Cover of "Something About Us" by Daft Punk, performed on Nintendo DS Ubisoft Jam Sessions, Midi controlled software electric bass, drums, synth, vocoded vocals, and solo theremin, recorded in a single pass, with a single camera.
Dallas legend Erkyah Badu is set to win a MTV VMA award for Best Direction for her "Honey" video. Great song and classic video!
Kanye West and Jay-Z are releasing their new singles via download in the next few days. Kanye's "Swagger Like Us" feat. Jay-Z, T.I. and Lil Wayne has already leaked to the webs.
Video: Radiohead's entire live performance set from The Santa Barbara Webcast!
Video: Hip Hop artist Consequence Interview & Freestyle. Cons gives the scoop on his growing online celebrity status.
Free download: OJayZis: Jay-Z vs. Oasis. The mixtape takes the vocals from some of Jay's greatest hits and matches them with the beats and choruses from various Oasis records. Download here.
Q-Tip (from A Tribe Called Quest) leaks an unofficial official bootleg video from his still unreleased The Renaissance CD. Album street date is Oct.14th.
In today's Sure Shot, I carried on about a couple of new Fania comps that have been getting serious burn around the crib lately.
You should move that Gilles Peterson comp to the top of your "must get now" list. It's pretty much all I've been listening to and I'm not even coming close to burn out stage yet.
Two discs worth of undeniable gems hand picked by a dude who always delivers. I'm at the point where I'll snatch up anything his name is on anyway, but this is so very winnin'.
Remember the first time you put on Goodie Mob's Soul Food and you heard the sweet sounds of that overdriven electric piano swimming around on "Free?" You started zoning out and then Cee-Lo starts in "Lord it's so hard..."
You thought to yourself, "Damn, this here is something special."
Can't really hide my disappointment over the bill change that leaves SFP and Little Brother out of the equation for tomorrow night's Big Daddy Kane show. I Doubt I take time away from my family to go to this now.
But The Granada is a great venue and BDK is one of the greatest of all-time, as evidenced by the timeless joint above showing Marley Marl at the peak of his genius.
As for the new S1 CD, it is really good. There are 4 or 5 cuts on there that are as good as anything he's ever done and I'd love for "Callin' Me," the collab with LB's Phonte, to get some major attention.
I was zoning out while eating tonight, when suddenly the Marvin Gaye tune "I Want You" started bouncing around my dome. That's actually a pretty common occurrence. It's easily one of my favorite songs - never get sick of it.
I remembered that somewhere along the line I had seen a documentary that had a clip of him laying on a couch and singing it while rehearsing with his band, trying to figure out the arrangement.
I remember being pretty blown away at how cool the rehearsal sounded and hearing the song stripped down without the lush strings and brass that were so integral to the version that ended up on the album of the same name.
"I bet I could find that on YouTube," I said to myself, while ignoring my family and picking a piece of roast beef out of my teeth.
It took me all of ten seconds to find it once I got on my computer. So frickin' cool.
I love you, oh Lord of technology and interstrong. You also make porn completely feasible, if that's indeed the way someone wishes to spend their time.
The Official Kixpo Mixtape got posted this morning over at Picnic's blog. Mostly produced by Picnic (he hosts it too) and mixed by Niro - it's 24 cuts deep with features from Krack, Dawg Wonder, Knes, Paul Wall - it go on and on...And it's the nice price of free.
They are one of the best live bands I've ever seen. As soon as I know when they're rolling through, we'll let you know too.
And if you're into the trippy, textured, psychedelic downtempo groove - check out Grupo guitarist/producer AQ's side project Ocote Soul Sounds with Martin Perna of Antibalas fame.
In case you missed it video. "Stress" is the latest song and controversial video from the genius that is Justice. Not for the faint of heart. Makes me want to play GTA IV!
Here's the latest track by Common featuring Pharrell. It's more clubbishy than his recent tracks - hopefully he and Kanye keep the Chi City fire alive in the studio.
Last night's Big Thing was good times. The performances were cool, Gordo made some funny, and me and wifey actually got a night away from the midgets. And the Jive Turkeys had that place rowdy at the jump.
I hosted the freestyle exhibition/battle between Playdough and Krack and it seemed to go over pretty well. Both of those dudes have elitle-level skills and they adjusted to the left-of-center format of the battle and did their thing.
Krack's supporters were the loudest, but it's not like his victory was a landslide. Congrats to both.
Bobbito Garcia is one of my favorite humans on the planet. He's literally at the forefront of so many of the things I hold near and dear in this world.
He's also been mad cool to me and Benny. He's jumped on the air with us and always shown love on the rare occassions we get to see him in person.
I've had to sit on this for a minute, but the cat is now out of the bag for Quick's Big Thing. It's a big ole party/concert/awards presentation/orgy with a great performing lineup at a cool venue.
It's free and the Great Gordo is hosting. Get a load of the bands throwin' down.
Anytime the Spree do their thing it's a big to-do, but I'm just as excited to see big dumb country Danny's King Bucks perform.
Plus my peoples The Party got the decks, PPT are always ready, Krack and Playdough are going to put on a freestyle exhibition, and they let your boy be a panelist. So choice.
So our homie Mr. Blakes has decided to bless the masses with a new flow every week in 2008 as part of a series he's calling '08 Is So Great. Just got the head's up on week #5 and it's on some laid-back nostalgia vibe - and Blakes always sounds good in that mode.
The heads over at SSA Magazine have decided to make it easy on you and you can now get every week in one central location by clicking right hurr!
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