TAG: MPC

Oct07

Flud Watches Presents: Beats Per Minute with AraabMuzik (Live MPC Performance) (Video)

FLüD Presents: Beats Per Minute with Araab Muzik – Live MPC Performance from FLuD Watches on Vimeo.

Flud Watches presents the eight and final “Beats Per Minute” video featuring MPC Master AraabMUZIK in celebration of their “BPM” watch as part of their new summer collection. The “Beats Per Minute” Video Series showcases some of hip hop’s most influential producers highlighting their craft, while discussing changes in the game, crate diggin’, equipment and their advise to the new generation.

This final episode is showcases AraabMUZIK doing what he does best on the MPC. No interview, just a straight performance video of him getting busy.

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Oct28

Jamie XX Remixes Nosaj Thing “Fog” (MP3)

Apparently not content with being the quiet guy with the MPC in the back of massive new UK group The XX, Jamie Smith (Jamie XX to the bloggers of the world) has been coming out strong as of late. First with his solo release, “Far Nearer” and now with this excellent remix of Los Angeles beat scene soldier Nosaj Thing. The remix is part of a package of reworkings from last year’s Nosaj album on Alpha Pup, Drift, and will also feature versions of songs from Dntel, Teebs and Jon Hopkins.

Nosaj Thing – “Fog” (Jamie XX Remix)

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Sep13

E.S.Q. & Chikaramanga – The Succession (Review)

ESQ & Chikaramanga

The Succession

Released by TRES Records


What do you get when a Japanese beatsmith and an emcee from Chicago meet in Los Angeles through the celestial power of hip-hop music? You get a versatile and aurally delicious hip-hop record much like The Succession, a hard-hitting, timely album from TRES Records integrants E.S.Q. & Chikaramanga. The flavors sprinkled throughout this debut showcase the talents of E.S.Q. as an artist of the spoken word as well as TRES co-founder Chikaramanga’s skills with the technologies of the MPC (especially the MPC60 and the S3000). Their musical chemistry is ...

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May02

Javelin – No Mas (Review)

Javelin

No Mas

Released by Luaka Bop


Javelin, the Brooklyn-by-way-of-Providence duo, have been playing loft parties and art galleries and releasing CD-Rs, 12”s, and mixes for the past five years, but it’s No Mas that serves as their official full-length debut. This means that some of the songs here have already been out for a while, redone or edited a bit for the new album (for example, “Mossy Woodland” now has vocals), but it's no matter, because Javelin’s brand of Billyburg summer pop—breezy with minimal low-end, flat electronic-y depth, good for ear buds or beach stereos, never too serious or intense—manages to be fun without ever being trivial.

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Mar19

The xx “Islands” on Fallon (Video)

We’ll admit, it’s kinda a slow news Friday for those who aren’t running around Austin for SXSW. Fortunately, we’re just getting around to watching this clips of The xx performing “Islands” on Jimmy Fallon. Watching this band live is really a lesson on drum pad-subtlety (not something you usually get when folks are rocking the MPC). We’re also reminded that we never had a Shamrock shake this year. Anyone know if McDonalds is still serving?

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