El-P remixes Justin Bieber

WORLD PREMIER: @justin­bieber BABY (EL-P DEATH MIX) http://bit.ly/a93K72

Seri­ously folks, this is what music is about. Cre­at­ing a lis­ten­able bang­ing piece of music out of crappy bull­shit. El-P just announced via Twit­ter his remix of Justin Bieber’s track Baby. Hon­estly, I’ve never lis­tened to this guy girl — what­ever it is, but El Pro­ducto shows his skills once more!

Go and get the track (Justin Bieber — Baby (El-P Death Mix)) here , and join the con­ver­sa­tion on Twit­ter.

Of Hooptys And Hovercrafts — where’s DefJux heading?

This year, a decade after start­ing DEF JUX and after over­see­ing the releases of some incred­i­ble albums includ­ing the forth­com­ing release of my dear late and great friend Camu Tao’s bril­liant “KING OF HEARTS” LP, I’m step­ping away from my duties as artis­tic direc­tor for the label to con­cen­trate on what I love most: being a pro­ducer and an artist full time. This is some­thing I’ve been con­tem­plat­ing for a few years now, and can’t think of a bet­ter time or, with the even­tual release of Camu’s record, a more poetic way to tran­si­tion into a new direction.

Let’s hope for all of us this means not the begin­ning of the end of  the most inno­v­a­tive and inde­pend­net hiphop label of our times. Apper­ently they real­ized some­thing has to change:

The evo­lu­tion of this indus­try is, in my opin­ion, excit­ing, inevitable and it would be nice to see the DEFINITIVE JUX brand be a part of it.

I’m excited as hwell.

Read the rest of El-P’s announce­ment to retire as CEO of Defin­i­tive­Jux and focus on his music.

El-P — How To Serve Men

Nice video of El-P’s lat­est track “How To Serve Man”, released on the label’s sam­pler DefJux Presents… IV. Good news, he is cur­rently work­ing on his third stu­dio album, ten­ta­tively titled Can­cer for Cure. To keep  posted check out the blog of Definitve Jux’s mas­ter­mind!

That’s not all: Adult Swim just released another one of their free mix albums, titled ATL RMX.

On ATL RMX, var­i­ous abstract beat-music types like Hud­son Mohawke, SALEM, and Dam-Funk (as well as wild cards like HEALTH and Mem­ory Tapes) remix tracks from Atlanta rap­pers like Young Dro, OJ DaJuice­man, and Play­boy Tre. So if you’ve ever wanted to hear Gucci Mane’s play­fully blunted drug talk mixed with Fly­ing Lotus’s play­fully blunted squig­gles, now’s your chance. Also of note: Prefuse 73 chops up Shawty Lo’s horn-funk banger “Dey Know”, and Young Jeezy gets the El-P treat­ment. Worlds collide!

This fine piece of music reminds me of the leg­endary Definitve Swim sam­pler, also avail­able for free! And if you still don’t have enough of pro­gres­sive, strange noises, check out Definitve Jux’s vimeo chan­nel to find this music visu­al­ized, which makes it even more awe­some!