TAG: The X-Ecutioners

Jun01

Exclusive: Fresh Vetz Talks Shop with URB

Fresh off the success of “Veteranz Day” with more than 3,000 total downloads, the hip hop duo from Long Island, NY has secured a nice distribution deal with Redline and is ready to drop their next album, “Fresh 2 Def”. I was lucky enough to catch up with them via e-mail to pick their brains a little and find out more about this up-and-coming hip hop gem that is Fresh Vetz.

What’s up Fresh Vetz?! For the people who are not hip to it, tell us who Fresh Vetz is.
Pause: Fresh Vetz consist of two members: Dashah (MC) and DJ Pause (DJ/Producer).

Where did you guys meet?  How long have you two been on this grind together?
Pause: We first met each other in high school.  …

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Apr02

Rob Swift – The Architect (Review)

Rob Swift

The Architect

Released by Ipecac Recordings


Turntable legend Rob Swift tightropes between genres on his first solo offering in seven years, The Architect. The record sounds like the hip-hop tinged soundtrack to a Humphrey Bogart detective flick. Dramatic horns and strings provide the cliffhangers that are deftly picked up by furious drums and scratches. Over the course of the 34 minute record, Swift ambitiously takes aim at the unlikely pairing of hip-hop and classical music. While it's not a genre-fusion-nightmare a la Limp Bizkit, the marriage of hip-hop and classical music isn't exactly made in heaven. Whenever a track appears ready to take off behind expert scratches, the classical aesthetic grinds the momentum to a halt. "Rabia - 2nd Movement" is one of few tracks where the juxtaposition succeeds. Swift's cuts are masterful; the beats themselves are somewhat dull.

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Feb02

Stream Rob Swift’s The Architect + On-Cam Scratchfest (Video & MP3)

Last time I ran into Rob Swift, I heard him before I saw him coming. I was at the steadily growing All Points West festival and I heard some other kinda scratching and cutting’ coming out of a sponsor tent and I knew could it not possibly be just some dude who’d asked his girl to hold his grilled corn while he tried his hand at the open decks…

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