Robyn - Konichiwa Bitches (via modularpeople)
Clearly the greatest thing since sliced bananas.
Robyn - Konichiwa Bitches (via modularpeople)
Clearly the greatest thing since sliced bananas.
DJ ZedVantz’s Turntable Jazz Mix.
Originally heard it through Dom, who heard it through electricgecko.
Very, very cool.
What inspired the mix was that “Swing Set” song by Cut Chemist featured on the first Jurassic 5 album. Its also the last song on this mix. It was old swing/jazz music mixed with break beats. I wanted more! So, I started collecting/searching for hiphop instrumentals with jazz samples. I made a few mixtapes but nothing that stuck. Then in recent years all these great labels started popping up - Jazz & Milk, Melting Pot etc - so I just took all the beats I had and kept filtering it down to the best of the best, with an end result being this nice short 35 min mix; no filler, dope from beginning to end. - DJ ZedVantz
Someone seems to have put up a collections of the works of Max Ernst, an innovator of Dadaism and Surrealism. Thanks to whoever put up the site, I’ve now had a chance to discover his incredible work. It’s amazing. Check it out.
“This is the legendary collage masterpiece of Max Ernst (b. 1891) , one of the leading figures of the surrealist movement and among the most original artists of the 20th century. From old catalogue and pulp novel illustrations, Ernst produced this series of 182 bizarre and darkly humorous collage scenes of classic dreams and erotic fantasies which seem mysteriously to lure the unconscious into view … Stern, proper-looking women sprout giant sets of wings, serpents appear in the drawing-room and bed chamber, a baron has the head of a lion, a parlor floor turns to water on which some people can apparently walk while others drown …” - All Art
Here’s his Wikipedia page.

Academy of Achievement’s Exclusive Interview: Wynton Marsalis (via KristenReardon, YouTube)
I just got back from seeing Wynton Marsalis perform with Jazz at Lincoln Center during the Vancouver International Jazz Fest. It was absolutely incredible. I was also fortunate enough to have seen Dave Brubeck perform a few nights before - who also took part in the festival - and so, understandably, I’ve been in a Jazz state of mind. This clip - which I stumbled on out of chance, it seems - beautifully captures what I understand to be the fundamental and unique quality of music. Enjoy!