Already plugging away on our next Wired feature, this time about addiction rather than wheat-devouring fungi (or, for that matter, the creative benefits of social media. Today’s outline day, which is always a chore—envisioning the structure of a lengthy magazine piece requires even more mental bandwidth than we usually utilize. Fortunately, we’ve got The Skatalites to maintain our neural energy. We actually fell in love with this track by listening to Madlib’s Blunted in the Bomb Shelter mixtape, which we can’t possibly recommend highly enough. The scratchy 45-rpm version is still where it’s at, as the various live versions floating around tend to sound too clean for our ears. There’s definitely a lot to be said for dither.
hubcap // Feb 25, 2010 at 10:29 am
Weird. Are you sure we’re not the same dude? Because I also can’t recommend Blunted in the Bomb Shelter enough.
Also highly recommended by me – “J-Rocc V J-Man,” J-Rocc mixing cuts from the Jazzman records archives. It is on fire.
http://www.stonesthrow.com/store/mixtape/jrocc/j-rocc-v-j-man
Brendan I. Koerner // Feb 25, 2010 at 11:07 am
Oh…oh, wow. Must have–thanks for the rec.
Over the years, I think I’ve given enough money to Stone’s Throw to pay for Madlib’s beach house. But y’know what? They deserve it.