Qwel and Maker – “Long Walkers”

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Qwel and Maker are set to release Beautiful Raw in a couple of weeks, May 7th to be exact. The Galapagos 4  mainstays are offering this single, “Long Walkers,” for your listening pleasure to pregame it.

Nicely composed and put together as things usually are from the Typical Cats camp. The new album should be dope.  The duo released a video for this track as well, hit up here. I’m not a huge fan of videos where no one raps on camera, but this joint is at least comical and has the ups and downs, climaxes and happy endings of classical theater. Seriously.

“Don’t want my mp3.” -Neil Young

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This post has been deleted a number of times already. In its prior versions, I cried mostly about digitalization and how it facilitates the short-lived shelf lives of today’s music.  And how I still prefer buying any format of music before settling on digital, which, aside from what I do on here, I’m almost completely opposed to supporting. But I kind of sounded like a dinosaur dick, so here I am now with this abbreviated version.

Moving on. Now the point of this post is to let those who read our site know how I’m opening a new section — “Recent Purchases.” Doing so will hopefully encourage me to write more about the new music I’m buying and, just as importantly, the music I’m still catching up on. I buy primarily CD’s, but also scoop up a fair share on vinyl. My cassette collection is now at two, thanks to this catastrophe. I’ve marked this bad boy right here as the first of “Recent Purchases” because that post alone cost a few hundred dollars and it’s a good example of what to expect in the future.

The following is most of what I’ve bought so far in 2013…

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***** ABC’s with TECB ***** 2012 ***** YEAR in MUSIC *****

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2012 was big for music. John Mayer made a comeback. Green Day dropped three albums. El-P put more than his name into every critic’s mouth. Frank Ocean and the rest of OFWGKTA came out of the closet. A band named “fun.” existed. Pussy Riot happened and cries of injustice saturated Facebook statuses until it was time to Instagram lunch. And Barack Obama signed to Roc Nation. Lucky for me, things I care about also happened in the past three-hundred and sixty-five days. This is my 2012 year-end post. An alphabetized breakdown of the year’s highlights in music. I hope you enjoy. Creek my gangnam style:

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Batsauce – “Hallucinations” ft. Lady Daisey [VIDEO]

It’s nice to know at least some people aren’t put-off by our constant foul mouths over here at TECB. Thanks, Bat, for appreciating the P.T. reference and reaching out to us with the new video. Which gets quite nice, by the way. Like a little dose of fear and loathing on Galapagos Islands. Except it’s in the desert. But that was all a play on the song title and record label and movie and…oh well, whatever, never mind.

Shouts to Batsauce, G4, Kurt Vonnegut, Hunter S. Thompson, and Kurt Cobain.

And I’m out.

Typical Cats — “The Crown” [VIDEO]

These four are quite possibly the most diverse group in the history of hip-hop — in every sense of the word. They’re anything but typical.

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