23_trismass_cheer_edition_07

G’day folks, and welcome to this totally impromptu novelty Xmas edition of Borrowed Beats! I can’t remember where or when this mix came about, but I thought I’d share it. Wishing you and all yours a santastic trismass and  a wonderful new year!

If you want more of this crazyness, check out this and that and the other.

See you kids in January!

G

_friday_funk_#11 - Green Day (Una Mas Trio Remix) - Mo Horizons

We’re back where we started with todays offering folks, Mo Horizons have released a number of remixes for their recent hit ‘Green Day’, and this is my favourite of the bunch. It’s fitting that The track that inspired the _friday_funk series should end it too. Book ends, full circle or lack of inspiration? You decide. Enjoy.
 Previously:
Friday Funk #10 - All Good Funk Alliance - The One
Friday Funk #9 - Kutiman - Escape Route
Friday Funk #8 - Melente - We came to party
Friday Funk #7 - Talkin Loud and Sayin nothin - James Brown
Friday Funk #6 - Fight the Power - The Isley Brothers
Friday Funk #5 - Just dropped in to see what condition my.. - Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings
Friday Funk #4 - The Watts Breakaway - Johnny Oti
Friday Funk #3 - Staussmania - Salinas
Friday Funk #2 - Your way too - Dragons
Friday Funk #1 - Green Day - Mo’ Horizons (12

Public Enemy - How You Sell Soul To A Soulless People Who Sold Their Soul

Did you notice that this post wasn’t tagged _outrage? The reason is that the 10th album from PE, marking their 20th Anniversary, is a true return to form. The face (and voices) of PE return, but the Shocklee Brothers are absent. And I’m afraid to say that they aren’t terribly missed. (Quite, Homey) ‘Urbanscore‘ takeover production duties. G Wiz and Amani bring the noise. (Ahem) Sometimes they do come off a little Run DMC, but that’s hardly a bad thing.

Running 19 tracks long, ‘How You Sell Soul’ delivers on all the usual fronts. Chuck D’s voice sounds fully militant over ‘fighting music’ backing tracks like ‘Harder Than You Think’, and at his informed, tell it like it is on ‘Long and Whining Road’. (That’s not a typo, just another PE pun.) He spits some truth about Gangsta Rap on ‘Sex, Drugs & Violence’, Dog.

This album should please fans from back in the day, and be a worthy antidote to all the bullets and bling rap thats flooding the airwaves of late. With this release PE not only confirm that they are thinking mans rap, they also show that they have few peers. So, don’t be out on the street and not even know what time it is. Go grab this album.

THINK: The Public Enemy you remember and love.
READ: An interview with Urbanscore
WATCH: Any of PE’s Vids
BUY: How You Sell Soul at amazon

A modern take on the genre this week, with USA stalwarts  All Good Funk Alliance bringing the b-line big style. Or something. You know, funk speak. Ya’ll.

_friday_funk_#10 - All Good Funk Alliance - The One

 Previously:
Friday Funk #9 - Kutiman - Escape Route
Friday Funk #8 - Melente - We came to party
Friday Funk #7 - Talkin Loud and Sayin nothin - James Brown
Friday Funk #6 - Fight the Power - The Isley Brothers
Friday Funk #5 - Just dropped in to see what condition my.. - Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings
Friday Funk #4 - The Watts Breakaway - Johnny Oti
Friday Funk #3 - Staussmania - Salinas
Friday Funk #2 - Your way too - Dragons
Friday Funk #1 - Green Day - Mo’ Horizons (12? remix)

If you’ve been running back and forth to your mailbox today in rabid anticipation of the BiscBox release of InRainbows, here’s a track by track preview courtesy of RollingStone.