i know its a terrible habit but i was reading the metro over someone’s shoulder this morning when i copped a load of the headline ‘Legacy of J Dilla’. not bad for a free rag which will just about last the length of the northern line, and certainly enough to cheer me up on the glitchy, delay-ridden tube journey to work.

and why was the metro heralding the bay area’s finest? because today is stones throw at koko, kiddos!

i for one am totally psyched - Madlib (live y’all!), Peanut Butter Wolf, J Rocc and Percee P in a wicked venue, mere minutes from hl’s daytime hq… what’s not to love?
and yezzur, horse latitudes’ll be there too (thanks to Spine Magazine and Fat City) so to celebrate/inspire/make you a little bit jealous if you’re not going here’s a Stones Throw snackette…

Lootpack - On Point

here at horse latitudes we’re all about spreading the love.

sharing the good times.

getting the word out.

now it just so happens that a lot of that good work/word/love comes from right inside of horse latitude’s paddocks. and yezzur, i’m about to extend our equine metaphor futher by calling the source of today’s rump shaking slice of goodness, mr teacakes, a stablemate… or possibly a stablelad.

either way, the boy has done worked his tweaking magic and come up with a primo re-edit of a primo track. I know this is the second aguilera re-edit i’ve posted but i’m a sucker for that brass hook and drum break which is what makes this version even better.
show your appreciation by being one of his imaginary myspace friends or heading down to sambalanco this saturday night and offering up a miracle five to the boy wonder.

its teatime with miss Xtina. y’heard.

Teacakes - Christina’s Boogaloo

I sometimes wonder if I actually prefer looking book covers and imagining how great the book is, to actually reading the thing at all.

I guess that makes me a wee bit shallow.

It’s the same with music, I quite often read a description of a track and it will sound so amazing in my head that it is almost not worth buying the damn thing cause I’ll just be disappointed.

I remember spending hours checking out the blue note covers books, imagining how dope the music was before I really got into jazz(and to be honest sometimes I wonder if I shouldn’t have just stopped there-stopped while it was all just wonderful promise)

I read somewhere that unrequited love is the purest kind of love, cause it never gets tainted with reality and therefore disappointment. It’s not. It’s just a twisted, imaginery thing which is played out in the mind of the unrequited, never becoming real. A shallow, narcassistic imitation of the truth, a bird that never leaves the nest and never gains the strength to fend for it’s self .

So I ended up perservering with jazz, bought loads of awful records and then after a while found some good ones.

Like this,

Max Roach-Effie*
(and the cover, just in case you’re wondering, is pretty average)
*thank you orgyinrhythm

A dear friend of horse latitudes, the enormously talented ms penny neville-lee is currently included in the prestigious John Moores 24 Exhibition at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool.

As someone very occasionally gripped with the urge to set bristle to canvas (i’ve currently got two half finished paintings taunting me from my walls) i know how difficult, time consuming and occasionally frustrating painting can be - plus how rewarding and full of delight it is. Still, I’m always inspired by Penny’s devotion to her painting and how she’s fostered her considerable talent in the five or more years I’ve known her and the John Moores 24 is a pretty big deal - 24 of the UK’s best contemporary painters and a significant part of the Liverpool Biennial.

This painting (which you can see until November 24th at the Walker if you’re inclined to a notherly direction) always makes me think of Iron and Wine and as i’ve been rather immersing myself in Sam Beam output this weekend (pretty much exclusively) here is a snippet of his subpop released genius.

No doubt I’ll post more about Iron & Wine soon - they’re a band worthy of a post all their own, but in the meantime for the uninitiated here’s a cut from their last full album Our Endless Numbered Days to enjoy as a soundtrack to ‘Out of Season’.
We’re nothing if not interactive here at hl…

Iron & Wine - Each Coming Night