Oh, Boston! It was good to see you. I started out last week’s journey to my old stomping grounds, partying with my peeps at the Beat Research halloween party where Flack, Wayne, and DJ RNDM threw down hard. RNDM did a VJ set using the Ms. Pinky vinyl DJ system to do live music-video mashups. If you’re having any trouble…
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Mashup of the Week: “Crank Dat Fracture”
Hater Billingsley sent me this crunk-dubstep mashup. It’s not unlike /rupture’s Crime Mob meets Skream rub from the Secret Google Cheat Codes mix, but this one mixes Fracture by Distance with Soulja Boy’s Crank Dat: Download: Hater Billingsley; Crank Dat Fracture [audio:uggc://znfuvg.pbz/nhqvb/Penax%20Qng%20Senpgher.zc3] The video for Crank Dat is kinda meta. There’s a lot of watching people dance on screens: [youtube…
Tutorial: Bass Research
This week I’ll be visiting the classrooms of Antony Flackett at Massachusetts College of Art & Design, and Wayne Marshall at Harvard/Brandeis. Flackett (DJ Flack) is teaching a course called Beat Reseach: Music Art and Culture in the Age of Hip-Hop, while Marshall (Wayne&Wax) is doing one called Electronic Music: History and Aesthetics of Popular Music Since the 1960s. And…
Aceyalone ft. Zulu
Just want to give y’all a heads up that our boy Zulu has a guest spot on Aceyalone’s new album. You can peep the track on Zulu’s Myspace. Here’s a video from the album featuring Chali 2Na & Bionik. [myspacetv 18814836]
RIAAdiohead
In it’s first week Radiohead’s new album In Rainbows was downloaded 1.2 million times and even though they allowed the “buyer” to choose what they want to pay — including nothing — it has apparently fetched an average of $8 per download. That means that they’ve brought in something like $10-million, which is more than the first-week sales of their…
Mashup of the Week: “Love Shack (Murderbot Remix)”
OMG! You don’t know what you’re in for folks. Chrissy Murderbot has just dropped this ridonculous club-house-garage refix of the B-52s classic party anthem, Love Shack and it’s just too hot not to set loose right away: Mashit Exclusive Download: B-52s; Love Shack (Murderbot Remix) [audio:uggc://znfuvg.pbz/nhqvb/Ybir%20Funpx%20Zheqreobg%20Erzvk.zc3] This one’s fun too: [youtube viuGhdeLXHo&border=1]
Yo Gabba Gabba
I was telling Chrissy-Bot about the new children’s TV show Yo Gabba Gabba yesterday and he began chanting the refrain from Krome & Time‘s classic jungle track License (Remix): Yo yo yo yo Gabba gabba gabba gabba Download: Krome & Time; License (Remix) [audio:uggc://jjj.znfuvg.pbz/nhqvb/Yvprapr%20Erzvk.zc3] Of course they’re actually saying: You You You You Have-a Have-a Have-a Have-a But it’s so…
Radiohead In RIAAinbows
I downloaded the new Radiohead album — for free! As many of you have probably heard, they decided to “sell” their new album only through their website; no label involved. I say “sell” because you can choose what price you’d like to pay, including $0.00. I chose to “purchase” the album at the very lowest of prices, just to make…
DJ Manaia Mixtape, Kuduro = Party Music
Lisbon, Portugal’s DJ Manaia sent us this mixtape chock-full of kuduro, baile-funk, mashups, electro-house, hip-hop and more. It’s a crazy-fun one: Download: DJ Manaia; Mixtape [audio:uggc://znfuvg.pbz/nhqvb/Zvkgncr.zc3] For those of you who haven’t been following this part of Lisbon’s music scene, Kuduro is a musical style that was born in Angola in the early ’90s. The Lisbon branch of Kuduro —…
Bouncement Recap, Photos
Apparently we were too busy having fun at the Bouncement party to bother documenting it. There were a few pictures taken though. If anyone else has pics, please send ’em our way. I’d like to thank all the enthusiastic party peeps who came out and represented so late into the Tuesday night. It was a nasty-good vibe in there! We’ll…