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Certified Bananas - Call Around You

So, over on the other side of the country, in my home territory of New England, a couple of guys named P.Nice and Audiovandal have been crazy busy making this spring's finest mix. We get a lot of mixes shoved under our door here at Robots, and while a lot of them are good, not many have that special something that sets them apart, ya know? Like, remember last summer when Certified Bananas made that August Mix last summer and you could just feel the sticky-ass humidity of a northern summer frying your speakers? Well, it happened. And they're back.

The new one is called Sprang and you can pick it up for a measly 9 dollars. So, rather than let us post the whole mix, P.Nice slipped me this little teaser mp3 that drops a few minutes into the full-length. When he first pitched it to me I was skepitcal. Tortoise? And Usher? You gotta be shitting me, right? But damn if it didn't turn out to be crazy good. I love that Tortoise track, and somehow it lends credibility to Usher that he just doens't normally have. The whole thing just makes sense, and they build this big song together. I don't know how these dudes came up with it, but this one of the better blends I've come across in recent memory (most of these things come off gimicky and stupid but every once in a while some next level type stuff comes along -- I'm thinking that Alicia Keys over Gregory Isaacs from a few years back).

Anyway, you should head on over to the Bananas' site and check things out. They've got some free mixes kicking around and some other fun stuff. And it should be noted that P.Nice is one of the magicians behind Miss Fairchild, which you know is one of my favorites.