South Central and Gary Numan - Crawl

Gary Numan has been prepping up his album Dead Son Rising and in so doing has been doing duets and guest appearances with artists throughout the industrial/darkwave/whatever dark, dreary music is called these days. The band South Central (sounds kind of hip-hop) has him on a song called "Crawl."

"Crawl" is intense and a bit Skinny Puppy in its sound, so be forewarned. I really enjoy it, actually, but it's certainly not for the layman.

If you listen to more of South Central, they go for a sound alot like The Prodigy. Here is their title track "Society of the Spectacle:"

Lightworks

If that song sounds familiar to you, you probably heard it when J Dilla sampled it with "Lightworks."

Mixtape for Ok-Ni

Awesome stuff from the guys at Stone's Throw Records. Should make your week awesome.

oki-ni presents TRUTH by DaM-FunK by oki-ni

Tycho - From Home

SebastiAn - Embody

Blonde Redhead - Signs Along The Path

Thanks to Blood Is One favorite Asian Dan for this incredible song:

Kanye West Samples Aphex Twin

It's not unusual for hip-hop phenom Kanye West to sample varying genres, but it really threw me for a loop to find out that he had sampled electronica legend Aphex Twin. The song in which he samples Aphex Twin is a pretty chill one with a fairly simple piano loop as a backdrop:

It's certainly not akin to some of the work Aphex Twin is most famous for, like "Come To Daddy" or the infamous "Windowlicker," which has been described as sounding like "robots having sex:"

Well, the song that West sampled is called "Avril 14th." It was released on his 2001 album Drukqs: