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I've been digging into the back catalog of the late, great Paten Locke the past week. This album is one of the standouts of a really stacked discography and found me right in time for the lovely spring weather we've been experiencing in Pittsburgh. The Smile Rays was a Jacksonville, FL group comprised of Paten Locke (fka DJ Therapy) on raps, Batsauce on beats, and Lady Daisey on sung vocals. This album is an absolute ray of sunshine. It's firmly hip-hop but with a sense of fun and play that feels very refreshing. Stylistically, it's somewhere along the lines of the first wave of DITC crew releases (like Showbiz & AG's Runaway Slave or Diamond D's Stunts, Blunts, and Hip-Hop) and 90s alternative sampledelica a la Deee-Lite, Towa Tei, Cibo Matto, & Cornelius. If you're looking for some top tier Summer music, this is it, look no further. It will be getting a lot of burn from me!
Apr 16, 2024
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2023 album from detroit creatives tayloe, yanaa, and mikayla j - stumbled across this last year via hitech's toneglow interview. would highly recommend, i'd bet that there's at least 1 out of the 13 tracks that get you groovin.
highlights: show me luv, break it up, wannabe, pipe smokin
Jan 25, 2024
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Jan 29, 2024
I’ve been listening to a lot of the same maybe ten tracks over the past few weeks, and then I found out about “Otha Fish” thru a @sleepingongems IG post (it had to do a Fantastic Four rap aside). Anyway, it’s a fun listen and I enjoyed the production and the full embrace of whimsy in this album. It’s one of those albums I wouldn’t have appreciated until I was older if I’m keeping it a stack but I found it at the right time
Dec 29, 2024
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I've been aggressively marketed Fishwife brand tinned fish, but I don't really feel like paying the $30 for three tins and then waiting for shipping. So the other week, my girlfriend and I went to Whole Foods to buy various tins of other, less fancy tinned fish. Whole Foods is pretty fancy as it is, so it may seem counter-intuitive that we went there to spend money on cheaper tinned fish, but all of our other area grocery stores basically only sell canned tuna. Anyway, I got some tinned mussels there and I liked them a lot. I ate them with some toasted bread and it made me feel not unlike a house cat. I would recommend it to anyone who would also like to feel like a house cat. Shouldn't we all be more like house cats?
Apr 16, 2024
I finally watched this movie on Friday and it was incredible. All movies should have Harry Dean Stanton in them.
Apr 16, 2024
I watched this on Sunday because people said it's similar to Repo Man and They Live. They were on point- this movie also rips. I have listened to way more albums than I've watched movies in my lifetime, but now I'm convinced that I should have been watching more movies all along. Also, I might start talking like Kurt Russell in this movie sometimes. Sorry to my loved ones in advance.
Apr 16, 2024