LimeWire Music Blog

Leave it to the Rondo Brothers, the San Franscisco-based production team that’s worked with everyone from Galactic to Handsome Boy Modeling School, to come up with an eclectic and original take on that well-worn concept, the holiday album. Encompassing a dizzying array of styles and incorporating an impressive roster of guest artists, This Is Your Brain On Xmas takes old familiar Christmas and Hanukkah songs and twists them into eccentric new shapes, updating them for a modern and decidedly dance-oriented audience. This is a full-on party album that tosses hip-hop, lounge pop, electro, Latin music, and more into a big sonic snow globe and shakes it up until it sounds like fun. From a dubby, breakbeat-driven version of “Deck the Halls” featuring Kelly Atkins, Cyndi Harvell, and Diamond Jim, to a scratch-happy, turntablists’-delight take on “Jingle Bells” featuring Tigg, This Is Your Brain on Xmas is about as far from your grandparents’ holiday music as you can get.