Tag: Beastie
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RC 363: Swinging Songs For Mashup Lovers
The return of the mashups, now re-integrated back into polite society and the podcast, now mixed live with non-mashups a merry sort of chaos (no-one mixes music like this!). This is the second ‘Towelcast’ – originally streamed live from The Disco Bathroom. If you watched the stream (well the bits that haven’t been trimmed or…
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Integrity and liability, or samplers shouldn’t throw stones
Mentioned this before on Twitter and Facebook, but I’ve been ignoring the sample litigation over here which really is the home of such discussions (for me anyway). This article on PolicyMic about the recent Beasties win made me kind of annoyed. Really not sure the Beasties suing people for millions of dollars is the epitome…
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Monster Beasties
I heard about this odd piece of news linking the fact that MCA’s will said he didn’t want him to appear in ads at all to the Monster lawsuit. I thought the timing of both announcements to be rather odd – could be just lazy journalism but a lot of the articles linked the two.…
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More bad news – RIP Lloyd Brevett & MCA
(Skatalites – Nimrod which has been completely scrubbed off YouTube. Odd.) Hmm after Nitro Deluxe the bad news keeps on coming, it always comes in threes…one you probably don’t know and the other you do. Of course everyone’s talking about the death of Adam Yauch aka MCA of the Beastie Boys – I’m sure as…