Brooklyn based Elucid opens 2011 with part one of Super Chocolate Black Simian, a two-part mixtape representing hip-hop’s voice of the future present. Over production by Breakage, Lorn, El-P, Jamie Vex'd, Mexicans With Guns, Skream and more, Elucid thrashes out with facemelting lyricism. Heavy ...

I think this was my favorite interview of the year. And my favorite artistic discovery.

This album is pretty amazing. Wasn't really familiar with Jaytram, but he holds his own Prefuse provides much needed goodness.

From Elucid's "Super Chocolate Black Simian" dropping Jan 2011.

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truefiktion wrote:Duffstep, Daedalus, Zomby, Eskmo, Eprom, Clubroot, Von D

Daedelus' used to be on my list but after seeing his most recent set, he moves the floor.

fractal wrote:

fretn wrote:Zomby or Burial

really? how could you possibly sit still?

Burial I could definitely sit comfortably through.

I think it'd be interesting to see artists performing without any pressure to make people dance...

This is what I'm getting at. I know a few artists have done one off events, or like Nosaj's new visual show. Just wondering if folk would like to see more of it, and if in the end it could be better ...

signals wrote:that would be dumb

Why?

Why?

Yes and no. For music in general I'd say yeah there's a shift happening to accoodate the most common listening environment - little white earbuds. But I think that in genre's like dubstep and others you're getting more than a handful of artists that are pushing things in another direction. In 2010 ...

I stopped lurking to thank you for this.