the dope report

Hot tip: back in the ‘70s disco secretly escaped to Nigeria, where it thrived in African discotechs, blissfully unaware of what was happening back in the states. Sleeper hit of the Spring, Lagos Disco Inferno charts the continuation of disco on the dark continent: 12 tracks of hits and obscurities from all throughout the 70s. Look at these superb liner notes from Dean Disi, music journalist and formerly Director of Lagos-based label TYC Records:

Lagos by the 1970s was a huge metropolitan city. Due to the oil boom, there was money to made with music and nightlife and big international record labels like EMI, Decca and Philips had set up their recording studios that for a big part got equipped with vintage hardware handed down for their European franchises. So as the sound of the late 70s and early 80s in Europe and in the US got more and more modern and from today’s point of view just plain shitty, overloaded with ugly sounding Roland keyboards, the sound of Lagos was dominated by powerful horn sections, heavy drums, and percussion instruments. There’s plenty of early Moog synthesizers but no synth-generated strings or fake horns.

Expertly crate-dug by Frank Gossner of Voodoofunk.com. Check track “Don’t Put Me Down” for this brazen fusion of disco and highlife that just makes us want to get shitty and take our clothes off.

Bay Area residents are enrolling in twelve-step-like classes that use cannabis to quit heroin, pills, cigarettes, alcohol, and other addictive substances, defying decades of Narcotics Anonymous and Alcoholics Anonymous tradition.

The force is bong in this one. [Geekologie]

It sounds like a lame coffee/head shop on Haight St., or some crazy plan to arm the public with pipes, but it’s actually pretty cool. San Francisco’s new pipe of the month club Pipes2ThePeople is a subscription service that for $12.99 promises to mail you one new glass pipe a month at random: anything from a travel chillum to a crazy, artistic bubbler. Cus, honestly, who wants to clean one’s old pipes. [via Thrillist]

Labspaces.net reports scientists have discovered a substance that breaks down cocaine 100 times faster than the human body, potentially helping the 500,000 people admitted to hospital emergency rooms each year for overdose of the highly addictive, potentially deadly stimulant.

[Dosh – “Airlift” from anticon. on Vimeo.]

It’s Martin Dosh’s fifth album for Anticon, and Tommy – released April 13 – is among his best. Forget minimalist, this is maximalist. After the video, download track Number 41 (feat. Andrew Bird). Tour dates, post-jump.

Friend of The Report, Decon sends us word of a depraved new documentary on the madness of sleep deprivation, starring Vice Magazine’s Gavin McInnes. Rapper producer Jay Electronica composed a dark ode to ‘A Million in the Morning’ which is synopsized as follows:

Mike Relm’s brilliant audio and video mashups have been a TDR favorite for years, and everyone will soon know why. The native San Francisco DJ recently cut his own version of the latest Iron Man 2 trailer so impressive that director and all-around awesome dude Jon Favreau recommended him to Paramount Pictures marketing team. Favreau confirmed today on his Twitter account that Relm now gets to cut an official Iron Man 2 spot for television:

@Jon_Favreau: Paramount hired DJ @mikerelm to cut together an IM2 TV spot after I showed them his trailer remix. Very cool.

Check out Relm’s IM2 remix above. Check back in for Relm’s official TV spot as soon it it’s released. [Mike Relm]