MIA :Marc by Marc SS08 : from frillr.com

I love DJ-ing in Jamaica. I think DJ-ing was invented here (lol). The placed is drenched in beats and bass at every turn. I was at a party tonight and got in trouble for playing Peaches " I U She". If you know the sentiment to that song you would know it was a direct provocation . That said cruised through frillr.com for my daily digest of all the SS08 ads that are dropping now in all the glossies. To my delight I bumped into MIA posing for Marc by Marc . Yay Marc! He made us happy by venerating the goddess. MIA was the very first post in TI back in August, and in that upload we prayed for the sight of our London lady laying down some ruling imagery as a latter day fashion icon. Dreams do come true! So with MIA in the middle, here's TI's playlist of 10 tracks we loved during 2007, in the sequence we would play them at a party.

Calvin Harris: Acceptable In the 80's: I Created Disco
Bright, brittle plastic dance pop always gets the party started right

In Flagranti:G***** Blue Room: Wronger Than Anyone Else
Very rail thin, drop dead, deadpan nightclubbing gla-mour

Black Ghosts: Face:Afterhours Ibizia
This song's been around a bit but it makes me just want to slip into a Lanvin tux and go!

Black Devil Disco Club:Coach Me:28 After
Very sinister, super-creepy. Totally Pre-Guliani Times Square strip joint

Van Sudenfed:The Rhinohead:Tromatic Reflexxions
I can't listen to the latter half of this LP now but the Rhinohead still gets it done...and that Fledermaus video on youtube! Hilarious and iconic!

Preparations and Interregnums:Prefuse 73: Warp

Guillermo Scott Herren is a producer who switches back and forth between the worlds of hip-hop and IDM. In his hip-hop mode he has collaborated with the likes of Ghostface and Mos Def as well as a slew of Dirty South rappers. But I truly love his more experimental bent recorded under aliases such as Savath & Savalas, Delarosa and Asora and Piano Overlord. His best known work however, is under the name Prefuse 73 and his new album "Preparations and Interregnums" is sounding to my subjective ears, like a glitch masterpiece of our moment. True, it is not for everyone as it is a terribly abstract work.The deluxe version features 30 tracks split into a "double LP" concept. The first half is beats, the second half is more a modern classical exploration via treated versions of conventional instruments. "Preparations and Interregnums" is not the usual dance throb-throb that we push on TI but I'm telling you, there is something about that this album that is beautiful and mesmerizing, if slightly ahead of its time. Skip through it on itunes and judge for yourself. It is only a matter of months before Bjork and such get into Prefuse 73.