? (RIP Gil Scott-Heron)

I discovered Gil Scott-Heron’s music far too late, I’m ashamed to admit. This morning I learned he died, just a year after he turned around his musical career after a decade filled with substance abuse. Last year he made the brilliant album I’m New Here, which Jamie xx produced into the sublime CD We’re New Here.

One of the most precious songs on Kanye Wests last CD was who will survive in America:

Which is only good because it uses a sample from a LP that Gil Scott-Heron produced 40 years before that (in 1970); Small Talk At 125th And Lennox:

Gil-Scott-Heron has produced some amazing stuff, and his revolution will not be televised.

 

A musical visit to the Salton Sea

The Salton Sea is a pretty strange place and in the past week I saw two videos about this very strange place.

Let’s start off with Everyday, by Rusko, that has some pretty shots of this very strange place and it is filled with a nice amount of dub-steppy booms.

If you thought that this place looks unreal, watch this short of how the place came to be:

Lovely music videos

Essentially this is a jobdewit.nl roundup, which links to some amazing wonderful music videos and essentially I was behind for about a month.

A wonderful music video that features a robot

Fallulah is Romanian-Danish, the music video is full of Scandinavian weird.

Once more the music video is pretty much weird, but the music is kinda catchy too.

There are still 15 unread items from this site over the past month, so hopefully I will be able to link to a couple more later this weeks. Loving music is such a burden…

Music Monday: New York is killing me

Last year when I first heard the xx I was already pretty much blown away, but a couple of months ago I discovered the remix that Jamie xx made of New York is killing me, which is pretty much a superawesome dubstep fest:

This weekend I discovered that the CD is also on Spotify, and I have pretty much had it on repeat ever since. If electronic music is your thing, I strongly recommend that you check this out.