Santigold: "The Goldrush Tour"

[RedDragon]

The description for her it's perfect. She sounds exactly like Karen O (Yeah Yeah Yeahs) mixed with M.I.A. She wrote a song for Lily Allen with Mark Ronson and she toured with Bjork and M.I.A. She's already been featured on Grey's Anatomy.

OMG. I'm loving the tracks. They could be on a M.I.A. album.




"L.E.S. Artistes"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeM2Xw7ZP5Y

"The Creator"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXpZi4I4G7k

"Find A Way"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5CwObhaiWQ&feature=related

www.myspace.com/santogold

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She's awesome!

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[RedDragon]

She inspired my new avatar! Hopefully this year we will be hearing her album and we'll be watching psychedelic videos by Santogold.

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Good promotion! I hope she drops something soon. She's gonna be huge.

[In_Love_N_War]

Anybody who wrote the amaziness of Res debut album is a-ok for me.

[RedDragon]

Rocking uncharted turf at the crossroads between new wave, hip-hop, dub and '80s pop, Santogold (Santi White) is as much of a musical hybrid as her friend M.I.A. and as much of a pop renegade as the Yeah Yeah Yeahs' Karen O. Part of Spank Rock's extended Philly family, Santi got her style tips from the public-school tough girls and her education from Quakers (seriously!) — not to mention what she picked up from her free-thinking parents. "My mom's from Mississippi, picking cotton and desegregating schools, and she's like a psychiatrist and a Southern crazy person," Santi said. "And then my dad is from the projects in north Philly. [He] changed the name of his school to Malcolm X High School and went from having nothing to going to Wesleyan and then to Penn Law School. A constant theme in my upbringing across the board has been to create your own path and to think for yourself." After starting out penning songs for other artists (including Res), Santi finally starting writing for herself, as the frontwoman for punk outfit Stiffed, which released an indie album called Burned Again in 2005. When the group split, she and bandmate John Hill started Santogold. Diplo brought producer Switch (who worked on M.I.A.'s Kala) onboard, and soon Santogold's sound became as much about live instruments as messed-up beats. The resulting self-titled album (due in April) runs from the dreamy '80s pop of "Lights Out" to the freaked-out hip-hop/dub of "Creator." "It's totally cross-genre," she said. "Call it something if you want, but I don't know what it is."

MTV.

[backintime]

I didn't know she wrote Ashlee Simpson's "Outta My Head"!

[skunk]

i hear alot of nelly furtado in her voice. amazing singer. brilliant songs.

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I just realized she's on Mark Ronson's album. "Pretty Green" is the track.

[RedDragon]

The album Creator will be released o April 22.

She's featured on one of the new Ashlee Simpson's song too.

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XXXchange's remix of L.E.S. Artistes is excellent. It's all bloopy and electro.

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1. L.E.S. Artistes
2. You'll Find A Way
3. Shove It
4. Say Aha
5. Creator
6. My Superman
7. Lights Out
8. Starstruck
9. Unstoppable
10. I'm A Lady
11. Anne
12. You'll Find A Way (remix)

Can't f**king wait.

[RedDragon]

drexbeutel said:

XXXchange's remix of L.E.S. Artistes is excellent. It's all bloopy and electro.

Yes. That remix is hot as hell. I want to hear this album too. It's going to be funny if this is bigger than any of M.I.A.'s album.

[TotallyEnormousExtinctDinosaur]

Santogold
Who is this person? The other super hot, female rapping/rocking, world-music-obsessed, Diplo affiliated prodigy.
Why you should care: This Philly-based singer has all the charisma and stage presence of an instant rock star but with years of writing, production, and A&R work behind her, she has the versatility and industry chops of a female Kanye.

[TotallyEnormousExtinctDinosaur]

Santogold
Santogold 4/29


Before she became Santogold, the Brooklyn artist who mixes electronic beats with punk guitars and New Wave synths, Santi White worked A&R for a major label. When a pal, the alt-R&B singer Res, called for advice on finding a producer, White quit to write and produce Res' rock-reggae-R&B hybrid debut, How I Do. Now White — who went solo after singing in the punk band Stiffed — is making her debut on an album that ranges from the dub-influenced "Shove It" to "L.E.S. Artistes," which sounds like a Cars/Strokes mash-up, to "Creator," which strongly resembles her friend M.I.A.'s latest album. "Nina Simone and HR from Bad Brains are my two biggest vocal influences," she says.

[backintime]

It's called Santogold again.

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That cover is brilliant. I'm so excited for this.

[TotallyEnormousExtinctDinosaur]

Have we heard anything from the album aside from "L.E.S. Artistes" and "Creator"?

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YOU'LL FIND A WAY:
uk.youtube.com/watch?v=P5CwObhaiWQ

UNSTOPPABLE:
uk.youtube.com/watch?v=RwmngHgYUdk

SHOVE IT:
uk.youtube.com/watch?v=yrOqOWC_vWM

[TotallyEnormousExtinctDinosaur]

Thanks Alex. I like all of those- especially "Shove It." Nothing stands out the way "L.E.S. Artistes" did on first listen, but it sounds like it'll be a really solid album. It's all very Nelly Furtado meets M.I.A. to me.

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I had a dream she told me she's going to do a song with Robyn.

[The Seldom Seen Kid]

I LOVE that cover!

[One More Time]

Apr 13, 2008 10:28:42 GMT -5 TotallyEnormousExtinctDinosaur said:

Thanks Alex. I like all of those- especially "Shove It." Nothing stands out the way "L.E.S. Artistes" did on first listen, but it sounds like it'll be a really solid album. It's all very Nelly Furtado meets M.I.A. to me.

i just heard of this chick from my sister, she ROCKS and i agree that she sounds like Nelly Furtado meets M.I.A. and i LOVE "Shove It" i'm dowloading it right now and she sounds like Tegan & Sara on LES Artists i love her voice it's so original

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Clips:
www.amazon.com/Santogold/dp/B0014DC046/ref=pd_rhf_p_t_2