Beat Meat: Beat Your Woman 'til You Get Satisfied

A little of this, a little of that for this week's beat meat.

Apropos of nothing, i happened to stumble across too kick-ass beat tapes that essentially take the catalogues of two heavy weight performers, drop the vocals and ratchet up the funkification. One highlight's Cyndi Lauper, the other Bjork, two of my 80s/90s/00s/10s faves. The DJs involved on both projects have created nice soundscapes that pay homage without being too heavily indebted to the originals. Neither of these are particularly new, but i just found them myself, and since you don't listen to anything i don't tell you to, well, it's new to us, right? Right.

mp3: Gimme, Gimme (Fresh Nerd from The Cyndi Lauper Beat Tape)

mp3: Funky New World (Dert from Talk Strange: A Beat Tape Inspired by Bjork)

Probably realizing that more material means more traffic, the folks at Svetlana Industries continue an impressive outpouring of recent freebies with their latest shortcast. For this round, Brainfeeder impresario Lukid steps back to the turntables for this impressive mix including everyone from Ariel Pink to Sun Araw.

mp3: Shortcast #3 (Lukid from Svetlana Industries Podcast)

Rustie drops his Warp debut with his Sunburst EP, a six-tracker high on dance floor energy. To help free your mind in hopes of your ass following, he's put this single out their for your auditory pleasure.

mp3: Hyperthrust (Rustie from Sunburst EP)

Beat Meet: DJ, Mix Me a Mix Edition

Lots of LOOOONG mixes for this installation of the Beat Meet, so i hope you've got some time mapped out for all this noise i'm bringing your way.

To get things rolling, however, let's start with the thin mint goodness of "Why Like This?," another track from Teebs' forthcoming Ardour. If the first two tracks are any indication, the latest Brainfeeder uber-beat-maestro is going to have his own entry in the "Top 10 Beat Albums of 2010" like so many of his other label mates seem to be doing this year.

mp3: Why Like This? (Teebs from Ardour)

To help Mary Anne Hobbs close out her final show on BBC Radio 1, Burial and Kode9 put together the following mix. If you don't know who MAH is, you probably have no business reading this particular column. Regardless, this mix does not disappoint.

mp3: MAH Mix (Burial & Kode9 from MAH Show)

i keep trying to spread the love for Andreya Triana, but i'm not sure if the message has been well received. Perhaps this mix from the good folks over at The Couch Sessions, highlighting far more of her career than i have, will help to prove my point.

mp3: The Dream Suite Featuring Andreya Triana (JConda from The Couch Sessions Presents...)

If Flying Lotus says to check out a mix, well, you check out a mix. You can decide for yourself whether or not he's on spot this time with the latest from Lukid. Personally, i say the Floating Flower remains on the money with this banger filled with new and exclusive material from the extended Brainfeeder family, but you're big kids now. You can make your own decisions. Hopefully, we've been raising you right, so it's all good.

mp3: brainfeeder mix (Lukid from Brainfeeder Website)

Ed. Note: i don't normally comment on the accompanying post pictures, but is it just me or is the Buddha totally scoping out that DJ's ass? Good on you, Fat Buddha!