Heavy in the trunk so they say I'm heavy hittin'

A year ago, all hints of legitimacy in Ludacris’ career seemed long gone. Last year’s “Release Therapy” LP was a complete dud, watered down with vanilla club songs and nauseating sap stories with Mary J. Six months later though, The Artist Formerly Known As Chris Bridges has been putting out bangers of his own as well as a few primetime feature spots. His most recent single, the Clinton Sparks-produced all-star throw down “Down in Da Durty” has been on heavy rotation nation-wide as of late. The spots on Felli Fel's "Get Buck in Here” and DJ Khaled and Vapesta-approved “I’m So Hood Remix” have made Luda an elite feature rapper (see Wayne, obviously). 

mp3: Down in Da Durty (zShare)

mp3: Get Buck in Here (zShare)

mp3: I'm So Hood Remix (zShare)

Octopus Project

The Octopus Project has been around for a few years, but they were completely unknown up until they won a Myspace contest last year to open at Coachella. They sound like the music everyone wants to hear: emotional robot music. Granted, these robots are a bit nerdy, but they still fucking rock (Wikipedia says that's called "indietronica"). Plus, there's definitely enough pulsating percussion to satisfy any electro-dance-fag (Copyright 2008).

It's all instrumental, and it is sick.

Here's some (mp3) highlights from their 2007 album Hello, Avalanche (Peek-a-Boo) --

Mmaj (zShare, 4.7mb)

I Saw the Bright Shinies (zShare, 4.55mb)

Truck (zShare, 2.5mb)

Vampire Weekend

Vampire Weekend is a nice little indie rock band out of NYC. They first came into popularity via the blogosphere, most notably when they were listed on Stereogum, a fine blog I may say. They seem to have the roots of many other great indie bands from NY such as the strokes, yeah yeah yeahs, etc. They all attended prestigious colleges in the area and met up there (Columbia in this case for VW). Their latest album dropped recently and has achieved great reviews with many in the indie rock scene. Their album even scored an impressive 8.8 from pitchfork.

kids dont stand a chance
a-punk

Crookers

The Crookers are yet another duo out of Italy who throw out some real bangers. Very similar to the Bloody Beetroots in my opinion. They have been making remixes, edits, originals that all have been rocking the club scene. I feel like every good video of a studio B performance or any other similar venue needs to have either a crookers track or a justice track in it for it to be well liked. Here are two sawngs from the group, be sure to check these guys out.

knobbers
love to edit

Kosheen, Singles

Kosheen is from the UK. They are a electronica/alt group that have come up with some hits on the UK and UK indie charts. In 2001, they released their first, Resist, and recently in 2007 released with Damage. "Overkill" was their first single on Damage, and has some remnints of The Chemical Brothers, also from the UK. Sian Evans' powerful and non-forgiving vocals, and sinister ambience with Decoder and Markee: they are Kosheen. Anyway, heres singles from there first....and their latest. Enjoy.

Kosheen Site

2007 Damage:

Overkill

2001 Resist

(Slip And Slide) Suicide

Hide U

Pride (Not a single)

Neu Deutsche Härte (New german hardness)

ODD MUSIC MONDAYS

Unfortunately the titles reference has nothing to do with sexuality. However it does happen to deal with a genre of music in Germany. The sound of this genre can be explained as German metal mixed with aspects of industrial music and keyboards and synths. Here at Vapesta we are an equal-opportunity employer in regards to music, so nothing should be left untouched (except for anything by Michael McDonald). So im going to post even more peculiar music every Monday. My favorite NDH band has to be Rammstein with Oomph! at a close second. This sound appeals to very few people and surprisingly I dont consider myself to be in the groups or cliques that support these genre the most (the weird metal kids and hardcore Europeans). Im sure people have heard some Rammstein stuff so I chose to post some of their not as popular stuff.

Sensucht (live)- Rammstein
Moskau- Rammstein
Wo Bist Du- Rammstein
Träumst Du- Oomph!

Nightcrawlers: 1993 single "Push The Feeling On"

Nightcrawlers was a music project put together by John Reid reigning from East Kilbride, Scotland. In '93 the group put out a catchy club track, entitled "Push The Feeling On". However, this track was not the first track I discovered from these guys. "Surrender Your Love" is a similar dub track and is deffinetly a house classic. Love these 2 tracks as well as "Don't Let The Feeling Go" that I'm adding as well. The whole reason im putting these considerably vintage songs on is because regardless there first hit single was in 1993, I however have not been listening to house or electro for even close to that long. I discovered all these songs about a week ago, and for me this shit is on heavy rotation right now. Thats pretty nuts, but whoever hasn't discovered these should give a listen.

Nightcrawlers-Push The Feeling On

Nightcrawlers-Surrender Your Love