ON REPEAT: aLex vs aLex & S.3.R., SCHA PARA DARR, Eliana Glass, Daufødt, GEE LEE, Bina, Genesis Owusu, VANO 3000, J.R.C.G., ideasforconversations, NEW YORK, Acopia, BADBADNOTGOOD, Accelera Deck, Wiley
I FINK OIM GOIN MAD, MAITE
I’m continuing to catch up on posting (after not posting for months), so I got a lotta songs to share. I keep the playlist updated here on the bad app!
aLex vs aLex & S.3.R “centro aLt”
This is a track by Guatemalan-born New Yorker/Berliner aLex vs aLex (Sofia Insua). In this song and video, joined by S.3.R. (singer of American-Columbian psych-rock band Divino Niño), who looks very cool. I considered what this look would look like on my face and body and I think it would translate perfectly.
comment “YES!” below if u agree
J.R.C.G. “Cholla Beat”
ok we get it you’re talented. JRCG is Justin R. Cruz Gallego, who is on Sub Pop and the song is named after a type of cactus I think.
Daufødt “Jeg vil bare hjem”
RIPPER. Daufødt (translates to “Stillborn”) is a hardcore band from Norway, but they’ve called this song (translates to “I just want to go home”) their version of a “pop song.” The lyrics, vocals and even artwork are by Annika Linn Verdal Homme, whose anti-capitalist lyrics led to an angry letter-writing campaign by “the Norwegian elite” (which sounds like a cruise ship).
SCHA DARA PARR “Summer Jam ‘95”
My good bud Pat Byrne heard this (I believe IN Tokyo) and clocked it as a “Brett song” and I really appreciate that.
Scha Dara Parr were huge in Japanese hip-hop and DJ Shinco’s sample of “Seven Minutes of Funk” by The Whole Darn Family (also used by Jay-Z) made this a summertime jam equivalent to that Fresh Prince & DJ Jazzy Jeff song.
Essentially, the Japanese Beastie Boys, Bose, Ani, and Shinco presented themselves as chill, normal, drama-free dudes in contrast to the posturing of other more gangsta-esque acts of the era. They were also some of the first to rock BAPE!
GEE LEE, Riton and Kah-Lo “Coke & Rum (Fake ID Remix)”
This song is a blast. If I were English and heard this at the club, I’d say something like “dis is PROPER Camden, mate!” but I’m from New Jersey, and haven’t needed a fake ID in a very long time… but I still know how to party… but if I drink rum I just feel very bad the next day.
It’s a remix of a song from a few years back which sounds like this, which has had a big TikTok resurgence lately (thus the remix), but it’s interpolating The Clapping Song!
ideasforconversations “14c4”
New York duo ideasforconversations (Mollie Gilbertson and Emerson Fossett) met working at a New York grocery store and the band’s name supposedly comes from one a list in Mollie’s notes app.
VANO 30000 “Running Away”
Sometimes a song just needs to be under two minutes. Do the thing a couple of times and then move on. It’s why everybody liked that J Dilla record. It’s why I don’t mind TikTok music! (I know there’s been a lot of TikTok songs lately, but I’m not even on TikTok that much—half the time I’m finding this out retroactively.)
This VANO 30000 remix is the version I’ve had on repeat but the original is a collab between BADBADNOTGOOD and Samuel T. Herring of Future Islands:
BADBADNOTGOOD & Samuel T. Herring “Time Moves Slow”
Songs don’t need to be fast either.
NEW YORK “city”
*The name of this song is written the way Matt Berry says it.
Accelera Deck “Film the Drums”
In addition to being good advice for a live music videographer, “Film the Drums,” is also another track off this record which I discovered a few months ago and has been good walking music since.
Acopia “Falling”
Another track from this band I’ve talked about a lot on here.
Genesis Owusu - STAMPEDE
This song rules but this video stressed me the FUCK out.
Bina “Bossy”
“bitch, you look like KANE” (complimentary 🙂)
Eliana Glass “Good Friends Call Me E”
Good friends call me B.
Comment “we love u B!” down below if you like me.
THE GOLD STANDARD:
Wiley “Goin’ Mad”
I LOVED grime in high school. Just imagine skinny ass, shaggy-haired Brett, with his non-Apple Mp3 player that holds like 30 songs, walking around suburban New Jersey going, “I FINK OIM GOIN MAD, MAITE…I FINK IM LOOSEN MOY MOYND…I GOT SO MUCH ON ME PLATE (i got so much on me plate)…I FINK OIM GOIN MAD, MAITE.”