Hip-hop / synth-pop / coldwave playboy James Pants just released a new beat tape, Sludge, for free online. The follow-up to last year’s JP’s Failed Rap Beats 2004-2008, it’s another instalment of music chosen from a “vast collection of oddities, soddities, and heresies from back in the days when I thought I could be a rap producer.”

Download: James Pants – Sludge [via Stones Throw]