I work at a record label ( Ba Da Bing Records) and my boss, Ben, is constantly getting new records in. Lately, I have been obsessed with this band from Montreal called Automelodi. how ironic considering my comments on be kind rewind) i’m sure that’s doing your artists a whole lot of good. (update: looks like the label’s really going all out to block anything that’s coming out these days. (mp3 removed on label request, even though i received it as a free download from an contemporary label) just for you, though, i have a delicious preview with “auditorium”, taken off that album and produced by madlib, whose instrumental from his beat konductor funk tribute to indian music is gloriously sampled here. the show also got me listening to mos def’s rap catalogue, particularly his black star collaboration with talib kweli, and right now i can’t wait for his upcoming album the ecstatic to be released. the onscreen partnership between jack black and mos def is hilariously endearing (and sometimes annoying) in their efforts to “swede” or remake the films that black’s character jerry erased (“you’re magnetized!” being my favorite mos line, delivered in exasperated horror – check out 0:30 of the trailer). although it’s gotten rather mixed reviews from critics, i absolutely loved the show, especially with its take on “sweding” in taking swipes at today’s media industry’s paranoia at copyrights and bootlegging, and of course some signature gondry scenes which were magical as always. I’m really behind in my film viewing, but last night i finally got about to watching michel gondry’s be kind rewind.
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