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Wednesday, May 18, 2011

The Man With The Iron Fists UPDATE

The RZA continues to dish out wisdom via his Twitter for #WuWednesday such as "The art of knowing is knowing what to ignore." - Rumi; Put all your soul into it, play the way you feel! - Chopin; First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do. - Epictetus; A man exists for a generation, but his name lasts to the end of time. - (from the samurai classic) Hagakure; and Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth. - Hemingway.

Although I can't find anything new from Wu-Tang's Abbot himself regarding his forthcoming martial arts flick starring himself, Lucy Liu, Pam Grier, Russell Crowe, and various other martial artists, I found the follow short interview with Eli Roth and you can download a free mixtape from The Kickdrums that the RZA recommended.

Eli Roth on making The Man With The Iron Fists (2011).

Oh and dig this Yuen Woo Ping martial arts epic. . .

True Legend (2011) Trailer [HD].

2011.05.18 12:08 PM EST *UPDATE* Actor Rick Yune (most recently acting in Ninja Assassin (2009); click here for the IMBd) has also signed onto appear in the RZA's forthcoming flick.

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Also, I failed to mention that Quentin Tarantino has finished the script for his latest movie ("Django Unchained" click here for the IMBd), which will be a spaghetti western continuation of the Django Saga...

Reputedly the most violent film ever made up until that time, the graphic violent content of Django (1966) was responsible for its being banned in several countries (it was rejected by the UK until 1993 and not rated in the US). Click here for some of the related titles.

The movie also spawned hundreds of unofficial sequels and was so popular in Germany that nearly every subsequent western of Django star Franco Nero has Django in the title (Via.) If you're unfamiliar with the first two installments (most critical to understanding Tarantino's) watch the trailers below.

Django (1966) trailer. Click here for the IMBd (dir. by Sergio Corbucci).

Sukiyaki Western Django (2007) trailer. Click here for the IMDb (dir. by Takashi Miike).

Below is a trailer for Miike's latest film, now in theaters.

13 Assassins (2010) trailer.

Click here for what a fansite has to say about Django Unchained.

Saturday, March 26, 2011

Windmills "As Above, So Below" Album Review

UPDATE 2011.03.27 8:32 PM EST

Framework (emcee and DJ formerly of the Vermont hip hop crew The Loyalists) & Rex Rey (producer, multi-instrumentalist from Los Angeles) got together and formed Windmills in March of 2010 after answering a Craigslist posting. Combining their finely tuned skills, Rex & Frame finished their debut album, "As Above So Below" a year later.

First off, this is an album that merits multiple listens. (Click here to check out As Above So Below on Windmills' SoundCloud.) Samples are tastefully sprinkled throughout with several grouped in the first track that serve to introduce the theme that the mainstream is mediocre and people are no longer encouraged to pursue excellence. This message from Windmills is cemented by track #09 "Reborn of Thought" - a complex lyrically-tight song with a message from the underground for the mainstream, which also features clutch scratching of hip-hop samples. Scratching and samples don't overpower the listener though. Oh and the samples that are used aren't necessarily those you would expect to hear in rap, as you can see from the video posted below that, at least for me, recalls Don Quijote tilting at windmills.

Noel Harrison - The Windmills Of Your Mind [Live Performance]. "The Windmills Of Your Mind" Wiki here.

Track #07 "Outside My WIndow" has a concept that is pretty cool; take another look at the title of the song for a clue. Track #10 "Customer Service" has a chorus that is different and while that may turn some off, it's another song with an ill concept. Be sure, before you abandon this album to the annals of your mp3 player's Shuffle, that you check out track #11 "Small Town Better Blues" where Windmill goes in the hardest with an emotional flow and lyrics that can't be ignored.

Oh and download the whole album here until March 28th, 2011. Peace, peace y'all. One Love.

Produced by Rex Rey.
Emceeing and cuts by Framework.
Mixed & Recorded by Rex Rey.
Mastered by Dave Cooley.
Songs by Windmills.

(Via.)

Friday, February 18, 2011

The IMAKEMADEBEATS Video Game?

Yessir, check it out. . .

The IMAKEMADBEATS Video Game!!! Official Infomercial.

THE GAME

To accompany his first solo album, which debuted less than a month ago via Doxside Music Group, producerIMAKEMADBEATS enters the gaming front, releasing IMAKEMADBEATS: The Game, a computer-based alternative to your X-Box which shares the artist's deep passion for production, and lets you-make-mad-beats. The concept for this project originally came during a brainstorming session between Synopse, creator of the IMAKEMADBEATS: The Game, and IMMB himself on how to stand out among other indie labels and best promote the IMAKEMADBEATS album. "We wanted to reach people who love the challenge of video games that may have never heard of me otherwise," explains IMAKEMADBEATS. Synopse also expressed possibility for future expansions of the game, adding that, "There were a few more ideas that were tossed around that you might see in later incarnations."

Setting the stage for the game, the creators have developed a unique storyline for players to get fully immersed: The first show of IMAKEMADBEATS' new tour is right around the corner, but tragedy has struck and all of his beats have been stolen. Now, it's up to you, the player, enlisted as IMMB's assistant engineer to use the virtual midi-controller to help reproduce several of the beats from the IMAKEMADBEATS album in a "Simon Says" style game-play. Available via free download for both Mac and Window platforms, hip-hop fans and gaming enthusiasts alike can take on IMAKEMADBEATS: The Game.

Watch the Official Infomercial for IMAKEMADBEATS: The Game:
[Click here.]

Download IMAKEMADBEATS: The Game:
Air Version:
[Click here.]
Windows Version:
[Click here.]

Download the Manual for IMAKEMADBEATS The Game:
[Click here.]

Please post buy links:
Doxside Music Group Store (featuring special package deals including IMMB T-shirts and more): [Click here.]
Bandcamp: http://imakemadbeats.bandcamp.com/album/imakemadbeats-2
iTunes: [Click here.]
Amazon: [Click here.]

(Via.)

Downloading mine now. . .

Wednesday, September 15, 2010

UPDATE: Early Access To New Artist Music + Autographed Posters & Postcards For Those That Comment & Follow One Cool Kid, Rhetoric, and Stylez N' Kardo!

This is how it works:
- 1st person to comment on the SK! (Stylez N' Kardo) post gets a personalized autograph from Stylez and Kardo!
- The next 10 get signed postcards
- First three people to follow SK! on Twitter get signed SK! posters
- First three people who fan SK! on Facebook get signed SK! posters
- First three people who share the post on Facebook or Twitter will get signed SK! posters
- First three people that comment on any One Cool Kid post awarded with exclusive ?????
- First three people that comment on Rhetoric freestyle exclusive awarded with exclusive ?????
- Everybody who comments between now and Friday will get exclusive early access to ??????

. . . . You'll find out soon enough folks . . . .

Click here for the previous post on this promotion that has links so you can get started!

Oh, and if you use StumbleUpon, click "Like it!" for some of the posts, too!

Wednesday, July 21, 2010

420 x 5-0

"Marijuana Overdose" by Loetech (a.k.a. X1 and Bombaman). MySpaces here, here and here.

Animated Cop Pot Brownies 911 Call (from Current TV).

[UPDATE] 2010.07.22 12:04 a.m. EST

"Marijuana Overdose (Excision Remix) [Unreleseased HQ]" by Loetech.

Cop "overdosing" on weed full 911 call.

Wednesday, June 23, 2010

Mercilessly Plundering The Interwebs For The People's Entertainment

¡Viva la Revolución!

"False Flag" by Mono/Poly off his debut album Paramatma (2010)*.

Toru Iwatani carries the original Pac-Man sketches with him to this day.

(Via Kotaku.)

"Super Mario Beatbox" by Hikakin (Everything Via via via via via anditstillis [home page] unless otherwise noted). Check out his (Hikakin's) Google-translated blog here.

[UPDATE] Click here for more dope beatboxing by Hikakin.

Sorry, my Japanese isn't that good, but it's a hardcore violin rendition by a talented musician, who plays while watching some Mario gameplay.

Dig this "New York Fat Cap Chair" by artist Sander van Heukelom (website here) ...

... & this "Hooded Fat Cap Chair" below ...

... Or click here to see a gallery, (which can be viewed as a slideshow,) of custom chairs.

* Learn about "Paramatma" in Hindu theology here.

The end of that song kind of reminds me of [RE-POST]

One Cool Kid - Orange Juice - peoplesposeur.blogspot.com by The People's Poseur

Thursday, June 17, 2010

Will The Real DJ Hero Please Stand Up?

(Via Lemonade was a popular drink...).

[UPDATE] Crazy video related to Ms Pinky's Digital DJ Technology (Via anditstillis).

Video by Daito Manabe (click here). For MsPinky's Playhouse click here.

Monday, May 17, 2010

Curren$y Rules Everything Around Me

C.R.E.A.M.

Smokee Robinson (Via Pigeons & Planes). Click here to download.

"Neither Party Is Mine / Not The Jackass Or The Elephant. . ."

Get 20% off your order when you use the RepCode: ForThePeople at checkout (click here) when shopping on Karmaloop.com, dig?

Rise Up.

"I was also going to give a graduation speech in Arizona this weekend, but with my accent, I was afraid they would try to deport me." - Arnold Schwarzenegger (Via Time.)

Check out Robert Rodriguez's message to Arizona over here (or see what Time Magazine has to say about Machete here).

10 Deep.

(Via Karmaloop.)

"By The Time I Get To Arizona" by Public Enemy.

"These Are A Few Of My Favorite Things. . ."

I am about to order mine right now . . . somebody got $20 I can borrow?

Check out the mixtape here.

(Via How Fly.)

05 Fly So HighbyRock Steady

Music and mixtapes here.

Wednesday, May 5, 2010

Cinco De Mayo "Machete" Movie "Illegal Trailer"

"Machete (The Illegal Trailer)" directed by Robert Rodriguez (who says, "Happy Cinco de Mayo, Arizona!").

(Via Super Punch.) *This Video Will Probably Be On The News & It Hasn't Even Been Watched 400 Times Yet*

[UPDATE] It was on the news and the original video got taken down. New video (Via hiphophypedog). Evidently this movie has white people worried (check the via link). Good old controversy.

I am a fan of Quentin Tarantino and when he teamed up with Robert Rodriguez, his friend and the director of the Mariachi Trilogy, as well as de facto director of "Sin City," to make "Grindhouse" I was pretty excited.

Splitting "Death Proof" and "Planet Terror" up into two different movies for the DVD release might have made economic sense, but the true experience was sitting through the fake trailers for "Machete" directed by Rodriguez, "Werewolf Women of the SS" directed by Rob Zombie, "Don't" by Edgar Wright ("Shaun of the Dead," "Hot Fuzz"), "Thanksgiving" by Eli Roth, and . . . if you were in Canada, evidently the below-embedded "Hobo With a Shotgun."

2007 SXSW "Grindhouse" Trailer Contest Winner.

That, the fake commercials, the missing sex scene, and the movies one after the other were awesome. Oh, that and finding out that "Machete" was actually going to get made.

Dig It [UPDATE]

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[UPDATE] "[UPDATE] The First 300 People To Sign Up For Karmaloop.com's New Website Get A $10 Credit" here.

Monday, May 3, 2010

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Use code: GRNDSHP

More info.

[UPDATE] "Dig It [UPDATE]" here.

Friday, April 30, 2010

Get Free Or Die Tryin' (Controversial New M.I.A. Music Video For "Born Free")

the revolution will not be televised.

(Via Daily News.)

Video after the jump. . .

Steppin' Lasers

Lupe Fiasco and B.o.B will be performing at UNC-Charlotte tomorrow night. I saw Lupe at Bonnaroo in 2008 and he was one of the best performers I have ever seen. We got Wale, J. Cole, & Janelle Monáe here at UNC-Chapel Hill, but (mea culpa) I didn't know who two out of three were at the time . . .

[UPDATE] Click here for "New Lupe Fiasco Music Video" and read my review of the show.

Monday, April 19, 2010

4/20 Cosmogramma Radio Broadcast [UPDATE]

Click here for the 4/20 radio broadcast!

COSMOGRAMMA RADIO April 20th ON AIR from the DUBLAB Studios, LIVE in your region from:

NOON - LA/PST
15:00 - NYC/EST
20:00 - UK
21:00 - CET
04:00 - TOKYO

Other likely participants include The Gaslamp Killer, Ras G, Daedelus, Teebs, Matthewdavid, Dr. Strangeloop and more.

(Via hiphophypedog.)

Flying Lotus Cosmogramma (Warp)

Flying Lotus 'Cosmogramma' Tracklisting:

- LIMITED FIRST EDITION PRINT CD W/ FOIL BLOCK SLIPCASE -
-2 x LP DOUBLE GATEFOLD VINYL WITH VELUM INNER SLEEVES-

01. Clock Catcher
02. Pickled!
03. Nose Art
04. Intro//A Cosmic Drama
05. Zodiac Shit
06. Computer Face//Pure Being
07. ..And The World Laughs With You ft. Thom Yorke
08. Arkestry
09. Mmmhmm ft.Thundercat
10. Do The Astral Plane
11. Satelllliiiiiteee
12. German Haircut
13. Recoiled
14. Dance Of The Pseudo Nymph
15. Drips//Auntie's Harp
16. Table Tennis ft. Laura Darlington
17. Galaxy In Janaki

Pre-ordering for release on the 03/04 May 2010.

FOR US CUSTOMERS, WE WILL BE SHIPPING DIRECT FROM THE UNITED STATES SO WE CAN OFFER THE CHEAPEST POSTAGE OPTION. ALL OTHER ORDERS WILL BE SHIPPED FROM THE UK.

CD and Vinyl Purchases include an mp3 download version delivered to your Bleep account on the day of release

(Via BLEEP.)

Image via RCRD LBL.

(Click the above link to hear/download "Love Lockdown (Flying Lotus Remix)" by Kanye West.)

[UPDATE] of "Can You Dig It?" (click here).

Sunday, April 18, 2010

OJ, Part Of A Complete Breakfast: "Wake Up Every Morning Eat That Captain Crunch Cereal / That's That Shit Right There. . ."

Dope-a-licious. World-Premiere-You-Heard-It-On-The-Blogosphere-Here-First-Shit.

"Orange Juice" by One Cool Kid. N.C. Represent. Check out the MySpace here. Dutty South.

Also none-too-shabby:

Kush

OJ.

(Download via Get Right Music.)

[2010/04/29 UPDATE]

The mixtape's weed-heavy tune "Never Been" features a sample of Chrono Trigger song "Schala's Theme".

Find out more (via Gizmodo).

Saturday, April 17, 2010

Can You Dig It?

Flying Lotus' new album will be released on 4/20.

COSMOGRAMMA. Dope-a-licious.

And check out the site here for the 4/20 live broadcast and pre-order period where everybody will get the above Flying Lotus sketch & one person will win the original.