Tag: hip-hop
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DJ Format and Abdominal
Saw the last show of the DJ Format & Abdominal tour at a packed Camden Jazz Cafe last night, thanks to Ian Fondue. And they rocked the place! Shame I couldn’t stay for all of Format’s set (he played for an hour before, spinning and mixing 45’s bitches! Then an hour with Abdominal, then an…
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Safety Theater
Somehow missed this, the video to one of the best tracks on B. Dolan’s Kill The Wolf LP, Safety Theater. Cute and disturbing at the same time… And Hell Is Other People…
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I Can Screw The Rain
Great article on DJ Screw from RedBullAcademy of all places. Really sad that him and quite a few of that gang aren’t here today to see how chopping and screwing is everywhere – when someone in hiphop slows the beat down, chops it or does that slowed down rap, it’s basically a nod to him.…
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Tyler does a love song?
Kind of tuned out of Odd Future / Golf Wang lot, although checked out that last Earl album, not much has re-lit my interest since tipping them way before the GOLF caps and that WANG Coachella appearance. But I like this new one from Tyler, a stylistic change…it was obvious from his other stuff, videos,…
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I own hip hop, and you do too
Another day, another person having a go at Iggy Azalea. I’m not opposed to that, she’s an awful pop rapper, but then again it’s that hypocrite Q-Tip trying to lecture a rather skewed picture of hip hop history, pretty sure him and Tribe were middle class kids from Queens? Anyway I’m sure those that grew…
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On ‘real DJing’
The debate about who is a ‘real DJ’ goes on and on…and probably will never stop as new technology comes in, although ironic that a lot of the turntablists have on the sly embraced digital via Serato and Scratch. A friend posted this video from DJ Craze, a response to Daniel Tosh and others who…