Sunday, December 28, 2008

On The Look Out



It's usually a good thing when you see production on an album from Illmind, Jake One, M-Phazes, Analogic, 9th Wonder & Oddisee. This is no exception. Don't really know who this guys is (maybe someone can shed some light onto the situation) but this is a dope mixtape!

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Thursday, December 25, 2008

We never grew up, we just got taller



Been a lack of good music on here lately. And that's why you come here, isn't it?

We all know that Elzhi is beast on the mic. Here's a joint featuring the man himself on Evidence's recently released The Layover.

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What Could Have Been...



It's been a while between posts here. We've all been extremely busy! It's almost that time of the year when we start looking back at the past 12 months / 52 weeks / 365 days and reflect upon all the great music that has been released. There has been a lot!

But until then, let's think about what could have been. Here's a list of a few artists who gave us a taste but left us wanting more or who's lives were ended short by whatever means. In no particular order (although Freud may have something to say about that):

- Binary Star
- J Dilla
- Talib / Hi-Tek
- Black Star
- The Fugees

Leave a comment and tell us your wish list!

Happy Holidays ALL!

Friday, December 12, 2008

Beyond Cute and Super Mario



Especially when the little hedgehog floats on his back. Reminds me of those fish from Super Mario underwater levels....speaking of which, peep this actual room decorated in Super Mario steez.

Dreamo's Certified Heater of the Week

This guy is the hope for Tdot. Period.

Thursday, December 11, 2008

(dis)information?



Who controls the British crown?
Who keeps the metric system down?
We do! We do!
Who leaves Atlantis off the maps?
Who keeps the Martians under wraps?
We do! We do!
Who holds back the electric car?
Who makes Steve Gutenberg a star?
We do! We do!
Who robs cave fish of their sight?
Who rigs every Oscar night?
We do! We do!


The Big Agenda.com

The truth exposed?
- you decide.


o⋅pen-mind⋅ed

–adjective
1. having or showing a mind receptive to new ideas or arguments.
2. unprejudiced; unbigoted; impartial.

Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Things that should never be done


Click on the pic for more

How can this be allowed?!? Did you click on the link? Seriously?

Friday, December 5, 2008

Dreamo's Certified Heater of the Week

We have multiple heaters this week courtesy of honourary noyoite, DJ Edit One aka Eno Tide. He's already on volume 11 of his Tables of Content sessions, if you slept on any of the first 10 volumes, you know what to do this weekend. He brings much joy to the ears and minds of the Tdot collective. Click the tables for the earfood and peep his site http://www.djeditone.com/ - the "Infectious Rhythm" and "Jyrate and Jiggle" mixes are also certified heaters.

Thursday, December 4, 2008

U.B.M.A. (Unauthorized Biography Of Muhammad Ali)



Remember this series? Posted here a while back? Sooo dope.

Monday, December 1, 2008

You win. Perfect.



Street Fighter was one of the biggest games of the mid 90s. If you didn't play this game, you definitely missed out and if I could count the number of quarters that I spent at the arcade... Well, let's say that it would be a lot quarters. I'm sure there are dedicated blogs on what some would call the best fighting game ever made.
Street Fighter II has been re-released in full HD glory! Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix (available only on Xbox Live Arcade and Playstation Network) is a pixel-for-pixel recreation of the game. From the character select all the way through to backgrounds and endings, the entirety of the game has been redrawn!

-- from Joystiq
Are you drooling yet? Cause that wasn't even the point of this post. Or was it... To commemorate the new game, several artists have put out tracks. Here's one of them.

Redman + Oh No on the boards + Street Fighter samples = FIRE

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Sunday, November 30, 2008

"Bad motherfucker like Oedipus"



This joint exemplifies the dude above's blend of Chicago soul with east-coast boom-bap; resulting in what he insists is “commercial hip hop” with awareness and attitude. Hip-hop is considered by many to be “classic” when it paints a picture vivid enough to be experienced by any listener, regardless of their own background. Throughout the album, he documents his one-of-a-kind journey from the windy city of Chicago to the nation’s capitol of Washington, DC, and across the globe. Although “classic” is a claim that only time can verify, SoulStice’s claim to have made the perfect album can only be decided by the legion of Hip-hop fans worldwide.

-- from Rap News Network

This album is dope! Production comes Oddisee, Analogic & M-Phazes to name a few.

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Who got the jazz?



Rap and jazz go together like you and this blog. This album came out earlier this year and don't ask me why I didn't post it before but here it is now (you'll ask WHY, trust me).
... a tribute to the golden age of hiphop, taking its strength into the roots of the black music and more notably in jazz music. Through out the album, the listeners will discover the warmful sound of the old jazz fusion records from the 70's mixed with samples and live instruments on which Jazz Liberatorz have invited la creme de la creme of the independant hiphop soul & jazz scene.

-- from MySpace
Track 1 takes you on a trip down memory lane, quoting recognizable riffs that have been sampled by some of the best producers in the game (can you name them all?). The rest of the album is just smooth smooth timeless music that you've come accustomed to here.

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Monday, November 24, 2008

Saturday, November 22, 2008

A little something different



Here's a little something funky to help with those winter blues.

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Friday, November 21, 2008

And then a hero comes along...

Everyone is a hero in some way, shape or form. Everyone has the strength to carry on. So cast your fears aside and click the pic - it takes you to heromachine, where you can actually design and create your very own personalized hero in significant detail. The pic above is a quick crack at it (my hero would definitely rock a crossbow).

Thursday, November 20, 2008

Dreamo's Certified Heater of the Week




On some laid back artsy "crossroads of my mind" heater ish. Please do not get confused - its not only MOP "Ante Up" type joints that can cause you to throw a chair out the window - any genre and style can trigger that behaviour....as long as its a heater. Click the pic to enjoy the track, then click the vid and mimic what you see. Shouts to AP.

1001 Rules for my Unborn Son

Click the pic for a blog where a dude posts life lessons for his unborn son. What if he has a daughter? How much of his wisdom will hold true? The genders are wired differently, that is fo sho sho.

Saturday, November 15, 2008

How's your tshirt game pt. 2



80sTees has this amazing shirt for pre-order right here. Sadly, I don't think it comes in a plastic sleeve, but I am fairly certain you have to blow on it a few times before you're able to put it on.

-- from Topless Robot

Friday, November 14, 2008

How's your tshirt game?



Props to DJ for the find!

Black Milk - Give The Drummer Some Video

Thursday, November 13, 2008

Really???



Ridley Scott has officially moved onto Park Avenue.

The helmer will direct Universal Pictures' bigscreen version of Hasbro's Monopoly board game from a script by Pamela Pettler.

Scott, who recently helmed Warner Bros.' "Body of Lies" has long been attached to the project. He will produce, with Hasbro topper Brian Goldner, as well as direct.

"Monopoly" is set up at Universal Pictures, which has a first-look deal with Hasbro to develop movies based on the company's line of toys. Those include "Ouija," which Platinum Dunes is developing, and "Battleship."

Hasbro jumped into the adaptation game after successfully turning its "Transformers" toys into a franchise at DreamWorks and Paramount. It has actioner "G.I. Joe" bowing next summer.

-- from Variety

Does anyone else think that this is a bad idea?

Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Dreamo's Certified Heater of the Week

Dilla influenced, yet original. Familiar, yet unique. Accessible. Head-noddin'. International. Feel good ish. Onra. Dude is nice with it. Please baleeee....click the pic and enjoy this breath of fresh air.

Sunday, November 9, 2008

They're back!



Eight years after Troy Duffy's police actioner "The Boondock Saints" disappeared quickly from theaters, he's come back to direct "The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day" from his own script.

Chris Brinker and Don Carmody are producing the sequel, which has started shooting in Toronto. Lloyd Segan and Rob Fried exec produce.

Sean Patrick Flanery and Norman Reedus are reprising their roles as brothers dispensing vigilante justice in Boston. Billy Connolly, Julie Benz, and David Ferry also star.

-- from Variety

Saturday, November 8, 2008

Your Lazy Sunday Listen

This kinda album even makes the most retired of loop diggin' producers want to return to the game, lay down some freshness and profess eternal gratitude to all those that virtually made love to an instrument or instruments and laid it all out for the world on wax.

Damn Coltrane, I've missed your sickness...

Your Lazy Sunday Listen...float on!


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The Counter...Ed. 4

Here's an interesting selection. The Black Ghosts. A group that is somewhat akin to the Gorillaz, but with more of a UK neo-soul flare. Essentially, you have one psycho DJ and a limey crooner belting out some pretty cool chunes.

Ironically, Damon Albarn (of Blur and the Gorillaz) appears on the track, "The Repetition Kills You".

Peep this album for your Euro moments.


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How's your shoe game?



Inspired by the nostalgia-inducing color scheme of the original Nintendo Entertainment System, the Air Classic BW – Nintendos feature the system's iconic black, gray, dark gray, and red color arrangements. The design also incorporates d-pad shaped patterns and start/select buttons etched just to the right of the shoe tongues.

-- from IGN gear

Friday, November 7, 2008

On The Look Out



14KT is a producer that y'all need to be on the look out for.
As part of the Athletic Mic League and The Lab Techs, he's produced pivotal tracks for nearly every notable Detroit Hip-Hop artist. He has been instrumental in boosting the careers of fellow crew members Buff1 and DJ Haircut (Stones Throw Records' newest acquisition and 1/3 of Now On).

-- from myspace
Peep this instrumental album that will have you boppin your head until the very end... until you hit that repeat button and start it again!

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Dreamo's Certified Heater of the Week

Jake One. Kardi. Pharoahe. Any questions? Didn't think so. Click the pic.

You knew it was coming



Edward Norton’s production company, Class 5 Films, approached Barack Obama two and a half years ago with a proposal to document the events of his campaign. Obama agreed, and the filmmakers were given extensive access to the candidate, his staff, his family, and associates. With Obama’s victory, interest for the project has skyrocketed and HBO has now closed a seven-figure deal for U.S. rights to the film.

The film was directed by Amy Rice and Alicia Sams and is being edited by Sam Pollard, who worked on Spike Lee’s masterful When the Levees Broke.
In fact, footage is still being captured, and filmmaking will continue through the inauguration.

-- from /film

Thursday, November 6, 2008

You Don't Know The Power Of The Dark Side



Breakfast feeling kind of dull? Have you ever wished that you could have Darth Vader's helmet blazed into your toast? No? Really? Well, for $55 USD, now you can! Click on the pic for info.

Sampled

Taking it back to a 1991 release - however this track still bangs today. For some reason, the track reminds me of junior high school missions involving pizza pizza runs and dumping endless quarters into streetfighter 2 arcade machines. Related side note: "Craziest" (by the same group who leveraged this sample) is an often underrated "entrance music heater" track.

Wednesday, November 5, 2008

Guitar Heroes

Have you seen the Brett Ratner (Rush Hour, most new slutty Mariah Carey videos) directed guitar hero ad featuring Kobe, Alex Rodrigues, Michael Phelps & Tony Hawk?


A lot of mixed reviews on that one... most of the negative ones on account of the huge doucheness of Ratner.

Here's the next one directed by the man himself featuring Heidi Klum.

Monday, November 3, 2008

Tomorrow is U.S. Election Day

Sunday, November 2, 2008

Be a good Jedi

If Mos Def was running for president...


...I'd vote for him.

Your Lazy Sunday Listen

This one is interesting...very eclectic. A Belgian band, similar in style to Radiohead...

Your Lazy Sunday Listen


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Friday, October 31, 2008

Dreamo's Certified Heater of the Week

DCHW keeps it realer than most. In these recessionary times, we recognize, realize and understand what the people are experiencing. Rza felt it too way back when he selected this gem for sampleeziness. If you're experiencing hard times in this crazy town, click away and the music soothe your soul.

Thursday, October 30, 2008

Five Friends


Ahhh actors. Peep this, Steven Speilberg directed, short.

20 and counting



The Simpsons, TV's longest-running American sitcom, is on tap for at least three more seasons, The New York Post reports.

"The cast is signed for three more years, so I would now say it's about a 90 percent chance we'll come back for at least one of those three," Al Jean, the show's executive producer, said. "I actually think it's better than a 50 percent chance we'll do three more years of this at least."

At the moment, The Simpsons is tied with 20-season-long Gunsmoke,
which also ran 20 years, as the longest-running scripted series, drama or comedy, ever.

-- from enewsi.com

Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Green Hip-Hop

If you slept on the posting of the Green album, maybe these tracks will persuade you to join the dark side.


Sampled

Clean it up...if you wanna crush all night lemme hear you say I wanna crush all night, let's go!

Dilla's music is truly timeless. I remember hitting up a couple jams the nights after he passed, and the whole spot was on some "one nation under a groove" ish. RIP to Dilla. Shouts to Eno Tide for the knowledge.

Monday, October 27, 2008

In Memorium


Jumping Jack Flash
1995-2008

Sunday, October 26, 2008

Y. Boys



Peep this album by Dilla's younger brother, entirely produced by Dilla.

Who else out there is still sittin' on Dilla beats?

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Q-Teezee



Tip drops his first studio release in almost 10 years!

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Your Lazy Sunday Listen



This is a back in the day Sunday...oh those University Backpackin' Underground Hiphop Head Days.

Here's the line up on this one:

01. Truth Enola featuring De La Soul - Voicetress
02. Mos Def and Talib Kweli - Another World
03. Big Kwam - Verbalise (DJ Spinna Remix)
04. L Swift featuring A Butta - Ride This
05. Grap Luva - Touch The Sky
06. Invisible Mics - Way Past Go
07. Brother Alphonso Greer featuring Khaliq - Situations Realistic
08. Pharoahe Monch - Tooley Crew Personified
09. Alice Russell - Someday
10. Mr. Complex - Do It Up
11. Subterranean - My Style Is Phreaky
12. J-Live - Shyste
13. Big Twan - One For The Lyricist
14. Structure Rize - Put Your Hands Up
15. Big Kwam - Kwamaniz



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'Pon request



If you don't know about Aimee Duffy, you SHOULD!

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Saturday, October 25, 2008

Follow the white rabbit



Tim Burton is set to direct a live-action remake of the Disney Classic "Alice In Wonderland". The film will feature Mia Wasikowska as Alice, Johnny Depp as The Mad Matter, Anne Hathaway as The White Queen, Helena Bonham Carter as The Red Queen and Crispin Glover as The Knave of Hearts.

Burton is using a combination of live action and performance-capture technology to tell the Lewis Carroll story.

-- from killermovies.com


Tim Burton + Wonderland = can't wait for this one!

Wazzup...

Y'all remember the Budweiser ads from a few years ago (more than few actually)... Well, the boys are back. Not in another commercial though. Here's a little short they did commenting on the current political, economic and social status of our neighbours to the south.

Friday, October 24, 2008

The Counter...Ed. 3



Damn I love dub...


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It's official...



... my repeat button no longer works from constant usage. All windows are broken and subsequently, all chairs are out on the street. My computer would be out there too, but I needed it to type this.

No point listing notable tracks. It's ALL fiyah!!

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Thursday, October 23, 2008

Drizzy

Nothing like some T-Dot flavour to make you feel like you're at home, even while on the other side of the world. These two freestyles have been on constant repeat for the last week or so in the mountains of Chiang Mai, Thailand.

Caution: Must be played in the red... the volume that is. The other red is up to your discretion.


Swagger Like Us


Still Fly

Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Run!

Ghost and Jada would be proud. Use the left and right keys to move and the space bar to jump. The goal is to stay on track and not end up in the infinite abyss of space. So, run! Hop fences, jump over benches! When you see me comin' get the fruck out the entrance! Click the pic, trick.

Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Your Lazy Sunday Listen

This is chill, sweet and an excellent melange of hiphop vibes intertwined with jazzy notes.

Essentially you have a world class DJ paired with a world class Jazz artist and some notable MCs that be emceein' on these delicious tracks. I would suggest this LP to be paired with a nice bottle of wine, some good food and a chilled lady friend.

Then again...I always believe that booze and women go well together, in any situation.


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Monday, October 20, 2008

Get a Mac

Here are the latest ads from Apple in response to the Microsoft ones (posted here, here & here).


Sunday, October 19, 2008

.............


Do you think that the upcoming American presidential election will be any different than the last two? These people may convince or change your mind, depending on where it was in the first place.

Saturday, October 18, 2008

When now?



This little blurb (slightly edited by me) is posted pretty much everywhere you can find this album (which is a lot of places cause it's madd dope) so I figured why not continue the tradition:
Now On is a progressive rap trio of MC’s: IX Live, Jackson Perry and Haircut (of The Athletic Mics League). It has a genre-defying feel about it, with a hat off to rap, neo-soul and plenty more in between. Production comes from The Lab Techs and Jake One.
As always, click on the pic for the full album art.

I couldn't find the full production credits but seeing those two names above should be enough for you to...

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80s!!!



If you cop this ish solely for the Jake One produced track 3 then you're doing yourself a favour. Seriously. That ish will make you wish you had not one... but TWO windows to throw your chair through.

And after throwing your chair through said two windows, you'll try to throw it through said two windows again... forgetting that you had thrown your chair through said two windows in the first place.

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Friday, October 17, 2008

I Love The World

Its a beautiful place - wherever you are...this is a shout out to the worldwide collective. From Thailand to Tdot, sing along:

Dreamo's Certified Heater of the Week

David Axelrod. David. Axelrod. Dude is a monster and is responsible for so many of the sweet sounds you have heard in your life. This week's certified heater brings forth a feeling of the "circle of life". Its extremely powerful stuff and will make you ponder "what it all means"? Hopefully that's a good thing for you. Turn the lights down, the speakers up and click the pic, trick.

Veeks

The pursuit of a vehicle to match one's essence is a lifelong journey. A journey that will change, mature and eventually culminate in self-actualization through the manifestation of steel, leather and passion. Or, you can view your car as something that takes you from point A to point B. Here at Represent Noyo, we take great pride in our vehicle selection, and fancy ourselves as patrons of the vehicular world. As such, we offer up the first in a series of vehicles for your consideration: presenting the Maserati Quattroporte S Executive GT. Four door sports whippage with understated elegance and lines that scream "this dude is as smooth as a muggafugga". Dreamo has customized his above, you can too by clicking the pic.

Thursday, October 16, 2008

Sittin on Tops, Fool!

As a youngin' I had my big wheels tricycle and a road hockey stick and I was in heaven. The children of today are afforded a luxury that I was not. Witness the enigma that is Kota the Triceratop. A 3 foot tall plush rideable dinosaur robot for children under 60 pounds. Kota wags his tail, opens and closes his mouth, wiggles his horns, makes dinosaur sounds and plays songs and sound effects for your child. Kota will set you back $300, but will make your child the envy of the playground. The video below is a brief overview of robotic dinosaur toys followed by a "sneak peek" showcase of kids interacting with Kota.

Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Stick to it



This album is to White Van Music as Iron Man is to The Dark Knight. Allow me to explain. Iron Man was a dope-ass flick buuut.... Caaahmon. Do I need to finish that?

Tony Stark... Bruce Wayne. Both billionaire industrialist playboys. They have the gadgets, the cars & the women. Both try to use their wealth to make a difference in the world after traumatic experiences.

Iron Man was hugely over-shadowed by The Dark Knight.

Okay, enough with the comic analogy.

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