The New National Anthem

September 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment

National Anthem

Lupe Fiasco’s new song ‘Dumb It Down’, says it all. Media which includes Viacom(BET, MTV, VH1), CNN, Fox, NBC, and other corporate demons have created a society that can’t think anymore, can’t innovate, can’t be original. This is a country of consumers and nothing else. Well that is what I got from this video anyway.

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Big Pimpin’ (in Japan)

September 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Soil and Pimp

Soil and Pimp Sessions are one of the coolest groups coming out of Japan right now. There music is this high spirited “Punk Jazz”. Think of them as a Punk band playing Jazz, or think what the Sex Pistols would sound like if they played trumpets, pianos, and saxophones. Not to mention, they have great fashion sense. These guys over at on-point.be hit us up to an interview they did with Soil & Pimp Sessions. Plus check out the other great stuff over at on-point.be. They got some really great content.

Soil and Pimp Sessions has a new album entitled ‘Pimpoint’ out now on Brownswood Recordings.

Soil and Pimp - Red Clay (Freddie Hubbard Cover)

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Red Bull Music Academy Now in Session

September 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment

 Red Bull Music Academy

The annual Red Bull Music Academy is now in session in Toronto.  Artists from all over the world apply to this two week academy in variety of cities that changes every year.  If accepted, you get an expense paid trip to the academy where one gets to interact with other artists, collaborate on music, and take classes and hear lectures from artists such as DJ Premier.

Red Bull Music Academy Radio

For those who like to see and hear what is going on this year’s session in Toronto, check out Red Bull Music Academy Radio.  The site journals all the different things that goes on during the academy. Podcasts, DJ Mixes, and videos are available for the inspiring artist.  Our friend Karen P is heavily involved with the Red Bull Music Academy Radio. Check it out and you might learn something.

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Questlove talking about the Industry

September 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Check this video interview of Questlove. Near the end, He explains payola and their hit “You Got Me”.

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September 21st Playlist

September 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Here is the playlist for this past weekend’s show. Audio to come later in the week.

Listen 

Hour 1

Wale - “Nike Boots” (cdr)
Radiohead - “Idioteque”
The Klaxons - “Not Over Yet (Skream Remix)”
Twista feat. Kanye West - “Well It’s Time”
Mulatu Astaque - “Yekermo Sew”
Jill Scott - “The Real Thing”
Architecture in Helsinki - “Heart it Races (Trizzy’s Rusty Tin Can Mix)”
Sheila E - “Glamorous Life remix”
Karizma - “Twyst This” (R2)
Skream - “Midnight Request Line (Switch remix)”
Kanye West - “Flash light”
Tata Vega - “Get It Up For Love”
Quincy Jones - “They Call Me Mr. Tibbs (King Britt Vocal Interpretation
feat. Mr. Lif)” (Six Degrees)
Kissey Asplund - “With You”
Hazeem - “2 Deep 2 Sleep” (Digital Invaders)
El Trip Selector - “Coombia Del Piano Triste”
Cimaloquera - “La Cumbia Cienaguera”
Cinematic Orchestra - “Colours” (Domino)

Hour 2

Bella Donna “Ebatule” (Irma Records)
Bebel Gilberto “Agaju” (Six Degrees)
Los Hombres “Hola Que Tal”
Sin Palabras “Yemaya” (Yoruba Records)
Jazzanova “Caravele” (JCR)
“Batucada” (Soul Jazz)
DJ Sandrinho “Berimbau”
Bonde Do Role “Divine Gosa” (Domino)
Mavado “Weh Dem A Do (Vin Sol Remix)”
Mr.D feat. Tigarah “Boys & Girls”
DJ Don Cuco feat. Pee Wee Dread “Freestyle over Spirit Rise Riddim”
Miss Eliot “Lose Control (Beatards Remix)”
Zap Mama “1000 Ways (Jack Splash Remix)”
James Brown “Give It Up, Turn It Lose (Latin Reconstruction)”

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Be Very Quiet, I’m Hunting Rabbits

September 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment

elmer fuddPromoter, Hustler, and DJ Oxy Cottontail just dropped a mix for Hell Bellz.  She made it downloadable at her site.

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Oxy Cottontail - Hell Bellz Mix

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Did you hear? Mandela is Dead

September 20, 2007 | 1 Comment

That’s right. Our great president delivered the news, plus some more crazy talk.

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Essential Diplo

September 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Diplo passport

BBC Radio 1’s Essential Mix did has a mix that Diplo just did.  You can listen to it here.  Or get it here.  Here is the playlist:

Rich Boy - Throw Some D’s (Interscope)
Nirvana - Drain You (Geffen)
Baby Huey - Pop, Lock & Drop It (White)
Marc Houle - Bay of Figs [Ward 21 Mix] (M_Nus]
DJ Tamiel - Bump Like This
Queen ft David Bowie - Under Pressure (WEA)
Hollertronix – Betty (Money Studies Records)
Eddie Money - Take Me Home Tonight (Be my Baby) (CBS)
Soulja Boy - Crank Dat Superman (Interscope)
Bat for Lashes - What’s a Girl to Do (Break)
DJ Shadow - Organ Donor (Sandrinho Remix)
Diplo & Switch ft Beenie Man - Solta Frango
Mr. Vegas - Hot Fuk [Diplo Mix]
Enur ft Natasja - Calabria [2007 Mix] (Scorpio/Data)
Spoon - Paper Tiger (Merge Records)
Circle Children – Zulu (Strictly Rhythm)
M.I.A. ft Akon – Boyz Remix [Hi Powered Boyz Get Down]
Boy 8 Bit - Suspense Is Killing Me (Trouble & Bass)
KW Griff - Tony’s Back (Money Studies)
A Tribe Called Quest - Scenario [White Label Mix] (White)
Nucleus - Jam On It [Gold Rocc Mix]
Nigga Say Wut - Hey Hey Hey
BooMan - Pick ‘em Up
King Tut – Y’all Niggaz Ain’t Shit (Heavy Rock Music)
KW Griff – Ain’t None Of Y’all Safe (White)
Technics - Uh
KW Griff – Respect (Quiet Records)
DJ Eli - In The Jungle
2 Bad Mice – Bombscare (Moving Shadow)
Armand Van Heldan - You Don’t Know Me [White Label Mix] (White)
Big City - Spanish Lesson (Spectra Records)
Diplo - Work Is Never Over (Mad Decent)
M.I.A - Bamboo Banger (XL Recordings)
Sizzla - Bamboo Banger (Dubplate)
DJ Blaqstarr – Supastarr (Mad Decent)
Shai - If I Ever Fall in Love Again (Dubplate)
Orbital – Halcyon (Rhino/WEA)
LA Priest - Engine [Erol Alkan Remix] (Phantasy)
Joakim - Drum Trax (Versatile)
Chemical Brothers – Saturate (Virgin)
M.A.N.D.Y. - Unknown [Tiefschwarz Mix]
TOK - Solid As A Rock (VP Records)
Petter - Some Polyphony (Border Community)
Rihanna - Umbrella [Vandalism Mix]
Justice - Phantom Part II [Soulwax Mix] (Ed Banger)
The White Stripes - Little Cream Soda (XL Recordings)
ZZT - Lower State Of Consciousness (Turbo)
Kia Shine – Crispy (Chest Nut Records)
Bart Simpson - Bartman [So Kripsy Mix]
Jay Dilla ft Guilty Simpson - Detroit To LA
Deuce Papi - Do It Again
Kanye West ft Young Jeezy – Can’t Tell Me Nothin’ (Def Jam)
Mr. Vegas - Lean Wit It (In The Streetz)
M.I.A. ft Bun B and Rich Boy - Paper Planes (XL Recordings)
Schoolly-D - Gucci Time (Schoolly-D Records)
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Rockers to Swallow (Interscope)
Jellybean - Sidewalk Talk (EMI)
Belle Stars - Iko Iko (Capitol Records)
Scala & Kolacny Brothers – Heartbeats (Pias)
Simian Mobile Disco - I Still Believe (Wichita Recordings)
The Pack - At The Club (Zomba)
South Rakkas - Hotter Then Them [Mad Decent Mix)
Hurricane Chris - A Bay Bay (J US)
Mad Cobra - AA [Kenny Meez Edit] (Black Shadow)
Buju Banton - Crazy Talk (Black Shadow)
Beenie Man - The Crime (System Records)
Lil’ Wayne ft Mack Maine - I Know The Future (Universal)
Bugle - What The Gonna Do (Daseca)

Don’t forget he is on tour with Switch.

diplo+switch

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Music Industry Needs to Take Wale 101

September 19, 2007 | 12 Comments

WALe + Paris

This post was originally going to be about the new single from Wale, “Nike Boots”. I will post it at the end. I been observing the anomaly that is Wale or better yet the marketing behind him. Wale is a marketing genius. Without any major label support, he has been able to create such huge buzz, that within a year he has appeared on MTV VMAs, become a prodigy of Mark Ronson, written up in the latest Rolling Stone Magazine, and basically got music blog world on lock.

So what can the slow, and incompetent music industry can learn from this?

One. Have a passion and a belief in what you are making. Major labels don’t take the time to put the real effort in backing releases that they release. It takes groundwork. They hope ringtones, and paid apperances on MTV will help an artist.

Two. Take some damn chances for once. Wale has done this from incorporating the live sound of GO-GO, to working only with local producers instead of getting the big names to sell a record. You know what, it is paying off. Major Labels very rarely take chances on artists that are not easy to market (i.e J*Davey) or to sell a record, they just get a hot producer to produce the track and look instant hit.

Three. If you truly in believe in your music (and its good), give it away for free. The rest will fall into place. Wale released his mixtape 100 Miles and Running for a free download, and it spread like wildfire. On the other hand, the industry went after DJ Drama for distributing mixtapes which help promote artists. You know what? I like shooting myself in my foot too.

Four. What the hell. Why bother? Before the industry even enrolls in Wale 101, they have already flunked. I am going to take a page from Donald Rumsfeld playbook. The major labels and RIAA are part of the old music industry which is irrelevant and tired. We are just waiting for someone to pull the life support.

Oh yeah, that ringle idea that you came up with brilliant. I am going to shell out $7.00 for a cd with a single and a ringtone. Damn. Your marketing department must be filled with Havard graduates (on crack). If this is what you can do to help save the industry, just stick to suing little kids for illegal downloading (your good at it).

Without further due, here is the latest Wale track, ‘Nike Boots’

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A Little Trivia: How many of you know that there is city in this country that does not have voting representation in congress or senate? We are trying to provide democracy in another country, but can’t give it to our own citizens. Find out more here.

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Film: Super Noble Brothers

September 18, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Super Noble Brothers

This film provides a colorful look at Milwaukee’s own Super Noble Brothers—Andy, Tommy and Davey—who are artists, small business owners and world-renowned DJs of rare funk and soul.

In our ‘Don’t Sleep On Milwaukee Post’, we mentioned several Milwaukee artists to check out. One of those artists are the Super Noble Brothers. Soul and Funk Purveyors, record store and label owners, musicians, artists, and amazing DJs, the Super Noble Brothers are creative force in Milwaukee. Now their life story is now on film and will be premiering at the Milwaukee International Film Festival.

Milwaukee’s Lotus Land Records, Center Street’s trove of rare vinyl, has been on the lists of serious soul, funk, hip-hop and jazz collectors throughout the United States for years. Milwaukeean Mark Escribano’s camera hangs out with the brothers who own Lotus Land as they struggle to run this Milwaukee landmark, perform incredible live acts, discuss all matter of miscellanea and paint (particularly Davey, master painter of erotic abstracts). The brothers are a staple of the counterculture scene throughout Milwaukee’s Riverwest neighborhood; however, their national and global influence is relatively unknown, ultimately reinforcing their humble attitudes. Intimately filmed at a swift pace, The Super Noble Brothers succeeds as an illuminating portrait of Milwaukee artists and businessmen, but perhaps more importantly as a testament to finding your own way in business and life.

Lotus Land

These brothers probably own one of the finest record stores that specialize in funk, soul, and rare grooves in the country. Lotusland Records is not only an amazing store, but they also put out some great re-issues. Even DJ Shadow is known to shop for his 45s here. If you are in Milwaukee, don’t miss this film. The film will be showing on September 28th @ 6pm at the Milwaukee Art Museum, and then again on Sunday, September 30th @ 2:15pm at the Oriental.


The Super Noble Brothers Trailer

Halo - Let Me Do It[snippet] (released on Lotus Land Records)

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