Flatbasset Radio: Episode #82 (Aesop Rock MegaMix)

Get bit by the hound...

Well hello again, podcast fans! Welcome to an extra special episode of Flatbasset Radio.

If you've been following along with the podcast over the years (and really, why wouldn't you), you know that I'm a huge fan of Aesop Rock. In this crazy internet world where we're able to build our own culture around our own taste, Aes looms as the greatest rapper whoever rapped. To try to drive that point home I've been playing him on the podcast pretty consistently since the beginning of the podcast. Hell, I even named his Labor Days album to the inaugural Flatbasset Radio American Album Hall Of Fame class.

Why do I bring this up? Because Aesop Rock is out on tour in support of The Impossible Kid and that tour's pulling into your favorite danceteria & mine, First Ave., tomorrow night. That's right, kids, Aesop, Rob Sonic, Homeboy Sandman, DJ Zone, & Dem Atlas all under one roof for the low, low price of $20.

To celebrate the show I decided to dedicate this week's episode of Flatbasset Radio entirely to Aesop Rock.

Well.... not entirely.

As you can see from the tracklist below this isn't merely a "Best Of..." collection. I did my best to try to include a lot of collaborations, some semi-lost tracks, & some maybe-lesser-known remixes. Hell, I even chopped up his excellent The Blob beat tape for some interludes. Obviously I'm a biased opinion, but I'm going to go ahead and say that this is easily the best thing that's ever been uploaded to the internet. Also, it's free. So, y'know, give it a listen.

I've finally set up a decent downloading site, so if you'd like to download Flatbasset Radio: Episode #82 (Aesop Rock MegaMix) (with all the appropriate iTunes tagging), just click here.

If you don't have the time or desire to download the show, just click the Mixcloud player below and you're good to go.



Here's how it plays out:

01. Aesop Rock - Leisureforce

02. RJD2 - Final Frontier (Remix) (w/Blueprint, Vast Aire, Murs, & Aesop Rock

03. Aesop Rock - Blob I

04. Evil Nine - Crooked (w/Aesop Rock)

05. Aesop Rock - Untouchable (AR Version)

06. Aesop Rock - Blob II

07. Aesop Rock - Zodiaccupuncture

08. Evidence - Late For The Sky (w/Slug & Aesop Rock)

09. El-P - Run The Numbers (w/Aesop Rock)

10. Aesop Rock - Cycles To Gehenna (Zavala Remix)

11. Hanni El Khatib - You Rascal You (Aesop Rock Remix)

12. Aesop Rock - Tomorrow Morning (Instrumental Version)

13. The Uncluded - Bub Jam

14. Aesop Rock - None Shall Pass (Edison Remix)

15. Aesop Rock - Lotta Years

16. Aesop Rock - Blob III

17. Aesop Rock - Babies With Guns

18. Felt - Give It Up

19. Aesop Rock - Blob IV

20. Aesop Rock - Coffee (w/John Darnielle)

21. Aesop Rock & Homeboy Sandman - So Strange Here









There you have it, everybody! See you at the show!




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Flatbasset Radio's 25 Most Played Albums: February '16

Well hello again, everybody. Welcome to another month's worth of instant nostalgia!

Even with a bonus day February flew by. I'm sorry that the posts haven't been too routine. I was very busy and very tired, but I'm trying my best here. Of course, big thank you to everybody who did make the time to check out the couple of Flatbasset Radio episodes I put together this month as well as that P.O.S. MinneClassics show.

The flipside of being so busy means that I likely spent a lot of time on public transit, which means I was able to listen to a ton of music. As you can see below, I covered a lot of ground.

As always, please remember that one song = one play. If I listen to, say, Springsteen's The River once all the way through, it counts as 20 plays. These stats are all pulled from my Last.fm page, which you should definitely follow if you're certain you've checked out absolutely everything else on the internet.

So, without further ado, here's Flatbasset Radio's 25 Most Played Albums Of February, 2016:

01. Edison - The Hand (79 plays)

02. Mixed Blood Majority - Insane World (77 plays)

03. Doks Robotiks - Doks (70 plays)

04. Bruce Springsteen - The River (61 plays)

05. Paul Westerberg - 14 Songs (42 plays)

06. Vandaam - VNDM EP 2 (42 plays)

07. J Dilla - Donuts (32 plays)

08. The Hang Ups - Pretend Hits (32 plays)

09. Local H - Pack Up The Cats (30 plays)

10. Belle & Sebastian - The Life Pursuit (29 plays)

11. Operation Ivy - Operation Ivy (27 plays)

12. Fountains Of Wayne - Sky Full Of Holes (26 plays)

13. The Lemonheads - Car Button Cloth (24 plays)

14. The Specials - More Specials (24 plays)

15. Sparta - Threes (24 plays)

16. Morrissey - World Peace Is None Of Your Business (24 plays)

17. Collage - Lollygag (21 plays)*

18. Neil Young - Harvest (20 plays)

19. The Hold Steady - Heaven Is Whenever (20 plays)

20. Desmond Dekker - Rockin' Steady: The Best Of Desmond Dekker (20 plays)

21. Shad - When This Is Over (20 plays)

22. Eric Mayson - Detail (19 plays)

23. Sayth & North House - Body Pillow (18 plays)

24. The Cure - Greatest Hits (18 plays)

25. Radiohead - In Rainbows (Bonus Disc) (16 plays)

*That blank spot you see is for an album called Lollygag by a local artist called Collage. Does anybody know anything about this band or album? I bought it on a whim over at Cheapo. There does not appear to be any information about it whatsoever on the internet. All I can gather from the album is that it was released in 1994 on Gypsy Gyrl records. It seems to be the project/brainchild of a woman named Terry Blessing. That's actually quite a bit of info, but if anybody knows anymore about it or maybe saw this band back in the 90's, please hit me up in the comment section or over on the Flatbasset Facebook page. Thanks.

Image via Tap Music
Stats via my Last.fm page

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Flatbasset Radio: Episode #74

See, I know my destination, but I'm just not there...

Well hello again, podcast fans! Welcome to Flatbasset Radio: Episode #74!

Happy Leap Day, everybody! In honor of this rare, yet scheduled phenomena I figured I should get my shit together and make the most of this bonus day by sitting on my ass recording a new show. Mission: Accomplished.

In this week's episode I celebrate some anniversaries, play some new local music, check in on some old Bay Area friends, lament the lack of respect for Owatonna's greatest songwriter, the sadness running through a classic beat album, revisit a single that was supposed to break one of America's great punk bands, struggle with my accents, fawn over my favorite rapper, and get unreasonably excited about my first trip to see The Boss live! All that plus the Cover Of The Week & Flatbasset Flatclassic!

As always, Flatbasset Radio is completely free. I've finally set up a decent downloading site, so if you'd like to download Flatbasset Radio: Episode #74 (with all the appropriate iTunes tagging), just click here.

If you don't have the time or desire to download the show, just click the Mixcloud player below and you're good to go.

01. Tiny Deaths - Away

02. Edison - The Modem's Offset Overture

 

03. Har Mar Superstar - Youth Without Love

04. J Dilla - Don't Cry

05. Stars - Street Lights

06. Cibo Matto - White Pepper Ice Cream

07. Belle & Sebastian - Song For Sunshine

08. Bad Religion - A Walk

09. Aesop Rock - Rings

10. Big Cats - What If It Doesn't Get Better? (w/Lydia Liza)

11. Bruce Springsteen - The River











There you have it, folks! Enjoy!

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Flatbasset Radio: Episode #64 (Young Sandwich's Summer Mix Pt. 2)

Take me out beyond the stress...

I told you we'd be back!

That's right, Pt. 2 of Young Sandwich's Summer Mix is here.  I won't bore you with all the details of how this mix came to be (scroll down a post for all of that).

Pt. 2 picks up right where Pt. 1 left off, but it definitely has a few more left turns than yesterday's show.  Think of it as the indulgent Side B to yesterday's more immediate Side A. Nick & I put together a second half that takes some long detours into funk, latino prog-rock, NY hip-hop, local R&B, alt-country, pop-punk, and a whole host of other classic stuff.  If you dug the first half of the Summer Mix than this is the perfect complement.

As always, Flatbasset Radio is completely free. Just click the Mixcloud player below and you're good to go.

Flatbasset Radio: Episode #64 (Young Sandwich's Summer Mix Pt. 2) by Tcdroogsma on Mixcloud

01. Lucinda Williams - Drunken Angle
02. Coleman Hawkins - Heart And Soul
03. Thievery Corporation - Culture Of Fear (w/Mr. Lif)
04. Niko Strums - ...A Great Oak Was
05. Whatever Forever - Miserable People
06. Edison - o-3
07. Parliament - Whatever Makes Baby Feel Good
08. Devendra Banhart - Hatchet Wound
09. The Mars Volta - Drunkship Of Lanterns
10. Joey Bada$$ - On & On (w/Maverick Sabre & Dymeond Lewis)
11. Southside Desire - The Ledge
12. John Coltrane & Wilbur Harden - B.J.
13. Yo La Tengo - Before We Run

There it is, folks! Enjoy!

Most Played Albums: April '14

The 50 most played albums around Planet New Basset for the month of April, 2014:

(Larger picture indicates more plays)

01. Edison - No Three Men Make A Tiger (90 plays)

02. Rogue Valley - Crater Lake (87 plays)

03. The Hold Steady - Teeth Dreams (71 plays)

04. Oaks - Field Beat (56 plays)

05. mk Ultra - mk Ultra (31 plays)

06. All - Allroy For Prez... (30 plays)

07. The Replacements - All For Nothing/Nothing For All (30 plays)

08. Stone Temple Pilots - Tiny Music... Songs From The Vatican Gift Shop (25 plays)

09. Nas - Illmatic (24 plays)

10. The Raveonettes - Whip It On (24 plays)

11. Supperbell Roundup - At Station Four (22 plays)

12. The Lemonheads - The Lemonheads (22 plays)

13. Flagland - Tireda Fightin (21 plays)

14. Sebadoh - Harmacy (20 plays)

15. Lakutis - 3 Seashells (20 plays)

16. Green Day - Nimrod (18 plays)

17. Superchunk - On The Mouth (16 plays)

18. Radiohead - The King Of Limbs (16 plays)

19. Big Pauper - Beyond My Means (15 plays)

20. After The Smoke - Microwaves (15 plays)

21. Beady Eye - Be (13 plays)

22. Constantines - Shine A Light (12 plays)

23. Har Mar Superstar - Dark Touches (12 plays)

24. LCD Soundsystem - This Is Happening (12 plays)

25. Weezer - Make Believe (12 plays)

26. Boots - Dust (12 plays)

27. Badly Drawn Boy - How Did I Get Here? (11 plays)

28. Straya - EP One (10 plays)

29. Drake - Nothing Was The Same (Bonus Tracks) (10 plays)

30. Dosh - Powder Horn (9 plays)

31. Metasota - Still Happy I'm Present (H.I.P. 2) (9 plays)

32. Minor Kingdom - Singles (7 plays)

33. Blueprint - Respect The Architect (7 plays)

34. Straya - Demos (7 plays)

35. Blue Ruiin - Demo (7 plays)

36. Imperial Railway - A Young Cliff Diver (7 plays)

37. Damacha - Auspicious Clouds (5 plays)

38. The Hood Internet - Future Seasons (5 plays)

39. G-Side - Gz To Godz (5 plays)

40. Twin Shadow - To The Top (5 plays)

41. The Ashtray Hearts - Old Numbers (5 plays)

42. Killer Mike - The Boondocks Mixtape (5 plays)

43. Glenn Jones - Welcomed Wherever I Go (5 plays)

44. Dinowalrus - Complexion (5 plays)

45. Young Thug - Stoner (5 plays)

46. La Sera - Hour Of The Dawn (5 plays)

47. King Of Prussia - Zonian Girls... And The Echoes That Surround Us All (5 plays)

48. Metro Thuggin - Metro Thuggin (5 plays)

49. Yumi Zouma - It Feels Good To Be Around You (5 plays)

50. Mirror Kisses - Heartbeats (5 plays)

All info via my Last.fm account
Photo via Don't Drink And Root

Album Of The Week: April 14th-20th, 2014

My Album Of The Week for the week of April 14th-20th, 2014:

Edison - No Three Men Make A Tiger

01. Init.
02. If You're Going To Say Nothing, Say Yo A Few Times First
03. A Fortune Gone To Hashed Kids
04. I Don't Know Tim, I'm Not The Loudest Guy At The Fuck You Contest
05. Reporting Live From The Wellspring Of Opinions And Lost Buttons
06. The True Story Of Baron Vonfeedreader (w/Shannon Harney)
07. Think Occasionally Of The Uploading, Of Which You Spare Yourself The Sight
08. All The Starving Artists, Eating Their Own Hands
09. Waiting In Line To Meet Steve At The Crossroads, At Midnight
10. Make Noise Not Marketing
11. Pander Junkies
12. Don't Tell Us What We're Doing, We Don't Want To Know
13. The Disgusted Briefcase (w/Babel Fishh)
14. Alexander The Great Genre Switching Soulsuck
15. Eye Teeth And Egos

If you've been following the blog for a while you should already be pretty familiar with Edison.  I've written about him several times here and played him several times on the Flatbasset Radio podcast.  I wrote about his last album, No Sun No Food, last July when it was also an Album Of The Week.  The album was so great that it eventually took the crows as my most played album of 2013.

If you haven't been following along, here's the bullet points.  Edison is a beatmaker out of the Bay Area.  Up until No Sun No Food he was known for making beats that were dense, manic, and yet still melodic.  He switched up the game last year on No Sun No Food, making an exquisitely laid back album that was still clearly the work of the same artists.

So here we have No Three Men Make A Tiger.  I've only listened to it a couple of times, but I think it's safe to say that this is a middle ground between his manic earlier work and his new found sense of pacing.  It's a much harder, busier album than No Sun No Food, yet it no longer feels quite as busy.  Where his early albums felt like you were riding around in a taxi who's driver was mixing adderall & vodka, No Three Men Make A Tiger is a great strolling record.  No Sun No Food was a great strolling album as well, but that album felt like a summer stroll through the park.  No Three Men... has a darker edge to it.  Like strolling through that same park at 3 AM as a storm's blowing in to town.  Obviously I highly recommend it.

If you'd like to check it out it's available as a "Name Your Price" download on Edison's Bandcamp page.  Seriously, pick it up. Pick up No Sun No Food while you're at it.  And then, once you've grabbed those, follow this link to 900 Bats and pick up the Free Willy beat tape.  Then you'll be set for summer.

Newest Industry Presents: Flatbasset Radio - Episode #26 (Best Of 2013!)

(THIS POST ORIGINALLY APPEARS ON THE TWIN CITIES BLOG NEWEST INDUSTRY)

I'll keep playing back these fragments of time...

Hello again, free music fans! Welcome to Flatbasset Radio: Episode #26!
 
For those of you who are unaware of the Flatbasset Radio format, here's what you're looking at: TCDroogsma is our resident MP3 junkie. As you've probably noticed in his Songs Of The Week column, he's not always the most positive music fan. In an effort to prove that he is, in fact, a fan of music, we give him an hour each week to play the songs he's digging and talk a little bit about them. Once he's recorded his podcast we put it right here on the website for free to stream!

In this week's episode Droogsy celebrates some of his favorite records of 2013, admits to being years behind in his apps, give his sponsor their money worth, is confounded by gender reversals in his Cover Of The Week, attempts to redefine "success" for musicians, gives us his slogan for the year, defends a genius' ego (or an egoists' genius), and gives us his theory as to why everybody thought 2013 was terrible!

You can download the podcast for free by clicking the episode's title or stream the episode by clicking on the Mixcloud player below.

Flatbasset Radio - Episode #26

Flatbasset Radio: Episode #26 (Best Of 2013!) by Tcdroogsma on Mixcloud

01. Tree - Safe To Say
02. Atoms For Peace - Ingenue
03. Dessa - I'm Going Down
04. Ras Dude - Rizla
05. Johnny Marr - New Town Velocity
06. The Strokes - Happy Ending
07. Action Bronson & Party Supplies - Contemporary Man
08. Edison - Astringent
09. Beady Eye - I'm Just Saying
10. Mixed Blood Majority (w/Kristoff Krane) - Ritual
11. Low - Mother
12. Marijuana Deathsquads - Blood
13. Jonwayne - Ode To Mortality
14. Daft Punk (w/Todd Edwards) - Fragments Of Time
15. Kanye West (w/Justin Vernon & Chief Keef) - Hold My Liquor


There you have it, music fans! Enjoy!

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Newest Industry Presents: Flatbasset Radio - Episode #18

(THIS POST ORIGINALLY APPEARS ON THE TWIN CITIES BLOG NEWEST INDUSTRY)

My family knows I only iron once a year...

Hello again, free music fans! Welcome to Flatbasset Radio: Episode #18!

For those of you who are unaware of the Flatbasset Radio format, here's what you're looking at: TCDroogsma is our resident MP3 junkie. As you've probably noticed in his Songs Of The Week column, he's not always the most positive music fan. In an effort to prove that he is, in fact, a fan of music, we give him an hour each week to play the songs he's digging and talk a little bit about them. Once he's recorded his podcast we put it right here on the website for free to stream!

In this week's edition Droogsy gets sweaty, explains why Liam Gallagher is a "Capital 'R,' Capital 'S'" Rock Star, puts an alt-rock icon on blast, admits that an appliance is his best friend, celebrates an album's twenty-year anniversary by struggling with the concept of time, plays Tom Gilbert's theme song, implores us all to embrace the big, stupid, cornball single and much, much more !

Flatbasset Radio: Episode #18 by Tcdroogsma on Mixcloud

Here's how Episode #18 plays out:

01. Beady Eye - Flick Of The Finger
02. Run The Jewels - Sea Legs
03. Edison - My Modesty, Your Venn Diagram
04. Open Mike Eagle (w/Busdriver) - Degrassi Picture Day (Hellfyre Jackets)
05. Pixies - Bagboy
06. Loudman - Ghana
07. Sage Francis - Zero (Update)
08. Down By Law - Air Conditioner
09. Bad Religion - American Jesus
10. Dessa - Icing Burns
11. Treetop Flyers - Things Will Change
12. Sugar Ray - Someday

For more TCDroogsma be sure to give him a follow on Twitter (@TCDroogsma).  He can also be found right here on Newest Industry reviewing new tracks in our weekly Songs Of The Week column. Previous episodes of Flatbasset Radio can be found at TCDroogsma's MixCloud page.

 



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Album Of The Week: July 15-July 21, 2003

My Album Of The Week for the week of July 15^th-July 21^st, 2013:

Edison – No Sun No Food

For those of you unfamiliar with Edison, he's a producer out of San Francisco. His previous records were filled with busy, percussion heavy beats that seemed to thrive on a this-could-go-off-the-rails-at-any-point energy.

I first found out about Edison via Aesop Rock's blog 900 Bats. Edison posted a handful of roughly half-hour-long beat tapes to the blog and gave them away for free (his Free Willy tape is a stone cold classic in my book). Those tapes tended to swing between very energetic, hook heavy moments and slow-burn sections seamlessly. They're the kind of tapes that are perfect for walking around while the snow falls.

Anyway, hopefully most people here in the Twin Cities know Edison from the split EP he did with Lazerbeak titled Kill Switch. In fact, give this video for “A Cure For A Case Of The Wealthies” for a good example of what Edison sounds like:

Now, the reason I'm excited to spend a week with No Sun No Food is that on this album Edison completely stayed away from the faster, busier moments and focused solely on the slower & moodier side of his sound. I hate to use the term “downbeat” to describe No Sun No Food, because it's not a depressing record by any stretch. If anything, it's just a more relaxed, content version of Edison's sound. It's a laid-back, summertime album.

There aren't a lot of artists that can change up their sound and end up with an album that stands up on its own. Some of my favorite (and therefore best) artists have tried and failed, ending up with albums that stand up only from a, “Huh, isn't this curious?” perspective. No Sun No Food has a lot more going for it than that “Huh?” response.

Anyway, Edison posted it on his Bandcamp page as a Pay-What-You-Want and I strongly suggest that you head over and grab a copy. Perfect “Summer Of 2013” type of record.