a lil' bit of this, a lil' bit of that.

I left for a while, but while away from the blogging world, I stumble upon a few good things over the web. Here are those gems in no particular order : 

- Odd Future giving a one-shot video shooting to everybody, showcasing a West Coast style rapping Frankie Ocean, a show stealing Earl, back for good, and even the joker Jasper : here's the video of "Oldie", aka OF doing it Wu-Tang style.  

- a 20 minute-long live video of "Purple Rain", because a normal version clearly ain't enough. Prince was a little weak on the guitar 30 years ago... or not.  

- Prince again, doing it all on the Arsenio Hall TV show in 1991. "Cream" and "Purple Rain" in the same pack. Life is good. In this case, it's awesome. 

- in the "sample flips" series of EgoTripLand, the legendary Easy Mo Bee plays it a bit egocentric. But the truth needed to be told, so I guess the dude is right. 

- meanwhile, the excentric but waaaaay underrated J-Zone breaks it down vintage underground style. Deep. 

- Odd Future again, these guys are everywhere these days. Pitchfork reported their latest NYC concert. It looked raw. 

- the one and only Mr. Mass released a unique mix of the late DJ Mehdi from the "Stones Throw vs. Ed Banger" show of 2009. 

- Strawberry Rain is about to release another dope compilation of Indonesian psych music, following the "Har Beat" of AKA. This time, it's "The Lizard Years" by Benny Soebardja. Stay tuned, it's a possible banger. 

- speaking of psych music, the boss of Now-Again, Egon, tells everything you need to know about the reissue of Kourosh Yaghmaei's works through a Wax Poetics podcast. There are other stuff in there too. 

- Thibault de Longeville is a French hip hop activist, turned director ; Hennessy sponsored one of his movies, "The Art Of Blending".

- the Vevo channel of Nas is stunning : most recently, the videos of his SXSW show hit the fan, and guess what ? The lil' homie did the whole "Illmatic" album on stage. In front of a dead crowd. I guess "Illmatic" is old. But classic. Damn youngsters.

- being one of the latest signatures of Stones Throw, Jonwayne provides the world with projects, both free and for sale. Here's the "This Is False" mixtape. 

- Prince again, through ?uestlove's lens, who states that the kid from Minneapolis is def hip hop. Real as it feels.

- Mo' Kolours explained his typical formula to Brainer Magazine. His 1st EP is unfindable, his 2nd EP just saw the surface of the Earth, and the beatmaker just announced a 3rd EP. 

- an interesting beat tape : "The Dusty Planets" by Scruffnuk Dust.

- Now-Again, again. They released "Obsession" by Indian band Atomic Forest. But The Quietus interviewed the band founder, Madhukar Das. An important read and a dive into Indian psych music. 

That's it for today.