Things are looking quite promising for Arca, local Brooklyn beat producer and prominent collaborator on Kanye West’s latest effort, Yeezus. The producer released his latest mixtape this morning on his website after nearly a year of silence. The new twenty-five minute mix, simply titled &&&&&, features a collection of strong, perpetually jittery beats that, to my ears, hit harder than some of the Yeezus beats we’ve heard so much of lately.
Yeezus is easily Kanye's darkest record, and with that comes an almost total abandonment of the warm, sample-based sound upon which he built his name. The samples themselves aren't gone, however, they're just different--instead of Curtis Mayfield we get Capleton, instead of Smokey Robinson, TNGHT. Babylon Cartel have assembled a mixtape…
Here's a single-serving Tumblr that re-imagines the Carters and their various friends as personages in famous paintings by Leonardo da Vinci, Rembrandt and etc -- The Carter Family Portrait Gallery! Vivid snapshots of the life and times of The Carters - Jay Z, Beyoncé, and little Blue Ivy - as…
Kanye West is a perpetually divisive, often annoying and incredibly bewildering public figure. But he's still a great producer, an ever-improving MC, and he puts on a live show that's better than almost anyone else's. So thank John Colandra for putting together this really well done concert film of Yeezy's…
