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week 2... or something like that.

i'm not sure how long this blogamp shit is going to fly (the beta version i'm using is free until nov. 10th), so i'm going to hit you off with a few more jawns before i scramble to find a host for these mp3s. if you didn't get a chance to download the donny hathaway, billy bragg or the movielife, sorry yo.

for this week, i'm giving you some pretty rare jams starting with bad boy records' forgotten girl group, total. before danity kane or dream there was total. they had the ulitmate spring song back in 1995 with "can't you see," which rocked the sweet "payback" sample and one of the best notorious b.i.g. guest spots ever. the song on this week's playlist is a remix of total's third single, "kissin' you." funny enough, the single was orignally released in the winter of 1995/96, dormant, then rereleased during the summer with a raphael saadiq (tony toni tone, lucy pearl, etc.) remix. when you listen to this remix, you'll understand why it was THE summer jam. ironically, i'm putting up this remix at the end of fall. oh well.

the controls is a little friendlier to the fall/winter seasons. in essence, the controls were just another portishead/morcheeba rip-off group, but they had a very strong single with "terrified of nothing." this remix was produced by rob swift, formerly of the x-ecutioners, and sounds like a throwaway beat from his awesome solo album, "the ablist." you don't really hear that much scratching in songs anymore, so it's cool to hear it on this, even though this song is like 8 years old.

glassjaw is one of my favorite bands of all time and rather than put up one of their screaming, angry songs, i'm posting the acoustic version of "midwestern stylings," an old song that was supposed to appear on their last album "worship and tribute." but that didn't happen and showed up on some singles and samplers as a b-side. glassjaw singer, daryl palumbo, is now in head automatica and a few other rap-related indie rock groups. blah.

posted by ryan @ 6:06 AM