Metal Lungies

Fake ad running in a boston mag.  Bitch ain’t even COLD in that poncho.  

I heard a lecture by a man named Daniel Levitin a little while ago concerning the brain and how it interacts with music.  He was saying how the brain is the only computer that can tell what a song is (in this case the tetris theme song) even if its not played with the same instrumentation.  I thought about that when I saw this at tmtd.  Then I began to think am I noticing the specific pitches of the notes or is it just my brain recognizing a specific configuration of note intervals? crazy.  

The menacing beat now coupled with menacing images.  dead presidents fo life.  

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First single off Khaled’s upcoming We Global. Talk about using the same formula, same South-centric lineup, same synthy Runners beats, but I don’t doubt it will bang in the clubs.

Mp3: DJ Khaled Ft. Rick Ross, Plies, Akon, Lil Boosie, Trick Daddy, Ace Hoody & Lil Wayne-We Out Here Grindin (Dirty)

Update: More than one post about DJ Khaled would be obscene, so I’m putting this here. Khaled escapes from the zoo and “performs” his new song for Kanye (via Nah Right). How awkward must it have been to be in that room?

knobbz out.

Got this in the e-mail, straight hilarity.  Back this weekend, I’m clearing out my e-mail box so expect maybe like 32732 entries, tell the family.

The baby diapers is sitting in the back.

At first I thought this was a clip from Miss Rap Supreme.  Then, I thought this girl was a genius (Jeezy should kill George Bush).  But I finally settled on insanity; sweet dance moves though.  

“Drop” was a single released by the Pharcyde, in support of their second album, Labcabincalifornia. It was produced by J Dilla, still going by Jay Dee at the time. Dilla employs his soon-to-be signature crisp, neck-snapping snares and claps. He uses a haunting, spacey backwards sample and a scratched chorus of Ad-Rock from “The New Style”: “Feel the beat….mmmmm…DROP!” I’ll be honest, most of the lyrics to this song don’t really make a lot of sense to me. Nevertheless Bootie Brown kills it, and just reading the lyrics doesn’t do his verse justice:

My name is Bootie Brown and I’m proceeding, leading,
they try to follow but they’re shallow and hollow
I can see right through them like an empty 40 bottle, of O.E.
they have no key, or no clue
to the game at all, now they washed up
hung out to dry
standing looking stupid, wondering why
(why man?)
it was the fame (fame!), that they tried to get
now they walking around talkin’ about represent
and keep it real, but I got to appeal
cause they existing in a fantasy when holding the steel

The song also got a fantastic video courtesy of one of my favourite directors, Spike Jonze. If you haven’t seen it before, see if you can figure out what’s going on before the video finishes:

You can read Jonze’s one-page treatment for the video at Delicious Vinyl’s blog, it’s really interesting.

Da Beatminerz did a remix for the song that appears on the  12′ for “Drop”/”Y?”, as pictured at the top of post. The Ad-rock sample remains but it’s placed low in the mix, and there’s a new chorus:

Believe it or not/it’s all divine/I got the super phat shit that will blow your mind

The backwards electronic-sounding sample is gone; instead the remix compliments a filtered bass line with thudding drum hits.  Lyrics are unchanged but the song’s intro and outro is different: Bootie Brown introduces the track as a Beatminerz remix and Tre adlibs a bit at the end.

It’s an interesting take on the track, and in lieu of new Pharcyde material from the original quartet, any material from that era is welcome. Though the original lineup is reuniting for Rock The Bells, maybe new material will come from it. This interview with the group seems to indicate so.

So, you guys gonna make a record?
Slimkid3: We’re gonna go to the lab and work it out. We don’t want to jump the gun, we just want to let it happen.
Is there a lab to go back to?
Slimkid3: Hmm. Uh, I guess we need a lab. Just got back together, uh, yesterday, so… If a lab just so happens to pop up, that would be great.
Fatlip: Yeah. I mean of course it’s hard to say, but the way things have been for the last day, I have to say yes. Things are good.

Listen to both and tell me which version you like better:

The Pharcyde – Drop

The Pharcyde – Drop (Da Beatminerz Remix)

Entitled ODB Ason Unique, this movie looks like it could be good. These rap documentaries often slip due to lousy production values or an excess of bullshit, but hopefully this one will have an appropriate mix of Wu mysticism and discussion of the man’s music. Either way, I’m more interested in this than I am in that other dead rapper movie.

Official Site

via GRANDGOOD

So that’s why everyone is going bonkers over this.

Via sneakmove

Now, I’ve messed with FL Studio a few times, but I’ve always wanted to really bang out some beats on a proper Music Production Center, or MPC. These guys are living my dream of engaging in sampler-based combat, in this fantastic video for producer/DJ Egadz‘ song “What We Are Destined to Do”:

And here Egadz recreates the song live on an MPC:

And the video is just the tip of the iceberg. I’m a sucker for producers creating beats on the fly and the web is full of vids of them doing just that. Here’s a choice selection of videos of beatmakers producing with the MPC

Just Bleezy on the MPC:

Pete Rock plays with the MPC, and makes a beat out of Pat Benatar’s “Love Is A Battlefield”:

Damu the Fudgemunk (of Y Society) recreates DJ Premier’s beat for “Classic (Better Than I’ve Ever Been) on the MPC 2000:

Damu used to have several videos of him recreating beats by the likes of Pete Rock & Da Beatminerz but he seems to have taken them down. Anyone know the deal with this?

E:60 did a very interesting piece on Iron Mike, who ML is endlessly intrigued by. In the roundtable Jeremy Schaap nails it when he says a good part of the appeal of Mike Tyson is how authentic he is. Watch this if you are interested in what Mike is up to these days.

Production Meeting:

Part 1:

The rest after the jump:

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