Music
Originally published on Wednesday, 30th April 2008
While Santogold (aka Santi White) and producer/songwriter John Hill, aka Johnny Rodeo formed the nucleus of this creation, the Santogold landscape is speckled with the flavor of DJ's/Producers and underground fly kids who have rallied behind them to deliver some all around hot shit: The late great Disco D, Switch, Sinden, Freq Nasty, Diplo, Radioclit, leadguitarist Clifford "Moonie" Pusey of Steel Pulse, former Bad Brains drummer, Chuck Treece, Naeem Juwan of Spank Rock, M.I.A, and Trouble Andrew or basically some of the best producers and interesting musicians on the planet.
Artist: Santogold
Title: "L.E.S. Artistes"
Catalogue Number: MPRSCD2
Label: atlantic / lizard king
Release Date: Released 25 April (digital) / 5 May (physical) - UK only
Artist website
Myspace website
Video on YouTube
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Key lyric: "I hope it will be worth what I give up, If I could stand up mean for the things that I believe"
Also worth investigating this week: The Japanese PopStars "ep 1" [Gung Ho]