To listen to ZULI's We Are All Anemic mix is to be confronted by decay. Sliding across an arid terrain, its sounds move, but with a momentum that is staggered, labored. The force of entropy is taking hold. Rough trenches wound its territory, their depths unthinkable. In the air whorl clouds of sonic debris: old computers, satellite parts, strange a…

Every other year since I started Chocolate Grinding, I've done a Halloween mix. The past three were called Day of the Dead: The Halloween Hangover Mix, Devil's Night 2015, and The World's A Graveyard and Every Day Is Halloween. This one's called Day of the Dead: The Remake, because I sampled some of the same vinyl I used for the first mix. Also, pr…

March 17 would have been Sean Price's 47th birthday had the MC aka Ruck lived past age 43. On February 8, 2019, P's longtime label Duck Down Music Inc. teamed with Coalmine Records and producer Small Professor for the rapper's second posthumous album, 86 Witness. Produced mostly before Price's untimely demise, the album got its title when Small Pro…

Bálint Szabó (a.k.a. Gosheven, a.k.a. Gosheven is hot) isn't stopping anytime soon. His exquisite (and Wire-approved) debut Leaper was released only last year, but we're currently on the brink of experiencing even more alternate-tuning goodness from the Budapest-based SHAPE affiliate: Bivaq, his equally hot follow-up, drops on Opal Tapes TODAY via …

“Come on, just one more song?”“Come on, just one more song?”“Okay, last one I promise.”“You can head out if you want. I can make it back alone.” An ode to the end of the night. Stream below, subscribe to our podcast.Tracklist: [00:00] JPEGMAFIA - “Baby I'm Bleeding”[02:31] Diamond Soul - “Luxury Firmware”[04:32] Honnda - “It's a Foxx Ft. Toiney”[07…

All that's solid melts into bingo; the future's already here and it's distributed on WeChat.2017 tunes from Taiwan, Hong Kong, Mainland China, and Singapore 2065. Stream below, subscribe to our podcast, and read more about each selection here.[00:00] ????? IPIS - "????? (Sonia Calico Bootleg)"[00:24] Hyph11e - "Unknown Number ??"[02:29] thruoutin -…

In the mob's damning stares, the shtetl woman saw reflections of not only burning torches but also burning hypocrisy, and this the worse conflagration. It wasn't enough that they'd spread their shameful lies to her customers. It wasn't enough that they'd marked and ransacked her market stall. They, whose children daily enjoyed the fruits of her sis…

"But if nostalgia as a political motivation is most frequently associated with fascism, there is no reason why a nostalgia conscious of itself, a lucid and remorseless dissatisfaction with the present on the grounds of some remembered plenitude, cannot furnish as adequate a revolutionary stimulus as any other."– Frederic JamesonAn unnecessary nosta…

"But I hear sounds in my mind;Brand new sounds in my mind"– LordeVIII.When autumn comes, I bloom anew;The Russian frost does wonders for my health;Anew I fall in love with life's routine:Betimes I'm soothed by dreams, betimes by hunger caught;The blood flows free and easy in my heart,Abrim with passion; once again, I'm happy, young,I'm full of life…

I hate how society demands how "ME" I have to be. You want "ME?" Cut me in front of a Metrocard machine, yo. It's a twice-a-year thang to get a Metrocard. And I understand panhandling. I get you ain't got cash on hand. I see your failed credit card interaction. Does that give you a ticket to both Metrocard machines without me losing my cool. Yes! Y…

Supported by dubious -- although equally hilarious, satirical, intriguing, and ludicrous -- Twitter personalities of music-community, CZAR-vapourers c$burns, CENTRAL COMMAND HVRF, and ETERNAL SON, OGRITCH [Editor's Note: "for sure"] (creator of VAPED MILK) The main idea of this project is make research from vapour world, and select most interesting…

In 1959, Max Roach went to the Five Spot jazz club to take in a performance by the Ornette Coleman Quartet and became so incensed by what he heard that he followed Coleman backstage and punched him in the mouth. As if the physical assault weren't a strong enough display of disapproval, Roach later stood outside Coleman's apartment building at 4:00 …

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For someone who creates the mutant amalgamations of genres and styles that Foodman is notorious for, boy was I fucking surprised when he sent over this mix to our quaint TMT headquarters. Loungy, peaceful, and smoother than Engelbert Humperdinck's freshly-peeled breakfast of hardboiled eggs, "TMT_foodman_mix" was not at all what I was expecting. Bu…

My Cube, the new album by Cube (a.k.a. Oakland resident Adam Keith), begins with "First," somehow a lethal subconscious variation on "Undercover of the Night" that's built on shaky ever-shifting soil, on tape jams and spool tangles. The potential for electronic collapse is as real as the possibility of total alignment. Screws are loosened just to s…