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Nolabounce.com

December 18, 2008 / / One comment

I don’t know if I’ve properly shouted out my OTHER blog on this here blog, so let me take this opportunity to hip y’all to NOLABOUNCE.com, a site dedicated to the Crescent City’s wonderful regional dance music known as “Bounce.” Those familiar with my work know I that several months back did a Bounce remix of the South Rakkas song “Mad Again as well as an all Bounce podcast for our fine friends at Mad Decent. If you don’t know anything about Bounce, that Podcast is an excellent place to start. It’s 60 minutes of some of my favorite Bounce songs with short write ups on each song to help give a bit of context and history to help the unfamiliar appreciate and learn about that ish.

By the same token, I thought it would be a good idea to start a website that helped consolidate as much information as possible available on Bounce online and to help spread the word on some of this great music, so I started NOLABOUNCE.com and recruited writers from all over the place (New Orleans, Baton Rouge, Houston, Vancouver, Philly, the Bay, etc) to write about it. The blog is still in its beginning stages and some of the older links don’t work because of the GREAT ZSHARE CRASH OF 2008, but there’s still a wealth of information and a bunch of dope tracks for you to download over there. So go get all that ish and help me spread the word!

BTW, while google image searching, I just found out this is available for Digital sale on Amazon. Definitely worth copping!! All these tracks are classics!

-e

This Time Tomorrow…

December 16, 2008 / / No comments

Make sure you check out the promo for “This Time Tomorrow“ a skateboarding film by Chris Mulhern. (It takes a bit to load but is well worth it.)

Top Billin Mixes

December 16, 2008 / / No comments

Some really dope mixes by our fine friends from Finland. First is DJ Anonymous’s Club-focused “Midwinter Party Mix” which is really good and you can download HERE!

Tracklisting:
6Blocc: Tru Love
6Blocc: Follow The Leader
Kid Sister: Pro Nails (Rusko Remix)
Joker: Do It!
DZ: The Fireman
Zomby: Rumours & Revolutions
Apple Productions: Segalizer
Johnny Blaze: Conga
DJ Booman: Funhouse
DJ Tone: Buggin
DJ Sega: Numbers
Lil Mama: No Music (’07 Starkey Remix)
Glitch: N2O Games
DJ Tone: Optimized Theme
Britney Spears: Circus (Diplo Remix)
Smoke & Mirrors: Love Is In The Air
Geeneus: In To The Future
Geeneus feat Katy B: As I
Mr Vegas: Round Of Applause (Matchstick Remix)
DJ Sega: Bad Boyz
DJ Anonymous / Top Billin: Money To Burn
DJ Booman: James’ Revenge
Pase Rock: Get Money Kids (Emynd Remix)
Alan Braxe & Fred Falke: Intro
Loost Koos: Helsinki! (Cielu Remix)
DJ Killer & DJ Murder: Pretoria Dance
DJ Mujava: Township Funk (Komposti Blend)
Alborosie & Shabba: Ting-A-Ling (Remix)
Michna: Swiss Glide
Kid Sister: Get Fresh
Kanye West: Champion (Cousin Cole Acid Dub Slow)

Next up is the Top Billin Crew’s “Night Runners” mixtape that they made to promote their new night and record label of the same name. Download that HERE!


Tracklisting:
01. DVAS – Forever
02. KA SO RE – Shoes
03. Yazoo – Don’t Go (Enrico Mantini and Gianluca)
04. DJ A-Trak – Say Whoa (Craze Remix)
05. Felix Da Housecat & Diddy – Jack U (Angello & Ingrosso Remix)
06. Riva Starr – Crazy Frog
07. HK119 – C’est La Vie (Rusko Dub Mix)
08. Destroy Disco – Fly Or Bounce
09. Bingo Players – Chop (Original Mix)
10. Sharkslayer – Bad Ding
11. AC Slater – Jack Got Jacked (Jack Beats Remix)
12. D Malice – Gabryelle Refix
13. TV Rock – Bimbo (Tonite Only Club Dub)
14. Roxy Music – Angel Eyes (Joey Negro Re-Edit)
15. Hot Chip – Touch Too Much (Fake Blood Remix)
16. The Hours – See The Light (Calvin Harris Remix)
17. Helsinki 78-82 – Project #2 (Island mix)
18. SymbolOne – Love Juice (Moulinex Remix)

-e

Imaginary Foundation

December 16, 2008 / / No comments

I’m generally not swept up in name brands but this one has had me pretty focused. The Imaginary Foundation is a San Francisco based clothing company that is founded on the understanding that the “imagination is fundamental to all learning” and that participation in making art, of all mediums, is a way to integrate vision, materials, structure, and imagery.Basically, the imagination pushes everything forward, and they use thoughtful design to articulate that vision. Plus, whatever new school printing process that they use makes the colors stooopid vibrant making the 30$ price point worth the damage. Learn and see more here:

http://www.imaginaryfoundation.com/index.php?pagemode=index&type=Mens%20T

If the gear is a little too new age hippy for you, you can bang this while you put creases in your Dickies…

Billy Danz from M.O.P. Feat. Busta -Undescribable

http://www.zshare.net/audio/52820757302513bc/

Mullyman ft Jarrod “Luh You Hear” (Prod by Booman)

December 11, 2008 / / No comments

New Booman and Mullyman heat.

Holler at Booman/Doo Dew Kidz Myspace or follow him on Twitter.

MULLYMAN FEATURING JARROD – LUH YOU HEAR (EXTENDED DIRTY)

-e

Random Tracks…

December 9, 2008 / / No comments

Jay-Z “Feat” Fela Kuti-Sweet Remix

As over saturated i am with contemporary Jay-zness this is a nice change of pace. This is off of Nigerian Gangster, a Grey album-esque project where Fela Kuti samples where placed under American gangster lyrics. Slow and Funky.

http://www.zshare.net/audio/5248904430504243/

Cassidy Feat. Lil Wayne-Get More Money

This Weezy verse is crazy. Sometimes I forget how nice he is. The young bol from Central High spits that usual glib, gun related cleverness too.

http://www.zshare.net/audio/524890692aac5a3d/

Common feat. Cee-Lo-Make my Day

This track could be on a Abercrombie commercial but sometimes you need that.

http://www.zshare.net/audio/524892300a25e1b2/

Thursday 12/11 Brotherly Love Concert

December 8, 2008 / / 2 comments

I’ve got a bunch of free tickets for this show on Thursday at the TLA. Some of Philly’s finest rappers will be on stage killing it for free early in the night: Freeway, Gillie, Joey Jihad, Reed Dollaz, Voka and E. Ness. Should be a dope way to start off your weekend.

Follow me on twitter and hit me with a message and I got you.

-e

Adidas’ Rival Brings Free Holiday Beer — To Adidas

December 7, 2008 / / No comments

Something about this got me so siked. I don’t even really care what kind of gain they will receive from this. This takes heart.

“Yup, you heard right. It seems that etnies has decided to spread Christmas cheer throughout Portland, The Grinch be damned. After learning that “the company will do without year-end parties” the powers that be stepped up to the plate. Check out the full-page ad that ran in a local paper today. And this is no joke, but a true act of good will. As the ad states, “…Reflect upon life’s gifts as we share good cheer, celebrate the season and kick the new year off on a solid foot.” Well put.

Check out the story on CNBC.com

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Clipse-Still got it 4 Cheap

December 5, 2008 / / No comments

Just when you thought you were done with cocaine metaphors over Neptunes beats. This is fire.

http://www.zshare.net/audio/52294542cc62c3ae/

Emynd “Reach Out”

December 3, 2008 / / 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 / / 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 / / 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

Pase Rock NEW SINGLE OUT TODAY!

December 2, 2008 / / 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!!!

Click for Detail

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 / / 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 / / 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.

Hit the jump for more info…

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