LJB April mixtape (Def Jux special)

Partly to celebrate the looong-awaited remastered reissue of one of the greatest rap albums ever, Company Flow's Funcrusher Plus, this month's mixtape is a slightly-less-than-CD-size compendium showcasing the musical brilliance of the Definitive Jux label, firm favourite of rap backpackers everywhere and this blog alike.

i primarily made it for my friend D. Frith, who isn't really familiar with Jux as his main preferences musically are nosebleed drum'n'bass and similar associated styles, but he was curious to get a flavour of The Jux Sound. If you're already familiar with their stuff then it's just a good selection of amateurishly-crossfaded DJX classics to bump in the car.¹

1. Company Flow - Simian Drugs (Feeling Ignorant) feat. Ill Bill
2. Cannibal Ox - Iron Galaxy
3. Aesop Rock - Battery
4. Breezely Brewin, Q-Unique, Godfather Don, J-Treds & MF DOOM - Fondle 'em Fossils (El-P remix)
5. El-P - Stepfather Factory
6. Camu Tao - Hold the Floor
7. Mr. Lif - Heavy Artillery
8. RJD2 - Bus Stop Biddies
9. Mr. Lif - Success feat. Aesop Rock
10. S.A. Smash - The Harvest
11. C-Rayz Walz - Elephant Guns
12. Despot - Homesickness
13. MURS - Walk Like a Man
14. Hangar 18 - Beatslope (Blockhead remix)
15. The Perceptionists - Memorial Day
16. Central Services - Jukie Skate Rock
17. Aesop Rock - Food, Clothes, Medicine
18. Cage - Good Morning NY feat. El-P, Matt Sweeney & James McNew of Yo La Tengo
19. Slow Suicide Stimulus - Say Cheese feat. Yak Ballz
20. Rob Sonic - The Over Under
21. El-P - No Kings

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Previously:

[january]|[february]|[march]²

¹ Full disclosure: i seem to have mislaid my copies of both DJXP3 and S.A Smash's Smashy Trashy. So the versions of "Homesickness" by Despot and Smash's "The Harvest" here are excerpted from other mixes by, respectively, DJ Big Wiz and DJ Shortrock.
² March just sort of went west, really.

Sometimes it's best to turn a blind eye.

Half Man Half Biscuit: viciously, piss-funnily on target as always.

Above: Joy Division oven gloves. As respectfully stolen from Prole Art Threat, another pleasingly Fall-tune-namesake'd blog.

They came for the palmists, but I wasn’t a palmist, so I did nothing
They came for the bungee jumpers, but I wasn’t a bungee jumper, so I did nothing
They came for the players’ agents, but I wasn’t a players’ agent, so I did nothing
They came for the Charles Manson fans, but I wasn’t a Charles Manson fan, so I did nothing
They came for the reflexologists, but I wasn’t a reflexologist, so I did nothing
They came for the camp TV chefs, but I wasn’t a camp TV chef, so I did nothing
They came for the Romos, I laughed
They came for the martial arts enthusiasts, but I wasn’t a martial arts enthusiast, so I did nothing
They came for Eamonn Holmes, and I think I’m right in saying I applauded
They came for the fire-eaters, but I wasn’t a fire-eater, so I did nothing
They came for Dani Behr, I said she’s over there, behind the wardrobe

Turn a blind eye, sometimes it’s best to
Turn a blind eye, sometimes it’s best to
Turn a blind eye, sometimes it’s best to
Turn a blind eye, sometimes it’s best to
Turn a blind eye, sometimes it’s best to
Turn a blind eye, sometimes it’s best to
Turn a blind eye, sometimes it’s best to
Turn a blind eye, sometimes it’s best to

MP3: Half Man Half Biscuit — "Turn a Blind Eye"

Forgot about (S)DRE.

i pretty much wholly forgot how great this band actually were.

Glimmering and everything another skull
You said it was dangerous
Found out the place where youre going
Follow me down the path
I take your hopes I promise you this
A dying cold world but gold
Shimmering gold

Come momma now tell me the story
Only laughing
About our gilded wasteland
Devoured torn into pieces
Come now we shine
Small things ever calling out your name
You hear some other time unchained alive
A world undefined

Doubt (haiku)