Vibrant But Somehow Virulent

Cadence Weapon “Vicarious” – Fluxblog kicked off 2005 with a cut from Cadence Weapon’s first self-distributed mixtape, and now as the year is winding down, I’ve got a song from his first proper LP on the Upper Class label. Rollie’s flow is as strong as ever, but the main attraction here is his broken game console production aesthetic, heavy with synths that are like the musical equivalent of bright neon lights burning holes in your retinas. (Click here to buy it from Upper Class.)

Spinvis “Ik Wil Alleen Maar Zwemmen” – This was going to get the “Video Treatment Day” treatment, but then I realized it would just be easier to leave the instructions “splice together random footage from Wes Anderson’s last three movies” to get the proper result. Maybe if there was a way to scramble it all together, like have Max Fischer riding around in Eli Cash’s car wearing a Team Zissou uniform or something. That’d be neat. (Click here to buy it from the Spinvis official site.)