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OHO “Free Electron” Posted: 10 Nov 2011 10:00 PM PST There are some deep concerns floating around in OHO‘s “Free Electron”: “Why are there mornings if we don’t wake up?”. “Why are there nights if we don’t flame up?”. Why does mysterious dude singer Oho is creepily eyeing “feed [his] soul and moult like a snake”?. And to all three, we feel the need to reply: “Who cares?”. Not because we’re soulless meanies, but because the song, from the Paris, France-based two-piece’s excellent new EP Land of The Happy (download it here), is the kind of pretty little trifle you just don’t want to waste thinking too deep to as it’s seductive marriage of singer Oho’s jazzy-twee chirps atop a soothing bed of acoustic strums oozes into the ears. Don’t believe us? Press the play button below and you’ll too instantly find your brain wanting to shut off just so that it can aimlessly swim around in the song’s blissful, two-minute euphoria. “Free Electron”: Download audio file (OHO-Free-Electron.mp3) This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

R. Kelly “Shut Up!” Posted: 10 Nov 2011 05:18 PM PST Kellz giving some love to the more grown-up members of his fanbase on last year’s throwback-y Love Letter may have offered a pleasant switch-up from the norm, but on his newly released “Shut Up!”, the Piped Piper makes a triumphant return to the outrageously WTF brand of R&B he (also) does so well. The song, his first release following last July’s emergency throat surgery, strikes a pretty low-key mood musically (consisting of little more than sparse drum claps and some gospel-leaning piano), but that’s only to steer all attention towards Kelly’s as-good-as-before vocal performance and a brow-raising lyric that starts off with him thanking God, the doctors and his fans for helping him through a scary medical crisis before making a sudden turn for the vicious as he plants his crosshairs on the haters. Now, “F*** the haters” songs aren’t exactly an uncommon trope in the urban music world (with at least a quarter of every new hip hop release spent focused on the theme), but Kelly, who has never had a problem bringing the soap opera to his brand of soul (really, dude could make something as mundane as feverishly anticipating the mailman’s arrival exciting), injects an entertaining dose of melodrama to the well-worn subject matter as he takes on the mysterious swarm of detractors who left him “crying mad tears” (words amusingly followed by a brief ad-lib in which he acts out this sound) with their “tsunami of rumors”, false news reports of house loss and mean-spirited “washed up” Tweets among other general Hateryness, all of which culminates in him hilariously encouraging his “real” fans to “sic they ass” (three words that deserve to be the oft-repeated hook of their own separate R. Kelly song). If that wasn’t enough, the final verse of “Shut Up” takes things even more kookier with Kelly turning his phasers to “Beef-Starting” as he hones in on the biggest Hater of them all: an un-named (but sorta obvious) King of R&B wannabe he challenges by basically declaring a “Who Helped Bring The Most Babies Into The World Through Their Sexy-Time Jams” Face-Off. Hmmm. We smell a new “Trigga-Mix” coming the Internet’s way reeeeaaal soon… “Shut Up!”: Download audio file (R.-Kelly-Shut-Up.mp3) This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

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