I had to do a mega post here of one of my favorite new artists/MCs Shaz Illyork. Hailing from Queens, New York, Shaz has dropped 4 mixtapes in the past year, and has just dropped another for 2012. Dude is puttin’ in major work.
James Jean is a Taiwanese-born mixed media artist currently residing in Los Angeles. Along with illustrations and oil paintings, Jean had published SIX books of his works and won 18 design awards since 2000. He also has a line of jewelry in his Drip Simple Series. His body of work, and the various mediums used [...]
I had the pleasure of checking out a 1981 Serge Modular synth last night at a friend's place. What an experience that was. What made it great was that he knew the whole history of the synth, who created it and where, and had records of bands that had recording weird experimental albums with it.
He [...]
Roland R-MIX Audio Processing Software
I've mentioned a few times about how I'm a huge fan of Roland (and Boss) and their gear, and once again they have released another incredible product. This new release is different than most of their traditional lines of gear (besides Cakewalk), as it's software instead of hardware.
Employing Roland's Veriphrase technology, [...]
Strictly Cassette is a new website/blog that's been collected, compiled and presented as a cassette archive.
Seeing it all come together and on display is pretty mindblowing. Some of these I had when I was younger, so there's the nostalgia factor, but then a lot of them I had never seen or even thought that they [...]
This is going to be an amazing day of music in LA.
"Make Music Los Angeles is an eleven hour celebration of musical creativity that will take place on June 21, 2012 throughout the entire county of Los Angeles. Many of the city sidewalks, parks, community gardens, street corners and schoolyards will become the backdrop or [...]
This is going to be an amazing day of music in LA.
"Make Music Los Angeles is an eleven hour celebration of musical creativity that will take place on June 21, 2012 throughout the entire county of Los Angeles. Many of the city sidewalks, parks, community gardens, street corners and schoolyards will become the backdrop or [...]
If you think the title of this DVD sounds like a struggling foreigner's attempt to describe his trip to New York City during the formative years of a cultural revolution, you would be pretty much spot on in your assessment. Filmed in New York City in 1986, 'Big Fun in the Big Town' chronicles [...]
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These pics are from the 2nd installment of the 1010 Wilshire "Art On The Rooftop" series. Free, and always a good time. I did mess around and miss the free Toni's Soul Burgers and catering by Artistic Endeavors LA. Which is terrible, because I'm all about free food. There was a whole different section of the [...]
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This is going to be an amazing day of music in LA.
"Make Music Los Angeles is an eleven hour celebration of musical creativity that will take place on June 21, 2012 throughout the entire county of Los Angeles. Many of the city sidewalks, parks, community gardens, street corners and schoolyards will become the backdrop or [...]
These pics are from the 2nd installment of the 1010 Wilshire "Art On The Rooftop" series. Free, and always a good time. I did mess around and miss the free Toni's Soul Burgers and catering by Artistic Endeavors LA. Which is terrible, because I'm all about free food. There was a whole different section of the [...]
This past weekend (May 19th, 2012), I took a trip with Endo to the first Beat Swap Meet Las Vegas. Due to him bringing 21 boxes of LPs & 7"s, we drove up the morning before to get settled in and do some digging in Victorville and Vegas. After checking in & getting some quick [...]
If you think the title of this DVD sounds like a struggling foreigner's attempt to describe his trip to New York City during the formative years of a cultural revolution, you would be pretty much spot on in your assessment. Filmed in New York City in 1986, 'Big Fun in the Big Town' chronicles [...]
Creative Connectivity with Roland Gear and the iPhone
The WNA1100-RL is a simple, compact wireless USB adapter for Roland Wireless Connect. Roland Wireless Connect is an innovative system that allows Roland electronic musical instruments to communicate fluidly with the iPhone. Consisting of a wireless USB adapter and two new iOS apps (Air Recorder and V-Drums® Friend [...]
mixed by Trackstar the DJ @djtrackstar
hosted by Big Rube @BigRube
presented by Devil's Pie, Smoking Section, 2DopeBoyz and Maurice Garland
DOWNLOAD TRACKED OUT VERSION HERE:
http://smokingsection.uproxx.com/TSS/2012/05/download-trackstar-the-dj-out-of-darkness-the-best-of-organized-noize
Illustration and design by illadelphsouL http://illadelphsoul.weebly.com/
Purchase prints of the illustration at http://www.redbubble.com/people/illadelphsoul/works/8776767-out-of-the-darkness?p=photographic-print
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Release date: May 9, 2012
House Shoes is getting down for his right now. His debut album Let It Go is due June 19th, after spending a couple decades DJing, producing, and pressing releases for Detroit-area heavyweights. It's a debut album, but not by a new jack trying to make a name for himself. Featuring artists like Big Tone, Moe Dirdee, [...]
ANOTHER sad day in Hip-Hop, and in music as a whole. Cancer is a motherfucker.
Our best wishes go out to the Yauch family as Adam announced that he has been diagnosed with Cancer. Get Well Soon!!!
The sophmore album from The Beastie Boys, Paul's Boutique, turned 20 on July 25th.
psychology celebrates with the millions of Beastie [...]
PussPuss makes you want to wet your prints!
If you're girl is wearing any of these swimsuit designs this summer, you know you got it good. Made in the EU, they are handmade swimsuits with classic gear printed onto their Italian fabrics. Sounds plush & swanky & has classic gear on them, including the Technics SL-1210MK2 Turntable, Clavia [...]
Renoise is a complete, expandable Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) with a refreshing twist. It lets you record, compose, edit, process and render production-quality audio using a tracker-based approach. It features a wide range of built-in audio processors, alongside support for all commonly used virtual instrument and effect plug-in formats.
In a tracker, the music runs from [...]
