TAG: Music

Feb02

SXSW Red Bull Thre3style showcase to feature US Champ Big Once and World Champ DJ Hedspin (Updated) (Video)

Leading out of the preliminary qualifiers being held this month in search of the next Red Bull Thre3style World Champion, the event finds itself setting up shop at SXSW this year featuring the US Champ, Big Once, and the reigning champ, the Vancouver Kid, DJ Hedspin.

With the first two featured DJ’s in showcase form, all we can say is expect the unexpected at this event.  Last year’s event featured surprise performances by DJ Z-Trip and LL Cool J, and it only goes to say that the event should be bigger and badder this March.

Peep the video from the peeps at Social Science and URB HD after the break for some of what Big Once brought at the World Finals last …

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Dec23

Four songs on Friday: @evolutionco81 @kylerapps @burntmd @ylove @diwon and Aaron Cohen (Video & MP3)

This week we have four new downloads for your friday. I hope you enjoy the jams as much as peanut butter and jam enjoy being together. Ok. We got Evolution, Aaron Cohen, Hood Samaritan, and Burnt MD. Everyone has been seen before on the blogs. This makes it easier for one stop shopping, which is highly encouraged for the holiday season.

MC Evolution- The colorado kid from Fort Collins is making waves in his area, and got a off beat voice over a space cadet beat from DJ Kaotic. It reminds me of the crazy beat I want to hear with only 2 hrs of sleep in 2 days. That can be a bad thing or good thing and sometimes a great thing!

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Oct19

J-Boogie’s Dubtronic Science – Undercover (Review)

J-Boogie's Dubtronic Science

Undercover

Released by OM Records


My familiarity with J-Boogie comes from the various remix and edit work he has done in the past (including one he made for Vieux Farka Touré's "Fafa" from 2009) as well as his collaboration with fan favorites People Under the Stairs, Quantic and his Combo Barbaro, Bay Area compadres Zion I, Goapele and Raashan Ahmad spanning multiple projects, personal and by others. By no means an exhaustive list, J-Boogie’s talent is undeniable and his knowledge of mixing, sampling, and creating great-sounding gems continues to this day. J-Boogie’s extensive network ...

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Oct19

Quantic – The Best of Quantic (Review)

Quantic

The Best of Quantic

Released by Tru Thoughts


If Quantic aka Will Holland’s records are already some of the most solid music this side of the Panama Canal, what would make you think that a The Best of Quantic collection could be anything less? Beginning with his unfathomably impressive debut The 5th Exotic, Mishaps Happening, up to his recent interests in Latinoamérica, Quantic has gone through various iterations, styles, and musical metamorphoses. Thinking about this collection as a sum of its parts, The Best of Quantic 2-cd compilation brings together some of the standout selections from his previous ...

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Sep30

Live Review: Flammable Liquid 20-Year Anniversary Reunion

Twenty years.  Good God.  Has it really been twenty years?  Has it really been two decades since Flammable Liquid, L.A.’s most beloved of all old-school rave after-hours, began blazing its historic trail and setting the city’s nocturnal underground alight?  Have the ones who’ve been there from the beginning really gotten that much older?  And can that magical vibe from all those years ago be resurrected in this second decade of the twenty-first century?  Well, yes, yes, yes, and YES, respectively, as this 20th-year reunion party proved on this cool September night.  Even as Nocturnal Wonderland  raged far away in San Bernardino to tens of thousands, the several hundred who were at Flammable Liquid laughed at the mere idea of going all the way out there for yet another by-the-numbers massive.  There was no fucking way they were going to miss …

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