unicorn basement: necrophile.

dl: UNICORN BASEMENT - Necrophile (alt)
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This is the third installment of WTF (Weird Tuesday Finds). If you missed the previous posts, let me bring you up to speed. This series of posts will chronicle the stranger songs that land in my lap. I'll take the good, I'll take the bad, but either way... I'll be sharing the weird with you. Bear with me, kids.

This is a song about a necrophiliac being seduced by his corpse. Apparently this is how Minnesota gets down.

After coming across the equally-awesome-named Kitten Forever, I desperately wanted to like Unicorn Basement. I can't help it! You can easily gain my attention by saying "dinosaur", "unicorn" and "kitten". Given this logic, you'd think I'd be equally drawn to a song called "Catch A Rainbow", right? Well, somehow I went for the song about a randy mortician, and while I could tell you that I merely like this song for the novelty of it, I actually think it's catchy as hell. Just don't let it put any ideas into your head...

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leif: cruz ctrl (demo).

dl: LEIF - CRUZ CTRL (demo) (Z)

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I'm sure most of you don't keep tabs on the blogroll here, and that makes sense. I can hardly keep up with all those blogs myself, you know? With that said, I'd like to direct your attention to a little ol' blog called terf- work. He caught my attention when I saw that he posted a rip of Leif's "CRUZ CTRL", and kept my attention when I realized that he also wrote about the lovely Benni E. In general, the blog's got some great energy for being relatively new and occasionally there's some bad-ass custom-made album artwork. Coincidentally, the blogger happens to be the little brother of one of my acquaintances in Philly, but is it okay if I adopt him as my little blogbrother?

Blog-love festival aside, Leif's "CRUZ CTRL" may just be a demo, yet it's pretty much the best thing that's been posted here, like, ever. Okay, possibly an overstatement, but this is a fucking jam. Until I had a rip, I would visit Leif's page on the space nearly ten times to get geeked up listening to it. And as much as I try to stick to blogger ethics and not post too many things that aren't available for download, this needs to get into as many ears as possible.

Also, be sure to check out the remixes of "Black Magic" and "Timbs" by Stay High, The Touch, Ian Johnson, and KEUKENGEREI.

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BONER TRACK: LEIF - Little Bit (Lykke Li cover) (Z)

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patty crash: toast 2005.

dl: PATTY CRASH - Toast 2005 (YSI)
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As if she was suspicious that I was going to write about her, Patty Crash removed her bio on the space over the weekend. Here's what I know or remember.

• She's originally from Iceland, but now resides in North Philadelphia.
• She was discovered by Black Thought of The Roots.
• Her sound is a mix of punk and hip-hop, but not in an annoying sort of way.
• She'll be performing with Slick Rick on July 24th in Brooklyn at Europa. [[GET TICKS!!]]
• After a name change from Patty Kake to Patty Sue, she's finally settled on Patty Crash. At least we think she's settled.
• Her friend Nikki Jean has sung on tracks by Lupe Fiasco and Lil Wayne. Nikki and Patty have a Youtube show together.
• Her influences and favorite artists include Lauryn Hill, Iggy Pop, Devin the Dude, Nirvana, Patti Smith, Outkast, Janis Joplin, Tina Turner, Patsy Cline, Erykah Badu, and others.
  

I'll be seeing her and Slick Rick on July 24th, so I will return with a full report on her awesomeness.

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m.i.a.: poingly remix.

dl: M.I.A. - Boyz (Poingly remix) (YSI)

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It seems here were a few weeks when anyone who had ever heard of M.I.A. couldn't stop talking about Kala, but after the hullabaloo about the album died down...I noticed that talk of Kala essentially became talk of "Paper Planes". And while it's a great song, I just can't get down with any of these remixes (AdRock, Holy Fuck, DFA, etc.) that are floating around.

Funny enough, there is one song on Kala that I've found significantly more enjoyable when remixed. I tried to keep my disappointment about "Boyz" a secret. After the supremely more interesting "Bird Flu" dropped, I expected so much more from the first single. It wasn't until I heard Rock Steady Drew and Leif's remixes that I could finally warm up to the song, and it wasn't until months later that I heard Poingly's take on the song.

Now, I mean this politely. There's something off about Poingly that's preventing me from liking his original music. He's received a bit of coverage in these internet parts (with particular love heading towards his cover of Gnarls Barkley's "Crazy"), but it might be the vocal style? The lyrics? The weirdness? Something just isn't right. With that said, something is so right about his remix of "Boyz". In this case, a song that I'm lukewarm about + an artist that I'm lukewarm about = HOTNESS.

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the death set: negative thinking (james stovall remix).

d/l: THE DEATH SET - Negative Thinking (James Stovall remix) (YSI)

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Ok, so The Death Set may be totally so 2007, and this remix doesn't have the Dan Deacon or Bonde do Role brand to push it to the people. However, if you're observant enough to notice the "CLICK HERE FOR OLDER REMIXES" link on their site, your ears will be graced by a wonderfully mindless interpretation by this dude, James Stovall. It makes me feel like I'm in an overcrowded moonbounce drinking red wine from a jug with my grandma. In Precious Moments sweatshirts! I believe that I can't be the only one who feels this way.

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boner track: THE DEATH SET - Distressed (Bonde do Role remix) (YSI)
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namalee: welcome to namazonia.

NAMALEE 'N THE NAMAZONZ's is quite obviously fronted by a girl named "Namalee".

She appears to have an unhealthy obsession with Spongebob Squarepants, rarely seen in photos without a necklace bearing a plastic figure of the character. She claims to be the child of Jerrica Benton, Jem of the similarly named Jem and the Holograms*. She even has a song called "I WANNA B A KARTOON". It's safe to say that she has some sort of preoccupation with cartoons.

Her song "U GLO GRRL" features a video in which she writhes sexually in a bathtub, whipping around her wet hair. Later in the video, she appears in the same tub with pineapple shaped sunglasses, fanning herself with a Spongebob fan. Apparently this video (1 of 3) was filmed in her native land of "Namazonia". Namazonia is a land characterized by an overdose on color and children's toys. It has its own national anthem with the surprising title of "NAMAZONIA". Upon hearing the first twenty seconds of this song, I was a bit hesitant to instantly proclaim my love for Namalee...

"Namazonia! (It's the place to be!) Namazonia! (You can climb a tree!) Namazonia! (It's the place to be!) Namazonia! (Let yourself be free!)"

Then the song became awesome after that. Around 1:50, it gets even more awesome. This is grime-y electro-pop GOLD.

"I KNEW I WAS RIGHT", a punky girl-power anthem, doesn't even sound like it's by the same musician who created "NAMAZONIA" or "U GLO GRRL". This quick ability to change genre is reminiscent of Peaches ability to go from electroclash goddess to punk-rock bitch. But it doesn't stop there. Two-thirds of the way into the song, Namalee adopts R&B vocals for a breakdown preceded by the ever-so-wonderful "And now it's time for a breakdown" [popularized by En Vogue's 1992 hit "My Lovin' (You're Never Gonna Get It)"].

With these beats, vocal versatility, and sheer craziness...I don't think Namalee's music can be contained by the boundaries of the UK much longer. Her album will be released next year, and a tracklisting can be found on her space.

dl: NAMALEE N THE NAMAZONZ - I KNEW I WAS RIGHT (YSI)
dl: NAMALEE N THE NAMAZONZ - NAMAZONIA (YSI)
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* In a snippet of an interview on her page, she also states that her "mum's Sri-Lankan". I never knew Jem was Sri-Lankan.

WEBBYVANDERQUACKIN': (the return) You're in luck. Missingtoof has an mp3 of "U GLO GRRL", which you should definitely check out.