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Essential MP3 - Mineral - Slower

Representing the heyday of mid-90's Crank! records, Mineral cause a buzz at the time and often were likened to other 90's indie pioneers as Promise Ring and Sunny Day Real Estate. Originally from Houston, the band relocated to Austin for the 6 day recording of The Power of Failure, released January 1997.This song is powerful one. It used to be one of those songs that got stuck on repeat and I still find lasting value within it.

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Essential Mini Mix - DK - Blockhead Mini Mix

In honor of Blockhead's triumphant new throwback album Interludes After Midnight Solid Steel's DK has set up a powerful minimix that showcases the blendability, gritty city beats, and of the course the piano that highlight one of my favorite albums of the year.

Essential MP3 - Mount Kimbie - Before I Move Off

When I first heard London's duo Mount Kimbie I truly thought that they might liberate the trenches of dubstep or nustep from brostep. Its like a 12 step elimination program. I don't really like dubstep, especially the shit you hear out here on the canadian coast. Shows upon shows of offbeat angry saw bass. I've always been a drum and bass warrior in my heart.

Needless to say I do enjoy some that fall under the dubstep moniker. Mount Kimbie, Jamie XX, Koreless, and Ramanadaman grace that list. Here's a standout track from 2010's magical album Crooks and Lovers.

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UPDATE - Every Song A Revolution - The Hated Compilation - 2011

UPDATE 11.2012 - I've gathered the correct album art for the compilation. It's just a chopped up cover of a old early 20th century pulp novel. Also corrected the track numbers and order. I've noticed a fair bit of activity around this lately which prompted me to take a course of proper action. I also removed the blogged and quartered link as its all shut down.

The Hated's music has hit me deep. This stuff is truly amazing. I had always heard about them often brought up in conversations with Moss Icon, as they two bands were both from Annopolis, they practiced together, partied together, and played shows together. A few years ago Blogged and Quartered put up a three part The Hated Discography. There is so much amazing music lost in space here. So i put together the best starting point ever. This is the definitive The Hated Collection for people who need a good set off point. Grab the .zip below the tracklist. Oh yeah, and be sure to check out some of the old flyers I found scouring the web, especially the one with Fugazi and Shudder to Think. What a good show that would have been.

1- Underground
2- Anonymous Descriptions of Uncontrollable Urges
3- Pride and Confusion
4- Damned Heart
5-Return
6- What Was Behind
7- Promises
8- Someone
9- T.S. Eliot
10- Departure
11- Every Song
12- Miggys Delight
13- No More We Cry
14- Away
15- Echos of Whistle Tree Park
16 - Plastic Boat

compiled by mr_axed


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LetterstoTumTum Exclusive - D.Mekca Jamz - Planet Asia Remix + More

D.Mekca Jamz has been a good buddy of mine for years but for over a decade now he has been churning out some of the sickest hip hop instrumentals and remixes on the West Coast. Acting as the lead production and one of the stage bombing emcees in the former (yet sensational) local group Illy Pros the last year has been a year of refocus and direction in more of a solo endeavor. I'm lucky he sends me beats. He's really on an incredible wave.What have here is a bombing cerebral remix of a heavy ass hitting Asia rhyme infestation.

Considering his beats are worth their weight in gold I can't drop MP3s of all the tracks but Mekca has conviently upload some sickness to You Tube which I will now translate to you.

                      Pull Up the People - MIA - D.Mekca Jamz BREAK YO FACE!! Remix

  
                             Tomorrows Another Day - Collie Buds - D.Mekca Jamz Remix

and now for the little gem for all your iphones and androids.....

Planet Asia Definition of Ill D.Mekca Remix MP3

Below is a great Illy Pros jam produced by Mekca from 2010 featuring Genevieve Rainey

Picture - Gorge Waterway and Selkirk Trussel

Essential 7" - 88 Fingers Louie - Wanted

One of the most forgotten and least talked about 'mainstream' punk bands from the 90's is Chicago's 88 Fingers Louie. I use hesitate to use 'mainstream' because it's not like these guys sold out to a major label or anything. I just think of more mainstream 90's punk to be bands signed to the large underground labels like Fat Wreck Chords, Epitaph, Hopeless, etc.

88 Fingers Louie often got tagged in the same group as Lagwagon or Strung Out but for some reason never seemed to empress as much. I find them quite different. Remember two guys from this group went on to form the stadium rock shock and awe of Rise Against. Theres so good hardcore in the veins here, but a some feeling as well.

This is their legendary second EP released in 1993 I believe. Blink is one of my favs for 90s punk in general.

1	Holding Back
2	Honestly
3	Blink
4	Help?

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