Music for your Eyeballs

This post is strictly new music videos.

Think MTV...pre-Real World.

Hard Mix is hazy hip hop beat maker by way of South Carolina that Altered Zones has taken a liking to.  Below is a video for a song called "Eye Contact" and also a track I found on GvsB & PMA called "Now Her" that you should check out.  There is an upcoming 7" split coming out with Hard Mix and the artist I talk about next, Star Slinger.

Hard Mix - Eye Contact from Double Denim Records on Vimeo.
Hard-Mix-Now-Her by Pretty Much Amazing

I've talked about Star Slinger on here before, a sample DJ reminicent of Dilla himself.  Found a new video by him called "Mornin" on both Gorilla vs Bear & A Heart is A Spade:

I was admittedly late to the scene with Gold Panda, but I was blown away once I was.  Another act from the beat department, this video is off the Lucky Shiner album (via SKOA and P4K).  Enjoy:

Marriage from Gold Panda on Vimeo.

Cut Copy premiered a video on Stereogum for a single of their latest album Zonoscope "Need You Know".  Those wacky Aussies...

Cut Copy - "Need You Now" from stereogum on Vimeo.

Millionyoung does their thing on "Easy Now" over at yourstru.ly:

Yours Truly Presents: Millionyoung - "Easy Now" from Yours Truly on Vimeo.

yvynyl hooked it up with some new videos from Work Drugs (which is a direct take on Rad Racer) and Cloud Nothings.  Both pretty sweet:

Work Drugs - Rad Racer from Thomas Crystal on Vimeo.

Cloud Nothings "Understand At All" from Project Fathom on Vimeo.

Another act I just literally found out about this past week via I Hope Your Ears Bleed, Walk the Moon, and it is damn catchy.  Tell me you don't feel the same way.  And how about those workout outfits, eh?

Flying Lotus has been throwing his hat into the director ring and his latest is a piece by Erykah Badu (via SKOA).  Me likey:

Erykah Badu - Gone Baby, Don't be Long from beeple on Vimeo.

Not a music video, but I have to post on anything Diplo related by law.  And according to Mad Decent, he checked in at Carson Daly's show.  See I told you this was going to be like old school MTV!!

And lastly, my latest hip hop addiction is Odd Future in all its glory.  I found that Tyler the Creator "Yonkers" video to be quite entertaining.  You must watch their performance on Fallon last week that I found on Stereogum:

The Neverending Bender (Part 2)

Its totally like that movie where I ride a mythical creature in the sky to my next destination.  Which happened to be the Mad Decent Block Party.  Missed last years for reasons unknown, but remembered how much fun I had two years ago and everything was just fallin into place.  My obsession with Diplo and all things MD are well documented and I push it on my friends AA 24/7.  I have a large puerto rican friend I chum around with who has also caught the fever and has been busy getting his business off the ground.  As the gods would have it, he magically had the day off.  I mentioned nothing of the fantasticness and ludacity (I'm starting my own dictionary) that would take place only that we were going to a block party on 12th and Spring Garden.  Here is what we were in store for:

MDBP 2010 Philadelphia Teaser from Mad Decent on Vimeo.

HAW HAW

Listen, I like MIA as much as the next person.  My obsession with all things Diplo is well publicized.  But this new album is hurting my ears and I believe that is the consensus.  Pitchfork (who run the indieverse) gave her new album a 4.4, diplo may/may not have criticized the tracks not made by him (to which I say people in glass houses....), and it seems as though the public is tiring of her antics.  She gave out the number of a writer of a unflattering NY Times article, her Hard Fest in LA was cancelled due to security concerns (see: ticket sales), and she's doing wacky stuff like this on Letterman:

I hope she gets through all this nonsense and start just making the good music that got her to this point.  I'd like to think she's got the capacity to make bigger and better music and not have her peak with a clash-sampled song on a trailer for an Apatow movie.  Godspeed lil' doodle!

Mixtape Galore!!

I know I need to get off Mad Decent, Diplo, etc dick, but you can't help it when he is from the area and just constantly putting out good stuff to listen to.  This is summer fire!  I guarantee.  Jay-Z, Ludacris, a new Major Lazer track, Rihanna, and to top it off a remix of Say it Ain't So by Weezer.  I mean how can you blame me for wanting to spread this fantasticness (is that a word?).  It is now.

Major Lazer Summer Mix

Related News:  Diplo will be spinning at 9:30 at the Cuervo Games Saturday at the Piazza (phrequency)

Major Lazer & La Roux

What do you get when you mix Diplo, Switch & La Roux?

See below the cut

Lazerproof

Diplo hinted at a Major Lazer and la roux remix today.  Not sure if i care yet, but I'm totally jealous of that lazer arm and will take every opportunity to display it here.  And is that Mickey Rourke I see??

via - Diplo - Twitpic

Mad Decent for a Monday

As you may or may not know, DJ Sega and select others have been spinning at Fluid Monday nights for the better part of 2 months under the title "Mad Decent Mondays".  We, and by we I mean myself, here at exact CHANGE are big fans of majority of the stuff that comes off this label and will try and bring you a smattering of new stuff once a week from their site.  Below is our first, perhaps failed, attempt:

1. Diplo vs. Tiesto "C'mon"
2. Free Download of High Contrast remix of MIA's "Born Free"
3. New Rusko "O.M.G." album out now !