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Today I’m being an mp3blog selecta! Here’s some lovely music that you should be listening to instead of that new buzz band!

* Farben - Live At Sahara Tahoe, 1973 (Little White Earbuds) : glitchy electronica
* Differnet - Perpetual Summer (Homemade Avantgarde)
: ambient/textural
* Mou, lips! - looking for symmetry in the laws of nature (Homemade Avantgarde) : Once again from the “On how a picture can sound” release
* Stars of the Lid - And their refinement of the decline (Shameless Complacency) Ambient / from their new release.

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Stars of the Lid & Eluvium - Heaven Water Fire Earth

* Herbert - Back to the Start (Brooklyn Vegan) : Might be my fave Herbert track, anticipating his new release Score.
* 120 days - SXSW (woxyblog “The Futurist”.) : electropop
* 50 Hertz - Ring of Fire (My old Kentucky Blog) : electropop / MOKB’s covers project has over 15 “Ring of Fire” covers, this is by far the funniest cover by Swedish mockelectro band 50 Hertz.
* MF DOOM - Elite Scooby Doo Shit (Gorilla vs. Bear) : hiphop / rare MF Doom piece.
* Redman ft. Method Man - Blow Treez (The Passion of the Weiss) : hiphop / been reading mixed reviews about his new album, but this is some good dubby shit!

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Redman interviewed on High Times potcast.

* Polish Jazz Quartet - Przechadzka Pusstymi Ulicami (Waxidermy) : jazz / quality retro Polish jazz
* Jumbonics - Bubble Drop (Aurgasm) : downtempo & nujazz / great piece by leftfield hop crew Jumbonics.
* Rare 80’s hiphop 12″ rips from Stretch Armstrong’s blog Konstant Kontakt : hiphop
* Weekend Steve Mix by Allez-Allez (alainfinkielkrautrock) : rare retro disco mix / YSI be quick.

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Tommy Seebach Band - Apache

* Ni Hao! - Wiper (tenzenmen) : spazz punk / if you liked afrirampo
* Ni Hao! - Romantic Scratch (Tenzenmen) : spazz punk / you’ll like these japanese all girl trio.
* ILiKETRAiNS - Citizen (The Daily Growl) : postrock / instrumental rock

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Korpi Ensemble - Like Father Like Son

* Ted Leo & The Pharmacists - Live at The Boston Opera House Full Set (Bradley’s Almanac) : indie rock / A full live set from 2006.
* Born Against - Self Titled EP (7 inch punk) : hardcore punk / I reject the corporate sellout.
* A spoonful of Emo (Can you see the sunset) : emo hardcore / now this is a great history lesson to all the new wave emo kids and/or emo haters on what the first/second wave emo was about featuring 39 tracks from Braid, Jejune, Get up kids, Hot Water Music, Mineral, Knapsack, Sunny Day Real Estate, Jawbreaker, Cap N Jazz, Nation of Ulysses, Rites of Spring, Fugazi and more. Salivating!

To:read

* Alan Vega interview (Alainfinkielkrautrock)
* The April edition of Textura magazine with around 50 reviews.
* Watch VBS.TV, the official tv of Vice guys, with great micro music / street life documentaries
* Wired on P2P and music economy.
* Microtonal Music on Wikipedia.

So this could be old news for some of you, as Style IT has covered it before, but for the ones who haven’t heard Karl Lagerfeld, the fashion mogul has compiled a 2CD downtempo series and surprisingly it’s good.