Rubin Recommends

(Part of the Have You Heard? mix series)

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Here’s our next installment of “Have You Heard?” mixes. A combination of African (north, west and south) and Jamaican tunes with a little Turkish (Selda) thrown in for good measure. Also included is possibly the greatest reggae song (‘Uptown Top Ranking’) ever written. Thanks to Shawn for turning me onto it!

Max Romeo & The Upsetters ‘I Chase The Devil’
Amral’s Trinidad Cavaliers Steel Orchestra ’90% Of Me Is You’
Paulo Bagunça e a Tropa Maldita ‘Apelo’
Althea & Donna ‘Uptown Top Ranking‘
William Onyeabor ‘Body and Soul’
The Funkees ‘Ole’
Barrington Levy ‘Here I Come’
The Witch ‘Lazy Bones’
Selda ‘Ince Ince’
Tinariwen ‘Dualahila ar Tesninam’
Moussa Dombia ‘Yeye Mousso’
Ali Farka Toure ‘Inchana Massina, Mali’
Thomas Mapfumo ‘Zeve Zeve’
Reggie Stepper ‘Cu-Oonuh’

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(part of the Have You Heard? mix series)

So this is something new I’m going to try on a weekly basis (I hope.) These are the songs I listened to on repeat all weekend. The weather was nice, it was a really great weekend.

So here’s a little mix:

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BRAHMS – Another Time (subscribe to their mailing list and get their 4 song demo EP free.)
Buffalo Tom – Mountains Of Your Head
Drake – Over (this is my new favorite Drake song.)
Cloud Nothings – Turning On
Dr Dog – Shadow People
Modern English – I Melt With You
Appleseed Cast - Innocent Vigilent Ordinary (I saw them play Low Level Owl Vol 1 & 2 this weekend. Go see it if you can.)
Seamonster -  Bearsuit

(The above graphic was made by my buddy Blake E. Marquis using his typeface Farnum that you can check out here.)

Here at Rubin Recommends we’re launching a new mixtape feature called “Have You Heard?”. The idea is to have friends and compatriots curate mixes of tunes that might otherwise have gone unnoticed (or are just generally KILLER). Themes will be obvious or obscure, songs will be loud or soft, downloads will be fast or slow.

To start things off we have a mix called “Music That Happens After Something Happens“. It will greatly aid you in partying forever. It’s about, well, music that happens after something happens.

Gang Gang Dance ‘House Jam’
The Yummy Fur ‘Policeman‘
Micachu ‘Golden Phone’
The Bug ‘Poison Dart’
The Knife ‘Pass This On’
Patrick Cleandenim ‘Stage Fright‘
Hercules and Love Affair ‘Hercules Theme’
The Phenomenal Handclap Band ’15 to 20′
Cold Cave ‘Life Magazine’
Fever Ray ‘Triangle Walks’
Giorgio Moroder ‘Underdog‘
Red Dragon Band ‘Let Me Be Your Radio’
The xx ‘Crystalised’
Telepathe ‘So Fine’
Blond Redhead ‘Elephant Woman’

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