TheCobraSnake

There are certain times in everyone’s life when one may feel lost, discarded or disoriented. Take this young lady for example; the dirt encrusted white canvas vans shoes say, I’m not afraid to swallow my pride and shop at urban outfitters, the pink leggings? I want to party like a slut, without actually being one, the downcast look, This show isn’t as cool as it’s supposed to be…Where’s the cobrasnake?

When I feel lost I tend to cling to the familiar, the classics, the songs you know you’ll love regardless of how many times you hear them.

From Cobra Snake to Cobra Krames, a fresh twist on an old favorite, a One More Time remix worth reminiscing about.
Daft Punk – One more Time [Cobra Krames What Mix] (zshare)

As you may have guessed, after being thoroughly impressed by Mobius Band last weekend at their show with Cut Copy, they’re getting a post to call their own. As if they even needed to impress me more, I came upon an album of covers they did called Love Will Reign Supreme. In it they masterfully cover and re interpret songs like “True love will find you in the end” by Daniel Johnston and “Digital Love” by Daft Punk. Like good 21st century rockers, they’ve made that album available for download for free.

I never really appreciated their “hit” friends like these until I saw them play it live and after listening to both albums I could find, Heaven and The Loving Sounds of Static, I was won over. This is me giving them a shot at doing the same for you.
Mobius Band – Friends Like These (mp3)

Mobius Band – Under Sand (mp3)

Add NYC’s Pase Rock to the list of hip hop MC’s who are smart enough to embrace electro and use it to re-vitalize hip hop in a huge way. It’s not really a question of who did it first or best – that doesn’t really matter – actually its not a question at all, it’s a statement.

Hip Hop is back.

Pase Rock – sexy motherfucker feat. amanda blank [nate day remix] (mp3)

In main mainstream Kanye West did it with stronger, but i have a feeling that he just lucked out and was smart enough to listen to A-trak on the Daft Punk idea. Obviously the song blew up and he continued to let A-trak keep him cool and get him in touch with more young sceneters – Pro Nails anybody? – and as a result he beat fiddy real good.

I’d be a real asshole if i talked to you about Hip Hop electro crossovers without mentioning Philly bangers Spank Rock and Amanda Blank.

These kids are fucking great, the song Get loose from Spank Rock & Benny Blanco’s Bangers and Cash is pretty much a full testament to all the gratuitous explicit sexuality, glorification of wanton drug use and chauvinistic behaviour that hip hop used to be infamous for.

I find their attitude so ridiculously over the top that no one should seriously be offended by this song/video. That being said; It’s a fine line i wouldn’t expect most to appreciate, especially in the face of lyrics like the eternal;

Spank Rock & Benny Blanco – Get Loose feat Amanda Blank (mp3)

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Word on the streets – of the internet – is that both Amanda Blank and N.E.R.D. are working on albums which are slated to come out in the spring of this year; in the meantime here’s a Spank Rock Remix of a Teki Latex – in town on the 23rd – song Disco Dance with You, featuring Amanda Blank. Also speaking of wanton drug use – N.E.R.D.’s everyone nose.

I’ve been in lines for a bathroom which consisted almost entirely of people going to do coke, so N.E.R.D. i feel you on that. I consider the song a testament to the guy who actually plans to use the bathroom to piss rather than a venue for drug use.

Teki Latex – Disco Dance With You [Spank Rock Remix feat. Amanda Blank] (mp3)

N.E.R.D. – Everyone Nose (mp3)