Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett’s “virtual band” Gorillaz is back with a 360-degree interactive video, replete with Lovecraftian tentacle monsters, for their new Caribbean-spiced auto-tune Electro-Dancehall-Pop tune “Saturnz Barz (Spirit House)”. “Saturnz Barz”, which features vocals from Popcaan, is the first single from the animated group’s forthcoming fifth LP ‘Humanz’,[…]
I didn’t feel like doing a ton of work this week, so tonight’s Monday Magick entry is going to be a quickie. It’s a song I’ve been sitting on for a while from an act I featured in this space only a few short weeks ago. The band is none[…]
The last few months have seen some weird ups and downs here on Monday Magick. Those mood and tone shifts have largely been inspired by my personal life and my feelings about magick as it relates to my daily experience. This week I’d like to get back to the more[…]
Trip-Hop godfathers Massive Attack join forces with Alt-Rap hooligans Young Fathers for a guttural, motorik-driven Electro-Industrial audio track and a creepy sci-fi-inspired video on “Voodoo in My Blood”. “Voodoo in My Blood” is the first single from Massive Attack’s ‘Ritual Spirit’ EP, which also features Roots Manuva and former group[…]
London-based producer and multi-instrumentalist Will Archer, a.k.a. Slime, has delivered one of the smoothest R&B jams I’ve heard in a long while, despite his sorta icky alias. Blending ’80s Quiet Storm and Sophistipop influences, the moodiness of ’90s Downtempo and Trip-Hop, Smooth-Jazz instrumentation, and a whole lot of sexy, “Hot[…]
I was into today’s Monday Magick entry, an Austin, Texas-based rapper, poet, and musician going by the absurd monicker MC 900 (ft. Jesus), about the same time I was getting into XCLAN. Around that time I probably watched MTV’s “alternative” program ‘120 Minutes’ just as much as ‘YO! MTV Raps’,[…]
