Tag: hip-hop
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Babe Rainbow
Seemingly mining the space between hiphop, ‘spooktronica’, the chopped and screwed West Coast sound (more of that on the podcast I am working on) and Warp style IDM, Babe Rainbow aka Cameron Reed from Vancouver is doing interestingly things mixing the slowed down hiphop with almost dubstep glitches and swoops, horror soundtracks and a 8…
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Slow Down Huey you’re killing em
One of my favourite songs from one of my favourite rappers Sage Francis vs my current favourite cartoon – The Boondocks (Huey is my hero!), it seems appropriate to post this today with midterm elections in the US, with lines like: Making you think you’re crazy is a billion dollar industry. If they could sell…
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100Akres* (* mule not included)
Callng Jeb and Thomas and co. – 100Akres is making beat tapes – hiphop lmashup blends from the 80’s pop and RnB likes of Bowie, Whitney and Billy Ocean! Love the spoken interludes with Whitney and Billy and co. The David Bowie Beat Tape by FreshNerd of 100 Akres The Whitney Houston Beat Tape by…
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trust me kid, it’s not the end of the world
They made a video…for probably the most filmic (and real) hip-hop song ever? I missed this – Sage Francis’s ‘Best of Times’ (a collab with Yann Tiersen and actually lead me to check out more of his stuff, his back catalogue as well as Amelie which I knew well is sublime) has an intriguing and…
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Stylophone Beatbox Classics
Brett Domino and Steven Peavis performing ‘Rapper’s Delight’ – Sugar Hill Gang, ‘Jump Around’ – House of Pain and ‘Boom! Shake The Room’ – DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince (well 2/3 aint bad – note the word classics was used for the first two in this medley, not the Xenu-bothering t(h)urd). Now I…
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Metallica like Death apparently
Tell me something new! Next you’ll be telling me Slayer like Satan or something… ..oh. Props! prop! Props! props! prop…pRop to Wax! wax! Wax! Audio.