Baauer and Just Blaze

[big_lurch]

Hip-hop’s most illustrious hit-maker and LuckyMe’s party catalyst have unveiled the first fruits of their recent studio collaboration.

Just Blaze recently picked up where his 2009 4/4 experiment ‘Exhibit GFP’ left off, releasing the house thumper ‘BEHOLD! (Exhibit J)’ (which itself pulled apart his classic Jay Elect ‘Exhibit A’ beat’). Baauer, meanwhile, has been mangling The Prodigy and receiving end-of-year accolades off the back of calling card ‘Harlem Shake’. The pair are about to begin touring together, and, more excitingly, have been working on some collaborative beats to boot. The first of those tracks, ‘Higher’, has just hit the web.

You can hear traces of both artists in ‘Higher’, which fuses Baauer’s screwiness with Just Blaze’s widescreen sensibilities. It’s arguable that the latter’s bombast slightly overwhelms the former’s goofball charm, but it’s still a formidable bit of souped-up hip-hop, with more than a touch of TNGHT’s remix of Kanye West’s ‘Cold’ (which, as it happens, has just been ripped and upped). There’s also some nifty pinching from Jay-Z’s The Blueprint cut ‘You Don’t Know’ – produced by Just Blaze, naturally. [via Hypetrak]

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[magma]

I can't listen to this at work, but the thread title gave me a minor erection.

Could be awful, mind.

[hubb]

DJ Paulie D would play this

[hifi]

shot

[Naan_Bread]

tru swag this

[constrobuz]

sounds like your average wack trap beat with horrible synth presets but with slightly better drums. then take the worst element of dubstep, 2ND DROP!!!! OMG!!!!!!, OH WAIT, REWIND 3RD DROP LOL WHY?? CUZ THIS BANGS 2 HARD BRU and you got this track.

[Naan_Bread]

If you were out and you heard this you would boogie just admit it.

It's a hype-as-fuck track for sure, but it's fun and would go off

so what?

[bigfootspartan]

Shit goes hard, I don't care if it's hype or not, I'd gladly rinse it for a bit till it gets old

[hugh]

tru swag this

word. Just Blaze is a don and Baauer ain't half bad either

[gwa]

it sounds like every other trap song out there


fucking pony

[hugh]

so where can you hear this tune?

[kidshuffle]

meh

i thought this could be alright when just blaze was behind it....but after listening to it again, its just disappointing. those vocals suck doesn't even sound like blaze did anything except the for the sampled bit at the beginning and middle

[chekov]

reaaally not a fan of those trebley synths

[ezza]

trap is the new brostep

tune was obviously gonna sound like that, boring.

[EliteLennon117]

damn i usually like trap, but that tune sucks

[big_lurch]

you guys will complain about anything. baauer is great. no sherm packs for you!

[adtez]

There's about 5 drops in this.
Does no one else find that in itself a bit pathetic?

[Genevieve]

Yeah man, more than 2 drops, ferreal? I've laways hated DJ's who'd mix drop after drop for this reason, kills the fucking energy. Now tunes don't even... exist anymore. They're like.. sets of drops. DROPSETS.

[big_lurch]

its a good thing. it gives time for the ladies to headplant upside down against the club walls to twerk their behinds.

[magma]

sounds like your average wack trap beat with horrible synth presets but with slightly better drums. then take the worst element of dubstep, 2ND DROP!!!! OMG!!!!!!, OH WAIT, REWIND 3RD DROP LOL WHY?? CUZ THIS BANGS 2 HARD BRU and you got this track.

Yeah, but it's fun though.

I fully expect I'll find myself dancing to it and going WOOOOAAAAHHH at some point.