Santogold - Top Ranking - A Diplo Dub reviews
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| Rollingstones |
 With her debut, Santogold introduced the world to a seamless punk-electro-dub cross-pollinator. Now comes a mixtape — as sprawling as the official album was tight — in which the Brooklyn artist and her producer, Diplo, flaunt just how many more songs and styles they've got up their sleeves. There's a bit of everything: Santogold remixes (a grime version of "Creator"); cheeky interpolations of LL Cool J's "I Need Love" and the B-52's' "Mesopotamia"; and on the punchy "Give It Up," an appearance by Diplo's romantic and musical ex, M.I.A. Musically, a dub and dancehall flavor predominates; moodwise, spirits are high and tongues are in cheek. (Check the cameo by Mark Ronson, offering to give Santogold an Amy Winehouse-style makeover.) And just for the hell of it, they toss in a jaw-dropper, "Icarus," where Santogold chants and croons over a desolate solo violin — the most purely beautiful record she's come up with yet....full text |
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| Wordpress |
If you know anything about Diplo, you would know that he’s pretty much crazy. His eclectic mixtape-making style is chaos at its best and madness anyways every other time. Diplo’s new project with Santogold, The Top Ranking Mixtape, is just that, the top ranking mixtape on the net right now, and I know I’m a little late to the party (I’ve had it for nearly two weeks now, and knew about it before that), but it’s about time I said some words about it. Better late than never, eh?
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Let’s start with the people behind the music before we take on this immodestly challenging album. Diplo and Santogold. Does this formula sound familiar? It should because only a few years ago (2005?) the brilliant producer from Philly teamed up with genre-defying world-music popstar M.I.A. to make the Piracy Funds Terrorism Vol. 1 mixtape that shocked the hip-hop listening world. M.I.A. was the hottest chick making music back then in a purely underground environment, and Diplo had already established his position in the production world with his baile-funk dub-step mixtape, Favela on Blast (which incidentally, is one album with more baile-anything and Miami bass than one white boy from the states should even know about). It was a total hit. Previewing the greater part of M.I.A.’s up-and-coming Arular and releasing to the masses their first glimpse of the hit single “Galang,” anybody that considered themselves in-the-know had it, or had a problem....full text |
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| Wikipedia |
| Top Ranking features remixes of songs from Santogold's eponymous debut album, as well as remixes of other artists. Santogold also has unreleased songs on the mixtape, including a cover of The Clash's "The Guns of Brixton", which has been altered to reference Brooklyn.[3] "Guns of Brooklyn" and "Get It Up", a collaboration with M.I.A. that heavily samples Gorilla Zoe's "Hood Nigga", were leaked to the blogosphere prior to the mixtape's release.[3][4][5] An alternate version of "Get It Up" featuring Esau Mwamwaya rather than Gorilla Zoe also appeared on the internet.[6] The album was released free of charge for a short period of time on the internet via download.[7]...full text |
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