Onomatopoeia Exclusive Download: /ˈjedˌīak/ - “Lebanese Blunts” (Danny Brown vs. Beirut)

More exclusive mashup/remix’s today and this time it’s a hipster special featuring Onomatopoeia favorite Danny Brown vs. the Balkan folk sounds of Beirut. It be great to share this one for 4/20 but that’s almost a full year away so instead let’s call this fashionably late like most stoners usually are.  Stream, download and share from below…

Lebanese Blunts (Danny Brown vs. Beirut)

Danny Brown –“Blunt After Blunt" vs. Beirut -"Riptide"

Recorded July 2014 in LIC, NY

146.76 BPM Key G#m 
Design: Jediak

Video: Beirut – “The Rip Tide”

Beirut dropped a video for "The Rip Tide", the title track from their 2011 album. The visually captivating clip was directed by Houmam Abdallah. Frontman Zach Condon shared his thought's on the video below....

"I always felt that "The Rip Tide" wasn't fully able to project its own ambitions in song form.. no matter how it was performed or recorded, it felt contained by sound alone... I wanted more, as I often do with my music, and this is not a bad thing. Growing to accept a song's limits is part of the process of creating and loving them. Which was why I was so excited to see what Houmam had dug into when he picked "The Rip Tide" out of all others for a video. The concept fit, and the product brought the song somewhere that I had only been able to describe to myself, now available for others to see and feel it much more as I had in the process of writing it."

Video: Beirut - "Vagabond"

Beirut has released the new video for "Vagabond", from their 2011 LP The Rip Tide. The clip was directed by Sunset Television and has the feel of a low-budget 1940s war film.

The video, shot at the Greenpoint, Brooklyn hall Warsaw" the directors said. It was inspired by the aesthetic of Milos Forman films from the 1960s. The directors added, "With all the smoking, drinking, and advanced pregnancy, the video will probably be banned from MTV, so we hope lots of people enjoy it on the internet."

Video: WFUV's "The Alternative Side" studio sessoins

Need to waste a couple hours? I suggest trolling through (NYC indie-radio) WFUV 90.7's "The Alternative Side" Youtube channel for hours of live in-house performances featuring the likes of Vetiver, YACHT, Art Brut and more. The videos feel really intimate and low-key but also do a good job of showing how alot of the music is made close ups on finger work and up close vocals. It was hard but I picked out a couple to share.

Man Man - "Haute Tropique"


Beirut - "Port of Call"


James Blake - "Unluck"


WFUV (90.7) is currently doing a donation drive until Oct. 21st and offering a live compilation album featuring some of these tracks and some other goodies. Worth a look at. Check it out here.

Video: Beirut – "Santa Fe"

Here is a fun video for Beirut's "Santa Fe" off of their recently released Rip Tide LP. Glad they chose this as the first video as it was the stand out track for me and the clip does it justice.

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