Pretty Please With You On Top

Sixtoo w/ Damo Suzuki “Storm Clouds & Silver Linings” – This one sells itself: experimental hip hop producer makes beats approximating Jaki Liebezeit circa Tago Mago + brand new, non-sampled vocals by Damo Suzuki from Can. If you took this track a few years back in time and told everyone that it was a missing Can outtake, almost everyone would have believed you. This is out right now as the b-side of the Boxcutter Emporium 12″, and it will also be featured on Sixtoo’s forthcoming debut LP Chewing On Glass & Other Miracle Cures on Ninja Tune.

Ghostface w/ Jackie-O “Tooken Back” – I’m not kidding about this – I was really trying to keep myself from posting this, because I had placed a self-imposed moratorium on Ghostface and Method Man, since they’ve both been on so many tracks on Fluxblog over the past year. I had to cave; this song is just too perfect. It’s from the brand new Pretty Toney Album, which is somehow even better than Supreme Clientele, which just shouldn’t be probable. The new record is made up of nonstop soul samples, sometimes even including full verses and choruses from the old records played underneath rapped verses. As a whole, it almost sounds as though Ghostface is rapping over a complete episode of Downtown Soulville. It shouldn’t work, but the man pulls it off.

Elsewhere: Fans of Strangers With Candy should check out the MP3 of the documentary which inspired the character Jerri Blank on this site, which also includes photos and a transcript of the film. (Thanks to Sharpeworld!)