April 30, 2005
Get It While It's Hot
This month's Certified Bananas MP3 mix is now online. Click here to get it. Once again it's loaded with great mash-ups—Destiny's Child and Three 6 Mafia over Liquid Liquid, Outkast over The Cure—and one unexpectedly great passage: a "chopped and screwed" version of Modest Mouse's "Float On." I cannot recommend these DJs highly enough. I may soon time one of my Boston art pilgrimmages to coincide with one of their DJ nights in Cambridge.
On a related note, did anyone else notice that this article in the Times ("The Strangest Sound in Hip-Hop Goes National," April 17) completely neglected to mention that DJ Screw's death was caused by his addiction to cough syrup? And how yes, the music is great and all that, but that there is a whole community of men (and women?) in Houston who are getting fucked up and giving themselves serious health problems? Maybe I'm just some sanctimonious white outsider, but I felt it deserved at least a passing mention. I digress.