A couple of days ago, So Me was in Belgium and he was kind enough to sign Lil KNOTORYUS’ jacket.

Today, the “Numbers On The Board” video he directed for Pusha T, one of the best lyricists IN THE GAME dropped.

Watch it after the jump …

“Can’t a b**** live and say I bought her Michael Kors?”

HELL NAW, Pusha! (but that beat & video tho ?)

Here’s PUSHA T – NUMBERS ON THE BOARD

(above image : Daft Punk by Hedi Slimane via Dazed Digital)

What a glorious night. I just came back from an awesome SAVAGES concert at Botanique -tell you more later- to the glorious news that you can now pre-listen the full new Daft Punk album.

So without further ado : find the tracklist and the link after the jump!

DOWNLOAD LINK HERE

Tracklist :

1. “Give Life Back to Music” (featuring Nile Rodgers)
2. “The Game of Love”
3. “Giorgio by Moroder” (featuring Giorgio Moroder)
4. “Within” (featuring Chilly Gonzales)
5. “Instant Crush” (featuring Julian Casablancas)
6. “Lose Yourself to Dance” (featuring Pharrell Williams and Nile Rodgers)
7. “Touch” (featuring Paul Williams)
8. “Get Lucky” (featuring Pharrell Williams and Nile Rodgers)
9. “Beyond”
10. “Motherboard”
11. “Fragments of Time” (featuring Todd Edwards)
12. “Doin’ It Right” (featuring Panda Bear)
13. “Contact” (featuring DJ Falcon)

MORE DAFT PUNK HERE

If you’re looking for something to watch online, try ‘High Maintenance’ now. The whole series is high quality, but especially the most recent cycle of episodes is a sheer pleasure every second of the way with effortless chuckles, gasps and quotables …

… and it’s free and you barely have to move your finger to watch the whole thing.

Watch ‘Jonathan’ feat. stand-up Hannibal Buress, who’s showing all the signs of becoming our new favourite comedian.

You’ll find my other favourite episodes below. I’m not going to set it up any further. Just watch it.

The series’ creators (Katja Blichfeld and Ben Sinclair) were kind enough to take some time out for a

KNOTORYUS interview.

What was the spark that led to creating ‘High Maintenance’?
Two summers ago, we were really thrillin on Six Feet Under and Party Down. We liked the clever episodic devices they employed – Six Feet had that cool death sequence at the beginning of every episode and Party Down switched up their locations and guest cast every time. While very different from each other, both shows feel incredibly honest to us even (and especially) in the comedic moments. We just got super inspired and out came High Maintenance, more or less.

Did you think of it as a webseries right away, or did you consider pitching it as a TV-show first?
Honestly, we never had any aspirations of pitching it. The webisode format felt like a low-stakes way to try our hands at filmmaking. We’d all (Katja, Ben, and Russell) had been wanting to work on a project together. To date, this has basically been a fun thing we do on the weekends with our friends.

How long does it take you to write one episode?
We keep an idea board going in our home (Katja and Ben) and we’re constantly adding ideas to it, be they characters, jokes, situations, actors we want to work with, etc. Over time, these ideas naturally start to correlate with one another and once that happens, it takes us about a day to complete a draft. We usually do 2 or 3 more revisions over the course of the following week and leave a little bit of room for on-set improv.

Is it a collaborative process?
Absolutely. We work with people we admire and trust, who happen to be immensely talented.

How does the story evolve, usually?
Our stories tend to be amalgams of experiences we or our friends and family have had. We just take those and insert them into the formula that we’ve established.

Does it change a lot in between the writing and the final edit?
Not really. The story and characters always remain intact, though sometimes we have to let go of some of our favorite jokes or line readings in the interest of pacing. We encourage our actors on set to play with phrasing. We always aim for the dialogue to sound as authentic as possible. If a line isn’t working or a word sounds false coming from a performer, we tend to cut it.

Is there a difference in the way an episode is created now when you compare it to the first episodes?
Oh sure. There was much more improvisation happening in the beginning of the series – from the way we constructed the scripts to the way we shot. We’ve streamlined our process considerably. We’ve come to trust ourselves a bit more and that’s lead to an expansion of the High Maintenance universe, so to speak.

Some of the most recent cycle of episodes have been dealing with heavy subjects like life-altering diagnoses or gun violence, but they handle it in a way that’s anything but heavy without losing impact. I’m someone who tends to see his writing dragged down by too much weight when I try to touch upon things that matter to me. Any thoughts on how you handle that?
We just try to balance tragedy with comedy and never get overly sentimental. For every gun shot, there’s a fart. Or something like that.

Say something nice about Hannibal Buress.
Hannibal is effortlessly hilarious.

Say something nasty about Hannibal Buress.

He masterminded the Challenger space shuttle explosion in 1986.

Favourites list

*Favourite anecdote about living in New York
Ben had a long (and quite civil!) conversation with a crazy homeless woman on the subway about why she was crazy.

*Favourite novel
Ben – One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, and yes, he has read many books since high school.
Kaja – The World According to Garp.

*Favourite webseries
Broad City.

*Favourite TV-shows
Same shit as everyone else. HBO-fare.

*Favourite non-fiction books
Katja – The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls.
Ben -  Anything by Mary Roach.

*Favourite stand-up comedians
Hannibal Buress, Louis C.K., Margaret Cho, John Mulaney, Zach Galifianakis, Max Silvestri, Kristen Schaal & Kurt Braunholer, Amy Schumer, Bobby Tisdale

*Favourite album (right now + ever)

We tend to listen to a lot of Steely Dan “radio” on Spotify. God help us, we love that drippy, 70s Southern California AM radio sound.

Otherwise…

now
Katja: Nothing from this year has beat out last year’s Planet Orange for me. Frank Ocean! He’s perfect.
Ben: I keep listening to these kids called The Morning Benders, which is an awful name for a band. Their song Cold War is featured in our trailer for cycle three.

ever
both: Kid A.

 KNOTORYUS FAVOURITE HIGH MAINTENANCE EPISODES

High Maintenance:  Brad Pitts

High Maintenance:  Elijah

High Maintenance:  Olivia

High Maintenance:  Heidi

Watch the whole series here.

Listening to the music of Lustmord can be like brushing against

‘a joy left blank’

a phrase I’m humbly borrowing from R.M. Rilke. (One of his other verses ‘For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror’ also comes to mind.)  The new

Lustmord

album on the ‘Blackest Ever Black’ label is called ‘The Word as Power’ and uses voices as sounds in themselves, without any literal meaning. One of these voices you’ll recognise as Maynard James Keenan from Tool.

This preview of snippets alone is enough to blow every piece of crud that was clotting your brain straight out. Please don’t listen to this on your tinny ‘they-came-with-the-computer’ speakers. Headphones on, people.

This is Lustmord live.

My first encounter with Lustmord was on his collaboration with

The Melvins

which is less of a monastery soundtrack and more of a running/workout soundtrack.

And since Maynard James Keenan from

Tool

is on the next album, this is a good excuse to dig up this 20-minute Lustmord remix of ‘Schism’.

Adult Swim released the full version of their mixtape

Garage Swim

and it’s a jangly and filthy scuzzbucket full of wonder and basically my favourite thing right now with exclusive cuts from Black Lips, Mikal Cronin and more. “Cruisin’” should be on every goddamn playlist on every goddamn radio on the planet this summer.

NPR just put up a full stream of The Great Gatsby OST executive produced by Jay-Z.

Link + tracklist after the jump …

LISTEN HERE

TRACKLIST :

‘$100 Bill’ – Jay-Z
‘Back To Black’ – Beyoncé +Andre 3000
‘Bang Bang’ – will.i.am
‘A Little Party Never Killed Nobody (All We Got)’ – Fergie + Q Tip + GoonRock
‘Young And Beautiful’ – Lana Del Rey
‘Love Is The Drug’ – Bryan Ferry with The Bryan Ferry Orchestra
‘Over The Love’ – Florence + The Machine
‘Where The Wind Blows’ – Coco O. of Quadron
‘Crazy In Love’ – Emeli Sande and The Bryan Ferry Orchestra
‘Together’ – The xx
‘Heart’s A Mess’ – Gotye
‘Love Is Blindness’ – Jack White
‘Into The Past’ – Nero
‘Kill And Run’ – Sia

The Great Gatsby will be in movie theatres May 17