The Roundup 2010

Well here it is the last day of 2010, and what a fucking year it has been. The World Cup, the HSC, the world's obsession with 3D, the birth of HGH, disasterous mines, North Korea are the ones that just come to my head. But let's look past that to what else this year had to offer.

The Music
I was excited with the prospects that 2010 brought to the electro, dubstep and hip-hop scenes with albums set to be released by Muscles, Bag Raiders, Miami Horror, Grum, Crookers (electro) Rusko, Borgore, Skream (dubstep) and Spit Syndicate, Sage Francis, Shad, The Roots and the always elusive Chico and the Man (the collabo of Tonedeff and Kno set to drop in '08) (hip-hop). For the most part all the albums lived up to their expectations.

Without further let me countdown the music that mattered to me in 2010.

Songs To Raise Your Dead Spirits

Sabzi (producer half of Blue Scholars) and a friend of his named Kelsey got together to form a little side project duo under the alias, Made In Heights. Some ethereal beats by Sabzi and beatiful vocals from Kelsey make this perfect winter EP; in the meantime our Australian summer will happily accept this Christmas present for later use.

(p.s. Words from Sabzi himself "Geo and I are happy to announce that Cinemetropolis is fully mixed and on its way to mastering." Get geed!)

Season's Greetings

"Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house
  Not a creature was stirring, except for the count..."

Merry Christmas Everyone, X-Mas mix to drop sometime tomorrow

Merry Christmas Eve!

New Blu & Exile collabo, absolutely stoked for a new album. Below The Heavens was an instant classic, if I may say so.  

Also recently, Horrorshow covered a few Aussie classics in their concerts including Ben Lee's "Cigarettes Will Kill You". Here's a free download to their studio recording featuring the lovely Jane Tyrell.

  Horrorshow - Cigarettes Will Kill You by Elefant Traks

Seriously though, Miss Tyrell, if you ever come across this, I'd just like to let you know that I'd never be a cigarette to you (L)_(L).

Walking On Sunshine.

Nevermind the rainy weather today, it's time to feel good!

My go-to celebration song this year.

HSC results came out today and I'm absolutely stoked. Over the fucking moon. On cloud 9. Cloud 92.15, to be precise. Hurrrrrrrrrrr.

Massive props to FSHS class of 2010 for bringing the motherfucker home. Though we've been beaten down in the past several years, had our backs to the wall with a ne'er ending onslaught of  foes coming our way, we kept our heads high and brought the mighty Fort back  to 13th place in the state. The state . The only comparison that comes to mind, really, is the battle at Helm's Deep when Gandalf The White returns to fuck everyone up.

Heaters gonna heat

(Even though fuck the Heat)