bob saget!

the robbery game's no. 1 stunna...

happy birthday j dilla

the greatest hip hop producer who ever lived celebrates his birthday from space this wednesday, feb 7.

heres a taste of the recently rereleased ruff draft ep, hopefully enough (as if you needed reason) to go pick up the damn thang.

j dilla - wild

krip tonight

this my bwoy ghosts on tape right here. he lives right down the hall, last door on the left. he'll not only cook you a mean breakfast but he makes some serious blaps, such as this here remix from hell:

ghosts on tape - krip tonight

young rell for president

look out for this lil killer! yeah true he's not so easy on the eyes but those flows are pretty damn convincing. i got sucked into youngster street rapping youtubery just now, lots of others out there.

Deichkind - Limit

at a loss for words...



yeah!

R I P DISCO D 1980 - 2007

awful news hit the music world today that Dave Shayman, (aka Disco D) has passed away.

since early this morning message boards and blogs all across the internet are reporting the 27 year old producer, who suffered from depression and bipolarism, was found dead of an apparent suicide.

i got to meet Dave once when he stopped by the office with a gang of brazilian rappers to smoke blunts last year. even just from that brief encounter i sensed this guy was bursting at the fucking seams with ambition.

apparently there was a new movie in the works as well...



R I P DISCO D.
1980-2007

stuntin like my daddy's lazer

so another mixtape with everyones favorite fireman, weezy f baby, is in the works, and benzi is putting on this 'stuntin like weezy - REMIX contest' which the hottest entry is to be included on the mixtape. not sure if LAZER SWORD is the type of shit they are looking/ready for, but we thought it might be fun to serve one up for the hell of it. enjoy...



LAZER SWORD - STUNTIN LIKE MY DADDY'S LAZER

Mr. Bad News

dont know a whole lot about dude, but i really am feeling this nasty radioactive sandpaper-your-fucking-face mixture of grime, dubstep, hip-hop, and IDM type of sound that comes from UK based Milanese. theres all types of dark, distorted shit on his latest album, but the ruthless bassline on this one really makes me go insane:

Milanese - Mr. Bad News

Extend is available now via Planet Mu.

digital devil

yep its on. after a couple years of internal debate, this week i'll officially give in and sell my soul to the digital devil... SERATO SCRATCH.. but GODDAMN am i excited.. sure i'm gonna miss hauling 1 1/2 crates of vinyl to the spot via public transportation. i'll miss being limited to playing only songs that i picked out four hours earlier when i was stoned. and i'll definitely be missing those flimsy ass record sleeves they keep using in europe (what up with that shit anyways), falling apart all over the place.

but on the other hand, being able to play brand new heaters like this here SebastiAn remix of Klaxons' Golden Skans sounds real nice:

Klaxons - Golden Skans (Sebastian Remix)

woweee what the fuck was that! pretty sure i got it from the hollerboard, but haven't really been able to even think straight since i first heard it.

serato is an entirely different game, almost like a video game or something with the added visual element. all your bangers, right before your eyes, organized by bpm... making the actual matching of beats a no brainer and leaving more time for you to go buck wild on the mix. oh yeah and looping functions and all that other shit thats otherwise impossible to do when you are keeping it real. speaking of bpms, i guess this isnt breaking news, but not too long ago i came across this useful little tool called the iTunes BPM Inspector, a lovely counterpart to something like serato. it basically does exactly what you would guess it does (tap the mouse to the beat and it tells you the tempo) but once you've determined the BPM of your track you can set the BPM field of your file in iTunes accordingly with the click of a button.