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Mad Decent just announced the release of a 10-track EP of the South Rakkas Crew. Wax is out now. Those who don´t know what that is anymore - it´s alright: digital downloads are to follow in November. Here´s the tracklisting, two snippets and a teaser-mix:

01 // Hotter Than Them feat. Kid Foreigner & Bigga Boss (Extended Mix)
02 // Hotter Than Them feat. Kid Foreigner (Radio Mix)
03 // Real Hot Remix feat. Capleton
04 // Hot Patty feat. Sandy Smith & Professor Murder
05 // Under Mi Sensi feat. Mr. Vegas & Alozade (Retro Mix)
06 // Mad Again feat. New Kidz
07 // Twelve feat. Geefus & Ninja Kid
08 // Test Me Nuh feat. Kid Foreigner
09 // When You Play Dancehall feat. Sandy Smith & Geefus
10 // Carry Feelings feat. T.O.K.

Carry Feelings feat. T.O.K.

Hotter Than Them feat. Kid Foreigner (Radio Mix)

Promo-Mix

This is how a shirt ordered at Threadless in the States looked like arriving in Germany. Maybe we should start selling stickers instead of shirts… (via Wortfeld).

P.S. I wonder how our packages look like reaching their international destinations. Pictures, anybody?

The New York Times features an interesting article on the (high) fashion circus more and more ignoring non-white models. Found on the blog of Jeff Chang - author of “Can´t Stop Won´t Stop – The History of the Hip-Hop Generation”.

This is a little music history lesson brought to you by Cassidey - the inofficial third member of the seen.-team and the official back-up MC of the sound now known as Decent Disco.
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01 // Busy Signal - Street Suttun (Shadow Riddim)
02 // Vybz Kartel - Mi Gun (Shadow Riddim)
03 // Elephant Man - Fan It (Shadow Riddim)
04 // Santogold - Unknown (Switch and Graeme RMX)
05 // Pete Foxxx feat. K.I.Z. - Fieber
06 // Ronny Trettmann - Feierabend
07 // Gentleman feat. Sizzla - Lack of Love
08 // Esau Mwamwaya - Tengazako (Paper Planes Riddim)
09 // Jahcooozi - Flatline
10 // M.I.A. - Jimmy (Dan Carey Radio RMX)

Deadly Dragon Sound selectress Queen Majesty did a tribute to the notorious Beenie Man and Bounty Killa Monday night on her show on East Village Radio. “Not a tune fi tune, the first half hour is Beenie - a lot of his Shocking Vibes tunes, the second is Bounty - some on Jammy’s label and even a Joe Gibb’s amongst others” (via Riott.com). Click here to listen to the show.