Archive for December 1, 2008

Emynd “Reach Out”

December 3, 2008 / emynd / 3 comments

This has been a truly huge record for me over the past year or so. It’s the one record I play of mine at nearly every single gig I’ve done over the past year. Regardless if it’s a hipster, House, or a hip-hop crowd, I’ve played it everywhere from Austin to Helsinki, and every single time I play it, it gets one of the largest reactions of the night. It’s fairly simple in its execution, but not quite as simple as some of the other Bmore Soul tracks that we all know and love. The drums knock, the synth lines add a nice touch that doesn’t let this song feel out of place next to other electronic stuff, and the sequencing really make this a dancefloor burner. When the dick beat kicks finally drop, expect hands in the air.

This should be seeing its way onto vinyl in the near future, but as of right now, here’s the mixed and mastered mp3 for your playing pleasure. Please feel free to pass it around and blog it as well.

Shouts to Starkey for the fine mixing and mastering job.

Emynd “Reach Out” (320 Kps)

-e

R.I.P. Odetta

December 3, 2008 / emynd / No comments

Sad news. R.I.P. to one of my favorite folk singers. Below is her classic self-written song “Hit Or Miss.” Such a great song. Thanks to Ayres for hitting me with the mp3.

Odetta “Hit Or Miss” (320)

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Odetta, the deep-voiced folk singer whose ballads and songs became for many a soundtrack to the American civil rights movement, has died at age 77, her manager said on Wednesday.

Douglas Yeager said Odetta passed away late Tuesday at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York, after a decade-long fight with chronic heart disease and pulmonary fibrosis in her lungs.

“May Odetta’s luminous spirit and volcanic voice from the heavens live on for the ages,” Yeager said in a statement. “Her voice will never die.”

Odetta Holmes, born in Birmingham, Alabama, on December 31, 1930, told the Times in a 2007 interview the music of the Great Depression, particularly the prison songs and work songs from the fields of the deep South, helped shape her musical life.

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1st & 15th Mixes: Vol 5 – DJ Ayres “BEST OF JEEZY”

December 2, 2008 / emynd / 7 comments

The 1st & 15th (Pretty Much) Mix Series is a series of mixes presented by Emynd & Bo Bliz on (or around) the 1st and 15th of every month.

Crossfaded Bacon Presents
1st & 15th (Pretty Much) Mix Series
Volume 5: DJ Ayres 12.01.2008
BEST OF YOUNG JEEZY
QUICK DOWNLOAD (128 kps)
HQ DOWNLOAD (320)

This month, our friend DJ Ayres from The Rub in Brooklyn was kind enough to offer his services, volunteering a “Best of Jeezy” tape. Jeezy is easily one of our favorite rappers right now and Ayres does a great job representing Jeezy’s best known classics mixed splendidly with his lesser known rarities and guest appearances. Ayres was so excited about doing this mix, he actually threw on a Snowman chain and went on a photoshoot! So ill! But yeah, it’s a really listenable mix and we’re extremely pleased to present it to you today. Hope you enjoy it and please feel free to drop a few comments. Don’t forget to hit up The Rub in Philly at the TLA this Thursday or their epic monthly this Saturday in Brooklyn as well. Easily one of the best parties in the WORLD (no hyperbole!).

Tracklisting:
1. Gangsta Walkin (ft Dank)
2. We Can Play This Game
3. Put The Whip On It
4. Come Shop Wit Me
5. Ain’t I
6. Trap Or Die Intro
7. Thug Motivation 101
8. Gangsta Music
9. Don’t Get Caught
10. Talk To Em
11. Soul Survivor (ft Akon)
12. Go Crazy (ft Jay-Z)
13. Top Back Remix (TI ft Young Jeezy)
14. Grew Up A Screw Up (Ludacris ft Lil Wayne & Young Jeezy)
15. 4 Kings (Young Buck ft TI, Young Jeezy & Pimp C)
16. 3 AM (ft Timbaland)
17. J.E.E.Z.Y.
18. You Know What It Is
19. Go Getta (ft R Kelly)
20. Go Getta (Remix ft Bun-B & Jadakiss)
21. I Luv It
22. Hood Nigga (Gorilla Zoe ft Young Jeezy)
23. Diamonds (Fabolous ft Young Jeezy)
24. 5000 1′s (DJ Drama ft Jazze Pha, TI, Young Jeezy…)
25. I’m So Hood (DJ Khaled ft Ludacris, Big Boi, Lil Wayne…)
26. White Girl (USDA)
27. Out Here Grindin (DJ Khaled ft Akon, Rick Ross, Young Jeezy…)
28. Superstar Remix (Lupe Fiasco ft Young Jeezy & TI)
29. Corporate Thuggin (USDA)
30. They Know Remix (Shawty Lo ft Young Jeezy)
31. What They Want
32. Don’t Know You
33. Put On remix (ft Kanye West & Jay-Z)
34. Diamonds (Slim Thug f. Young Jeezy – DJ Ayres & Winslow Turner Porter III Remix)

-e

GYEAH!! Pics from the 1993 Party…

December 2, 2008 / Bo Bliz / No comments

This is how we do. It was a ridiculous night and we’ll be back in January with 1998.

PEOPLES GETTING LOOSE!!!

Thanks to 215HipHop and eybody that came out.

Pase Rock NEW SINGLE OUT TODAY!

December 2, 2008 / emynd / No comments

Talented producer, DJ, and rapper (not to mention all around good guy and fashion icon) Pase Rock‘s new double A-Side single “Get Money Kids/So Fu**ing Disco” is available on iTunes today. You may have already downloaded the mp3s at some point if you’re as blog savvy as the rest of us nerds, but you most certainly do not have Emynd’s “Get Money Kids” Remix or XXXChange’s “So Fu**ing Disco” Remix. Well worth your hard earned dollars and extremely dope cover art as well!

COP IT ON ITUNES NOW!!!

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Vinyl will be available Februrary and I’m really psyched that the folks over at Dim Mak liked my remix enough to give it an official release. Shouts to the Fully Fitted Mafia as well.

-e

Interesting Biting

December 2, 2008 / emynd / No comments

The graffiti aesthetic with its drips, bubbles, bright colors, are becoming even more of a worldwide phenomena. This can be a good thing for graffiti writers. But in some instances other writers, corporations and even governments go interesting distances to achieve that desired street cred. That said, in the first image, check how Beijing’s department of tourism sponsored a bite of New York Writer Ewok SMH who many will know from his work with the Scifen Clothing Company and random action figures(He’s ill). The second image is the original work done two years earlier. Look at the the “O”(the orange circle with the blue line) for comparison… Peep http://blog.mr-ewokone.com for more info.

China 2007

LA 2005

Zoe Strauss “America”

December 1, 2008 / emynd / No comments

Friend and colleague Cosmo Baker’s big sister Zoe has put together what looks to be a really amazing book of photographs. Definitely go cop it as soon as you can especially if you’re having trouble thinking of non-cliche, reasonably priced Christmas gifts.

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Jay-Z Feat. Santo Gold-Brooklyn Go Hard

December 1, 2008 / emynd / No comments

Growing up in East Mount Airy wasn’t always easy. If I wasn’t slangin Lemonade in front of the same church that my Mom would attend Sunday service, I was wettin the whole block up with my slip and slide. Real rap. On an even more positive note though, I got the chance to grow up around the likes of the lovely Santi White(SantoGold) who has begun what music historians will refer to as the “Mount Airy Takeover”. Anyway, check out this track from the upcoming “Notorious” Movie Soundtrack. Kanye produced it and some guy from Brooklyn raps on it. http://www.zshare.net/audio/5209347411056a05/

London and some Changes ‘Round Here

December 1, 2008 / emynd / No comments

Man, London this past weekend was crazy. Massive shout outs to the Count and Sinden for putting me on, to the dude Skream for killing it, the boy Sam from Dollop, Roxy Cottontail for stopping by, and the Smalltown DJs as well for taking some shots with me. Seriously such a good weekend full of great music, a ton of drinking, and not enough sleeping… but hey, it’s Monday and I’m back on the day-to-day grind. Didn’t have the traditional American Thanksgiving that we all look forward to, but drinking and partying in a strange rainy land is a nice substitute to the ol’ Turkey and Mash potatoes thing. The best news is that I ate enough kebabs and Haribo to hold me over until my next trip to Europe (frankly, I’m sick of both at this point) and got a really dope Merc jacket so I look like the Lebanese Paddington bear.

If you’re in London before Christmas, please promise me you’ll got to the Mutate London Art exhibit. We spent a day at the Tate, then stumbled into the Mutate London exhibit on Curtain Road in Shoreditch and there was no comparison between the two. The Mutate London show alone made my trip to Engerland completely worthwhile. I will be doing a proper blog post on it later this week.

By the way, I’ve recruited a couple new blog posters for this here jam just to keep this ish fresh and interesting. My man Phil Money is my dude from Philly who’s schooled in the arts and got good taste in music… and he’s quite a funny dude. I fully expect him to contribute some completely random stuff that Bo Bliz and I wouldn’t ourselves post. Same goes for SdotMilla who is the owner and operator of the finest skateshop in all of Philly, Exit Skateshop in Fishtown. He reluctantly comes to every party Bo Bliz and I do even though he hates the music and would much rather listen to Johnny Cash or Neil Young (which I’m not mad at), so I wouldn’t expect a whole lot of music posting from him. He’ll probably just post a bunch of youtubes since all he does when he’s working at his shop all day is give people free product and watch horrible youtube videos.

Over the next couple days, I need to find a way to make it clear who is posting what because right now, the little tag at the bottom of each post that says “Posted by ______” just isn’t cutting it for me. But for right now, please just bare with us and enjoy the new content from the new ‘bols.

CROSSFADED BACON IS A MOVEMENT.

That being said, got another edition of THE BOUNCE this Friday at the Barbary, and I fully expect to be just as wild as the last one. This party continues to get better and better and better and I really can’t wait until Friday. If you’re in Philly and you’re not at this party, you’ve got no one to blame but yourself for doing something lame. As always, FREE PBR AND VODKA FROM 9-11 along with skate video screenings. Cover starts at 10 PM (only $5 all night) and music starts 11ish… then we go in HARD. Expect all the hits, a bunch of our own stuff, and whatever debaucherous music is gonna make all the wifies in the audience forget who their hubbies are.

Let’s go.

-e

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