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music columns<br />
lucky 13<br />
by toph one<br />
TophOne’s mix CD Live Loud & Dirty is available at www.fabric8.com/redwine.<br />
Hear him every Wednesday at the RedWine Social at Dalva in SF.<br />
Man, I’m festering. I’m careening through life like a drunken mammoth. I<br />
live in an oversized record crate, peppered with sporadic piles of books,<br />
cases of spray paint, and random bicycle parts. I lose headphones and<br />
sweatshirts and entire nights like it’s going out of style. I need to get<br />
myself a car and hit the damn road. Go explore the backroads and sleep<br />
in the woods and only eat in mom and pop diners and go to minor league<br />
baseball games. I need to give my liver a little break. And eat more avocados.<br />
Basically, I’m a lanky nudist wino in search of a trashy disco/punk<br />
rock girl to share the mess of my life with.<br />
This could easily be a suicide note, or a singles ad. Is there really that<br />
much of a difference<br />
1. A.G. “TAKE A RIDE (FEAT. PARTY ARTY AND ALOE<br />
BLACC)” (Look/US/12) The new A.G. full length is gonna hit hard<br />
this fall. In fact, get ready to be run the fuck over by everything DJ Design<br />
and the Look Records stable have up their sleeves, including Grip Grand’s<br />
“But Anyways.” Buy stock now.<br />
2. LYNN NESS “AIN’T 2 MUCH” (New Medina/US/12EP)<br />
Upstart Bay Area producer drops a gem of a debut with guest vocals from<br />
Yesh, L-Roneous, and Sach from The Nonce. Warm, jazzy samples drip<br />
with soul and handclaps and make your head nod like you’ve known the<br />
tracks for years. Lovely.<br />
3. HYDROPONIC SOUND SYSTEM “CHOICE CUTS VOL.1”<br />
(Swedish Brandy/SWE/12EP) Texas duo Skinny Fresh and Rube are<br />
back on the map with frequent collaborators Bavu Blakes and Headkrack<br />
rocking the mic as the fellas work out their jazzed-up grooves. “Ray’s<br />
Bodega” is the joint!<br />
4. KIM HILL “RIGHT NOW (PRESTO REMIX)” (Concrete<br />
Grooves/US/12) A bold, sensuous voice over a buttery beat is a thing<br />
of beauty to behold. Originally with the Black Eyed Peas, Kim’s third solo<br />
LP, Pharaoh’s Daughter, will feature production from 4Hero and Bugz In<br />
The Attic.<br />
5. SONICBLOOM FROM THE GET GO (CFO/US/CD) These young<br />
cats bring a much-needed excitement back to the San Francisco live jazz/<br />
hip-hop sound. Here are 18 songs that you can listen to and enjoy! That’s<br />
pretty impressive right there.<br />
7. DOOLEY-O “SOAPS” (Lewis/UK/12) Producer/ DJ/ MC Dooley-<br />
O shows his prowess at all the above as he takes on lazy girlfriends and<br />
wack rappers with a trio of cuts from his upcoming full-length, I Gotcha.<br />
Production could almost be Bomb Squad, flows could almost be Schooly-<br />
D. Illmatic all the way!<br />
8. THE D-BOYZ STREET SAMPLER (demo/US/CD) Right now SF<br />
is full of young badasses who simply refuse to spin straight songs. Every<br />
track is an acapella over a different instrumental. Cats like Vin Sol and DJ<br />
Mutt are showing the world what lazy fucks us old-timers are. Well now<br />
the little overachievers are producing their own beats too. Great.<br />
9. MR. BEASLEY “NEON” (Larkin Out/UK/12) Big, clangy beats<br />
with a Lush-like vocal and a fat break about halfway through. Too slow for<br />
the “Haircut 2000” section, this one would have to go in the “JunkRock”<br />
slot. And check the fuzzy hip-hop breaks of “Last Night” on the flipside.<br />
10. V/A “URBANIZE VOL.1”(Urbanize/UK/12EP) A worthy platter<br />
of progressive British hip-hop. “Unsettled” by Motley is the jam with<br />
its pulsing keys and driving bassline, but also check Subcinct’s doubletime<br />
R&B on “Hit The Ground Running.”<br />
11. SOME WATER AND SUN “SNOWBREAKER” (Hefty/US/12)<br />
Quirky and loveable like some weird Japanese toy, “Snowbreaker”’s beats<br />
pop and bounce all over the place but somehow everything fits together<br />
just right. Might be what Mr. Scruff sounds like on acid.<br />
12. VOICE “MEDIOCRE” (Public Transit/CAN/12EP) In the fine<br />
tradition of Bahamadia and Medusa, New Orleans’ Voice comes strong<br />
and clear over a jazzy mid-tempo beat by Moonstarr on this Toronto label.<br />
Perfect for summer barbecue jams and sunset parties.<br />
Lucky 13) JOHN ALBERT WRECKING CREW (Scribner/US/<br />
book) There are few things this writer enjoys more than sex, drugs, punk<br />
rock, and baseball, and Christian Death’s John Albert has brought them all<br />
together in this memoir novel culled from his award-winning column in the<br />
LA Weekly. Think Bad News Bears meets The Germs. Fuck yeah!<br />
Run_Return<br />
Dooley-O<br />
6. RUN_RETURN “ANIMALS ARE BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE”<br />
(n5MD/US/7) I’m not really a music journalist. My true calling is making<br />
up genres to write on the plastic cards at SF’s Open Mind Music record<br />
store. I’ve already got “Haircut 2000” for all the new electro-punk records,<br />
and Run_Return inspired the first occupant of the “Warm Fuzzy” section!<br />
Lazy, happy music for hallucinatory afternoons and foggy 4 a.m.s.<br />
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