Man, I've run my chosen few vinyl sharity mp3 blogs RAGGED lately. My RSS reader had begun to seem like simply an inferior place to dig for new stuff. But then something like Twankle and Glisten comes along and renews my faith in the hyperlink.

It's a southern rap blog penned by Jib Kidder, a cut-up producer that has put out a few wonderful and genre-bending examinations of hip-hop. With Twankle, he's sharing with us the very weird and raw source of his inspiration.

Have you ever stared at a No Limit-era CD cover? No, like, REALLY STARED INTO IT? And imagined a future where we'll be bidding for this shit on Ebay?

Get deep enough with these weird mix tapes (kindly encoded at ...