Check out this track from Brooklyn artist Santogold. It bangs like M.I.A. on meth. She’s tapped to be big in 2008 by Rolling Stone, the BBC and FADER magazine. Some of her stuff has an 80’s synth/new wave aesthetic, but this beat rivals anything on Kala for being bat-shit crazy.
Santogold @ Myspace
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I dig it, mostly.
But I don’t dig that player, as it chopped the song up into ten or twenty second segments.